THIS WAS GOING TO BE SO GREAT! FINALLY she was co-running a baking activity with the house elves. It literally was a dream come true!

Making sure her hair was tied back in a pony tail so as not to get in the way of any icing and baking that would soon be going on, Kurumi took one last look around the area to make sure that everything was in order. Smiling to herself, Kurumi clapped her hands together and pondered trying to grab one of the nearby levitating marshmallows before things got too busy and she had to supervise the ovens more, but she instead took to rolling out some of the gingerbread cookie dough so that the first people to arrive could more easily begin cutting out their desired shapes.

Thankfully, she had stopped by the food before making her way over here, so she was nibbling on one of the dancing penguin pops while she worked.

“Hello KURUMI” said Sarah as she ran over to the place where she had spotted her beloved prefect. Sarah did not like fitting in and in her mind, Summer and spring was a matter of the mind. So she donned a floral dress that morning... “This is awesome.. a winter wonderland.” she said taking in her surroundings. Then noticing the dough she said, “do we get to bake with you?” For Sarah that was the biggest treat.. it was like meeting Harry Potter!

With one last roll of the rolling pin, the seventh year looked up when she heard her name being called. "Hey Sarah," she chirped, waving the rolling pin instead of just her hand for a moment. Oops, that probably looked sort of violet. She set it down with a little more force than she had intended, but tried to recover by waving her hand. "I'm glad you like it! We have all be working hard since the start of the term on the event. Late nights perfecting all the charms and decorations as well." It had been a lot of hard work to be sure, but it was great to see it all pay off.

Even if Kurumi had had to literally beat Selina off of the sweets at the food table that her and the house elves had made.

"Not just me," Kurumi beamed proudly as she nodded her head towards the house elves. Really THIS was the best part. They got to bake with the house elves who were fantastic. "Once they stop running around that is."

Giggling softly, Kurumi gestured towards the array of cookie cutters. "Just pick whatever shape you want and go ahead and start cutting some out of the dough I just rolled out."

Wow...

Juliet went inside the Great Hall and it is 100 times different from their ordinary Great Hall. So this is what the prefects been doing. It's really incredible. And everything is just adorable and well, words can't exactly explain how Juliet is feeling right now. Tree planting, a gingerbread house, a baking spot, a spot where you get to say hello to the Head mistress, and a place to just hang out. All of which right now is tempting for Juliet but she's picking gingerbread baking. She can't really say if she's an expert at it, she has baked before... it was good... but she can't really say she's THAT good in baking. But thank Merlin her mother taught her well in this area. At least she need not die of starvation.

Walking to the area, Juliet notices 2 gryffindors. One of which she doesn't know and the other is Prefect Hollingberry. Further walking into the "working" or baking area, Juliet smiled at the sight of cookie cutters. There's quite a few, so many to choose from. "Which one should I choose?" she uttered to herself, sort of debating which cookie cutter she should choose. They all look so nice and adorable.

Baking cookies together with Kurumi?! He was soooooooo in!

He had already been in the Great Hall to check things out but when he found out that Kurumi was baking cookies he couldn't help but squeal. Which he did, in front of her little work area. "KURUMIIIIII~! I WANNA BAKE COOKIES" now.

Oops, it seemed that he wasn't the only one here for it took a second of him to realize that there was a Gryffindor (Sarah) aaaaand "JULIET, HIII" He waved his arms excitedly at the Snake. He should keep his voice down right? But he was exciteeeed..cause he wanted a cookie...now.

Sarah was glowing. There should have been a meet and greet Kurumi instead of headmistress with the big ego...
"Thank you for your hard work! You will just have to teach me some of those charms some time.". Noticing the house-elves were there Sarah grinned and waved at them, “that makes it even more awesome,” she said genuinely.

Sarah nodded as she took the instructions internally. She selected a ‘k’ shaped cookie cutter, a ‘J’,’S’,’P’,’b’, ‘A’ and ‘E’ shaped one as we as a butterfly, a heart and a man. Took some dough that Kurumi had rolled out and placed it in front of her. Eying all the goodies around Sarah said “with all this free and good stuff around I think I will need a coracle to transport it”. Then she said, “mind you, I will make a coracle”. She reached into her pockets and drew out her wand and a stick. Then casting the spell she had learnt in transfiguration she made a coracle. “see, it always helps to come prepared” she said, showing a garbage bags she had brought just in case someone (i.e. Elijah) needed a shirt. She then stuffed them back in her pocket

Putting the coracle down (she made it big enough to hold lots of goodies, but small enough to hold) she went back to work.

Placing all the cookie cutters on the dough, some more then others. When she got to the K she then piped up somewhat randomly, “Y;know Kurumi. Does one have to be perfect to be a lion prefect or is it just a co-incident that they are spelt similarly and that you are a prefect?”

Moving towards the ovens for a moment to check on their temperature, Kurumi glanced up when she heard the soft clicking of heels on the floor of the Great Hall. "Oh, hello Juliet," Kurumi smiled as she offered the Slytherin a small wave. "You can pick more than one if you are having a hard time choosing." Her and the house elves had gone a little crazy coming up with cookie cutter shapes and Kurumi had spent hours transfiguring them in the dorms.

The seventh year's attention then temporarily shifted back to Sarah. "Of course," she winked. Charms was not Kurumi's best subject, but she was rather proficient with some spells. Eyes widening just a bit as the girl really DID transfigure the small boat, she was back to laughing when she showed Kurumi the trash bags she had brought with her. Just as long as Elijah didn't start talking about his nipples...right? "You really DID come prepared!"

AND THEN DAICHI WAS HERE! YAY!

"Daichi! Hey! Come on over and grab a cookie cutter. There are a few duck shape ones." Which she had transfigured with him specifically in mind, but she wouldn't tell him that because it would probably embarrass him. And Juliet got a rather enthusiastic greeting from him. Tehehe.

Moving aside a little to allow the two Slytherins to work toooooooogether, Kurumi returned her attention to Sarah. "Perfect? No, you don't need to be perfect to be a prefect," she replied shaking her head and blushing nervously. She had a feeling she knew where this discussion might be going... Thanks Paulie for that nickname. Sigh. "I'm far from perfect and Gideon is far from it as well. There really isn't any one thing you need to be to be a prefect for Gryffindor. There have been many different types of people wearing the badge since I was a first year." She began to nibble some more on her penguin pop when a thought crossed her mind. "I take that back...there is one thing you need to be. Be true to yourself." And she gave the little Gryffindor a wink.

"Thats awesome.. looking forward. I also want to learnt the charm you used to make that giant cookie man move"
Sarah had finished cutting out the K now and placed it on the side. Then she went to work on the three B's for Bliss, Blue and Bently (she was deliberating making a car for that lady).

Sarah laughed, "I like being prepared. My mom goes made at me as I have the heaviest trunk and my dad gets so fustrated at the amount of things I carry around... He says its bad for my back. Yet I NEED to have at least a book on me on all times in case I am bored or craving reading material"

Sarah was glad at Kurumi's response. That was good, it gave Sarah hope at being a prefect you see. She was sooo not perfect.

In her minds eye Kurumi was perfect or at least she and Gideon were close to perfect. Sarah grabbed a fistful of dough and ate it deep in thought "Y'know what I think you are perfect" and that was all that mattered right? She then put her things down for a while and ran to her prefect and gave her a hug. "Kurumi I think you are awesome and I am going to miss you so much when you leave... When I grow up I want to be as kind as you are." Then Sarah remembered something "Can you teach me how to blush?" well Kurumi had just blushed "I just never can... is there something wrong with me" remembering that she asked "can you blush again.. as I said I like pink"

Juliet's head immediately followed the voice that mentioned her name. "Hi, pre--- Kurumi" she smiled while she waved her hand towards her direction. Her other hand still had a star shaped cookie cutter with it. "Once I'm done baking, I'd like to send some home" yeah, that'd be a nice gift to the folks back at home. Her father once mentioned in his letter that he'll be on break next week. And you know, winter vacation mentions were visible in that letter. "Are you going to bake today as well?" she said as her eyes still staring at another design. There is this crescent shaped cookie cutter too. That would look nice together. Star and crescent. Yup. She'll use that.

Juliet giggled when Daichi was being all hyper with this. The fifth year always surprises her. Her eyes did fall on Kurumi after seeing Daichi though. They were pretty close together and she did manage to transfigure duck shaped cookie cutters for Daichi. "Daichi!!!!" flashing him a smile while waving her hand at Daichi.

Daichi just loves ducks.

Looking at Kurumi when Juliet noticed her move away a bit , she opened her mouth to speak "Are you going to hold some sort of tutorial for us?" it'd be great if she did and besides she would say yes to that, right? Daichi is here.

Ira excitedly made her way over to the baking station, with no doubt in her mind, who had set it up! Of course it had to be the cookie girl, Kurumi! Ira grinned wide, unable to contain her excitement!

"Hey Kurumi!!" she squealed as she came over, and smiled. "Hey all of you!" she said to others, who had already begun making the cookies! But no, Ira wasn't interested in making the cookies. nope, she hated anything to do with food, other than eating it! And that was exactly she had come to do here! Someone must be there to eat all the wonderful things they all were preparing right?

"Can I just eat, Kurumi?" Ira asked, tilting her head, with puppy dog eyes. She just wanted the tasting part!

Gingerbread baking...with house elves? BEAM. BEAM. BEAM. Ella being the food lover that she was headed straight towards the smell of delicious cookies, a wide smile on her face. This was going to be awesome. And delicious...yeah, super delicious.

Spotting Mr. Kurumi's lady, Ella giggled to herself and headed towards the older girl. She wasn't suprised to see her manning the cookies, truthfully. The older girl was a cookie expert after all, yeah? Grin. "Hi Sir Lewis' lady!" She greeted cheerfully, picking up a dragon cookie cutter nearby and eyeing it with an amused smile. "I'm ready to make the best darn Christmas cookies ever...so um...whatdoIdo?" Blink.Blink. Guide us, oh great cookie master!

Kurumi smiled in Sarah's direction. Thankfully, that charm was a more simple charm compared to others - one that she had learned in her first year actually. As to how prepared Sarah liked to be...it was rather incredible really. She was a regular pack lion as it were. "Like Headmaster Tate used to always say, constant vigilance," she nodded. That counted in this case, right?

Although she was pretty sure that the man never had the idea of carrying trash bags around in your bag so they could be transfigured into clothing as an option.

Kurumi slightly raised her eyebrow when Juliet almost called her prefect...which she assumed would be followed by Hollingberry or maybe even her name. No no, just Kurumi if you please. "Oh, sure. You can transfigure a gift box out of something to put them if you want," she suggested. There were a lot of empty flour bags and what not that could be used.

Tutorial? Kurumi blinked and blushed just a little at the question. There wasn't really much to do a tutorial on since all the dough was already prepared and it just needed to be rolled out. Unless Juliet wanted some help with that. "I can show you how to roll dough and a few decoration techniques once your cookies are out of the oven," she nodded.

And then another one of her favorite little Gryffindor was making her way over. Only Ira really wasn't THAT little anymore. "Hey Ira! Um...if you want," she laughed. There weren't any cookies done just yet though. "As long as you don't eat all the candy decorations...or you can try your luck at catching some of the levitating marshmallows over there," she nodded as she pointed to the field of floating white delicious fluff. "They are charmed to move around a bit...so be careful."

Deciding that she should cut some cookies herself for decorating demonstrations and just for people to nibble on if they wanted to, Kurumi selected a dragon shaped cookie cutter and began to work beside Sarah...who made the Gryffindor's cheeks turn bright pink at her words. I think your perfect. Kurumi's cheeks were definitely on fire now and her hair began to turn a burnt orange color at the tips. The only person who had ever really called her perfect to her face before was Lewis - obviously under different circumstances so this felt different - but it was one of the first real moments where Kurumi felt the role reversal that had been there all along.

She was no longer the bright-eyed underclassman looking up to the older students. She WAS the older student that they were looking up to. And it was....surreal.

"Sarah..." Kurumi half wibbled as she pulled the little lion in for a quick hug. "It's still only December...so don't start missing me just yet, okay?" And stop calling her perfect because she wasn't...but Kurumi left that unsaid. "H-How to blush? I...I am not sure I can really teach you that...it just sort of...happens..." And to her it seemed like it was all the time.

Hi Sir Lewis' lady!

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Despite her hair having turned a burnt orange at the tips a few seconds earlier, a distinct pink color was now rising up from the tips and essentially covering her entire head in a matter of seconds. Not just any pink - Lewis' pink to be precise.

Sir Lewis' lady...that title could only mean...

"H-H-Hi Ella," Kurumi stammered as she very much wished that she had her uniform on right now so she could throw her hood up over her head. "Um...y-y-y-you can roll out some more of the gingerbread dough on this table using a rolling pin. Then select your cookie cutter of choice and cut out some cookies. Myself or one of the house elves will put them in the oven for you. Then once they are out you can take them over to that table and decorate them with icing and candy." Kurumi would be around for some tutorials on decorations and what not when the time came. "Or...you can try to catch a floating marshmallow," she said as she pointed to the almost blizzard like display nearby.

OOC: I am going to bed so Kurumi isn't technically around to take your cookies and put them in the oven. If you RP to the point where you need baked cookies, please DO just RP as though Kurumi has taken your cookies and put them in the oven for you. No need to wait feel free to keep rolling cookie dough, cutting cookies, decorating, and chasing after marshmallows! The house elves will be along soon to play as well...

The Giant Christmas tree maybe? Or the Gingerbread house? No! Maybe the Gingerbread baking?

It was hard for Renesmee to make up her mind, seeing as everything in the great hall all looked like good entertainment and also good distractions.Only after a few moments of standing and tapping her shoes about, Nessie was finally able to make her mind and when she did, she headed over to where Kurumi and the un-hygenic looking elves were.

At the site of cookies, Puffles who was sitting on Ness' shoulder began bouncing up and down excitedly. Someone seemed to be hungry, good thing she chose to come here then. "Hey, all." She greeted them all even the house elves with a tiny smile. "You..you alright, Kurumi?" she eyed the bright pink hair, knowing that the Gryffindor's emotions were obviously doing something crazy.

The cookie cutters. There were just SO MANY! Distracted she was, by sometimes the strangest things.

Okay, so there were some really cool parts of this event, but to be honest the best part was the place were the ovens were. The Gingerbread house was cool, but KURUMI was cooking over here and her baking skills never disappointed. Selina had been eating Kurumi's cookies since she had arrived at Hogwarts. It was sort of weird to think that they wouldn't be around next term, but she did not want to dwell on it right now. Every time that she thought about it, it just made her really sad.

Her boots squeaked as she ran over to join her friend over by the oven. She plopped beside the ovens and grabbed a cookie that Kurumi was baking and popped it in her mouth. Yummy. Then she looked at her best friend, "Oh hey, Kurumi. Delicious! Just in case you were wondering..."

Ira couldn't stop giggling! Giggling as much as she tried to control herself, she could not stop it when she heard Ella call Kurumi as Sir Lewis Lady! Teheheeee! Sir Lewis Lady! It was really funny!

And the situation turned even MORE funny when Kurumi's hair did the metamorphogus thing! First Orange and then now, Pink! "Oooh! My favorite prefect is blushing.." Ira giggled, and smiled. Actually, Sir Lewis' Lady did sound a lot more nice than just Lewis' girlfriend. Yep, Ira totally approved of it!

"Thanks.. Sir Lewis' Lady.." Ira muttered as Kurumi agreed to just let her eat the cookies without having to make them. "Your cookies are totally worth waiting for, Kurumi!" Ira nodded, "I can leave some of them for you!" she smiled. They were really delicious! And she was going to miss them as much as she was going to miss Kurumi next year! Why did she have to graduate so early? Kurumi's cookies were what had made Ira like the prefect instantly in her first year. And she was the one who had always helped her. Ira's face fell a little, on thinking about Kurumi's graduation, but she soon returned to her cheerful mood, not wanting to spoil the festive season!

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So okay, normally Ella would take making someone blush as a bad thing but the fact that Kurumi's hair had SERIOUSLY changed color freaked her out a bit. Merlin, she hadn't meant to change her hair color! The third year eyed the older girl curiously, biting her lip. "I um...Kurumi...your hair." Was pink. It was really pink. Blink.Blink. "Pink suits you, though. You look like a total rock star or something." Yeah! A cookie baking rock star! How cool!

The small blonde badger listened as Kurumi explained how to go about things, nodding her head in understanding. She BEAMED up at the older girl when she was finished, giving her a thumbs up. "I think I've got this, Kurumi! Thanks for the explanation!"

Oh, and the giggling lion nearby? Ella bit her lip to stop from laughing too. Especially when the girl muttered 'Sir Lewis' Lady' under her breath. SNORT. Ella looked away, pretending to find the large ovens particularly fascinating. Oh Merlin's Beard! That nickname wasn't going to stick, was it? HEH. ...Kurumi was SO going to kill her. WHOOPS.

Now to find some Quidditch cookie cutters. There had to be some around her somewhere, yeah? Did they even make beaters' bat cookie cutters? Hopefully.

"Yeah, constant vigilance... I like that..." Maybe she should start carrying stilletoes around as well, incase someone starts up with her, that way she can poke them in the eye.

Sarah looked adoringly at her prefect... whose hair seemed to be turning orange. Which was cool but orange? That was Sarah's like least favourite colour. Although she liked ginger haired people. Yet that orange was not that orange that Kurumi's hair now was.

Sarah snuggled into her prefect for bit and listened as she spoke... well summer was just 6 months away! Yet like a good lion she obeyed commands and decided to TRY not start missing Kurumi until she is gone.

Blushing sort of happens... Sarah tore herself away from the prefect as she went back to work... Then it all clicked together. It must all boil down to complexion. That was why some people turned red when they cried and others don't. Sarah always wished she had fair skin yet her skin was stubborn olivish... As if she was Portuguese or something. Only girls with fair skin, blonde hair and blue eyes were pretty... well that was at east what Sarah thought. Well that probably was the reason why she never blushed...

Sarah went back to work. Then she remembered to add a 'C' for Cassia, a 'D' for Dora, an 'A' for Ari and Alexa, an 'N' for Nessie and a whole range of letters for people she was friends with.

She then finished off all the letters and put them out. Then she made her shapes... She also took a cookie cutter of a star with many points... she could decorate it to make it look like a lion. She did that and cut out many lions....

Then she remembered something... She rummaged in her pocket again and took out five different coloured hard muggle sweets and broke them into pieces in seperate piles. Then she took a circle cutter and cut out a smaller circle in it to make a frame. She then filled each hole with the coloured sweet crumbs. They will be awesome when she will come out. Then she was ready "I am ready" she said

She looked up and was glad to see that Kurumi's hair had turned to her favourite colour... PINK! Sarah was glad as she did not like that orange

Blue didn't like baking. She liked EATING.

But the smell was so super yummy so she skipped over to the baking station, humming a Christmas carol, happily. Tis the season to be jollyyyyyyyy and all that jazz. Ooooooh. Blue BEAMed at everyone cooking before spotting a familiar redhead, Nessie. So she bounced over. "'ELLO." BEAM BEAM BEAM.

"How're youuuuuuu?"

Hand over the food now puh-leeeeez.

Woah. Loud, energetic and always beaming, who else could this be, but Blue?

With a small smile on her face, Nessie turned to face the younger little eagle. Of course she noticed one thing first, and one thing only. CHEEKS! OMG! Since when did Blue had adorable cheeks like these? They looked soo squisheh, almost as squishy as Alec's. Eep WAAY to tempting...but it could wait. First came some manners.

"I'm alright, and you Miss Adorable Blue?" Because adorable she really was. Too adorable in fact. "Don't get a fright, okay?" She didn't want to scare the poor little Ravenclaw, but she did still want to pinch those cheeks. The captain extended out her skinny hands untill they were close enough to Blue's cheeks. She then pinched them.

SQUISHHEEHH! x3

Melanie was so excited. Her brown eyes were wide and lit up like a child who was opening presents on Christmas day. Well, she was a child, kind of... she was more of a young adult than anything. Entering the Great Hall, the first place the Gryffindor headed towards was the gingerbread baking place. Her legs had carried her there against her will... that and she just REALLY wanted to make gingerbread stuff... and it was smelling soooooooo good too.

"Sleigh bells ring... are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening," Melanie sang as she walked towards the place. She looked around the table, now stopping her singing. She loved Christmas way too much to do that.

Where did they start?

Belle decided to check out the gingerbread houses. She thought this was the cutest idea ever.

Belle loved baking with the house elves and she knew they were so sweet too. She noticed a Gryffindor singing christmas carols. She was smiling while she was humming some too. Belle decided to make some small talk. "I see i am not the only one who is in the Holiday Spirit." Belle told the Gryffindor.

Belle loved the smell of the gingerbread and couldn't wait to start making some cookies!

"A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight, walking in a winter wonderland," Melanie continued to sing as she watched the other people make their cookies. She needed to see how they were starting first! She didn't want to mess up at all. Her mouth continued to move up and down as she sang the carol. "Gone away is the bluebird, here to stay, is the new bird," Melanie continued before she heard someone address her.

Her head turned and she grinned at the girl. "I'm so excited for Christmas, aren't you? It's one of the best holidays ever." Ah! She was so excited to go back home too! She'd be going back and seeing her friends and everything. So exciting!! But this was equally exciting of course.

"I'm Melanie Sung," she said, sticking her hand out for the girl to shake before sneaking another glance at the people and the materials there before she looked back at the girl.

Ah cookies.

The holidays were never quite the same without them. They were like the thing when it came to holiday fun so when she heard that she could go baking some--and with the house elves no less, she had to make her way over.

And look! Other people were already there getting their baking on! This was going to be fun! Everything was more fun in groups! Let's see...she saw Sarah. "Hiya Sarah." BEAM. She was glad she found her here. Then her eyes landed on Kurumi. She gave the girl a wide smile. "Hi Kurumi!" Lex remembered that the girl was really good at baking and considered this to be quite the treat. Now even if her cookies turned out to be rubbish she could probably ask to taste one of hers! Though it would be done in a subtle and controlled way...wouldn't want Selina getting upset at her--that and she as determined to be a better person-ish.

There were others that she knew too so she gave them a wave but there were people whose names she didn't know. Pity. This didn't mean she couldn't say hi so she turned to them all as well. "Hello everyone!"

Yup. The holidays had put her in a good mood and the whole baking thing made her feel even better.

Vivi plopped into a seat beside Lex and put her elbows up on the tabletop. Someone should just give up their cookies now, because she wanted to snack and watch and she did not want to wait on cookies to bake.

"Lex. Hand me that icing. I need to inspect it immediately." Plus the little sprinkles. She wanted to inspect the little sprinkles.

"I believe I'm starving here, 'Rumi. Anyone. Anyone?"