A real gingerbread house! Gwen just looked at the exterior of the house for a moment, before heading towards the entrance door. Just as she was making her way in, the fifth year heard someone scream ‘candy’.

Hmmm.

Hyperactive firstie, perhaps?

Holding the door open, the girl tracked down the source of the voice, eventually managing to spot Daichi. Normally, she would have probably just rolled her eyes at him, but she was in a way too good mood. ‘Take it easy’, she chuckled, holding the door open until the Slytherin managed to get in the gingerbread house.

Failing to notice that the Slytherin started eating the door, Gwendolyn took a few steps away from the entrance, starting to examine the first room of the gingerbread house.

Louisa was crouching, crouch!walking and peering in all possible hiding places where a ball of fur could hide in. "That's the point, Vivi. It doesn't have furniture so that everyone can help decorating and furnishing it with what the house-elves bake." Nooot in this part of the room either. Gah. She jumped to her feet and headed to the tiny stair that leads to an upper smaller level.

... secret passageways? She frowned slightly and looked back at Vivi, "Nothing I know of. Maybe take the upper parts?" Louisa DID chuck a piece of an upper windowsill when she first walked in and gnawed on. It didn't taste... licked.

...

Her throat started making retching movements that she forced to stop by swallowing and shaking her head. "Anyways... I'm glad you had good time." Louisa smiled and met the girl's gaze before turning it out to the window nearby where the gingerbread-y roof extended before there was the--"THERE SHE IS!" Her feet worked quickly toward the window and she extended her hand to Vivi, "Can I have the toy, please?" QUICKLY. Viola, the tabby cat, was indeed up ahead where the chimney rose on the roof, standing on her behind legs and licking the higher jelly-like structure.

Milton failed at hiding his smirk when Taryn jumped. Whoops? And YES, Milton was quite the hero for breaking tables for his girlfriend. He bowed graciously for Taryn. "Anything for my princess." And that was probably the corniest thing he had ever said before. Cough.

Standing straight again, Milton broke another chunk off and nommed on it. "I don't know what house-elves eat, but they probably don't need any sugar." They were already crazy as it was. "But if they need any help with the clean up, I'll totally be here." Most delicious clean up ever.

Uh huh. She saw that smirk of his. He thought he was quite funny, didn't he? She did giggle, though, when he bowed. Silly. She wasn't expecting him to say THAT either. With another giggle she cooed, "Awwwwww! Milton." GIGGLE. For that, he earned himself a little chocolate kiss. Hehe.

This time she didn't jump when he broke the table again. "I do hope that no one minds that you're breaking tables up here." She commented, but still ate more chocolate. Heh. She rolled her eyes, but couldn't help but wonder how they were going to dispose of this huge thing. "Maybe they'll cut it up in little bits and feed them to us for all meals until it's gone."

Yeah!

Milton almost snorted, but then she kissed him and he just grinned. "Don't expect that to happen again." Taryn was turning him into a corny boyfriend and he wasn't okay with that. And he refused to admit that he kind of liked it.

"Do you think they would give us edible furniture if we weren't allowed to eat it?" Hmmmm? Milton poked a chair and tore off a peice of gummy candy. Yummy. "If they didn't want us to eat it, it would be made out of Polyester." And no one wanted to eat Polyester, now did they? Milton certainly didn't. He chuckled a little at her suggestion. "I'd be okay with that."

Well, they had been in there for a good amount of time. "What do you say we go get some hot cocoa? We should get out of here before I start eating the stairs." Because then they would be trapped and Milton could only survive on candy furniture for so long.

Seri grinned and wondered if by the end of Christmas the whole house would be gone- not by magic but by eating. She would perhaps take one of the chairs of a window frame to carry around incase she got hungry? Afterall, they wouldn't have wanted all this wasted would they?

Hit the upstairs? "Wait- so the upstairs.. Its like this TOO? How do you know all this Lex! I thought you were the one that was suspended..!" Seri knew that there were stairs, she just hadn't connected the dots. The chocolate stairs were another fabulous piece of design by whomever made this. Seri licked her lips, tasting the remenants of sugar and sherbet.

"Race you up there!" Seri shouted and started to run off to the other end of the room. The chocolate stairs were getting closer.. could they just eat them now? Pwetty please? What if everyone ate it all and there was nothing LEFT? IT WOULD BE A DISASTER. Seri needed to learn this type of magic. NOW. Seri reached out her hand for the chocolate-y bannister.

Adam walked in with Ronnie's hand still in his. "Woooooah!" THIS PLACE WAS AWESOME. Everything seemed edible! Am just HAD TO -- WELLNEVERMIND. It seemed Ameliah already found the place. And what was she yelling about diabetes? Adam chuckled a little as he turned back to Rons "Soooo what place first?" There were TONS of rooms here!!!!!

Lex laughed even harder when Seri asked how she knew it all. "Silly, this is a gingerbread house, all of it has to be food or we'd be ripped off." Then she'd have to go to certain prefects and give them a good piece of her mind for the deception. Imagine her going up and biting into nothing but wood! She'd be devastated! It was so horrible to even think about the candy and such all ending at the chocolate stairs--chocolate stairs!

Before this could even register completely Seri shouted that it was a race upstairs. "Hey you got a head start!" She called after her, running off too. Half way up the stairs she stopped and tore off a portrait from the wall to take along with her...just in case upstairs did turn out to be a disappointment of some kind.

She stopped short of Seri when they entered a room that looked like it was made purely of cookies. "Whoa..." She said in awe, ripping a piece from her portrait and munching on it as she gazed around the room. "Looks like we have our work cut out for us." Which they totally did because here was a whole room that needed to be eaten. It wouldn't be easy but Alexa was willing to make the effort. Hopefully Seri was on board seeing as eating all this by herself would have probably sent her into a sugar coma...as yummy as that sounded, it wasn't good.

Landon muttered to himself as Melanie said that the chair liked her more. Probably. Everything that wasn't alive seemed to hate him for some reason. Like gelatin chairs.

>______<

"No." He glared. Why would he try to fall? No one liked to get hurt. He rolled his eyes and slowed down, standing back up once the bouncing stopped. "I'm hungry. Let's go upstairs now. Pleaseeeeeeeee Melanieeeeeeeee." He begged, kneeling at her gelatin chair and looking up at her with his famous puppy dog eyes.

Ronnie gaped at the sight of the gingerbread house.

MERLIN'S. BEARD.

THISWASSOAWESOMERONNIEWASGONNADIEOHMYGOSH.

"This is so awesome!" she squealed, giving Adam's hand a squeeze. She giggled. She wanted to eat the whole thiiiing! AAAAAH! But...she wouldn't. Or else she'd get VERY fat. And she didn't want that to happen. Nonononono.

"I have no idea!" she finally said. "You choose!"

Melanie continued to bounce in her chair, humming Christmas carols to herself. Ah, she liked the chair so... much... she wondered if she could bring just one back up the stairs into the common room... that way she could sit in that chair whenever she wanted to. She ignored the glare that Landon shot her way and just bounced.

What was he doing though?

NO.

Not the puppy dog eyes.

Melanie stared at Landon for a moment. He looked like a cross between a teddy bear and a puppy dog at that very moment and that wasn't fair. She opened her mouth to say something before closing it. Instead, she lifted her hands... and squished his cheeks making him a fish face. "You can't use those puppy dog eyes! That's not fair!" Melanie said, with a slight frown. "But fine," Melanie sighed, removing her hands and petting the gelatin chair. "We'll come back here later though, right?" Melanie asked, widening her brown eyes. Because she wasn't going to leave this house unless she got to sit back here again later.

Vivi put the toy in Louisa's hand and leaned against the window sill, her eyes on the students milling around on the ground. She wasn't being particularly helpful, but then Vivi didn't worry about Macha the way that Louisa worried about her cats. Macha was a warrior and took care of herself.

"Don't be offended, but I'm not going to eat any of this house. I have a healthy fear of people touching my food. Or stepping or sitting on it, as the case may be. But it's still really awesome." She pulled apart the pink and blond end of her ponytail and scrutinized her hair as if it held all the mysteries of the universe.

Louisa was being a bit boring now with this cat stuff, and Vivi was restless. Or something. "Is she coming in yet?"

"Don't be so sure of that." Taryn giggled. First Milton called her TarBear, now he called her PRINCESS. Hehehe. He was a softy, even if he didn't want to let anyone see it. SHE KNEW.

Milton had a point there. Taryn shrugged and took another bite of chocolate. She grinned at the suggestion and nodded, "I want to see the HUGE tree." Yes, there were lots of other things she wanted to see, but she'd gotten QUITE distracted by the HUGE gingerbread house. SIGH. Taryn held out her hand, "Let's go." Yes please.

Smirking, arms crossed above her chest, the Ravenclaw gave the two Slytherins under the Christmas ornament a playful, yet stern gaze. She was too enthusiastic and keen on getting the two to do the consequence of standing beneath the mistletoe that she hadn't taken note of the newcomer. Only when he spoke up did she notice him. Bee... His voice appeared so familiar to her senses that it made her blush. Her dark brown eyes lingered on him before giving him a smile. "Hi.." He was laughing....at how obvious what she'd done was? Hehe. "You're just in time to witness two snakes smooch."

Snort and eyes back to the two.

"Juliet, you don't say you just met each other when you see each other almost everyday for you are in the same House." Duhh. Was it her fault they don't talk? POUT. "It is NOT inappropriate actually.. It's part of the tradition. Won't you respect that?" Kissing under a mistletoe didn't exactly mean they were going to have a relationship, it is a sign of friendship and goodwill. So yes, stick with the tradition, okay people?

You just kiss anyone when you are under a mistletoe? With clear emphasis on 'you'? Was she talking about her?

"Well.." SHRUG. "I mean, I don't think it's too bad to kiss someone under a mistletoe." Except if she'd be stuck there with Vindictus. Noooope. No chance.

And that wasn't nonsense Rush. Beezus sent him a quick glare. "You guys are hopeless." Dylan, a little help here? "It's part of the tradition, I told you. Don't spoil the essence of the season." It wasn't like they were going to die if they kiss under the plant right? But she wasn't giving up just yet..there must be something she could take from her plans.

"A kiss on the cheek would be acceptable.." Beezus added thereafter, grinning and giving Gerald a meaningful look. Surely, they won't be too stubborn now, no?

Juliet stared at Beezus for awhile at the presence of the Slytherin captain. Her mood sort of changed. She saw her smiled before but this time it looked differently. It looked happier, as if birds were singing. A big smirk is found on her face. Ohhhh, Castell. You keep on forgetting that Slytherins are actually cunning. Of course Juliet didn't react to it, she can wait for the perfect timing later. And why is she attempting to let them kiss? Where in a world do you find a person who actually thinks that way? Is it even normal? Again, questions bring back to her being in Ravenclaw. It's just utterly weird for someone to think that way.

Who does she think she is? Cupid?

As for her follow up question, Juliet began to frown. "I'm new so I barely knew people. I don't talk to most of them" which explains why he and Gary have just met. Maybe, just maybe, they have crossed paths but it's nothing really Juliet could have remembered. She met him once during the pep rally and barely had a conversation with the guy. It's not like they're now close with each other but even so. Kissing someone random? She surely has peculiar thoughts.

Tradition

HAH! Juliet almost scoffed but remained herself quiet for quite awhile to. "What tradition and based on what facts?" come on Ravenclaw, what are your exact basis on this because Juliet has not heard of this so-called tradition, it'd be nice to listen to this history lecture. Smile.

I mean, I don't think it's too bad to kiss someone under a mistletoe.
You guys are hopeless.
A kiss on the cheek would be acceptable..

Smirk.

Remember about the perfect timing, well, right now, it is the perfect timing. Juliet brushed her bangs to the side and looked at Beezus and then back at the Slytherin captain. "If you like tradition and kissing under a mistletoe, why not kiss him instead" her finger pointing at Dylan. "Based on what I can see, you two look very comfortable with each other." she added "and didn't you say that it's not too bad to kiss someone? At least, you two already know each other." giving her a another quick smile "It's tradition, won't you respect it?"

Juliet seem to have justified herself. What? She only said these based on what Beezus had said earlier. She's an attentive listener after all.

His blue eyes shifted at the Ravenclaw brunette and her boyfriend. Eh, were Beezus and the Slytherin captain couple now? Well, actually he never cared about that. See? He felt so suspicious to both of them because suddenly Dylan appeared when he and Juliet realized that they were on Beezus' trap; standing under the mistletoe. So, the blonde guy bet that both of them had planned it.

Huh.

It's part of the tradition. Won't you respect that?

Pfftt..

Tradition? Huh? What tradition? Gary never heard about that silly traditions. He never approved and believed about some old traditions, especially the silly one. His logic mind said that's not a real tradition, but something that had been made up by this Ravenclaw girl. Oh, come on! Gerald Rush couldn't be fooled by those silly things. NEVER!

"A kiss on the cheek would be acceptable.."

Huffft!!

See? She just made up those silly tradition about kissing someone under a mistletoe. Somehow the blonde guy thought that Beatrice wanted to be a matchmaker and now she tried to paired himself with Juliet? That's what really you want, Castell? Thank you, but I am not interested.

Then, back to this Juliet girl. He really approved how sarcastic she was. Seemed like both of them had same opinion about that. And.. *blink blink* What did she just say to Beezus?

"If you like tradition and kissing under a mistletoe, why not kiss him instead"

Smirk.

He couldn't agree more about that. Yeah, Juliet was completely right. Both of them look like they were falling in love. (Yeah, don't lie about that because he really knew how did it feel.) He didn't know much if they were ended in a love relationship or not because he seemed didn't care about school gossip or anything else related. Crossing his arms, his blue eyes stared at both of them. Beezus and Dylan.

Come on! You don't need to be shy to kiss each other, because you forced us first, right?

She grabbed the cat toy and poked her arm out the window, flailing it at the cat. "Hey! Hey, look what I got!" The feline did recognize her owner's voice, she let go of the chimney and spared the girl from the window a few seconds of a glance. The interesting thingie in her hand was working, the tabby cat took her time trying to chuck the piece of food she was licking out and then lazily walked back to the window. Louisa quickly grabbed the cat and into the house she let her jumped out of her arms. "I won't be offended." She couldn't see why she would be. Viola spat the candy out and started pushing the toy over the half-chewed candy, playing and rolling with them.

"Healthy fear?" She chuckled raising one eyebrow, "That reminds me of Vickers' healthy fear of... well, sand, dust, sneezing, cat fur, bird feathers, wrinkles, and pretty much licked food." Louisa wasn't as fussy. She only fusses about her study and her brothers.

Cuddles, the grey kitty suddenly jumped into the house from the same window and went on to join her fellow feline with the rolling and meowing. Louisa smiled at them like a proud mum. "You know, I never wanted cats. My original familiar cat died when I was a second year and I never wanted to replace her." Fixing the thin scarf around her neck, she went on, "But then my first boyfriend ever got me Viola. And my friend's girlfriend got me Cuddles." Her eyebrows furrowed a bit. Did she look like a cat lady?

Adam grinned. He got to choose? SO WHERE WAS THE CARAMEL ROOOOOOOOOOM?????? Adam pulled Ronnie inside the house by her hand and grinned. "Let's start in here, shall we?" So then they could just keep going room to room, right? Breaking off part of a candy cane chair, he munched happily then stared as the chair

GREW. FREAKING. BACK.

ADSFKPJFKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. OHMIGOSH. IT NEVER GOES AWAY. NEVUUUURRR.

Smirking at Bee, he glanced curiously at Rush and...Juliet? Dylan could've sworn that's what her name was...The Ravenclaw had obviously orchestrated this...given her expression of pure delight.

It was amusing...the interaction flying between the three. Obviously his fellow snakes weren't as outsmarted by her as she'd originally thought. Good for you guys.

Nope. Dylan was staying out of this one.

...Until he was being forcibly dragged into it...but the unknown Slytherin girl. EYES.

COUGH.

Although, she did have a point. Yep...he was just going to...slowly back out of the room...and head up the chocolate stares...Yep.

STEALTHY NINJA STYLE...

Seri heard Lex behind her shouting about a headstart- no-one got anywhere by being slow though! Seri raced up the stairs, not even waiting to see where Lex was, but by the time they were both at the top of the stairs...

Seri's mouth was open. She had never seen anything so beautiful. It was perfect. SO PERFECT. She wanted to live here. She NEVER wanted to leave. EVER. She was aware Lex was now eating a portrait from one of the walls.. "Wait- Lex.. thats not a...... Wizard portrait is it? As in.. a moving one?" Seri asked nervously. BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE WEIRD.

Seri was quite hyped up now! The whole room needed to be demolished with teeth. And Seri had teeth. Actually she had loads of teeth, because she still hadn't lost all her molars, but that was a story for another time...

Seri reached for the nearest things- a desk carved completely out of chocolate, upon which was a hard-toffee pencil holder, within which were candycane pens. She took a green and white stripe one to lick for a while. It tasted like mint and pine tree. She would keep it as a snack for in lessons... actually, she pocketed half of them. They would be useful...

Daichi stopped eating the door because he wanted to explore the house as well. So he followed Gwen in to the house, his mad feeling towards the Headmistress vanishing quickly.

"I wished this was my house!" he said as he looked around the icing glaced room. "So cool!" he exclaimed as he spun around in the middle of the room. Until he got dizzy from spinning and stumbled on his feet as he tried to keep balance.

He failed though as he tripped over his shoelace and landed on one of the chairs. And flew up in the sky a tiny bit and landed back down....what the? Daichi looked under him and saw that he was sitting on a giant jello chair "waaah this is so cool!" he laughed and bounced on the chair some more. "Gwen! check this out!" he waved for her and bounced on the chair one more time before his eyes caught the attention of another room. "Eh? it's empty..."

Curiousity took over him as he stood up from the jello chair and walked to the seemingly empty room. He looked around at the doorway and had the feeling there was something curious about the walls....could he eat them? Cause this was a candy house right? Looking left to right, Daichi went to the wall and stuck his tongue out.

He actually licked the wall and tasted it for a second...but then his head burned up and he started to sweat. "GWEEEN!" he shouted with his mouth open and tongue stuck out. "ITS HOOOOT!" Spicy flavor bean. Just his luck... He crossed his eyes to stare down at his tongue and used his hands trying to scrape the hotness off of his tongue, failing of course.

Ronnie laughed as he pulled her inside. She looked around, her eyes widening at everything in the room. This place was...heaven! She didn't know where to start eating...

She watched as Adam broke off a part of a candy cane chair and ate it. Oooo! ....WAIT A MINUTE....IT GREW BACK! That was SO awesome! She looked at the walls, wondering if they had a taste on them or anything. That'd be super awesome if they did...and there's only one way to find out! She leaned towards the wall nearest to her and gave it a little lick and gasped with surprise at the yummy flavor. WHOA. CANDY WALLSSSSSSSSSSSSS! This place WAS heaven! Eeeeep! She turned to Adam, bouncing on her heels a little. "THIS PLACE IS SOOO COOL!" she exclaimed.

In the middle of Lex's munching Seri asked her a question that caused her to stop abruptly and look over at her. "You know...I'm not sure...." She thought a bit more. What if this thing really was a wizard portrait? Surely it would have started screaming by now. Her munching and cheek movements got slower as she pondered the thought for a bit more. That's when she remembered that obnoxious painting she'd had the displeasure of running into her. This made her bite an extra large chunk from the painting.

"If it is then I might just be doing the school a favour." Yup. Munch. Munch. Who said she never did anything with the school's best interest at heart? At the moment she was getting rid of a potentially annoying portrait that just happened to taste yummy.

Looking over, she saw that her friend was finally starting her own little feast. Why not? All this stuff had to go somehow and if they didn't eat it then she had a very bad feeling that it would all be destroyed and therefore WASTED. Just the thought was enough to make her cringe. Nothing here could be wasted!

If things started looking impossible then she and Seri would just have to pocket as much as they could then hide out in one of the corridors after lights out and finish what they could--HEY, now there was an idea! A late night eating spree filled with sugar! She would suggest it if need be.

Vivi wrapped her arms around herself, something halfway between a hug and protection against an unfelt breeze. Either way, she held on to her own arms for dear life and studied the candy decoration on the wall. "It's a very healthy fear, considering how unsanitary it is to eat food other people have been walking over. Or licking. Or sitting on, really."

Ew. Sat on food. Ew.

She glanced at Louisa with a small smile, noticing the defensive tone. "So now you collect cats the way some people collect seashells or ugly dolls?" She grabbed up the toy as it rolled past her foot, offering her fingers to the cats for sniffing. "Some people are lifelong cat people, regardless. You were always going to end up with a new cat. Or cats."

Beezus raised an eyebrow at the she-snake when the girl smirked at her. What? Something funny all of a sudden? And Gerald, quit the eyeing. Their gestures made her a little uncomfortable..what with Dylan beside her and all.

The banter was still on session though so she hurriedly tossed the fleeting feelings of awkwardness that was about to engulf her.

More snorting at you Juliet, "I believe it is not my fault that you don't mingle much with your fellow snakes." So basically, don't go complaining on me that you barely know the guy because you're a bit...anti-social. She wasn't being mean in her head, just being honest really.

Ignoring the two for a second, she turned to Dylan and was about to ask him why she was there when Juliet spoke up again. *eyeroll* She won't even let her speak to the Slytherin Captain? ..Oh, what? Tradition and...........facts?

O.o

SHOOT. She hasn't read up on that one. "I...ermmm..." The Ravenclaw started, thinking of a 'historical origin' of this whole kissing under the mistletoe as she cleared her throat. "WELL..." This time she shot Gary a look that said 'Could you just pleeeeaaaaaaaase kiss her?', because Beezus didn't think she'd want to create a story about this, but if he wasn't going to do anything then here goes nothing. "Well...there's this...."

*BLINK*

HOLYSCARLETTQUAFFLEZOOMINGATTHEPITCH!

She was suggesting what? Kiss him instead? Dylan? O__o

Her cheeks puffed red almost immediately. Gary and Juliet were both smirking! *inner flail* Gaah! See how they were meant for each other? Their smirks were almost identical! And it was obvious they were both thinking of the same idea. She was so going to get them both for this.

She heard Dylan coughing behind her and that's when she saw the ambiguity of the she-snake's attempt at using the situation against her. On a calm tone, she replied, "I do like traditions but I certainly am not craving for kisses." A bit of blushing there. "But you see Juliet, we are not the ones under the mistletoe. You and Gary are." Heh. "Which brings us back to the clear fact that it is the two of you that needs to kiss." Not her and Dylan.

Was it her turn to smirk yet?