The common room! EEEP!

Almost running, Ness neared the opening to her beautiful, yellow common room. She eyed all the barrels before her and then knelt down just a bit so she could reach the second barrel form the bottom. She whispered 'Helga Hufflepuff' to herself and tapped the barrel as she did so. The barrel opened and Ness went inside following the path that led to the common room.

Once inside she looked around only to notice she was the first one there. Maybe she had after all left the feast a little too early, but she was tired and it was late too. The good thing about being early was that she was assured a comfortable sofa, and one by the fire too if that's what she wanted.

The now Captain eyed the stairs leading to her dorms with a pout. It was possible someone might have been there already, but she didn't feel like going to check just yet. She'd rather wait for a few others to appear. She took a seat down on one of the sofas and lay back with her eyes closed, unwillingly falling asleep.

Tired she was, maybe more than she thought.

After hiding in the hallway, trying to blend into the walls, Sutton finally saw an older student who obviously knew their way around the castle use the barrel to get into the common room. Yes! Now it all makes sense! Once the other girl had gone through, Sutton quickly repeated what she did and shuffled through the opening into the Hufflepuff common room.

It was so quiet and cozy in the room, though she didn't imagine it would stay that way for long. While the quiet was nice after the noise of the Great Hall, it was also awkward because now she had no choice but to talk to the girl she had followed into the common room. Taking a steadying breath, she strode up to the girl and sat down in a nearby arm chair. "Um... hi! I'm Sutton."

*Coming out of the boys dorm Jacen smiled. It would be the first time he would see his cousin since being sorted. The look on her face when the hat yelled out Hufflepuff was priceless to Jacen. Now it was time to have some fun. First he would explore until he found Cece or got in trouble, whatever came first. making sure his new Hufflepuff robes were ready for Cece to see he headed on his way.*

Alexa came into the big room. So this was their common room. She still didn't know many people from this house, well she only knew one actually and she hadn't seen him in awhile. Was that how it was going to be all year, no one really knowing her and her not knowing anyone. Why did she leave her house is she was going to be alone there as well. Shrugging she sat down on a chair and bounced a bit, it was pretty comfy which Alexa liked. Looking around she said to anyone who would listen, "So what do people do for fun around here?"

Juliette walked into the room, her trunk clutched in her right hand and bouncing off of her hip at her leisure. Her green eyes flitting around the common room, she saw it was decorated with yellows and blacks, and also that she knew no one here. Actually, to tell the honest truth, she knew no one at all besides her cousin and his two friends. Where were they anyway?

Way to leave her, she thought, annoyed at him.

Now she had nothing to do either. She could go talk to one of the sparse people hanging around, or just go sit in a comfy looking chair and read a book. She loved to talk (especally to meet people) but the book she was reading was just getting good, and she was interested in finding out who commited the crime. Walking to the first chair she saw, she plopped down and grabbed her book out of her trunk. As she opened the novel however, she heard someone next to her talk. Honestly, she didn't know the anwser, but it was a good question, and maybe the person liked adventure as much as she did?

"Hi." Juliette said, turning to the girl she previously didn't know was next to her. "I'm Juliette. You are?"

After fidgeting around, trying to remember which barrel to tap for a few minutes, Harlan entered the common room and grinned to herself, this looked AWESOME. She noticed the portrait of Helga Hufflepuff and smiled at it.
She noticed a few other students in the common room already, but chose to sit alone first.. They probably already knew everyone anyway. And she should write her brother a birthday letter..

Harlan chose a comfy looking chair and sat down in it. She stared out over the common room with a smile on her face, her home for however long it'd take for her nan to get better.

So much for sleep. Not even a minute after Nessie closed her eyes, someone began talking. She blinked and looked around to see that another Hufflepuff had now entered the common room. She sat up properly and looked at the girl before her, as a small smile formed on her face. The smile didn't last long. It was soon replaced with a yawn.

"Hey." Another yawn followed. "Sutton? I've never heard a name like that before." she really hadn't and it was actually quite a unique name come to think of it. "I'm Renesmee." she leant forward on her chair and extended out her hand towrards Sutton, so that the two could shake hands, but before that happened...

BOOM SMACK!

The red head leaned a little more forward and fell off tha sofa and flat on her face. "Ow!" she mumbled.

This girl seemed to nice. Maybe Sutton had met a new friend at last! That would be awesome because she needed friends. She missed her friends from home sooo much. Her smile brightened as the girl complimented her name. " Thank you! It gets even better than that! I even have two middle names! Sutton Rose Josephine Piatek," she recited with pride. It was odd, but her name was one of the few things that Sutton had always liked about herself. As the girl introduced herself, Sutton nodded, making the mental note to connect the face to the name... to the badge on her robes. So many badges in this school...

"Your name is really uni--..." Sutton began as she also extended her hand to meet the girls'. But then she was on the floor with a loud smack! "Oh my goodness! Are you okay?!" she asked, her eyes going wide as she went to the floor to help her up.


Noticing another girl crossing through the common room who didn't look very busy, she called over to her. "Hey! Could you give me a hand? I think she could be hurt..." With one last pleading look, Sutton bent back over the Renesmee and whispered, "Are you hurt?"

Harlan was just bent over her letter to her brother when she heard a thud. She shrugged and didn't bother looking up, surely it wasn't very important. This letter was. It was his birthday in like.. a few days. And she had no idea how fast her owl was delivering letters.

Just as she had told her brother how awesome Hufflepuff was and that if he was a Wizard he'd have to be in this house a girl called out for her. Harlan looked up and raised an eyebrow.
One girl was bent over another girl.. the redhead she'd met at the trainstation before leaving for Hogwarts.
Harlan frowned and laid her letter aside, now was the time to be a super hero like Chris had said.
'What happened..?' Harlan sat down and thought that maybe they should get the girl up.

Alexa looked at the girl, Oh someone was actually going to talk to her from this house. Well then, it was about time she thought. "I'm Alexa.. Do you know what goes on here for fun, because at the moment I think this school is boring. All I wanted to do was come here and have some fun with people, but no one seems to be interested." She looked around at the others. "So are you a first year?"

Two middle names? Wow. That was interesting. Surely this girl's mother was a huge fan of names, unless Sutton was named after certain people. That ws also possible. "That's pretty cool. S..R..JP" mumbled Ness as she thought through the initials of the name.

>__<

As Sutton came beside her, Ness sighed. She didn't want people to fuss over her. She was fine. It was just a small fall, couldn't they just pretend it never happened? Clearly not. Mehh..

Now another girl had to come too?

Renesmee sat up. "I'm fine, I'm fine." That ought to stop this right? "Don't worry about me, I fall all the time." That wasn't completely true, but also it wasn't a lie. It wasn't the first time she had fallen, they should have known that. People fell everyday. Why make such a big deal out of it?

Damon walked in the room with a sighed, Why does she have to play these stupid mind games with me? It's almost as if just because I'm her ex now, instead of her friend I'm someone she just toys with! He sat down on the old chair he and Min used to always sit in and talk, he missed her as well. It seemed he had no idea what was going on.

Annabelle decided to check out the common room after reading a good book from the library. She saw all the other fellow puffs were around. She smiled and went into her favorite chair and started to sketch the common room, she carried her drawing pad with her everywhere. She felt nice and cozy sitting by the fireplace.

She looked so amazed by the overwhelming beauty of their common room. Befelda just got in late as she was trying to simmer all the wonderful things she had just passed by.

Until she arrived in this beautiful fireplace. She noticed someone sitting alone beside the fireplace. Befelda decided to go near her and learn why she's all alone. Until she got nearer, she learned that the girl was busy sketching something, and it was pretty nice and neat. She tried to clear her throat for her to be noticed.

"Ehem... Uhmm...nice sketch. You have a very gentle hand. How I wish I could do something like that but my art skills are not that good.", she said, with a nervous voice, trying to get the girl's attention.

"Oh, sorry. I wasn't able to introduce myself. Hi! I'm Befelda Solster, first year. Forgive my speeches, I'm a little bit loquacious and observant. I am always like this so I think you'll get to used to it.", she said finally, without nervousness at all.

"Sorry, I talk too much. I didn't even ask your name yet. By the way, you are....?

Sutton shrugged at the girl who had kindly come over to help her. Honestly she wasn't sure how Renesmee had fallen in the floor. One second she had been sitting, and the next she hadn't been. But there didn't actually seem to be anything wrong with her, and Sutton looked away as her face blushed slightly. She felt silly for having made such a fuss over it. Maybe every fall wasn't resultant in injury. Still... she could have knocked a tooth out or something.

Looking back to Renesmee, she glanced her badge again, which was now close enough to read. This could work... she could smooth this over. With a small smile, she said, "Well, we couldn't have our Quidditch captain getting injured and then not be healed, now could we?!" Looking at the other girl with raised eyebrows, Sutton hoped that she would say something smart and chime in...

...Because frankly Sutton didn't have any clue what Quidditch actually was, just that involved brooms. The other students seemed to talk about it an awful lot, though...

Violet made her way out of her dorm with a little bit of a worried look on her face. She was continuously fiddling with her necklace almost as way to prevent herself from screaming even though it wasn't working. Where in Merlin's name was Sadie?! She hadn't been sleeping on Violet's bed like she always did, and it was totally unlike her to have left. Which gave Violet more reason to panic, she never really let Sadie venture that far without Violet knowing where she was, unless she was wearing her cute little bell that made the cutest little ring, which helped Violet know where she was. But somehow Violet had forgotten to put Sadie's bell on before she left for her classes yesterday, and thus Sadie is gone!

Recently she had been asking everyone in the common room if they had seen her adorable companion, but to no avail, they had not seen Sadie. It wasn't until Violet had turned her attention towards a boy around her age, who seemed to look rather troubled, almost like her. Violet then began making her way over towards him preparing to ask what was wrong. When she had reached him Violet smiled at him kindly and then said lightly,"Um..excuse me...I couldn't help but notice that you were seeming to be looking a little upset..and that you were..sitting alone over here.." She then said,"Do you mind if I sit?" Violet smiled again as she waited for his response.

Damon was starting to get lost in his confused thoughts when he heard a voice, Min?... He looked up with hope and let out a small sigh when it wasn't his old friend. Damon shook his head, "Of course you can..." He looked up at her, "And you're right about the upset part... I'm just a tad bit confused. My best friend moved last year and then now my girl... I mean, ex girlfriend is acting confusing as all get out." He shook his head and sighed, "It's just been a long first few weeks with all of this." Damon shook his head, them looked up at her again, "And how rude of me, I didn't introduce myself... Damon, Damon Ashllyn-Darkmyr Mercada."

She fell all the time? That wasn't very good.. Harlan shrugged, maybe she was just really super clumsy and all that. 'I fall off my horse sometimes..' She'd said it before she realised how stupid she would seem now. 'Well.. Only VERY sometimes. I haven't fallen off since I was... like a baby.'
Uhuh. That seemed about right. She haaardly ever fell off. Because she was good at all that stuff already.
'Sofas are very dangerous.' Harlan said sarcastically and managed a grin at the girl. When they'd first met Harlan was the stupid one by almost crashing a trolley into the girl, so a faceplant off the sofa wasn't that bad.



Harlan listened to the other girl talk and nodded, Quidditch was super important at Hogwarts, she knew that. 'I suppose, yeah.'
Quidditch looked very cool, Harlan had read about it a little bit but had never been to a game yet. Or ever rode a broom for that matter. So try-outs would probably be skipped, she'd only waste the captain's time. And the games looked like it would be more fun to watch them anyway.

She eyed the girl again and realised the hadn't even introduced herself to the girl. 'I'm Harlan Isaacs by the way.'

Violet jumped a little bit when she saw he was little startled at the sound of her voice. She then quickly said,"I'm sorry for scaring you!" Then he had seemed to look a little disappointed at seeing her, almost as if he was hoping it was someone else. Violet then smiled a little bit when he said she could see, and making sure not mess up her skirt, she carefully sat down next to the troubled boy. She calmly crossed her legs, placing her hands on top of her legs as she looked at him. Then he went on to tell her why he was upset and Violet almost instantly had a flashback to her own life....something that sounded too familiar to what she had gone through.

But to make sure that she heard everything he said, Violet tried not to get distracted in her own thoughts of a relationship that ended so terribly. But trying not to say the wrong thing Violet said softly,"I am so sorry that you have to go through this...But trust me..I can definitely relate.." But she wouldn't get into that now. The next thing she knew, he had introduced himself and Violet smiled a little bit saying,"It's lovely to meet you Damon Ashllyn-Darkmyr Mercada.." She then politely offered her hand to shake his saying,"My name is Violet Annaliese Le Veela.."

Damon shook his head, "You didn't startle me... I just, normally the only person who talks to me in here was my old friend Min..." He sighed, "Nice to meet you, Violet." He gave a halfhearted smile, "And sorry, I know complaining about my life probably isn't the best way to make a good first impression."

Juliette was almost surprised that Alexa responded, she half-thought the older girl would just ignore her. Most people seemed to ignore first years unless they where helping them find something. This girl seemeed to be nice too, and the fact that she was there when her stupid cousin wasn't added bonus points to the equation. Okay, she really needed to stop thinking in math.

"Yeah I'm a first year." She responded, tucking a strand of blond hair behind her ear. "And I don't know what people do for fun around here. I wish I knew though, cause this isn't it." Juliette smiled at the other girl, gesturing around the almost empty room to prove her point. Her book could wait. She could always read it in her free time (depending on how much she could get). The world wasn't going to end because she couldn't read what happened to her favorite character. Right now she had a chance at adventure in a new and exciting place, and she always promised herself she would never pass that up.

Belle was concentrated on her work, she hardly knew the little girl was there. Belle looked up and smiled and answered her. "Oh thanks! Yeah it is a relaxing hobby i do in my free time. It is no biggie but i am glad you like it. It's not that good." Belle said taking the compliment jokingly. When Befeleda introduced her she held out her hand and said, "I am Annabelle Lecium, i am a sixth year. Do not worry you don't talk too much and how are you liking your first year so far?" Belle asked. She wanted to know how the first years were doing being a prefect and all.

Violet then said,"Oh I thought I had.." feeling a slight bit better that she hadn't startled it. Then she frowned a little bit saying,"Aww, well where is your friend?" Violet then quickly said after he apologized,"No, I don't believe that your giving a bad impression of yourself at all, because honestly, I think that it's a little better to verbalize what's bothering you...Other than keeping it all bottled up inside.." She paused before she said slowly,"..I should know.."

She was delighted that the sixth year student was very friendly. At first she thought the girl was a loner. Befelda quickly reached out her hand and shook it and produced a friendly smile.

"Hi Annabelle! Nice meeting you here. You're really a good artist. I'm a frustrated artist that's why I am always fascinated by others' art work.", she excitedly claimed.

"Oh, ever since my Dad was telling me about how fascinating Hogwarts is, I've always waited for this moment to come, to be in the world's famous School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Hogwarts it is! The school grounds is HUGE and clean, I love the smell of the air breeze in the morning, the Dormitories are cozy, and the Great Hall! Haha! I LOVE to eat! Soo many food! I sometimes see myself just sitting in our House table eating the whole day! Haha! But I don't want to be put to detention on the first days of my life at Hogwarts.", Befelda quickly uttered and straightly said those sentences. She was so overwhelmed of the beauty and generosity of the school. "Now I can't wait for the classes to start. I wanted to learn how to duel and cast spells. I'm so excited!", she quipped.

There she goes. Befelda has never stopped talking. "My Dad told me about the Whomping Willow and the Forbidden Forest. Coming from his mouth, I guess they're a little spooky, huh? I hope I could go there someday and hunt some spiders. And maybe I could...", suddenly Befelda stopped talking and was taken aback. She noticed a PREFECT Badge pinned on the left side of Belle's robe. She didn't know what to say, she was startled. The whole time she can't stop and control herself from talking and now she knew the person she's talking to was a PREFECT!

"I'm so sorry. I didn't know you're our Prefect! This is really embarrassing! I should have behaved myself and controlled my talking. I was always told by my Dad that Prefects are to be respected. My apologies. Will I be punished for being so loquacious?", she sadly said, her tears about to fall but trying to control herself not to. She was frightened.

"I promise not to talk too much. Sometimes, it just happens."