"It actually worked?!" Well that was a little bit of a shock, not too much though seeing as she'd gotten some practice in class. Still...she couldn't help but want to make sure that what happened just now wasn't a complete stroke of luck.

"Hey Laura I'm gonna try on the other hand too okay? Okay. Great!" Then without giving the girl a chance to respond she did that upside-down U again, this time aiming at the girl's other hand. "Petrificus Digitirus!"

Her eyes widened in anticipation as she waited to see if it worked. Here's to hoping it did because even if it had scared Laura it would have made her feel so much better. "Is that hand numb too????" Please say it waaaaas.

Laura looked at her over hand and then tried to move her fingers but couldn't. "I think it has." Laura smiled at Alexa and then realised something. "How do you make it so you can move your fingers?" Laura sighed because at the minute she couldn't do much else and Laura wasn't happy about it, she was hoping that soon she would be able to at least move her fingers, so she could get her wand out, she didn't trust Alexa to get it for her she would break it.

"Yaaaaay!" Lex squealed a bit when she heard that her second attempt had been successful as the first. This clearly meant that she'd gotten the hang of this spell. Psssh and here she thought it would have been more difficult.

In the middle of her little celebration she heard Laura asking how to remove the spell. "Hmm...I think the Finite charm should work..." Though she wasn't really sure. Meh, that had to be it. Most things could be put to an end using it so the girl had nothing to worry about. Lex even went as far as to cast that spell to remove the hex then turned her eyes to Laura's hands to see if she could move her fingers again.

Hopefully that worked as well as the hexes because she wasn't in the mood to hear the girl whining--or worse CRYING. She could have handled anything but that. There, you should be good now, yes?"

Laura looked at Alexa and she nearly said it had better work for your sake but she stopped herself just in time, she had no idea what would happen when Alexa took the spell off and once again she was in shock it worked. "WOW!!!!!" Laura quickly gave Alexa a hug, then she stopped and moved away she hadn't just done that had she. "That was awesome Alexa" Laura smiled and then she took out her wand. "It's my turn now." Laura so hoped that she would be able to do it or she would have been upstaged by a firstie.

Huh?

Another spell that actually worked?? Like seriously? She was on a roll! The Professor had the right idea when she told them to go off practising the spells. It was doing wonders for her confidence!

She jumped a little when Laura suddenly shouted but before she could have a reaction the girl was hugging her. Dear. Merlin. EWWWW! of course she didn't say that out loud but goodness, did she have to give her a hug??? Jeesh. Fine. She would be okay with the hug--for now. It was no big deal. People hugged her at random anyway.

Now for the part she wasn't so sure about. Unfortunately she'd already practised on the girl so she couldn't back down. Nope. That was one thing she would never do so she took a deep breath. "Okay." Lex extended her hand to her. "Ready when you."

Laura looked at Alexa and smiled, well for once they were getting along which was strange because they hated each other, well Laura didn't hate Alexa she just wanted a proper appology for the wand breaking incident which was totally Alexa fault as was the detention, Laura still didn't know why she got the detention.

Laura smiled as she looked at her wand, she just hoped that the wand would work properly she had been having a bit of trouble with it lately but well she would get a new one this summer that would be like her old one, she pointed her wand at Alexa and said. ""Petrificus Digitirus!" Laura looked at Alexa's hand. "Did it work?" Laura was hoping it had.

Lex squeezed her eyes shut when the girl raised her wand at her. As far as she was concerned there was a very slim chance that Laura would actually get It right and a more likely chance that she would lose her hand altogether. When idiots had wands bad things happened.

She opened her eyes when she felt a tingling sensation in her hands. So lex wasn't an expert but she knew for a fact that that wasn't supposed to happen. Her eyes fell to her hand that was clearly not numb. "Ummm...you did something to my hand but I don't think you did the RIGHT thing. she scowled slightly. "Fix it now then try again.

This wasn't in least bit funny.

Laura looked at Alexa and sighed. "Okay I'll sort it out." Laura thought about leaving it like it was but well she didn't want to get into trouble raising her wand she said the finate spell and then she looked at Alexa hand, she didn't even wait to see if the finate spell worked, she wanted to get the spell right and so she was going to go for it straight away.

Laura smiled at Alexa. "Petrificus Digitirus!" Laura pointed her wand at Alexa fingers, she was hoping it would work, because if it didn't she would blame Alexa for giving her a dud wand, because it would totally be Alexa fault, she knew how to do the spells.

Of course she was going to sort it out. She had to. Lex had no intention of walking around with a tingling hand for the rest of her life and she might have considered breaking a piece of Laura if she decided to leave it this way. Last time she got in trouble for breaking her wand and the Professor clearly said that it didn't matter whether or not she'd broken some part of her so they were clearly not opposed to violence. Something Laura should have taken into serious consideration.

Once her hand was back to normal she braced herself yet again. This time she couldn't feel anything below her wrist.

Okay. That...was...supposed to happen, yes? Yes. "I think you got it right this time, great--now fix it." It was right; no need to dwell on it.

Laura looked over at Alexa and smiled as the spell worked, she was thinking of leaving it on that way maybe Alexa would realise that she couldn't go around breaking her wand and getting away with it but she was scared she would get a detention and she had promised her twinnie she wouldn't get another one this term and she was going to try and keep the promise this time, she had already let down her bestie.

Laura said the Finate spell, she didn't too but she knew she had too because otherwise when Alexa could she would slap her or something strange like that it was just in Alexa's nature too do that and Laura didn't want to get into a fight today. "What next Alexa?" Laura smiled at the girl in front of her.

She eyed the girl suspiciously when she saw her reluctance at removing the spell. If things were gonna continue like this then she wasn't going to practise with her because she couldn't be bother to think that the girl would actually want to leave a spell on her. She might not have liked her but even she wouldn't have wanted to leave the spell.

Moving on.

"Next we'll be working on the Torparticus spell. I hope you know that one too?" And with that she shot her a questioning glance. There was NO WAY she would practise this with her if she didn't because this one was a bit more tricky and everything could go wrong. "Well do you know it or not?" She asked, not waiting long enough for her to reply the first time.

Laura looked at Alexa and rolled her eyes. "No I don't know the spell." Seriously she had been listening in class and she had been working hard, seriously why had she agreed to be Alexa's partner, she felt sorry for the person who normally was her partner, maybe they wanted the day off today so Alexa had to ask her. "Of course I know the spell stupid." Laura smirked, yeah she had called Alexa stupid but it was a dump question.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Yuuup, she was laughing, "That was a good one Hyde." And more laughing. If she didn't then she would have punched her and walked away feeling quite satisfied. No one would even have to know and if the girl went and told a Professor it would be her word against hers. What's the worst the girl would do? Cry like last time?

"Now can you stop being hilarious long enough for us to get through the next spell or do I have to find someone else?" Someone with a brain preferably.

And with that she shot her a patient stare. No matter the outcome she'd be fine with it but she was tired of wasting time.

Laura smiled at Alexa. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laura couldn't help but laugh when Alexa spoke. "I'm being Hilarious?" Laura giggled. "I think your the one being Hilarious." Laura felt like slapping Alexa and making her cry like the girl had done to her and the best thing was if she had done it no one was around to tell her off but she wouldn't. "But we need to get this finished so we should work together like I know we can." Laura smiled at Alexa. "Want to go first?" Laura was hoping to get this done.

The smile Left Lex's face. It didn't seem like the girl understood sarcasm and she didn't want her getting the wrong message if that was the case. They were here for work; nothing more.

Oh and she wanted her going first. Good because she planned to go first anyway. Now how did that spell go again? It had that jabbing thing to it...yeah and obviously she knew the command so that wouldn't be a problem either. It was even a bonus knowing that she was practising on someone she didn't care very much about. Without warning she raised her wand and did the jabbing motion. "Torparticus!"

Lex eyed her curiously, waiting to see the response. Then she'd know if she got it right or not.

Laura smiled at Alexa. "I'm really sorry for calling you stupid and I'm really sorry for upsetting you in detention." Laura decided it was time to try and put things right between them, since otherwise things could get a lot worse and Laura didn't want that to happen.

Laura looked at her hand as she felt it tingle but nothing else happened. "Is this suppost to happen?" Laura felt like she had pins and needles in her hands, she was sure something else should happen. "can you please stop it." Laura sighed.

For a moment Lex thought to ignore every single letter of every word the girl just said but then, if she did, the girl would never learn and she wouldn't know any better. Instead she shot her a fiery look of defiance. "That's NOT what I want you to be sorry for and apologizing for that tells me that you honestly don't think that the thing you actually did was wrong, making you not mean a word of that apology and me not caring."

There. Did she figure it out yet? Apologies were good and generally accepted but NOT when the person was apologizing for the wrong thing.

"Now let's focus on the spell please." She eyed her hand...the fingers more specifically then gave a nod. "Yeah...that's supposed to happen now gimme a minute; I'll fix it when I'm done." Because one casting wasn't enough to prove that she knew the spell.

Lex aimed her wand at her next hand and repeated the jabbing motion. "Torparticus!" STARE.

Laura looked at Alexa and tried to think what she had done wrong, she decided to try again. "Okay I'm sorry for getting you into trouble." Laura sighed, was Alexa going to accept this one or not well only time would tell.

Laura looked at Alexa as she felt her fingers burning now that surely wasn't right. "I want water." Laura sighed, seriously she wanted water to calm down whatever was causing the burning sensation in her hand.

Lex scoffed at that one. Getting her in trouble? Seriously? Lex would have done that on her own anyway. She didn't need anyone to get her in trouble so that was also NOT what she should have been sorry for. "I said to drop so let's just do that 'cause you obviously don't see what's right infront of you." Or maybe she didn't want to see. Either way Lex was not impressed.

Burning?

How in Merlin's beard was her hand burning? Okay so maybe that wasn't supposed to happen. "Uhhh..." She tried thinking about it for a moment. "Ummm..."

Oh right, the finite spell. That could work. With a flick of her wand she cast it at Laura's hand. "Are you okay now?"

Laura was not impressed with Alexa "Alexa I'm really sorry about upsetting you." Laura smiled that had to be the reason right if not she had no idea what she had done and at the minute she didn't like the feeling in her hand at the minute.

Laura smiled when Alexa used the finite spell. "Thank Alexa, that feels a lot better." Laura then decided to try and cheer Alexa up. "You can do it Alexa." Laura held out her hand ready for Alexa to try again.

SIGH. Why couldn't this girl just let it rest??

"I said ENOUGH with the apologizing jeez!!! I don't care how sorry you are about those STUPID things you did, alright?! I don't care that you got me in trouble--I could've done that myself! I don't care that you annoyed me in detention, it made things more FUN for me and I don't care that you think you keep upsetting me 'cause my step-mother does that anyway. But you know what REALLY annoys me?" Yeah, she was fired up now. She'd had enough of the girl and her apologies. "You really wanna know?! It's that you never said sorry for PICKING ON ME! You NEVER admitted that you were the one who ran into me and started looking for trouble." It annoyed her beyond belief. "I'm a lot of things but I'm NOT a bully. The way you tell it, I seem like the bad guy when it was YOUR BLOODY FAULT!! Now stop apologizing because you only care about yourself and how you look to others!"

There. Now they could move on to the pressing issue of her hand that seemed to be burning? Right. The girl must have gotten the hint and if she was smart she would have tried making up for it--quickly.

Lex sighed a little in relief when she said her hands were fine again. This meant she wouldn't have to waste her time following her to the nurse or the DADA Professor. She nodded in approval as Laura decided to be a strong little trooper by offering her hands again. After taking a deep breath she decided to try again.

"Torparticus." JAB. It had to work! It just had to because now all she wanted to do was sleep. Just sleep and forget about today.

Laura had no idea why this girl was shouting at her, she was trying to be nice. "Alexa, I'm really sorry for picking on you and I am sorry for bumping into you, but you didn't have to go and break my wand did you." Laura sighed. "Is there anything I can do to make it upto you?" Laura was really hoping that they could at least see eye to eye after today.

Laura smiled when Alexa did the spell and she felt her hand tingling and then it felt like jelly. "Alexa that is awesome." Laura smiled. "I think you've got it." Laura wanted to have a go at doing it now if Alexa would let her.

Perhaps it would have been better if she hadn't said anything. The girl was still missing the whole point. "Don't you get it? Stop mentioning me breaking your wand because you refuse to mention that you drove me to it. You wanna know if I really had to break your wand? Well the answer's YES. It was either that or your face for what you did to me so now you can thank me and we can move on." Like she'd been saying for a while now.

Once she got that bit out as well she removed the spell once more. Now it would be her turn and she would have to allow Laura to try. This deal was becoming less and less appealing by the minute.

"Okay. Go ahead whenever you're ready." She said as she extended her non-wand hand. You know. Just incase.

Laura was trying her hardest to appologise to Alexa but the girl just didn't want to hear anything from her maybe she would try again later, she was sorry for bumping into Alexa and making it out that Alexa was a bully but the girl just didn't seem to want to listen to anything she said.

Laura decided it was time to practice the Torparticas spell and hopefully Alexa would be okay because Laura wasn't sure how good she would be with this spell. "Torparticus!!" Laura said concentrating on Alexa hand whilst doing the wand movement, hopefully Alexa would be okay and the spell would work right.

FINALLY.

It seemed the girl had dropped it and she could move on with her life. Lex stood patiently waiting for Laura to cast the spell but had to take a good look at her when she realized that her hand felt no different. "I don't think you did it right...in fact I don't think you did anything at all."

For a moment she tried flexing her hand just to make sure it wasn't that her hand had simply gone numb and when she saw all fingers moving she knew the spell didn't work. Greeeeaaaaat, so she'd have to stay here with the girl even longer. Lex forced on a smile. "It's fine. Just try again."