Laura was trying her hardest to stay calm, she had promised herself she wouldn't get into trouble this term after the waterbomb incident but this girl standing next to her was pushing her buttons. "You were in the wrong it's only right that you appologise." Laura smiled at the girl, she was hoping this girl would just appologise and then they could both be on their way.

Laura looked at Alexa. "Being older means you should treat me with the respect I deserve, I was minding my own business when you bumped into me and called me stupid." Laura sighed. "Which is something I'm not." Laura was doing her best to stay calm, she was now counting to 10 after the girl called her stupid about crying over a boy.

Blink. Blink. Blink.

Stupid and hard of hearing? That had to be the worst combination ever!!! "Look girly, I'm not gonna apologize for something that wasn't my fault. Just because your older doesn't mean you get to tell me what to do then expect me to actually do it." If she didn't do what Kurumi said half the time then what made this girl think she would have any luck--especially when this really wasn't her fault!

"Nuh-uh." She protested stubbornly. "Being older just means getting stupider and liking boys." YUCK! "And anyway you are. Why would you cry over a boy? It's not like he bought you candy everyday." As she had recently found out that boyfriends did not in fact give you candy but rather they did nothing of value. Such a waste.

Laura looked at the girl and sighed. "Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners." Laura shook her head at the girl, she was really annoyed now but she was keeping calm. "It was totally your fault." Laura sighed. "Why won't you just admit you were in the wrong and then we can go on our ways." Laura wanted to get away from this crazy firstie.

Laura sighed. "Boys are fun to be around sometimes." Laura smiled. "Well what does that have to do with anything, you don't hang around people to get candy, you hang around people because they are your friend and you want to spend time with them." Didn't this girl know anything about real life.

A dark look grew on Lex's face and she narrowed her eyes at the girl. "I'd rather you not bring her into our conversation." Seriously, drop it; drop it while she was still somewhat composed. "What she taught me is none of your business." The 11 year old didn't like any form of conversation that involved her mother and had been known to get a bit high strung when it came to such matters.

Hmmmm, she would have disagreed on that but then she was good friends with her neighbour and her former classmate, though she would answer the next question. "It has everything to do with things! What good's a boyfriend if he can't get you candy? I hang out with everyone and they don't go around giving me candy, if he's my boyfriend then shouldn't he try to be different from everyone else? Yes. He should." Uh huh, she answered her own question so Laura wouldn't have a chance to give a stupid answer. "That being the case he should get me candy." Yup. Prefectly logical.

Laura looked at Alexa. "Well maybe if your parents taught you some manners you wouldn't be so crazy." Laura really was getting annoyed with this girl though she was trying her hardest not to snap, she was trying to behave but this girl was trying her patients and Laura hoped that the girl would grow up soon, because she needed to. "I think you need to learn to grown up and stop acting so little." Laura sighed, she really thought that.

Laura listened to Alexa. "A boyfriend is there for someone to talk too, not for them to give you candy that is not how it works." Laura sighed, didn't Alexa know anything. "They are there for you to walk around with and have fun with, not just for them to give you candy." Laura really hoped that Alexa would learn to respect her elders.

Okay...in an attempt to calm down Alexa decided to respond to the second half of the girl's statement before even attempting to tackle the first part. "Big deal, that just sounds like any of my other friends. If that's the case then I don't need a boyfriend. I could laugh with Dylan, or Ari or Seri and be quite happy." Nod stubbornly. The more she heard about these boyfriend things was the less she wanted one. What was the big deal anyway? They sounded just like any other friend--the benefit to any other friend being that you didn't have to go around kissing them.

There. And now she was calm. Sort of. "Look." Small glare. "I'm trying to be a good girl right now--really I am and you know why?--because you're not worth getting in trouble over but you should leave my parents out of this." No one was allowed to say stuff about them because they were hers and no one else's. "If you don't knock it off I'm gonna do something you'll regret." And she meant that.

Laura looked at Alexa and sighed, she really was annoyed with this girl, she was so annoying and so big headed. "Your Parents surely taught you that you should not threaten anyone older than you." Laura was staying calm. "You aren't doing a good job if you are trying to behave." Laura sighed, she was really upset that the girl here had called her stupid which had annoyed her. "I think you need to realise that you are small and I'm older and better." Laura was annoyed now and was trying to stay calm but she was getting angry.

Twitch.

Not very good at following instructions either. Jeez, this girl was worst then her! Lex rolled her eyes. "What's wrong with you? Did someone stick some twigs in your ears or were you born too stupid to follow simply instructions." Her parents were a very touchy subject and while she could behave perfectly civil when people brought them up she didn't promise that much when people were being rude about it.

Merlin, this girl wasn't going to make it very easy for her was she? This one surely needed to be taught a lesson. She thought back to the other night when the Headmistress had stolen her wand. That had been quite the torture. Hmmm...leaning over she snatched the girl's wand from it's holding on her side and held it up for her to see. "I don't think that stupid people like you should be allowed to carry around wands." And that was the truth. She would get it back when she could prove that she had some amount of intelligence.

Laura looked at Lex. "Nothing is wrong with me, I'm just being truthful." Laura smiled she was staying calm and she was trying to stay out of trouble this term but this firstie was the worst of the lot, what was it with the firstie this term why was there so many naughty firstie.

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Laura was angry now had the girl just took her wand. "Give me my wand back now." Laura really wanted her wand back, she was nearly on the verge of tears. "That wand is special." Laura wanted it back. "Short cake, give me my wand back now." Yeah Laura was calling Lexi short but she had a reason she was being provoked.

Alexa took a step back and made a face at the Hufflepuff girl.

"Why?"

She wasn't just going to hand it back to her. Wasn't she listening when she told her that stupid people shouldn't have wands? She was being perfectly clear afterall and she hadn't stuttered even once! "You'll get it back when you grow a brain." And not a moment before then. Nope. "Merlin are those tears I see on the horizon? Keep that up and I might just break this thing." But only to teach her that crying for everything was foolish and unnecessary. VERY unnecessary. This all went back to the girl stupidly crying over a boy. "Can't you toughen up a bit?" She hated to see people cry over nothing.

Her grip tightened on the wand and she gritted her teeth. "Don't call me that."

Laura looked at Lexi. "I'm not stupid." Laura really was annoyed now, she had tried to stay calm but the girl standing in front of her had stolen her wand and she wasn't happy. "You thief." Laura really wanted her wand back. "You should give me my wand back now."

Laura felt the tears coming. "The wand is special." Laura tried to stop the tears coming out but couldn't. "I want it back now." Laura stamped her foot on the floor. "Why should I toughen up, I don't want to be crazy like you are." Laura looked at Lex, yeah that right she was calling the other girl crazy.

Alexa's brows knitted stubbornly at the girl. now, even more than befor, she was determined to not hand her her wand. "I'm not a thief, I'm doing you a favour. Life get's a lot worse than someone taking your things you know." There, see? Lex was even giving her a valuable lesson for life. She was welcome! She took another step away. "I don't care how special it is. If it really meant something to you then you would try harder to meet my requirements so I'd give it back. The way I see it, you don't want it back." That was obviously it.

Lex sighed heavily. "I'm not cra--okay maybe I am--but that has nothing to do with being tough!"

She shook her head at the shallow mind of the older kid before tapping the wand against her palm a few times. "It's kinda light...doesn't feel very dense...probably easily breakable like it's owner." Yup. Lex was gonna toughen her up even if it took all day!

Laura looked at Lex. "GIVE ME MY WAND BACK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Laura stamped her foot on the ground as her tears started to come down her cheek. "My wand is special." Laura sighed, she really loved her wand and was upset this girl has stole it.

"You stole my wand, so that make you a thief." Laura stamped her foot. "I WANT MY WAND BACK THIS INSTANCE." Laura screamed at the girl, she was really worried about her wand. "That wand has been with me since my first year, we've done everything together." Laura wanted it back.

"DON'T YOU DARE THREATEN MY WAND." Laura cried as she tried to hold back the tears but she wasn't succeeding her wand was special to her and this girl was threatening to break it. "YOU REALLY ARE CRAZY AREN'T YOU." Laura snapped at the girl. "It's not yours so give me it back now shortie!" Laura wasn't in the mood for this now, the girl had really wound her up.

Oh. Now she was shouting?

Meeeehhhhh.

It didn't make a difference because she was still crying. How hard was it to not cry? Didn't it occur to her that the sooner the water works ended was the sooner she'd be on her way to getting it back. Stupid people really were stupid, weren't they? SIGH.

Lex rolled her eyes. "Quit with the crying will ya? It's annoying and it won't get you anywhere." See, if she was doing that whole flailing thing then she might have considered giving it back to her for being amusing but all she was doing was shouting and crying; not very amusing, more like annoying.

"Don't you dare threaten my wand." Alexa mocked in a high pitched voice of mockery. "If you want it back, stop being an idiot and do something about it." And of course Lex tuned out the last part. She didn't care that the girl called her crazy. "That didn't bother me when my old guidance counsellor told me and it won't bother me when you say it either."

Laura looked at Lexi. "Give me my wand back now short cake." Laura really was annoyed now. "Your a thief, obviously your parents never taught you it was wrong to steal." Laura was really annoyed now and she wanted her wand back this instance.

Laura couldn't believe she was letting Lexi get to her like this but well she was. "GIVE ME MY WAND NOW!!!!!!!!!!" Laura was getting to the point of exploding her patient with this girl was running thin, she was still crying and she was really upset about her wand, it meant the word to her and she had taken good care of it.

"Don't mock me you shortie pie." Laura snapped at the girl, she was counting to 50 now just to stay calm, she really wasn't sure if she could keep the temper that was starting to boil over in control, she was hoping she would she didn't want to let her sister down but at the minute this firstie was pushing the wrong buttons. "MY WAND IF YOU PLEASE!" Laura held out her hand waiting for her wand.

Short cake? Was that another joke meant to criticise her height? This girl just never learned. Why would you annoy the person that currently held the thing that you wanted most? Tsk tsk. It was quite obvious why this one wasn't a Ravenclaw. She sucked in her a deep breath and held it for a while. Unlike Laura, she wasn't going to explode or let this get the better of her. Noooooo...irrational behaviour was reserved for those special occasions where no other response would do!

"How many times are you gonna tell me to give you your wand before you realize I'm not gonna?" Just a question because this girl was annoying her with her reptition. Clearly if she had any plans of handing her her wand she would have done so by now.

A spitefully sweet smile swept across her face when she saw just how annoyed she had made her. Laura's expression was priceless; it reminded her of all the times she would bother Amanda and those times she always won so yes, she would let that other short comment slide because why? Oh yeah--she had the upper hand. "No!" She said defiantly as she took yet another step back. Shouting wasn't going to work. Alexa Cambridge wasn't afraid of anything almost or anyone!

Laura looked at Alexa. "GIVE ME MY WAND BACK NOW!!!!" Laura snapped at the girls, she was really upset now, the girl was acting like a crazy person who belonged in St. Mungo. "I'll keep repeating it until you give me my wand back." Laura sighed, she was trying to wipe the tears that was coming from her eyes.

Laura looked at Alexa. "I know you have a peanut for a brain but i'll tell you now, GIVE ME MY WAND BACK THIS SECOND!!!!!!!!!!" Laura held out her hand for her wand again. "I have other places to be." Yeah she had places to be, she wanted to be somewhere where this girl wasn't, then the girl said no. "I'll tell you again cupcake, GIVE ME MY WAND!!!!!"

SIIIGHHHHH.

Why was she still saying the same thing over and over?? It was sooooo not getting her anywhere. Then there was the fact that she was still all teary eyed for no reason. "Shouting won't get you anywhere, especially when you shout the same thing over and over again." She said, scowling over at her.

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"Neither will hurling insults." She continued when the girl tried insulting her intelligence. It wasn't nearly as impressive as when the headmistress it had done it. Noooo, when the Headmistress called her dumb she did it in a way that made her have to wonder whether or not she was being insulted. Now that was how you insulted someone.

As luck would have it Lex was getting tired of the same voice droning on about the same thing repetitively. She sighed openly at the girl. "I'm bored of you now, you're like those muggle action figures who can't say more than few lines and I get tired of those easily." She gave a shrug of her shoulders then snapped the wand in two and threw both ends to the floor. "There's your wand." She told her, now walking away to find something more entertaining.

Wasn't there anything interesting for an 11 year old to do?!

Laura just stood there staring at Alexa and her blood started to boil over, this girl had just gone one step too far with the snapping of her wand, "HOW DARE YOU BREAK MY WAND YOU CRAZY GIRL" Laura screamed at the girl, then she realised the girl was running away. "LOOK AT THIS LITTLE MISS ALEXA IS SCARED OF ME, SHE BREAKS MY WAND AND THEN RUNS BECAUSE SHE KNOWS IF SHE STAY SHE'LL GET IT." Laura hadn't felt this way for ages, "You really need to learn respect Alexa, one of these days you'll bite of more than you can chew." Laura snapped, yeah like today and breaking her wand, Laura looked down and picked up what was left of her wand. "YOUR JUST A COWARD PLAIN AND SIMPLE." Laura didn't care who heard her.

Well that was a pretty boring encounter. A note for the future: Try running into more interesting people--preferably the kind that didn't cry. Ugh!

So now she would walk off and find something more entertaining to--

STOP.

Lex turned slowly to the stupid girl that was now wandless. "Excuse me? I'm not afraid of anything!" She declared indignantly. "Especially not a cry baby like you. All you do is cry. I take your wand, you cry, I threaten to break it, you cry. I suppose now that it's broken you'll start crying again." This girl had some nerve! Alexa Cambridge feared nothing almost!

"And I'm not a coward, I'm not running away; I'm just bored of you, like I said earlier." She had forgotten how slow this girl was. Maybe she should have spoken slower. Of course she wouldn't waste anymore time on someone that didn't interest her so she turned to walk away again. She wasn't worth blowing up over.

Anya, who was in the mood for some good ole quality time outside, stopped dead in her tracks when she heard some arguing.

What in the name of -- ? Was that Laura? With some half pint lion?

What on earth were they yelling about?!

"...everything alright?" she asked casually stepping between them. Because it looked like something was about to go down.

O_O Was that a wand on the ground? She didn't even know that those could break.

Laura looked at her Bestie. "NO EVERYTHING ISN'T ALRIGHT!" Laura screamed. "She snapped my wand." Laura looked at her friend. "The Coward over there broke my wand." Laura could get a new one but still the girl had broken her wand and she was angry about it.

Laura looked at her friend and then gave Anya a hug. "I wonder if wands can be mended?" Laura had no idea if they could or not but well she would see, maybe a Professor could mend it or maybe if she used some strong glue, she could glue it back together.

Great....

Now there was someone else. Once again Lex turned to face the people and found that it was that Gryffindor that had kissed her boyfriend during tryouts...this didn't put her very high on Lex's list of normal people.

Meh. At least she wasn't shouting or crying like the annoying one over there. "Yeah, everything looks fine to me." She repiled with a small shrug. There was no big deal. She had taught Laura a valuable lesson today.

Crying. Solved. NOTHING....unless you were her.

In fact she felt proud that she could be the one to teach her that.

Lex made a face at the girl. She was shouting again and her voice was beginning to give her a headache. "Merlin, you're worse than my step-mother. Can't you go a few minutes without yelling?" Even Amanda knew when to abandon all efforts at shouting.

Ah hah. Hugging meant they knew each other which meant they would be on each other's side. This meant there was no point in telling her side of the story where Laura bumped into her then wanted her to say sorry--which she still wasn't gonna do because it wasn't her fault. Scowl.

"For the last time, I'm not afraid of anything!!" Almost. "And there you go, you just said it could be fixed." Even if she didn't say so in so many words it was implied.

Laura looked at Lex. "YOUR A COWARD!!" Laura snapped. "IF YOU WASN'T YOU WOULD BE STANDING HERE NEXT TO US, NOT SAYING IT FROM WAY OVER THERE." Laura really was wound up now. "Look at this Anya, we have the biggest Coward in History over there and her name Is Alexa." Laura giggled, she really was upset with this girl and was going to get even. "Wait until I tell the entire school, what a coward you are." Laura smirked, as she looked at her friend Anya, she wasn't going to do anything bad at the minute, she didn't want to get into big trouble but this girl had just broke her wand and she was annoyed about it. "little miss scaredy pants." Laura waited to see what Lexi would say to that.

Annabelle was walking from the grounds through the entrance hall, about to go to the common room when she noticed a fellow hufflepuff girl shouting in distress. As a prefect Belle made her way over to survey the situation. "Oh my what is going on here?" Belle asked the fellow puff. "You are not in trouble, i just want to know why you are screaming." Belle asked nicely. Belle looked at the other girl and she saw she was taunting the girl. She knew some details and she asked her, "Come over here." Belle motioned her to go away from the girl. As Belle was moving the girl she noticed a broken wand on the floor. So this is why she was yelling, the girl broke her wand. She knew this situation was getting out of hand. "You girl, you better stay there." Belle commanded. "I want to hear your side of the story." she told the girl named Lex.