Ariana decided to just let the girls duke it out really. they'd get tired of bickering eventually. She sat back in her chair and just listened. not saying anything. no need for them to make her pick a side like Max. and then Min was getting up and leaving "Did you have to make her leave Morganzo? i know you dont like her but she's still my fri..." but then the fourth year noticed where her friend had gone and

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HAD SHE GONE MAD!!!! She looked at her friend as her mouth hung open as she watched her kiss a boy who she assumed was the one she was talking about earlier. adn he was kissing her back and hef MINERVA WHEATBORN! What has gotten into you. and quicker then she left she was back and asking about rich "I-I-I.. erm." yeah What Just. Happened!?

Adam slipped into the Broomsticks. Ah, so where was....? There. He gave Ronnie a hug from behind. "There's the beautiful girl," he said into her ear before a quick peck on the cheek. Sitting down next to his girlfriend, he pulled of his hat and grinned. "Miss me that much?" He had noticed the eager way she was staring at the door. BUSTED.

Logan laughed, giving Ameliah a kiss on the cheek. "Awesome." he said.

Logan listened to Ameliah talk about Hogwarts. He frowned at the news about the duck pond and playground. But then his eyes widened at the part about the gingerbread house. "A GIANT GINGERBREAD HOUSE?!" he cried...a little too loudly. He covered his mouth with his hands, his face red. He looked around, hoping no one had noticed. He needed to calm down...

Right. Ahem. AHEM. "That's sooo cool!" he said, his voice a little quieter.

Ronnie jumped as someone hugged her from behind. She was about to turn around and yell at them when she heard a familiar voice in her ear. She sighed and turned to face Adam. "Don't scare me like that!" she said, giving him a kiss on the cheek and scooting over as he sat down.

She blushed at what he said. She giggled, nodding a little. "Yeah.." she said, her cheeks turning redder.

Ameliah giggled at Logan's reaction. "That was pretty much what I said when I saw it! Although... it may have sounded more like ‘Diabetes, here I come!’." She laughed a little again. She had certainly gotten quite a few looks from that. "It'll still not gonna be as cool as the one we're planning to build though." *Inside Joke* But really, with the ideas she and Logan had, it would've been WAY better.

She just watched with narrowed eyes as Max flew OFF...and called her out....well then. If he thought this was going to make her apologize, he was DEAD WRONG. Elliot did NOT just apologize to any old person...certainly not Minnie. Ever. Not Minnie EVER.

She watched him storm out, feeling nothing. NOT sorry. Not bad. not anyting. because she didn't regret what she said, or what she did. Not one bit. Nope.

and then Minnie had to go and be IRRITATING. She rolled her eyes as the Hufflepuff went off to KISS Ethan..well..wasn't she special?! Elliot merely scowled and when Minnie took her seat back, she stood up. "You know what? I can't stand you. You can't stand me. So I'm LEAVING." Before she said or did anything worse..and make Max even MORE ticked at her. HMPH.

Before she stalked off, she glared at Ariana..."Have fun planning evil things with HER. I'm not helping you anymore. Good luck with your endeavors," she growled, clearly peeved at Ariana, too. For no reason...but peeved nonetheless.

She slung her bag over her shoulder and flipped her blonde hair as she stalked out...she needed some tea to calm her down before she went and found Max...

Logan laughed at what she said and then nodded. "Yeah, of course! We'll make ours super awesome and VERY big. It'll be like a gingerbread MANSION!" he said, stretching his arms out wide to show how big it'd be. . .well, it'd be bigger than how wide his arms were but. . .yeah, you get the picture.

Adam fake-pouted. "Awwww, but you're just too adorable to not scare," he said, chuckling. He grinned again as Rons blushied. "I know it's, like, the number one Guy Phrase, but you really are adorable when you blush."

Adam jumped at the yelling. "Who's that guy with Am and why is he yelling? I don't think I've seen him before." He didn't know ALL of Am's friends, but he thought he met the majority.

One thing was apparent...The Ravenclaw was as scared as he was. Dylan could tell that much.

...And she was bringing up the rose. Meh...Rubbing at the back of his neck uncomfortably, the Slytherin Captain shrugged. It wasn't so bad making the gestures...but talking about them with her face to face was nerve-wracking. "You're welcome. I know...the guitar and everything." COUGH. Why was he so nervous? "Wanted you to have something on Valentine's day." SHRUG.

She'd liked it, though. So...some of his nerves where being put to rest. A small smile was even coming out.

Maybe now he could forget that she'd beaten him earlier...

Minerva just looked at Ariana, who seemed speechless.. This was a first. Minerva had never seen Ariana speechless, especially to her. "You alright?" Before anything else could be said She heard a seat move and a smirk crossed her face. She looked up in time to see Elliot standing. "At least I was trying to be nice for Maxwell, Elliot, but we all no you have not a nice bone in your body." Yes, Minerva knew she would always have the upper hand on Elliot. She knew she could be nice to people even if she didn't like them, but Elliot could not. Then she was mean to Ariana and Minerva began to see red. "Ari did nothing to you..." she growled as this stupid girl headed out.. "Calm down princess, you might get a zit being that upset..." Minerva yelled after her as she left the broomsticks.

Looking back at Ariana she felt bad. "I'm sorry I ruined your discussion, I didn't mean to. I just wanted to hangout with you and Max. Like we use to, I really did try to be nice to her. I didn't start this one at all, she did by accusing me of paying Ethan for a date. You know I would never do that. That was just mean..." She looked down not knowing what else to say to her best friend.

Ronnie laughed. "Aww, shucks." she said, her cheeks turning slightly pink. Acckkk! He needed to stop saying all this sweet stuff...or she'd turn into like a tomato or something. And she did NOT want that. Nuuuuu.

She blushed deeper at what he next said. "Awwwww, you really think so?" she asked, looking at him and cocking her head. She felt her stomach flip as her eyes met his. Merlin's beard...he had such amazing eyes...


Ronnie jumped as she heard someone yell near them. She looked around and saw that it was...Logan! She laughed, turning back to Adam. "That's Logan!" she said. "The guy Ameliah saved from his evil aunt." she said. She glanced back at Logan. He seemed really excited about something...she could haev sworn when he yelled she had heard him say something about a gingerbread house..."He's excited about...a gingerbread house I think." she said laughing.

Ameliah grinned, nodding excitedly. "It'll be even bigger than Aunt Lucy's!!!!! And each room will be made of a different candy!!" HER room would be made of chocolate, of course. And the kitchen could have Every Flavor beans, since you can make EVERY FLAVOR in a kitchen!!!! See, all this Claw smarts come to use! Then the living room would be mage of gummy's so it'd be the comfy-est. GRIN.

Adam grinned. "Well of course I think so. Wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true." And right now, Ronnie was looking real freaking adorable with her cheeks going pink. "You have the sweetest eyes," he noted as they made eye contact.

Adam almost laughed. "So Am's been on rescue missions, huh?" Busy, busy, it seemed. And it made sense that Logan was excited, Adam was sure he was talking about the gingerbread house at Hogwarts. It was super cool!

Penelope made sure to get one last little kick in as he got up to order. The pause certainly helped that. She wasn't sure why he'd stopped suddenly, especially since he didn't say anything, but at least it allowed her be "affectionate" again.

She watched him as he ordered, though she made sure not to be obvious about it by looking at other less interesting things too. Like looking out the windows to see what was going on outside. And glancing around at the other people sitting at their own tables and chatting with each other. And thankfully, it wasn't long before Ascanius came back.

Oh, THAT was what he had a problem with? He was concerned about her eating two grilled cheese sandwiches even after he'd seen her eat two pieces of pizza, fish, and chips when they'd hung out over Christmas break? "Of course I can handle two," she answered, smirking. "I could handle even more, but I figured you didn't really want to buy the whole menu." THAT might have been a little exaggeration...but not too much. She could handle more than just two grilled cheese sandwiches and a butterbeer though, that much she knew wasn't untrue.

Logan bounced a little in his seat, obviously excited. "It'll be so awesome!" he said with a wide grin. "We should have a chocolate pool that we can swim in!" he said. Like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, his favoritest muggle book! This place would be like...heaven! He couldn't waittt.

Ronnie smiled. "Aww, thank you..." she said. She then blushed deeply at what he said about her eyes. "Thanks. You have...perfect eyes. They're the most perfect I've ever seen." she said, sighing deeply and looking at his eyes still. She could look at them all day and never get tired. They were soooo dreamy!!!

Ronnie chuckled, nodding. "Mhm!" she looked over at Logan and Ameliah, noticing how close they were sitting next to each other. Were they...together now? She blinked, looking at Adam and nodding her head at them, her eyebrow raised.

Adam grinned. Welp, seems Ronnie's been hypnotized for the day... Though honestly, Adam could probably spend the day staring at Ronnie too. The way that little bit of her hair fell into her eyes (which were always just the slightest bit squinted when she smiled)... Now it was Adam's turn to blush a little. Just a little though! He was still a man.

Adam shrugged. If Ameliah already found a new boyfriend, it was outta his knowledge.

Ronnie kept staring at Adam, not knowing what to say. She couldn't speak... she opened her mouth to but nothing came out. She slowly shut it, blushing slightly, but not looking away. She kept her eyes locked on his and suddenly, without thinking, began to lean in towards him, feeling her heart begin to beat faster and faster the closer she got. Once their noses were almost touching, she pressed her lips against his.

Ameliah's eyes widened. A CHOCOLATE POOL?? "OHMIGOSH-THAT'D-BE-SO-COOL-LIKE-CHARLIE-IN-THE-CHOCOLATE-FACTORY-OHMIGOSHOHMIGOSHOHMIGOHOHHOSHHHHH." YOU COULD EAT WHAT YOU WERE SWIMMING IN!!!!!!!! That had to be the COOLEST idea EVER. Am beamed at Logan for his smarts.

...

Ameliah couldn't help but notice certain some-people started kissing, like, RIGHT behind Logan. Hurhurhur. So, Ad and Rons, huh? Mental note for teasing later.

Adam noticed what Ronnie was doing about half a second before she did it. Once he recovered from overall shock, he found it in himself to lean in and return the kiss. Once he and Rons finally pulled apart (after what, years?), Adam found he couldn't really say anything. Yes people, for once Adam O'Dare is speechless in front of a girl. Take pictures if you must. "Wow." Okay, ONE WORD and it's that? Ugh. But... it was all Adam could really say.

Yeah..the guitar and those other stuff. Meh. She lowered her gaze and stared at her intertwined fingers on her lap. She really did not expect the guitar for her birthday. Moreover, Elliot helped with the plan. He really exerted effort, didn't he?

SIGH.

And it was Valentine's Day. She almost forgot. The match against Slytherin earlier that day had kept her occupied. But now that it was finished, there were a bunch of other things to think about.

"...Uhm.." The Ravenclaw averted her gaze back to the Slytherin. "..Happy Valentine's Day." Bloody Quaffle, was that her voice? It sounded.....different. Actually, she had something for him toobut she didn't know how to give it, so maybe...she can just hand it over a little later?

Okay...Mick knew that there was something going on but he didn't give two bits about it, as he just continued with his cookies. This is girl - that girl that he was looking at before - she comes out of nowhere and...Um, wow. This isn't what I would normally see every day. He didn't know whether to look or not. He watched for a second then began to look at the people outside the window.

After Ethan had said something, he just unexpectedly laughed. Mick didn't know why but that was one heck of an introduction to the girl that his friend is dating. "Wow, just wow," that was all he could say.



After all the excitement...

"Maybe I'm not the best person to be giving advice," Mick added, truthfully, "since I never experienced any of this but it feels true and that's how I feel." He felt that he needed to say that, maybe Ethan wanted some words of advice from someone more mature about these sort of things. Secretly, he wished that he could be that type of friend - the friend that knew it all, no questions asked.

After eating up the last broken piece of his cookie, Mick's face made a little smirk-like smile. He looked at this plate and then back at Ethan, slowly nodding. "I met a girl and I think I like her," he replied. "But we just met and -" he dropped off in mid sentence. He didn't know how to finish. He was probably making it a bigger deal that it is, but his feelings about her confusing. "I would like to be friends with her, and if we want to be something more than friends later, then being friends seems like the perfect start. I think I like her as more than a friend but I'm wondering what if my feelings change later. I think she likes me too, because she kissed me. Well she kissed me on the cheek, but that counts right? I don't want to hurt her feelings if my own emotions about her change. And what if her feelings change?...." Mick stopped himself when he noticed that all of that was coming out so fast and he might be over-thinking it.

"I'm making this confusing, aren't I?" he asked.

As Ascanius got up to order he smiled to himself at the last kick that Penelope sent in his direction. Cheeky, little Penelope. Then again, he didn't expect anything different from her, which was nice to a certain degree. She was one of the only girl's who was always herself no matter where she was and Ascanius knew too many girls who didn't. They were all actually REALLY annoying.

Once he finished ordering and settled back into his seat, Ascanius pushed his foot against Penelope's. That was for the little kick that she had sent him before he had left the table to order. He could not just let her think that she had won this little foot war. Ascanius was a competitive person... it was not in his nature to just give up when such a pretty girl challenged him. Besides, it would be rude not to push his foot back against hers and he did NOT want to be rude.

Ascanius tried to stifle a laugh when Penelope commented on buying the whole menu, but he could not help himself. It finally slipped out in a half snort- half laugh. He covered his mouth so it did not look or sound as bad as it came out, but that was a pretty difficult feat. The noise he made was ridiculous, "You could not eat the whole menu. Its not humanly possible. I don't think that anyone could eat the whole menu without exploding." And just to anchor his point he pushed his foot against hers.

So she knew Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Goooood. Good. He beamed. HE WAS SO SMART. Well, kinda...but...yeah.

"AND LOLLIPOP TREEEES IN THE BACKYARD!" he said, bouncing a little in his seat again. Ooooohhh, this was gonna be the coolest thing ever! And it would be just his and Ameliah's! NO SHARING WITH ANYONE ELSE.

Logan noticed Ameliah looking at something behind him. "What are you looking a-" he began as he turned his head to see, but then stopped talking as he saw Ronnie and that Adam guy kissing. He blinked, turning back to Ameliah, raising an eyebrow.

Once Ronnie had pulled away, she felt like she shouldn't have kissed him. She looked around nervously, wondering if anyone had seen, her cheeks deep red. And did Adam...want to ki-

And now he was kissing her back. So, he DID want to...phew. Ronnie was kinda worried he'd get mad at her or something. After they were done, Ronnie looked down at her hands that were folded in her pocket. She twiddled her thumbs, waiting for Adam to say something. When he did, she looked up, her cheeks bright red. She giggled a little. "I...uh...erm...um..." she looked back down at her hands. She didn't really know what to say..

Heh. Yea.

"Happy Valentine's Day to you, too" Dylan couldn't even look at her...He felt like he was about to throw up. It didn't make much sense, realistically. They'd been in some...compromising situations together. There was no excuses for feeling this way right now.

Maybe it was just...the 'what ifs'. There was a good chance she'd say 'No'. Could Dylan handle it if she did.

So..Yeah..Okay.

This was not going the way she had anticipated. Merlin, she was tensed. And he haven't asked yet. Ugh. She...she didn't know what to tell him if he brought it up. Maybe three weeks wasn't enough? But it was, a small voice in her head answered. O__o Meep. She was confusing herself now.

"Ermm.." It was just Dylan for Merlin's sake! "..d'you wanna...eat something?" You know, to lighten the atmosphere?

Eat something...

Did she want him to vomit in front of her? It was like Bee was asking for it.

Clearing his throat some, Dylan nodded. He could attempt...more for her sake than his own. Deep breaths. Perhaps that could ease his stomach.

"Yes. If you'd like something..." Oooh. His voice still sounded smooth and clear, though. Inner WIN. "...I'll get it for you."