Dylan was still laughing at the tree that was not able to get him, and he wondered what he could do with this tree without getting into too much trouble, when he heard his name being called.. woot! the one name he actually preferred and someone said it. Who was it? who was that cool person?

He looked round and saw that it was Alexa, well she had been cool the moment she had used the name. But no worries she can still be cool anyways, he then saw the vial in her hand swishing it around.. and drinking it. What was she drinking? was it a potion she made?

He heard her say something about not being careful but his eyes were on that vial "Hey Alexa... umm nothing really." he said not paying too much attention to what she was asking "I was just thinking about what to do" ok he just had to ask her now.. cause if that was a good potion he wanted in.

"Hey Alexa.. what's that you were drinking? what's in that vial? Is it... glowing? Cool!" he said staring at the vial now as the sun hit it making it look like it was glowing. He walked towards her still looking at the vial.. before realising that there was a person attached to the vial and he looked at her too.

Maxwell waived back at his sister and smiled, then continued reading his book.

This was what Alexa was hoping for, he played right into what she was planning. Could she let him in on the secret or should she just let him believe what she was about to tell him. "Well don't you think it is super gross all these older students kissing and hugging, then our weird old teacher in class today calling those old people in the pictures studmuffins, it was just gross. We younger students need something to protect ourselves with. So I came up with cootie away potion. It will keep all the cooties away." As Alexa said this she took another sip of her pumpkin juice fake potion. "You have heard of cooties, haven't you?" She figured every kid at one point in time heard about cooties..

Dylan listened as she went through her own explanation, but he just couldn't wait to find out what she had in that vial of hers. He looked around and saw some of the older students that she was talking about, he nodded. He also groaned at the mention of their professor who thought that all old dudes were 'studmuffins', "Yeah I remember that, she is losing her eyesight thats all" he said to her as she explained more

He nodded in agreement "Yeah we do need some protection, I don't want girls running after me calling me ..... studmuffin" bleugh.. he hated that word now. He was now wide-eyed at the vial as she drank from it "Cootie away Potion? wow" he was amazed she had made a potion, and that too one that he had never heard of. "Yeah I have heard of cooties... yeah... does that potion really work?" he asked her.. cause if it did he needed a whole lifetime's supply of potion and Alexa was going to make it all.

He wished he could make potions like Alexa, that way he could keep away all the yucky stuff like love and stuff. He didn't want all that it was just bad for your health, he had seen what it had done to his parents and he just wanted out of it all. None of that for him for life, sorry girls this boy was unavailable for life and that was a fact!

Alexa was so excited he believed her and to think her mother told her all that TV watching wasn't going to help her with anything. It just helped her make up this story and DJ believed her. Oh how far could she take this. "Well here take the rest of mine. I have plenty in my room. We don't want you going off and getting cooties, because then I couldn't be your friend. I don't think we should just stop with us either. I think we need to give this to other younger students, but I don't think we should do it for free. What do you think?" Yes this is what Alexa saw once and she always wanted to try it. They could ask for chocolate, money, or whatever they could think of. She looked at DJ to see what he thought about this.

Dylan smiled as she gave him the rest of her vial and he drank some of it just to make sure it didn't taste yucky, though it couldn't have since she was drinking it "Mmm tastes.. like.. pumpkin juice.. mm" he said as he drank some more "Nice on adding the taste, makes it easier to drink." he told her.

He nodded "Yeah I don't want cooties! Yeah that wouldn't be good if we couldn't be friends" ok cool! so they were friends now.. that was awesome! not that he would tell her of course. He then looked at her in excitment "I like how you think Alexa!" he said as he thought about what they could ask for in return for this great potion

What did he think? "I think it's awesome! We should do this.. we need all us fun young ones to be cootie-free for life!" yeah all of them.. who needed love and all that business anyways, it only hurt you alot.. so much so that people cried and stayed sad for a very long time. They stopped being fun after they were.. what-did-his-dad-call-it.. ahh yes.. heartbroken.

Though he couldn't see how that was possible when they were still alive. "How long does it take you to make one batch of potion?" he asked her cause if it took too long then she would have to make one BIG batch to get them through the making of the next batch.

Alexa couldn't believe he was actually buying all of this and he wanted in. Then he commented on the taste, "Oh yes the taste is important, so you just add a hint of what flavor you want." she smiled at her thoughts, she never lied like this before to anyone. Well she didn't have anyone to lie to and her stuffed animals and flying figures believed everything she said. "Yes, I agree all the young students need to stay cootie free before these kissie face older students infect us." she stuck her tongue out at the thought.

"Well..." she pretended to think really hard, "I have enough in my room to get us through a few sales, then it just takes a few hours to make more. It isn't a hard potion to make." nope not a hard potion at all.. She just had to get more pumpkin juice and find some empty vials to place the pumpkin juice in. She smiled at the thought, "now do we want candy or money for them to become cootie free?"

Dylan nodded as she talked about the taste as he drank some more "Mmm.. wouldn't be too bad if it was like candy flavored" thats they flavor that he would go for over the pumpkin juice but he didn't mind it was just as good at least he was able to drink it. He smiled glad that she was agreeing with him on the younger students staying cootie free "For life" he added for good measure before drinking some more

He listened as she told him how much she had and how long it took to make the potion, he nodded in seriousness "Mm not bad.. so we.. I mean you can make one more batch enough to sell while you go make a new batch" he liked the sound of this "Good thing it doesn't take long to make and its not hard. Hey! maybe you could teach me and I could make it a few times and sell it if you are busy with other stuff" yup that way their cootie-free business would not stop!

He wondered what they should ask for in return for staying cootie free ... for life, well there was always only one thing in his mind and he took out a few jelly beans from his pocket and showed her "I think we should ask for candy, what do you say? Do you value money or candy more?" he asked her, maybe they could do a bit of both. When she sells she asks for money and he would ask for candy, although if he had money too then he could buy all the candy he wanted. "Or maybe we could do money" right back to where they started.

Alexa loved that this plan was going so well. They could make a fortune in.... CANDY.. yes CANDY sounded great. Why did they need money here at the castle, they got their food, had their clothes, they didn't need money, but candy was a great idea. This boy seemed to have watching the same shows she might have.

"Oh the potion, yeah I could teach you.. ummm... one day.." Alexa thought about how she could get out of that, "but for now let's just start getting it off the ground and letting other young students know that we have it. Once more know about it then we might both need to make it." plus that would give her more time to figure out how to make one that he could make. "I like the candy idea, chocolate frogs and jelly beans..." she smiled at him, this was going to be a great idea and plan.

He nodded as she said that she would teach him the potion one day, well that was good then he could say that he helps in making the potions so... yeah thats what he would do.. that way he would have more candy. "Yeah lets do that, lets start informing people that we have the best potion in the world to keep you cootie free" he said drinking some more, he couldn't help but like the taste since it was like pumpkin juice.

He nodded some more in agreement "Yeah I agree once the demand increases then we will both need to make it" yup cause she might be able to keep up with the demand that this potion will make, he hoped it was working. Although he hadn't had any girls go all gooey over him so he had no way of testing it, but thats how they would test it on the first customers sell it to them and see if it works.

He smiled as she said that she liked the candy idea, well he loved candy over money so it was obvious that he was going to go all hyper over getting more candy than they would ever eat in their lifetime. "Yeah all of that! 5 chocolate frogs for a vial, 5 handfuls of jelly beans etc.. like that.. THEN we increase the price as the want for this potion increases" that way they would be able to make alot of profit, and that's what he wanted.. profit.. in candy!

Ariana walked up to the willow, a fun old past time she had here with her friends last term. she missed min and justin adn she didnt know what to do. she saw max "Hi max."

Maxwell looked up to see Ariana walking his way. He closed his book. "Hello, Ariana..." He said slightly annoyed with her still he was over it for the most part but still wasn't her biggest fan.

Hmm, so she hadn't totally been able to convince her but in time she would, then she would be back on the good side where she belonged. She raised an eyebrow at Taylor when she asked whether she would want to help her pull a prank or not....hmmmmmmmm...."Are you kidding?!" Because if she was that was just plain cruel. "I'd love to! Who are we pranking? What are we gonna do???" No matter what it was it was going to be fun!

"Still mad at me.."

Maxwell nodded. "A little, do you think that's unfair of me?" He asked. He was frustrated with her but at the same time she was his best friend and always had been, life without her felt strange.

"I-- Uhm I dont know." she said sitting down next to him

Maxwell sighed. "Ariana...it's not that i want to be mad at you...I just am. And it' not even that you had feelings for Justin still, i knew you did. It's that you lied about it to me, i mean ignore that fact we were dating. I'm supposed to be your best friend and you just lied to my face."

"No, I aint kidding." She laughed and smiked at her friend, "Damon Ashllyn-Darkmyr Mercada and I dont know what to do to prank him..." Tay sighed, "I thought maybe you would know what to do for it..." Taylor trailed off and twisted one of her blonde curls.

The blonde head purposely for the Whomping Willow. Hogwarts was pretty boring when you had no friends to hang out with. But she had a solution... oh yes she did. Over the summer, her brother had told her about how he had used to jump the branches of the Whomping Willow with his friends; it sounded fun. He'd told her not to do it, said they'd get hurt doing it, told her (being a girl) that'd she'd get even worse off getting hit by it. She'd show him. She wasn't a girly girl.

Glenn stood just out of reach of it's branches before breaking into a run towards it, bracing herself, she watched an arm swing for her and jumped, yes! It didn't hit her. Take that. She watched another arm swing at her; she jumped, tripping on it, she fell to the ground. Her grazed knees stung as she land on them, she hadn't wanted them healed from off the train earlier in the month... they hadn't healed yet.

She got up, about to brush the dirt from her black skirt when she saw one of the larger branches head for her. Crap. Still shaking from tripping over, she tried to jump - the branch caught her around the stomach. She screamed. The branch threw her away, she landed awkwardly on her leg. "Ouch." She whispered, clutching at her leg.

Alexa smiled at him. "Well I think that sounds like a great price for a great potion." she thought for a second who would be interested in this potion. Mostly first years most likely they were still young enough to not like relationships and all the icky kissing stuff. Sticking out her tongue at the thought, okay so maybe second years like herself as well. "So I think we need to promote this to first years. The older students have been infected and have lost their minds in the gross kissing stuff. So if we can get to the first years before this happens we won't have to keep seeing people being icky."

She looked around and pointed at two that were sitting close to each other, "Like those two. We don't want to be like them. Look at how they are sitting so close together." looking at them they didn't seem to be an icky couple, but it didn't matter she needed to prove her point. "We could be a witness of them spreading cooties as soon as they kiss." and then loudly Alexa pretended to get sick at the thought "BLAH"

He nodded "Yeah I think so too, candy is an awesome price! Do you love candy?" he had to ask, cause then they could increase their prices afterwards and eat as much candy as they could! Hopefully trying not to make themselves feel sick after eating so much! He listened as she explained what she thought they needed to do "Yeah! I agree with you! I have seen enough older kids being gross to last me a long time don't need to see anymore" the platform was filled with all those yucky oldies.

He was just glad that Alexa wanted to protect them against it ever happening to them. "Yeah we can stop it all before it even starts and then this school will be a gross-free school!" yeah that was the plan, they just had to save the school. "Some professors might be happy too!" yeah think of all the housepoints they would get!

He looked over to where she was pointing, he frowned and shook his head "Definitely don't want to be like them! Yeah I see how close they are sitting" that was just wrong to be sitting that close to each other "Yeah.. and we could prove to the other first years that they are spreading them" he said still watching them.. and heard Alexa getting sick at that thought.

He nodded it was sickening, who needed girlfriends anyways? what good did they do? They weren't something special.. just girls! Some girls were just bad news, this was gross yucky stuff was only one of the reasons he was not going to have a girlfriend or wife. They just leave afterwards anyways, like his mom did. He and his dad were ok without girls, so it just made sense.

TWINNEH TIME.

Blue was bored. Simply as that. So, she'd gone up to the owlery and sent an owl to her soul twin to ask to meet up with her. And, yeah, INSTANTLY she'd gotten a reply. Yaaaaay. So they were gonna meet up by the big tree that could kill you. Cause that was where they'd first met. And was basically their spot. Yep. The second year skipped down towards the Whomping Willow, lifting up the hem of her lovely, new robes so that it didn't get mucky.

She looked around for her lovely twin and couldn't see her. NUUUUH. Ah well. She'd be along soon. Blue sat down on a moderately dry spot, smiling as she looked around and waited.

And waited.

Yeeeeeeep.

Bliss whistled to herself as she skipped, it was time to see her twinneh! YAY!

While she made her way to her lovely twinneh, she thought about the first time they'd met. It was at the Willow and they'd both been skipping and Blue had almost gotten too close to the tree, so Bliss warned her away. They soon got chatting and Bliss told her she didn't have any friends at Hogwarts, other than Theo and then Blue said that she'd be her girl bestie and here they are today. SOUL TWINS! The only reason they were meeting up now, was because Blue had sent her an owl saying that she was bored and so Bliss and returned the owl and suggested that they meet at the Whomping Willow, which she was getting awfully close to now.

She decided to run the last little bit to the tree, just in case Blue had beaten her there and she had. A grin spread across Bliss' face and the ran up to her twinneh! "BLUUUEEE!" She squealed, jumping up and down.

TWUG TIME, she thought and gave her twinneh a massive one! :3

Juliet felt bored staying in the dorm rooms and decided to walk outside. Just to be familiar with the place. She still had that Hogwarts' map with her on her bag just in case she gets lost. But she think she already familiarized herself with some of the places. Hopefully.

Today, she visited the Whomping Willow. She did once said that she would like to see this magnificent tree. Really! Not close though, she did hear about the warnings people said about this tree. It attacks anyone that comes near it. So she's doing none of that.

Upon arriving the place, Juliet saw this huge tree and her eyes widened seeing it. It's just awesome. She can't believe that she's finally seeing it. She wanted to take a photo of it but sadly she didn't have any with her right now. So yeah, staring at it is okay too. "Whomping Willow" she muttered under her breath as her eyes didn't leave it.

Alexa looked around and then decided to sit down. She was in deep thought for a second. How would they sell this "fake" cootie away potion. She didn't know any first years yet other then DJ and he was into keeping relationships away, but would other first years. What if they found a first year that thought all that gross stuff was cute. Her parents were normal at one point and liked to be outside, then they fell in love and got weird and she was stuck in the house all her life and even was close to not being here. If she could make people think love was gross and she had a real potion to stop it then maybe people wouldn't go weird like her parents.

Alexa looked back up at DJ, "So do you know many first years? We need a starting base, maybe give them a sample first of the potion and then they will hopefully want more." Yeah she saw that once on TV, the school kid gave samples and then the others wanted more. To bad for him it turned their tongues different colors, but hey he made his money first. Now that she thought about it all those shows she watched the plans always ended badly, well this was real life it would go better.

Then DJ said something that made her look at him, "Hey DJ, can I ask you something? Everyone keeps talking about these points, did I miss something, what are house points. These mean adult people keep telling me I have lost points, but I don't even know what they are talking about." She looked at him feeling stupid, she was the older kid shouldn't she know this. She would have never admitted this to anyone else, but she felt him to be her only friend at the moment so he should be trust worthy enough, right?