Kurumi ventured another glance at Milton and her eyes lowered to his mouth. Milton did have nice teeth, as far as teeth went that is, so maybe he would be the sort to bite people just to show them off? At least he hadn't bitten Vivi. That might have earned him a hex or two.

Merlin. Kurumi was becoming Selina in a way. Heh. She would have to tell her best friend about this later.

Eyes back on the shoes she had transfigured now, Kurumi gave Vivi a small shrug. "Two fwoopers with one stone, right? Stretch myself magically and, erm, physically," she replied with a small laugh. And BOY was that a stretch right there. "Boots might work...but, I dunno. I was studying fashion magazines before class and the sort of dress I made always seems to be paired with more of these sorts of shoes. Would boots be too fashion forward?" Oh, look at her using fancy fashiony words!

Kurumi quickly reverted her shoes back to paper plates to give this new technique a go when she sort of scurried her way up towards Professor Magnus. "I haven't learned that particular advanced transfiguration spell yet," she said, still feeling slightly nervous about this whole runway thing. She didn't really want to be on the runway to PUSH her dummy either. She sort of just wanted to stay away from the runway if at all possible. But if she was going to have to be on there to push it anyway...might as well just wear the dress and give it a go, right?

She WAS a Gryffindor after all. Bold. Daring. Part house elf.

"I would like to learn that particular spell though....but some other time is starting to seem more appropriate." This was said with a little more humor to the seventh year's voice while also hinting at perhaps a private tutoring session? You know, just to get started on learning the spell because it was rather advanced.

Kurumi then slipped off her school shoes and stood on her paper plates, feeling them crunch under her body's weight and then pointed her wand downwards. She remember the photo frame lesson - and more importantly the homework where she had given a photo to Selina. In fact, she got a little too into her memories that she began to trace in the air the outline of the paper plates with her wand and instead of the spell they were working on at present.... "Statua Habitum."

The edges of the paper plates rolled up and morphed into what could only be described as the photo frame version of the black shoes Kurumi had transfigured moments earlier. This would have been a nice thing...had she been wanting to transfigure photo frames...but since shoes were clearly on the agenda the Gryffindor simply blushed when she looked down and saw her feet encased glass.

Milton couldn't help the small smirk that was emerging as Vivi spoke. "Yes, right. Talking. Aaaaall the time." That deserved another wink in Vivi's direction. Milton cast a reverto at his shoes just as he caught Kurumi looking at his mouth. Well hellooo. Without warning, Milton bared his teeth and snapped his jaws at her with a little growl, just to tease her. Maybe he DID bite. Heh.



Milton turned in his seat to watch the professor as she gave them the next set of instructions. So THAT's how you got them to be the right size. Huh. After her demonstration, Milton set his paper plates on the floor and stood on them. "Pedestis," he said, and after a moment, began to watch them transform into the shoes he had envisioned before. Once it was complete, Milton rolled them and stretched them to see if they would hold. And they seemed to be working just fine. "Well, fancy that. I made shoes." And he was rather proud of himself.

"I don't want to ruin your fun, Kurumi, but those aren't shoes," Vivi offered in a all-too-sensible tone of voice. She eyed the... frames? Or whatever they were before turning her attention back to her own paper plates. They could resize by casting the spell while their feet were on the plates. That was an amazing new fact, and Vivi wished she'd known it when making the boots.

"As for boots... fashion forward or not, you need to wear whatever makes you comfortable. I don't think anyone is going to write to the fashion police about us today," she tossed her plates on the floor and stood, placing one foot on each.

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Milton couldn't help the small smirk that was emerging as Vivi spoke. "Yes, right. Talking. Aaaaall the time." That deserved another wink in Vivi's direction. Milton cast a reverto at his shoes just as he caught Kurumi looking at his mouth. Well hellooo. Without warning, Milton bared his teeth and snapped his jaws at her with a little growl, just to tease her. Maybe he DID bite. Heh.

"You're pushing me, Shacklebolt," Vivi murmured, her tone light. If he wanted to just go blabbing their business to everyone, she wasn't going to stop him. And she'd even pretend like it didn't bother her. She caught his smirk and returned it with a shake of her head.

Vivi slid her feet around on the paper plates as she considered what type of shoes she wanted to do next. Probably something less whimsical and more along the lines of what she wanted to wear with her mannequin's outfit. At least she wasn't afraid of being... what was it Kurumi called it? Fashion forward? She was going with boots.

"Pedestis," she murmured, pointing her wand at each plate. The paper wrapped around her bare feet and began to shape into black ankle boots with low heels, although the sudden appearance of the heels pitched her forward and Vivi nearly fell. Whoops!

Make them model? She pouted at his question. It seemed like it was exactly that, that they would be doing today, Modeling. Exciting! Okay not really, more like frightening and humiliating. "I think we are modeling today." she said as she continued to pout. "I can be a little clumsy at times too, but I can maybe ask Professor Magnus if I can help you walk?" But then that could have been a bad idea too. What if she ended up falling on top of him? The thought of that made her shudder.

Back to work though, she'd worry about the modelling later. "Reverto." she switched her shoes back to paper plates.

Floral shoes could work? Mehh, that seemed hard though. How about heels? Or wedges? Yep! Those would be a challenge, but hopefully not to hard.

Before the red head could brainstorm much more, she heard a strange ripping sound coming from Pao's feet. She turned her attention that way and almost burst into giggles. She refrained herself though, because it was after all rude to laugh at people and Pao really was trying hard. "I think you're doing not so bad." she tried to encourage him as she watched him stand on two new plates.

Renesmee turned back to her own paper plates and went back into thinking. So this time she wanted platform wedges, plain black with maybe an open toe and some of the foot showing. Yep, that sounded quite pretty for a shoe.

"Pedes..." she began but paused midway to see that Pao had just fallen flat. Nothing came out her wand which was clearly because she never went on with the wand movement. Instead she looked down at Pao on the floor. "You alright?" she asked and giggled just a bit, because she couldn't help it. He was just SO cute...and so were his cheeks.

Merlin! Why did all of her quidditch players have such adorable cheeks? She shook the thought out her head and tried to go back to her shoes. Right wedges, black, open toe and shows a little bit of the foor. "Pedestis!" she tapped the paper plates and watched as the magic took it's place.

Perfect! Her results were just like she pictured them, she was improving and learning spells quicker than before.

Now something possibly even more complicated?

Kurumi was just about to wave her wand at her, erm, frames when she caught Milton giving her a look again and she unfortunately made eye contact with him just as he bared his teeth and started acting like some sort of wolf. Well, it was what came to mind with him snapping his jaw like that at her. "It's not a full moon, you know," she said with a small huff and turning awaaaay from Milton.
Blushing now, Kurumi sort of laughed at her little mishap. "Yeah...got a little caught up with, um, remembering previous lessons," she giggled as she flicked her wand at the frames and reverted them back to paper plates. "Professor Magnus mentioned the lesson where we transfigured photo frames...I sort of got caught up in memories a little too much." Which was seeming to be a pattern recently. Thinking about the past and holding on to those memories and what not.

Her frames now reverted, Kurumi wiggled her toes and stretched her legs just a little. "Right....the point today is just to transfigure footwear anyway. We'll probably have the homework to make the final shoes...right?" Although...the whole runway thing was sort of throwing her. Still, Kurumi liked boots. She felt comfortable in boots. So boots it would be.

She would also use the proper spell this time too.

Looking at the plates again, Kurumi repeated the wand movement and incantation and then held her breath while things began to morph and take the shape of a pair of boots she had seen in one of the magazines...paired with a very VERY different sort of outfit. The good news? She could totally walk in these!

So they were gonna make their own shoes now! Great. Kat was excited for these. Kat stood up on the plates she had, all eager and excited. I was going to be cool, considering that it will perfectly fit their feet if she did it correctly. What would happen if it went wrong? FEET TRAPPED FOREVER?! Not cool at all.

Pointing her wand on the plates below her feet, Kat casted the spell. "Pedestis," she muttered and felt the plates enclose her feet inside it. All Kat could do was smile. And, TADAAAAA! The black ankle boots she placed her mind on was on her feet. Perfect. Maybe Kat should use these soon, they look glam.

After practicing the wand movement, Sarah decided to put the two together. She tapped the one plate and then the other and said 'Pedestis', thinking of a pair of fluffy slippers -well that was all that she could think of that did not contain a buckle. Sure enough the plates became some fuffy purple slippers - although they were very wide. "Reverto" Sarah casted and the plates came back into view.

Feeling more confident this time, Sarah repeated this spell and this time made black, patent leather Mary Jane flats. They looked really nice.

See THIS was why Selina loved Transfiguration. It taught her spells that saved her a ton of galleons on shoes and clothes. All she had to do was wave her wand and she could compose an entire outfit. The fact that stores were still in the world for witches and wizards baffled Selina. If she could just use this spell to make boots, she would totally do it like everyday. Or something like that. Then again, she wasn't sure she was creative enough to come up with her favorite types of shoes. And the mastery of some brands were amazing... she LOVED her converse. And this spell wouldn't make a converse shoe per say. Okay, maybe she would still shop. Merlin, and she thought she had figured out something ground breaking.

However, she did as she was told and stood on the plate. Taking a deep breath, she tried her hardest to concentrate on her task at hand. Once she felt prepared enough, she tapped the plate and uttered, "Pedestis!" The a vine, the shoe started to form around her foot, winding and binding around the sole of her feet. The fabric twisted and turned until finally she had a nice pair of brown boots. Hey there! THAT WAS BRILLIANT!

Well, that made him feel a bit better. He wasn't the only clumsy one! "Er, we'll see. Maybe she'll let us go in pairs?" Magnus was nice, she seemed like a Professor that would understand this insecurity. He just didn't want to have to announce it to the whole class.

After the ripping incident, he could tell that Ness was trying not to laugh. Actually, this helped. He let himself have a small chuckle. "Thanks," he said with a smile. "I know it doesn't look like it, but I've improved a lot this year!" And that was something he was very proud of. After all, he was only a first year. Pao watched her work out of the side of his vision. "You're doing brilliantly, too!" Except she actually was, unlike him.

And then the next thing he knew he was on the floor and she was asking him if he was alright. "Yeah, m'alright. Nothing wounded except my pride." He sighed. But once again, her giggling helped to lighten his spirit.

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His latest attempt had been less than fantastic. "Reverto," he said, performing the necessary wand movement. Once again he stood on two paper plates. Pao fixed the image in his mind once more. This time, he paid more attention to the specific colors he had in mind. NOT puke yellow, Mancini. Who wanted puke feet?

When he was ready, his left hand hoisted his wand into the air as he bent over to reach his feet. With two subsequent taps, he recited, "Pedestis." The plates rose up over his feet and began to darken. After several seconds had passed, he was left with a grey pair of sneakers. "Where are my yellow polka dots?!" This just didn't make sense.

He took off the shoes in frustration. That's practically all I focused on this past time! But then he saw it. "Inside?!?! What are they doing there?" Yes, his yellow polka dots were on the inside of the shoes. Eyes rolling, he once more reverted the shoes back to their original plate state.

Sarah looked at the Mary Janes she had made and put them on. They were like surf boards to her narrow feet. Thankfully the teacher had a soloution. "Reverto" Sarah cast, making the plates themselves again. She then placed her stockinged feet onto he plate. Bending down to reach the plates, she tapped one and then the other and said, "Pedestis" she said thinking of a nice pair of hot pink ballerina flats. She felt herself rise and rise until she was about 3cm above the ground - only then did the balerina flats inclose around her. WHy on earth was the sole so high? She wondered. Which part of flats did it not understand.

"reverto" she said again and she lowered down to the ground. Now she was standing on plates again looking like a complete idiot - but then there were many like that around in Hogwarts...

"pedestis" she tried again, tapping one plate and then the other. hot pink ballerina flats were on the menu again. Thankfully it worked this time and they fitted well. Mind you - if Cinderella's slipper fitted so well, why did it fall off in the first place? That was left to be wondered about.

Laura looked at the Professor and sighed. "I can't do it Professor." Laura couldn't say the incantation. "Pedister." Nope that wasn't right. "Predister," Nope that wasn't right either. "President." Now that wasn't right at all. "Professor I can't say the incantation, it's really hard. "Primester?" Laura looked at her wand and sighed this was taking ages.

Hannah hated struggling with her work. Transfiguration had proved to be very difficult for her all year. She had to admit that in the end she had managed to make something that was pretty awesome in the end. Maybe that's what counted, but she still didn't like to struggle.

She stepped into the paper plates once more and concentrated on what she wanted. They were simple enough you know. It really shouldn't be that hard. She took a deep breath and tried it again. "Pedestis!" she said while she made the tapping motion with her wand. She watched as the shoes formed perfectly on her feet, but one had a heel and one was as flast as a pancake. Ugh! That was not going to cut it at all. "Reverto."

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"You're going to get to keep the whole outfit, Miss Lecium, not just the shoes," Isabelle replied to the Prefect.

Clapping her hands to get their attention, Issy climbed back onto the runway so they could all see her. Taking her own shoes off she placed a couple of plates on the floor and stood on them, before looking up to make sure all eyes were on her. "Now, this spell creates the shoes, or boots, from the sole up. Which means, if you want them to fit your feet perfectly, you can stand on the plates and do the spell so that they encase your feet and stand more chance of being the right size. Like so..."

Isabelle repeated the incantation, tapping the plates as she'd shown them before. Just like the first time the plates started to change colour and shape, growing around her feet into a pair of shoes similar to the ones she had taken off moments before. Once finished, she looked up and grinned. "Those of you that remember when we made the photo frames a little while ago, well the principal is very much the same as that." A few of them would know what she meant. "So if you feel confident enough, why not give it a go?"

Belle was excited she was going to keep the whole outfit when she was done. She put her purple flats in her backpack for later. Then she saw the professor demonstrating how to make the shoes your shoe size. Belle wondered what she wanted. Well it is the spring time...maybe some cute boots? Belle knew which ones she wanted. She had them back home on the farm.

Belle was excited to do this. She already had her shoes off and she put her feet on the paper plates. She was closing eyes and imagining her shoes at home. She took a calming breath and said, "Pedestis!" and then her plates were forming and tingling around her feet. She was happy to see them forming. They were her old Cowboy Boots from back home! She was so excited. She squealed a little bit. She did not want to take them off.

Lex eyed the shoe sceptically. Her memory wasn't that bad, she remembered the homework and the lies the plastic bag had told; false promises that she'd done it well when in fact the texture was way off.

Dropping the shoe to the floor she decided to test it before wasting her time on the other plate. Shoving her foot into it she felt her feet going right through. Uh-huh. See? Paper thin. Yet another reason she would never appreciate this class. Everything in it lied. Picking up the torn shoe she placed it on the desk once more. "Reverto."

It seemed the plates were having the same kind of communication error. Mm. Much too lazy to go drawing again she simply pictured the shoes in her mind once more. This is where the wand and plates magically obtained the power to read minds so they could tap into her little thought process and get a good idea of where they were going wrong. Now were they all on the same page? Hmm?

Good 'cause she was ready to try again--but not before shooting the plate a little glare.

Oichi took a deep breath as she looked at the plates before her. She knew she could do this, she had the ability, she just had to believe it. She pt the plates on floor and steeped on them as the teacher reccomended. Okay, I want rainbow sneakers and I can make them Oichi waved her wand over the plates. "Pedestis", she felt the plates morph and slowly encase her feet and in time she felt like she was wearing sneakers. She looked down and saw she was now wearing rainbow sneakers. She felt elated. I did not!!!

Have I done something wrong? she thought, puzzled by Alexa's comment about her being brave. "Oh, I thought that's what she said to do." She shrugged. "Guess I got lucky then, no exploding feet or anything." She chewed her lip, feeling really awkward when she saw how Alexa responded to how she knew her name. Oh, duh. Obviously she's not expelled, as in, forever. "Oh, right. Of course. I mean, I guess maybe they could take it back... Anyway, that's good, that you weren't...er aren't." She made a small smile in return. "Sorry, I shouldn'tve mentioned it." She looked back down to her plates, wishing they would just cooperate so she could feel some confidence again. "Well, congrats on being back." She tried to smile again at the girl. She thought she was fun to talk to so she didn't want to upset her. Maybe it'd be best if you just shut up now, she told herself.

She closed her eyes and pictured her boots. Placed her feet on the plates again - careful not to let them touch just in case, because she really did think she could do it safely, and cast the spell.

"Pedestis!" She concentrated hard until she felt the sturdy pressure of the shoes and heard the laces rustle into place with a slight tug. She opened her brown and green speckled eyes and smiled at what she saw. They look like real boots! She turned her feet on their edges to check both sides. Well, I mean I guess they are real. Kind of. She still couldn't get over the fact that they had come from simple paper plates, but she would just have to get used to the fact that magic worked in strange ways sometimes. Or all the time.

Aaaaaand he was back to having his feet on top of paper plates rather than ensconced in comfortable spirit shoes. Fantastic. He glanced over at his Captain to gauge her progress. She seemed to be doing much better than he was, at least. But not surprising. She's a fifth year, after all. He didn't let it bother her. Pao turned his attention back to the task at hand.

Pao tapped his wand once on each plate. "Pedestis," he said. Yet again he watched with a fascinated smile. He loved Transfiguration, just seeing objects turning into other things. There was nothing else like it in the Muggle or magical worlds.

He pulled out of his reverie in time to see the transformation complete itself. "Okay, what do we have here?" The first year examined the sneakers. The outside was gray with yellow polka dots, just like he wanted. Good start for sure. He wiggled his toes. Mmmmm. Perfect fit! He was very happy with this pair. They would go well with the rest of his Puff Pride outfit for sure!

Pao turned to his Captain with a smile on his face. "Hey Ness, look at these! You like?"

Sierra continued to stare at the paper plates as if they might just burst into a pair of boots simply by gaze alone. She was only trying to focus, though. She'd learned back in the first lesson of the term that even when she thought she was focusing enough, she still may need to focus even more. She remembered during the first lesson when she never could get her shirt quite right.

When she was finally ready to try the spell, she backed up and held her wand at the ready. She then stood over the first plate, placing her left foot right in the middle of it. Okay. Here goes nothing... With a tap toward the plate, she said, "Pedestis!"

Before she cast the spell again she tapped the plates lightly. For all she knew they might have fallen asleep and simply weren't getting the message that they were supposed to stop being stupid so she could have her summer shoes.

Feeling satisfied that they may have woken up now she cleared her throat then attempted the spell once more.

"Pedestis!"

She watched with wary eyes as the plate did what it had done several times before; changing and twisting, then gave a little squeal when she saw just what she wanted. Wait...slowly she tried the shoe on and grinned when she realized that it wasn't about to fall apart. THANK MERLIN. Another couple tries and she might have just reverted to incendio. Just saying. Quickly she tried the spell on the next plate, her grin widening when this one did the same. Her shoes were ready! And no this did not mean she felt any more inclined to model but a girl had to do what a girl had to do.



Lex shrugged at her. "It is. I just wouldn't try that myself...not yet anyway." Jeez, she didn't think the girl would take her that literally. "But I guess you're right, you made it out without seriously injuring yourself so kudos to you." Or whatever it was people said when they congratulated others.

She eyed the girl, sizing her up as she stumbled over her own words. In her mind Lex was trying to figure out whether or not this girl was being intentionally annoying but then the nervousness spoke for itself. "Meh. It's fine, you can just stop mentioning it now." The conversation would go a lot better once she did but Lex hadn't the patience to wait for her to figure that out so..."Are you excited about the modelling we'll be doing later?" She wasn't but who knew, this girl might have been one of those girly girls who enjoyed that kind of stuff.

How?

She would never understand.

Eliza heard a strange squeal come from Alexa who was still next to her, so she turned to see what it was about. Did she set herself on fire? She didn't see any smoke or debris, so it could only mean that... Yep, she'd finished her shoes! "Hey, nice shoes!" she complimented her.

She went with the direction that the girl was steering the direction in, and thought about modeling for a moment. No, she wasn't really looking forward to it. She wasn't really dreading it either though. "It doesn't sound like my favorite thing, but I guess since everyone has to do it, it might not be so bad." She just hoped she wouldn't trip, or have to do some funny runway poses. "But walking around in front of everyone doesn't sound very fun. How about you?"

She wondered where she could store her boots she'd just made. It wasn't that she thought anyone would take them from her sleeping bag area in the Great Hall, but it would also be a little strange to start piling stuff in there. Guess we'll see how that works out later.

Nod. Nod. "Yeah, maybe." It would be great if pairs were allowed. Hopefully less embarrassing to all of them, if they weren't completely on their own on the cat walk. "We'll just have to see." Because it was after all only happening at the end of the lesson, not now. Now they had their shoes to focus on.

Aww! It was so adorable how he told her that he had improved. She was sure he was telling the truth though, because the longer you've been doing magic the better you become. Or at least that was Nessie's experience when it came to spells. "Practice makes perfect." She gave him a small wink. "The more you practice the better you become, kiddo." Same applied to quidditch and almost everything really.

Those cheeks! Eepp...wait ..no..back to shoes.

As soon as Pao was up and alright, Ness looked once more at her now black heels. They were beautiful and Ness wouldn't mind wearing them at all, even though they did look a bit high. Sitting down, she took her school shoes off and put her newly made shoes on. She then tried to stand up.

WAY! TOO HIGH!

She felt like godzilla towering over innocent little people. Well then time to try again. The fifth year took her shoes off once more and turned them back into paper plates with a simple Reverto.

Before going back into the brain storming process she shot a quick look towards Pao wanting to see how he was doing. She burst into giggles again as she noticed his shoes had polka dots inside them, rather than outside. This kiddo was just too funny. He had been improving even now though, she'd give him that.

A completely new design began forming in her head. Brown shoes. Brogues, with a bit of a feminine design and maybe laces too. Yep that sounded not to difficult. Ness tapped the paper plates with her wand lightly and then whilst picturing her new idea of shoes she uttered the incantation. "Pedestis!"Aha! She had learned this spell well by now. The paper plates magically transformed into the perfect shoes she had pictured. She was ready now, and Pao seemed to be ready too.

"Those are awesome!" she gave him a thumbs up and then a grin. "Are mine alright?" she raised them in the air for a short moment and then sat down again so she could put her new shoes on. They fitted perfect, they were just right.

Just as she finished the spell work on the first plate, Sierra stepped off it then on to the second plate. She placed her other foot in the middle of the plate and then aimed her wand toward it. She again focused on what she hoped the shoes to look like. Boots, actually. She'd decided on boots to go with the outfit she'd already created.

With a good picture of the boots in mind, Sierra tapped her wand forward. "Pedestis!" she said. ...and now only time would tell if she'd done the spell correctly. She stood back and eyed the two plates, waiting to see what would come of them.

Practice makes perfect? Yeah, he'd heard that one before. A thought suddenly occurred to him. "Wait... so if I stop practicing.. I'll lose my ability? What am I supposed to do this summer when we aren't allowed to use magic?!" This. Was. A. Crisis.

Therefore it was all the more important that he focus now and try his hardest. Except... she was giggling. At him! What, I was just curious! No, he must focus! Just like Keeping. Block out the crowd noise. Okay, GO.

It must have succeeded somewhat because she gave her approval. "Thanks, I like them!" And hers? "Yeah, yours are good, too. I mean, I would certainly never wear them, but that's just cuz they're girl shoes. I mean, if I were a girl, I would totally love them! And... yeah." Time to stop digging himself into a hole now.

Minerva looked at that plates, so the first try did not go over so well.. Time for the second try. Still visualizing the same what tennis shoes, she tapped her paper plates. "Pedestis" This time the plates turned quickly into the white shoes she was hoping for. They were way to big, but she wasn't aiming to make the size at the moment just the item. "Reverto" She watched the plates turn back to normal and a smile jumped on her face. She knew what she was going to do next.

Slipping off her own shoes she wanted to make these fit. Minerva put her plates on the ground and stepped into them. Thinking about a white heel, nothing fancy, Minerva bent down and tapped the plates. "Pedestis!" She felt herself raise with the formation of the heel, but looked disappointed when she saw the shoe. It wasn't a plain white heel, it was a mix of the white tennis shoe and the heel. She had to admit it was a mistake, but they were a cute pair of shoes.

She was going to get it right this time! she just had to. How many attempts was this for her again? Not that it should matter because she had honestly come along way, but it still didn't do much for her ego. At least the last time she had managed to get it to do something... not the right thing, but definitely something. That had to count for something right?

She once again stepped on top of the plates and thought about her perfect black heel. She decided to close her eyes to maybe help out with her concentration some. All she knew was that it sure couldn't hurt her at this point. "Pedestis!" she cried while making all of the right movements. She kept her eyes closed for a moment because if it didn't happen for her this time then she was likely to have a fit.