The smile on her face grew wider and wider while Mr. Peter Pan burst himself into laughter.

It felt so good to have made people laugh. In fact she didn't do it intentionally but after all he laughed because of what she had just said right? The lioness had not seen him laughing that hard for a long time so the happiness was doubled this time. Catching the candy from him, she opened the wrapping skillfully and popped it into her mouth. In return, she threw a handful of chocolate back to him and laughed playfully. "Of cooourse you can!"she exclaimed. No matter who Elise was, definitely YES! At least he was with her, in this case she could teach him something occasionally so that he might pass his OWLs by knowing those points raised by her. "Distract me?! How are you going to do so? It wouldn't work on me." She smirked, raising her eyebrows. She hoped that his plans were not that evil and effective because all she wanted to do was to study, not to play with him.

Single is good for you.

"Tag is too young...and besides he's..."she laughed and hesitated a bit, decided not to make any comments on Chris' friends. She didn't really know him right? "umm...nothing." She pouted when he thought that being single was good for her. Without a doubt, she did think that being single was the best thing ever after they broke up, that's what she found out herself but it sounded a bit weird when he said that. "Yeaaa, it's the best thing ever." She replied in a rather flat tone, sticking her tongue out to him and took a slice of his pie and bit it furiously.

Tiffany didn't see the difference between Chris and her brothers. Or to be more exact, her fake brothers. They were all caring and nice. Chris had been treating her really well like her elder brothers. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she looked at him innocently and asked,"Why? I don't see any differences." She crossed her legs and leaned her head on his shoulder. "You are awesomebrillianthandsomeadorblecaringniceprotectiv e and PERFECT. Like my brother." She smiled.

BEAM. "Well, you are definitely both." Though West, honestly, was a lot more than that, but he didn't need to know that right now. She could tell him later, or some other time. Yeah, some time. That worked. BLINK. Westthoughtshewasspecial? "You really think that?" Really? He wasn't just saying that, was he? He really meant it, yeah?

Again, wow. "Do you have a lot of cousins?" She wondered out loud. He made it sound like he did. Bliss herself had four cousins, Phil, Laura, Lana and Lily, thought she didn't know Lana very well. They were all still very cool. "I bet it does." Fun too, she was sure. Maybe. "My family's loud at holiday times too." Though with five siblings, it was always relatively loud and chaotic and that summer it had been even louder with Tag staying over.

West seemed to be thinking long and hard over this? Was he having second thoughts? Panic, now was time to panic, right? Oh wait, hopeful smile. There was a hopeful smile and a 'was she bothered?'. Of course she was. SillyquestionWest. Bliss leaned forward, so that her face was hovering just in front of West's; just close enough to smell his West-ness. He smelled great. She smiled back, looked him in the eye and said, "I'm always bothered."

Ronnie frowned. So, he was troubled...poor guy. It seemed like a lot of Ronnie's friends were getting hurt or confused a lot lately. She didn't like it at all. "I'm sorry, Damon." she said, giving him a small hug. "If you want to talk about it, I'm here to listen." she said with a small nod once she pulled away.

She then remembered something. She had jellybeans! Maybe they'd help Damon feel a little better! She dug into the pocket of her jeans and pulled out a bag of jellybeans. "Want some?" she asked, holding the bag towards him.

"Tell me about it." Seth replied as he bit into that very delicious cookie. He couldn't explain as to why he was being nice, for like the first time ever? Maybe it was the weather? Or the cookie? Or the gift?

He nodded. Of course it was horrible, Seth didn't even go into detail yet. He witnessed the murder of his mother in the hands of a man that's still roaming around like nothing happened. "Life goes on. Worry for the ones that still live." Seth replied with a smile. He was quite spiritual sometimes. Where does he get that from? o_O

Seth chuckled and raised his eyebrows causing his signature forehead wrinkle. "I see. Thanks...Gryffindor...is different. But if Johnathan survived, then maybe I will too?" He replied. John Walker had Gryffindor written all over him, he lived up to the phrase "Where dwell the brave at heart."

Great...now Seth felt like he had to live up to his cousin's reputation. But how could he? After graduating John is still being talked about, he's an off duty Air-Force pilot who successfully defended the United States, he's in Police Academy training to to be a police officer and to top it off his father, Mr. Walker, was a very well respected Military Veteran and ex-Mayor of the state of Massachusetts?! All Seth could name off is that his father Jesuit Aguirre, was a no-good-evil man?

"I'll definitely have a look..." Seth nodded and returned to devouring that bunny cookie. "Can I ask you something?" He politely asked as his forehead was once again wrinkled.

"That's no fun. Can't they include professors?" Aidan whined, "And if we get in trouble once, we'll put that rule in." Professors added a sense of danger. Of adventure!! It'll be better with them.

FOUR?? Was she SERIOUS?? That was A LOT!

"Fine. Four, keeping professors. No professors, and we limit the passes." Because really??? Four was a LOT of times to say 'no' and if SHE was going to wimp out because a professor was involved, she could use one of her four passes. If there were no professors, there would be less things to wimp out on. See?

"Yeah." He thought about it and then, eyes going to the clouds above, added, "I think you're probably the most special girl at Hogwarts and I'm glad I was in a maze with you and not someone else." He never ever would have guessed it before. But it was a cool thing to happen. And.... special. He tried to sneak a look at her when she wasn't looking back. It was easier to see the special bits inside someone when they didn't know you were looking for it, just like how it was easier to find it in the first place when you weren't actually looking at all.

"Well," He thought about it. "My Aunt Linda has six kids, so they're my first cousins. I don't really like them all that much. Then my mum was cousins with Mo's mum, so Mo's mum and her brothers are my cousins I guess, and Mo and Vivi and Sophia and CJ are my cousins too, since they're my mum's cousins' kids, and they're all cool." Paaaause. "And then there's more second cousins, they're all adults though. And on my dad's side, the Odessas, I don't really know them much though." West idly wondered why and made a mental note to ask Aspen. "How big is your family?" He wanted to know all the THINGS about Bliss.

He swallowed a bit nervously since she was suddenly right THERE and like, all up in his face and everything. But always bothered? Really? "Maybe then you should tell me if you're ever not bothered anymore instead." He said. But she was bothered now. And he was going to stop asking and just do stuff. Because of reasons. And because a weird thing happened where his brain just sort of stopped. West leaned forward too, and kissed her again. Didn't need a brain OR a maze for that, as it turned out.

Was he purposely saying that to make her heart flutter, or was it doing it on it's own accord? Either way it wasn't slowing and she kinda didn't want it to stop. "That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me, West." It really was and any other other compliment she'd ever received paled in comparison. "I'm glad I was in the maze with you too." Otherwise certain things wouldn't have happened and she probably wouldn't be laid on the grass, holding West's hand. She would also be nowhere near as happy as she was right now. Bliss honestly hadn't thought that she'd be like this for years, but as she'd said before, West had snuck up on her and taken her by surprise; she wouldn't change anything either.

Bliss listened as West explained his...very complicated family. She tried to remember each little detail, but there was quite a lot. Vivi and Mo were his cousins? That was something that she hadn't known before. Well, now she did and now it was her turn to tell West about her family. "It's smaller than yours by the sounds of it." Definitely. "I have four siblings; Sarah, Dylan, Mark and Tianna. Two older and two younger." Which made her the middle child, which she was quite proud of. "Um, I have four cousins, two of them are adults on my Dad's side and two attend Hogwarts and are on my mum's side." BREATHE. She couldn't think of anything else to add about that, so she just waited for him to reply. Hopefully she hadn't bored him.

She hoped that her alway-bothered-ness didn't bother him or put him off or something. OH. Tell him when she wasn't bothered? She looked at West carefully and a soft smile crept across her face. "That's not likely to be anytime soon," she admitted. Bliss' heart exploded beat a little faster, as he leaned in and she automatically shut her eyes. She kissed him back. There was nothing else in world, nothing but her and West, together and happy.

It had taken a lot of persuading his mother and a lot of grovelling to get her to allow him to come back to school. Tilly had returned to Beauxbaton's last week and now it was Terry's chance to come back. He had completely caught up on what he had missed and he was having mixed emotions about coming back to school but most of all he was excited to be seeing his friends once more.

The first place the third year visited was the Lake, somewhere that held a fondness in his heart. He wandered along the path that led him to the stretch of water, scanning his eyes across all the figures until he came across one that was familiar to him, one that he wanted to talk to. After 10 minutes of strolling there was no such luck.

That was until he spotted the long hair that belonged to his best friend, at least he hoped she still was. He headed over until he was a couple of metres away. "BLI--" he called out across the distance that separated them until he noticed West and then saw what they were doing. He stared for a short time and then began walking back in the opposite direction, disappointed and completely speechless.

As quickly as he had arrived, he had gone back through the main doors of the castle.

Dora rolled her eyes at Aidan acting like SUCH a twelve year old. WELL FINE. "Okay, whatever. We won't have that rule at all." GOSH. She just would have to be extra careful with the ones that included professors. "Just no getting into trouble," Cause she didn't wanna get into ANY trouble.

"Deal." She ate another candy and all but ignored the look he was giving her with that last rule, eyes wondering the area. At least he wasn't arguing with her on it anymore. "We don't need any more rules right?" They were done and could start with the first challenge, right? Cause Dora was sorta ready for it.

And was that West and Bliss?

Damon sighed, "Just torn really..." He didn't know how to explain it, "But no thanks," He shook his head to the jelly beans, "Just... Do you have any idea how to clear a muddled mind?"

"It was?" Blink. "Oh. Oh well.... I meant it. I don't say stuff what I don't mean. Its easier just not to say stuff at all I think."

He was making mental notes of things. It was good that he had a good memory, now he had a little file in his head marked Bliss where all the important little facts went. Also a list of questions to ask. Which he would, but not now. Now was for being bothered and holding hands.

Because his brain wasn't even gonna work a little bit while kissing was happening. Sort of like a flatline. Nobody warned him about that part. There was no blood in his brain. It was like it just said no.

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.... was that a sound? In his not working brain it was like a bleat. A lamb bleat. Bliiiii. Bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiih.

He only stopped the kissing thing on account of his brain, the weird brain that didn't properly work aside from thinking randomly of lambs, hadn't told him how to breathe either. So breathing. He pulled away a little bit to breath.

Breaaaaaaaaaathe.

And sort of to look at Bliss a bit too. It was nice looking at her and stuff. She looked happy and that was the best.

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After her trip to the glorioud duck pond Oichi decide to take an excursion down to the lake. It was not nearly as beautiful but it still was nice and there were trees. Oichi go an idea. Oichi took out her wand and approached a tree whe saw that had a severed limb. She waved her wand in the correct fashion, "Diffindo", the small limb came crashing down and Oichi quickly sprinted out of the way. Once she was a safe distance way she chuckled. Man, that was a close one, but I got the spell right. I am AMAZING!!!

Trying his hardest to catch, Chris kept his eye on the candy, raising his hands up to catch it, but somehow managed to miss every piece except on Hershey's Kiss. He held it up like a champion and stuck his tongue out at Tiff. That was right, he had skills. After his awesome catch, he couldn't help but beeaam at Periwinkle. She was allowing him to distract her?! "You are the absolute BEST!" Without a doubt. He loved Tiffanyyyy! Now he'd definitely be spending more time with her! "What do you meeaan it wouldn't work on you?" Surely, she knew better than that? "I can't teeeeell you. It'll just be a huge surprise!" He had managed to distract Elise so much so that they just left the library completely! Although, at this point, he had to make sure what happened with Elise didn't happen with Tiff. Then things would be disastrous.

When she started talking about Tag, Chris couldn't help but raise his eyebrows at her. Tag was the best, no matter what Tiff was thinking. Yes, he was weird, and he knew she thought so, but her was nice and funny and only a liiiiittle young! He didn't always act thirteen! He was glad she had decided not to say anything though because that saved them both the trouble of explaining things. Hearing something that sounded like anger and sarcasm, he smirked a little to himself, wondering what could possibly be bothering her. "Are you sure, Tiff? Everything alright?" He really did care about her but he just wanted to know if she missed him.

He eyed her now, wondering how in the world she couldn't see the difference between him and her friends. Yeah, now he was just her friend but kissing your friends wasn't something everyone did. Again, unless you were Minnie, and now Elise....and Tiffany once........ Before he was able to argue his point, Tiffany had gone off on describing him and she called him...perfect? His face quickly turned the shade of a tomato and he suddenly was at a loss for words. "B-but.....and.....um.....thanks, Tiff." Why argue when hugging was more fun?! Christopher leaned over and gave her the biggest bear hug he could manage and squeezed her once before letting her go. "I love you, Tiffany!"

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Zhenya was speechless. What could she say? Was it really too late to apologise? She didn't think hearing that would hurt so bad, or be such a shock. Well, she HAD been expecting him to react badly. And then he said it was good to see her back. She gave him a small smile and tucked her very long hair behind her ears. And... he was packing.

Oh, no. He was leaving her. He had had enough of her apologies and explanations. She watched him as he stood up and left, walking away from her, and she panicked.

When could she have another moment with him?

She bound to her feet, ran after him, and standing as tall as she could, she wrapped her arms around his neck and embraced him.

What the heck did he just do? Leaving her alone without saying anything? Well, he DID say something before he left but… Seriously, that wasn’t right and gentle Gerald Rush! Huh. The blonde guy just walked absent-mindedly after he listened to her explanation and apology. That was enough, he thought. More than just enough.

Well, he left because… To be honest, he didn’t know what he would say anymore. Gary was glad to see her back, that’s the truth. Actually, he did want to ask her if she still loved him or not. But again, he was too coward to ask about this, or still thinking if this question was appropriate to ask to her. Should he? He stopped for a while, doubted and looked so confused. Turning back to look at her, suddenly he realized that Zhenya was behind and gave him a hug.

Really? Wait, it wasn’t a dream right?

Gary was surprised when suddenly she hugged him. It was nice and warm. His heart started beating so fast, maybe he could die because of heart attack after this. He did remember at the first time she hugged him; they weren’t dating yet but she said that it was her way to show he friendship feels. He gently released her, now his blue eyes stared at hers. "Zhenya…" he started to speak, but again he didn’t know what he should say. All he could do just stroking her hair, then he leaned forward and kissed her forehead.

Today, Orr headed down to the lake with her charm book to practice the freezing charm on the lake surface. She reached the bank of the lake and sat down and took out her wand and book. After reading about the freezing charm, she practiced the wand movement before trying to pronounce the incantation, "Gla-ci-us!"

She repeated this another three times before feeling confident to try and freeze some water. She conjured a bowl and filled it with lake water.

Pointing her wand at the bowl, she performed the correct wand movement while saying out loud "Gla-ci-us". To her delight, the water in the bowl froze over.

"I'm sorry about that." she frowned. Ohh...no jellybeans? That was...odd! How could you say no to jellybeans?! Ah well. Ronnie popped a few more into her mouth and then stuffed the bag back into her pocket. Oh well. More jellybeans for her! Heh heh.

"Good question." she said, looking at him thoughtfully. How did you clear a muddled mind? Hmmmmm....

Well, Ronnie did that all the time! She did tons of things to do that, actually. "Well, you could fly around the pitch. Unless flying isn't your thing. But if you like to read, maybe you could do that...or draw...or hang out with your friends." she suggested with a small shrug. "Just do things you enjoy doing. Eventually, it'll take your mind off it. That's what always happens with me, anyways." she explained with a little nod.

Then, an idea popped into her head. The tree house! "Hey, why don't you come check out the tree house with me? I haven't really explored it yet and I think that might help you clear your head...and it'll be tons of fun too. I hear it's HUGE!" she said with a grin.

Narrowing her light brown eyes, Tiffany gazed at the alluring target, the Kisses in Chris' hands. She didn't like the way he was showing off his skills of catching candies and the way he was holding it as if he was the kid who got the candy while she was not. Actually there were more Kisses in the bag put next to her, but at this point there seemed to be only one that could arise her interest. The lioness moved closer to him and stole the chocolate from him within a blink of an eye. That was the [i]real[/s] skills that ones should possess. Sticking her tongue out at him, she unwrapped it and put it in front of his lips without touching them. "Skills...and potential," she winked and burst herself into laughter.

"I mean, I am not that easy to be distracted,"she whistled. That was true. Back in those days when she was still attending her beloved muggle school, she was always those kids who paid close attention to what the teacher was saying in class. She was told to be a good student, therefore she should remember everything taught in class by listening carefully without being distracted by naughty ones. And...he knew that she loved surprises, right? "Suuuure. I LOVE surprises!" She exclaimed, taking a huge bite of the pie.

"Are you sure, Tiff? Everything alright?"

Tiffany eyed him when he literally said that. Did he want her to be sad about it in her whole life? If so, then she would prefer to have her memory cleared by spells or something because it would be too painful for her to remain depressed all the way long. She was a cheerful kid, therefore she could never force herself to be sad or cry. "Well nope?"she replied as if it was a question more than answer. In fact she was terribly fine but she simply wanted to see how he was going to react. "What about you?"she asked, forcing a smile on her face. Yea, 'forcing'.

She then began to look deeply into his blue eyes as she was resting on his shoulder when she was pulled into a hug suddenly. Warmth was filling her heart once again and she couldn't help but beam...like a lot. "I was just kidding, Chrissy,"she pouted. Maybe he didn't like the idea of being called as her brother. Her heart raced a bit when he told her that he loved her. She knew that he was saying it more in a friendly way but still... She was glad to hear that. Leaning over, she cuddled him tightly. "ILOVEYOUTOO!"she shouted as if she wanted everyone else at the lake to hear it. "No matter who you are." Best friend or her brother. She whispered as she finished off the line with a soft chuckle.

Bliss leaned back and smiled widely at West, her chest rising and falling quickly and her heart fluttering. Would it be cheesy to say that that was magical? Well, it was. She shut her eyes for a second and when through it again. Yeah, it was definitely magical. But, wait ...

What was that?

She spun around, trying to locate the noise and then spotted a blond figure that was quickly retreating into the distance. Was that...? No, it couldn't be. Could it? BLINK. Hoping West wouldn't take offence, Bliss decided to find out whether she was right. "Um...excuse me for a second?" She asked, leaning over before placing a kiss on West's cheek. The she was off, jogging towards the boy.

But it was too late ...

He was gone.

YES!!! He won her over! "DEAL!" Aidan grinned. And, Dora, not getting in trouble will be the funnest part of it all!

The boy popped a few more candies into his mouth, so he'd float about a foot in the air. More rules? Rules were gross so probably not. Still, he looked over the lake and thought about it some. "We can't quit until we've each had the same number of turns." Because that wouldn't be fair. Otherwise....he was happy with the few established rules.

"..." And also, "..." West wasn't doing good with words. He just sort nodded, and then blinked at the cheek kiss, and then rubbed at said cheek absently as he watched Bliss hurry off.

Probably she needed to pee.

Well girls always took foreeeeever to pee, so West figured their little kissing interlude was done with for now. He gathered his stuff up and wandered off too, still not having enough brain to really think about where he was gonna go. Just happy walking. Tralala.

Zhenya clutched to him. Was that his heart she could feel against hers? It was... nice.
She inhaled his scent, and was suddenly reminded of all her feelings for him. It shocked her slightly.

And then she was released. And those eyes... those eye-catching blue eyes. She had missed looking into them. What was he going to say? She frowned very slightly and started to look down. Was this rejection?

No, rejection didn't feel so good. Wait, that good feeling was... him stroking her hair. She liked that. He knew she liked it. But she felt that she couldn't just jump up and kiss him. But there it was, a kiss. From him.

She looked up, her forehead tingling from a kiss. "I... I..." She what? What was she saying? She was distracted by... him. She took a deep breath in and looked down. Her safe stance. "I miss you," she said, almost in a whisper. Her eyes started to tingle, but she blinked any possible tears away.

Still making the rounds across the grounds of the school, Sierra came upon the lake. This was another place she could care less about. She was like her mother in that she'd just use the area to locate ingredients...maybe rest after a good fly, too. Never to hang out with friends, though. To anyone who happened to see her outside, it'd look like she was just taking a casual walk around the grounds. Although, she had her wand in one hand and at time, a small bouquet of flowers in the other. She'd been gathering them for her mom.

She paused right near the lake and looked around. There were others around, but everybody seemed sort of busy with their own thing. Good, less distractions she had to worry about. Now all she needed to do was find something else to water, like another patch of flowers, maybe. She should just water the ground. Didn't it need water, too? That's when she saw a patch of grass hidden in the shade. Not much sun had gotten to it, so it had died and turned an almost white color. Sighing, she walked closer and flicked her wand at it. "Aguamenti!" she said. After watering them, she headed out in a different direction.

"Well, excluding you, Harvey, and Min I can't really be around friends considering those are the two that are causing the muddled mind." As for the others, minus flying, he'd tried them; but Damon's mind always went back to juggling between Belle and Ariana. He did really like Belle, she was sweet... a little to sweet and perfect though, kinda what he figured Ariana saw when she said she couldn't be with him the first time. Then with Ariana, well, he still loved her, and now that they seemed to be talking again he started to realize how much he still cared for her... Even with her mistake.

He shot back to reality as Ronnie asked him to go to the tree house, "Um... Sure, I suppose." He gave a small nod, it would be worth a shot at least.

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Zhenya clutched to him. Was that his heart she could feel against hers? It was... nice.
She inhaled his scent, and was suddenly reminded of all her feelings for him. It shocked her slightly.

And then she was released. And those eyes... those eye-catching blue eyes. She had missed looking into them. What was he going to say? She frowned very slightly and started to look down. Was this rejection?

No, rejection didn't feel so good. Wait, that good feeling was... him stroking her hair. She liked that. He knew she liked it. But she felt that she couldn't just jump up and kiss him. But there it was, a kiss. From him.

She looked up, her forehead tingling from a kiss. "I... I..." She what? What was she saying? She was distracted by... him. She took a deep breath in and looked down. Her safe stance. "I miss you," she said, almost in a whisper. Her eyes started to tingle, but she blinked any possible tears away.

Now, he realized about his feel toward her. He loves her.

So, what should you do when you love someone? Just be brave to say that you wanted her to be with you, Gerald. Suddenly a mysterious voice whispered directly to his ears. He just smiled, and he did agree about that too. But the problem is, those words were stuck on his tongue right now. Damn, how could this happen to him?

Gary just stared at her, she didn't look very comfortable after he kissed her forehead. Something’s wrong? No, there's no wrong actually. She did say something that made him feel so much relieve, a smile appeared on his face when he realized what she had said to him.

I miss you.

Really, Zhenya? "But I don’t." suddenly he responded with his expressionless face. Suddenly he got that idea, maybe it sounded mean but he was just joking. But that trick didn’t stay for a long time. He just smirked for a while and finally he chuckled. Didn’t she know that he was joking? Before she realized that, Gary pulled her into his hug. "You don’t have any idea how much I miss you, girl." He whispered.

It WAS Bliss and West, and... someone else, but Dora was kinda giving all her attention to Aidan, so she couldn't really focus her eyes on him. That, and he was too far away.

"Okay, that's a good rule." She paused to empty out the last in her bag and join Aidan in the floating. "It's a deal. Come on, I want some more snacks before I give you MY first one." Dora waited for the effects of the candy to wear off before rising to her feet properly.