Aww, she caught him with a mouth full of food. How adorable! She embraced him and softly pinched his cheeks, "Hey there, Kace! I'm doing swell! Even better now that my brother is here!" She gestured to the man behind her, "Kace, this is my older brother, Manolo. Manolo, this is Kace. He's one of my good friends."

Manolo smiled and waved to the little...mmm maybe first year?...well his was small for sure. "Pleasure to meet you, little dude."

Awar waved to an arriving Alec, waiting for him to finish his bromance with Kace before wanting some affection too.

Cat paused her cupcake love to grin at Mo. "You just called me cupcake." HE DID. She giggled about it, too. "I like it." Hehhee. "Also, your tongue is green." She also liked that, "Very Slytherin of you."

After Mo got a cupcake for Alice, she guessed that they should set off. "I'm not really sure where she is so we might have to look around." And since they were going to be wandering around in the crowd, she slipped her hand into his and gave him a tug forward. "Come along, Branxton."

"That's on account of you ARE a cupcake. Small and sweet and..." And a little delicious, he supposed, although that probably wasn't something to say to a girl. Even if said girl was holding his hand like it was no big deal. Maybe it was no big deal?

It felt like a big deal.

"I say we try... that direction," Mo pointed toward the darkish spot and let himself be tugged by Cat. "Is my tongue still green?" He showed it to her.

Kaiden couldn’t help but smile at Mika tonight. She was awfully pretty and all that. “I er, like your shoes.” He said, noticing the mismatched pair that she was wearing. ”so umm, what are we doin…”

Er, why was HE here? The fourth year bit the inside of his cheek when he noticed Stupid-face’s face. No, he wouldn’t start another fight here. He had better sense than that. The last one had been pretty bad… only because Wade had held him still. That, and the whole team got angry with him. No, he would just think things about him, and wish for him to go away. That was, until she said they should all go get pie together. “No.” he said reaching for her hand, and holding it in his. He would not be eating pie, not at all.

The whole finger licking thing didn’t really have an affect on him. She was just eating chocolate, and it looked good. Like, he wanted to try it, noooot anything else. Reaching out, he attempted to swipe some icing off of it, but since he hadn’t paid, it seed that he was unable to get any. ”Fine. he said frowning, and took the girl’s finger, from the hand he was holding, not the soggy one in her mouth, and used it to scoop up some icing. Grinning at his success, he then proceeded to lick the icing off. ”it is good.” he nodded in agreement. “you know… I’m surprised you’re eating that.” The spider, because it was a spider and all.



Right, so Emmaleigh was back at Hogwarts once more, not that she was too happy about that. The last two times she had been here had been rather horrible. From the Quidditch match at the end of last term where the people that had said she could sit with them, didn’t even save her a seat. And where she had to see him, and everything. And then there was that Facualty Quidditch Match thing she had tried to attend this term and had gotten completely rejected by those stupid turnstile things. She was still mad about that by the way, very mad… She just hadn’t written an angry letter to the Quiddich Official because she was Max’s mom, and she had already done enough damage there.

But she was determined to have fun tonight. She had a new potential friend person who didn’t think she was completely mental yet, and she was going to accompany him to spy on his sister or something. She had only agreed to go because someone had to show him around a bit right? And because it would be nice to have a new friend, after everything. At least that’s what she would tell anyone if they asked. Because it had nothing to do with the fact that he was a crupp breeder, or kind of, you know, nice to look at.

Giving a slight tug on her sleeves, she looked around the entrance area until she spotted him staring at some kids. “Is everything alright?” she asked walking up to him.

Okaaaaaaaaaay.

So apparently flattery wasn't going to work on this Professor. Either he wasn't very good at it or good old Knoxy was made of stone. Mikey was gonna go with the latter.

He shoved the hand that he had been holding out to her into his pocket and did his best not to pull faces while she grumbled about how big she was. And while he noticed the wand movement, Michael didn't flinch.

She wouldn't dare!

He should have invited his parents to this event. He would have liked to have seen his mother and Knox go toe to toe with each other. But unfortunately he didn't and so he was going to have to try a different tact with the woman.

"Aww come on Professor, this is supposed to be a fun event." Did she even know how to have fun? "I said I was sorry." What more dd she want?

"Would you like me to get you some food?" You know to make up for running into her.

She placed her hand on his shoulder. HIS SHOULDER!

He wanted to HUG her for doing that~ Why? because mostly people placed their hands on his head and ruffled his hair , so that he was forced to style it all over again and he always woke up earlier to style his hair. But she placed her hand on his shoulder! WOOHOO~ Of course, he did not hug her but a grin was visible on his face.

Busy....right. Well, it kind of was the truth right? He HAD been busy this term. REALLY busy in fact. Just not with the things he suspected what Juliet was thinking. Prefect stuff, studying and all that. He was pretty sure she meant that.

But no, the Slytherin had been more busy trying to make the world a better place with the help of ice cream and happiness and whatnot. Yes, that had been his mission this term. And as of lately , trying to find a way how to win a duel...

At the mention of ice cream he grinned however. DID JULIET LIKE ICE CREAM AS WELL?! 'cause of the way she was looking around? "Don't think it was here in the first place but i reaaaally want some" he said.

And then came the compliment. The Slytherin blushed a deep dark shade of red and scratched the back of his neck again. "Ah...t-thanks Juliet" thiswasembarrassiiiiing. Wait, he should compliment her too right? "You look good too" GOOD TOO?!

"I mean, you look wonderful" okay that sounded too weird. "no not wonderful , great!" THAT WAS EVEN WORSE! "I have no idea what i have to say..."


Hoping that the other Slytherin wouldn't mind because he KNEW how girls could get when it came to clothes he quickly tried to change the subject. "Hey, can i ask you something?" he asked and without waiting for a yes or no he continued. "Do you...do you think i can win a duel?..." He asked this with a nervous tone in his voice.

for Nessie ^^ but hello to anyone else who wants to play
 

She had promised a few friends that she would be here, so Kurumi had managed to pull herself together enough to get dressed and leave the flat for the evening. Studying for finals, writing her thesis, Lewis, living near Selina and Vivi, everything had been an at least semi decent distraction to...what else had been going on. Loss was never something that was easy to handle and the almost university graduate had been dealing with an onslaught of them for what seemed like forever now.

But things were better. They were getting better.

She had left Lewis back at their flat because he had an alchemy study group coming over, which she baked snacks for, and had now arrived at the prefect event. Really though? Did it have to be scary things? Maybe as long as there were no spiders or chocolate frogs near her she would be alright. After giving a small donation - because she would not be participating in any of the events but still wanted to give back - Kurumi made her way towards the seating area on the lookout for some specific people.

Talking with the younger kids always amused Alec... always! Just look at that sarcasm!

Alec let out a chuckle at Kace's words before reaching over and ruffling the boy's hair. "Really? So this is nothing compared to things back at home?" he asked, holding up a hand to gesture at nothing in particular. What kind of scary town did Kace live in? "Oh! I haven't seen a haunted house either, actually. But... I've seen the Shrieking Shack from far so... does that count?"

Food? That was ALWAYS a good topic to talk about! "Yeah, it looks really tasty!" Fingers and all. "You enjoying the brain?" GRIN.

OH HEY! Look who else was here! WAVE.

"Awar-bear!" he called out, grinning and opening his arms out wide. Because he wanted to give her a bear hug and see, they were bears together, yeah? "Long time no see, stranger! Everything okay in your world?" Also, how long had she been standing here? BLINK.

And... oh? Who... was the older dude? Did Awar have a bodyguard or...? "Hey there!" Awkward. "Erm... you want some brains?" he asked, indicating to the jelly!brain that was on Alec's plate.

The older brother shook the young puff's hand, "Thanks, yours is interesting too. My name's Spanish."

Awar butted in, "Our mother and grandparents are from Spain." Grin.
"I'm really excited to play some games. My brother just gave me money to play all of them!" She looked up at Manolo and giggled at the gleam in his eye at the sound of food.



She ran into his arms and embraced him tightly. Hugs are so awesome. They really are. "Everything is a-ok!" She signaled with her hands, "What's going on in your world?"

Manolo was thrown aback with this other Puff. Who was this boy calling his sister cute names and giving her loving hugs?? Glare. "Hey..."
His eyes widened. He has found his weakness. Food. He eyed the plate, contemplating whether it was okay or not to take food from a younger person. "No, thanks. I'll get some on my own."

Awar was feeling like Manolo was catching the wrong idea of something, so she stepped closer to Alec, "This is Alec. He's like my older brother away from home. Alec, this my actual brother, Manolo."

His protective older brother bravado disappeared and a giant grin replaced it. OHHHHHHHH. Good, good. He extended his hand, "Nice to meet you, dude. Thanks for taking care of my little sister. Just don't steal her away." Cool Bro wink.

Marigold walked into the seating area. It was so pretty! Or she thought.

OOOOH, KACE

"Kace! Hi! she waved frantically, almost falling over. Whoops.

Marigold grinned at Kace as he helped her up.
"Thanks," she said. "How are you?" She looked around at the decorations. "This seems fun. Have you done anything yet? Maybe we could do a race or something!"

Marigold looked around. Was there ice cream anywhere?

"No problem my lady." he smirked at her. "I am doing quite fine. I am happy you are here. I was wondering when you were gonna show up." he smiled to her. He felt like he was blushing but he didn't feel his cheeks radiating yet. He was glad Marigold didn't see. Boys do not blush around girls. It seemed unnatural.

She asked if he had done anything yet. "Nope i haven't done anything yet, i was just getting my energy to use for the races. Of course we can do some races! I would love that!" Then he noticed her looking around at nothing.

"What are you looking for?" he asked to Marigold.

Manolo nodded understandingly, "I've always wanted to go to Ireland. Do you have ancestors in Ireland or was the name just cool enough to be given to you?"

Awar looked around at the awesome game obstacles, "I think I want to play all of them! Promise you'll play at least one with me?" He was a Lecium of course he'll keep a promise.

Kace shrugged. "I wouldn't mind going to Ireland actually. I do not know if i have ancestors in Ireland either. I will ask my parents when i go back home next. I think my mom and dad thought it was cool to give it to me." he smiled to Manolo.

Kace nodded kindly. "Oh of course i will play one with you. Which one you wanna start with first?"

Phew!

For a minute there, Michael thought that he was going to end up in detention. Not that he would have cared, but he didn't think a detention with Professor Knox would have been very pleasant.

He flashed the woman a BIG TOOTHY GRIN.

"Oh so you're a health nut too. My dad only eats healthy food as well." Something he insisted that his son do also. And while Michael was pretty good at eating properly, he never said no to something sweet or fatty."He says my insides would thank me for it later. Not really sure what that means, but he's my dad..." Mikey shrugged his shoulders.

Parents always thought they knew best.

"Well...er...if I can't get you anything then I guess I'll join the festivities." Unless she wanted him to stay and talk to her.

a bit of Forrest / Kaid / Emm
 

Mika had been facing towards Forrest - so she noticed the smile. And flailed a bit but, she was in an awkward situation you know - with her friends that didn't exactly get along together talking to her...at the same time.

So she made a point to send Forrest a smile.

"You know, the spider is so good, I'm glad I saw you eating it Forrest - have a nice Fright Fest" she beamed at him and waaaaved before he headed to the games and she turned her attention back to Kaiden and Nash.

He liked her shoes? She raised an eyebrow at him before she glanced down at her mix-matched shoes. ”Thanks, I thought they were kind of funny…and you know something er…cute? To stare at if I got to scared…I didn’t I ugh didn’t know if I’d actually run into you here” she admitted with a big eyed smile.

She was a claw, she prepared herself for being scared today – but not scared with company. She did kind of jump at the way he had said no…okay apparently she wouldn’t eat pie with Kaiden and Nash…but Nash was the school’s pie-guy. He made good pie. And she did want to try it.

Before she could think what was happening he was taking her hand and holding it, but not really holding it. He was moving it, and pressing it into the icing of her cupcake. And licking it…what? Did he really just eat icing off of her finger? And from her cupcake.

”oh, okay…so no pie then” she frowned, mouthed Sorry to Nash and smiled again. And then she shuddered again. ”I can’t believe I’m eating it to be honest,” she admitted as she took her finger and stared at it. Frosting on it. Kind of gross…sure she’d kissed the guy but she wasn’t about to clean it off. Instead what she did was grab a bit of tablecloth (it might have been the back of a passerby’s shirt she didn’t know) and whipped off the spit on it. Much better.

”um…Kaiden, you want to play a game with me?” she asked beaming, “Nash you can join too…but er…I kind of want to try the goo-game…and you know, I don’t know if you would like being tied to Kaiden and I…and I know I wouldn’t want to be caught between a fight. Because I would not let the two of you stand next to each other if my life depended on it.” she admitted sheepishly and smiled, an awkward smile…but she wasn’t going to be rude and not invite the guy standing next to her. Even if she knew things between him and her best mate were troubled at best.

Looking down at the mangled cupcake she just whimpered. Even though she had been eating it – the likeness was too great for her own comfort. Turning her head away and tucking it against her friend’s shoulder she just stood there, sort of half hugging him. Her eyes widening as she saw who was there, standing with a somewhat familiar redhead. “Oh merlin Kaiden…I was going to give you a…um, cheek kiss” she whispered into his ear, “b-but lets wait…because my brother is here….with some former Hufflepuff girl that I never actually met” she whispered out quickly before casually hugging him in a way that made it so she could drop a quick kiss on his cheek. A simple one her brother wouldn't notice. It just looked like a big hug.



Okay, this girl probably thought he was insane. Because he was just standing there staring at some blond girl and her friends like he knew them – which he did…but it wasn’t like Emmaleigh knew this. He chuckled and ruffled his hair a bit as he looked over at her and smiled.

She was cute, and really the eerie lighting worked well with her hair color. But he wouldn’t say that right yet – you look pretty in creepy lighting was something that he imagined the creepy killers of the world used as creep-up lines. He did ruffle his hair some more and shrug glancing back at his sister – who was wide-eyed glancing at him now.

Oh so she had seen him…in a move to not be a creep he waved to her and smiled at Emmaleigh. ”Its my sister,” he admitted with a broad smile, and a slight laugh. ”apparently her friend hadn’t paid for the food and well…he licked her finger…just threw me for a loop” he admitted with a laugh.

Chuckling some more he turned to Emmaleigh and smiled. ”Fancy running into you here,” he chuckled and smiled to her. A bright twinkle to his eye as he laughed a bit ”so I must ask when you were here at Hogwarts did they always have this eerie of lighting?” he asked as he looked around at the eerie torchlight. ”you want some food?” he asked and glanced at the food that was there – none of it looked as pleasingly amazing as say…well anything that honestly didn’t look this creepy. For all he knew it could have been the most delicious food in the entire world. It was just irritably eerie looking.

Marigold giggled. KACE WAS CLASSY just like her.

"We should do the slime race!" she said happily. Slime was slimy. "Oh, I was just looking for some ice cream, actually." Another giggle.

Awar looked around at all the available obstacles and tapped her chin. There was so many choices and such pretty colors and goodies everywhere. "Hmm...I don't know..." She laughed and turned to the younger puff, "Why don't you pick one." She poked him gently.

The slime race? Kace didn't know they had a slime race o.O. "Sure we can do the slime race! I would love that. Do you mind if my friend Awarlesta tags along?" he asked motioning towards her.

Kace smiled and said, "Well my friend Marigold and I were thinking about doing the slime race, if you wanna join us?" Kace offered to her. I mean the more people the merrier!

Marigold grinned.

"Sure! Games games games yayayay," she said. She was more than a little hyper for no reason at all and soon started jumping. She didn't care if people were staring, she was having fun.