Mikey was struggling to sit back up when Zahra decided to have another go at the tree. He watched in awe at the jump she did to grab hold of the branch. It was rather impressive.

Of course he could do better.

He got to his feet just as his BFF got tossed in the same way that he had and land head first in the snow. He roared with laughter at the sight.

"YES!" He finally managed to answer. "NOW WATCH ME!!" Even though his stomach was still hurting, Mikey took off at a run and headed straight for the tree dead on.

And for a moment there he thought that he was going to do it, he managed to dodge a few roots and branches and was almost at the trunk when a rather large and thick looking branch swung out of nowhere and hit him front on. There was a CRACK and he was sent flying backwards.

He landed a few feet from Zahra and knew instantly that this time he had more than just a couple of bruises. "Z! I think I broke a rib." Or two. Or three.

Crazy? Just maybe. So she was was still talking to him. A couple of days ago it didn't seem like she or Minvera wanted to talk to him and now one just changes their mind? Nashville shrugged and kept looking at the huge castle in the distance, he just wanted to go home and go surfing. Death wish? At this point in time yes.

"Death wish? Of course I do!"

How were things going? Was that a stupid question? "Things? Well, lets see no one has talked to me since the fight. Wait let me rephrase that after the fight everyone, mostly Minerva was yelling at me and saying that I shouldn't have done that so I'll stay here near the tree." What a little rebel.

'Thwack!'

Another rock swatted away by the tree. Lex grinned up at it. "You're getting better at this game!" She was too. Before, there was at least one rock that got knocked right back at her forehead. It took a while but now she and the tree had an understanding.

She searched the ground for another rock, nothing too big, just in case. That tree had a mind of it's own no matter what anyone said and she figured the bigger the stone was the more effort it put into knocking her out. The Healer was a lovely woman...when she wasn't attending to Lex. The hard facts of Hogwarts life.

"Oh here we go." She snatched another from the ground and hurled it at the tree.

'THWACK!'

Laura!
 

Nigel walked on down to the Whomping Willow to see how close he could get without getting it by it. It was just an experiment. Plus he was bored. Bad things happened when he gets bored.

Nigel looked at the Willow analyzing it before he would even attempt to walk close. It hurt when you get hit by The Whomping Willow. You can just rush in and hope. That is how you end up in the hospital wing. It doesn't help that he did not bring his bag on anything. So what else was he suppose to do in February. It was still cold and there was still now.

Once he finished analyzing the tree. He finally took a step forward...

Laura was walking towards the Whomping Willow and looked up just to see Nigel. "NIGEL!!!!!!!!!!" Laura shouted to him. "What are you doing?" Laura wasn't happy with him. "Do you want to get hurt." Laura really didn't want to see her friend get hurt. "You do know it's called the Whomping Willow for a reason right?" Laura stared daggers at Nigel, yeah mister you were in a whole heap of trouble.

Nigel just ducked under a branch. When he heard his name shouted. He turned around, dodged another branch, and saw it was Laura. It has been a while since Nigel talked to Laura.

"Hey Laura. I was just testing something out." Please it was not like he was going to get hit hard enough to be sent to the hospital wing. Even though Healer Tillstorm tolerated him. Which was a plus. This was a great way to test your reflexes out. If the was no danger, you could never see what you can handle. It would just get repetitive.

"What are you doing here by the Willow." Nigel asked. He was oblivious to her staring daggers.

Laura looked at Nigel still staring at him. "Do you know how dangerous it is to play with the Whomping Willow?" Laura continued to stare daggers at him, seriously he didn't realise how much him getting hurt would mean to them, expecialy if he got seriously hurt.

"What were you testing out?" Laura growled at him, seriously it was a good job she had come. "Oh I." Laura blushed, he didn't need to know why she had come, it was her business only.

"Yeah, That was the point." If it was not dangerous here by the Willow. Then Nigel would probably in the dormitory reading a book. Nigel was still not understanding why she was staring at him like that. Has she got hit by the Willow in the past?

"Have you go hit by the Willow before?" Worth a shot asking. Since she seemed afraid to go close to it. And he would be an idiot not to realize that she was avoiding his question about what she was doing here. "Yes, You"

Why else would you be here by the Willow other than to walk by or try and touch it.

Laura looked at Nigel. "That's not the point." Laura sighed. "You could get seriously hurt or injured by messing about with this tree." Laura really hated the tree, why did people think it was fun to mess about near something so dangerous.

Laura sighed. "No I haven't got hit by the tree." Laura really didn't want to talk about anything to do with the tree. "All I know is it's very dangerous." Laura hoped that Nigel was listening to her, she was hear because she wanted to think about something that Nigel didn't need to know about. "You should stop before you get hurt, unless your planning on becoming a dare-devil but if that's the case you should read up on how they do it because it's not easy."

"It would not be that bad. Plus even if i got that hurt. Healer Tillstorm would heal me back to 100 percent. She seems to tolerate me." Might not have been that smartest thing to say. But Quidditch has seemed to give Nigel a distorted view of pain. Since it seemed he was getting hit with his Captain's bludger bat every practice for his sarcastic remarks. She did not want to talk about why she was here at the Willow and Nigel was fine with that.

"Yes, I know it is dangerous and how do you become a daredevil. Have you looked it up?"

Daredevils. Interesting

Just as Tucker was headed down to the lake, he spotted someone familiar nearby. Ah, it was Alex! The Gryffindor he'd met back in Diagon Alley...he'd seen her around in classes but he'd been more focused on catching up in his studies to really socialize with anyone. Still, he was just going to study now, and taking a break to go chat wouldn't be too detrimental to his homework, right?

"Hey Ale-" he started to call out, when suddenly, a ROCK flew out from the tree and BAM!! Made contact directly with Tucker's head.

And down to the ground he went, knocked off his feet.

She giggled at the next rock to be batted away and got set to hurl another when she heard what sounded like Tucker calling her...almost calling her--really he never finished her name. That is, if it was him. For all she knew she might have been hearing things and she was quite happy to think that until she took a quick glance around and--

KDFVKUFTFKFBKJDG!!!

EEeek!!!!

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!!! Duuuude, are you alright??" She hurried over to him and plopped down on her knees. "Please don't be dead, I'm too young for Azakaban. There's no chocolate theeeere." Assuming this was her fault. His sentence was cut off just seconds after the tree had hit her...her rock, there it was! Just next to him!

Umm...maybe she could quickly banish it? Get rid of the evidence? For now, the Hufflepuff. "Saaaay something." PLEASE! She just got out of detention and didn't fancy another one.

Tucker coughed and blinked, struggling to his feet as Alex ran up and worried about him possibly being dead. "I'm not dead...just got the wind knocked out of me when I fell down," he explained. AND a big bump on his head now but that was beside the point, no need to add salt to the wound when she already felt bad.

"Wait...that was YOU? What in Merlin's name..." he began. How did she get the whomping willow to shoot rocks at people??

Words, they were coming from his mouth and they sounded coherent enough for her to conclude that she didn't jus--AHEM, that the Whomping Willow didn't just give him a concussion. Now wouldn't he be glad to know that. She tried helping him to his feet as much as possible and tried ignoring the lump that had almost immediately sprung up. That wasn't how those worked. They were meant to wait until after she was long gone, just in case.

Oh merlin and he was asking questions. Yuuuup, no concussions here. "Well I wouldn't say that was me. Technically the tree did the swatting, I did the hurling and you did the falling. Seems to me like we all had a part to play in this." Nodnodnod, probably not very convincing though.

"I really am sorry. I usually check that there's no one I like around before I play this game with the willow. Have you ever tried it? It's great fun, good for relieving stress too."

She didn't know how much the tree liked it but it didn't seem to complain so...

SO sorry this is late! D:
 

Nodding, she flashed another smile for the girl. It was true, though. There was always a lot of work given at Hogwarts, and sometimes it was just way too hard to keep up. But she managed. Most of the time. Then she nodded. "Spring is definitely a favorite...but so is winter. I can't really decide between the two." she replied, chuckling. 'Twas true, they both were awesome in their own ways. Spring was just plain beautiful and always had Ronnie in a good mood, then winter was Christmas time and snow. And Ronnie LOVED snow. That's why they were out here building snowmen and making snow angels...right?

She giggled. "Yeah, it has made me very happy!" she exclaimed, and couldn't help but beam. Heh. Yeah. Ronnie got quite smiley when it came to talking about Jory, even before they had gotten together. She'd been crushing on him for quite a while. She then laughed. "I know, right?! It's crazy! I mean, I never expected him to like me. He always referred to us as best friends so I figured he wanted to leave it at that, nothing more." she said, realizing she had been rambling on a bit and not asking more about Ella and that Alec boy. Which she needed to know about. RIGHTNOW. "How long have you been with Alec?" she asked, playfully nudging the girl and grinning.

"You about done there?" she asked after rolling the snow around for a bit, glancing over her shoulder at Ella. She had just finished her ball. "Nice whistling, by the way." she added, smirking. Ella was actually quite the whistler.

Laura looked at Nigel and sighed. "It would be very bad if the Whomping Willow got really angry and decided that it wanted to attack you." Laura didn't want to have to go to the Hospital wing with anyone, she used to think she was invincible too but now she knew she wasn't which was what it seemed Nigel needed to figure out.

"Why don't you ask the Muggle Study Professor, I'm sure she can help you there." Laura stuck her tongue out at Nigel. "I'm not saying, you best ask the Professor."

Nigel had to agree with Laura on that one. "That is why you don't try and annoy the Willow." Nigel did not think talking to his Head of House about Daredevils was the best thing to do. Plus he would not want to be muggle Daredevil. If a magical one was so much better.

"Alright I think am done with the Willow for a while." Might as well read up on it or do something else. See this is what happened when he gets bored. A dangerous activity with The Whomping Willow.

...this is so late. BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELL.
 

Thank youuuuu
 

He didn't want her giving him CPR. Mikey was sure that he already had a couple of broken ribs, he didn't need anymore. It hurt quite a lot, but he wasn't about to let on in front of Zahra. Gone were the days when he used to cry in front of her.

"That's because it's muscle." Pfft he was not fat. And he didn't really like pumpkin juice anyway.

Tilting his head back so that he could look at his friend, Mikey grinned at her. "Did you see how close I got to the tree?" It was closer than she had gotten. Probably closer than anyone had ever gotten before.

"Z! Can't you levitate me?" He was going to get pneumonia from being dragged through the snow.

For Taylor :P
 

Harvey walked down to the willow to hang out with him and his ice cream, but he hadn had enough to be hyper so he wasnt but he was just enjoying his ice cream. He felt so conflicted some days like today, on one end he waned to be alone and on anoher he waned to start dating again but he didnt want to go through all the pain that he went through before. So he sat down and ate his ice cream as he watched th willow flail in the wind as it threw the snow upon it everywhere. He had to shield himself and his ice cream from the flying snow so he did, and then smiled and shook his head at he tree.

Tay danced and twirled out, heading to the willow. She stopped mid-twirl because she saw someone who she havent seen in forever... it was HARVS! Taylor beamed and ran over to him, hopping onto his back and hugging him. "HARVS! I missed you..." Tay hop down and hugged him again, being careful about the ice-cream. She looked up at him, "Where have you been hiding, mister?" Taylor had been hiding herself so it was really weird that they hadnt accidently bumped into one another in the common room.

Harvey was just enjoying himself as he was eating his ice cream when he was suddenly jumped upon! He just about managed to save his ice cream from what he was sure would have been destruction! He then heard a familiar voice as the girl hopped off him and hugged him again. He looked at who it was and smiled as she asked him where he had been hiding "I havent been hiding.. I have.. I have just been... around..and stuff" how had she known that he was hiding? had someone told her that he had been? although he hadnt told anyone that he was hiding and how could he if he hadnt seen anyone. "How have you been Taylor?" he asked her, wondering if she was still dating that guy.

Taylor smiled at him, "Oh is that it?" She laughed and smiled at him, "I have been... ummmm avoiding people... dealing with some things..." Tay shrugged, "But I am better now..." Taylor quickly said that so Harvey might not worry about her. "So how have you been? Got an eye on any girl yet?" She messed his hair up and laughed. Tay started to dance around Harvey. "Harvey the snowman!" At that, she threw a snowball at him.

Harvey looked at Taylor and nodded cause really would she want to know how much of a wreck he had been after he had broken up with Ella, so he wasnt going to reveal that... yet. He then raised his eyebrows as she said that she had been hiding too! Dealing with stuff? what was that all about? He was glad she was better though "Dealing with what?" he asked her as he wanted to know what she had been dealing with. She was then asking him how he was and if he had an eye on a girl yet, he looked out at the willow "I am good! eating my ice cream" he said looking at it before looking at the willow again "As for my eye on a girl? I dont.. but then again after being a...." he stopped instantly as he almost revealed what he didnt want to reveal "I mean.. am I still good to date? thats what I ask myself. I mean I have had 1 girlfriend per year.. its gotta make a girl wonder why so many.. maybe its me thats the problem." he chuckled a little awkwardly hoping she didnt catch his mistake. He was then hit with a snowball, just when he had avoided snow from the tree he couldnt avoid snow from his friends. He sat there stunned as some snow fell from his face into his bowl, before he without warning threw some snow at her and chuckled