Louis wasn't even sure why he was doing this. He liked his dark hair. Everyone liked his dark hair. It brought out his eyes, y'know? It was one of his best-selling points, actually. And here he was, about to flip it all around and change it to BLONDE. And all because... Jun asked him to? As part of their lad bonding, like sneaking into the forest and having secret handshakes.

That Ravenclaw was having far too much of an influence on him. And though he knew he'd look absurd, Lou had no complaints.

Making his way to the bathroom, Jun was secretly excited for this. He somehow convinced Lou to change his hair color to blonde. A lot of persuasion but he did it. Sure, a certain other blonde was going to hate him, but oh well. One girlfriend will be disappointed, while the other would be happy. Jun just won in this entire situation. A happy girlfriend and convinced Lou to dye his hair. He was on a roll today. Entering the room with a grin, Jun closed the door behind him and leaned on it.

"Ready, Bolton? I promise it won't hurt,"

“Ready, Bolton? I promise it won’t hurt.”
Louis, who had been examining his reflection in the mirror, turned around sharply as he heard the voice echo through the bathroom. Why did Jun look like a James Bond villain about to pounce on him?

“I think pain isn’t really in my list of concerns.” More like ‘looking absolutely ridiculous’. But #YOLO.
Taking a deep breath, the boy rubbed his hands together. “Alright, then. You first, obviously.”

Jun laughed. Lou's quick reaction to his voice was always priceless. Seriously. He probably thought Jun was always going to do something to him. But Jun was a completely innocent boy. Honest. He ever did anything wrong in his life. Right.

"Obviously. I bet you're too worried about how you'd look? I'm sure you'll look fine. It's either blonde or an unnatural color," Now Jun's grin turned into a smirk. "Take your pick," Because Jun will just change it another color and not tell Lou the charm for it. Can't get in much trouble for pranking the prefect, can you? "Chicken," Jun sighed. Taking his wand, the boy tapped his hair, watching his brownish hair go lighter and lighter in the mirror.

BOOM. HE WAS BLONDE AGAIN.

Now let's have a little fun. Pain showing in his face, the boy yelled and held his head. "Ow, ow, ow! It hurts!" Whimper. "It's never hurt before!"

“I’m pretty sure it’s a rational fear,” said Louis, rolling his eyes as Jun poked fun at his concerns. Of COURSE he was worried. He’d never had any other hair colour besides his natural colour, and though he’d had hints of blond as a baby, he was 150% sure it wouldn’t look as cute now as it did then.

Still. He’d rather that than purple or pink. “…Blonde will do.”

He chuckled softly and playfully shoved the Ravenclaw that continued teasing him before, BOOM. Just like that, Jun was blonde. Damn bloody git, he wore the golden colour well, too.
…And then Jun was freaking out.

Blink. Blink.
… “OI! Wha—are you alright?!” Lou’s blue eyes widened. What was going on?! Was Jun dying?! Hair colour poisoning?! Was his mate about to become a castle ghost that went around dying students’ hair in vibrant, ugly colours?! ‘AK;LDJGKLF. What could he dooooo?! Wash it off, maybe?

Without a second thought, Lou pulled out his wand and pointed it at Jun. “Aguamenti!” A sharp jet of clear water hit the boy in the face.

"But it can always be changed back," he added with a nod. Poor sap. Jun wasn't nervous changing his hair color the first time he did it. He was more eager than that. He never really liked his black hair anyway. And years of convincing finally paid off when he was fourteen. Begging might have happened too. "Thought so," Of course Lou didn't take hair color risks like Jun. He had an image to withhold was prefect.

Oh. There was water coming towards him.

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"BOLTON! STOP IT, BOLTON!" Jun went into panic mode. There was heavy breathing happening. The boy couldn't even move anymore. But he needed his wand. Desperately. With shaky hands, Jun scrambled around the ground. After what seemed like forever, only a few seconds actually, he found his wand and pointed it towards Lou. Yelling out 'Flipendo!', the jinx shot out of his wand and hit Lou in the chest. The prefect went flying, and so did his wand. Moving further away from his mate, Jun was still breathing heavily.

The acting was a bad idea. But who knew he was actually convincing in that.

Jun’s reaction was NOT at all, in the slightest, what Lou had expected. He seemed more freaked out about the water than he did about his burning hair?! What was going on?! And before the Gryffindor could think on it too much, he found himself being pushed with tremendous strength by an invisible force. He fell backwards onto the cold stone floor, his wand rolling off under one of the sinks.

;AKSF;LDGJDF.
What the hell was that for?!
Wide-eyed, Louis sat up on the floor and watched as Jun moved away, breathing heavily, as if he had just seen a boggart or something. WHAT. WAS. GOING. ON?!

“Jun…” Louis got up to his feet slowly, but didn’t dare take a step toward the Ravenclaw. Jun was freaked the hell out. Like, SERIOUSLY in a panic. This was no joke. But what had brought it on?! “Mate— what the hell was that? What happened? Are you alright?”

Keep it together, Jun. It's over. Jun kept repeating to himself in his head. Just when he was getting somewhere with his fear of water, something always took him a few steps back. His breathing has calmed down a bit, but still not as steady as it should be. Looking down at himself, how was the boy supposed to explain why he was soaked from head to toe? Especially if one of those aurors sees him on the way to the common room.

Too much in thought, Jun barely heard Lou calling him. So out of instinct, he looked at his friend. "I've had a big fear of water since I was five and I just had a panic attack," Weirdly enough, Jun said all that in a calm voice. Poor boy was probably still in shock. Jun's hands were still shaking and he had to rush in getting up right now. Maybe a few more minutes would do him some good. Lou was also lucky Jun wasn't wearing a hat for once. He would've had a broken nose. Sighing, Jun decided it was best to finally get up. Doing so and shaking his now blonde hair out, he nodded at Lou's question.

"I'm fine, nothing some good old butterbeer can't fix," Lots of it too. "I was also acting before. Didn't know I was already that convincing," Thank you, Pal. Breathing back to normal, Jun grabbed his wand and pointed it towards the prefect. "Ready for your hair?" Or maybe something worse for the water incident.

“I’ve had a big fear of water since I was five.”
Crap. Louis felt this weird, unpleasant sensation in his chest. It was like his heart sinking to the bottom of his stomach; it was a feeling he’d felt a few times before and tried to avoid as much as possible. It was guilt. Pure, raw guilt. He had just caused his friend to go into a panic attack over a fear he’d had for most part of his life; how was he supposed to live with that?! His stomach twisted in an unpleasant manner as Jun calmly decided it was nothing a butterbeer couldn’t fix.

No, no, this required more than butterbeer.
“Mate, I’m so sorry… I didn’t know,” said Louis softly as he cautiously took a step closer to his friend, though still keeping a safe distance. He wasn’t sure if his mere presence would cause another panic attack or something; he’d never been in this situation before, he wasn’t really sure what to do or not do. Instead, the Gryffindor walked over to the sinks and picked up his wand, listening as Jun went on to confess that he’d been acting earlier. WHAT.

“What?!” He turned around to face the Ravenclaw with big blue eyes. “You were acting!? I seriously thought your head was on fire!” ;LD’F;HK;LFGHJ. That sneaky git! “Yeah. Pretty bloody convincing.” Louis shot his friend a look but smiled anyway. Leave it up to Jun to decide to pull a prank on him when the boy was most feeling unsure of something. Gawsh.

Oh. And now it was his turn.
Biting his bottom lip, Louis nodded his head slowly. He just had to remember…. #YOLOOOO!

Jun shook his head. Sure he was upset at Lou, but he quickly realized it wasn't his fault. Jun should just put a big sticker on his head that said 'I'm afraid of water.' But knowing some students here, that would be a really bad idea. "Don't worry. I'll be fine in a couple of days. Or just head off to practice and forget it happened," That's how he started dancing in the first place. And singing. His dad signed him up for dance after the first time and Jun was hooked. Helped him get little parts at his muggle school before coming here.

Sigh.

"If my head was on fire, you'd see smoke coming out, wouldn't you? No wonder you didn't end up with the Ravenclaws," In all honesty, Jun thought Lou completely fit in with the puffers. Down in the kitchens. Sap and very easily convinced of things. Total puffer traits. Eagles were a proud bunch, Lou didn't really have those traits to him. They would eat him alive the first week he'd get sorted in. He dodged a bullet in this one. "Thank Pal for that. She gave me acting lessons," In return for singing ones. Sucks for you, Bolton.

Giving Lou a cheeky grin, Jun steadied his hand and said the spell. Lou's dark hair slowly began to fade as it turned lighter and lighter. Wand still pointed at the prefect's hair, Jun waited until it was completely blonde. "Doesn't look so bad on you," Maybe not as good as Jun could pull it off, but close. Now Lou was a blonde, blue-eyed boy. Ideal.

“If you say so…” Louis wasn’t sure what he could do to fix the mistake, anyway, so if Jun knew how to make himself feel better then that worked for him. At the boy’s following comment about smoke coming from his head, Lou rolled his eyes and dismissed it. People’s heads don’t release smoke if there’s a burning sensation, unless they were talking about literally burning with fire. But this wasn’t the time to get into technicalities; Lou was more concerned with other matters.

Of course. Tiny Dancer. So she had been the one to turn Jun into an acting pro. “I will. But please don’t pull another trick like that again. Unless you want me to conjure up a wave next time.” Cheeky grin.

And then Jun was pointing his wand at the Gryffindor’s hair. Louis didn’t feel anything, but when he turned to see his reflection in the mirror - oh yeah. There was definitely a huge change there. Blink. Blink. “…I don’t even look like myself!” He looked… he looked… well, he wasn’t sure who or what he looked like, but he certainly didn’t look like himself anymore. The colour didn’t seem as natural on him as it did on Jun, he looked like… those rebellious punk boys that do all sorts of weird crazy things with their hair. Maybe he should get a few tattoos and piercings to match too. Snort. Or maybe not.

“Wow…” Louis ran a hand through his platinum-blond hair, still staring at his reflection with disbelief. “How long does it last?” he asked, turning back to his friend.

Jun nodded, but then threw Lou a look. He was not going to be held responsible for a missing prefect if said person conjured up a wave next time. Nope. The lions can have just one prefect again. Make everyone happy again. Dunno about Lilah but she'll learn to deal with it. And to pick boyfriends who don't make friends have panic attacks.

'Yeah, you look ridiculous as a blonde!'

"Kind of the point, Bolton; trying a new look. Though dunno if you can pull it off as well as I do," But it was okay. Jun made sure the color was permanent long enough for him to get a laugh out of it. Apparently Lou was really fascinated by his new hair. he obviously had never imagined himself with any other color. "I'd say a couple of weeks to months. Depending on however long I put it for," Hehe.

Kyroh hadn't needed to pee or anything. Or...you know....excrete any waste. He had just needed a place that he could CLIMB and where the professors couldn't exactly see what he was up to. So, the bathroom HAD made sense!

....Except now....it didn't seem like the best choice he had made. Closing the stall door also seemed like another bad choice. But the worst choice that he had made so far probably had to be locking it.

"Hullooooo anyone out there?"

Toby was also here out of boredom. Now that the outside was blocked off and communication to the outside was impossible, he was finding it more and more important to make the most of the large castle and the many rooms on offer. Toby had developed the habit of entering every single room he came across and properly exploring it if he had the chance.

It was also pretty handy having all these mirrors in here, so before Toby really wandered around much, he stopped to check his hair. He wasn't majorly obsessed with his hair these, not like a lot of the other mostly older and cooler boys he knew of, being that he had more important issues to deal with at the moment. Still, there was always the worry that he might run into Bellaire whilst looking less than presentable, so... y'know... impromptu personal grooming tended to happen.

Toby had barely even glanced at his reflection, however, when very familiar voice rang out from the stalls. He furrowed his brown slightly, turning towards the sound of the voice, but unable to pinpoint exactly which cubicle it had come from.

"Kyroh?" Yeah? Pretty sure it was Kyroh. "That you?" Just checking.

Kyroh? Yeah! That was him! But who was talking to him? The first year wiggled a bit trying to free himself once more but no. No luck.

He did know that voice though, and as the boy spoke again Kyroh pinpointed it. "Toby?" Was it Toby? It SOUNDED like Toby! Which was AWESOME cause Toby was someone who would help him! "It's me-yeah-Kyroh!" He WIGGLED again, would he be FREEE now? Nope. His hands and feet did not move at all."I think need help." He paused. "I'm stuck." On the stall door. Like...literally.

Okay, so it WAS Kyroh. Glad he got that one right.

...? Help?

"Stuck..." Toby repeated that last word as he tried to work out what on earth the first year was doing. Was the lock jammed? Had little Kyroh perhaps fallen in? "How're you stuck, bud? Whad'ya need me to do?"

'Cause he would help. Of course. It was like... his self-appointed job.

"Stuck." Kyroh repeated AS Toby repeated. Because yes, he was stuck. He was TRYING not to be and everything but it was hard okay?How was he stuck? Uh...that was sorta hard to explain.

"On the door....like Spiderman." EXCEPT Spiderman could move whereas he was stuck.

"Ummmm unstick me maybe..please? I mean if you can." Cause unsticking him would help LOADS!!! Especially since Kyroh didn't want to live his life stuck!! Though..."The door is also locked." So...there was that too. Stuck and locked in.

.................................. On the door.

Like Spiderman.

Instead of going right ahead and unlocking the door, Toby opted to first take a look at what the heck Kyroh was talking about. He reached up for the top of the door and jumped up to grab it, still being short enough that he wasn't quite able to reach it from standing. The Hufflepuff then pulled himself up enough so that he could peer over the cubicle door and at the first year, his own feet dangling and fingers straining from this awkward position.

Ohhhhh.

"How'd you manage that, man?" Toby said over the door, sounding and looking both confused and kind of impressed. "Gimme a sec, I'll come help you down." He considered jumping straight over the stall door, seeing as he was already up here, but instead let himself back down again and pulled out his wand.

"Alohomora."

And the door was unlocked.

Being careful not to open it too wildly or whatever, Tobias pushed the cubicle door and first poked just his head around it, and then stepped in entirely. "'D'ya use some sort of spell?" It would probably help to, y'know, get him down.

Unless Kyroh really WAS Spiderman. That'd be pretty neat.

It grew quiet. HAD TOBY LEFT!? Oh man he couldn't leave right? He wouldn't right??? Just when the first year was about to start panicking a head popped up from above. "HI!" How'd he manage this? Long story. Longlonglong-not really actually. "Er-I-okay!" No time for explanations! The other boys head had vanished Toby was going to help him down!

As the Hufflepuff uttered a spell, Kyroh couldn't help giggling just a BIT as the door swung open.

LOOK! He was NOT trapped! He could see LIGHT! And....sinks! And MORE sinks! It was wonderful!!!

"Sorta. It's Sticky Trainers." Kyroh stated. He WOULD have pointed to the colourful Weasley Wheese product on his feet but he couldn't point at the moment. "I got a pair of them. And I gutted it. Then took the suction cups off and then used a sticking spell to put the suctions back on a pair of gloves-" Said gloves on his hand this MOMENT."-and it worked AWESOME cause I could climb but not that high cause my feet would slip sometimes against the wall and stuff so I thought getting another pair and just using them normally, you know on my feet, WITH the gloves would help me reach ultimate Spiderman status." But uh......"But that didn't really happen." There was TOO much sticking going on. The boy grinned sheepishly. He was still PROUD of it...almost working? He had been trying to figure out ALL term how to use magic to be like Spiderman and finally after the Sticky trainer suggestion from Professor Fuller he figured it out! Or....at least somewhat.

Toby listened closely as Kyroh explained what had happened and couldn't help but be impressed at the first year's ingenuity with the suction thingies from the trainers and everything. In Toby's head it sounded, by all means, that it should of worked. But here Kyroh was. Stuck.

Huh.

"Right," Toby said thoughtfully, unable to keep from sounding kind of impressed. "Have you, uhh... considered taking the gloves and shoes off?" Was that a stupid question? Probably. Kyroh had perhaps already thought of this; the difficulty would have been... getting to the floor. "Give it a try now, while I'm here? Might make it easier to unstick them after." Focusing on spells and trying to catch first years might be a multitasking effort that could fail drastically. "We'll get you down either way, bud. I know an unsitcking charm that'll help." Charms seemed to be one of those subjects Toby could handle himself in.

First, though, he needed to see if Kyroh COULD get himself down. If so, Toby had to be READY, in case he had to use his Keeper skills pretty sharpish.

"Not to brag or anything Toby, but I am a Ravenclaw."The boy giggled. Even ask the sorting hat. He had robes and ties and stuff to prove it too! So because he was a Ravenclaw he had actually though of taking off the gloves and shoes. So YEAH! He had thought of that. But-"I was worried that if I took them off i'd fall into the toilet." Like would there be momentum and BOOM toilet? He didn't want that because who fell into the toilet? That was weird. He'd rather be stuck.

But now that Toby was here he could prevent toilet falling mishaps!!

Kyroh wiggled his feet in his shoes in attempt to take them out but-nothing. There were tied too tightly. Who SAID thought knowing how to tie your shoes was a good thing? Giving up on his feet the first year wiggled his fingers but again-nothing. Huh. Inching forward to his left hand the first year BIT the glove and pulled, leaving a bit more space for his hand to slip out. "Mfdsfmmfmm" He announced to Toby mouth full of glove.

And just like that, as he wiggled his left hand again it was OUT! ONE HAND FREE!! With his left hand he quickly freed his right one.He would have celebrated and EVERYTHING but the Ravenclaw had forgotten that he had to hold onto something to stay upright, so he slummed BACKWARD.

"Look you're upside down Toby!"

This was kinda painful.

"Are you really?" Toby replied, dramatically feigning surprise. "Y'know, I hadn't realised?" But he was still grinning, and that was coming across in his voice. "I figured that might have been the problem," the Hufflepuff added, eyeing the suctioned gloves and shoes once again.

He watched carefully as Kyroh got to work on getting the gloves off, trying to make sure he was ready to catch the quaffle Kyroh in case of emergency.

And then it happened, all a lot faster than Toby had been expecting. He'd not been able to get a good view of Kyroh's progress on the gloves, and all he knew was that suddenly the kid was fling back and now hanging upside down. The fifteen year old hurried forwards, lifting Kyroh by the shoulders and raising him up as much as he could so his ankles didn't, uhh... break.

Now he was in a position with Kyroh sort of laying back against his chest, and the younger boy's feet still up on the wall. Well, this was progress.

"Okay, how about this," Toby said to his younger comrade. "I'll unstick your feet and hold you up, and you walk backwards down the door." The spell would work to get Kyroh out of this jam, but was unlikely to make the suction things on the shoes any less... suction-y. There was probably a better way to have done this, but Toby was no Ravenclaw after all. "How's that sound, Kyroh?"

Just when the pain started to get even worse his protector swooped in and SAVED him. Or at least tried to hold him up. Kyroh struggled a bit, the position still awkward and weird. One end of him was still stiff and unmoving while the other end had to be held up by someone else which wasn't really that normal.

He would have said something about it except, wait.......Toby hadn't noticed his Ravenclawness..........really?

He didn't even know if Toby was joking because upside down he looked like he was frowning. Did that mean smiling was happening? Huh.

"You should pay more attention then Toby! We should ask Sophie to help you noticed Ravenclaws." Cause they were HIS PEOPLE. And awesome. Claws. So Toby SHOULD notice them, and him included. They did stuff like come up with awesome plans. Plans sligggghtly better than Tobias', which didn't sound all that safe. "Uh." Kyroh looked at his feet. "OKAY! Sounds good!" But they'd go with Toby's plan ANYWAYS because it was a PLAN and the sooner he got down form here the better.

Bahaha. "M'just kidding, Ky," Toby grinned even as he held the first year up. But then he though... was he okay with shortened nicknames? Uhh. "...-roh." Ahem. "I know you're a Ravenclaw. S'kinda hard to miss."

And that was a definite compliment.

Okay, Kyroh was on board.

"Sweet. Shouldn't be too hard, I'm a lot stronger than I look. Here goes."

Toby, who still held his wand in his right hand, managed to manoeuvre so it was pointed at the shoes. "Advexis," he cast, and then repeated it with the other foot, holding fast to Kyroh so he could step down.

This wasn't how he'd expected to spend his afternoon, but hey, it certainly made the day more interesting.