Angel looked at Kevin. "Hi Kevin, yeah my hair is bug free." Angel smirked as Kevin took a step forward towards her, this was going to be amazing. "How are you?" And before Kevin could reply she grabbed him in a massive bear hug and pin a note to his back sneakly.



Angel stopped the hug. "That's the hug of piece." Angel beamed, she was trying to keep a straight face now, and if that didn't work there was always plan B.

Before he could even reply to how he was, Kevin fell forward in to a massive hug by Angel. A faint blush crept on his cheeks and he awkwardly held his arms in midair. Because he was shocked of the sudden hug he hadn't felt that she pushed something on his back and when she let go the blush was still on his face.

"Ehm..what was that for?" A hug of peace ? This was getting weirder and weirder because he could clearly remember that she had glared and shouted at him at the Lake a few days earlier. Why was she...hugging him now?

Confusion written all over his blushed face, the Gryffindor shook his head when he decided to answer her question anyways. "Uh...i'm..okay...i guess... seriously are you sick or something? Why did you hug me?"

First Zahra defending him , then Sophie helping him out in class and now Angel hugging him. Was he getting more handsome or something?

"I told you it was a hug of peace." Angel smiled as she looked at the guy in front of him, she just hoped Benny never found out about the hug because then he might be mad with her, well more mad than he was now. "No I'm not sick, I just wanted to let you know that we are great now, that I've forgiven you for what you did at the lake." Angel beamed, she wasn't telling him that she had got her own back on him, she hoped that someone would see the note on Kevin's back.

"So what you doing now?" Angel asked. "If your not doing anything we can go grab a snack down in the great hall if you want?" Angel hoped that kevin would say yes she wanted to see what the people said to the note now on the back of Kevin.

She forgave him? You see this was why this whole situation was weirding him out. Even his own parents never truely forgave him because eventhough they said they would they would always bring it up somehow when he did something wrong. Or was she honest about her feelings and she really meant it?

Casting her an unsure eye, the Gryffindor put his hands in his robe pockets and touched the vial of exploding potion that he had gotten ...from the same professor who hated him...funny eh? He had wanted to go down and drop the potion somewhere but his stomach growled at Angel's request to grab something to eat in the Great Hall. "Okay...i could go for a snack.." he said as he walked passed her towards the staircase downstairs. Still oblivious to the KISS ME! sign on his back.

Happily, Lux skipped along the corridor. She was heading towards the Owlery with a letter asking her sister so send over some more warm clothes. It was way too cold for her to function even with all the warm clothing she had brought to Hogwarts, and Willa would be able to come to the rescue. Her sister had already sent her loads of dresses that were really pretty, so these warm clothes were bound to be pretty as well.

Not realizing that her shoelace had come undone, the girl stumbled and fell in the middle off the hallway. Gosh, this was embarrassing and hurt a little. Had anyone seen?

Connor was leaving his common room, headed for the ground floor. More studying for OWLs had his head feeling like it was gonna explode.. Merlin, no one was kidding when they said how hard these things were!

He needed something to eat, he also had letters to send to his Mom. It had been about a week or two since he'd written her, so he figured he should. That's when he saw Lux tripping, he remembered her from the whole Unicorn mess..He rushed over and held out his hand. "Are you all right?" He asked, smiling a little to show that she shouldn't be embarrassed, it happens to everyone, right?

He hit the first step of the tower and froze figuratively at the moment, but the boy was wondering if that would soon become literal due to the temperature change. He'd heard of Professor Bentley's misfortune's as well due to this cold. Her plants had to take refuge inside the castle. Some of them, at least. Since one of the greenhouses got taken out.

Willing himself to take another step, he hunched forward and passed a window. That's where he remembered seeing it. A light that seemed a meteor in reverse. It couldn't have been, though. That wasn't even possible. He considered asking Professor Flamsteed about it in either case. Considered. He was still prone to mistrusting most, if not all, adults at the school and in general. But if anyone came close for Cutty Mordaunt it was probably Flamsteed for his attitude toward knowledge and more superficially, for promising the boy academic rewards for the items he now wore on his back inside of the magically made black bag.

Oh gosh. Someone had seen after all. Cheeks starting to turn red, Lux looked towards Conner as he rushed over to her. Their first meeting she had been an idiot, and now he was seeing her tripping in the hallway. He was going to think she was a silly Puffer now, when she wanted to be his friend.

He was being so nice to her though, which caused her to relax a little as she took his hand to get up again. "I think so. Just a little shaken. I didn't know my shoelaces were untied." Weak laugh. Maybe they could be friends after all.

Connor nodded. "Well, it's okay. That happens to everyone.." He told Lux and helped her back up. "So where are you headed to?" She seemed like a nice girl. Maybe they could be friends, it was always nice to have a new friend.

"You're Bay's girlfriend, right?" He asked, he'd met the older lion toward the beginning of the year in the common room, he was sure she was mentioned.

Conner was SO nice. Lux liked him already and hoped that they could be amazing friends. Smiling, she relaxed more. There was no need to be embarrassed, because he was right: everyone fell over at times. It just was preferable not to have it happen when there were people around. "Oh, I was headed to the owlery so that I could send a letter to my sister." Patting her pocket, she could feel said letter. "What about you?" Was he out for a stroll? Or heading somewhere in particular?

Bay? The mention of him was a little surprising, but then she realized that since they were both Lions the chances of them knowing each other were pretty good. And Bay knew a lot of people because he was so nice and outgoing. "Yes, I am." She wondered what he had said about her, knowing that it had all been good things. Obviously.

Exiting the Gryffindor Common Room with a red nose and cheeks,Kevin walked through the seventh floor corridor with a tissue in his hands. He was still sick but staying in bed wasn't his style. He needed to do something. 'Cause he was bored out of his mind. But he didn't know many people and he was sure that the people who knew him wouldn't want to hang out with him. Apparently, no one could deal with his rudeness or whatever.

Taking out a small potion vial out of his robe pocket, Kevin looked at it. Did potions have expiration dates or not? If they had he had to use it soon or else it wouldn't have any effect. But wheeeeeere?! UGH. He sneezed out loud as he thought.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh..."

As he wandered around the uppermost corridor, Toby let out a loud, frustrated groan. He was restless. But not even the USUAL sort of restless. Today it was weird; he KNEW he wanted to do something, but didn't know what that something. It felt like he'd started so many different activities COUNTLESS times, and swiftly realised that that was not The One. It also didn't help that he had no idea how he was feeling either. Happy? Not really. Sad? Nope, not at all. Angry? No, not that either. It was more like being on the edge of all of these things at the same time, which felt... strange.

Why he was on the seventh floor, Toby had no idea. He'd already decided that he didn't want Sophie to see him in this frustrated safe (well, didn't want anyone to see him really, but a few people in particular). He was just about to go take a long walk around the freezing cold grounds, when he heard a sneeze from nearby.

"Bleshoo," Toby responded automatically, before realising that he actually couldn't see WHO had sneezed at all. At first, Toby figured it must have come from that nearby suit of armour, and peered at it for a moment. After a moment, he realised that no, there was probably someone just around that corner. The Hufflepuff approached, looked round, and spotted a familiar looking kid holding a potions vial. Hmm.

"Hi."

Friend?

Bleshoo? Kevin looked around wondering who had said that. That was directed to him right? It had to be since he just sneezed. Spotting the older student, the Gryffindor eyed him suspiciously as he made his way towards him.

Instead of saying a thank you. Which were words not in Kevin's vocabulary, he raised an eyebrow when he noticed that this kid was a Hufflepuff. "Are you lost or something? The Hufflepuff Common Room isn't even.......wait" the boy scratched the back of his non-itching neck and frowned. He didn't even know where the badger room was at. WAS IT ON THIS FLOOR AS WELL?!

Hi? was he saying hi to him? "...what do you want?" he asked as he put the vial behind his back. Had he seen it? Not that it was a big secret. Culloden knew about it since he had given it to him as a present. Funny right? since they disliked each other with a passion. Or not? That detention with him had left him confused whether or not he was disliked or not.

Aaaaaaanyways, Kevin kept a suspicious look at the older boy. The last time someone had been nice to him on this floor he had been pranked. hmmhmm.

"Mmmmno, not lost," Toby said casually, shrugging a single shoulder as he strolled on by and stopped next to a window. He peered out of it for a moment, trying to peer through the still heavily falling slow and finding that he wasn't having much luck at all. Instead, he turned to face the kid again and hoisted himself up to sit on the windowsill, letting his feet dangle like pendulums as he surveyed his fellow student with thinly veiled interest.

Gossshhhhh. Sensing a little hostility here. Tobias merely shrugged once again, smiled a little wider and swung his feet with a little more fervour. "Nothin'. I was just bored and wandering around, and when I saw you, I figured I'd try to make a friend."

.................... Waaaaiiiiiiiiit a second. HE knew who this was.

"You're Kevin, right?"

Kevin looked at the window as well, well, tried to look through it. The heavy snow storm prevented that. He turned his gaze towards the older Hufflepuff when he sat down on a windowsill and he leaned back against the wall himself. He pocketed the vial and then folded his arms over each other. "That makes two of us then, this place is boring now i can't get outside" not to mention that he was sick as well. And as if on cue, he sneezed in the tissue again.

Wait....Kevin stared at him with watery eyes from the sneeze and became even more suspicious. He wanted to try and make friends with him?! askfsghagjaghagwoi "Why?" he asked as he grew even more suspicious now. Making friends freaked the boy out but at the same time he needed some, get the problem?

Oh? so he knew his name? Well he HAD to. He wasn't busy making a reputation if people didn't know his name. "Yep, how'd you know?"

Toby couldn't help but tilt his head at the kid as he sneezed again. His first instinct was to suggest he go off to the Hospital Wing and ask for a Pepper-Up Potion or something, but decided against it. Kid seemed both independent and old enough to not want or need suggestions like that, see?

But he did look a little confused at that 'why?', and blinked a few times before answering.

"Because I like to make new friends?" Kevin's response had not been one that Toby had at all anticipated. He always took it as read that everyone liked meeting new people and making friends. So this was... awkward. Still, one to think about later, yup.

Ahaha, how did he know inDEED. Finally, Toby allowed himself to look slightly amused.

"Well, we're in the same classes and stuff." He decided to leave it unsaid that Kevin here tended to make himself known in pretty much every single class, but he felt like the insinuation was plenty.

Charlie wasn't the kind of person who often left her common room anyway. When she did, it was to see her friends, eat, go to lessons and send letters. Now that the bitter cold had come, she'd been leaving it less and less, taking extra blankets to her bed and drinking hot chocolate by the gallon.

Goodness knows why she was wandering around now. She wanted summer, and sun, and all things hot Laura quotes Frozen.

And hot things included her boyfriend. She had a coat on inside for goodness sake. Why hadn't things been sorted out by now? Letting her cat weave through her legs, she walked along slowly, dropping the animal treats as she went.

Could she go home yet?

Because he liked to make new friends... Kevin snorted at that. Which was something he shouldn't have done because another three sneezes escaped. Maybe everyone was right and he should see the Healer but ugh. He hated admitting defeat and this was like that...in a way.

He looked at the kid's uniform emblem and realised that he was a Hufflepuff...of course, didn't they all wanted to make friends with everyone? So he shouldn't have been that surprised. "Well, i DO need friends" he said awkwardly after a moment of silence. Because if he had to spend his school years friendless than that was just sad.

Kevin didn't like it when others looked amused and he had no idea what was going on. So he narrowed his eyes at him but when he told him that he knew him from classes the Gryffindor shook his head with a small laugh. "Right..classes" he said and sat down on the floor and crossed his legs indian style as he looked up at the Hufflepuff sitting on the windowsill. "I don't know who you are though except that you're a Hufflepuff" he demanded a name.

Connor was headed....well somewhere, he couldn't really remember what he was supposed to be doing right now. Oh well, Smaug was following along as usual..the little orange cat was playful as ever. Hehe.

He spotted Charlie. Connor honestly hadn't seen her much since before christmas so he wanted to go and say hey and maybe catch up and junk. Did she know about the little falling out with he and Elodie? It seemed plenty of people did..If not he wasn't going to talk about it. They talked and he was over it now so no need to reopen that stuff.

"Hey, Charlie.." He grinned and looked at her cat behind her. "Is he yours? This is mine.." The gryffindor pointed back at the orange, attention seeking fluff-ball behind him.

Hearing her name, Charlie dropped a couple more treats for Lightening before looking up. "Oh. Conner. Hi." She managed, pushing her hair behind her ears and smiling at the younger boy. She knew... most things that had gone on. Elodie had told her some, and of course, some she'd been perceptive enough to guess. She hadn't pressured to know the full story - her friend didn't need that, and so she was under the impression that Connor had done everything he could to go against her advice.

Something which kind of annoyed her, but she wasn't going to let him know that. Advice didn't have to be followed, after all. Nodding a little, she bent down to pick her Bombay up, scooping him up into her arms. "Yeah. Lightening. He's old." And Connors was...... "Smaug, right?" There was a nod in the animals direction. "Jun told me."

That... was a lot of sneezing. It really took everything in Toby's power to keep holding back his caring instinct (something he'd picked up from his grandma, apparently) and suggest going to see Healer Tillstorm, though he did provide a polite 'bless you' after the rapid sneezing was over. Though perhaps if Kevin sneezed again... he'd say something. Kid looked kinda worse for wear, though Toby immediately berated himself for thinking something so impolite.

He beamed warmly as Kevin seemed to gradually accept the idea of friendship. Though with... hesitance? It was hard to tell, but it definitely seemed to take a lot of thought.

"Friendships are like alliances too," he pointed out, because this Kevin seemed pretty suspicious and dubious about Toby's intentions, and sometimes it was a good idea to come at things from a different angle. "And it's always good to have allies." And he left it at that, not wanting harp on about it too much.

Oh, wait, yeah... he'd never introduced himself.

"I'm Toby," he finally said, and if they weren't so far away, he'd have offered his hand to Kevin for a handshake, even though he doubted he'd have got one. "I'm in Hufflepuff. Fourth year."

Sitting down wasn't helping the restless feeling, but Tobias didn't exactly want to get up and start pacing. Instead he just sat there, tapping his feet in midair to a song he could hear in his head.

He saw a smile, so he figured she wasn't angry with him..He wondered how Elodie managed to have such nice friends. He assumed if she did hear the story it was the same one that Cat had heard though unlike that Connor didn't feel like talking about it at this point, everything was over and he wanted it to blow over. "Hey..What are you up to?"

He turned back and looked at the kitten who was a little bigger than he used to be, he grew quick.. "Yeah, Smaug..Jun hates the name." He said and rolled his eyes, obviously not offended Jun was pretty much his best friends they messed with each other a lot. Smaug started to rub against Connor's legs and then made his way over to Charlie, between being a new person and having treats she seemed much more interesting.

The boy nodded. "I have a few I wanted to send to my Mom but other than that i'm just really taking a study break." He hoped she wasn't too embarrassed about it. She seemed really nice and it was always nice to make new friends. "But you're okay, didn't get hurt or anything?" He just wanted to be sure it was just a little spill.

"Yeah, i met him at the start of term. He was telling me about his western books." Connor still hadn't picked one up, but maybe over the summer he would have to.

Tag had decided that he needed some fresh air. He knew he couldn't get outside because of that stupid storm that practically had everyone jailed in. But, he was beginning to feel trapped and suffocated inside the common room and his dorm.

So, the boy bundled up a little more warmly than usual, walked out the portrait hole, with a Stella, his kneazle, on a leash. The boy had to nudge her every few steps because she refused to walk. You know, like how a dog enjoys walks.

"You'd get more exercise if I let you free." Tag said, crouching down to her level and weighing his options. "Don't go anywhere." He unclipped the leash off from her. And that is literally what Stella did.

Nigel only left the castle occasionally for quidditch and yoga viewing. And since Quidditch was a no go this term. Being stuck in the castle did not really bother Nigel. Since in was nice and warm in the common room. Nigel forgot to change into something warm and walked out in shorts and a t shirt. No Regrets though. It was good to stretch your legs and walk down the the Room of Requirements. It did not take that much time and was an excuse to visit the Most Comfortable Room in the History of Forever.

So, Yeah.

What he did not expect to find was a kneazle sitting down in the corridor. Was this a prank or was this just completely random. Took him a moment to notice Tag there.

"That Kneazle is either the laziest or most awesome. Can't decided yet and Hey"

At least he knew it was a kneazle. He should get a clap for that. Though the band he was in was called The Dead Kneazles. So maybe he should know more about them.

Nigel only left the castle occasionally for quidditch and yoga viewing. And since Quidditch was a no go this term. Being stuck in the castle did not really bother Nigel. Since in was nice and warm in the common room. Nigel forgot to change into something warm and walked out in shorts and a t shirt. No Regrets though. It was good to stretch your legs and walk down the the Room of Requirements. It did not take that much time and was an excuse to visit the Most Comfortable Room in the History of Forever.

So, Yeah.

What he did not expect to find was a kneazle sitting down in the corridor. Was this a prank or was this just completely random. Took him a moment to notice Tag there. Must be his. Only thing that made sense. Unless people enjoyed taking random kneazles on walks. Weird.

"That Kneazle is either the laziest or most awesome. Can't decided yet and Hey"

At least he knew it was a kneazle. He should get a clap for that. Though the band he was in was called The Dead Kneazles. So maybe he should know more about them.