"SIR?!" Matt asked innocently, sending professor Newt a mischievous grin. He received the balloon hurled in his direction with open arms - literally. Aaahhh, the mess. He LOVED it!

The first year girl yelled at him saying her robes were NEW (Zoryn) "Not anymore!" The fourth year replied in a sing-song voice as he tossed a balloon up and down in his right hand. Her bad aiming was almost missed by him as he had to duck the balloon thrown by Samantha. "Oh-hooo! Not close enough!" He said as he threw the balloon he was holding in her direction. He did agree with her when she told professor Newt that that was awesome! IT WAS! SUPER AWESOME!

Gryffindor was the BEST HOUSE.

Matt cracked up when Olivia told him and Ace to start running. AS IFFFFF! Matt wanted to get hit by ALL THE PAINT - except for a few balloons he instinctively dodged. He absolutely loved chaos and mess. That was when he THRIVED!

He had to stretch his arm towards a bucket to get anotherrr balloon to throw at Olivia because she was asking for it! He took the opportunity while she was near Chewie to throw the BIGGEST BALLOON he found at the new prefect and then right after that, when the girl was moving away from the hiding place, he hurled the other one at her. "YOU'RE WELCOOOOME!" He called out again in his sing-song voice.

And just as the balloon was leaving his hand, Matt was hit by yet ANOTHER balloon! This time on his side. "OI!!" He laughed as he turned to see who had thrown that at him and, once again, was pleasantly surprised to see that it had been a FIRST YEAR (Ashley)! Bold. Matt approved. "Here, catch!" He said to her as he threw a balloon at her.

SO MANY BALLOONS! If this wasn't a magic school he'd be wondering where on earth they were coming from.

Their girl prefect (Noelle) calling professor Newt out made Matt laugh out loud and turn in the direction of the older man again. ANOTHEEEEER paint balloon at their Head of House was in ordeeeer! BOOM! Off it went!

Matt was clearly hoarding a bottomless bucket of paint balloons.

He momentarily busied himself being amased by the fact the balloons seemed to NEVER END that he didn't notice when Chewie threw a rather massive balloon in his direction, hitting him right in the chest. "OOF!! PTHU!!" He spat the BLOOOODDD red paint that had ended up IN his mouth. "Man, the elves could've at least put some nice flavouring in these!"

Olivia stopped in her tracks. She gaped. She couldn't believe that an ickle first year (Ashley) had nailed her with a paint filled balloon. What. She wasn't even mad. She nodded towards the young girl out of a sign of respect. Well, well played.

THEN THE HEAD OF HOUSE NAILED HER WITH A BALLOON RIGHT IN HER HAIR! Some of the paint dripped down her curly locks and splattered onto her shoulder. Oh Professor. She readied a balloon but before she could do anything, Noelle showed up and had already started attacking their Head of House. Well now she didn't have to worry about that. Olivia grinned. YES! GO NOELLE! She was about to cheer for her but then that would give away her hiding place so instead she just gave her fellow housemate a cheer. Turning back to Tenacius, she gave him a nod and a smile before retreating away.

SPLAT!!!

Matt Solo CLEARLY had a death wish. Clearly he did. Olivia was going to take him down. However, she knew that she couldn't do this alone. She would have to team up with someone but with who? She narrowed her eyes and analyzed her potential candidate list. Ace would probably throw a balloon filled with paint at her... Hmm. Cute but not a viable option. Then she watched as Tenacius got Matt! "Nice aim!" she said to Tenacius sending up a thumb's up before going back to her hiding place and scheming. Hmmm.... Perhaps she could even convince a first year. Also cute but.....

Her eyes landed on Noelle and she grinned. EXCELLENT. Maybe she could convince her to join her team and together they could rule the whole world! MWAHA and win this epic battle. "Hey Noelle!" she called out and waved to the other girl before throwing a few balloons in the direction of Matt (cause he frankly deserved it) and Tenacius (just so that he didn't feel left out). Holding out a balloon towards her, she said, "Truce?" Maybe? Perhaps? A team was always better than working alone.

Grinning big at the girl beside her, Zoryn nodded in agreement. ”Best. Party. Ever.” She DEFINITELY agreed to that as she watched balloons fly through the air. ”And I’m Zoryn!!” she beamed. And truthfully, she probably wouldn’t remember the girl’s (Ashley) name in an hour. But they had all year for that, right?

Zoryn whipped her head around to look at the girl (Samantha) calling her ‘you’. ”Hey! My name isn’t ’YOU’!" It was Zoryn! Just saying. She shrugged at the accusation. ”It wasn’t mean, I was just wondering!” But now that she thought about it… Maybe her mom did mention not to ask a person’s age…… But she only said it once…. So it couldn’t be all that important, right?

And it looked like oldie (Professor Newton) didn’t mind. ”YOUNG?” Putting her hands on her hips, she gave him a very doubtful sort of expression. Did he know his hair was all gray? Should she tell him? ‘Cause Zoryn was eleven. And she was a grown up. So sixty three was ANCIENT. The man could go any minute now! Only a matter of time. Turning back to the ‘YOU’ girll (Samantha), Zoryn stuck out her tongue (very maturely, of course). ”SEE, he didn’t’ think I was mean!”

Just saying.

If anyone was mean, it was that boy (Matt))!! Zoryn had a plan, but she’d have to act fast!

But before she could do that… Looks like she got her (Ollie). Uhuuuum. ”Oops?” yeeesh, that’s gotta be rough. She gave her most innocent looking grin and shrugged. ”I was aiming for THAT guy,” she said pointing towards where Matt was standing only seconds ago. But before she could defend herself further… ”INCOMING!!!!!!!!!” She rolled and ducked and made it out of the way just in time, phew!


But of course by doing that, she landed right in the way of ANOTHER BALLOON!!! NOOOO!! It was the old man!!! AND SHE WAS NOW COVERED IN PINK! At least she looked good in pink? Man, once her mother found out about the state of her robes… Zoryn was as good as dead. Welp. Might as well have fun with it!!

And that’s when she ran to take cover behind one of her newest most favoritest Prefects (Noelle). ”GRYFFINDOR MOM, HELP ME!!!” She made a big dramatic show of running across the Common Room and ducking for cover behind her GryffinMom!! After a few relieving moments of shadow-shelter, she was back in the game. Well still behind Noelle, but she had a plan for the next move. ”Psssssst wanna we team up and get THAT guy?” She grinned mischievously pointing over to Matt.

Pretty please with a cherry on top? You won’t regret it! BEEAAAAAAAAM. If she said no, Zoryn would have to run to Tenacius. But he was farther away. So she just peaked out from behind Noelle's legs and gave him a tiny wave. So he knew that she didn't choose Noelle over him. Because she liked them both.

Didnt he have a balloon earlier? Where did that go?---

-- SPLAT!

Hobbling Hinkypunks that was a large one. Tenacius looked up bewildered for a second, his entire head and shoulders now drenched with paint coming from Matt's balloon. But hey at least that red one he sent back has hit its mark. "Gotcha Swan-dive Solo!" he guffawed-- and yes that may have sounded like an exuberant Wookie.

And then he got HIT again! Did that come form Olivia? This spot was really lousy for balloons ammo, so he gotta mooooove. Again spider crawling his way to a more favorable place-- ohhh a shell of a car over there. That looks pretty good yes that would do nicely. He clambered his way in-- ammo at the cargo bay yaaassss. Haha try hitting him from in here looooserssss....

He was completely unaware of the alliance that is happening, but he can CLEARLY see that Noelle and Zoryn standing TOGETHER. And you know what that means-- BIGGER target. So he flings THREE balloons their way. Just the right amount to say 'Welcome to Gryffindor' or 'Noelle Grace Summers' they can take their pick

And you know what, because he was feeling mighty generous and secured now, he sends balloons hurtling across whenever they would expose their head-- Olivia! Little Ashley! Cousin Sammy!

And a RED and ORANGE pair zooming for his Head of House. Because he's a peach <3

And of course Matt, a nice big PINK one "This is your color man!" zooom mwahahaha!

"THANK YOU PROFESSAAA" she shouted said as she poked out from behind the chair, and did not ever expect him to aim one right at her. Now that's one hell of a professor. The balloon did it's job perfectly on her right. She was the red handed girl now. MWUAAHAHHHAA. She could just put on a mask and scare people off. Heh.

ACT. ACT. FAAASSTTTT.

Ashley sort of ran/crawled to grab the balloons lying around. BIG MISTAKE. She heard it before it hit her, the guy(MATT) she'd aimed at first. And the back of her head was covered with paint, as she bent red paint dripped over her shoulders. Ewww. But she wasn't mad. Oh god, this place is mad. She grinned as she turned to look at her attacker.

NO. NO.

The hiding girl's(OLIVIA) balloon came right at her, ofcourse she'd earned that one. Ashley tried to duck that one, and had almost succeeded.

PHMCKHKK!

That guy perfect is the best and most --

Whaaat? Ashley saw him(TENACIUS) throw one at her as she grabbed three balloons, one for each of them. She half ducked the perfect 's throw, it caught the hem of her robe as she moved towards the far corner.

PAINT PAINT EVERYWHERE, NOWHERE TO RUN.

She aimed the balloons one after the other at the three of them. PHUNK! PHUNK! PHUNK!

Ashley nodded at Zoryn. "Cool name" she called, as the girl moved towards the girl prefect. They'd catch up later. Maybe. And HEY! TAKE A BALLOON. Ashley threw a balloon at the retreating girl, hoping she didn't mind it. It was a paint party!

Oh yeah one for the professor. She grabbed another and aimed it at him. Don't! Threw it somewhere near his shoulder.

I didn't purposefully aim at him. He got in the middle.

Heh. GIGGLE. GIGGLE.

Her next target was the girl perfect. EVIL GRIN.

Did the Head of House really just duck behind a wall?? Noelle laughed and shook her head and she sent a balloon heading his way just to show him that she wasn't scared to throw a balloon at him. ..... and when he came out... shed get him!!!

And someone else had aimed for him as well! Olivia! Noelle grinned and whistled in her direction, giving her a wink. But she was hiding. Noelle needed to show her a thing or two.

Noelle levitated a bucket of the balloons to her. She was about to throw them when she was yelled at. Gryffindormom???? What?! Noelle blinked at Zoryn before roaring in laughter. "Alright Z, we got this!" Noelle said before handing her a balloon. "We have to--"

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SPLAT
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Noelle was hit with not one... not two.... but THREE balloons... from ACE. The traitor. "HEY!" Noelle said with a laugh as she wiped some of the maroon face off the side of her face. "ITS ON!!!!" Noelle looked down at Z. "Time to mean some business!" Noele lifted several of the balloons from the bucket and sent them back at Ace, a little smirk on her face.

Now... who else wanted some?
"Come out, come out Professor Newt!' Noelle coaxed as she headed for the car shell. She needed some shelter.

Simon was just sat there in silent, seriously he wasn't interested in getting involved in this party at all, it was scary how huge this place was and how much of a change it was to his primary school. He then had remember, how apparently ghost talks and well that was a shock as well. Seriously all he wanted to do was go home, he sat there watching everyone throwing paint-balloons at each other. His mind wandering to his house.

Glee was etched onto the man's face. All of the lions looked carefree, which was a glorious thing to see.

Art fist-pumped the air when he saw his balloon had hit Mr Solo, and seeing the young lion take it without a flinch made him proud of the courageous young man. "You dare aim a paint balloon at your Head of House?" he asked, in mocked outrage.

The balloon Art aimed at Miss Holden HIT her, and he gave a little cheer, before being splat by another one by... well, who knew at this stage? He saw her duck behind a wall and was tempted to go after her but waited a few moments, just in case she needed a breather. Art would need a breather soon, no doubt. But she was out before he had a chance to follow, and her aim was wonderful, covering the young men in paint. "Well done!" he cheered to her.

Turning to Miss Spinnet, who seemed quite shocked that he referred to himself as 63-years-YOUNG, he laughed. "Well I'm... I'm m-more of a glass half full man myself. If I think I'm younger then I'm... generally a little bit silly but it makes it more fun." And it certainly did. He didn't have the frame of mind that he was an old man, destined to get weaker and frail. Not him, not ever.

It had been a mistake of him to stand there because he felt TWO balloons hit him. He exploded in a red and orange ball of paint, and turned to see where they had come from. "Mr Salander, was that you?" he asked, running towards the next bucket, grabbing a balloon and throwing it towards him.

"Anytime MissHunter . Anytime," he said with a little chuckle. Her hair was now RED! "Very Gryffindor look, that is," he commented, still grinning.

After ducking behind the wall to hide from Miss Summers' balloon, he realised it wouldn't protect him. Not at all. For one, there was nothing stopping them from following him, and secondly... well, the balloon she sent after him splattered him, even if it didn't directly hit him. He was laughing when he finally left his hiding space, a balloon in hand. He threw it towards the Prefect, and turned to run off again.

"Come on Mr Klopp, get yourself dirty. Welcome yourself to Gryffindor," Art said, walking near to one of their first years, who didn't seem interested in joining in. Art would try to change that. He got a paint balloon out of the bucket and handed it to the small lad. "Don't worry about getting dirty, we have magic to clean everything. Throw this to someone. Anyone. Those two there are our Prefects, and they're fighting pretty dirty if you ask me," he said, and chuckled. They were getting right into it.

This car shell-- best hunka junk in the galaxy!.... Or at least this side of the Gryffindor Towers.

Tenacius peered out from the gaping frame of what was the car's window, paint, sweat and a whole lotta joy plastered on his face. But yikes here comes a barrage from his Co-Prefect!

He ducked, and the balloons exploded against the doorframe, one after the other. Left quite a bit of splatter which he also felt, but most was taken by the car. Mwahaha defense worked! "Ya gotta work on your aim Noelle." he guffawed. Wait is she coming near him? Oh oh oh get a quick one out there aaaand *THROWS*

Thing is just as he was trying to be quick with the draw against his fellow Prefect, Ashley and his Head Of House double teamed, as he got hit ONE after ANOTHER. Gah back down into the car he goes

Ashley grinned from ear to ear at the Head of House's comment. Normally she would have ran away. Her hair was freaking RED after all. Should take a look at the mirror after all this. Bet I would look like a red ghost.

Very Gryffindor. Here.

Deciding on her next target, she started to grab a few more balloons. They seemed to be appearing whenever she thought of them. Cool.

That was when she heard the HoH talk to the guy from the Feast. Simon. And he was just sitting there, aloof.

Maybe he wasn't in the mood to play. Or was he sad? Couldn't tell. Picking up two balloons, Ashley moved towards Simon.

"Hey Simon" she said, coming next to him. "Why aren't you playing? Trust me it's real fun" she said, with a smile. She offered him one of the balloons she had. "Come on"

…… ”…. Okay,” Zoryn was quite unconvinced. The old guy was babbling a lot. And Zoryn didn’t care for most of it. So she gave him a skeptical look before moving on.

Man. She should’ve asked that girl (Ashely) for a truce. Because as soon as Zoryn ran away, she felt a SPLAT right on her back. Oof. Yeah, her mom would DEFINITELY chew her apart for the state of her robes.

But now that they were already a mess…. There wasn’t any point of trying to avoid getting them even messier. In other words: BRING IT ON!

She felt very safe behind her GryffinMom’s legs. Didn’t really get why she was laughing buuuuuuut she did agree to the alliance so BOOYA! And look at THAT! They had the ENTIRE bucket of balloons!!! YES. She totally picked the right partner. Sorry Tenacius, you would’ve been the next pick. Actually, maybe they could ask Tenacius to join their team too s—

S P L A T.

Or not.

How rude.

Luckily, Noelle took the main blows of those THREE balloons. But Zoryn did get some paint splatter aftermath. Right in her mouth too EUGH! Paint did NOT taste good. She tried to scrape her tongue along her teeth, but nodded vigorously at Noelle’s words of war. ”IT’S ON!!!”

And then she took as many balloons that her little hands could hold and tried to send them to Tenacius. TAKE THAT, GRYFFINDAD!!!

Ahhh. She missed Matt and his big mouth. “Just you wait! You'll never see it coming.” She heard a splat on the other side of her barrier. “Not even close Matthew!” The fourth year grinned at the professor, who she was hiding with. “I am, this is muuuch better than the normal after feast lecture.” After all, who wanted to know everyone's names? It was more important to cover them all in paint. And then the girl (Zoryn) that had insulted Professor Newton was getting all mouthy, and Sam just rolled her eyes. “Right, well if it isn't You, what is it?” She needed to know so she could keep an eye on her, and you know, tell Ace about her too. “I, oh, sorry Professor.” she said before giving the other girl a glare. It was still rude, no matter what Newton had said. “What other fun things have you done then?” the brunette asked before getting hit with a balloon.

“Ahh,” she yelled as the paint dripped down the side of her face. “Oh, its on!” she yelled before looking back that her head of house. “Sorry Professor, we'll have to talk later, It's battle time!!!” from her crouched position, she shrugged out of her robes that she had worn to the feast. They were definitely going to be in the way. Grabbing another balloon, she peeked over her barrier, only to get hit in the face again. Great. She had an idea, and that idea was forming the super team. Crouching, she ran from barrier to barrier, inching closer to Ace. As she ran, she tossed balloons over some of the barriers, hoping they'd hit anyone who might be hiding behind them.

Olivia looked out of her hiding spot and the balloon had managed to hit both the boys! SUCCESS. She grinned when Professor Newton cheered for her. What else could she say? She was a professional. Wide grin now. "Thanks Professor!" Olivia said with a nod before ducking behind a different brick wall. She liked these brick walls. They provided excellent coverage...


SPLAT.

Merlin. Pink was so NOT her colour.

Mayday, mayday! She'd been hit. She was going down. Pink paint covered the right side of her face completely. Fortunately, she had closed her eyes in time to avoid getting paint in it. Wiping the paint off of her face with her right sleeve, she just blinked as she was stunned for a brief moment before snapping back into the game. WHERE HAD THAT COME FROM!?!? Was that Matt? Or Tenacius? Their head of house? Or an ickle first year? Or Noelle?!?! She eyed all the suspects suspiciously. So much for truces. She'd have to battle this by herself.

She glanced up to see that Zoryn and Noelle pairing up and going after Matt. Hmm.. That wasn't fair. So she decided to not throw a balloon at Matt this time. Then again on the matter of truces. "Hey! You two! Catch!" she grinned, throwing two pink balloons in their direction before darting off to find some more ammo. With a balloon in hand, she began scanning the arena for Tenacius . Where had her parole officer run off too? Hmm...? She couldn't find him but she did see a few balloons headed her way. She ducked, managing to successfully avoid a few of them. Phew. Now who had thrown those? Had that been Sam? She threw a balloon towards her just in case and went to grab another one. Then she rolled to her next hiding spot feeling completely like a Mission Impossible agent now. All she needed was the music.

Art chuckled, seeing his and Miss Hunter's balloons hitting Mr Salander at the same time. "Nowhere to hide," he said, throwing two balloons in random directions.

He watched Miss Hunter approach Mr Klopp to try and encourage him out of the clean area. This was what Art loved about watching his students. They all came together to support one-another.

Art was rather oblivious to the fact he had been saying too much for a young Lion to take in. He was about to say something else, when Miss Spinnet walked off. It was a party, after all. So, Art sent a balloon in her direction before ducking behind one of the walls for a quick breather.

Art laughed loudly at Miss Swynford's comments. "It certainly is battle time," he said, watching as she joined back in and threw balloons over the barriers.

His laughter continued with Miss Holden and her professional aiming, throwing the balloons around. He had to wipe his eyes when he saw her react to the pink paint splattering over her.

Simon suddenly had two red balloons in his hands, seriously why was the Professor telling him to make such a mess, when it just didn't seem right and then he was telling him to aim for Tenacius. Well that was not going to happen.

Simon got up as Ashley came over to him, it was obvious that he wasn't going to be allowed to just sit there, he had been thinking about getting a book out. Looking at the two balloons in his hands, he looked at Tenacius. No seriously that wasn't going to happen. He had been nice to him at the feast.

Turning around, he threw both of them straight at his Head of House. Watching with baited breath to see if they would hit.

Paint in the ears was not a good thing. Noelle could feel it drooping in there. Taking a moment to clean her ear, she looked at Z to do some quiet planning while the chaos was happening all around them. Professor Newt had already sent another balloon her way. And Ace threw one that splattered against the car... which got on Noelle again.

She felt bad for the poor house elves that were going to have to clean this up. Did they know that this was happening?? How had they allowed it to happen?! She was glad though. Because she was having a blast. Wait....

"Z, I have an idea." Noelle told Z. She probably looked funny but.... Noelle moved to look at her reflection in the car door. There wasn't much she could see of herself but she made due. Pulling her hair back, she worked on making the paint that was covering one side of her face, into like warrior paint. "Let me do yours too?" She asked Z quickly after hearing Olivia. Her eyes darted towards Olivia and saw a balloon coming her way. She pulled her wand out and stopped it mid-air before sending it back. Was that allowed? Opps.

There was a student that Noelle didn't know, (Sam) that had joined in on the fight. Noelle had spotted her out the corner of her eye. She handed Z a balloon. "See if you can peg her!"

And there was also Simon who she had met at the feast. He didn't seem thrilled to be here. But that wouldn't stop Noelle from sending a balloon at him through the car door window!

Plus, Professor Newt and Ace were getting the most hits. Matt was getting pummeled too. Good! That meant they were having a good fight. But each one of them got a few balloons sent at, because.... sportsmanship really. Wink.

The time had come.

Unknown to the people in the common room, even in the smallest nook, a surprise was awaiting.

A loud POP could be heard, mere seconds before hundreds of balloons hovering above the ceiling DROP to the floor. Large balloons, small ballons, filled with EVERY color of the rainbow.

Ashley watched Simon hesitate. Why didn't he not want to play? Who wouldn't like it? It was amazing! Maybe he doesn't like getting dirty. That should be it.

She watched as the throwing contest continue, now that she was immediately out of the way none of the balloons followed her. Thankfully. Recovery time.

Then she heard it.

POP

And she looked up. WHAT A GREAT MISTAKE.

The ceiling had just vanished and from above were...

" AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

how many were are there? Balloons were charging towards them.

BALLOOOOOOOONS.

RED.YELLOW. GREEN. BLUE.... OH MY GODDDDDD!

"THEY FOOLED US" she shouted. She had no idea who was they.

It was going to fall any moment now.

"RUUUUUNNNNN!!!"

And she grabbed Simon by his hand. The boy didn't want to play, he probably wouldn't want this either. And she dashed towards the corner.

HIDE.HIDE.HIDE.

BUT WHERE????

She had barely reached the corner, when the first balloon touched her shoulder and burst at contact.

And it OOZED Orange.

Yikes.

Then all hell broke loose.

Aslan had learned many things in her lifetime, but the most valuable of lesson for Aslan Evans was the power of remaining silent. Silence, spoke volumes over any words. It was an empty space in which most would squirm in and that squirming was where you'd find out what kind of person you were looking at. It also helped in cases like this, for Aslan knew with certainty that if she answered simply and let the boys do the talking they would give her just the right leverage.

"I understand Clara's exception." Aslan stated, once again her dark eyes moving from cousin to cousin, inspecting them both in her usual way. "But neither of you are snogging Olivia Phillips, so why is she an exception to the rule?" She asked simply, ignoring the boys' echoes of pay up

They were so impatient, they were so boyish..

So Gryffindor.

Suddenly Simon was being attacked by Ashley.

"HELP, I'M being taken!" Simon then suddenly realised why Ashley was doing what she did and as soon as she had dragged him to the corner, he turned to thank her, when he realised she was orange.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Simon started to laugh, but then suddenly.

*POP*

A yellow balloon had splatted on his head.

"Okay this is war!" Simon turned around and ran after the balloons, he had no idea what he was going to do to the balloon, saying that he didn't know any spell and what was worse was the balloons were coming from above.

"Okay new plan!" Simon said as he got hit by loads of different plans. "RETREET!!!!!!!!!!!!" He then turned around and went and coward behind Ashley.

Noelle was about to come up with a plan with Little Miss Z when Ashley and Simon started a little fight. She laughed, glad that Simon seemed to be easing up and was enjoying himself now.

But then...

A pop was heard and the ceiling turned to balloons... hundreds of them!! Noelle grabbed her wand and cast an umbrella charm over her head, hopefully it was strong enough to cover her and Z, with their war paint on.

It may have taken a lot longer than she had planned for it too, but after fifteen whole minutes Zoryn Spinnet finally managed to get her mattress off her bed and down the stairs that led to the common room from the girls' dormitories.

And yes, she had broken a sweat whilst doing it.

But the mattress was KIND OF HUGE next to her tiny, little body. So of course she had a difficult time!!!! Especially because there was no one else around to help. Next time she'd wait until Faith was in the room and she'd as for HER help. Plus, faith would definitely be up for some shenanigans. It was the absolute best part of having roommates.

But anyways, Zoryn was POOPED. She had spent all her energy getting the mattress to move, that she didn't have any left to actually set the plan into motion!!!

(((that was a lie))) (((she always had the energy))) (((she was just being dramatic)))

And like any good, dramatic idiot Zoryn Spinnet knew how to dramatically fall onto a mattress. Something she did quite regularly after a "long" day of FUN and EXCITEMENT, and something she did just now in the middle of the common room. Was she in the way? Yes, very much so.

Abey was no idiot. Except he sort of thought that maybe he was. Except at the same time he wasn't, because he KNEW a ruckus when he could hear one, and that meant he was sort of smart actually.

Anyways, he had certainly heard the commotion happening nearby, on account of the fact that their dormitory door had been propped open (and so was the window, because there had been a strange smell in the dormitory, which Abey reckoned was due to Théo having too many beans at breakfast) (or maybe it was Abey) (it was hard to know for sure). ANYWAYS, the point was, he had HEARD the RUCKUS, and - after it had been going on for some time - he had finally gone out to the stairwell (where he had found nothing basically actually), and then to the common room to investigate.

Which is where he saw............

"Oh."

THAT was a Gryffindor. On a mattress. In a room that wasn't intended for mattresses. Which actually made it all the more exciting actually.

"Are we having a sleepover?" Meaning that clearly they were, but could Abey be invited too?

Would it be very inappropriate to dramatically flop onto the mattress as well?

Abey was sure, but also actually he wasn't even considering the matter, and he had already done exactly that.

#DRAMATICFLOP

Zoryn heard the ‘oh’. And she heard someone approaching. And actually she heard a lot of things in the last three minutes that she had spent just laying on this mattress in the middle of the Gryffindor Common Room. Funny how much you hear things when you’re quiet. It was a lot harder to hear things when she was talking, which she normally was.

But anyways, the ‘oh’. She heard that. But she didn’t move until she heard the question. That’s when she opened her eyes and looked up with LOTS OF EXCITEMENT. A sleepover? Were they having one? Well technically no. But.. ”We TOTALLY should!!” she grinned. It was an INCREDIBLE idea!!! ‘Cause a lot of her friends were boys and they were in their own dorms which was sad, but if they had a sleepover THEY COULD ALL HANG OUT TOGETHER.

And then she went for a brief fly in the air as the ‘oh’ kid flopped onto the mattress too.

Which sent her in a fit of giggles.

”I wasn’t actually gonna sleep,” she started explaining, as if the boy had asked another question. ”I was gonna go mattress surfing, but then I got tired since I had to carry this thing all the way down from my room.” Which wasn’t a complete lie. It was only a partial one. She had pushed it down the stairs for the majority of the trip down, but it still took a lot of work.

Did he wanna mattress surf toooooo?

Because Zoryn would ask him, probably.

Art was HIT by both of the balloons Mr Klopp was holding. Right in his chest! "You got me!" he said, melodramatically, but with a hint of a smile. He was very happy to see that the young man had decided to join in, even if it WAS aimed at Art. He didn't mind at all, though.

Art was turning to Miss Summers at the time when he heard a Pop. He looked up. BAD IDEA. He was hit on the face with MULTIPLE balloons, paint exploding all around him. Everyone was in delighted (he hoped) chaos, and as he looked around he saw the Common Room in such a state of MESS that he began fearing the house elves.

Unfortunately in the process of all those balloons falling from the height above, all of the balloons in the buckets popped.

"Oh, folks, it looks like the balloons have run out," he said with a grin. His face remained a mix of different colours. He pulled out his wand to clean his glasses so that he could see, and put them back. It was... well it was COVERED in paint.

He let out a laugh. "Thank you everyone for participating! Now, if any of you know cleaning charms, please help with the younger students." He didn't want them to have to go upstairs to the clean dormitories with paint covered clothes, and make a mess up there. His wand was still out and he was prepared to give a magical cleaning to anyone who wanted one, but he also began cleaning the paint with a simple Scouring charm. It was doing the trick, and the paint splotches around him magically disappeared.