Trissa had abandoned the parchments and books from her homework, which were still on the table in the study, and was now in the game corner to take her mind off of learning for her OWLs

She took a look around, unsure of which game she wanted to play. Her sister and she had spent the summer playing a lot of exploding snap, but her gaze was drawn to a foosball table that had been modified to look like a game of Quidditch. "Does anyone think they can beat me at Quidditch?!" she called to the common room. "The table kind, this one" she added as she pointed to the foosball table, laughing softly.

Summer had been sitting silently, she wasn't sure what she wanted to do, to tell the truth, she hadn't realise how much she would miss home and now her bestie Desiree was in another house, it meant that they weren't going to be able to spend all their time together, something which upset her.

Summer then heard another girl, who looked and sounded a couple of years older than her say about Quidditch, her mother had played the game before and so she knew a bit about it, but did she want to play, or did she just want to sit her sulking a bit more.

After a few moments, Summer stood up and nervously twiddled her hair. "I'll play if that's okay." She mumbled, did the older student mind taking on a youngest students, she then stood there, fidgetting and her foot moving around nervously, hoping the other student wouldn't be cross.

A first-year took on her challenge?!

Well, colour her surprised!

Trissa positively beamed at the timid first year as she approached the table from the common room, nervously playing with her hair. What a cutie, she was. She didn't remember being that little herself. Had she been like that too when she first arrived at Hogwarts. No, she had been the obnoxiously loud one. "That's all right with me, brave soldier! Now, enter the arena!" She gave a grandiose gesture at the foosball quidditch table behind her.

Perhaps she should tone it down a little bit.... didn't want to scare the little first year too much. "My name is Trissa. What is yours?" she asked of her opponent as she moved to stand on one side of the foosball table. "Which team do you want to be?"

Summer was still nervously fiddling with her hair, when the older student started calling her a brave soldier. What was going to happen, did the older girl expect her to be scared or something. Summer was really confused but she walked towards the table.

Summer smiled "Hi Trissa, I'm Summer!" Summer then decided to add for no particular reason. "My mother and her sister came here, they were TRIPLETS!" Summer giggled, she still found that odd, that her mother was one of triplets.

Oh so she got to pick which team she wanted to be, the only issue was she didn't know, so she decided to have a bit of fun with her new friend. "You can decide, you know age before beauty!" Summer winked and giggled.

No, her words hadn't had the goal of frightening her. She just had an odd method of talking at times.

"It is nice to meet you, Summer" she said with a simple grin now and restrained her energy for the shy first year. Fortunately, it appeared that Summer was opening up enough as she began to talk about her family. "Here?" she repeated. "They were all in Gryffindor?" she looked stunned for a moment. "That is cool! My younger sister Maizie is in Ravenclaw. Do you have siblings?" and did they attend Hogwarts as well?

Trissa put her hands in her robe pockets and leaned against the Skee-Ball machine as she waited for the first year to choose her team. Just to get ROASTED by her words. It took the Gryffindor a second to acknowledge what she had said but when it soaked in she "Tsk"'d though not in an irritating way. But if she was brave enough to say that that meant that she was getting comfortable, right? "Savage" she said dramatically "I am not old!"

"Alright, i'll take the red team" she said and moved to stand behind her team. "Do you know how to play?"

Summer smiled. "I have two younger sisters, but neither of them comes to Hogwarts." She was missing her sisters, they used to mess around and play hide and seek. "Nope my Auntie Abby was in Ravenclaw!" Summer had always wondered how that has happened.

Summer couldn't help but giggle at her new friends face. "Your face looks a picture right now!" Summer walked over and nudged her. "Don't worry, I know your not that old." Summer though then whispered at her friend. "I know you were around when Dumbledore was, but not when Gordric Gryffindor was." Summer stuck her tongue out and ran as fast as her little legs could to the other end of the table. "I'm ready when you are."