Serena turned to Kiara and said quietly so Professor Melita wouldn't hear, "Calm down. We have to do what the Professor's say for now. They are in charge, and if we rebel against them, then they will only make more rules to make it more difficult for us. Please, sit down and do as the teacher says."

Serena had measured her ingredients and was busy mixing them. She was almost ready to start portioning the dough for the cookie pan.

Selena finished mixing the ingredients and left its contents sitting in front of her with a "okay that's done" look

Jaren stared at the recepie for several seconds, as if memorizing the ingredients and instructions. If anything, this was going to be an applied life skill lesson. He watched dispassionately as several students stormed out in a huff, obviously viewing this as an insult to the art of potion making, or at least their intelligences. Turning back to his bench, he began his work.

Zekke sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. He glanced at the blackboard and back down to his notebook. He had never been particularly fond of cookies so he wasn't really looking forward to this exercise. Since he was sure he would have to eat them at one point or another, he made sure he had bought and brought his own requisite supplies and ingredients.

Quietly, he mixed and stirred and tried to keep his table as clean as possible, which seemed to be quite impossible. The flour and baking powder turned his robe and raven-black hair powdery white and the chocolate chips kept wanting to melt in his hands.

He was preparing his baking sheets - transfigured plates from the kitchen - when he saw that he wasn't the only student whose robes and hair were speckled with white powder. He suppressed an amused laugh and returned to spooning and dropping the mixture onto the plates...

Sarah mixed her dough slowly wondering if it was hygenic to make cookies on tables that were covered with old potion spills...'maybe thats the point...changes Potions to Poisons' she thought trying not to laugh, spooning the dough onto her baking tray.

Kay was utterly lost. For several moments he wondered if he was in the right classroom at all. The instructions didn't seem to make sense for the class, and he was quite sure he had heard the teacher wrongly when she said they would be baking cookies. He glanced about him for help. Jaren was minding his own business at the back of the class, some other students were leaving, but everyone else seemed to be working away like nothing was wrong. One was even beginning to become coated in flour. Kay sighed. His parents would throw a fit if they heard all he learned from another year at a foreign school was to cook. And the place didn't even look clean enough to be cooking anything with, or rolling dough, or whatever. With another sigh he went to work, though still certain he was wrong. The dough was actually easy, really easy, and apart from spilling some of the chocolate chips all over the floor they got into the dough without too much of a mishap. Wo bu xiang chi zhe xie bing gan, Kay thought determinedly, and nobody was going to make him change his mind.

Unrolling a blank roll of parchment on the table to prevent contamiation, Jaren placed all the ingredients on it and started mixing everything accordingly. He would have done alright with the flour had he not sneezed, sending a large cloud billowing over his workdesk and lightly powdering his face, hair and the front of his robes. Wiping the flour out of his eyes with his sleeve he continued steadily along until he was at the stage where the dough was pretty much mixed. It looked chunky though. He began spooning it out onto the tray, wondering if the globs were spaced out well enough.

Sophie quietly placed another name on her list and shook her head. She really needed to talk to Berty... Taking a deep breath she said, "Alright, the house elves are now here to bake our cookies for us. I'm going to dismiss class for now and we can all come back in fifteen minutes to see how well the cookies came out."

As soon as she had said this, Sophie fled from the room, a piece of parchment clutched in her hand.

Sabina got up from her chair and went out of the classroom, happy to get some rest from her hard work in the class.

Selena gets up and heads out in the hallway to go for a walk. "I don't think I'll be coming back" Selena thought to herself

Francis nods and grabs her stuff. Putting everything away she walks away from the classroom.

Meghan rolled her eyes and stood up to strech while waiting for the teacher to come back.

Lee nodded, he couldn't help but feel sorry for Melita she seemed so helpless. Lee left his things and went for a wander for 15 minutes

Jaren paused as Melita exited the classroom, knowing by the look on her face and by the piece of parchment in her hand that someone was going to get it. He pulled out an empty vial from his pocket and glopped some of the cookie batter into it, chocolate chips and all, plugging it with a rubber stopper. He then labelled and pocketed it, then sat back and waited for the class to recommence.

-Shauna gave the teacher a weak smile and wandered out of the classroom-

*Afton looked sadly after the professor. she sighed. sometimes some kids could really get on her nerves.....She wasnt a bad professor. she sighs again ad sits down, waiting for her to return*

Nadia looked up, too relieved to think she wouldn't have to do the cooking herself. This was... almost fun. She wasn't one to be fooling around in activities that seemed pointless - though right now that could be questioned. But since she had never found herself into a cooking class... she must admit this new experience was hilarating. New. Exciting even. She felt like she was in primary school and her, for once, was enjoying it. Why with so many tension and stress from OWLs, something to take the thought off her mind felt great. Well, of course she was still worried about OWLs, but to be completely honest, it wasn't, this class, one of those which she would feel they were completely wasting time on. Nadia did find utility in the most ridiculous things, herself. And cooking was in a way part of life, and she honestly did needed the extra lessons. But apart from all the rambing. A house elf was just picking her tray and carring it. There was... the smallest suspicious in her mind but she pushed it away. She lookde around, now the Professor had left, and spoted Kay struggling with the, err, brewing.

Seconds later, she would make up her mind and stood, taking a parchment from her desk, passing by Keilun and dropping the baking instructions in his desk as made her way outside. 15 minutes... she knew what she wanted to do with those...

Lee walked back in after 15 minutes in hope to see Miss Meiltas cheery face, but she hadn't arrived back. Lee sat and waited for her and the house elves to return.

Alex watched as Miss Melita stormed out of the room. She felt really bad for her. She looked down and promised herself that will not make any rude comments for the rest of the class.

Mithos watched Ms. Melita talking about the house elves like they were her slaves. Mithos thought in saying Why don't you bake them youself!? but he didn't want to put his House in trouble so he quietly stood up and walked out of the room.

Amy stood abruptly and sighed disgustedly.



“This class has become a joke,” she said angrily as she left the room. “I’m through with this. Someone please tell her I won't be back."

"oh joy!! Cookies . Argh what a witch it looks like i will the only one joining her poor selena could not make it, haha wait till she comes back haha this is great the shock of her life."Jess said

Linnea took the professor's leaving in stride. She knew it wasn't the easiest putting up with all that was going on, even if she didn't agree with it. She rested her head in her arms on her desk and figured she could try to get a nap in while the prof. was out, she'd been staying up late nights, but she couldn't help it, if only Leiden would just be at her office, then she could say what was on her mind in a civilized manner.

When she noticed that no one was looking, Alex slipped out a piece of parchment and a quill and wrote a quick note. She then went and placed it on Miss Melita's desk, under a few pieces of parchment, so no one could see it.

Quote:

Miss Melita,

I think you're a great teacher, don't mind those brats that just walked out of your classroom. They don't know what they're missing on. You shouldn't start crying over small things like that. See, you still have a whole bunch of people in your classroom!

Cheer up!
-Alex

Selena wanders back into class and sits back in her seat after the break that was given to them