"Great, thanks!" Sarah said, then to Amethyst, "Come on, let's go!"

"Thank you so much!" Amethyst smiled wide and couldn't help but hug the woman. She was REAL excited and she ran to grab Sarah's hand. "C'mon! She said as long as we don't break them, it's okay! Let's go!!!" She was like a puppy who hadn't seen anyone in months.

"B-but but!" Selina tried to reason with Kurumi, but she knew that her best friend would not allow her to beat someone's head in with a beater bat... even if they deserved it. Her head dropped in defeat, "Fine... no bloody beater bats." Man she was really looking forward to teaching the boy a lesson, a well earned lesson.

Then she stuck her head up and shot her a quick smile, "Just a little bit? Like just a smack or two? I promise I'll only mess him up a tensy bit! COME ON KURUMI, puersse?"

She saw Kurumi go back off into her land of thoughts and she knew that maybe it was time for a distraction, "Yeah... the brooms sound good."

Sarah watched Amethyst will no small amount of amusement, part dog, too, maybe?

She followed her friend and stared at the broom. Was there a specific way of getting on it? Sarah shrugged mentally and swung one leg over, mounting it fairly decently in her opinion.

"Just as long as you don't mess up his smile," Kurumi replied in an only slightly sarcastic tone. Her cheeks DID, however, blush a bit at the memory of the Puff's sparkly smile. She really missed it. Her eyes locked back on Selina's and she realized that she probably should clarify that she was NOT being serious. "If you really want to help the situation, you could ask him why he hates me...we agreed to give each other space, cool down, and the next time I spoke to him he looked like he never wanted to see me again." What HAD happened between the Trophy Room and the feast? She had heard rumors...but Kurumi wasn't sure if she could believe those.

"Leave it to you to have us meet somewhere where there is flying involved," she joked. "I suppose....we need to pay?" But where and who did they pay.

Kurumi spun around on the spot once.

"E-E-Excuse me, w-we would like to ride..."

Jack took a minute to decipher whether or not he wanted to go on them. Well, his mother wouldn't check there, so he might as well. While fumbling in his pockets, he asked whoever was next to him, "sorry, do you know how much this costs?" He hoped it wasn't to much he didn't have a lot of money on him...

Kurumi nearly jumped when she heard someone address her. Or were they? They somewhat looked in her direction, but it wasn't anyone that she had spoken to before. Shyly, she played with a few strands of her long black hair.

"S-S-Sorry," she stammered, adding a slight bow at the end of her sentence. "I-I don't know and was actually wondering the same thing."

Amethyst hoped onto the broom opposite from the one Sarah had mounted. She fixed her position on it and smiled at Sarah. She had a small set back, but came back around after seeing the excitement on Sarah's face.

Selina nearly yelped in excitement when Kurumi said that she could teach Treyen a lesson if she did not mess up his smile. This was perfect! She could not believe that Kurumi was letting her do this. When she was done with Treyen he would be a very different little 'Puff he knew what happened when you messed with Selina Skylar's friends. She was, even though younger than all of her friends, a fierce lion mama... protecting of her cubs.

Crush her dreams why don't you? She couldn't hurt Treyen, that stunk, "Fine, I guess I'll talk to him. Although I like my plan better," she muttered at the end.

After finding a couple of Sickles in his pockets, Jack looked up and saw a girl, maybe thirteen or fourteen with black hair. "It's fine." He said, a small smile on his face. Then she did this little bow thing, and Jack didn't know how to react so he did one too. "I'm Jack." He said quickly, but in his head he was debating on whether or not to try and cover to cuts on his cheeks. if he did, they'd be really obvious, but if he didn't they'd still be obvious. Ugh. He just left them alone.

Kurumi hadn't really been expecting him to bow back, but she supposed that was better than him raising an eyebrow - which was the more common reaction she got in these situations. "It's nice to meet you Jack," she smiled. "I'm Kurumi, and this is my friend Selina."

Kurumi noticed the boy's somewhat awkward hand dance he did around his face and she wondered why when the answer became rather clear. He had several cuts on his cheeks, but it really wasn't her place to ask about them, right? After all, they had just met. In fact, she wasn't sure that she had ever seen him before.

"Are you...new around here?"

Sarah smiled back at Amethyst and looked around at the other people on brooms, "I guess we just... jump in!" Sarah said to Amethyst, casting a mischievous look over he shoulder at her friend.

"Hi Kurumi," he said politely, "hi Selina." He noticed her eyes flicker to his cheeks, and quickly made a lie up in his head in case she asked. He didn't want to tell anyone yet, then again, he didn't really need to, they'd find out soon enough... But if she didn't bring it up, he wouldn't either.
"Relatively. Just starting Hogwarts this year." He replied honestly, giving her a quick smile of gratitude for not asking. Phew! "What about you?"

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Did a child just HUG her? She blinked and then stared at the girl. "Err.. Yeah its fine" she shrugged it off trying to absorb the suns rays as she leant back in a carefree way.

Children.

Easily excited and definitely good business at Carnivals. They were always the first ones to the rides and they often paid extra to get a few more moments bashing their friends on the brooms.

Dangerous but Beatrice claimed herself not responsible if anything were to happen.

The older woman raised her eyebrow at the interaction between the three before answering their question. "4 sickles a ride. Lasts a few minutes or so. Depends when I get bored" she stated. "Pay a little extra and I may be able to squeeze in a couple more minutes or so" she raised her eyebrow once more and waited for their response.

Jack looked at his hands and saw there were only seven sickles. "I'll just take the standard one please." He said, handing her four sickles, feeling a little embarrassed about being so short on money.

Tyler wandered aimlessly into the lines of the bumper brooms. why not? he thought. He vaguely took notice of an exchange between two wizards and pulled four sickles from his pocket. He glanced up and saw that everyone was sitting two to a broom. His heart dropped, he had no one to ride with..

Witsy saw Tyler standing in line and joined her with William somewhere close by. "That's different, 2 per ride?"

" Tyler ride with Witsy" Willaim told him. I can wait to ride with her" Willaim said to Witsy.

" You ride with Tyler now" William told Witsy. " I get the next ride with you" Willaim said to Witsy. Is that ok?" William asked Witsy.

"Wait, no I want all of us to ride at the same time!"

Selina looked next to her where her best friend was previously standing. To her surprise, however, the asian fourth year was gone. Where in Merlin's name had she run off too. The pair had just met up after a long couple of weeks without one another and she was already getting distracted and going all over the place. Was Selina really that boring? She had to have been.

It was then that she saw Kurumi was over talking to a boy with a plethora of cuts on his face. Did they know one another? Was he a carnie? No he couldn't have been... he looked not a day over twelve. She approached the pair just in time as Kurumi was introducing Jack to Selina and vice versa. Selina extended her hand and said, "Pleasure to meet you, Jack. Your going to be a first year? And well I'm a third year."

Then she heard a voice of someone who was beckoning the trio of them over to the stand. When they got over to the woman she told them the price of the tickets and that she would give them extra time if they payed her extra. Selina sighed and took out her wallet. Putting her hand up to the silence the other two she payed for all three of their tickets. The woman could have the 12 sickles, she didn't mind, "Here. Take it." Then, disgusted at the woman's behavior-- wasn't the Carnival for fun and joy? Why did they need to pay extra-- with the extra charge, Selina slipped the woman a few extra sickles, "There... is that all right?"

Amethyst nodded, smirking evilisly as she lowered her head slight, her eyes still looking up at Sarah. "Let's kick butt." She chuckles softly as she held on tightly to the broom, feeling as if she were in a movie.

Kurumi smiled, more out of relief than anything else. She was glad that, for once, her assumptions about something hadn't been entirely off. "I'll be a 4th year this coming term," she smiled, nodding her head. "I'm in Gryffindor house, erm, I don't suppose you know about the different houses at Hogwarts, do you?" Kurumi didn't want to sound like she was talking gibberish at him. She remembered running into an older student when she was going into her first year. She hadn't understood a word he was saying - not to mention all the talk about the Sorting Hat. "Selina is in Gryffindor as well."

Kurumi's hands went to her pockets where she felt her badge. Oh yeah...THAT.


Kurumi merely blinked at the audacity of the woman. Honestly? Trying to weasel extra money out of them. Where was Walnut when she needed him? No, she shouldn't wish the wrath of the feline's pee on anyone, it was just too cruel.

Just as Kurumi reached into her bag for her own coin purse, Selina's hand was in her face. She knew what that meant: Selina wasn't going to let either of them pay for it. "At least let me pay for some popcorn," she whispered to Selina as the girl handed over the coins.

" I think only two to a broomstick" William told Witsy. " I do not mind, ride with Tyler" William said to Witsy. " I will wait and we can go on the next ride together" Willaim explained to Witsy.

Witsy gave him a pouted smile, "Fine, so be it," she managed to say. She pulled Tyler in effort for him to follow. Next ride then.

Jack's face instantly turned a purpley red. "Um, no." He said sheepishly, "I'm sixteen actually." Was that he baby faced? He had never felt so. He was only a few inches short of six feet, but maybe his cuts made him look younger or something. He decided not to take it as an insult, he usually didn't, but still blushed considerably. He was also embarrassed because she had enough money to pay for extra time, whereas he didn't. But it wasn't his fault, his mother had his money and she was off somewhere, hopefully far away.

"Yeah, I read about them." He replied, referring to the Houses. "Gryffindor? Nice. I doubt I'll go in there though, I've never been known for being particularly brave or adventurous." He said.

After realising what Selina did, Jack wanted to make sure she didn't pay for him, but if it wasn't her original intention, then he would sound stupid, so he said nothing.