"It doesn't matter" Tyler said, looking down at his shoes, there he was again making people confused and not making sense. He dragged his feet over the floor making a low scraping sound, he'd never payed much attention to his shoes before. He usually just threw on the nearest ones and never looked twice, they were black with white tips, a slightly off white from all the walking, running, jumping about and other random stuff he'd been doing. He'd only realized he was wearing such dark colors that matched his dark brown, almost black, messy hair.

"Whaaa?" he said as he brought his attention back to the conversation, he must have zoned out for a while because all he heard was Nessie saying something about go together. "Sure" he said, "but I'm controlling the broom, I got the skills" he said, grinning proudly, that was one thing he could always get right. Flying.

WHOA. How'd he know? He must have been psychic or something. The blond nodded before speaking. "I am, actually. How'd you know? Is my last name that much of a giveaway?" she giggled. Brooke wasn't from Russia exactly although her father was and her grandparents of course.

Brooklyn nodded. "Well.. This year will be my first year actually at a school, but i was home schooled previously. My parents thought it was better that way." And well.. Brooke didn't mind. She didn't have to be trapped in a room with those dreadful birds. Which she was completely thankful for. And then of course, sometimes Waverly would come over and they'd have home school together. Which was always fun.

Sarah grinned back, "Of course we're doing well! We're AWESOME." she laughed, "Of course, we're very modest, though, so we'd never brag."

Amethyst couldn't help but laugh. Sarah was right. They were modest. She shot under Sarah, before she could see her. She giggled as she yelled "Catch me if you can!!"

Selina shrugged her shoulders at the outburst boy Jack. She did not mind all of the frustration induced anger, she had many moments like that herself, what she did mind though was the fact that he seemed to be harping on the issue. He needed to let it go, she was just trying to be nice. If he didn't want her to be nice... she wouldn't be. She did not owe him anything.

"Fine... keep up." With that she snapped her red hair around and headed toward the ride.

Sounded like Caroline had been doing pretty much the same as Vashti had been doing: walking around. Except... "Ohhh, a carousel!" She grinned. "I love those rides!" Yeah, she knew which one she was going on next. Carousels were the greatest, and she was sure it would be even better if it was magical. Imagine all the awesome things it could do!

Excellent, now that the introductions were out of the way, they could carry on with their enjoyment of this ride. Not that they couldn't if they didn't know one another's names, but it was much better to ride it with someone you could actually put a name to.

And then - the line was moving! YES! "Excellent!" she exclaimed, grinning. "Feels like we've waited long enough." It probably wasn't really that long, only a few minutes, but it felt like awhile to her, likely because she hadn't been able to ride a broom since a few weeks before the end of term, which was months ago. Usually she was okay not doing a whole bunch of wizardy stuff over the summer, but riding a broomstick and playing Quidditch was always the exception to that.

Kurumi looked back and forth between the two and then at the money pinching carnie. Could they get on? Or would they attempt to charge them extra for getting onto the ride without permission? Kurumi had no idea how things like this worked - seeing as this was her first carnival ever.

And then the air around the three of them got heavy, really heavy. Did this mean Kurumi was going to need to play peacemaker? She sure hoped not considering how little she knew about Jack and the ocean of information she knew about Selina.

Seeing Selina taking the lead and heading over to the brooms, Kurumi took a timid step forward.

It was alright to ride now, right? They had paid and all...

Before she did, Kurumi glanced over her shoulder and smiled at Jack. "Don't feel too offended by anything Selina says or does," Kurumi reassured him, noticing the somewhat confused expression on his face. "She can be brutally honest, but she always means well."

Sarah followed the streak that was her friend with amusement, "You think I won't?" Sarah laughed playfully, allowing her broom to gain speed.

"I know you won't!" Amethyst smirked as she leaned forward, then pulled her broom up, causing her to make a circle, and somehow, ended up behind you.

Jack stared at Selina in disbelief. So far this week he had met three girls, two of which were mad at him and two of which were most likely soon to catch on to the seemingly popular trend.

He shook his head, and walked in step with Kurumi, grateful to know someone who didn't hate him. "I suppose you have to sort of respect her for it." He shrugged. But he could feel his cheeks turning pale with shame, because he hadn't been honest with anyone about... about how his gashes got there. He was grateful they didn't ask, but felt bad for lying anyway.

"You could say that," Kurumi blushed. "Selina has been more like the little sister I never had." She looked over at Jack and smiled at him. "People always effect you in ways that you never expected. I suppose that is one of the magics of Hogwarts." Perhaps the best kind of magic. "I am sure you will find someone who you connect with at Hogwarts," she nodded placing a hand on his shoulder for only a brief moment before removing.

Kurumi looked at him and noticed that he was losing a bit of color in his cheeks. Her eyes glanced at the gashes, but she tried not to look at them too long, it was rude after all. "A-Are you alright?"

Sarah rolled her eye playfully, "You dare to you parlor tricks on me?!" she proclaimed, holding back laughter, "I shall win, just wait, mortal!"

Sarah had read about old fashioned battles in books before, and she found medieval speak appropriate for this.

She turned her broom around quickly, slowly circling her friend.

Smiled wide as she chuckled softly. "Well, my good man..let's just see about that..." She smirked once more as her brain put a lock on Sarah. Her broom would turn, following her movement. She shoot fast, towards Sarah. This was Bumper Brooms after all right?

Jack nodded, "losing people can do that too." He said resentfully, thinking of his father. Maybe she was right. Maybe when he went to Hogwarts there would be something magically miraculous happen to him and he would forevermore live a life of joy and ease.

As if.

His body was so tense at this point he flinched when Kurumi touched his shoulder. He hadn't meant to. "Sorry," He said apologetically, but didn't explain his tensity, so instead relaxed.

Just as he had gotten his heart to beat a little slower, his eyes to flash a little less, his mind to be a little less cautious, Kurumi's next words brought it all back again. "I'm fine." He said, but he didn't look at her. His head was firmly straight, his grey eyes firmly fixed on a cloud in the distance.

Kurumi wasn't sure if his comment had been said so that she could hear it, or if he was more talking to himself. Either way, Kurumi's ears had caught it and she looked down at the ground for a few moments. Had she said something wrong to upset him? "The ones that leave us are never really gone you know," she said, not sure where the words were coming from. "At least, the effect of knowing them doesn't." She turned her back to the flying brooms for a moment to give him her full attention. "I don't know what all you have been through, and it is probably a lot," her eyes momentarily flicked towards the scars on his face. "But, I've lost many people. Best friends, people who I thought I could trust. They left me because of who I am..." She frowned. "But...if I have learned anything it is this: you can't let the pain of loss prevent you from seeing what is right in front of you."

Kurumi almost laughed at herself. It sounded like something you would find on the inside of a fortune cookie.

"Woman, milday," Sarah corrected, "woman."

She waited until Amethyst was almost going to hit her before moving out of the way, "Too slow!" she yelled.

Why was this so Awkward? It never used to be like this between them, but then boom out of nowhere. It was just awkward for them. Every time they saw each other it was Akward! Akward! Akward! She noticed he was looking at his shoes."Nice shoes " she said now looking at them too. She wondered if he had made his choice yet, but now certainly wasn't the time to ask. It was awkward enough between them.

So he wasn't listening to her now was he. This was when he got irritating. He should learn to get a better attention span, she thought to her self. Skills? Ummm what skills. She had never seen Tyler fly before, but surely if he was good he would have been in the quidditch team wouldn't he. "Whatever, let's just go on" as long as she went on the ride she was happy. She didn't really care who sat where.

She put Puffles, which was in his bag somewhere safe while she was on the ride. She walked onto the ride making sure Tyler followed. She then waited for him so he could choose the right broom. He wanted to be the controller after all. Didn't he? She then took a strand of her ranga hair and started twirling it in her hand.

Selina was keeping a hard distance between herself and the other two who were lagging behind. She needed to get on that broom. Everytime she saw anything to do with flying it was like a ghost over took Selina or something. She loved it and she knew that the moment she got on that broom all of her mind would just shut down and she would become the game. Of course she could not play the game with all of the people being slow behind her.

She muttered under her breath, "Bloody Nora... OI YOU LOT! Come on we don't have all day."

"Uh... Okay" he said as he took another look around just to take note of what was going on around him again and to confirm he was still on planet Earth. He shrugged, he could already sense he was becoming irritating, he'd learnt by now it was better to be quiet and follow whatever was going on, in this case it was Nessie. He dragged his feet along as he followed her, keeping his head low.

He noticed the usual ball of fur that accompanied Nessie was missing and couldn't help but wonder where it was "where's your pet?" he mumbled as he looked over the brooms.

Whoa so she liked Quidditch? He did not expected that at all. I mean because she was very girly and he didn't picture her on a broom. Well maybe on a broom yes, but not actually liking Quidditch. She kind of remind him of Amelia, his sister minus the Quidditch part. "Yes, they are" he nodded "You like Quidditch? That is great! Who do you support?" he asked. For him he was a Puddlemere United fan all the way.

"Yeah I can tell" he chuckled, but her name was cool I mean, it wasn't a common one like Nikolas. "I'm from Liverpool" he nodded "But my mom is russian" he said, maybe that was why he had a K instead of Ch? Probably. Fee hit his arm "I was just asking!" he smiled "You never know, maybe you could get scared" he teased.

Wait...what? No, he will not scream. "Never" he replied. She was in Slytherin too? Great! "Awesome" he said "You'll do my homework" he teased "Yes, fifteen" he nodded.

Amethyst laughed so hard she nearly fell off the broom, but held her balance before she did.

"You amuse me, Dear Friend!" She nodded to her softly. Sarah was fast, and maybe Ame was slow. She shrugged it off and slowly flew to her. "Well, My friend, why don't we race?"

Since when did Tyler care about Puffles? Because aparently now he did. "He's over there." she said pointing to Puffle in his bag. She then looked back at Tyler. She wanted to go on the ride already, why didn't Tyler just get on the broom. She folded her arms and continued to wait as she started tapping her foot. She wasn't a very patient person, and she didn't like waiting.

Her mind started flowing into the thought of Hogwarts. She would have to see Rose almost everyday and in almost every lesson. She didn't reakly like it Rose had become her competition, not really a friend anymore.

"Come lets get on already." she said to Tyler. She then headed next to a broom and hopped on. She hoped it was a good broom that the controller would aprove of.

"Oh" Tyler said, this whole conversation wasn't going to get any better. He hated it. Why couldn't Nessie be her old self again and he could be his and everybody could be happy? No. Things never work out like that, it always had to be complicated, especially with girls involved.

"Okay" he said as Nessie chose one of the brooms, he wasn't going to argue, that wouldn't have been his best choice but he just shrugged and followed. In stead of taking the front he jumped on behind Nessie, the whole controlling the broom idea didn't sound so great to him now, especially not with the modd he'd been put in.

Wait didn't he want to be the controller so why was Tyler sitting at the back. "Why you sitting there?" she asked confused. She really didn't care who controled the broom as long as they actually went on she was happy. She got off so he could sit in the front. "There you can go sit." she said gesturing to the front of the broom.

This was getting rather stupid. They could have been on the ride right now enjoying themselves, but they were just arguing and being stupid instead. She folded her arms again as she waited for Tyler to make his move.

Fee chuckled a little as she noticed how surprised Nikolas seemed to be as she said shwe liked Quidditch.That was really funn,yhe didnt seem to have expected that.Hehe."Of course i like Quidditch.Who doesnt?",she nodded,"my brother is a professional player."Yeah Paul had made his dream come true,that was sooo coool.Who did she support?Oh taht could be a touchy topic.Hopefully it wasnt for the guy."I am a Chudley Cannons fan",the girl said,"what about you?"

His mum was Russian?Wasnt Durmstrang in Russia?Or somewhere else?Uhh..."But your mum lives here too?",the girl asked and smiled friendly,"just asking because i think Russia has a wizarding school too."But then again Fenja and edith were going to Beauxbatons and lived in England.Soo... Ohhh noooo he was teasing here.Nooo good,little boy.Giggle.Excuse me?",the blonde raised an eyebrow,"before i get scared you scream for your mummy,little Nikolas."Stucking out her tongue at him she couldnt help but laugh a little.


Ohhhh nooo Nikolas,you are going down."I hate to disappoint you but i wont do your homework",the Slytherin chuckled,"you are a year over me and besides that you need to get your stuff done on your own,little one."
It was amazing that he was in Slytherin too.They would have a lot of fun in the commonr oom.Hehe.