Leane's blush was still upon her cheeks as she turned towards Fynn in the bed and wrapped her arms around his waist. Burying her face in his neck, her leg wrapped around his, Leane whispered softly in his ear before nibbling and suckling upon his earlobe, "Fynn.. What in the world has gotten into you? I like it... I don't know what you did or why, but I like it."

-

"Mm, that depends. Who's owl did you use? Your own, or..?" asked Drew as Liam started in on a piece of pie.

Placing a closed-mouthed kiss in her neck, Fynn murmured, "I thought you might," with a self-satisfied grin. With his arms once again protectively wrapped around her, he cuddled up to his girlfriend, cocking his head back to look at her expression while grinning confidently. "It pays off to study."

- - - -

After eyeing Liam in a "WHERE DO YOU PUT ALL THAT FOOD" way, Anna shook her head lightly at Drews question. "I haven't send an owl yet. With the way her father seemed, I thought it might be a good idea to wait until she can receive an owl more secretly."

Leane blushed as she captured his lips in a long, slow kiss. "Mmm, for once? I'm willing to agree with you," Leane murmured against his lips between tender kisses. "Studying like this we should do more often," Leane whispered as she slid onto his waist and rested against him happily, "I rather like the subject."

-

Liam simply grinned as he took another bite of pie before holding out a fork-full for Anna.

"Hmm, I don't think that would be possible.. He has her guarded like a convict. The best time to reach her would be at night, but her own owl Anna would know what to do in that case. I could probably get her to fly to Saiyuri, if you'd like to send her the letter before detention. She won't get it for a couple of days, and that's if Anna can sneak in without Mr. Rumeti finding out," pondered Drew aloud.

"So this is what I should do to get you to be eager about learning?"

Fynn pushed the hair out of her face with his hand, his fingertips staying on her cheek and tracing the lines of her face with them. As they slid towards her chin, his fingers tightened around it, so that he could tilt her head up for another kiss. His lips smoothly brushed against Leane's, his mouth moist and slightly opened, and tenderly caressing hers.

Tilting his head away again, he gave a brief peck on her forehead before saying with a grin, "I suppose I should devise a way to have every subject be this interesting."

- - -

Taking the bite, her lips closing around the fork when she pulled off the piece of pie, Anna chewed happily on it as a deep, "Hmmmm~" bubbled up from the center of her chest.

Hiding her chewing mouth behind her hand, Anna objected with humour, "I'm going to have you all start calling me Stacey, if I'm going to be compared to an owl otherwise!" She swallowed with ease, before asking in a regular manner, "What about her sister? Would Mr. Rumeti keep a letter from Lu-...Lucia? - away from his other daughter?"

Leane giggled softly as she eagerly kissed her fiancee, her tongue tasting and exploring his mouth with every kiss. Resting her forehead against his, Leane smiled as she murmured softly between light kisses, "If you can make learning spells as fun and pleasurable as this, then I think I may go to class more. As it stands now, I get no pleasure out of learning the spells they teach. The only spells that give me pleasure are the ones I learn secretly in the Room of Requirements room the gang and I have created together."

-

"No, I don't believe he would keep Lucia away from Saiyuri - he knows their bond far too well. However, he would read it before he gave it to Saiyuri," said Drew with a sigh, "He'll read anything anyone sends to her if he catches it and is able to intercept."

"About that..." Fynn frowned lightly as he hugged her a bit closer to him, fearing what he might find out. Not to the extent that he'd be dissapointed or angry or anything like that, but more in a sense of Leane having something he didn't want to be involved with in her life - of having something they couldn't enjoy together. "What kind of spells are you guys teaching eachother...?"

- -

"I wonder if there's a spell to hide away a real letter underneath a phony one..." Anna mused out loud, grabbing a fork and stealing some more of Liams' pie.

"It's just advanced magic.. Magic not appropriate for students to be learning; especially not 16 year olds. I promise, it's harmless.. And it's mainly defense magic," Leane whispered softly as she slipped off of Fynn and slid to the edge of the bed. Slipping on her undergarments, Leane sighed as she pulled her knees to her chest, her back to Fynn, "You needn't worry so much about it... It's nothing that's wrong.. It's not like I'm trying out the Killing Curse or the torturing spells..."

-

"It's possible," Drew pondered as he sipped from his goblet.

Liam laughed as he gently tapped Anna's hand with his, "Eh eh eh, tha's me pie yer stealin' there girly. What makes ye so bold as t' be stealin' a man's pie right from under 'is nose?"

"Lee..." Fynn rose up too, worry in his eyes about the fact that, once again, she was pulling away from him - and wondering when she would stop doing that.

Trying to lighten the mood, he teased, "Even if you were trying those out, I'd still love you." Eyeing her back, though, he frowned a bit with worry and reached a hand out to softly squeeze her shoulder. "That's not why I asked, though."

- - -

Batting her lashes, Anna brought the fork up to her mouth and smiled innocently as she said, "I dare because I'm cute~?"

Leaning back into his torso, Leane sighed as she rested her head against his, her arm reaching up to wrap around his neck as her hand buried in his hair, "If you didn't ask to chide me once again, then why did you ask?"

-

"Yer cuteness doesn' take away from th' fact tha' yer stealin' me pie!" Liam laughed as he pulled his pie away and took another bite, "Ye'll 'ave t' come get it if ye want more!"

"I asked, love," he spoke gently, his arms curling around her torso as he kissed her earlobe, "because I want to enjoy the things you do, with you. Nothing else." With a hand in her neck, he tilted her head back lightly to capture her lips with his own, his tongue tasting her sweetness, before pulling away long enough so that she could see the sincerity on his face. "I promise."

- - -

Grinning, Anna stuck out her tongue at Liam, before turning back to Drew - feeling a bit bad about flirting in front of him.

"Um, but, maybe I'm just making it more difficult then it should be?"

Leane smiled as she placed a tender kiss upon Fynn's lips, ""I thought you hated what I did and wanted no part of it. Is that not what you've always said?"

Turning so that she faced him, sitting upon her knees, Leane wrapped her arms around Fynn's neck and brushed his bangs from his face, "Why the sudden want to do what we do?"

-

Setting his pie back down on the table with an "I won" grin, Liam took another bite of pie as he teased, "Of course ye are, it's in yer nature."

"Well, yes, you are. But with good reason, mind you. It will be tricky getting letters through to Saiyuri.. I think using her or Lucia's owl will be quickest and best. That way, they'll know to avoid her father and go straight to her. Other owls will just drop it in her vicinity, giving Mr. Rumeti a chance to get at it," Drew said with a sigh as he continued to speak his thoughts aloud. "What kind of letter is it?"

Frowning lightly, Fynn just looked at her face with a pensive expression for a moment, wondering the same thing. "It's not that I'm keen on it," he started after a minute or so, falling back into silence right after. The bridge of his nose wrinkled lightly as he thought, and his brown eyes were brooding as he evaluated his own motives.

"I think," he started carefully a while later, voicing his thoughts out loud, "it's because I want to get along with your friends?" What should have been a statement, came out more as a question, and though his eyes were less brooding, Fynns' face continued to have the same pensive expression it had before.

- - -

An indignant blush rose in Anna's cheeks, her chest puffing up with pride and her mouth opening to deny such a thing... before she inflated again, and sighed resignedly. "Yeah, okay, that is part of my nature."

"And it's just... you know... a letter." Though her previous angry blush hadn't fully dissipated, it was now easily turning into a blush of emberrasment, as Anna relucantly said, "A letter a girl usually writes to a friend. Silly secrets and stuff."

"So you're willing to risk everything you've built up just to fit in with my friends?" Leane teased as she placed light kisses upon his lips, "If you really wish to learn what we do, I'll talk to everyone about it and see what they think."

"I love you, Fynn, and it means a great deal to know you're willing to do this just to make me happy and things easier for us," Leane whispered against his lips, "But you needn't if you don't want to. There are plenty of other things we can all do together, without stepping upon who you are."

-

"If that's all it is, then what's the harm in Mr. Rumeti reading it?" Drew said with a laugh, "If it's really that important, however, we'll think of how we can get it past him tonight during detention. How does that sound?"

Replying to her kisses was easier then replying to what she was saying; so for a little while, Fynn simply focused on the kisses, rather then the words.

"I thought that was what the whole 'test' thing of tonight was about?" He wasn't exactly eager to break rules; it really was like stepping on a large part of what he was about, and he wasn't about to change himself just to please his girlfriends' brother. Still, he figured, if he had to do the whole test thing anyway, he might aswell learn something from it.

- - -

With a pout, Anna stated, "Just because it's not top secret, doesn't mean I want her DAD to read it. Ts, boys." She shook her head in mock-disbelief, a smile gracing her lips, and she genuinely smiled at Drew when she thanked him for his help.

"I should probably go put away my things before going to detention," she said immediatly after, rising from the bench... and quickly swiping away Liams' pie in the process. Loudly laughing, she rose her arms and declared, "I WIN!", which caused a number of heads to turn in her direction.

"That's different.. It's a one time thing," Leane said with a sigh as she rested her forehead against his, "And I don't even know what they have planned for your test. It's different from what we had to do I'm sure.. With you.. With you they're going to push the limits.. I know Josh, and he's going to try and get you expelled, if not killed," Leane finished in a whisper.

"Are you sure this is what you want to do?" Leane whispered as she looked into his eyes, "You don't have to do their test if you don't want to... I'm not going to force you, even if it will make Josh happy and the other accept you.. It's your decision, and I'll respect whatever you decide."

-

"Grab 'er!" Liam shouted with a laugh before darting down the tables.

Drew immediately latched onto Anna's waist with a grin, "You really shouldn't' have done that."

He noticed the worry on her face, and hated that he was partly the reason for it. Upon caressing her cheek, though, he gave a reassuring smile as he teased, "I'm going to trust that I can out-smart Josh. It'll be alright. I don't know what else I can do to quiet the bad blood between us. If I saw another option, I'd go for it, but..." Shaking his head lightly, their foreheads rubbing together, he gave a helpless smile.

"Lets just hope for the best."

- - -

"ACK-!" Anna laughed loudly as she tried to wiggle her way out of Drews hold, elbowing him in the gut while keeping the pie far out of his reach. "Lemme go, you brute! Don't help him - HELP ME!"

Leane nodded with a warm smile as she resumed kissing him, "Everything will be fine, I'm sure of it. I mean, how crazy could they possibly get?"

-

"Sorry Anna, he's my best mate. He comes first," Drew managed to say as he pulled her closer to him and pressed her arm to her side.

Liam laughed as he ran around to face Anna. Taking over Drew's position, holding her from the front instead of from behind as Drew had done, Liam leaned in and placed a long, hard, passionate kiss upon Anna's lips while his free hand slowly reached up for the pie while he had her distracted.

With a doubtful expression, Fynn replied to the kiss with a somewhat distracted kiss in return, before voicing his doubts, "...they could get pretty crazy."

- - -

Immediatly, the brunette got weak in the knees. While her one arm stayed up - clearly within reach of a tree-like-man such as Liam - she wiggled her other arm free from Drews' hold to wrap it around Liams neck. Holding on to him, she fully gave herself into the kiss, responding with heated passion as she held her eyes closed, not even giving a damn anymore about the stupid pie.

"But.. What could they possibly have you do? Make a polyjuice potion and force you to sneak into someone's office and steal something? Honestly, I don't think they're that crazy!" Leane said with a laugh as she leaned back into the pillows and pulled the blankets up to cover her torso.

-

Grabbing the pie, Liam grinned before placing a light kiss upon her nose, "I think I won, love." Putting the pie on the table, Liam chuckled as he caressed Anna's cheek and resumed kissing her, glad for the excuse to kiss her, even if it was a poor one.

"I wouldn't put anything past them," Fynn sighed lightly, his own legs leaving the covers of the bed for a while so that he could put on some garments to cover up his lower body. "We have been enemies for years, Lee," he reminded her with a crooked grin, finding the whole concept of it ridiculous, now - though the grin had a bitter tinge to it as he remembered all the time that was wasted.

"That's not going to go away easily."

- - -

"N-no fair," Anna stammered in a weak voice, her eyes large and vulnerable as she looked up at him, before resuming their kissing. It scared how easily he was worming his way into her heart and life, and as her fingers dug into his shoulders, it was less like she was holding unto him, and more like she was holding unto a life raft.

Leane sighed as she pulled him close to her and tenderly caressed his sided, "Mmm, I know dearest but.. I just don't see how they can't love you as I love you. Well, not exactly as I love you.. But you know what I mean."

-

Taking her hand in his and giving it a tender squeeze, Liam smiled as he lessened the intensity of their kisses to small tender ones. "I don' 'ave t' be fair. Ye stole me pie," Liam teased with a chuckle between kisses. "Besides, I rather like kissin' ye."

Clearly joking, with a ridiculously dramatic tone to his voice and an amused glimmer in his eyes, he said, "Oh, what should I do if it turns out JOSH is in love with me? Oh, the dilemma - which sibling to choose?" With a broad smile, Fynn stood up from the bed after giving Leane a kiss on the cheeks, before reaching for his shirt and putting it on.

- - -

Her eyes searched his insecurely, even while her fingers closed tenderly around his. "I rather like your kisses, too," she whispered shyly, standing up on tiptoe to press a passionate, deep kiss on his lips again.

When she fell back to stand on her heels, she blushed as she asked, "Though, in the middle of the Great Hall....?"

Pinching Fynn's bottom, Leane pulled him back to the bed and wrapped her arms around his waist. Leaving a trail of kisses up his back, Leane smiled as she rested her chin upon his shoulder, "You had best choose the one who loves you most. Although, if you did choose Josh, I could always console Kal and love her instead of you." Laughing softly, Leane gently nibbled upon Fynn's earlobe before kissing it tenderly.

-

"Wha' does it mat'er th' place as long as I get t' kiss th' girl I like," Liam said with a warm smile as he placed one last kiss upon her lips, "But I'll behave meself, I promise." With a wink, Liam picked up his pie and took a large bite.

"Because naturally we both swing that way," Fynn laughed, turning towards her to capture her lips, as his body still shook lightly with silent laughter. "Now let me go and get you something to eat, you flirt!"

- - -

A slowly-growing grin spread over her face as Anna remained standing right near him, her eyes on his mouth as it moved due to his chewing. "You made quite a scene, you know," she teased softly, pulling the fork out of his hand, cutting off a piece of pie with the side, and... feeding it to him. "We're still standing in the middle of the Great Hall. I think your fanclub is probably ready to dissect me, by now."

"You wish," Leane laughed as she placed a long, tender kiss upon his lips, "But yes, yes, go get me food. I'm absolutely ravishing!" Leane added with one last kiss before tapping his behind to get him out of the bed. "So what's for dinner love?" Leane asked as she laid on her stomach, her knees bent and her legs crossed as she propped up her torso with her arms.

-

Eating the pie happily, Liam grinned as he placed a tender kiss upon her lips, "Mmm, bu' they can' do a thing when yer with me. Besides, they're goin' t' 'ave t' get used t' me snoggin' ye all th' time. I like snoggin' ye 'n' it's no' stoppin' 'til ye stop me."

"I like ye, Anna, no mat'er wha' scenes it may cause," Liam said with a wink before taking the fork and holding out the last bite of pie to Anna.