Saiyuri suppressed her giggles and smiled, "He should treat me like a sister, we're practically related due to our siblings. Plus we grew up at Hogwarts together, he looked out for me once my brothers were gone. As far as liking you is concerned, we'll see about that comes Yule Ball," she added with a wink.

"Oh!" Anna smiled lightly, scratching behind her earlobe shyly. "Which reminds me - where could I get a funky dress? I mean, it could be a bit stupid looking or what not, just as long as it has potential."

"Though, once again," Anna shakes her head a little, looking at the group out of the corner of her eye, "I think you're wrong about Liam." Smiling confidently at Saiyuri for a moment, she turned back to the group, figuring Drew had undergone enough teasings for now.

Pointedly, she grinned at Liam and Leanne. "You know what? You guys are just jealous, is all. Don't harrass poor Drew about it." Tisking, she taps her fingernail against her cheek for a moment, a cheeky grin on her face. "Not to mention that they owe it all to me."

Saiyuri smiled, "There's a few shops in London. I can ask my mother to take pictures and you can decide that way if you'd like."

"Look at this, they're already planning Yule Ball!" exclaimed Drew.

Kalli laughed, "Oh believe me, it will fill our thoughts until it's over."

"What about the Triwizard Tournament?" inquired Josh, "Aren't we all entering our names?"

"That's not as important though!" commented Saiyuri, "It's more wonderful to parade around in your finest gown and be the envy of everyone when they see who you've come with."

"And thanks to Anna, I'm going with the most beautiful girl in fifth year," added Drew.

Blushing, Saiyuri smiled at Drew before turning back to the group as Liam and laughed, "Jealous? O' him? O' course I am! He's datin' a pretty girl while I'm still single!"

"Yes, but what about all those 'friends' you have?" inquired Leane teasingly.

"They're not serious though."

"Oh really? They seem to think it is."

"Oh really? Where'd ya hear that, love?"

"Girls talk Liam, about everything."

"Now there's a true thing," Anna laughed, leaning forward slightly to be more animated in the conversation. "You'd best be scared, lads," the brunette jokes, giggling as she looks at Liam especially. "For gossip is a powerful ally."

The girls laughed while the guys looked at each other and rolled their eyes.

"That is so true! Gossip is what makes the world go round," looking at the girls Kalli added with a laugh, "our world anyway!"

Saiyuri smiled, "Liam, really, you should have known it would have gotten around school!"

"What?" Liam asked innocently.

"That you dated-" Leane began before Liam covered her mouth.

Josh and Drew laughed, "Liam? Date? Who'd he date?"

"Better question, who'd date him?" added Josh.

"Oh, just a muggle girl over in Bath," replied Saiyuri.

"Of course, only a muggle girl who didn't know him too well would consent to date him," added Kalli with a smirk.

Liam took his hand away from Leane's mouth and wiped it on his pants due to Leane having licked his hand, "Lee, did ya have to lick my hand?"

"Well, I'm wishing I didn't," replied Leane before taking a drink from her goblet, "It tasted like ginger and cinnamon."

"Ginger and cinnamon?" asked Drew, not quite understanding how that was possible seeing as how they had yet to have any classes dealing with spices.

"What? I was down in the kitchens," Liam replied with a laugh, "I wanted some ginger snaps, what's wrong with that?"

Saiyuri laughed, "You're still obsessed with those?"

"O' course! Yer mum's are still my favorite though, they're better than me own mum's!"

"Your mother can't cook, that doesn't count as a comparative!"

"Well neither does me dad, so who's cooking am I supposed to compare it to?"

"I dunno, learn to cook and bake them yourself and quit mooching off of us!" Saiyuri replied as she stuck her tongue out teasingly.

"Eh, too lazy, I'd much rather just run next door and get 'em," Liam retorted as he returned the gesture. Turning to Anna he inquired, "Do you like Ginger Snaps Anna?"

The fact that Liam had dated a muggle had caused her eyes to go wide for a moment. Without much thought, she felt admiration for him.

Her eyes had sort of glazed over as they were busy arguing, automatically looking over at the other tables. Some of the girls were enviously looking at their group - Liam, Josh and Drew all being very attractive - while a blonde Slytherin was looking with moe than idle interest at Leane.

As Liam included her in the conversation, she tilted her head at him, looking slightly out of it. "Huh...? I don't think I've ever had Ginger snaps."

Liam's eyes grew wided and his mouth a bit agape, "Yer joking... Never?! You've gotta try 'em!"

Saiyuri laughed, "Be prepared to be dragged down to the kitchens some time today Anna, he'll get you to try them at some point."

Leane, noticing Anna's former gazing around, looked at her curiously, "What's up Anna?" Looking around she noticed everyone staring at them and she bent forward, "Why's everyone staring at us?"

The group began looking around them and Josh gave a little wave to a group of girls at another table. Kalli rolled her eyes and propped her head up with her hand, her elbow to the left of her plate, "You shouldn't encourage them. They know you're taken.."

"You have to remember Kal, Josh's ego thrives on being admired by other women, even if he's got a good one already," said Drew with a laugh.

"So not true!" exclaimed Josh while the rest of the group gave him a 'Yeah right.' kind of look and he added, "Okay.. well.. maybe a little.."

"A little?! That's an understatement!" commented Leane with a smirk as she stuck out her tongue.

Josh returned the gesture as he threw a roll at her, which she evaded by leaning back on the bench, causing the roll to hit Liam in the side of the head, leaving a few traces of the roll in his hair.

The group laughed, with the exception of Liam and Josh, the former being furious and the latter appologizing, "My bad, didn't mean to hit ya Liam -- aiming at Leane.. heheh.."

"No problem," replied Liam as he flung a few strawberries at Josh, each hitting Josh with great accuracy.

"That was on purpose!" Josh replied as he retaliated by throwing grapes at Liam, one missing and hitting Leane.

Leane returned and threw some pieces of apple at Josh, which missed Josh and hit Kalli in the cheek.

Kalli in turn threw a roll at Leane, and noticing Drew and Saiyuri laughing quite hysterically, she threw a roll at each and told them that it wasn't funny and to quit laughing.

In the end, the group was throwing fruit and rolls at each other, creating a large mess at the table and causing each to be covered in fruit juice and pieces of bread. Proffessor McGonagall came over and demanded to know what was going on and who started throwing the food.

Idly picking a strawberry out of her hair - being clueless about the jam on her nose - Anna smiled brightly at Professor McGonagall. "That would have been me, professor." She glanced over at Josh and Leane and winked at them both; urging them to go along with her little white lie. "Just some house rivalry, I'm afraid - Gryffindors and Slytherins and all that."

Leane and Josh, a tad confused, laughed, "Yeah, right, house rivalry."

The Professor sighed, "Already beginning term with rivarly.. And I thought all we had to worry about was Peeves right now.. Alright, I won't take points away, I shall simply give you a warning this time. Now get this table cleaned up and go take baths." Walking away, she sighed and mumbled to herself about how this year was going horribly wrong from the begining and wished it would get better soon.

Liam, noticing the jam on Anna's nose, wiped it off with a clean napkin and laughed, "Well, we had better get workin'! This could take awhile to clean. Josh, let's go get the mops and brooms from the closet around the corner."

Josh nodded and both boys stood up and ran off to fetch the cleaning supplies while Kalli and Leane picked the food out of each others hair, Drew ran off to get something to throw all the waste in, and Saiyuri began to pick food out of her hair as well as Anna's while the rest of the Great Hall simply stared at them.

Laughing Saiyuri took a piece of a grape out of Anna's hair, "Well, looks like everyone's envious of how scrumptious we look!"

Smiling lightly at Saiyuri, she reaches forward to get some apple out of the older girls' hair. "Just imagine how must it must add to our regular attraction." She grins broadly as she takes out her wand, waving it lightly to dispose of most of the rubbish. "I think they're underestimating us, though."

The boys grumbled as they picked up the trash on the table and put it into the garbage bin. Leane and Kalli both grabbed brooms and cast a spell, causing the brooms to sweep up what was on the floor into a dust pan and empty the contents into the bin.

"Very true! I think McGonagall was so into her thoughts of rivalries and running off to lecture Snape, that she forgot to mention we weren't supposed to use magic," said Kalli with a laugh.

Saiyuri smiled as she cast a spell for the mops to clean up the rest of mess on the floor as Drew did the same with the soaked cloths on the table.

Liam and Josh finished clearing the table shortly before Drew began to wash it. Liam then pointed his wand at the bin and it disappeared, reappearing in the kitchens below for the House Elves to take care of.

Grinning lightly as she helped clean up, Anna smiles, "As if house rivalry would be an issue of mine." Idly she pushes back her hairband as it slips down her forehead, scrubbing hard now and then. "Unless I get to hear annoying nicknames like 'Gryffie' and 'Slythie'."

Saiyuri blushed as Leane laughed as she leaned on the now stationary mop, "Look Anna, we can promise not to refer to you as Gryffie, but as for everyone else, we can't guarantee to call them by their name all the time. We always refer to everyone as Gryffie, Slythie, Ravvie, or Huffie -- that or we call them by their last name."

Kalli smiled as she pointed her want at the brooms and mops, sending them to their rightful closet and causing Leane to fall into Liam. Standing up, adjusting herself, she apologized and glared at Kalli.

"Well, we finally got all this cleaned up, let's head for the baths 'kay?" said Saiyuri as she stood up and began walking out of the Great Hall, towards the Prefects Bathroom. Drew, Leane, and Josh followed her while Kalli and Liam stayed behind with Anna.

"Wish I knew what was so great about the Prefect's Bathroom.. It can't be any different than ours!" said Kalli with a disappointed whine.

Liam laughed, "Well, since we're not prefects, looks like we'll never find out!"

With a sneaky glance at Kalli and Liam, Anna winks. "Don't be so sure of that." Lightly, the brunette tugs at her school robe, making a light face at the stains and already pitying the houseelves. "Though I don't think we'll be able to enjoy it right now."

Walking backwards - her face turned to Kalli and Liam - she adds in a flirty tone of voice, "But enjoy it, we will~"

Kalli giggled as she looked at Anna, "What do you expect we do? Sneak in?"

Laughing Liam shook his head, "We can't, it's against rules."

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Leane stood at the edge of the tub, turned towards the boys, "Now, you boys stay on that half," she said as she pointed towards the left half of the tub, "And we'll stay on this half," pulling Saiyuri towards the right as she spoke.

Josh nodded, "Deal, what will we do for coverage though?"

Saiyuri smiled as she took out her wand, "Leave that to me."

Pointing at the towels, she cast a spell that caused them to hang in mid air down the middle of the tub.

Drew and Josh laughed as they walked around to the left half, "We should have known."

Both groups, in their acknowledged halfs, began to strip down, their clothes diappearing once they reached the floor and reappearing down in the House Elves washing area.

Mischievously grinning, Anna keeps walking backwards in front of them, tapping her cheek suggestively. "My dear Liam, rules are meant to be broken!" She smiles confidently as she whirls around, her hands locked together on the small of her back as she thinks it over.

"I mean, four of your friends are prefects, Kalli." She glances back at the blonde. "All we have to do is ask and sneak in during the night."

Liam and Kalli followed, not sure if it was a good idea or not.

Kalli bit her lower lip, "But... I couldn't ask them to! Why not just keep safe and not get anymore detention?"

"You already got detention? Fer what?" asked Liam and with a smirk.

"Three words -- Saiyuri, Forbidden, Section."

"Yer kiddin'! She actually went back there?! That idiot.. her parents will kill her."

"No kidding. Getting back to the Prefects Bathroom, we'll be risking detention! And even point reduction!"

"Meh, detention is no problem for me." Anna shrugged lightly, figuring doing horrid tasks for teachers might be a great way for her to be anti-social for a while without actually being anti-social. "I mean, it's better if I get detention, then any of you."

Not elaborating on this, she glances back, "Besides, I'm not suggesting doing it now. More like on a special occasion." With a sweet smile, she nudges Kalli in the side. "Like, after a date with Josh or something."

Kalli blushed, "Date? We don't go on dates. We rarely see each other in the summer, and here we can't."

"Besides, we're not allowed to leave Hogwarts with the exception o' the trips to Hogsmeade. And everyone goes then, not much time fer privacey ya know," added Liam.

Kalli nodded, "Yeah, plus we usually all hang together. Speaking of Hogsmeade, did your parents sign the permission slip Anna?"

With a mysterious smile, Anna rounded a corner, only saying, "You can always find privacy if you're looking for it - and you can even find a place to date inside this building." She glances back at them, and only half-seriously suggests, "Want to help me prove it to her, Liam?"

Liam inquired with a laugh, "What did ye have in mind Anna?"

Kalli sighed and massaged her forehead with her left hand, "Why do I have the feeling we'll be breaking more rules.."

Taking pity on Kalli, Anna decided to stop with the teasing. Reassuring the blonde with a small tug at her hand, she grins up at Liam, saying, "Ask me out sometime and I'll let you know."

"Let's go clean up for now." She tilts her head lightly at Kalli, inquiring, "Is something arranged for the study session later?"

Liam laughed and replied to Anna's first statement, "Alright, how 'bout this Saturday?"

Kalli nodded, "Yeah, we're all meeting at the 5th year section of the Hufflepuff Table. They won't give us any trouble about not being in the same house due to the respect they have for Saiyuri."

"Which she inherited from her elder brother, who was in Huffie," added Liam.

"Yes, that's also why the Slythies allowe her over there even though she's a Ravvie, her other brother was in Slytherin. 'Tis a shame her sister can't be here.."

"Yeah, how is that girl doin' anyway?"

"Good I hear, she's in either Paris or London right now, don't remember which," said Kalli with a laugh.

Taking Anna's hand, Kalli led her a little ways down the hall while Liam waited where he was for an answer due to having to turn down a different hallway to get to the boy's bathroom.

"I hope Myrtle doesn't decide to drop in..." mumbled Kalli as she opened the door to the girl's bathroom and walked in.

Meekly, Anna allows Kalli to drag her along - honest to god not thinking Liam would react to her little teasing. She blinks a little once they go inside the bathroom, though, curiously raising an eyebrow at Kalli. "Hm?"

Liam laughed at Anna's look and walked off in the opposite direction to the Boy's Bathroom.

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Kalli laughed, "Myrtle, Anna, Moaning Myrtle! She's a girl who died in the school over 50 years ago. Some say it was murder, others say it was an accident. No one really knows though, with the exception of Dumbledore, he was the headmaster after all. But anywho, she usually sticks to the abandoned bathroom, but sometimes she'll trickle out and cause a ruckous like Peeves does for fun."

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Leane laughed while Saiyuri scooped up bubbles and blew them all over the place, "You act like such a child!"

"I am one! Just because I'm a 5th year, doesn't mean I can't act childish!"

Leane splashed water over at Saiyuri as she laughed, "True, but jeeze girl, bubbles? How they possibly amuse you?"

Saiyuri laughed and blew some in Leane's face, "That's how!"

Leane cleaned her face off before splashing more water at Saiyuri, the girls laughing and having fun.

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Josh and Drew, having finished their baths quickly, got out and dressed into the pajamas the house elves had sent back to them. Hearing the laughter and splashing, Drew laughed, "Sounds like they're having fun."

"Yeah, I wonder what they're doing.."

"Don't even think about it.."

"What, I'm just going to take a peak!"

Drew rolled his eyes as Josh peeked over the towels and saw the girls splashing and blowing bubbles at each other and laughed as he turned back to Drew, "They're acting like toddlers, blowing bubbles and splashing each other. You would have thought they'd have grown up a bit!"