The beginning of a journey.

[Sophia Davis]

Sophia was beginning to get more and more impatient and anxious as the clock seemed to tick on. Of course, she couldn't hear a clock ticking because there wasn't exactly one around her, but it was all good. Sophia looked around, her attention grabbing on each different person as she did so. She paid attention a little bit to what they did, their conversations. It seemed every person was really enjoying themselves. Finally, she caught sight of what might be shaggy brown hair and of course, those beautiful eyes, just when she'd least expected them. Well, you can't really least expect something when you've been expecting it for like the last twenty minutes, so I'm not really making any sense.

Anyway, Sophia's eyes immediately lit up at the sight of him, as usual. I know, cheesy right? Well, she was older now and she was allowed to be a 'big cheese' and not be made fun of for it. Or so I hope. Dang, I'm sick of Sophie getting made fun of.

Sophia looked at Zac when he let go of her and gave him that thousand watt smile. "Hey, Zaccy." She had taken to calling him that every so often lately. It kind of gave her a sense of the fact that he's hers now. She likes itttt. "You look .. amazing." She couldn't exactly put her finger on a better word besides amazing, so she just decided that would work best. He wasn't like in a suit as she'd actually expected, but it was so much better. And he smelled rather spiffy too. "Mm, you smell good. And no, you're not early. You're right on time." Sophia made sure to give him a short peck on his cheek before looking up into his eyes again.

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[Autumn Rathjen]

Autumn's smile broadened even more as Kit greeted her with a fist bump and Gryffindor praise. Anybody who loved Gryffindor as much as she did was pretty darn fantastic in her book! The girl bumped her fist against Kit's with a bit of a giggle, and then replied. "I know, right?" She started happily. "I'm Autumn." Her name wasn't really that important to her. Sure it was nice at times, but other times it was just plain annoying to have a seasonal name. Cheesy jokes, annoying comments, cheesy jokes, weird nicknames, and did I mention cheesy jokes?

The Gryffindor grinned as she saw Cory start jumping around everywhere and grinding with anybody he saw. Well, it seemed as though he skipped over Nicole for some reason – Autumn was closest to her, which was why she didn't notice Sophia being skipped over as well – and nearly knocked Autumn over, but it was all fine with her. In fact, she was probably too busy laughing along to notice! Just as the girl was about to start a chant encouraging Cory to continue, she halted once she noticed Kit start yelling at him. Oh well, dance time would come eventually!

Autumn turned her back once to find Zac Wood on the other side of the room. She had felt weird around him ever since she heard that he had a girlfriend (Sophia Davis, nonetheless). Before giving it a second thought, the girl lunged behind Nicole to shield herself from the sight of Mr. Wood. Ahh, it was too awkward for her to handle!

[Taryn Connor]

[Ok wow. I'm going to try to reply to this the best that I can... haha]

So since this was going to be a long post, Taryn addressed both Nicole's and Sophia's questions together.

"Yeah it's going alright so far. This first lesson has been a little crazy as both of you know. But I have a feeling it will mellow out throughout the term. I love it so far though."

She said, thinking about all of the shenanigans that have gone on so far in her introduction lesson. She smiled to herself. It was turning into a very fun lesson. She then noticed Chiaki and Kit walk in and she gave them both a wave and a smile. Wow, from being a professor she already knew a lot more people in the castle. She was then happy to see Lara walk in as well. She felt a little weird being the only professor there before. She hoped that Lara had been doing alright with her class. She passed by Lara and waved to her with a "Hey" attached to the end.

Then, as she had moseyed on over to get a drink, she saw Autumn Rathjen walk in. She didn't really know Autumn, seeing as she wasn't in her class and they had only been acquaintances but nonetheless she gave her a wave as well, trying to be friendly. Seeing as this was a seventh year party, she wondered where Cory was. Just as the thought crossed her mind, she saw him come in, wearing flippers of all things. She wasn't very surprised as she knew Cory and all of his interesting ways. He then began bumping against everyone. Maybe it was his own version of dancing but she honestly didn't know. When he 'backed it up' into her, she pretty much just stood there with a smile on her face, waiting for his gyrating to stop. She didn't partake in it just yet. That was for later on when she got her dancin' shoes on

She then heard Sophia talking about the Novus kids and she gave her a smile. She knew that they could be a handful. She was really proud of her though because she didn't freak out.

"Yeah I understand the annoyance. I think they could possibly get on your nerves but they're just trying to have fun, you have to understand that. But I noticed that you signed up to be a prefect or head girl. I think you would make a really great one. You could wrangle those kids. You too Nicole."

She said to both of her Huffie friends who had applied for the prefect or head girl position. She hoped that they both got it. She then saw Zac come up to Sophia and hug her. She knew that they both were dating so she didn't want to interrupt anything or make things awkward so she just backed away slowly. She approached the table with the food, and took a chip and popped into her mouth. She scanned the room and her eyes landed on Cory, giving him a smile and a wink. Hey, she deserved to have fun didn't she?

[Sorry it took foreverrrr.]

[Lara Desser]

Still standing next to Chiaki, Lara said 'hey' to a few people, including Taryn. Then, she found herself talking to Sophia, the person who had organised this lovely party. Lara rather liked her; she was quite friendly. 'Hey Sophia,' she said happily, 'I am enjoying teaching, thankyou. It's nice having you in my class - how are you finding your seventh year so far?' she smiled. It was nice having her in her class - Lara just hoped she liked being in it just as much. The first lesson was never really the best indication, but oh well. Lara then noticed Cory showing off on the dance floor. Typical. 'Having fun there, Cory?' she asked him, laughing slightly. It looked like he had nearly knocked over a few of the other girls.

[Sophia Davis]

"Aw, thanks Taryn!" Sophia let her hand rest in Zac's after she had pulled him back over to where the girls she were talking with were standing. She felt rude for sort of ignoring them for a moment, but it was probably understood by those she was talking to. They had all had a boyfriend at one point, right? She was back to focus on what she had been focusing on before, the girls around her. "I really hope I get it. I think it will be great experience for next year. I haven't decide which yet, but I want to either bring back Astronomy or open a Creative Writing class. The bad thing is that Tallie sort of teaches Creative Writing in Artistic Expressions. But I really love History of Magic too. I guess through classes this year I can just decide. And I don't want to take the position of a returning professor either." Sophia shrugged and finally took a chance to breathe.

Sophia's attention was diverted to Lara, who was speaking to her next. A small ran over her thin lips quickly. "Ah, seventh year is bliss. As you can tell, we all seem to be loving it just a bit!" Sophia laughed, looking around at the other seventh years. If no one else was having a good time, they certainly were. "And thanks, I really enjoy potions. It's always been one of those favorites of mine!" Sophia complimented her on her choice of class.

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[Sirius James Elvendork Novus]

FWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH PARTY!!! Sirius was skipping up, up, UPPPP to the roof, where he had heard a rumor of some sort. A little birdie (AKA: Mark) had told him that someone was holding a shindig up here and being the curious little Hufflepuff he was, he obviously had to see what was going doooown. Maybe they had some Mary Hwana up there? Daddy did say that it was a very happy plant, and parties did tend to be happy. Unless, of course, they were filled with icky old people who didn't know how to have fun and were the very epitome of boring aside from like two Gryffindors ...

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!" Sirius made awesome sound effects, man. He held Mark as high into the air as he could and WOOOOSHED up the final set of stairs. His hat (please see the very top of this post, thank you, thank you!) was sort of slipping off the top of his head, but that was quite all right, because that's what HANDS were for, folks! His Daddy said never to let his hand get chopped off because they were very important assets in everyday life, and, well, he must've been talking about adjusting a party hat! Daddy wasn't only a mind-reader, but an awesome fortune-teller. Sirius had found the hats in some old box in the house marked "LAME STUFF". He didn't think it was lame, though, so he donned it and even put one on Mark! It was kinda big on Mark, but he still looked like a mighty handsome Hippogriff.

"HI GUYS!!!" he shrieked as everyone finally came into sight. Wow, everyone here was so ... so ... tall. There was LM, who was sort of twitching all over the ground and stuff. Without any further ado, he scrambled on over to him and jumped on his back ... to, you know, get a piggie back ride. Hopefully he wasn't have some sort of spaz attack or something, because if that was the case, man, this would be rather odd. "HIGH HOOOO, SILVER!!!" Darn, now Mark was really high up in the air! He gave a tiny, far-off sounding "SQUAWK!" that clearly emitted from Mark. Acting like an awesome adventurer, he shielded his eyes from the sun and looked all over the place for someone else that he may or may not know.

"HEEEEY, LM, THERE'S SOAPIE AND HIS ... ERM ..." Sirius trailed off, unsure of what to say. They were kissing and holding hands and they were both guys. It was way different when his Daddy and Cammy did it because, well, it was his Daddy and anything his Daddy did was all right. But that didn't mean that other people could do it. "Okay, I lied. Let's not go over there. That's gross. Are they gonna do the Quidditch thing, LM? Because that's grooooss. They're both boys and stuff which I'm not saying is bad but I mean Soapie just realized he was a boy like, a couple of days ago, so why does he already have a boyfriend? That's weird. I mean, I've known Lily and Remmy for years, but they're not my boyfriend or girlfriend or anything! You don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend, do you, LM? Because that's grooooss. Hasn't anyone ever heard of cooties? Well, Mark and I have, and it's a worldwide epidemic, people just won't listen to us. We'll see what they say when they all DIIIIIIIIIIE!!!"

... Word.

[Cory Benson]

"YES THEY ARE FLIPPERS...." and thats all he said to Kit on that matter... for now... Then he went on his little bumping and grinding spree... besides Nicole and Sophia, of course. And No one really seemed to appreciate his fine moves besides Autumn. YAY YOU ARE AWESOME. HMMPH... he didn't think party poopers went to parties... But then again they MUST go right... cuz if there is no party to poop on then... well they're not party poopers then right... RIGHT... And then Kit shouted to him about his flippers again. "THERE MY DANCING SHOES..." He said back with the utmost enthusiasm. Whilst still showing off his mad skillz.

He said "hi" back to Sophia, remembering to wish her well with her AIDS. And then proceeded to watch as Zac came in... Cory wasn't sure if Zac acknowledged him throughout that huge post buut Cory didn't care much. He decided to just awkwardly grind him until he was too close to Sophia... need to have a 5 foot radius when it comes to AIDS.... he watched as she kissed him on the cheek. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...." he shouted slowly and dramatically....but the damage was done... Now Zac had AIDS. "It was good knowing yah buddy..." He added before backing another 5 feet away from them.. which put him just about ready to WHAM into Lara.

Luckily he stopped before it reached that point. "Yes I am having fun, thank you for asking..." he said all politely. And then proceeded to get "jiggy with it". When all of a sudden someone jumped on his back. "NOT NOW GIRLS SAVE THIS FOR LATER...." he said assuming it had to be a girl wanting "some of dat".... when really it was Sirius. He knew this by the squawk. ".... FIRE ANT?....." as if they were still in CoMC... man he needed to learn some animal noises... he needed that muggle thing... where you pull the lever and it spins and goes THE COW SAYS... MOOOOOOOOO... Yup he needed one of those...

"HEY SIRIUS, How's Mark doing?" Mark of course being his stuffed animal version of a hippogriff. "Yeahhh... thats Soapie... But I don't want you to go to close to her... because you may end up with even more AIDS then that of which you have already obtained from Remus/ your parents...." He said making sure he kept his distance of the AIDS ridden area. "And hmm i dont know if they will or not, lets ask them..." He said turning to at least face Sophia even though he was like a bazillion feet away. "HEY... ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO HAVE S-E-X TONIGHT, SIRIUS WANTED TO KNOW?" he shouted quite loudly over the music and the fact that he was across the room. Also he spelled it out as if Sirius was a dog and didn't understand words when you spelled them.


"No I don't have a girlfriend.... or boyfriend for that matter..." he tried to squeak that in but Sirius basically just kept talking. Cory laughed at the part about cooties. "Soo true... you got to watch out... Dont be a fool.. wrap your tool..... whatever that means..." He said shrugging it off... Then spun around really fast with Sirius on his back... really just for poops and giggles... well more the giggles... than the poop.....yeahhhh

[Chiaki Shimizu]

Chiaki was glad Lara had come. "Heyyyy." She greeted her happily. Chiaki felt oddly uncomfortable. Her kimono was restraining her activity. Anyway more and more people had appeared. Maybe this would turn out to be a great party after all, even though she knew like practically no one here, except Lara.

Cory did not have a girl friend? Hmm that sounded a little unbelievable. Well maybe he did not have a girl friend, but a crush, he definitely have one. Chiaki recalled that day during potions lesson, how Cory's actions and words were towards Lara. She giggled slightly at that thought.

Chiaki elbowed Lara. "What's with Cory and you?" Asking Cory didn't sound right. I mean they would always defend themselves right? And that ickle firstie.. well he could just be the next Cory!

[Sophia Davis]

Sophia jumped at the sound of wooshing noises just before she saw a little Novus attacking Cory from behind. Sophie rolled her eyes in the direction of the other girls before her, and then looked up to Zac. Didn't that kid get enough enjoyment out of annoying her in classes? Come on now? Way to ruin a good party, kid. Sophia was simply attempting to ignore him until she was randomly screamed at.

"No, we are not. Thanks." Sophia said shortly and sternly before shooting Cory a look. "Why don't you talk about something a little more appropriate with the eleven year old Cory? Be a little more mature?" Sophia actually sort of threw it in his face that he was being immature. She was actually kind of good at that. It was shortly after that Sophia realized that she was one of the very few girls here.. just Nicole and herself, who Cory hadn't danced with. "Are you guys still going on about that AIDS thing? I don't have AIDS, so get over yourselves." Sophia wasn't afraid to talk about not having AIDS in front of Zac. Hey, the word AIDS in front of your boyfriend could be embarrassing enough, but as Zac probably knew himself, she didn't have AIDS.

Sophia sighed softly just before a small yawn escaped her lips and she turned back to the girls who she had been talking to just moments before. She was glad to be graduating soon. These Novus' were going to be a problem.

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[Zac Taylor]

when zac walked in everyone went away from sohia because well he kinda took her. well to himself anyways. "well thats good ?"

[/color] he said, he was actually so happy that he was on time because he is normally the one thats late, like no joke, he was late to the yule ball almost every year, well the years he'd been here. lets go off subject. because john wrote a longish post for his first reply, well i think he should try and beat it this time by talking to other people. and not just sophia. because he has to have conversations with other people, of course he is dating soph, but he was aloud to go around with other people, friend wise.

now, lets get back onto subject before john starts to go all weird and talky-y ... when sophia kissed his cheek he smiled and looked about keeping his head up. he scanned round all the faces. he looked down to sophia and watched as she took his hand. he went to look about and go talk to someone else but sophia pulled him over to where the other girls were, when he got there he let out a small soft sigh. but he hoped no one heard him. that was the last thing he wanted. but now zac was feeling a little rude because he just walked in and went straight to sophia and didn't say hi or hey or something to anyone else. how rude of him, ahhh well shite happens, you only live your life once. haha.

zac looked round the faces. once he was done which would of been a few seconds later, lmao. he smiled to a few people. "heeeeey."[/color] well now he wasn't feeling rude but he did notice autumn hidding behind nicole aww well. it was really awkward, but surely she should of gotten over it. what they had was just some little crush, if something was suppose to of happened between them, well it would of but nothing, so well zac moved on. well faster than he thought. he thought he would still be like crushing on her, but i am going to be honest he still likes autumn but he has sophia now and he like loves her and he likes being with her, he honestly couldn't of asked for more. she was everything he wanted right now.

his attention changed when cory benson shouted no. zac turned to face him. he didn't really know what was going on. so zac just stood there still holding hands with sophia. zac looked down and then looked from sophia and then back to cory. okay so il tell the truth here. zac was really confused but he wasn't going to let it show. he looked round the room again. zac looked to sophia. but while he was looking at her he heard cory shouting 'HEY... ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO HAVE S-E-X TONIGHT, SIRIUS WANTED TO KNOW?' zac could help but laugh, because a little first year was asking about something like that. soon zac stopped laughing and shock his head, as in to say 'NO!' ...

to be honest zac found it weirdly funny them annoying sophia, it was in such a childish way that they were doing it. but zac was sure it will start to get annoying and for that he feels sorry for her because she'll have to but up with them. right now zac didn't know what to say because he was in a group of girls, and it felt a little weird not in a good way but he wanted to go over to croy and the little dude. he turned his attention back to the girls. zac was just happy because he wasn't confused anymore, because he found out they were talking about sophia having AIDS. he knew she didn't have AIDS because if she did she would of told him when they first met and then after that zac would never go anywhere near here.

zac looked around again keeping his mouth shut. he wasn't speaking for a weird reason, but it was maybe because he wasn't around more guys, he wants to just go over there, but he doesn't know if sophia wants to spend the night with him. that sounds so wrong, hahaha. anyways. OKAY SO ZAC WAS WANTING SOMEONE TO TAKE HIS ATTENTION, any taker's because no one was talking, well if someone was he wasn't hearing anything, well .... okay there's nothing for that but, hey, who care's, i honestly don't. zac dropped sophia's hand and smiled, "i am just going over here to make conversation with the little Novus dude and cory."[/color]

he said to her. he walked off and made his way past people and made it to cory and novus. he let a smile cross his face, "heeeey."[/color] he said looking at them. he turned to look at novus, "i hear you like to annoy sophia."[/color] he said laughing slightly and then stopped. zac doesn't really know both of them but now he gets to meet them. zac looked to both of them he found it funny them taking the piss. honestly he shouldn't but her does. maybe he shouldn't of came over here because he doens't really know what to say, he looked back over to sophia and then looked back to the both of them and smiled again.




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[Autumn Rathjen]

Just because Autumn was in complete hideout mode didn't mean that she wouldn't wave to Taryn. They didn't know very much about each other (well, Autumn didn't know Taryn that well, I suppose I shouldn't be talking for both parties), but she still got the feeling that Taryn was one of those awesome professors with fun lessons. Plus she was a Hufflepuff! Most of Autumn's friends were Huffies, so that worked out rather nicely didn't it?

Autumn hoped dearly that Nicole didn't mind being her shield. The Gryffindor was definitely embarrassed, and WAIT JUST A MINUTE. Yes, she was a GRYFFINDOR. The brave, the fearless! Why should she let Zac Wood ruin the night for her? There were PLENTY of other awesome people there to chill out with, like everybody else in attendance that wasn't making out with somebody else! Like Cory! Autumn glanced over at the boy with a smile, noticing a small redhead on his back. Well, I'll be damned! That kid looked a LOT like Troy! Did he have a little brother or something? But it wasn't just noticing the boy with his little party hat that made him smile. Oh, no. It was the fact that Cory yelled Sirius (who she assumed was the kid he was giving a piggyback ride to) wanted to know if Sophia and Zac were going to, uhm, engage in some adult situations later on that night. Her feelings may have been a bit immature at the moment, she knew that.

But Autumn totally loved that kid.

With a grin, Autumn approached Cory and Sirius happily. "Nice work!" She told them in a bit of a quiet tone. The girl went for a high-five with Cory and the little boy, and then realized that Zac was standing there as well. WHEN THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN? Hmm, he was probably standing there the entire time, which would go to show how much Autumn noticed. And since she didn't much want to talk to him right now out of plain awkwardness, she turned her back to face Cory and Sirius with a bit of an estranged smile saying 'SAVE ME!'. Maybe he should go back to making out with his girlfriend. >=|

(Haha obviously not my OOC opinion of Zac and Sophia, but there's gotta be atleast a little emotion, right?)

[Zac Taylor]

zac looked round the room, he looked back over to novus and cory. he looked round and saw autumn standing there, okay so that was bad. zac looked away from them. he wasn't going to stand round her.he made his way back over to sophia and smiled. "back again." she said looking at her smiling a little more taking her hand again. he stood there looked about, as he was looking round he saw autumn, he wished it never came to this because she was suppose to be his best friend, well one of them. but because zac was now with sophia everything has changed. why, why couldn't it just stay the same, because zac and autumn used to have awesome times, and now, well its just awkward, well to her anyways but to zac it was fine ebacuse there shouldn't really be a fuss about anything, everything has went soooo wrong. he looked back to sophia and the group of girls. he looked down and a sigh came through his lips. he looked back up and tried to put a happy face on. and now zac was going back to thinking about autumn, well like i said, if someting was suppose to happen between them two it would of already, he looked back down as he thought about it more, he knew he shouldn't be thinking about someting like this but he was, he really should be thinking about sophia, but right now he wasn't happy, he was actually kinda depressed and something else, he hasn't put his finger on it but. he looked back up and waited on someone saying something to him, because he was rather bored.

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crap, i know.

[Sophia Davis]

Even though Sophia is usually the completely oblivious one to things, she's actually a rather intelligent young woman, and she caught on quickly to the fact that something was going on. A small frown formed on her typically happy face as Zac left her. She understood that he wanted to hang out with the guys, or with other friends, if he was friends with either of them at all, and it was cool with her.

Sophia had noticed beforehand, though, that Autumn, at the presence of Zac, had used Nicole as some sort of a shield. Maybe a hiding place?! Then add that to the fact that as soon as Autumn walked over to the guys, Zac came back over to her again. Alright, it was just about time to get to the bottom of this. Sophia wasn't a jealous girlfriend at all, and actually just wanted to know why it looked like things were so awkward between them. A small sigh escaped her lips as she chose to leave the girls momentarily, dragging Zac along by the hand. She leaned back against the railing on the roof before looking over at him.

"Zac, what in the heck is going on with you and Autumn? Why do things look so awkward between the two of you?" Really, if it was because of Sophia she wanted to fix it. If it was because Zac wasn't into Sophia and more into Autumn, that was cool too and she'd let it go. It was fun being with Zac, but they were really more of a showy couple than a kiss-kiss, hug-hug, touchy-feely couple. And maybe that was a good thing. But Sophia didn't know what she wanted anymore, and she was sure he felt the same. IT'S HER SEVENTH YEAR. It's time to partayy. (;

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[Nicole Miner]

[[EEK! Sorry.]]

"Hi Lara," she said nicely when Professor Desser arrived. Then, AUTUMN CAME! And I don't mean the season, though, that was coming too. "Autumn, hi! No problem...you'll make it funner." She knew it was technically and grammatically more fun, but funner was funner to say! xD

"Thanks Kit! But I didn't mean right now you were ignoring me...we can debate about that later though you have a semi-valid arguement...I meant for the past year! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU!" she said in a playful but loud tone.

Cory started grinding on people, but not Nicole. She personally found it disgusting, (especially when it's a crazy guy wearing flippers) so she was thankful, but she wondered why she was left out. She thought she'd make a scene to find out, though. "WHAT THE HELL, CORY?" she asked, outraged.

Zac arrived, Autumn saw him, and dashed behind Nicole. "Ex-boyfriend?" she guessed, though she was pretty sure she was wrong. She wasn't really up on the gossip but she hadn't heard about Zac & Autumn...and surely her BFFL would have told her if she were dating someone. That is, unless it was a summer relationship and she didn't want to talk about it.

[Zac Taylor]

zac looked to sophia as she dragged him outside. he knew it wasn't going right, so it would havwe to end here and now. and there will be no going back, because zac knows he wants autumn, but sophia was just there. when she asked what was up he looked away from her and let go over her hand and turnewd away from her. when he came up with the words he looked at her. "ummm, i am just going to come out and say this." he said taking in a deep breath, "i think it was a really bad idea, like for us to see each other again, i think it would be a whole lot better if we were just friends, that way it would be less awkward between me and autumn, and the thing thats up was, i still really like her, and i actually hope she still likes me, sooo"m he pasued to breath, "can we just be friends?"....