Welcome!

[Seagan Sullivan]

When Mozzie grinned reassuringly to her, Seagan felt strangely comfortable for once. The Hufflepuff gave a bit of a confused look that just slipped. Why was she being so nice? Seagan had been SOO intimidated by Mozzie and all of her friends up until this point. But it turns out that she was a really nice girl. Wow, that was unexpected.

Seagan was liking the way this day was going. Just don’t be AWKWARD, she kept reminding herself in her head AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.

Hearing someone walking, Seagan looked off into the distance. MY SWEET MERLIN. It was Nolan, in the distance, walking their way. Don’t look dumb, don’t look dumb,. she tugged at her hair a little harder.

He came up behind Mozzie and she bit her lower lip awkwardly, not knowing what to say. She really wanted to say ‘HAIIIIIIIII NOLANNN’, but then he’d give her a ‘who the hell are you look’ and her world would end. So she just continued to bit her lower lip, yes, that would work.

A new girl appeared, and of course, poor little Seagan knew who she was as well. Arielle, she was really pretty; Seagan wished she looked like her from time to time. Scratch that, ALL THE TIME. Yet she’d never met her before, so she kept her mouth shut and pulled at her hair… twisting it and what not, nervously.

Arielle and Nolan were interacting and Seagan felt like she was on cloud nine. She was listening to them speak! Oh my gosh this was just too much fun. On a usual Saturday she’d be having a conversation with a cat by this time. Definitely not humans; not that she was talking, but watching them talk was social enough for her. Nolan sounded totally dreamy too, as he always had. Maybe he’d look at her again, that would be quite nice.

One cool Hufflepuff? Wait he really said that right? Like, he really actually just said that? Because if he did, then he was inferring (most likely) that SEAGAN, herself, was a cool Hufflepuff. Her poor cheeks burned red; she sighed a bit to let some of the steam out. As much as she wanted to respond to his words, she was FAR to choked up to speak.

After he spoke again though, she finally managed to make a noise in the form of a small laugh. “Yeah, I’ll be there for sure.” She said, folding her arms as she looked at him with big green eyes.

Escaped potential disaster. Thank goodness.

And then she was blushing again, SHE be on HIS arm? This day really wasn’t happened, Seagan couldn’t BELIEVE it. Ryder Jackson, wanted her to accompany him? No no no no no. This type of thing didn’t happen in her kind of book infested world… EVER.

“Ummm, uh. Y-Yeah! Well I mean I guess—“, BOOM, virtual slap in the face. He put his finger to his lips as he looked off into the distance. She felt that horrible dropping feeling in the pit of her stomach and she pulled some loose strands of hair back behind her ear again in an awkward fashion. She followed his gaze to Nolan, and her awkwardness deepened. So he wasn’t interested after all…

Seagan just stood there with her arms crossed, lips pressed together with a faint smile. She was way over her head.

The Hufflepuff caught a glimpse of her watch, and her eyes momentarily widened. Her common room was all the way down in the basement, it'd take a half hour just to go down there, get her dress, and come back to find Mozzie. And after MOZZIE O'NEIL invited her to get ready she was gonna take that offer. OKAY?

Pushing her glasses back to their comfortable spot, Seagan looked to Mozzie. "Umm. Ok, so I should go get my dress, you know, because... the ball starts soon. So can I just, like, knock on your common room door in 30 minutes." She stammered, as she began to back-peddle towards the stairs. "I mean, if that's ok." Her breathing was heavy again, she really hoped it was still ok. Being around these people really made her nervous.

"Ok, then. Uh--oh, nice meeting you Ryder!" She said, with a glowing smiled and turned on the spot, heading back down to the Hufflepuff common room. She was on top of the world at the moment. ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

[Morzella O'Niel]

Mozzie's head tipped to the side as she watched the Hufflepuff run off and her face remained blank for a moment. Silly girl.

"She obviously doesn't Common Room hop much, does she?" she finally asked, glancing up at the other Ravenclaws. Anybody else would know that Ravenclaw was the easiest Common Room to get in to and didn't even require a member of that house to accompany.

"I guess we might as well dress and finish our preprations down in the Common Room so we can let her in?" she mused out loud, more to herself than to those appalling friends of hers.

A moment later, she slipped out of her reverie and her seething returned. Eyes narrowing back down, she reached out, first locking her fingers around Nolan's wrist in a vice-like grip before yanking him forward with her as she stomped towards the now-unprotected Arielle and grabbed a hold of her, too.

"Come on," was her snarl. "We've less than hour to get ready. AND I WANT YOU ALL TO LOOK SMASHING OKAY?!"

Face turning to a smile, she nodded at Ryder, unable to wave good-bye as her hands were full of disobedient friends.

"We'll see you in the Common Room, Ryder. Or at the ball. Wherever. Ta-taaaaaaaa."

And then she gave her friends a painful yank as she began to stalk down the hall to the Common Room doorway.