((Aiden))

"But, my fair maiden," Aiden gasped dramatically, hand over his heart, "I don't want our eternal love to be a secret! I want the world to know that you are mine."

((Blaine, for like a second and a half; she gets lonely))

"Oi! Leonis, stop hitting on her! She is obviously out of your league." Blaire smirked, passing the Gryfindors, pushing her shoulder into his, hard. She hated men today.

((Aiden again))

"Oi! I resent that, Zabini!"

Nix dug around in her bag for a moment, searching for her schedule. It was quite fortunate that she, Mandy, and Aiden all happened to be in the same house and year, because it would seem that her schedule had disappeared. "Damn," she muttered under her breath. She was always losing things! She chewed on her lip in frusturation for a moment before resigning herself to the fact that she always had been, and probably always would be, completely disorganized.

"But... But..." Aiden jutted out his lower lip, pouting at her comically. "I wanted the house with the white pickett fence and the kids zooming around on toy brooms, and the pet dog! What about the dog, Mandy?! What did he do to deserve you abandoning us like this?! I know that cauldron is more handsome than me, but look at all the love I can give! I will never give up, no matter what Zabini says!"

Again, Nix's pale face went brilliantly pink. She hardly knew Woody! She certainly didn't know him well enough for all that! Besides, he didn't seem to be very much into the ladies.
"Oh well," she said with a relieved sigh, "At least I'm not liable to blow anything up in Herbology. Thank you Mother for teaching me about plants when I was a child!"

((Aiden))

"And I'm not shaggable? I'm offended, Mandy Milwood. I would have to say, I'd be a pretty good catch." Aiden said, fake preening himself, his arm looped with each of the girls'. Then he turned to Nix, his eyes opened fakely wide and batting his eyelashes, "You think I'd be a good shag, right?"

((Blaine))

Blaine say Sven start in on his Hufflepuff prey and sighed, hauling herself up behind him and grabbing him by the back of his hair, his precious, precious hair before tugging violently and leading him towards their next class, Herbology. "You're such a whore."

Mandy had a point, Nix realized. He was quite shaggable. She grinned and nodded to Aiden. "Of course you would," she purred. "You'd be a wonderful shag." This was one of the two classes that she actually looked forward to each day. Mainly, because they were the only two in which she didn't end up injured.

((Aiden))

Aiden puffed out his chest, quite like a peacock... or an ape, swelling (quite literally) with pride. He almost sang around the hallways as he bounced, "The two cutest girls in the school think I'm shaggable! Shaggable! Take that!"

Nix laughed out loud. Relationships were all well and good, but babies? Well, she wasn't so sure where they fit into her plans. "Mandy," she giggled, reaching for her wand, "shut your mouth before I have to shut it for you! I don't think I've ever even spoken two words to Woody Stevenson!"

Aiden turned around, their fronts pressing together now and placed his hand on her face, leaning down so his breath tickled her ear as he answered, "Mandy dearest, you're far too beautiful and unique to be shagged, you deserve to be made love to." He leaned down and kissed the hollow of her throat before blushing, pulling himself out of her arms and speeding the rest of the way to class. Why had he embarassed himself like that? She was only messing around with him.

Nix gasped as Aiden's lips touched Mandy's. As soon as Aiden was out of earshot she began her applause, clapping her hands and hooting like a wild animal. "That was marvelous! Do you have Veela blood in you or something? He went completely stupid as soon as you touched him!"
She had to admit that she was impressed. Nix had always been told that she was a flirt, but Mandy had just demonstrated a new level without looking like a tart.

Aiden blushed furiously, mentally beating himself up. Mandy would enver talk to him again. He was the first one into their herbology class, and was nervously fidgeting with the cap of his water bottle, before finally sighing and opening it, pulling a stream of water out and messing around with it. Before he knew it, the water had created itself into a perfect figurine of how they had been standing earlier, his mouth grazing the edge of Mandy's ear as he spoke softly to her. Embarassed, he went to toss the water down before taking a better look at it. The little water figure, it looked so... So right. With a sigh, made the sculpture glass, making sure it was as durable as a rock before placing it in his bag, an inscription written across the 'floor' under the two statue's feet. For her, it was a joke, but for me it felt like my own slice of paradise. Aiden sighed, she could never like him.

Nix shrugged, she couldn't be completely sure. She had grown up with sisters, after all. But back home, all of her friends were male, and at Hogwarts they were predominantly male as well. "Don't hold me to this," she said softly, keeping her tone low so others would not overhear, "but I would say that he does. The way he looks at you says it all." She grinned encourageingly.

Aiden grinned at the boy, glad for the praise even if he was down. "Hey, I'll make a deal with you, Woody. Partner up with Nix for the week in Herbology, and I'll tell you how to do it, or even make you something."

"Alright, I'll make you one, since my control over water... It's not really a spell. It's how I am. My gift. But, you have to go up to her as soon as she enters the room and ask her, got it? Now, what do you want me to make for you?"

Aiden was cut off in the middle of himself speaking as Mandy kissed him, spinning on his heel to watch her pretty much run to her seat, burying her face immediately into her textbook. Merlin, she was beautiful. He quickly got up to follow after her, completely forgetting about his conversation with the boy, walking over to the girl and putting his finger under her chin, forcing her to look at him. When her eyes met him, he captured her lips in a tender and slow kiss, revelling in the butterflies going mad in his stomach and the pounding of his own heart.

((OOC; I know this is awful timing, but I have to go to sleep. Church tomorrow.))

Nix giggled and followed her friend, glad that she had plucked up enough courage for such a cute kiss. She offered Woody a wave and smile before sitting down toward the front of the class next to a small red-headed Hufflepuff girl. She opened her book and leafed through the pages to the current chapter. From her bag she withdrew her tools and set them out on the table. This was the only area in which she was organized and focused- obsessively so.

Nix turned to Woody with a smile. "Partners?" she asked. Well, that was awfully sudden. "Sure, why not?" She picked up her things and moved them to the empty seat beside her new partner. As she sat down she tucked a stray lock of her dark hair behind her ear and in a slightly obsessive compulsive manner adjusted the position of her spade and shears. "So, they're cute, yeah?" she asked, referring to Aiden and Mandy.

She shrugged and pulled a worried face. "I honestly haven't the foggiest. I'm just praying that it has nothing to do with live Mandrakes. Those little things are horrid!" She reached into her bag and pulled out a tube of soft coral-colored lipgloss and slicked some onto her lips. "So, are you going on the trip to Hogsmeade tomorrow? I'm so anxious to get out of the castle for a bit!"

Nix grinned. Generally, Beaters were bulky and built like pitbulls. She liked the exceptions such as Woody: lean and thin. "Don't get too muscular," she teased. "Girls don't like trying to hug muscleheads. As for me, I'm just aching for a butterbeer and I tore my favorite dress, so I figured I'd get a new one. You know what? We should go for a butterbeer together so we can like, get to know each other better. What do you think?"
She was not being intentionally flirtatious. She just enjoyed becoming familiar with people in relaxed settings.

Nix laughed at the memory, "Oh, that was an absolute blast in the worst way possible! I wound up in the astronomy tower with two first years and a case of fire whiskey! And I recall hearing something about Scen and quite a few fourth year girls." She smiled. "Wonderful, now I have a friend to go on adventures through Hogsmeade with!"