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It was the warmest day of the year they'd had so far, and a lot of the students were heading outside to the grounds and lake for some much needed sunlight. Atticus had got up early and woke up his dorm mates, asking them if they wanted to go fishing. He'd managed to find an old fishing rod from the muggle studies classroom and had been reading up on the practice, now raring to go while it was still early.

After a lack of response, he'd gone to the lake by himself. Later on, after being completely unsuccessful in catching anything, he was sat by the lake flicking through a fishing book. He'd been joined by Wade who was practicing his swinging technique, and had dug up some worms in the vegetable patches. Then Lien had come along and sat by him, reading a book of his own: for once it seemed to be a fiction book, and nothing to do with studying for the exams.

"You should know the most about this Wade, you've got muggle parents. Don't they go fishing?"

"I bet two knuts that you'll throw up."

He grinned at Cherry.

"Am I doing this right?" he asked her, expecting her to know all about fishing.

@Cherry Darling

His gaze was accompanied by a goofy grin as she got closer and closer to them. Trying to act natural, Thius quickly returned his eyes to his book although that didn't last long; there she was, right with them. "Hello, Bellona, he greeted warmly as he scooted slightly to allow her more room. "How are you?"

He rotated his snapback slightly to his left.

@Bellona Lestrange

"Dude..."

He glanced over at Atticus and grinned. "I'm going to bet 5 knuts that you end up in the hospital wing."

@Wade MacKenna

"That is a very small fish..."

Cherry grimaced before shaking her head and responding, "You know more than I do."

@Atticus Nott

"Fine," she said, crossing her arms against her chest, "Erm, Thius. That hat..."

Perhaps if Hector wasn't there, she would have said that she didn't like it. She hadn't the heart to do it in front of him though: she knew how much Thius competed with his brother.

"Nevermind," she said, taking a seat between him and Hector. "I don't think I could freeze an entire lake, Ptolemy. But certainly a good part of it, if I tried..."

@Melanthius Burke

Wade was clearly trying to add up all the knuts in his head, but he'd rather have at least a few sickles for a dare.

"Marilyn. Wanna see me nick fatty's hat instead?"

@Marilyn Grayson

His hat...

Was the hat that bad? He certainly wasn't going to wear a flat cap if he was sporting some of his usual fare of casual clothing... Hm, he'd be more discretionary about wearing it in the future then. But for now, it'll stay. He hadn't been out all that long after all.

Thius closed his book and saved his spot as he looked towards the others. 'What's this about freezing the lake?"

@Bellona Lestrange

"Please do, Wade! I'd love to see that!"

And there was that Lestrange bitch with him...

Looking at them, she crossed her arms and held her head up. She, Wade, and everyone else in their little group was so much better than those snakes!

@Wade MacKenna

"Wait until one of those are inside of it, and you could encase them," he suggested, laughing.

Easy. All their attention was focused on each other, so he snuck around behind them.

He kept as quiet as he could. If summoning magic didn't work for him, just taking the damn thing had to, right?

At the last possible second, he lept forward and tried to swipe it off his head and bolt off.

@Melanthius Burke

"That would be quite entertaining, Ptolemy. Did you ever hear rumors about there being an ice chamber within the castle walls?"

As he was too focused on talking with his friends and covertly checking out Bellona, Thius hadn't realized the hat was taken right off his head.

@Ptolemy Rowle @Wade MacKenna

Watching Wade retrieve the hat, Marilyn giggled and swooned. Merlin, he was such an athlete! So hunky, so dreamy... That'll show Lestrange bitch and the fatty!

"Guys, look what Wade got! Yay!"

Looking back, Macmillan raised an eyebrow.

"Whoa... Dude's really stealing from Burke..."

Bellona stretched her legs out in front of her and crossed them at the ankle, resting back on her palms. She was too busy dwelling on the night before and all what transpired with the mirror. She hadn't known that she was so full of... desire. It wasn't just one boy that she saw: it was several different ones, which only made her more nervous. Did that make her a slut?

Some of them weren't who she was expecting to see there, either, which was why she was avoiding Jeneva. She didn't want the question of who did she see and what did they say. That was private! She didn't want to be a floating rumour around the school!

She stared out at the lake, lost in her anxieties.

Wade laughed as he got back to Marilyn, and pushed the hat in her face tauntingly like he did with the rotten apple. It was pretty much the same. "This thing reeks," he commented, although it didn't really. There was a scent of some kind of hair product, but it wasn't wholly unpleasant: he just thought that everything that came from the head of that guy was bound to pong.

"Oi, present." he said, putting it on Lien mercilessly.

@Marilyn Grayson

He sighed, taking it off his head and putting it on Atticus.

"Now it's a fisherman's hat."

Jeneva was in complete bliss as she pulled out an issue of Witch Weekly to read as she tanned.

Macmillan busted out laughing as they played hot potato with Burke's hat.

"Whoa, bros, what if he has lice?"

"Very little, and not enough to make me wholly curious. If there really was an ice chamber at Hogwarts, I haven't the faintest idea what it could contain."

He told this to Thius, looking at him. Then he frowned slightly at the change in his appearance, glancing about.

"Where is your hat, Burke?"

@Melanthius Burke

"My hat...?"

Thius felt the top of his head which had a slight slickness to it from pulling his hair back.

"Where did it bloody go?!"

His looked around until they landed on MacKenna and his group of cronies.

"The mudblood got it!"

@Ptolemy Rowle

Atticus was concentrating on his fishing, and not paying much attention to whatever hat was put on his head.

"This is actually pretty practical for what I'm doing!"

Cherry giggled as she watched Atticus concentrate on fishing.

"Where did you find a fishing pole? I didn't think there'd be any around here!"

@Atticus Nott

"The mudblood did what?" she asked, definitely hearing that over her thoughts. "ArghAAh! MacKenna!" she screamed, standing up and balling her fists. "Why are you such a disgusting little toad?! Give that hat back at once!"