"I'll make the cake! I'll make the cake! ME" Cosma stood on a table in the middle of the Hufflepuff common room. The room was decorated with streamers and…streamers. Ingo wasn't fond of balloons. Unpleasant…situations…in childhood…lets not go there…

"Then make it already!" Phoenix yelled at her.

With a couple of waves and taps of her wand Cosma created a chocolate and vanilla ice cream cake. A huge cake at that.

"Hide everyone! He's coming!" Serena crouched behind a couch.

Ingo was walking with Chai, who was telling about him a spell she cast once.

"…so that's how you do it. Easy." Chai finished as Ingo opened the door.

"SURPRISE!" Everyone jumped out.

"Shoot!" Chai grabbed at her heart. She nearly had a heart attack.

"You better not have known about this!" Sprite came up to Ingo. "Did you?"

"Oh hell no! This is so cool! Thanks guys!" Ingo was beaming like he just won the lottery.

People from every house were in the common room. Not EVERYONE was terrible in Slytherin. What about Serena and Darien? The 'Chosen Ones' were all there. Even the famous Harry Potter.

"I made the cake." Cosma sashayed up to Ingo.

"Oh really?" he thought she was flirting with him.

She's so pretty…

"Yeah…Harry Potter!" Cosma spotted the famous wizard in the crowd and ran up to him, leaving Ingo standing there staring and the cake.

"Harry Potter!" Cosma shook his hand. "I always wanted to meet you! Let me see the scar!"

Harry didn't know what to make out of this girl. T'was nice to have someone who knew you by face…so he decided to show her the scar.

"Cool!" Cosma exclaimed as she studied the lightning mark.

"Thanks…" Harry didn't know if it was good or bad. "Who are you?"

"I'm Cosma. I have flying with you…and Hermione." She looked very dark as she said the name Hermione.

Cho Chang was quietly sitting on the couch giving Harry nervous glances.

"Just tell him!" Cosma flopped down on the couch next to her.

"No!" Cho Chang hissed.

"Why not?" Cosma asked puzzled.

Ok, come on…if you like a guy shouldn't you tell them? What the hell is this girl on? If she wont tell Harry I will for her…soon!

"What if he doesn't like me?" Cho Chang looked around nervously.

"Oh come on! How can he not?! And if he doesn't it's his own bloody loss!" Cosma patted Cho on the back.



The music was pumping…don't ask me how THEY got it…but it was pumping…Cosma managed to find a spare two or twenty bottles of Kahlua under her bed. And the teachers did not hear. Neither did Mr. Filch thanks to Serena's little earth spell. Well it was simple really. She blocked any sound from the common room.

Phoenix saw that no one was really dancing so she decided to show them how it's done. Tabletop dancing was just her thing. And soon most male eyes were on her. Except of course Ingo's. He kept looking at Cosma and Darien was too busy setting off Filibuster Fireworks.

Sprite was sitting at a table with Chai while she was explaining to him the scientific explanation of flying.

"He knows all this Chai." Cosma butted in.

"What?! Then why is he asking me?!" Chai looked first at Sprite and then at Cosma.

"I don't know." Cosma shrugged. "Because he likes you? DUH!" and she ran off.

Chai left.

Sprite was having a conversation with Serena in French. Here's the translation:

"So how do you know French?" Serena asked with a drink in her hand.

"I can speak any language I want. I don't know I was born like that." Sprite shrugged.

"That's cool, so say if you were to go to Spain you would automatically be able to speak Spanish?" Serena sipped her drink…it looked like wine.

"Yeah, that's the idea." Sprite looked around for Chai.

"You like her don't you?" Serena asked expectantly. Still in French.

"Who?" Sprite asked suspiciously.

"Chai. Who else?" Serena looked at him like she told him that one plus one is two.

"Pardon." Sprite excused himself and pushed through the crowd.

Draco walked in on this party scene.

"Look who it is…" Ron was just a teensy bit drunk. "It's the wicked witch of the west!"

"Hey! Don't discriminate the West!" Scott shouted over to Ron.

"Sorry!" Ron waved at him. "Get lost witch…I mean Malfoy!"

"No! How come no one invited me to this party?!" Malfoy glared around.

"Because we don't like you!" Hermione yelled at him.

"Granger?! Why are you here?! You're a prefect!" Draco looked surprised at her.

"Surprised to see me are you? Well where my friends go I go." She put one arm around Harry and one around Ron.

"Get out of the way mudbloods." Draco said in disgust.

"Ok let's go…" Darien dragged Draco out and dumped him in the hallway.

"You'll pay for this!" Malfoy shook his fist at him and door slammed shut leaving him out in the hall.

"Hey Ginny where are you going?!" Phoenix shouted from the table she was dancing on.

"Um…I'll be back…I just need some fresh air!" She ran out the door. But Draco had already gone. Discouraged she walked back inside.

Cosma was making her rounds. Said hi to everyone. And ended up back with Ingo.

Phoenix got off the table and thought she'd dance on the floor now, among the fireworks that Darien had set off half an hour earlier. Chai was helping herself to some party food, and Serena was sitting on the couch waiting.

The shoes Phoenix picked weren't exactly great dancing shoes. While she was dancing around she slipped…oh no!…and sprained her ankle.

Shit!

So she decided to go out to the balcony to fix this. Finally when she got onto the balcony Darien and Scott were standing there discussing something.

"What are you two doing? Smoking pot?" Phoenix frowned.

"No. You need any help?" Darien asked.

"Hell no." Phoenix sat down on the bench. "By the way, Darien, Serena is sitting on the couch waiting for you. Hop to it!"

And with that Darien dashed back inside to find Serena…sitting on the couch.

"You ruined my joke!" Phoenix glared at Scott. "Could've just said that your first name was Jim."

"No, I'm willing to say you're crazy and delusional but I'm not saying my name is Jim! What kind of name is Jim? A fucked up name!" Scott exclaimed.

"Fine! Ow!" Phoenix reached down for her ankle.



"We're going to sing Ingo happy birthday now!" Chai clapped her hands together. Everyone gathered around. "Where's Phoenix and where's West?!"

Cosma went to look for them.

"They're making out on the balcony!" She yelled back inside after discovering the two.

"Cosma…overshare." Serena called to her friend.

"Get inside!" Cosma ordered. "Phoenix! Eagle! NOW!"

"Hey I can walk again!" Phoenix exclaimed as she walked inside. "Whatdyou do?" she looked at Scott suspiciously.

"Ancient Chinese secret." He answered half seriously half sarcastically.

"And a one and a two and a three! Make a wish Ingo!" Cosma shouted as everyone sang happy birthday.

I wish for Cosma. Ingo smiled.