Chapter 2;

"I'm killing Professor Binns again, who's with me?"

Victoria, Lyn and Bat raised up their hands. This was the third assignment that he had dumped on them that week. They had barely completed the first one on the possiblity of lycanthrope evolution and the second on the history of flobberworm saliva in potions. The titles, complex as they sounded, were equally dumb topics to be dawdling upon on such a beautiful afternoon. Temptations surrounded them in the form of quidditch and the glistening cool lake, but these had to be ignored. Binns would land them with another piece of work if they weren't quick enough.

Then, amidst all the scribblings of quill onto parchment, came one stomach growl. Then another. Then-

"Oh, I give up! I'm going for lunch, who's with me?" exclaimed Bat, extricating herself from the bench.

Bat and Victoria jumped, leaving Lyn at the table alone, eyebrows knitted together with concentration written all over.

"Are you coming, Lyn?"Victoria asked.

"Oh no, you go ahead, just bring me back anything that's nice or something, if that's alright. Stupid assignment's due after lunch," without looking up from her work, "Don't" she said, raising her left hand, "Say I told you so,"

"I don't have to," Victoria smirked, "You just said it for me,"

Looking up and narrowing her eyes at her, Lyn put her fist up, using her right hand to "unwind" her jack-in-the-box (which was her hand), slowly sticking her finger, as if unwinding a jack-in-the-box.

Victoria laughed and rolled her eyes. They duly trudged off to the Great Hall, leaving Lyn alone at the bench to finish up her assignment which was due right after lunch. Or so she thought.

Cedric Diggory walked up from behind her, leaning over and peering at her horribly scrawled essay.

Reflexes sprang into action as his shoulder brushed her own, and soon Lyn had officially whapped the intruder's face.

"YOU! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?" Lyn screamed, clutching her parchment to her chest defensively as a startled Cedric backed up, nursing his smarting cheek with his gloved hand.

"Goodness Sin, I was just reading your essay. It's a pretty good one, you know," Cedric shot back sincerely.

He had obviously just gotten back from quidditch practice, as he still had his seeker robes on, but this is a useless fact with no relevance to the current sub-plot, simply written for the fangirls who think Cedric is lyk, so hawt, OMG! Wif his quidditch robes and I rly wanna have his babies!11!

"Well, next time, I suggest you find a better way to look at people's essays, because looking over shoulders will earn your other cheek the same fate,"Lyn snapped, still recovering from the shock.

However she was also particularly proud of herself as she could see her slap had caused quite an amount of pain. That would teach him not to meddle in her affairs.

Instead of walking off, Cedric had advanced and taken a seat at the bench.

"I'm not joking, it's pretty good," stated Cedric, settling on the bench, leaning over and trying to look at it.

"Thanks," came the cold reply as she jerked the parchment out of his view and edged to the end of the bench.

Lyn offered no other words. Of course she wouldn't. She couldn't. Would you know what to say to someone whom you barely knew, only as a desk partner? And on top of that admittedly good-looking? So you can imagine how the situation was: awkward.

Both tried to ignore that fact. Lyn did that by burying herself in her almost due/OVERDUEwork, and trying to divert her sight from the bright, eye-catching, hornet yellow robes at the other end of the table. Cedric however, was looking straight ahead at the lake, his head resting in his hand. He was contemplating leaving the table, but he thought that would just complicate the situation. So he stayed.

So there they were. Witch on the end of a bench, furiously writing away, eyes trying hard to not look at the other end, where Hufflepuff seeker was, staring into nothingness. So much for awkward situations.

"Don't you have Chang to accompany or something?" she asked, still scribbling away.

"Don't seem to see her," he said casually, flicking away an insect on his robe.

"Oh, she was looking for you inside the castle," she lied.

"Really?" he asked, looking at her rather worriedly

"Yeah," Lyn said, still trying to avoid his intense look, "She was going ballistic on how you always left her alone to go flirt with other girls,"

He got up hurriedly and asked, "Where was she the last time you saw her?"

"At the astronomy tower,"

"In the astronomy tower, or at the base of the astronomy tower,"he said, hoping for the base so he wouldn't have to climb four hundred steps.

"I don't know," Lyn replied in a caustic fashion, causing his heart to sink.

"So at the astronomy tower?"

"At the astronomy tower," she confirmed.

"I have to go... She's always thinking things like that," he said, walking off, mumbling to himself.

"Whoa..." Lyn said to herself, "Didn't think that was true,"

Hopefully he will think she is on top of the tower since she cant be found at the base. She isn't anywhere there anyway, he'll have to climb up all four hundred steps...Ha ha ha

She watched in amusement as he dashed off in the direction of the astronomy tower. Shaking her head, she bent over her assignment, glad that she got rid of him that easily...

"Hey, check this out,"Lyn said the next day at breakfast, tapping an advertisement at the bottom of a page in the Daily Prophet.

"Miss Cissie's Lingerie Clearance Sale?"Victoria asked, looking at her with confusement,"Bra sizes ranging from F onwards are priced at three for a Galleon. Hey thats cheap! Why are you looking at it anyway?" she asked suspiciously, "Is your bra size H?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Of course not you idiot," Lyn said, giving Victoria a hard shove.

She made an impatient noise and said, "Don't you see? Big Bras at such cheap prices means-" waving her hands, prompting Victoria to answer correctly.

"We can buy and donate them to the Slytherins who really need them?" Victoria said as she spied a group of hideous Slytherin girls tramp past them with suffocating breasts.

"No you idiot, but close enough," Lyn said, "I was thinking we buy a few of these wonder bras and send them to people around the castle,"

"Ahh... I see where this is heading now," Victoria grinned.

Lyn pulled out a few sheets of parchment and said, "We have to order them to Hogwarts,"

"Let's leave one on Snape's desk... Or Mcgonagall's! We can send one to Cho Chang too! HAHA, through owl post that is, so everyone can see it,"

"Yeah! Oh my gosh, this will be the prank of the year," Victoria said, jotting down the names of the people.

Lyn filled in the order form while Victoria explained the entire prank to Bat who had come over after having her fill.

"Oh oh, we can send one to Ciggory!" Bat exclaimed, laughing out loud.

Lyn screamed in laughter as she attached the order form to her owl (Mr Feathers) slapping its hind, sending it off on another mail. Oh this was going to be good...