After many moments of silence, the Great Hall's chatter begin to rise again. Jill didn't know whether to run after Salina, run anywhere away from Ooga Snape, run anywhere away from Paras' death glares smattered with the most unflattering shade of lipstick, or bowel. So, she ran after Salina and grabbed a parsely potato along the way.
Salina wasn't hard to find. In her haste to get out of the Great Hall and away from Snape's predatory dancing, she had left a trail of cheddar cheese perogies behind her. However, since Jill doesn't know what those are, she turned in the wrong direction and ran into Izzah instead.
Jill was mildly astonished to find Izzah away from the Great Hall during dinner. It wasn't often any of them missed a meal...
Izzah's eyebrows flew up into her forehead, also in astonishment, and for a minute, Jill mistook her for the caretaker.
After her heart stopped beating a frantic pace like an African bongo drum, she clung to Izzah for dear life. Izzah didn't know whether to dance or console her.
Izzah looked confused for merely a moment, before her eyes shone with sudden understanding. With a knowing smile she reached into her bag. "Oh, don't worry. I always keep a spare jar with me for times like these." And pulled out the chocolatey spread Nutella.
Jill took a banana out of her bag and started to spread Nutella onto it. "WAIT, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S WRONG LOL."
Salina, being the Nutellard she is, could smell it for miles and came sprinting back inside the castle. Katie wasn't far behind either, her prefect badge shining on her shirt. Jill wondered why she was still holding a parsley potato and a banana and promptly discarded them in fear of Ooga Snape wandering nearby.
Salina immediately seized the jar of Nutella and began to spread Katie's prefect badge. "This stuff is good on everything!"
Katie nodded in agreement. She began to spread Nutella on Izzah's Indian suit.
Katie spreaded the chocolatey spread in deep thought. "I wish I could win the Triwizard Tournament, just so I could spread Nutella on the trophy."
The other 3 girls were awed by how smart of an idea it was. Katie's brain had that sort of presence. The others' didn't, however.
Izzah remembered she forgot her earrings in the Hufflepuff dorm, so after collecting the Nutella, she ushered the other three down the hall.
Jill didn't have a problem with this, as long as she could get as far away from the Great Hall as possible. Katie and Salina, however, did have a problem with this. Their Nutella had been collected. They stood in the hall stubbornly awaiting a logical reason as to why their Nutella was taken away from them. With a war cry, Paras jumped out from behind a statue of Blogbard the Javascript and attacked Jill.
However, Paras was so mad that he missed completely and ended up attacking Izzah. Her bag fell from her grasp and the jar of Nutella rolled out of it, down the corridor tiles before a shiny polished shoe stopped it in its tracks. Rishi's shoe. "Paras has something to say."
Paras stopped in the middle of using Izzah's poppin` lipgloss and stammered. "Oh - Uhhh" hiding it behind his back, he faced Jill. No one noticed Salina start to spread Nutella on Rishi's shoe. "I challenge YOU, Jill, to a wizard duel!"
Jill turned her hat backwards, reached down towards her belt buckle, spun around, grabbed a pokeball and hoisted it into the air. "I CHOOSE YOU, PIKACHU!"
"Oh wait. .."
Everyone stared.
Jill turned her hat backwards, reached down towards her belt buckle, spun around, grabbed Katie and hoisted her into the air. "I CHOOSE YOU FOR MY SECOND, KATIE!"
Salina, who had watched the exchange avidly, stood up from her position ready to battle. However, upon hearing Katie's name, immediately grew displeased. "Katie?!" As she was already in her battle stance, Salina pushed passed Paras and pointed a finger at Katie. "I challenge YOU, KATIE, to a wizard duel!! With Jill as my second!"
Paras' newly plump and pouty lips shone in outrage. "Doesn't anyone want to know why I'm challenging her anyway?!"
Izzah frowned. "No. What I want to know is why Salina didn't pick ME as her second!" Marching toward Salina, she poked a finger in her chest. "I challenge YOU to a wizard duel!!!" Salina looked down at her Hufflepuff tie, that Izzah's finger stained with Nutella. As she usually did in stressful situations, Salina's face took on the OO expression and she spun around and sprinted down the corridor.
Paras took out his wand in a moment of frantic anger and aimed it at Salina's back as she ran. Trying to do his best and poutiest Bond girl pose in case his Oogie was watching nearby, he exclaimed, "Salmonellabowelanosis!" But Paras' nerves got to him. His spell swerved to the left and hit Ian in the face. He fainted.
Salina spread Nutella on Ian's unconscious form before bounding down the hall once more. Paras sighed exasperatedly. "I think we can all agree Rishi wins."
There was a collective murmur of agreement. In fact, even the Caretaker, who had seen the whole thing nodded. "Rishi always wins." A wart immediately grew in place of the Caretaker's eye. The Caretaker's cat meowed arrogantly, playing with a miniature toy quaffle at their feet.
Ooga Snape walked into the throng of students and spotted Jill. Before he could react, Rishi threw a water balloon at him. Ooga Snape fell to the ground, made a face like xx, and disappeared.
Jill smiled at Rishi briefly before grabbing Izzah and Katie and they all ran off after Salina. They all knew where she'd gone. The kitchens.
-- OOGAOOGAOOGAOOGASNAPE! --
Paras trudged back to his Gryffindor dormitory, with Rishi following closely behind.
"Yo man, what the hell was that all about?" Rishi asked, concerned, but also slightly scared especially since they shared a room together...
Paras stared into his dresser mirror, brushing his locks out of his face. He picked up his hairbrush and started crooning into it.
"Nothin in this world can stop us toniiiiight. I can do what she can do SO MUCH BETTER! Nothin in this world can turn out the light. I'm goooonna make you feeel alright, tonight."
He had a plan.
-- OOGAOOGAOOGAOOGASNAPE! --
"Did you hear that?!"
Salina looked up from playing Wizard's Balloono, "What, Jill?"
"Monkey drop balloon to E4," Izzah exclaimed, unaware of the conversation and promptly running into the balloon she dropped.
"Someone was singing," Jill continued, unphazed. "It gave me goosebumps." Jill held her arms out and Salina pet one of the geese laying contentedly on it.
"Parath hath been acting really thrange, lately." Izzah said.
Salina and Jill stared.
"Thorry. I left my teeth in the infirmary after getting my eight cavithieth refilled."
After nodding in understanding, Jill leaned in close. "I think Parath... I mean Paras is jealous."
"Of your new lipgloss?" Salina asked, her eyes round with wonder.
Jill nodded. She did get pumpernickel cherry fondue lipsmackers, after all.
Katie stared blankly at her 3 friends. She sighed. "Do I always have to be the reasonable one? Paras is jealous of Ooga Snape liking you."
They all burst out laughing, Izzah drooling everywhere.
"What? It isn't Blockle science. During the Triwizard Tournament announcement, Ooga S-"
"TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT?!"
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"Cookie Monster..?"