Run the World

"Well," Julian shrugged, "I am rather nice, you know. Though it is kinda creepy. There are moments when I feel like I'm being stalked." Tilting his head, he smirked at Blanchard, "You're gonna miss me, aren't you? Don't worry, we won't be gone long."

Smiling at Melly, he shrugged nonchalantly, waving a hand dismissively, "My life's not all that interesting," Lie, "At least, compared to all those rumours about me, it is." Shaking his head softly, he smiled, "You just can't believe anything you hear anymore."

Glancing over at Kass, he coughed softly, "A word of advice. Don't ever call Ninette that to her face. She'll claw your eyes out."

Kass grinned. “ I will say whatever I want. And if she doesn't like it, she will just have to get over it.” She was still smirking just a little bit. “ I can take care of myself. She really doesn’t' scare me one bit.” Kass was thinking of everything that she could do to Ninny. She wasn't a girl to just sit back and let someone walk all over her.

“ She tries and to do anything to me, I am ready to fight back.”

Melody turned to look at Alec.
"Er, yeah. Well... I love to read... I play music... And I love to sing..." She shrugged. "That's about it. And what about you, then? What do you like to do?"

Julian spoke again, and she raised an eyebrow at him.
"Oh, really? Well... I know what you mean. Rumours spread like lightning, and by the time they get around to you they're so twisted that you wonder how the hell people believed them in the first place." Melody made a face. "It's kind of why I hate gossip. Because you never know if it's true of not and if it is, you're invading someone's personal life."

"Glad to hear you have better taste than some," Alec smirked. He raised an eyebrow when Kassidy said she wasn't scared of Ninette and would call her whatever she wanted to call her. "Well, as much as I admire your courage," he started, "Don't say we didn't warn you."

He rolled his eyes, but pretended to wipe a fake tear. "Of course I'll miss the best fifth year Prideux prefect," he said, "How am I ever going to survive without dear Harmonie?"

He leaned back on his seat, smirking, "Sing, you say? Sing something for us, then."

Lisette laughed at Julian's suggestion, "Patrol?" She stopped and bit her lip, "Merde, you may be right." She looked out into the hallway, "I remember hearing something about a special room we have to go to... or something like that." She shrugged and turned back to the conversation.

Lisette rolled her eyes at Kassidy, "You're not the first one to say that," she picked some dirt out of her nails, "You haven't seen Ninette when she's angry, nor have you seen the people she can easily take down."

She smiled, "Yeah, Melly, let's hear it. I could do with some good music."

Kass wanted to laugh a little bit. “ I am glad that you admire my courage.” She really couldn't be that bad. Kass wanted to say something like she was glad that she has all of her shots up to date. What was there to warn her about. Unless Ninny was just a crazy person who needed to be in asylum than a school.

She smiled a little bit. “ It isn't the how big the dog is, but the fight in the dog.” Kass actually got what that meant. “ I am not scared of her, she starts stuff with me. She will find out that I am not joking.”

Shaking his head at Kassidy, he rolled his eyes, "Just know something. I've known Ninette since first year. If I called her - that." he waved his hand dismissively. They understood what he was saying. Just because he couldn't call her that, even if she wasn't present, didn't make his intention clear. "She'd still kill me. I just hope you know what you're getting yourself into."

"At least rumours can be entertaining," Julian grinned at Melody, "It's hilarious to hear what some people think of you." Smirking at Blanchard, he added, "You know that firsthand, don't you?"

Rolling his eyes at Blanchard, he turned back to Melly, "Ooh, do sing. I bet you're amazing,"

Grinning at Lisette, he rubbed his hands together, "Oh, there's a very special compartment we have to visit. Though I will be undoubtedly murdered, the look on that Raven's face will be worth it."

Kass grinned. “ Sounds like a mocking bird went over the cuckoo nest.” She knew that was a muggle book and didn't know if anybody would get the reference. “ I am not scared of anybody, I don't care if you are proving that she sounds mad.”

For some reason she was going over the soft touch techniques in her hand. And where all the pressure points where in the body. She wasn't going to let anybody bully her in this school.

Lisette shrugged, "It's your funeral." After a couple of seconds, she figured out what all those proverbs meant, "And she's not crazy! Ninette is my best friend."

"I agree. Most of the rumors about me I even find flattering," she sighed, "I suppose it's just the cost of being in the public arena."

She laughed, "Oh, in that case, we should leave now. You can never have too many near death experiences." She held out her hand for Julian to take, eager to get out of the cramped compartment.

Shrugging, Julian grinned, "The result is worth the price." Smirking slightly, he shrugged, "Nine's not crazy. But if you get her angry...." He shook his head, "You should run for the hills. And pray she never finds you. Ever."

"But some rumours -" he shook his head again here, "-are just so nuts and crazy that you can't help but wonder how someone came up with them and actually believed it."

Unwinding his way from underneath Harm, he gave her an apologetic smile, taking Lisette's hand, "Let's go add another one to our list then."

Kass laughed. “ There won't be a funeral.” It only took her a couple of seconds. “ What do you mean? That is a good book, you should read it sometime.” But she wasn't about ready to explain anything to anybody. Most likely this person was going to run and tell her what she just mean.

She then watched as Julian and Lissette left. When this was going to be any different from her old school. Kass then turned to the window and started at her reflection. She then started to sing to herself. “ Someday I'll be living in a big ole city, and all you ever going to be mean. Someday I’ll be big enough so you can't hit me, and all your ever going to be. Why do ya got to be so mean?”

"I suppose that's true... But I find that sort of thing to be quite juvenile... People who make up rumours tend to be stupidly jealous, and use that as excuse to make up crap about everyone else." She shrugged nonchalantly.
She turned back to Alec, her eyes widening at his comment. He wanted her to sing?
"Oh, no... I don't know..." Melody blushed, slightly embarrassed. She could sing in front of a crowd, that was for sure. But for some reason, she found that she minded if these people judged her. She would be vulnerable, and completely at their mercy- and she didn't like that thought at all. Not one bit. "I... I... I'm not that good..." Soon, Julian and another girl- Lisette? -joined in.
"Uh... I..." Finally giving in, Melody sighed. "Oh, fine. But... You guys have to sing with me, or there's no deal."

Alec shrugged at Kassidy and turned to Rousseau, huffing, "Oh, don't remind me. It'd been so great, no one had touched on the subject in such a long time. . . thanks for ruining, Rousseau."

He nodded at Julian and Lisette as they got up, "Adieu."

Turning to Melody, he chuckled, "I suppose I could. Depends, what song?"

Lisette couldn't help but give a small giggle as she pulled Julian along the corridor of the giant carriage.

The only thing better than a great romance was rudely interrupting one. She paused a little every time she saw a compartment that looked almost empty.

At one point she waved to Michael, who gave her a wounded look when he saw Julian's hand in hers. She rolled her eyes and kept on walking. She was so getting rid of him later.

After a couple more minutes, she stopped once again, "Where did they g-" Cut off by a noise from the next compartment that sounded eerily familiar to Ninette's voice, Lisette smiled and pointed at the door.

To say the Collin was mad was an understatement, he was completely pissed. He hated it when people tried to make a fool of him. No one could make a fool out of Collin without his permission. He stormed out of the place in was and went back into the carriage he was in.

Walking in the door he slammed it shut and went and threw himself next to Kassidy. Collin leaned into Kassidy and whispered that he was sorry for being a jerk.

Collin just grumbled and decided that he liked what he saw in Kassidy and he wasn't flirting anymore, well not as much anymore.

Kass looked up when she heard someone slammed a door. And by the looks of it, Collin didn’t' look to happy. She smiled at least he could admit that he was a jerk. And that means that he was bigger than his ego. But she knew that she would forgive him.

She smiled a little bit, at least he came back to her. Kass knew that she was jealous that he was flirting with every girl. But it wasn't like they was dating.

" So I see that you came back."

Collin had to smirk at Kassidy when she commented that he came back.

"Yes the company in here is way more preferably than the company in the other carriage." Collin sighed, one day he would tell her what happened, but for now he would just leave it as it is.

"So what has been going on in here while I have been away?"

Collin just wanted to get his mind off the jerk he just left, but he was sure the snot would be following him back in here very soon and it would probably not be pretty.

She smiled a little bit, she was glad that he came back.

" Well I am glad that you think that we are better company in her." Kass was grinning when she said that. It was a compliment, and she loved to take it.

Kass then started to smirked. " Nothing really, Melly is going to sing for us."

" So what brings you back to grace us with your pressence."

Collin smiled, she add no idea how much better company she was to Ninette. He had girls come on to him before but none had ever done it to the extent that Ninette did, what she had done was cruel and he would get his payback. Not that it hurt him in any fashion, he believed she was the one whom was more embarrassed than him and he had to smile at the thought.

Looking at Kass he smiled and leaned over and give her a slight kiss on the side of her head.

"Someday I will explain it too you, just not right now." Collin smiled

"Right now I think I would prefer to listen to Melody's song."

Kass smiled. " Ok I won't ask anything what happened. Not really sure if I want to know." She smiled. " While you hear Melly sing, I might take a small nap."

She then laid her head on the window and closed her eyes.

Alec raised an eyebrow when Collin Raven walked back into the compartment, looking furious. "So, what did you think of Ninette?" he asked casually, smirking. It was pretty obvious he'd been played, like all the other boys. Typical Ninette Fontaine. He'd have to ask someone for the details later. . . but he could surely imagine Rousseau and Lisette had a finger in this as well.

He sat down next to Kassidy and started whispering stuff in her ear, and Alec found it ridiculous how easily girls would take back a boy who'd spent the whole ride flirting with another girl and ignoring them. But it wasn't like he could say anything, he'd done that plenty of times to girls as well.

"Uh... I don't know... What songs do you know?" Melody asked Alec, trying to stall him. Yeah, she really wasn't looking forward to singing. At all.

Collin had returned, and she was thankful that everyone's attention shifted back to him, until Kassidy mentioned her little impromptu performance.
"Uh... Yeah... You have to sing with me, though. Otherwise I won't..." She muttered quietly, nerves setting in as she realised just how many people were in the carriage with her.

Collin watched Kassidy as she leaned into the window and close her eyes. He wondered if she was going to sleep Collin heard Alec asked about his little trip

"I swear that girl is nothing but a tramp. No one plays Collin Raven and gets away with it." Collin was just pissed beyond repair at the moment.

"Her and Julian make a perfect pair." Collin stated and then turned his attention over to Melody

Collin could tell she was a little nervous about singing, but it all depended on what she had to sing.

Alec shrugged, "I know a lot of songs, both Muggle and Wizard. Whatever you feel you're better at, your choice."


He had to laugh at the boy's pissed expression, "Relax dude, she does that to everybody. Besides, did you really think she wanted to be your girlfriend or something of the sort?"

Collin had to smirk at Alec, "Her as a girlfriend was not something I was looking for, a nice chat something to get me out of the carriage, maybe. But not what she had planned." Collin thought everyone in the carriage was probably knew what they were planning.

Looking out the window Kassidy was leaning on waiting for Melody to sing anything.