STUFFNESS

[Brandykins]

Kenzie walked out of the transfiguration classroom with a look of disgust on her face. She hated that class. If she didn't need it, she would have left it behind after her O.W.L.S. She silently reminded herself to transfigure the old bat's eye glasses into a spider the next time she was in class. That would show her. She wasn't quite sure what this would accomplish and she was quite sure that she wouldn't have the guts to do this, but somehow it made her feel a little bit better just thinking about it.

The usual clan of girls that followed her was waiting behind a corner. None of them continued on with transfiguration because they had all failed to pass their O.W.L.S. with a high enough grade. They had all finished their third free period of the day. How she envied them. They didn't have to sit with the old bat for three straight hours.

As she turned the corner, her friends followed her and they began to giggle. Apparently Marcus Vetle, a boy that Kenzie used to date, had burned all of his hair off during his potions lesson. He was trying to impress Kenzie's best friend, but instead...

"Yeah you should have seen him Zie! He made a right ass of himself. He sat there smirking at me and instead of adding the root, he added the leaves! You should have been there. You would have just died," she continued as her words became less and less understandable.

Kenzie listened and laughed with a fakeness that was unmistakable to anyone who paid the least bit of attention as she muttered the words, "Root, leaves, and bald" several times to make sure that her friends thought she was listening.

"Well anyway," said the friend, "I'm going to head off to the Great Hall. Do you want to join us?"

Kenzie's heart melted. Thank Merlin for quidditch. "I can't, I've got quidditch practice in about an hour. If I eat before we go to the pitch, I'll be sick as a three headed dog."

And with that her friends smiled and waved their goodbyes as they vanished down the hallway.

Kenzie just kind of stood there for a moment as she looked out the window and out to the grounds. She could see several students walking down to the pitch with their brooms, but her team wasn't there. Just then she remembered that it was Monday. Her team practiced on Tuesdays. She laughed a little and shrugged as she leaned against the wall. She wasn't looking at anything in particular now, she just continued to stare out of the window.

[Leah]

The rhythmic clicking of heels on the stone floor could be heard from either end of the corridors. Unexpectantly, the sound was coming from a tall, blonde haired male who today had paired his Gryffindor uniform, with a pair of 4" black stilettos. Striding confidently, with a strong sense of pride and a large Potions book in his arms was Topher Logan.

Topher Logan had once been a normal boy. Well normal is not exactly the way to put it. Maybe slightly less outrageous. He was always a fun-loving, outgoing guy, but when his twin died, something in him pushed him way past the extremes. He only started occasionally cross-dressing a few years after his great loss.

Topher had just finished his Potions lesson, and had left his friends to head towards the Great Hall, in search of some food. He turned a corner, the noise of his heels echoing through the halls, as in announcing his presence had arrived. As well as the female shoes, Topher dorned heavy black eyeliner around his blue eyes.

Topher noticed a girl he recognised from his classes staring into space. He couldn't help giving a dig. He'd never really liked her, she was a Slytherin after all, and from what he'd seen the ring leader of the Slytherin girls.

"Is there something particularly interesting about that wall?" asked Topher with a childish smirk as he stopped in front of the Slytherin girl, "or do you always have a face like a dead fish?"

[Brandykins]

If this comment had been directed at anyone else or made by another perhaps less ridiculous boy, Kenzie would have found it funny. As she quickly spun around she found herself face to face with the most absurd person she'd ever met in her life.

Of course she knew who he was. She had seen him around the school for years, but she hadn't ever spoken to him. As a general rule she made it her goal to avoid Gryffindors all together, but in some circumstances they were damn near impossible to avoid.

She huffed a little as she shook her head. She tried to take in the scene of this boy. She had seen him wear things as ridiculous as this in the past, but she hadn't ever called him on it. Kenzie disliked everything about him from his shoes right up to his messy hair. He screamed for attention and that was not something Kenzie wished to give him.

She turned back around and she mumbled, "Well at least I don't look like a gypsy street walker." She continued looking out the window, hoping with everything that she had that the boy would just turn around and walk away. She had a funny feeling that he wasn't going to do that. He looked like the annoying in your face type of boy despite the hint of handsome masculinity he had about him.

She had summed him up in less than thirty seconds and she had deemed him not worth her time- unless of course he had something she wanted and then she would turn around and be the nicest person he'd ever met. But at present time she didn't want anything to do with him.

[Leah]

Topher listened as she mumbled something about him looking like a gypsy and laughed. "Gypsy street walker?" he repeated loudly, in his northern irish accent, looking genuinely amused and not remotely insulted by the clearly negative comment.

Instead of leaving her be, Topher decided to have a little fun. He walked closer to him, a smirk still placed on his features. He approached her, and dangerously put an arm around her neck, his long arm dangling over her shoulder showing off his black nail polish. He did this as if she was an old friend, where that was far from the case as he didn't even know her name.

"Hunny," he slurred, he looked over at her grinning, "You expect me to be insulted by that when you can barely say it out loud." He shook his head and let out another laugh.

If anyone walked in on the pair of them at this moment, they'd most likely be shocked. Topher had his arm around a snooty Slytherin, who was probably about to punch him any minute now.

[Brandykins]

Kenzie stood there and listened as he laughed. Surely he wasn't laughing at her. Before she had the chance to think about this any further, he came up to her and he put his arm around her. As she looked to her left she saw a hand with black nail polish painted upon the nails.

What a freak, she thought as she closed her eyes. I can't believe he just...THE AUDACITY this boy has is just ridiculous.

She quickly looked to her right and she saw his grinning face. If she wasn't so upset she might have thought this was funny. She wasn't made because of what he had done, she was upset because of who he was. A Gryffindor, no doubt an inferior one at that, had put his arm around her as though he was her friend. If her real friends saw her..they could come around the corner at any moment!

She pulled her wand out of her pocket and she stuck it in his face as she turned to face him directly. This event happened so quickly that it seemed as though it was one motion, not a chain of events.

She stared into his eyes as the wand poked the bottom side of his chin. Then she quite clearly stated, "Never without my permission."

[Leah]

Suddenly Topher found himself with a wand poking his chin threateningly, and he quickly withdrew his hand as if the Slytherin girl was a hot stove. For a split second he looked rather frightened, but pushing that aside, he placed a permanent grin on his face. He rolled his eyes cheekily at her.

"Get over yourself," he retorted, mockingly raising his arms up in surrender, "You act like I've just had my hands on all the gold in Gringotts."

As he said it, he thought that this girl probably considered herself as worthy as all the gold in Gringotts. She certainly was uptight as well as full of it, at least that was the impression Topher was getting. He realised she was probably sorted into her rightful house. Slytherin.

Topher glanced down at the wand, without a single strand of fright in his expression. He was confident that she wouldn't do anything to him. They were at school, and she probably had a reputation to keep. He then looked at her, his eyes blazing as if daring her to do something.

[Brandykins]

She glared at him. One of her eyes closed a bit more than the other as she gave him the evil eye. She couldn't quite figure him out. One moment he looked scared and the next he looked as though he was daring her to do something.

"I'll have you know that what you did was quite rude," she said as she dropped her wand hand to her side. She stuffed her wand back into her pocket and she proceeded to dust herself off which was rather pointless seeing as she looked absolutely perfect in every way. Her clothes were something she could control and she liked control. Nobody could tell her what to wear or how to wear it. After a moment of considering it, she supposed that she had that in common with this boy. His dressed dared someone to say something about it.

"And," she continued, "any girl would have behaved like I just did." She muttered around for a moment as though she were fishing for something else to say.

What is his name, Oh Merlin, what is his name? "So yeah, don't do that," she finished as she looked directly into his eyes. "I might not do anything to you, but I have plenty of friends who would get you for me if I asked. You don't go about putting your arms around random girls any more than you go around snogging them. Its just indecent."

She seemed quite pleased with herself for a moment and she quit dusting herself off and she reached down to pick up her bags. She didn't want to be caught talking to this boy any longer than she had to, but something about the situation made her want to stay to see what would happen next. He wasn't the typical boy she knew. He seemed to be smart and if the truth was told, she did think he was kind of funny. It was a nice change from the brainless morons she knew from Slytherin although she wouldn't ever admit it to another soul.

[Leah]

Topher kept the smile on his face. He had to admit he found it fun to tease people. It was especially fun when someone else snapped back at him. Normally he'd insult people and his friends would just laugh and carry on. It was much more fun sparing off against someone. Topher lowered his arms that had been raised as a sign of surrender and crossed his arms, leaning on one side.

"I don't believe putting your arm around random girls or snogging them is indecent," answered Topher, though that wasn't exactly truthful, he certainly drew the line at snogging random girls, "maybe you're just a prude," shrugged Topher, his cheeky smirk still playing on his lips.

Topher looked over the Slytherin girl as she dusted her clothes off, not that she needed to. It looked like she spent a lot of effort on looking her best. Though her looks didn't seem like much effort, she had very good-looking features. She probably came from a prestigous pure-blood family with veela in their blood or something of that sort.

"You need to untwist those panties of your's, Slytherin," he continued, referring to her uptight reaction to his putting arm around her, "I just put my arm around you, I was hardly about to snog your face off."

[Brandykins]

A wide variety of expressions came across her face as he spoke. When he called her a prude, she gasped but kept quiet. She decided that being called a prude was far better than the alternative and she most certainly did not want to be called the later.

When he told her what she needed to do with her panties she huffed a little. The natural rose color in her cheeks glowed more than normal and she scrambled for words while trying desperately to hide her speechlessness.

"I didn't say anything about you snogging me, but obviously the thought crossed your mind. I said that you wouldn't put your arms around a girl any more than you would snog her. Quite literally really. I've never seen you around many girls. You probably couldn't get a girl to snog you to save your life."

She laughed cruelly as she leaned against the wall. "You've probably never even snogged a girl before. You probably reserve that for the men," she retorted as she hinted at his girlish features.

[Leah]

Topher was quite pleased as he watched the colour in her cheeks stand out and she was momentarily speechless. Unfortunately though, that didn't seem to shut her up. He laughed when she implied that he'd never snogged a girl before. Though, he figured to most it would seem that way, as if he wasn't into girls, but his cross-dressing had nothing to do with his sexual preferences.

"Oh original," snapped back Topher, still with that incessant grin, "A gay comment. Never heard that one before," he continued his irish accent reeking with sarcasm, "I couldn't possibly be straight could I? After all, I wear female clothing. That means I'm attracted to men, right?"

Topher took a step closer to her, and made a point of the fact that he was having to look down at her from his height, that was enhanced by 4 inches.

"Has it ever occured to you that maybe sometimes I wear heels because of the added height," Topher spoke, though he did not wear heels for that reason, "Or that I wear skirts because I enjoy the subtle breeze between my legs?" With that last comment he laughed again.

He then moved his face closer to her's, "Do you need proof that I'd snogged girls before?" he asked, then immediately pulled away and began pacing around her, heels clacking on the stone, "Oh I forgot you're a prude."

[Brandykins]

She laughed wickedly as he implied that he liked the height and the breeze between his legs. She didn't really believe that was the reason behind the strange behavior, but she wasn't really interested in finding out.

As he got closer and closer to her face she swallowed the kind of swallow that girls do in the movies. She was half filled with anticipation of his kiss and she was half nervous. She wasn't really sure what to do. She was backed to the wall and he was closing in on her and then much to her relief, he pulled away.

She silently exhaled as the color came back to her face. As his heels clicked around her she wondered what she should do next. He was obviously trying to get to her by calling her a prude and she knew that meant that he had to be slightly interested. But what to do about it?

"I'm not a prude," she smirked as she moved away from the wall and she removed her robes. Underneath the robes she had a Slytherin themed school girl outfit on. After she was finished, she stuffed her robes in her bag and she said. "I'm just out of your league."

Her eyes never left his as she said this last sentence and then she stood up and turned to walk away. As she moved slowly, she swayed her hips as though she wanted to draw attention to her short skirt. If she knew how to do anything, she knew how to get noticed.

She continued to walk away very slowly as though she was waiting for him to say or do something.

[Leah]

Topher watched as the girl, who's name he still did not know, took her robes off revealing her school girl uniform. He tried to keep his eyes on her's, and no where else, because he knew what she was trying to do. He stayed silent as she spoke and then proceeded to walk away.

She was walking slowly, swaying her hips in an obvious way. Topher couldn't help but look. He was a heterosexual male, and he wasn't going to resist watching when it was being offered on a plate to him dressed in a short skirt. Luckily her back was turned from him. He regained his composure. He didn't fancy her at all, he told himself, looking doesn't mean anything. Plus he refused to give her the satisfaction. He imagined her smug face with disgust.

Topher noticed she was walking slowly, and rolled his eyes smirking. He too turned away from her.

"Or you're out of mine, Missie," he called back in his Northern Irish accent and a bemused tone, as he clicked his way in the opposite direction, heading towards the Great Hall for the food he was originally heading for.