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After New Year's Orion taught Janna something called chess, Janna hated chess, Orion would change the rules every five seconds then contradict himself by breaking the rule then changing the rules again. They sat cross legged on Janna's bed in the Room of Requirements, Janna watched carefully, following  Orion's moves with hope that he would not figure out her painfully obvious plans.

   "What time do you think Jake and Juno will be back?" Janna asked as she watched Orion line his queen up to her king.

   "Soon, I hope, we aren't able to send them any letters" Orion huffed, watching Janna taking her time to think of her next move.

    "Why?"

   "There's something about the air current around the arctic pole splitting in two, this confuses the owls on which way to go" Orion said as Janna used her knight to block off his queen's attack "maw knows more about this muggle stuff, she studied to become something they call a wedder lady, you know, that person you see on the telly talking about the weather for the day"

   "If it's muggle I don't know much about it, Cintola" Janna reminded him as he took her castle with his queen "bloody hell! Stop taking my pieces"

Orion laughed as he sat the piece at his knee by the pile of Janna's pawns and bishop "concentrate, Black."

   "You should play Juno, he'll beat the laughs out of you" Janna muttered as she used her queen to take the opposition's queen, Orion looked up at Janna who grinned up at him "after this we should go down to the front doors to meet Jake and Juno"

   "Naw, one more game" Orion whined as he moved his bishop towards her King just missing the knight.

   "I hate losing" Janna muttered as she moved a pawn nearer to the opposite side of the board.

Orion chuckled lowly "well, no one should really like losing" he moved his King. Janna help in a yelp of excitement, she calmly moved her bishop to take his King "Gads! Sly move, Black"

   "One more game?" Janna smiled, Orion lifted himself off the bed.

   "Let's go wait for Jake and Juno" Orion muttered, crestfallen.

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At the front doors Janna and Orion huddled in the snow, Orion was attempting to plait Janna's hair like Olive had done to his. The strange sensitivity of Orion's hands sent tinkles down Janna's nape causing her to squirm.

  "Aw, does tha' tickle?" Orion joked, Janna flushed as he ran his hand on her shoulder to take a lock of her hair into the plait.

   "No" Janna murmured as she wrapped the scarf she was wearing tightly around her hands, Orion suddenly ran his fingers on the scar near her shoulder, she jumped.

   "Sorry, I didn' know yeh had a scar there" Orion murmured as he took another lock of hair.

   "It's fine... I have so many, I don't blame you for not noticing it" Janna shrugged, fiddling her fingers.

   "Aw, Black's got a boyfriend" Teased a familiar voice, Janna looked up and saw James coming up the steps.

Orion chuckled "She wishes"

   "No, Orion just wanted to test a plait in my hair that he's wanting to do in his own hair" Janna said cooly while Orion pursed his lips and playfully punching Janna on the shoulder "Hey, it's true"

   "Ya see Juno and Jake?" Orion questioned, dropping the latter subject as quickly as he could.

    "Oh, those two are coming, I got off the train first since I had a Dungbomb in my possession" James laughed, Janna stared at him as he went up the steps "don't fret, I'd never set one off, well, only if they don't let me off the train."

   "How many detentions?" Orion asked, James grinned.

The older boy looked over his shoulder then showed three fingers "three weeks, twenty one afternoons irritating Professor Minnie McGonagall with my antics"

   "Ace, ma'e" Orion high-fived James.

   "Well, see ya later, stay out of trouble" With that James hurried into the castle.

   "Hypocrite" Janna muttered.

   "A bloody inventive hypocrite" Orion laughed "Irritating McGonagall must be near impossible"

Janna shrugged "maybe not when you're James Potter"

   "Ooh, does Janna have a boyfriend?" Jake said over the two "James isn't a really good pick, he's as thick as anything"

Janna and Orion stood up to great Jake, shortly followed by Juno who carried a very heavy rucksack "who is Janna dating?"

   "I don't!" Janna cried as Jake ruffled her hair "Jake, get off!" The two wrestled for a bit, Janna caught his hands over his shoulders but he then leaned forward causing Janna to help as she lifted off the ground.

   "I think we can go inside" Jake said still with Janna on his back, he held her hands to keep her on his back. The three boys walked up the steps while Janna stayed on Jake's back for the sake of receiving free transport "enjoying the ride?"

   "Can I get down now?" Janna whined, getting bored of being carried "I'm not disabled"

   "You have a limp, though" Jake said as they went to the hall of staircases.

   "So!? I can still walk, faster than you can!" Janna yelped "now put me down so I can prove that I can run up those stairs and beat you"

Jake snorted then stopped at the bottom of a staircase "Hear that, Black's going to flog me"

   "No, I'm going to win." Janna said, then she leapt up the steps, running first.

   "Let's just give her a head start to make her think she winning" Jake shrugged but Orion went up the stairs next.

   "Sorry, ma'e, but I'm not bein' beat by Janna" Orion shot further up the steps towards Janna's who was three cases up. Jake and Juno looked at each other, then they both shot up the stairs, eager to not come last.

Janna looked over the railing to see the boys coming up quicker than she thought they would, she continued to run up the stairs, using her arms to pull herself up "You're gonna have to do better than that, Orion!" Janna taunted as she looked over her shoulder to see Orion slowing down.

   "Yeah, but yeh had a head start!" Orion yelled back as he galloped up the steps, Jake rushed past him "Jake! Where ya goin'?"

   "Ahead of you, wingnut" Jake laughed, Orion held his ears to see if they were sticking out.

   "Oi! These are my mither's ears!" Orion chased Jake more hurriedly, they stopped when they saw Juno floating past them with his wand above his head.

   "Take that!" Juno laughed as he floated away to the Gryffindor portrait of the fat lady, he laughed to himself as he came to the portrait but the lady wasn't a lady, instead she was now a goat in a pink dress "what—!?" He looked over his shoulder  to see Janna laughing with her wand in her hands as she stood by the real portrait across the hall, he began to run to the portrait as the two other boys came up to the other portrait.

Orion and Jake pulled each other back from getting to the portrait by holding backs shoulders and pulling hair but when they saw Juno coming the both jumped at the portrait to Janna who was bent over, laughing.