Decorating

[Macy Deltine]

Macy carried in bag full of things she had collected for the Halloween party. She had never really hosted a party, and being the Head of the Academics, who were holding the party, she realised that she could show off her creativity. Some people had already put up little things, some cobwebs by the fire place, a witches hat on one of the candle sticks.
There was about four other Academics there, who had volunteered to help with it, getting food and costumes, etc. Most people whom she asked, told her that they had to do something else, which annoyed Macy, as she would then see them doing nothing round the gardens. But atleast some people said they would help.
"Right, everybody, thank you for coming to help, I know that it may have been hard to get out of your busy schedules, but you came anyway. So, the theme this year is..." She said, trying to think of a theme...she hadn't thought of one yet, and was beginning to regret saying 'the theam this year is...'
"How about those haunted libraries to see in the movies?" Someone suggested.
"Yes, like with the moving eyes in the pictures and things? That sounds cool!" Someone else commented.
"Okay, so haunted libraries, as we are Academics. That'd be fun. Is everyone up for that?" She said, proudly. The rest of the small group nodded. "Great, so begin to hang up some of the stuff in that bag over there, and of you've got anything you want to put up, go ahead." She smiled at the progress. She was putting ice on the edge of one of the tables, when she noticed someone come in at the corner of her eye. "Jude, you came!" she smiled, in the middle of frosting a lamp.

[Jude Dorrian]

Jude was more than a little disappointed at the turn-out of Academic volunteers. God, people just didn't know when they had it made. What he would've given for a good Halloween party growing up... people obviously just didn't appreciate the sort of work Macy was putting into this. Jude never even got to go trick-or-treating, for goodness' sake! By the time he arrived at the orphanage, they'd decided he was too old for that kind of 'kiddie stuff' anymore.
Yeah... Halloween used to suck a lot.
"Jude, you came!" beamed Macy, as she finished icing up a lamp.
Jude beamed back. "Hey, Macy! The place looks..."
Well, he couldn't say it looked great, mainly because it hadn't been properly done up yet, but he could say something.
"This place has serious potential," he said appraisingly. "It is gonna be great."

[Macy Deltine]

"Why, thank you. So, are you here to help decorate? Hmm..well, I guess you could pretend to be an Academics for a while." She said, putting some fibre-glass cobwebs around a bookshelf. "Well, there's a bag of stuff over there of just random things I found that might make the room look...reasonable." She nodded to a bag, lying of one of the sofas, looking slightly empty. "Oh, it looks like people have used them up already...there wasn't too much in the bag." She really had no idea what she was meant to be doing. "I hope people don't get their hopes up for this." She muttered to herself. She turned round, and smiled, pretending everything was going the way it was meant to be. "Right, well, our theme is 'Haunted Libraries', like the one is the movies with the pictures with moving eyes and things. Hey, what powers do you hav? Maybe you could do something with them to help decorate."

[Jude Dorrian]

"Invisibility, metal powers and enhanced senses," he replied, shrugging. "Not overly helpful, but I'm sure I could work out something..."
He considered her theme for a few moments, tugging off his wristhingych as he did so. The little bit of metal in it was all he needed- and a bit of heat. If it was to reach a high enough temperature, it would expand and he would be left with a hefty supply of metalic goop. Of course, this sounded a little unreasonable considering how little metal he actually had... but he was in a school full of magic, for Pete's sake! If someone blew up his wristhingych to major porportions, and someone else turned on the heat... Jude was good to go.
"I could build a robot," he laughed at the idea. "Or a black knight. Lots of big axes which someone could bloody up. We could make it pretty shiny and scary..."

[Macy Deltine]

"No, that'd be too much, it's okay, I was just thinking like melting a spoon or something, so that it looks like metallic icicles,or something." She laughed. "You don't have to put so much effort into it, it's only a silly party." She said, trying to think of a way of making make-shift decorations. She could get some leaves and freeze them, and put them in corners, or something. She heard someone else come into the room, and turned round and saw a ginger girl come in. "Hi, eveybody, sorry I'm late!"
"Hi, Jessica, I didn't know you were coming."
"Oh, I wasn't going to, but then I just thought that I should come and help, or it may not be as good as it could be." She said, smugly. "And I brought some things." She handed Macy a large, brown bag, filled with expensive looking decorations.
"Um, thanks.." Macy repiled, setting the bag on the sofa.
Jessica looked Jude up and down, and swiftly said, "You're not in Academics."

[Jude Dorrian]

Jude resisted the overwhelming urge to clap loudly and slowly. "No," he said, staring back at the ginger girl as politely as he could. "I'm from the Spies."
Who was this girl, anyway? Jessica... Jessica... well, she was smug. Probably a little arrogant. From the contemptuous look she'd just thrown Macy, she obviously harboured one of those 'Holier-Than-Thou' attitudes. Her obvious disdain at Jude's presence put him on edge. He didn't like it. He hadn't thought his help would be a problem.
So what was her's?
"Why?" he asked innocently, reaching out for Macy to pass him a couple of decorations Jessica had just brought.

[Macy Deltine]

"Oh, it's just I thought the Academics would be holding it,this year. And that means that only Academics can decorate. You Spies, probably been sent to see how you can one-up it next year." She sighed, but you could feel her anger radiating off her.
"Jessica, he's only here to help. Not to steal ideas, or whatever." Macy rolled her eyes, and turned round to continue hanging a fake bat on the ceiling.
"Oh, and Macy, I met someone a few weeks ago, saying she was your sister. Natalie, I think her name was...she was a bit strange..."
Macy went pale and ignored her. Jessica continued to talk, and Macy ignored what she was saying. Natalia's gone, it's okay. She thought to herself.
"Oh, look, some metal things, you could do something with them." she said, handing some little metal bats to Jude.

[Jude Dorrian]

Natalie?
"Thanks," Jude smiled warmly, taking the bats from her.
He'd noticed the slight tension in Macy as she'd turned a little white, but he couldn't make any sense of it. Something to do with her... sister? He didn't even know Macy had a sister. And that was weird. Usually, information like that was pretty public, especially since Macy was Head of the Academics.
That annoying girl, Jessica, was still bothering Macy. Jude didn't like her. There was something about those green eyes... emerald means envious, does it not? Envious... of Macy?
It was a possibility...
He could still hear the dratted girl when suddenly his own sister bounced up to him and squealed in his ears.
"Aaa-ow," he mumbled, touching them gingerly. "You're gonna make me deaf, Tameron."
"I know," she said brightly. "But that's not the point. What are you doing here?"
"I'm helping Macy out," Jude smiled, gesturing at his sister's Head.
She frowned in Macy's direction. "Why?"
"Because she's my friend," Jude said proudly.
Suddenly, her little hazel eyes seemed to gleam with an idea. "Really? Really and truly?"
"Yes..." he frowned at her suddenly eager face. "Why...?"
"Have you asked her to the Hallowe'en party yet?"
Jude blanched. "Wh- what?!"
Tameron laughed softly- almost evilly. "Well, she is blonde... tall- surprisingly tall for you! But she's quite slim- very smart- not pretty as such... more... striking."
He rolled his eyes. "You're out of your mind, sis."
Tameron pouted. "Oh for goodness' sake! You're not gay, are you?"
"No!" he cried, half-laughing at the ridiculous notion.
"Then how come you show no interest in girls whatsoever?" she growled, folding her arms.
"I have a date," Jude told her proudly, fastening the metal bat to the wall.
Tameron clapped loudly and slowly. "Well done. You are officially un-cold turkey."
"Cruel, sis," Jude clapped his hand over his heart. "You hurt me. Right here. Deep."
"Who is she?"
"Ailith Rayner," he replied, a little smugly. He couldn't help it.
"Don't know her," Tameron shrugged.
He shoved a few of his decorations at her darkly, and headed back around to where Macy and Jessica were still talking. Well, Jessica was talking. Macy looked like she was doing her best to ignore her.

[Macy Deltine]

"Hmm..it's sort of coming together..." Macy said, stepping back, and looking over the room. Jessica had given up in talking to her, and finally said a snide comment and walked away. "Food! Oh my goddness, we need food!" She realised that she had forgotten about getting food. She looked around the room, trying to find someone who wasn't doing too much. She spotted two girls in one corner, who were talking more than decorating. "Excuse me, do you two want to do me a big favour? Can you go and get food for the party? Like, candy and marshmallows, and whatever. You know, party food..."
The girls looked at her as if she had two heads. Finally they sighed and headed out the room, hopefully in search for food.
"So, what are dressing up as?" She asked Jude, while she moved a lamp across a table, trying to fit a small ice bird she had just made.

[Jude Dorrian]

He'd been waiting for someone to ask him that question for a long, long time...
"Zombie hobo," he beamed, pleased that she'd brought up the topic without any probing by him. "Dead simple really. I just need to look dirty, and dead. How about you?"
He fiddled with his wristhingych again. Maybe he was being a bit too excessive when he thought about creating a pool of metal. He didn't want to overdo... wait... what about a cauldron?
"Oh, and about food," he said, looking around the room. "What about if we have a cauldron, and fill it with sweets or punch or something?"

[Macy Deltine]

"Yeah, that'd be cool. Oh, and I'm going as an ice queen." she laughed, making ice grow own her arms, as if she was wearing long gloves. "It won't be too hard, I'll freeze the dress I wore to the dance at the start of the school year, and I'll make an ice crown, or something." Macy was proud of her gift of controlling ice, and wasn't afraid to show it off. "I hope that those girls that I sent haven't gotten distracted by something shiny on the way to get food." she said, now feeling like she should have sent them off seperatly.

[Jude Dorrian]

"That's alright," Jude said cheerfully. "I can go and find them if you like...?"
He could actually already hear them. His enhanced hearing was following their footsteps and loud giggles about a certain Levi Ryder the whole way down the stairs.

[Macy Deltine]

"No, no, it's fine, if they don't return,I'll send out Gypsy. Hopefully a tiger with a note around it's neck saying Get the food!, will encourage them to get back to the task at hand." She said, laughing.
She bit her lip, concentrating on the large ice owl, that she was sculpting with her hands. She finally finished it, by melting and re-freezing part of it's wing. "Tah-dah!" she said, lifting it up, and setting it on top of the bookshelf, as if it was watching over the room. "Oh, I've got an even batter idea." She said, lifting it back down, getting two red gummy bears from a small packet that someone had contributed. She melted the owl's eyes, placed the red gummy bears into the empty bit, and froze it again, making the owl as if it had red eyes. She placed it back on the shelf and smiled. "No-one will ever notice." she said, standing back, looking at her work. "What do you think?" She asked Jude, as she scanned the room. "Do you think the room will look okay?"

[Jude Dorrian]

Jude nodded proudly. "I know. Trust me, I'm no psychic, but I do have something of a sixth sense..."
Or five extra-good ones.
Moving away from Macy across the room, Jude caught sight of a conjuring Academic, and convinced her to magick him a couple of metal blocks out of thin air. Catching them gratefully, Jude soon set about melting them down, and creating several cauldron-shaped punch bowls which he placed at various points around the room. The whole time, he could feel Tameron's beady eyes on the back of him.
Eventually, he couldn't take it anymore.
"What?" he groaned, rounding on her.
"You're really making an effort, aren't you?"
"Tameron, Macy and I are just friends!" he groaned, clenching his fists. "Can't two members of the opposite sex be friends without any romantic ties?"
She pulled a face. "You'd think so..."
He sighed, pushing her aside and going back over to Macy. Hopefully, she'd present him with some kind of sane conversation.
"Anything else we need to do?"

[Macy Deltine]

"Um, I don't know. Let's see, those girls are hopefully retuning with food, the sofas have been removed to the side for more room, the decorations are up, I think it looks fine." She said, mentally ticking off her list. "Augh, Jessica, could you try to do something more productive?" she asked the ginger girl, who was lounging on one of the sofas, seeming to be trying to get the attention of one of the guy Academics, who was putting bowls on the table. Jessica looked up at her, gave her a dirty look, and shouted something rather rude. Macy rolled her eyes, and turned her back on Jessica.
Finally, the two girls returned, holding some bags of party food. Macy told them to put them into the bowls, and one of them asked her why she can't do it herself. "Because, I'm doing something over here." she replied, and started refrosting a bit of table.
"The Academics can be so annoying." she whispered to Jude.