Happy Friday! I have nothing to say.

Light streamed into my eyes as I slowly opened them. It was about nine in the morning, the day after Christmas, and not to mention the Yule Ball. The Yule Ball was amazing! I went with Neville, but in the few days leading up to the event I kind of regretted agreeing to go, because Harry was getting kind of desperate to get a date and maybe he would have asked me! Yes, it's true, I never stopped liking him. As I got to know Harry, I got more comfortable around him, and now I think we're kind of friends. Hopefully.

I got dressed quickly and went downstairs to the common room where all my older friends were sitting on the ground, chatting (minus Natsu, Gray, and Ron). I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but something was up with the new kids. They all had the same tattoo somewhere on them. Hermione agreed with me, but Ron and Harry either didn't care or honestly didn't think there was anything up. The other day Hermione (along with Harry and Ron) confronted them about it and they said they were from some school in Japan. Hermione didn't really believe them. To be honest, the whole matter was starting to bore me a bit.

"Hey guys!" I announced as I walked down the last couple of steps.

"Oh, hello, Ginny!" Hermione greeted me, looking up. "Come join us!" She motioned me to sit beside her. I grinned, and did as she offered.

"So, the three idiots, sorry, sleepyheads aren't up yet?" I asked in mock politeness.

Lucy smiled. "If Ron's sleeping patterns are anything like Gray and Natsu's, they'll be out till noon."

"Those three are more similar than I thought!" Harry said.

"Gray and Natsu are kind of like brothers. They fight all the time, but when one is in trouble, the other watches out for him." Erza stated.

"And you're the like the older sister that knocks sense into them when they're being stupid." Hermione guessed.

We laughed, and even Jellal cracked a smile.

"Gray is always there to protect his friends when they are in need, especially Juvia-sorry-I." Juvia remarked in her usual 3rd person manner. Once again, that girl had managed to turn a fun, easygoing atmosphere into an awkward silence.

I cleared my throat, which only made it worse. "Sooo..." I attempted to break the dead air. "What's going on today?"

"Nothing, really." Lucy said absentmindedly, looking at her nails.

Suddenly there was a huge noise from a few floors up, making us all jump.

"I bet that was Natsu or Gray." Hermione said.

"Probably just Natsu." Erza commented. "Or Natsu fighting Gray." She stood up and walked over to the stairs up to the boys' dormitories.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Going up to see what's going on." Erza answered simply. "And if they're from fighting, I'll split 'em up." And with that she walked up.

We sat in silence, listening to the muffled yells, and explosions. Finally, the sounds settled down, and about a minute later, Erza, Natsu and Gray came downstairs with sour expressions, Erza holding onto the boys' ears.

"Someone was breathing fire in his sleep." Gray said in an accusatory tone.

"And someone woke him up." Natsu accused back.

"Wait, wait wait. You were breathing fire?" Harry asked, incredulous.

"I-um-well-" Natsu started out, before wilting under Lucy's glare. "-may have sneaked a fire whiskey at the ball" By the time he had finished, Natsu was positively whispering.

"You had a FIRE WHISKEY?!" Hermione shrieked.

"Um... Yeah..." Natsu stuttered, probably regretting saying he had had the drink.

"That's illegal." She spat.

"Hermione, calm down! It's fine! I don't think it's that strong, it just burns your throat, apparently." Harry said, in a panicked tone.

Lucy, who had had her head in her hands in a disappointed way, stood up, walked over to Natsu, and slapped him across the face.

"What was that for?!" Natsu asked, holding his cheek, which was red in the shape of Lucy's hand.

"You're not at our school. You can't drink fire whiskey." She answered.

"Wait, you're allowed to drink fire whiskey at your school?" Hermione asked.

"It doesn't have the same effects on Natsu, so he's allowed to drink it. As you may have guessed, it makes him breathe fire." Erza explained.

"I forgot to ask, is Ron still asleep?" Hermione asked.

"I swear, that guy can sleep through an avalanche. Last I checked, he's snoring louder than an elephant." Gray said in a flat tone.

I stifled a laugh, knowing it wasn't an exaggeration.

"Anyways, you think there's still food from breakfast?" I blurted out.

Hermione opened her mouth to speak when Jellal spoke nonchalantly. "Probably. It's not like anyone went to sleep at a decent time."

"Thank goodness, because I am hungry!" Said a male voice from behind us. I turned around to see Ron at the foot of the stairs, yawning as he said it.

"You always come in at the important parts, don't you?" Natsu said jokingly.

"You got that right." Ron answered.

MY CABBAGES!!! I mean... A LINE BREAK!!!

After breakfast we decided to go back to the common room, and get cracking on the homework we'd neglected over the first week of break, the whole time Ron and Hermione were really stiff and formal to each other. I wonder if they had a fight?

Everyone seemed kind of flat now that Christmas was over, that is, except Harry. He was starting to get stressed out again about the tournament.

Every time he went up to his dormitory on Boxing Day I heard a faint wailing sound. I guessed that was the golden egg. I hoped he hadn't forgotten the hint Cedric have him after the ball, whatever it was supposed to mean.

After a nice, easygoing, lazy Sunday, we (all my friends in my year had gone home for the holidays) all went down to dinner, which was also really quiet, except for at the end.

Dessert tonight was cake. (A/N: You know what's going to happen) There was one piece left. We were all laughing, and talking, Erza reaching forward to take the cake.

Suddenly, Ron reached forward, apparently not noticing Erza, and grabbed the piece. He put it on his plate, stabbed it with his fork, and was about to put a bite in his mouth when he noticed Erza.

She still had not moved from her position, bent over the table, but slightly shaking now. Erza slowly, mechanically, stood straight up, and looked at Ron with a death glare.

Natsu, Gray, Jellal, and Lucy scrambled away from Erza as fast as they could - I guess someone had taken the last piece of cake before.

"You took the last piece of cake." She said, in the mist threatening way possible.

Ron gulped, and winced back for a blow (he had seen what she did to Natsu and Gray) that never came.

Erza was trapped in a sphere of water, unable to do anything but float and hold her breath. After a minute, she passed out, and the water immediately lost its shape, and travelled to the entrance of the Great Hall, faster than our heads could turn, to where Juvia was standing, with her wand outstretched.

She smiled placidly, and said "I've seen how Erza can get when someone takes the cake."

"I have a feeling I don't even want to know." Hermione guessed.

Everyone (that was still conscious) except Harry, Hermione, Ron and I nodded vigorously.

Somehow no one else in the hall seemed to have noticed this little episode that it just happened.

I looked up at the head table, where hazel eyes met with Dumbledore's bright blue ones, and he winked.

Yay! A nice, fluffy break from plot development! I am so excited and stressed because on Monday and Tuesday I am performing in a play called I, Claudia, and I am one of the Claudias! Wish me luck! :)