HEBB: Living Room Area

::WL walked in and sat inconspicuously on a chair near the door.

Looking at her surroundings, she thought it was all quite pleasant and homely, but it required a little something...hmmm...::

::prinny fiddled with the balloons in her hair as WL walked in:: "i must look so odd" ::she said:: "o and hey WL!"

::streams was grumbling when she walked into the living room. "All these balloons. They're blocking my view of the exit" she said crossly.

::then she spotted prinny with balloons in her hair. what a good place to hold them! she thought. that way they don't get in the way.

"Good idea, prinny," she said sincerely. "and you look really cute," she added, and for only the second time since she arrived a small smile was on her face.::

~Jesse watched the balloon bounce onto his book and blinked realizing that he had fallen into a daze. He closed his book and then bounced the balloon around on his hands~

"Hi prinney" said WL, slightly surprised that anyone had seen her...

She went over to the Balloon Crew..."I know what you guys need..."

::WL made flicked her wand and conjured some helium transparent baloons and then said a long incantation to make miniature fireworks light up inside the balloons...

"Hey, Isn't that pretty?!"

~Jesse smiled~ "Very creative!" He called to WL as he watched the fireworks in the balloons~

"A fire hazard!" streams shouted worriedly, eyeing them as well.::

~Jesse had to agree with streams that it did pose as a fire hazard but it was too cool not to have fun with it. He kept the water spell in his mind though, just incase...~

"Wow, cool fireworks!"

::Elly wanted to get the BB house more active so she put on The Killers new album "Sams Town" and she started rocking out to that, trying to encourage everyone else to do the same::

::WL got up, grinning to go join the dancing and shrugged at streams...

"Hakuna Matata Streamy! Those fireworks are safe in there...the balloons are indestructable and even then, the fireworks are triggered by the breakage and they fizzle out like a candle. No need to worry...just enjoy the shows!"

With that, WL started pulling other people up to dance as well, swishing a wand and creating a robotic DJ and the stereo::

:Alyssa walked in and gazed around at all the commotion. She wondered whether or not to participate:

~Jesse flicked his wand and made most of the furniture disappear as several colored strobe lights descended down from the ceiling and the floor lit up in colorful squares~

"Come on everyone, let's dance!!!!!!!" He shouted as music began filling the room~He grabbed Alyssa's hand and pulled her to the dance floor and started dancing~

::Elly felt pleased that she had caused such a riot. She waved her wand and a bowl of never-ending sweets popped into the corner of the room. Anytime anyone takes a sweet, it is replaced.

"What do you think of my sweet bowl?" She asked WL as she danced::

::prinny looked over at the sweet bowl, how could she resist? she loved sweets. gabbing the sweet bowl she ate while dancing:: "elly your sweet bowl is the most awesome thing ever!" ::she yelled over the music::

"I KNOW! One of my own inventions! How sthe sweets tasting?"

::Before aliza could answer, Elly took a handful of sweets from the bottom of the bowl and handed them out to everyone in the room::

~Jesse took some of the sweets and danced all around the room happily~

::Elly watched the bowl as it re-filled itself with sweets and smiled. The music changed to the Time Warp and Elly jumped up and down in happyness. She started doing the acticons and singing along....

"It's astounding, time is fleeting. Madness, takes it's toll. Just another time slip, not for very much looonger. I've got to keep control."

~Jesse started doing some fancy dance moves including a little breakdancing too!~ "WOOHOOO!!! Now this is a party!!" He cheered over the music.~

::Elly cheered at jesse's breakdancing,

"Ah, but can you do this!" Elly Stood in a clear space and did a forward walkover into splits, she then broguht her leg round and push up through backbend to stand::

~Smelling a challenge he grinned at Elly~ "I can try it" He replied as he leaned forward and performed a nice walkover however the splits part caused him great pain and he only went down halfway~ "OW!" He groaned~

"Ah ha! Not so easy is it," She grinned, and helped jesse up from the floor::

::Ginny looked at her map-upside down of course-and walked into the Living Room.::

"AHA! I'VE FOUND THE KITCHEN AT LONG LA-...this isnt the kitchen." ::she grumbled to herself, sticking the map in her pocket. Seeing Elly, however, made the red head grin.::

"Hey there, Lovey. How're ya?"

::Elly ran and tacklehuggled Ginny,

"Hello! Care for a sweet out of my magic neverending bowl?" She asked offering Gin a sweet::

::She hugged her daughter and smiled.::

"Ooh, thanks!" ::the red head chose a particularly appetizing one and before she put it in her mouth asked cautiously.:: "This...isn't a trick candy is it?"

"Thanks Elly," He said as he got up with her help. Then he looked to see Ginny. "Hey Gin, you finally made it huh?" He chuckled~

::The red head scowled.::

"The map was highly confusing okay?!" ::Ginny was still warily eyeing the candy in her hand.::

hannah entered the living room and quietly perched on the edge of the sofa wondering whether she was in fact invisable

Dancing ran into the room chased by one of Streams visous dogs, Spike. She panted and fell on to a couch next to Hannah. "Hi," She panted," here's some advice try to avoid Streams dogs Spike and Stab or Snarl or something else really stupid."

She the girls confused face, Dancing straightened herself and held out her hand, "I'm dancing. A catperson and Streams knows it." She turned and hissed at the approching dog that was behind her.

::Lifey stood up, with HER dog and faced dancing. http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/images/breeds/sussexspaniel.jpg .::

"Well i adore stream's dogs for one. they are NOT stupid. they're very sweet to me. If you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you. Of course you have to understand dogs really to get on with them.

"I'm alergic to cats actually, i have a nasty reaction, but i don't care if you bring YOURS because i'm willing to compromise and accept that different people have different preferences."

::She patted skipper and sat back down by the fire.::

"and that's Stab, spikes with streams. Here stab! Come here!" ::She called::

::Elana kneeled down by the dogs and looked up at Lifey and Streamers.::

"It ok if I pet them? They're soooo cute!"

::Lifey nodded::

"you can pet skipper, but stab is streams...so ask her"

Jess walked into the living room and sat down on a couch with Owen, She had no idea what was going on in this room and again she felt that alone feeling.

::Elana smiled, and reached out to Skipper to let him sniff her hand. She scratched Skipper behind his ears, giving him a kiss on the nosie.::

"What a good doggy," she cooed.::

::Lifey smiled and started making goo goo eyes at her dog::

"whosssse a woooffie? whoooseeeawooosaawoosawooosy?"

::streams walked in casually with Spike at her side, in search of Stab.

"Oh, there you are, sweetie!" she said happily, and reached down to rub between his ears. "Aren't you my sweetest wittle doggy?"

"And Jess, you can pet my dogs when I'm around. But it's not always a good idea to touch them when I'm not there, because although they ARE well-trained, they're a bit suspicious of strangers."

Yeah, like they'll sink their teeth into them if provoked, she thought, shaking her head.

"And they especially hate people who can't stand dogs. Dancing is living proof of that."

::Lifey smiled at streams::

"well so far you're dogs adn i have been on a good friendship...im glad they're adorable!"

"Yeah." streams grinned for the first time since she had arrived. "they do like you, and I trust their instincts. though maybe those doggy treats you gave them helped just a bit..."

::then she suddenly became sober. "But you should know, they don't even accept treats from strangers, usually. That's why when they were totally okay with you, I knew you must be okay."

::then, shocked by how much she had suddenly blurted out, streams ducked her head and patted her dogs, flushing slightly.::

Don't get too involved, she heard a voice in her head say. It'll make it so much harder for you if she's put up for eviction by somebody...because you actually know what eviction is really all about.

::Lifey looked a little supprised, but flattered none the less.::

"well i show my dog...he's a sweetie and i've really bonded more with him, so i guess i have started to understand them, i mean really understand them. I love all dogs to bits. I was attacked by rotwhilers (SP) when i was little once htough." ::Lifey shuddered a little. :: "fortuneatly they only growled viciously...well a dog scratched me once...but i really am better with dogs now. I understand them better than people sometiems...i can be myself around them and they still love me..."

"yes, exactly," streams said, eager to change the subject, if only slightly. "Dogs accept you for what you are, and if you're good to them they're loyal to you and love you unconditionally."

"the thing I love most about dogs is that they're really honest and direct with how they feel about you," she said thoughtfully.::

::Lifey nodded::

"and they know intuitivly who they like... Skipper here...he hates this one friend of my brothers."

::streams smiled.:: "Stab decided once that he didn't like one of my neighbors...she was a cranky old lady and he would always tear through her garden. Finally I just started tying him up, because although she WAS mean to him--whacked him once with her cane--I still just couldn't let him do that. I didn't want to lose him, so I just kept him on a leash until after we passed her house."

:;Lifey gasped::

"my grandpa did the same with his cane to skipper! just because he was excited and barking a bit at the doorbell! i mean skipper was just doing his job letting us know he was here"

"yeah, those old people think their canes will solve all their problems," she said shaking her head.

"really I don't blame them, because probably excited dogs are a bit too wild for them, so I just told her really politely that I would start tying him up outside, but if she hit him again, I'd go to the Magical Society Against Animal Abuse...she wasn't too happy, but then she wasn't nice to my dog, and I don't particularly like people that are mean to my dogs. Unless I happen to be related to them ::she grinned:: and then I do my best to educate them."

::Lifey nodded in ferfent agreement (i really cannotttt spell today)::

"this one kid in my charms class was like 'cats are better' i never liked him since. specially when he called my dog a mutt"

(lol my fingers keep slipping on the keys and I have to backspace a million time to make my words understandable.)

"He did NOT call your dog a mutt! that is horrible!" streams said heatedly. "besides I love skipper...he looks so...huggable, somehow..." streams smiled. "and do you know that horrible fact about cats?"

"About cats? aside from them making my eyes itch and having nine lives? er...not really.."

"well...this is a proven fact, though a bit disgusting. Well, you know how some old people live all alone, with just a bunch of cats for company?"

and if they die alone, with only their cats around the cats start CHEWING ON THEIR BODIES. this is a PROVEN FACT!

come on! A dog would NEVER do that!"

::Lifey nearly threw up for the second time that day::

"eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww now THAT is disgusting! a dog would be too loyal...besides...i have proof that a dog is better...what's dog spelled backwards?"

::streams smiled.:: "I think I read that somewhere."

"Besides, dogs SAVE LIVES. How many documented stories are there actually of cats saving lives, versus cats eating their owners?"

::streams sighed and hugged her dogs.:: "Streams loves you, wittle sweeties," she told them, burying her face in their fur and letting them lick her happily.::

::Lifey was also nearly drowned in slobber by skipper::

"awwww...ew...but awww" ::She cooed happily::