Deck the Halls of the Autumn Dormatory [OPEN]

Keirsta grabbed one of the knives from her dorm room, running out quickly to splice open the tape for the giant Christmas tree. She had been able to get the word out to her fellow Autumnites that they were going to have a huge Christmas decorating-fest, and that everyone was encouraged to decorate their dorm rooms, and the hallway. She had been able to secure a spot at the end of the hall for a Christmas tree, which anyone from the Autumn dorms could decorate. It didn't take much to set up, as it was one of those, 'snap together and voila' trees.

Setting a few boxes around the Christmas tree, that was practically bare except for the lights that were pre-installed, Keirsta looked around the hall. It was still pretty empty, which made her frown a bit, but people'd come out one by one... Hopefully.

Digging inside another box, Keirsta grabbed some red, shiny garland. Using her gift, she secured it around the tree, giving it a bit more contrast then just the boring green. Once she had everything that she had wanted to put up on the tree, Keirsta disappeared back into her own dorm to finish setting up her little Christmas decorations. Which, didn't take very long.

Stepping back outside, covered in what appeared to be glitter, she waved a friendly 'hello' to the student coming out of their dorm to, hopefully, decorate.

Jake gave a yawn, having been in his dorm most of the day. The student ran out of "good" food so he was headed to Roseburry to see if any market had food. He put his usual comfy suit-vest and pants on, ruffled his hair with his fingers, grabbed his dorm key and opened the door. When he walked out, he spotted Keirsta and Christmas decorations. The Autumn quickly went back into his dorm before she could see him. Jake went over to his room and opened the closet. He grabbed some boxes of Christmas decor, and headed out again, this time to Keirsta. The tall student placed the boxes by the girl. "Here. These might help spruce the place up a bit." He said with a smile. "Did a unicorn sneeze on you?" He chuckled, noticing the amount of glitter on her.

Not too far away, Leo was hanging lights along the hallway. He stood precariously on the top of a step stool, tongue out as the prefect hooked another string of lights over one of those removable hooks. Jumping down from the step ladder, Leo began to hum 'Deck the halls'. The blond didn't try his hand at singing, and instead took to humming. He always found himself a bit subconscious about singing with an audience. Especially he didn't think he was that good of a singer.

Leo dragged the step stool in front of a door to his dorm, and the blond sincerely hoped that someone did not come through the door. Falling to the floor did not seem very festive. And again, he teetered on the top, his humming becoming more stressed as he reached up towards where the next hook would be placed. Unfortunately for the blond prefect, Jake came through. With a shout, Leo lost his balance, and was sent crashing to the floor with a loud thud.

"...I'm an idiot."

Amelia nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard a loud bump in the hallway. She'd been focusing on her piles of schoolwork for hours now, and the sudden noise jolted her out of her almost hypnotized state. Hoping that there wasn't some holiday-related beast wandering the hall, she peeked her head out only to see a boy on the ground, a ladder propped in front of the doorway he was previously on top of.

And right in front of her was her roommate, Keirsta, covered in glitter, and another boy talking with her. Are they... decorating? Well, the holidays were always coming earlier and earlier, she supposed, so why not start now?

Ducking back into the dorm room, she searched through the boxes under her bed for any holiday-related things she'd brought with her. Blankets, photos, she couldn't find anything until the third box. It was a small shoebox, but filled to the top with nice ornaments that didn't require a ladder or metal hooks. All were fragile, yet were never subject to breaking. She didn't understand how, it must've been one of her ancestor's powers or something that had lingered, since they all still floated about. That might have been why the lid was taped shut. Still, it was pretty cool.

However, Amelia put her box beside the door and went to the fallen decorator. "Are you alright?" She held out one of her little hands to help him up.

Having been focused on decorating, Keirsta hadn't even noticed that Jake and Leo had come out. At least, not until the question rang in her ears of whether or not a unicorn took to giving her a cold. "Very funny. While it'd make for a hilarious explanation, it was more or less my cat jumping in the glitter."

When Leo fell, though... Keirsta didn't even wait a second to rush over to him. Grabbing his hand and pulling him up, she ushered him into her dorm. "Hey, Amelia, Jake, I'm going to take care of Leo... Can you guys get the Christmas lights hung above everyone's dorm?" She called out, in a slightly commanding voice. Someone had to take charge, no? Seeing that she had been the one to more or less initiate the decoration, it only felt right for her to take charge.

Shaking her head, Keirsta shut her dorm door behind her and led Leo further into her dorm, more or less making him sit on the bed and having him lean back while she grabbed him something to drink, and ice pack, and an ibuprofen. Coming back a few seconds later, she handed the drink and medicine to him, before placing the ice pack atop his head, which seemed to be the point of impact. "You alright?"

It was passed Thanksgiving and Lady was super excited when Keirsta had told all of them she would be decorating and wanted them to join her. Lady was more than willing to join her he just needed to get something from the library before he popped in. He'd been in the library for half an hour when he realized he was late for Keirsta's decorating party. In quite a rush Lady grabbed what he felt might have been useful for his homework, checked it out, and then raced back toward the Autumn dorm rooms.

He managed to make it in time to see Keirsta going off somewhere and some boxes with people preparing to decorate. "Hey guys! Nice to see I haven't missed all the fun!" Lady exclaimed grinning at all his dorm mates. He was so looking forward to decorating. He had no Christmas stuff since he had never considered that they would need to bring their own decorations and that they would all be school provided or bought while there. So he would just join in and help someone hang up their decorations. First he had to choose someone and ask if they wanted any help.

Leo was about to take up Amelia's offer on helping him up, but was suddenly scooped up by Keirsta and hurried into her dorm room and forced to lay on the bed. Giving her a confused look as the pink haired girl came back with water, pain medicine and an ice pack. Sure his head hurt a little bit, but this seemed a bit overkill. Leo looked down at the drink and pill, then back up at Keirsta. "My head doesn't hurt too much, Keirsta." He gave her a smile before continuing. "I've had worse falls, and walked away from them fine."

"Besides! I don't want to miss out on any of the decorating." With that, the blond went to sit up, not having taken the pill or drink the water.

Jake was about to reply to Kerista when he heard Leo fall. Geez, dork. He couldn't help but snicker aloud. But he barely had to time to do or say anything before Keirsta ran to his aid. I guess he's a baby too. Realizing the girl told him to hang lights, he lifted up his boxes and walked over to Amelia. "Here are the lights we are supposed to hang." He placed them down. One of his fingers turned into a pocket knife and he sliced open the boxes, taking the strands of lights out. When Lady came out, Jake gave a hello wave. "Hmm, lets see." He dug through the box some more.

Amelia jumped back when Keirsta  practically shot forward to bring Leo into their dorm room. She couldn't help but laugh a little. "Yes ma'am!" The short girl went to untangling the lights first, which was a hassle, but soon most were in neat, singular piles outside the box. She beckoned Lady, whose name she didn't actually know, over to help. "Who's going to use the ladder?" She was far too short to put up lights without it, but she could find a way if necessary.

As Leo hopped back up, Keirsta couldn't help but mutter. "Alright, alright. Just don't go falling off ladders anymore." She half-scolded her boyfriend as he zipped out her dorm, and she looked towards the little black kitten sitting on the bed. Scooping her up and cuddling with her, she held her against her chest whilst grabbing another box of decorations.

Setting the box down, she kept the cat in hand. This was when her gift came in handy, as the blue energy streamed about and picked up certain decorations. It also snatched small pins, which enabled the decor she grabbed to hang above dorm rooms. The ceiling was one thing she was looking forwards to, as well. "Hey Leo, mind flying up to the middle of the ceiling and hanging this for me?" She called out, holding up a somewhat large ornament. It was a large, golden star, with mistletoe hanging from either corner. It looked rather pretty, for what it was.

The blond had begun to search through boxes of decorations when Keirsta came up to give him a task. Carefully taking the star from her, Leo glanced up at the ceiling. Then back at her. Certainly his wings were too big now? Well, if he went long ways, he could possibly make it. A few decorations may go scattering, but nothing too bad. Right? A cheeky smile adorned his lips, as he pulled a Santa hat from the box, and fit it on his head.

The blond glanced back and forth, making sure that the others were out of the way of where his wings would appear. Once they were, a flash of light filled the dorm hallway, and a pair of pure white wings filled the empty space. They were larger than last time Keirsta saw him, a good few months ago.

With a few flaps of his wings, the angel-like student was in the air, keeping a steady height just so he could hook the star into place. Once he had done so, Leo let himself sink slowly to the ground with a look of concentration. He had to be careful not to knock down any of the strings of lights that made it's way around most of the hallway. Once safely on the ground, he let them disappear. Rolling his shoulders, the prefect looked over to Keirsta with a look that said 'What's my job now?'

Jake was about to climb on the ladder and finish the job without any hastle when Leo turned into an "angle" and did it for them. Show off. Well, might as well decorate this area... He thought, carrying the box of lights over a to dark section of the hall way, a little ways from everyone else. The student's arm turned into mechanical tools, and he started hanging the lights. Alone again Jake, great. He gave a sigh.

Left feeling a bit awkward just standing there, Amelia watched as both Leo and Jake set to work, one a little more bright than the other in performance. Wondering what to do now that Jake had taken to putting up the lights himself, she looked at her little box. She didn't actually know what was inside (she'd just been told that they were very delicate), so she opened it, curious as to what relics her ancestors had left her.

They were Beanie Babies. At least, that's what the little tags said attached to their fluffy rumps. The blonde girl raised an eyebrow as they began to ascend, unhindered, and maybe even ignorant to the laws of gravity. A few were holiday-related, like the reindeer and the snow white birds, but the whale was just weird. Then the thought hit her. She could control them. If powers stacked, then this might just work.

"Does anybody have ornaments that they want on top of the tree..?" she said as each of the plush toys came to life and began doing what they wanted for the moment, be it hiding in the decorations or playing in someone's hair. There were six in all, two reindeer shunning their red-nosed comrade, the birds comfortably nestled in hair, and the whale just... cruising down the hall. Was it still considered a " 'Baby" if it was nearly a foot long?

Keirsta couldn't help but chuckle at the little plush toys having a mind of their own. As Leo and Jake did their work, she looked over at Amelia. "Look through the boxes I put by the tree... Feel free to put them however, but there's plenty of ornaments." With another dance of her fingers, and a few more blue streams of dim light, the boxes moved about in an orderly form, and opened. This way, they could all be looked through much easier.

Turning back to Leo, she couldn't help but chuckle. He had failed to notice what type of plant just so happened to be on the star, and she pointed upwards. "Mistletoe~" She whispered softly to him, a grin on her face as she saw his reaction.

Keirsta's whisper caused a bit of a smile to form at his lips. He didn't bother to look up. Leo trusted her enough not to care. Besides, It wasn't like he was not going to kiss her if it wasn't. Taking the opportunity, Leo didn't hesitate to duck down and steal a kiss from her soft lips. He savored the feeling, before parting their lips. With a goofy grin, he disappeared inside his dorm, only to come right back out.

In his hands was a red shoebox with the word; 'Ornaments' written on neatly with black sharpie. Before he made his way to the tree, the blond stole yet another kiss as he walked under the mistletoe. Once again, he departed to Amelia, holding up the box. "Would you mind helping?" Inside the box was many kinds of ornaments, fancy gold ones, childish hand made ones. Even one with 2 year old Leo's handprint. Needless to say, the family tree back at home never had a theme to it. It was all memories in ornaments.