<em>Frannie managed not to jump in her seat when the headmaster drew their attentions.  Setting her fork down, though she'd only eaten about half her meal, she turned on the bench slightly and looked forward.<br/><br/>While waiting for the rest of the hall to quiet and come to attention, Frannie allowed herself the luxury of daydreaming a little, and letting her eyes roam over the students sitting closest to her.  Aside from Madison, Frannie hadn't been intrigued by any of the other Gryfindors.  It was too bad too, because her chances of finding one of them to develop a crush on, and possibly having it turn into something more, were much greater.  But no matter how hard and long she looked...none of the others had that...spark.<br/><br/>The next closest table was the Slytherin's, and even though she knew it would mean nothing but trouble, the lure of the 'bad boys' was too great for her to ignore.  James had always attracted Frannie, and his excellence in potions was something she shared.  There was just something about him that gave her a slightly fluttery feeling down below, every time she was near him, and since their desks were close in Potions class, she sometimes had a hard time concentrating on anything but him.<br/><br/>Then there was Vincent...the Slytherin prefect.  To Frannie he was scarier than James, at least from her perspective, but being prefect pushed him up to levels James would never attain.  The fact that he wore glasses too, seemed to give Frannie a small feeling of kinship, which when fantasizing about...things...only made him seem that much more attractive.  The problem was, since he was the Slytherin prefect, she knew she didn't stand a chance for anything to come between them.<br/><br/>The other two house tables were behind her, so she wasn't as lucky to be able to scan them now.  There were one or two in both Hufflepuff, and Ravensclaw though, who Frannie also got fluttery feelings from, and she just knew that if something didn't happen soon in her life, she'd probably explode from need.</em>