Re: End of school dance (Open)

[Guest]

Joining Terry and Zara on the table, Alys took a sip of the spiced punch as Terry told them of wanting to connect with his sister over the holidays. Then Zara suggested they should meet up a week before school and lease for Durmstrang together.

"I think that would be a great idea," the witch put in. "I remember the port with my parents when starting school. I was all alone and didn't even know how to board the ship and get a cabin. If we go together, there won't be any of that. My Papa might ask a few questions but I'll make sure he says yes." The blonde turned to Zara at that. "We'll make sure he says yes," she grinned.

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila sighed and let her features fall into a scowl. She wasn't really interested in seeing Lucian fail at dancing - and besides, he was decent. She had just hoped that maybe, just maybe, tonight she wouldn't be ignored because of a pretty girl. She wished Lukas was here, but somehow he had mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth.

Aquila looked down at her heels and kicked them off her feet, picking them up with her hands. She was bored of watching Lucian and Violeta ogle each other and flirt like their was no tomorrow. I honestly don't care that i've been ditched for a pretty girl again, she told herself over and over again as she flicked her arm over her shoulder so the heels hung against the back of her shoulder.

Aquila could feel the tears in her eyes as she turned and headed for the door. She hated this feeling, this stupid rejected feeling. She should be used to it, she told herself. Her whole life she'd been ignored, the only person she'd ever been close to was her mother- and even her mother was becoming cold and distant.

Aquila turned back once to look at Violeta. She didn't blame Lucian, why would he hang out with her when he could hang out with Violeta? Violeta looked stunning, and her dress was gorgeous. Aquila felt ridiculous as she fled.

[Guest]

"Hey, isn't that witch in Risiko, the one that ran off..?"

Alys heard the sentence from a few tables over among bits of other conversations floating their way and her ears immediately perked up. Thinking of Ava, she got to her feet and muttered a hasty "One second everyone" before heading towards the door of the hall.

The witch rounded a corner outside the door only to see the edge of a pink dress disappearing in the hallway and sped up to catch up to its owner. "Ava!" she called, coming to a stop a few feet behind her and only then realized her mistake. The student as a blonde, not a redhead. She wasn't Avangeline King.

"I'm sorry," Alys breathed, gasping a little after her run. "I thought you were someone else. Why are you leaving the ball so early?" She gave the other witch a friendly smile.

[Lucian Ciero]

Lucian turned and saw that Aquila was leaving and he cursed under his breath, of course he was right when he said that she really did want attention and friends and maybe she really did want to dance tonight.

But it was his duty to ensure all women were happy. Especially ones that he liked.

Pecking Violeta's cheek Lucian jogged off after Aquila, a jokey smile on his face and plain ignored the Muhe girl, so it took someone to cry for her to break from her click to talk? No thanks.

"Aquila! Your prince is here to rescue you! Don't cry eh? Even though I'm better than most boys, girls like you are still mysterious to me, so, now you've proved I'm not perfect, come, dance with me!"

He stepped forward cautiously and wiped at her tears:

"Hush, don't cry you'll make your pretty face all red, please come back with me, I don't like knowing I've upset you...and if you don't I'll use your one weakness..." he joked, referring to calling her princess.

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila wiped the tears from her eyes as they threatened to fall, and her lip curled in annoyance. She hated crying, but it was something that had happened at the moment a lot lately. Hormones. She sighed, feeling embarrassed and stupid, even though no one was there to see her tears.

Aquila had always thought of crying as weak, but right now she was so upset. She just wished she could have a friend, someone who would always have her back, but how could she ever let anyone that close? People tended to hate her, she was too sarcastic and quick to attack others as her defense mechanism.

Aquila felt lonely as she wrapped her arms around herself and let her head droop. A voice rang out behind her, followed by the sound of thundering footsteps and she turned around, her curly hair bouncing as she did so. She saw the disappointment flash through this girls eyes, but then she spoke with a friendly smile.

Aquila recognized her as one of those kids that seemed to be popular, just because they were from Mühe. Must you ALWAYS be so rude? She thought in annoyance to herself. She decided that she wouldn't judge this girl by her cover- or to be more precise, her house.

With the smallest of smiles, she nodded her head at this girl. "That's alright, im often mistaken for someone else," she said sarcastically, mentally hitting herself. "Sorry, im in a foul mood." She apologized quickly. She went to respond to the girls question, but the answer had just arrived. Aquila nodded her head at Lucian as if to say 'him' to this girl, before turning to him with a false smile.

She was really embarrassed now, for her tears were clearly in view of him. Her gaze hardened as he began to to talk to her. She wasn't sure why she was so mad at him- oh wait yes she was. Hormones. She didn't care anyway, this girl had been nice and he'd just outright ignored her. And he'd ignored Aquila. Thought it made her feel happy that he'd chased after her, she still was upset. Shrugging as if she didn't care, she shook her head. "No thanks, I think i'll hang out in my dorm." She mumbled.

Turning back to the Mühe girl, she smiled softly. "I'm Aquila Wilson. Nice to meet you." She told her, before turning on her heel.

[Lucian Ciero]

Lucian sighed and watched her walk off, turning to the Muhe girl he said:

"Women."

Rolling his dress robes sleeves up Lucian prepared to be hit as he walked off after her, he was not about to let her go off upset even if she wasn't going to come back to the ball, this was his fault and he'd fix it.

"Oh Princess Wilson! Princess Wilson wait!"

Lucian jogged again until he was walking in front of her all the way to her dorm if need be.

"Look. I know that's not what you want, I know you're probably embarrassed about being upset but you needn't be, please, at least let me talk to you until I know you're alright."

He looked for the first time since being here a little upset himself, he really didn't know what to do.

"Tell me what you really want. If it's for me to go join the douches in Englanf that's fine I will, one day you'll blow my head off in battle or something, but if you want to dance or you want to talk then...I'm always here even if I was admittedly a bit of an idiot tonight."

Lucian did his trick again only this time instead of a flower out came a small thin bar of chocolate and he held it out to her.

"Chocolate helps with everything doesn't it?"

Shuffling his feet he waited, deciding he'd best go back to the ball in case he was rejected, again, Lucian bit his lip and put his hand on his head.

"Forgive me Aquila." he said softly as he turned.

[Guest]

Alys may not have known the Risiko student very well but she knew a little something about foul mods. "Wait," she said, reaching into the discreet pocket of her dress and withdrawing a pack of Favorite Gum, the magical candy that changed into whatever flavor the chewer desired.

"Alys Diederich," she smiled, tossing the pack of gum over to the other blionde. If she wanted to go and curl up in her dorm, Alys wouldn't stop her. She knew how therapeutic a comforter and pillow could be. "I hope to see you around school, Aquila," she added, waving at the witch.

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila stayed silent whilst Lucian talked to her, but it had taken a lot of restraint not to punch him when he'd called her princess. She was shocked when she had thought of it, for she wasn't often a violent girl. Okay, that was a lie, she was very violent, but it was normally with her wand.

When he handed her the chocolate, she took it and smiled gently at him. It was so sweet of him, to offer her chocolate and before that go off on this whole speech about doing whatever it took to please her. She could feel herself beginning to swoon, when she suddenly stopped herself and her lip curled.

He was trying to trick her! Well, she would not give in to him without a fight. She was going to give him a piece of her mind, but the soft tone he apologized in made her waver. Perhaps he was just being nice. She nodded and muttered, "Have fun at the dance." to him as he walked away.

The other girl walked up to her and introduced herself as Alys. Aquila quickly caught the gum and grinned. It was her favourite gum, and immediately she felt better. Slipping the chocolate into the secret pocket of her dress where her wand was, she stuck a piece of the gum in her mouth and slipped the packet into the secret pocket as well. "Thanks," she responded, and rather hesitantly she stepped towards Alys. "Could I... nevermind." She shook her head and smiled.

"See you around." She mumbled.

[Guest]

Seeing the girl having some difficulty communicating, the witch looked at her encouragingly. but when it seemed she wasn't going to say it, Alys said it instead. After all, who asked or offered wasn't important. What was important was Aquila's answer.

"I'm sure your dorm is very confy, but why don't you come hang with my friends and I for a bit. I swear, if you hate us, we'll let you leave," she grinned, showing her she was joking. "And you can even pelt us with punch though I can't promise Zara won't retaliate if you choose to."

[Lucian Ciero]

Lucian turned and decided that he was personally going to resign from this job, he wandered a little more down the corridor and placed his head on the wall, groaning softly.

He could feel the punishment begin already.

A sharp intake of breath wracked through him in an attempt to beat the sudden pain and fatigue, he slid down the wall and sat down on the floor his head in his hands.

"You're an idiot Lucian. Complete muppet. You're Kermit the Frog. That's what you are. You're not even cool enough to be Kermit."

Lucian realised that the silence from Aquila probably meant shed like him to just go to England and get blown up, so maybe he would do, he would go to England

Walking back to the hall he smiled softly at Violeta and hugged her softly:

"Forgive me for being away so long, I must go and pack for a trip now. But it was lovely to dance with you Violeta, very lovely. Have a wonderful holiday, you fantastic girl you, I might see you next year."

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila smiled brightly at Alys, but quickly schooled her features into one of indifference. Shrugging casually, she nodded. "Sure, i'd enjoy sitting with you. And oh fun, a fight," she said in a teasing tone. "At least sitting with you lot is better than being a loner," Aquila told her.

She kind of felt bad for being so dismissive with Lucian, and she felt a strange feeling of loss in her stomach all of a sudden as her and Alys made their way back to the dance. Entering the room, she saw Lucian finish saying something to Violeta, his arms around her.

Aquila hoped to catch his eye, and she smiled softly in his direction.

[Lucian Ciero]

When Lucian saw Aquila come back in with Alys he felt a huge surge of hurt develop in his stomach, so she would rather sit with them after he'd tried so hard and meant genuinely what he said to her?

Well that's fine. If she was happy then fine.

Growling a little he prowled away from the dance with a small smile in Aquila's direction, he really did hate it here, at least in England he would have his sister to talk to.

Shoving his hands in his pockets he could help but dwell on the hurt that he felt at being rejected for someone she didn't even know, and he went out of the hall proceeding to punch several Walls as he went past.

"If that's what she wants. Fine. Fine! Just reject me then after I've been so sincere! That teaches me. I won't mean a thing i say from this second forward! Sometimes I really HATE women." he scowled.

With that he started up the stairs to his dorm and he couldn't wait to be out of this stupid school, even if Highmaster Nettle had given him an apprenticeship.

[Guest]

Walking With Aquila back to her friends, Alys greeted them by taking the glass of punch nearest to her and draining it. It was Tarragon's, she realized belatedly, but he wouldn't mind.

"Sorry guys, I'm back. And so is Aquila. Now all be nice and say hi to her or I'll set Zara on you," she joked, winking at the other Muhe girl. To Aquila, she merely added "Don't worry, we're not going to bite, unless you're keeping chocolate from us."

Filling two more cups of punch, the girl set one down in front of the boy and offered the other to the Risiko witch.

[Lucian Ciero]

Lucian also made a note when he was going upstairs to look up some curses that his sister wrote down for him, especially in case he needed to contain his anger.

An incubus when angry was not something that should be messed with. And that's exactly what he was.

The arm on his dress robes began to burn away where his tattoo was, showing a shining red pentagram, and his already black eyes darkened, he needed energy because he had been punished for upsetting a woman, however he had no qualms about upsetting one who had taken her from her.

He was sure that the Muhe house would be filled with perturbed dreams tonight, if he had anything to do about it. Which he did.

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila looked at the other Mühe students, and nodded her head in greeting. Her head turned when she heard footsteps and Lucian flashed a smile at her before storming out the hall. She'd seen the hatred burning in his eyes, accompanied with hurt and she felt saddened.

There was something dangerous about the anger that had radiated off of him, and she worried about him. She wondered if she should follow him, but she didn't want to be so rude as to rush off on the Mühe students. Instead, she turned her eyes back to them and noticed a Geschick among the group.

"Hello." She greeted, her eyes staring at the doorway before she quickly looked back to the group. She was torn. One part of her said follow him, the other part said be polite, make some new friends. The latter sounded a lot like her mother, and she frowned.

What to do, what to do.

[Raziel Ciero]

Raziel sighed, the pentagram activating on her brother had automatically summoned her to the area that he was supposed to be around, and she found herself in the hall in Durmstrang, great...

Extra cold.

Noting there was a girl on her own Raziel went over to her and smiled, she wondered why the rest of the group were being so harsh as to leave her alone and Raziel was not one to care for girls.

Taking the girls hand she gestured to the table "Do you want to talk to them? Or is there a reason you're over here all on your own?" she said with a small frown.

Walking over to the other table she smirked. "How about you include everyone huh? Like you know you should. Not being jerks and things." she smiled at the two boys.

"Have you boys, or ladies, seen a Lucian Ciero? I need to prevent him doing something idiotic..."

Raziel craned her head around and spotted twins, handsome twins and her eyes sparkled, before reminding herself to think about that later, it wasn't the time.

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila turned her head as a young woman arrived - a very attractive one at that. When she asked if they'd seen Lucian, Aquila frowned. "Yes. Is something wrong?" Aquila instantly felt it was her fault. He'd stormed out of there because she was rude to him when he was just trying to be nice.

Guilt welled up in her stomach as she sent an apologetic look to Alys. "I'll be back." She told her, and then stepped towards the stranger. "I'll take you to his common room, I assume that's where he went." Aquila said, her voice clearly stating that this wasn't open to negotiation.

Gesturing towards the doors, she looked at this woman expectantly. "Come on." She said, leaving the hall and heading for the Verstand common room.

[Guest]

Alys had no idea what to make of the spectacle so the witch did the best she could, nodding at Aquila when she said she would be back. If the girl had to leave, she had to leave. Alys just hoped she had gotten the message that she was welcome to join them whenever she liked. It could be a lonely experience, school. And no one should have to go through it if the blonde could help it.

Turning back to her friends, she said "Okay, so what were we talking about? Certainly not trashing the Zeverai manor on the last week of holidays."

[Raziel Ciero]

Raziel raised her eyebrow at the girl, who promptly turned to talk to everyone else but to the girl she had brought over, her own pentagram began to burn, and she felt like shed like nothing more than to reach over and slap the eleven year old.

"Hey, yeah, you, the pretty girl over there, is she included in these plans? Cause you're being jerks by ignoring her. I don't like jerks. You're supposed to include everyone at these things."

Glaring at the girl she smiled at the one she had brought over and tapped her shoulder: "She's just jealous cause you're prettier than she is. Have fun chickies." Raziel said happily.

Turning to the girl who was helping her Raziel smiled happily and followed her, her brother was normally so controlled about his anger, especially around girls, and she wondered what had happened.

"I hate to ask, but was anyone upset? Lucian often gets like this when someone he likes is upset, he's a gentleman at heart under his flirting really."

Raziel followed the girl out of the doors:

"I'm Raziel Ciero, Lucians sister. Who are you? Loving the dress by the way, really nice."

[Aquila Wilson]

Aquila smiled back at this woman when she smiled at her. When asked if anyone was upset, Aquila rubbed the back of her neck.

"Um, I was. It was just a little thing, he was dancing with Violeta and im always getting ditched for the pretty girls. But he sort of followed me, and I was still kind of mad so I rejected him, and I think that upset him." Aquila sounded sad and guilty as she stared at her feet.

She hadn't thought Lucian would be so easily upset, but now she could feel the guilt chewing away at her. She wanted to apologize straight away.

"Oh! Nice to meet you, im Aquila Wilson. And thanks." Aquila brushed bright red. "I love your hair. I've always wished my hair wasn't so curly, wavy." Aquila tugged at one of her locks and it bounced right back into place when she released it.

They wandered down the rest of the halls, and finally reached the common room. "He's probably in his dorm." She told Raziel.

[Guest]

Terry stood probably too close to Zara but the proximity of all these new people made him a little nervous. His claustrophobia usually didn't act too bad, but large crowds up people gathered around him made him a little uneasy. He just knew that he would have to do a lot of mediating before the wedding and he would be fine.

When Alys introduced them to a Aquila he was very polite. "Hello I am Terrence, nice to meet you."

But no sooner than she was here they were gone, which was ok with him.

"Anyway so we are talking like the last week of the holiday, correct.?"

[Guest]

Alys nodded cheerfully, reaching over to playfully poke Zara. "Tarragon says he has a housekeeper, Mrs. Hummel or something. Bet you anything she'll hate Zara and I sleeping or making noise at night."

Taking a seat with her three friends, she mock sighed, "I wish we had a house keeper, then Mama wouldn't be yelling at me all the time to go out on my bicycle and do the weekly shop. Though it would be lovely so see Annika - my Muggle friend - again."

[Guest]

. "Tarragon says he has a housekeeper, Mrs. Hummel or something. Bet you anything she'll hate Zara and I sleeping or making noise at night."

Zara laughed with Alys and poked her back. "I'm sure we'll end up scaring her into quitting. And you only have to worry about shopping for a few weeks. Rosie, our housekeeper, is used to my Papa's and my laziness. She's worried if we dont sleep for more than twelve hours."

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