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[rileymcgranahan]

Date/Time: Friday, April 1st, 8PM
Location: Hallway
Open To: Darin
Currently Involving: Riley, Darin
Warnings: Ahahaha. Possible violence, definite bitching.

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[charmingdarin]

Now there was something that Riley and Darin shared! A love of sweets. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.

Ha. Haha.

Yeah, that would never happen. Or never anytime soon, anyway. That whole bit about hating her simply because she was a Slytherin? That applied to Darin -- and applied quite a lot. Honestly, it didn't help that she was Sam's family. He didn't trust her, and she was close to one of the people he cared about the most.

That meant that not only did he hate her, but she was in his radar, so that he couldn't just ignore her the way he did the majority of her house.

Though where she was groaning and eyerolling, he just kind of grinned at her. Not a happy sort of grin, but one that said something along the lines of 'I'm going to piss you off today, and I'm going to enjoy it.' He was, too.

"Riley. As ever, it absolutely sucks to see you," he said by way of greeting, stopping when he was still a decent distance away from her.

[rileymcgranahan]

What Riley hated most about this bloke right here was that he was a complete and total hypocrite. He was prejudiced against her for something she couldn't help, because Slytherins were prejudiced against him for something he couldn't help. And the thing was, bloodlines had nothing to do with how Riley judged people at all. Her best friend was a half blood. The professor she looked up to? Also a half blood. Sammie? Aunt Cass? Uncle Ed? Blood traitors. Obviously she didn't give a rat's arse about your wizarding parentage or lack thereof. However, Darin failed to realize this. Or perhaps he just enjoyed hating her

[charmingdarin]

Perhaps he did just enjoy hating her.

Truth was? Even Darin wasn't so blind that he couldn't tell she was different from her housemates. But he didn't care. First of all? Slytherins were notorious liars, so perhaps she was just especially good at it. Second of all? He just plain did not like her.

Which was funny, since if she'd been in any other house, they likely would have gotten along quite well. Not that Darin would ever think of this, but it wasn't like he spent all of his time thinking about Riley, so there you go.

"Aw, Riley, I knew you loved me," he said, rolling his eyes slightly. He took another couple of steps toward her, shaking his head. "Don't get it too far into your head, though, sweetheart. I'm afraid you just don't have any sort of chance."

Hm. And a sort of awful idea occurred to Darin just then -- he wondered if Sam had told her cousin yet, about them.

[rileymcgranahan]

Darin was right there. Riley was a fantastic liar. The only difference between her and the other Slytherins was she was using it to protect herself and her friends from them and not from the other houses. She also tended to omit the truth a lot. Especially with her family, Sam especially. She was hiding things, yes, but it was more the things she put up with than anything about herself.

Speaking of Sam, Riley hadn't seen her in a few weeks. Something about a social life. And Riley wasn't about to argue. Just because she didn't have one didn't mean Sam wasn't allowed.

Riley might have been able to tolerate Darin if she was in some other house, if he wasn't prejudiced against her, but the truth would be he was still prejudiced. Riley hated that more than anything.

"Damnit. There go all my dreams. I've always wanted nothing more than to be in a relationship with a bigoted arse," she said with a bittersweet smile, taking a step back. She preferred to keep this particular Hufflepuff at a distance. Quite a bit of distance.