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Who: Andra & Lauren SASS'N'CLASS FTW
What: BFF Chit Chat because Tori and I are clearly insane and have way too much crack going on
Where: Grrrryffindor Common Room!
When: September 12th, 8pm
Warnings: Girliness? XD
Open to: Lauren!
( Oh Lauren, what have you gotten yourself into this time? )
What: BFF Chit Chat because Tori and I are clearly insane and have way too much crack going on
Where: Grrrryffindor Common Room!
When: September 12th, 8pm
Warnings: Girliness? XD
Open to: Lauren!
( Oh Lauren, what have you gotten yourself into this time? )
She looked up with a lopsided smile, then made a grabby hand before patting the couch next to her; it had been far too long since she and Lauren had giggled and talked about nothing in particular, and the distraction from work was more than welcome.
"Technically," she replied, closing the book after having slid a piece of parchment in to hold her place, "I'm trying to finish early. I really don't want to have to spend my morning, shoving eggs in my mouth while I try and figure out whether the rune in this particular reading means 'son' or 'sun'."
She flicked at said rune, watching it spin dizzily before coming to a stop; nope, still confused about that one! So she'd let it alone for a while and focus her energy somewhere more fun -- Lauren!
"And I'm to assume that you probably haven't even given your assignments a second thought, hmm?" she asked teasingly, tilting her head to regard her in a playfully scathing manner. "Tut tut."
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Clearly marks fell far below her social status. Or something!
Lauren grinned widely before practically jumping onto the couch to sit next to Andra. It truly had been awhile since they had been able to just hang out and giggle and talk nonsense. Summers always sucked, because she didn't always get to see her friends... so she was happy that they had one more year to spend together at school. Despite their work load, she'd always make room to spend with the bff.
The blond looked over the others shoulder at the rune, "Oh, that old thing? Pfft. Piece of cake. It actually means moon." She nodded sagely, knowing that Andra would be aware at how horrible she had been in the class, and that she shouldn't listen to her in the slightest.
"What?" She gasped, her look now turning to scandalized, "How dare you assume such things! I... read over the assignment after class... briefly. So that's thinking about it. Kind of."
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"Hmm, yes, yes, I see that," she replied, the corner of her mouth tugging up into an undeniable smile. "It just might be crazy enough to make sense of what I already have," she added, twisting around to show her the parchment she'd been scribbling the translation on.
"Mammal lettuce star giving hopeful cleansed moons."
Runes were obviously were far beyond her reach. She'd been awful at them since her first day, and it was definitely discouraging. How could something so fun and puzzle-like be so distressing?! Despite it all, she couldn't stop the raucous giggling that erupted from her at the nonsensical deciphering.
"You're a genius, love," she added, tossing the parchment aside and grinning as Lauren tried to justify just how and when she did, in fact, give a second thought to her assignments. Oh, she'd never have expected anything less!
"Well if you aren't off being a studious little Gryffindor, then what are you up to? Not getting into too much trouble, I hope?" she added, waggling her eyebrows suggestively.
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She'd like to assume, on her friend's behalf, that it was the former of the two.
"How you're going to get that class this year, I will never know..." She commented seriously, rolling her eyes and shuddering slightly. Lauren was ever grateful that she had gotten out when she had the chance!! That, and she couldn't exactly be allowed into the class after she had done so poorly on her OWL. Though she was able to giggle along with her friend, as that sentence was FAR too amusing.
Lauren rolled her eyes again when Andra waggled those eyebrows, "I don't have any idea what you could possibly be suggesting. Most of the time I am locked up in our dorm room..." Snort. No, Lauren sadly spent little to no time in the room unless she was sleeping, "Honestly, though, I haven't been up to much other than the norm. You know, hopping from one group to another trying to see how everyone is doing."
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"I like it," she replied, lighting up a little in her geeky sort of way. "I just have to work at it, that's all. ... I hope." She laughed, then waved her hand to dismiss the unpleasant talk of schoolwork, when there was catching up and possible gossipping to be had.
"Oh?" she asked, giving her friend a disbelieving look. "Hmm, riiight. Locked away in our dorm, I definitely believe that one." She winked, then shook her head and listened more seriously when Lauren explained that she'd been bouncing about to see how everyone was.
It was honestly a good thing that one of them was concerned with (some of) the general populous of Hogwarts. Andra hardly ever paid any mind to what her schoolmates did, so she was often lost when something major happened, socially. It was nice to know she could always tug Lauren aside, whisper, 'What happened??' and get filled in on whatever she'd missed.
"And?" she asked, leaning back and dangling an arm over the back of the couch. "How is everyone? Now that we're high-and-mighty seventh years and whatnot?"
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It was quite the shocker that the two were friends, wasn't it? Considering how they basically didn't have ANYTHING in common! It was kind of nice that way, though, because Lauren knew she didn't have to compete with Andra at all. And that, despite their differences, they both accepted each other as they were.
Also, Lauren loved nothing more than being able to inform Andra of the goings on in Hogwarts. Perhaps she was a bit of a gossip but... that was more because people just told her things, rather than her seeking it out.
"They are faaaaaabulous," She laughed, patting her friend on the arm, "The firsties that I met so far seem wicked cool, and everyone else is quite thrilled to be up a year. Though, it's weird that last year's seventh years aren't back... but! It's even crazier that we're seventh years! I don't think it's fully hit me yet, I'm in denial."
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"It is crazy!" she agreed, sitting up a bit straighter. "And it's crazy to not see the old seventh years, I keep thinking I'm going to run into one of them in the common room, or the hallways... Seniority is strange." She shook her head, frowning just a bit; it was hard to get used to the fact that they had one year left, and then poof! Out into the real world!
She really had to get cracking on a future. Plan plan plan!
"Denial sounds good, I'll go with you on that one," she finished, grinning broadly once more. "Think it'll have worn off by the time we've finished our NEWTs?"
Ugh. Shudder. NEWTs was something altogether more terrifying than the thought of the 'real world.'
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And yes, she did enjoy chatting away with them. Basically, she treated them the way that a specific fifth year had treated her when she was a first year. Because of the kindness shown to her, she thought it was only right that she spread it along to the next person.
"I know, me too! I keep thinking that I'll see James or Darin or Bry or..." Here she paused, laughing almost to herself, "Notice how I only name off the boys." She rolled her eyes as she sighed. How pathetic she was.
Lauren clutched at her friend's arm, "Please join me! It's not so fun all by my lonesome!" Now she pouted, thinking about how being in denial probably wasn't healthy for either of them in the long run... but it was better than thinking about the future! Which was scary business and she'd like to ignore it, thanks.
Of course, then Andra had to bring up Newts. Which... yeah, that made her shudder. She couldn't even say anything about it, because NEWTs was something she was not looking forward to. At all.
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Of course, this year maybe Andra would need to take a few notes from her friend; she needed to snag herself at least one guy in the safe waters of Hogwarts before ever attempting to be available after school! Oh, the woes of a mostly private seventeen year old. Hrmph.
As Lauren clutched her arm and playfully pleaded for Andra to join her in denial, she laughed once again before patting the back of her hand lightly. "No worries! I shall happily go frolicking with you about in Denialand, but be warned that when spring rolls around? I am totally going to have to drag myself out and start studying."
Okay, so that made her sound like a really uptight, class-A nerd. But in all, her agreeing to live in denial for something like five months was a huge change in attitude. Not studying obsessively? Enjoying her classmates' reign at the top of the totem pole? Sounded like a plan to her!
Long live denial!
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Which brought her thoughts back to something(rather, someone) who she probably shouldn't be thinking about!!
She'd have to possibly get the nerve to ask Andra about her dilemma.
"Fine," Lauren sighed exasperatedly, dramatically rolling her eyes practically all the way to the back of her head, "If you must leave me then, do so. Though I suppose I might just have to follow you, for once, and try my hand at being a nerd. Wouldn't want to fail my NEWTs and end up back here for another year, would I? No. No, definitely not." How dreadful that would be, though she supposed it would save her the trouble of worrying about her future...
No. Lauren could never seriously consider failing her last year of school just to come back. That would be weird and far too pathetic for even her. She could do this growing up thing, just you wait and see.
"Actually..." Here was a good window of opportunity, an easy way to bring up the subject, "I was talking to Professor York just yesterday and... he was saying something about going into the field of Potions somehow..."
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It was all fair game!
And speaking of Potions! Andra's ears perked up as Lauren mentioned Professor York, and at her words she gave a slight start. He had been talking to Lauren? About Potions? She hated it, but she couldn't help that tiny pang of jealousy in the pit of her stomach -- not because she didn't think Lauren deserved it, Merlin no! If they had anything in common, it was a knack at Potions. But it was a little disheartening, since she had tried to talk to Professor York before about career options regarding Potions.
Maybe she was trying too hard? Maybe he thought she was brownnosing? Whatever, now was not the time!! "Really?" she asked, smiling wide and never once letting on how she felt on the inside. "That's pretty awesome, what did he suggest? What did you say?? Wait, when did you talk to him?"
Her head tilted at that last question, having wondered if her friend dared to venture down and seek a meeting with the man! Definitely surprising!
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Lauren was glad that they could come to this agreement, both knowing that as much as they might follow the other... they'd still likely fall back into their old habits. It would be amazing, though she wasn't looking forward to all the studying. But still, amazing because she'd be doing it all with Andra.
"Then it's a deal," She held out her hand, balling her palm minus the pinky in order for her friend to hook hers around it, "Pinky swear?" She knew it was a silly, childish thing to do... but she also knew that they had one year left of acting as immature as they pleased, so she was going to soak it up!
If Lauren had know at all how Andra felt about the Potions track, how she would feel a bit jealous at hearing she spoke to the Professor about it, she would not have mentioned it. Or at least not like that. She knew that Potions was her friend's favorite class and all, they had had more than a few conversations dancing around the topic, but still! Perhaps her head wasn't all together there at the moment anyway, since she wasn't so much wanting to talk about Potions as much as she wanted to talk about the Professor.
She laughed when her friend started to ask all the questions, "I talked to him yest--" Pause. "Wait! What am I thinking, I talked to him today! Wow. That was today?" Lauren paused again, wondering how it had already seemed like so much time had gone by since she had spent that hour with Professor York. That or Tori just fails at keeping up with dates.
"Anyway, he started talking to me in the hall today, then asked if I wanted to help him out with things in the class..." Wow, who knew she would get so nervous talking about him, she thought as she bit her lip, "As for what he suggested, um... teaching and... you know, brewing obviously, and I think he said hospital work? And something else I can't remember." Shrug. She wasn't too bothered by it just yet, like her friend was.
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"Pinky swear," Andra repeated, grinning a wide, silly smile as she hooked her pinky around Lauren's and gave their joined fingers a firm shake. She was not above acting immature for the last year that they had left! There was a likely chance that once the year was over, they'd be forced into acting civilized and mature whenever they saw one another...
Nah!! She was sure they'd still be silly. Somehow.
"Today?" Andra repeated, laughing as she witnessed how much difficulty her friend had with recalling her days. She'd been about to ask what she helped him with (as Professor York really seemed kind of reclusive), when she saw the tell-tale lip biting.
Hmmmm.
"Yeah?" she asked, not paying much mind to what Lauren was saying as she was now preoccupied with whatever had her friend nervous. "I mean, are you considering it? You look kind of... I don't even know, honestly. I don't think I've ever seen you look so... contemplative?" She wasn't even sure if that was the word she was looking for, but it didn't add up.
Lauren, her darling friend who had been discussing living in denial for the rest of the year, contemplating career paths? Definitely not.
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Lauren, as mentioned already, was determined to act as immaturely as she could since it was the last year that they would have as an excuse to be immature. But that didn't mean that she'd stop once out of school.
No, Andra's thinking was right -- though they'd somehow have to be mature once they entered the 'real world', Lauren was sure that they would forever hold onto their giggly, silly, over-the-top-crazy antics when in the each others company. She would see to it.
Damn her for showing SIGNS. If anyone was to read her properly, Andra was the safest bet since she knew her FAR too well.
"I'm-- No. No, I'm not exactly contemplating it. Or at least I don't think so. Or... well, I hadn't until he mentioned that it would be a good idea. It's--" She cut herself off again, scratching the back of her head, because honestly! How does one broach this subject? "I don't really know what to say. I'm... well, all I can say is that... if it means spending more time with him? Then yes, I am considering it..."
Lauren cast her eyes down to examine her nails, her cheeks feeling slightly hot. This was really embarrassing for her, apparently. She was almost ashamed to discuss it, because she wasn't sure how Andra would respond! Or what she would think! Hell, she didn't even know what to think herself, so it was an overall awkward situation to be in. She suddenly wished she'd never brought the subject up in the first place.
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Andra watched Lauren, and found herself at a complete and total loss. It wasn't the fact that her words and actions and mannerisms hinted at some sort of crush on the professor -- that was far from shocking to Andra. Lauren was a go-getter, a playful and beautiful girl who loved boys as much as any other girl loved clothes and makeup and ... unicorns when they were four. That was not what had Andra perplexed.
What had her confused and befuddled was the way it was delivered; the way Lauren wasn't meeting her gaze, and how her cheeks were actually pink. This was not something she'd seen before! She was more accustomed to Lauren confessing her weekly desire for this guy or that Auror, so on and so forth -- no shame, no hesitation, and by far, no blushing.
Her mouth opened once, then closed again. What in the world could she say in response to this? The good news was that there wasn't any of that buzzing in the back of her mind, nagging her to point out how very wrong any sort of improper relations between a teacher and a student were. Yet.
"I..." she finally started, finding the simple act of speaking somewhat difficult. "Wow."
There was a pause, followed by, "Are you saying... I mean, I'm not judging, you know me. But I'm just making sure that I'm sort of... deciphering this right. And that you aren't like my crappy runes that make no sense.... Is there crushing going on here?"
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Thankfully it was Andra. The one person she KNEW wouldn't make fun of her for it or hold it against her, though if her friend decided to tease her about it later, she wouldn't hold any grudges. As... come on, how many times had Lauren made fun of Andra blushing? More than she'd care to admit.
She let her blue-green eyes drift upwards, back to the girl sitting next to her as she smiled timidly. This was odd not only for Andra, but Lauren as well! She wasn't USED to acting or behaving or feeling this way. It drove her bonkers. This was why she didn't bother with this bollocks any other time. Simply stating that she had a crush or was interested in a random bloke who caught her eye was much simpler than actually feeling somewhat invested from the get-go.
Why was Frederick having such a big impact on her?!?!?
Sigh. "Yes, you are correct. Or... well, I hate admitting it, Andra, I really do. But there's just something about him, and I can't begin to tell you what. It's just... spending time with him today was... I don't know, it was refreshing and fun and he's so cute>," She now bit her lip again, but more so to stop herself from smiling so brightly. "But it's one of those things, you know? He's forbidden fruit, so it doesn't even matter. Probably just another one of my flavors of the week, I'm sure it'll pass quickly so don't mind me." Or at least she hoped it would pass quickly.
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