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[tobias_kingston]

Week Name/Date/Time: 'Trick or Treat' / Tuesday, November 1st / 10AM
Location: Great Hall/Study Hall
Open To: Rylie
Currently Involving: Tobias, Rylie

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[rylielogan]

Rylie had gone to Study Hall earlier than she needed to, simply because she knew that as of late she was very easily distracted. Although she never had trouble turning in homework assignments or helping Kat with the paper, she found herself having less time to devote to figuring out where she was headed after Hogwarts. Novelist? Perhaps. It was all starting to become fuzzy, while other things became blindingly clear.

Taking a seat by herself, she dove into her journal, writing down everything that came to mind. She wrote about Halloween, her brother expecting a child, her worries for what would await in her future, and even a thing here or there about Sebastian, Niamh, or even Andra. Anything. She was writing to write and block out everything else.

Until she heard a voice beside her. One she hadn't heard in far too long. She looked up to see Tobias smile and matched his with one of her own

[tobias_kingston]

"Abandoned you?"

Tobias' eyes widened in mock shock as he slipped into the seat beside her, shaking his head as though offended that she'd even think such a thing. He'd loosened up a lot this year, but he still hadn't quite gotten the hang of joking around -- not with everyone, anyway. "I'm not the one who's been hiding!"

He was, of course, referring to the fact that he'd not seen a hair on Rylie's head in what seemed like forever. Really, where had that girl run off to, anyway?

Ah, but before he could question her, she'd already asked him the same thing that was on his mind. Smart, she was! "I have been right here. Well, not here here, but in the castle here... uh... yeah, you know what I mean." He leaned against the table, looking around at the other seats, which were rather empty. "In the library... being beat up by Slytherins... outside quite a bit... what about you?"

[rylielogan]

She couldn't deny that he did have a point. She wasn't hiding really, but she had been absent herself quite a bit. Not that she didn't have an excellent reason for said absence. And AHA! Now a conversation with Andra was forcing its way to the front of her mind. Perhaps they had extremely similar situations. But she didn't say so, as he was answering her question.

She smiled and nodded until he reached the bit about being beat up by Slytherins. She shifted her position and leaned in a bit closer to him, eyes shining with concern.

"Before we address where I've been, I think you should explain that bit about Slytherins," Rylie told him and clicked her tongue.

Oh, she'd had her fair share of encounters with them.

[tobias_kingston]

"Explain... agh, how'd I know that I wouldn't be able to slip that in."

Tobias looked a bit chagrined as he glanced down at the tabletop. He didn't want everyone knowing that he was a pansy who got beat up by the Slytherin seventh and sixth years, but he supposed that Rylie wouldn't go laughing at him for that. If anything, she might understand his pain. Or something.

He could hope, anyway.

"Jonathan ah -- found me the other week and started talking about my parents, and other such things, and then when I mentioned a little something about incest, he didn't... like it much. And then last week he and Preston-- well... I was lucky that Lauren came by, really." He said all of that in a rather quick amount of time, preferring to move over that subject as swiftly as possible.