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[lynnella]

Who: Ella & Emma Montgomery.
Where: Shopping for furniture and other important flat things.
When: May 24th, afternoon.
Why: Ella thinks they should decorate the whole place before they get a flatmate to disagree with their taste. ...Also, bonding!

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[leighemma]

Emma was not the sort of person to care that they had the whole Ollivander fortune coming to them (well, to Ella, so she figured that counted for her as well). Money was not infinite, and she'd seen and heard too many tales of people who had ignored financial advice and managed to go bankrupt despite starting out with sizable fortunes. She certainly wasn't about to waste money on a couch she wasn't entirely certain on

[lynnella]

Ella, for her part, had heard far too much from Emma to take money lightly - and she was not given to spending much to begin with. Most of her purchases were on behalf of the shop - base supplies for the wands. And Emma helped with that; while Ella checked the quality, and chose what was needed, her sister was best at making certain they had the best deal they could possibly get - and Ella saw no reason to pretend otherwise.

At Emma's comment on the coffee she raised it to her lips again - finishing off the last bit, although she was, by nature, cautious in her movements. Ella didn't particularly mind doing so; it was simply habitual to keep from fighting (even over something that would not, likely, turn into a fight).

Ella had been contributing to the lists in her own way - secure in the belief that Emma was noting down prices and makes, Ella had been making use of a camera to make certain they could compare the couches visually (although she had no doubt their memories were good, she preferred to be certain) as well as her

[leighemma]

Emma nodded at approval to her sister's decision to move on. It was especially nice when they seemed to be in complete agreement of their thoughts (although they were still not the same person, thank you). It made shopping much easier for one thing.

"This should be enough couch and chair sets for now, don't you think? How about we move on to coffee tables? We can perhaps look at kitchen tables at the same time."

Truth be told, Emma was terribly excited about their new flat and being able to decorate it to their taste. Their furniture at home hadn't been updated in quite some time, mostly due to apathy on the part of their parents, which left too many ghosts in Emma's mind. She couldn't look at their couch at home, for instance, without at least fleetingly thinking of Eddie sitting there. But this was their chance for a brand new start - furniture without memories.

If this went well, maybe she'd talk to their parents about redecorating. She was pretty sure they didn't want to erase those memories of Eddie, but it was worth a try.

[lynnella]

Ella didn't see why agreeing with one another and working well together ever meant they were interchangeable; it didn't. They were two different people, even if they were similar in some ways. If they'd been a year older and younger more than technically, they probably wouldn't have such troubles: it was only that they were twins, and identical, and often in childhood people had not bothered to look beyond that.

"We have a good sample for now," Ella agreed. "Tables it is."

Ella didn't need their home or their old furniture to remember Eddie. Not really. Her father's name, the way she sometimes bought, without thinking of it, Eddie's favourite candy - Bertie's Botts, which Ella couldn't stand for the inability to know which flavour she would be tasting. Their mother's eyes; Emma's eyes, her eyes