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Week Name/Date/Time: Meeting of the Minds / Saturday 1st October / 2 pm
Location: Hogsmeade
Open To: Tobias
Currently Involving: Andra
( Curse Lauren. )
Location: Hogsmeade
Open To: Tobias
Currently Involving: Andra
( Curse Lauren. )
Had they planned on where they would meet? He didn't recall actually picking a place; no, as far as he knew, he'd merely said that he would see her there. Curse him, really.
Glancing about, he saw the sign for the Three Broomsticks. Ah, well that would be as good a place as any to sit and wait. The windows had a nice view of the street, so he'd be able to see her if she passed by. Pushing the door open, he stepped inside, immediately grinning as he caught sight of her.
"It appears we have the same mindset," he said as he stepped up to the table that she was sitting at. "Mind if I sit?"
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Maybe it was something that she'd eaten.
"Ah, well, the Shrieking Shack's always on my list when I actually come to Hogsmeade, so we'll put that at the end, yes? I always like to visit it as it's getting dark outside. It makes it feel like it's haunted again, if only for that one moment."
Shrugging as he took another sip of the butterbeer, he added, "Even though it's quite obvious that the 'ghost' is gone now."
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"Too bad it's not snowing," she said absently, gesturing outside. "I always like coming here when it's snowing. Makes the butterbeer better, I think." She laughed lightly, trying her best to regain that easy banter between them.
It was hard. And she didn't like that.
"Er, how was your week?" she asked, attempting again.
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He took another sip, shrugging lightly. "But I won't get into another babble about the weather. I'm sure I've quite exhausted you on that topic."
Ah, so she did want him to talk after all. When she asked how his week had been, he took another drink from the cool liquid, thinking about it. "Well-- it was quite good, overall. I got an owl back from Mum, which was nice, but she was telling me that I've got too many female friends. That was a bit baffling, but I owled her back saying that I tend to just get on easier with girls, so I hope that will ease her mind. Other than that, it was completely uneventful."
Eyeing her with that same faint smile on his lips, he raised an eyebrow. "And how was your
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She blinked, then shook her head of any thoughts like that. He'd dated Lauren. That was good enough proof for her. She really didn't want to think that he might not be interested in... well, girls.
Eeep.
She looked to him with a smile, then shrugged. "It was okay!" she replied. "I was pretty down earlier in the week, as you knew, but then.. well, things started looking up, I suppose." Her smile was a bit more shy, and she looked back down to her drink with a happy smile. "She was concerned with the amount of female friends?" she asked, grinning as she looked back at him.
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Leaning forward slightly, almost conspiritorily, he lowered his voice. Glancing around to make sure that no one would hear him, he smiled brightly and asked, "And I hope that I had something to do with that cheering?"
It would literally make his day to know that he'd picked up Andra's week. He loved being able to make people happier; it made him feel like he had more of a purpose being in this form, in Hogwarts, on the earth.
Grinning as the conversation shifted back to his Mum's concern, he nodded. "Yes. She thinks I don't have enough proper male influence in my life. She's probably worried that I'm -- not interested -- in girls, because I have so many of them as friends."
Shaking his head, he chuckled, drinking some more of the smooth drink in his hand. It was almost gone; he'd need to get another one. "I've never been able to shake her concern."
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She grinned, then leaned back, relaxing as he talked about his mum's concern. Her eyes widened slightly, and she gave a rather nervous, sputtering laugh. "Well, that's silly!" she replied, before looking to him, still smiling despite the fact that she'd just wondered the same thing. "Isn't it?"
She had half a mind to say that he should date a bit to prove her wrong; but that couldn't go well. So, instead, she shrugged. "Well, maybe you're just too busy, huh?"
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"Yes, it's silly. I'm..." He forced himself to trail off for a moment, thinking about how to word what he wanted to say. He couldn't very well just say that he was very interested in girls, because he specifically meditated half the time to get girls off his mind ( ... )
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That was a load off her mind, to be sure.
She was smiling more freely now, listening to him with interest. This was something she could talk about all day! She wasn't being specific or really saying that she might think of him as more than a friend and definitely not a freak. It was all very general.
"You never know until you try, right?" she offered, shrugging. "I mean... some girls might be too shy to come out and say anything. But maybe you are too? I don't know.." She trailed off, then gave a shrug.
She looked down, finally peeling the label completely off as she continued. "Some people are just more difficult with relationshippy stuff." Like me.
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The barmaid came over and he ordered another butterbeer for both of them. He wasn't sure how much more she had in her bottle, but if she still had plenty, then she'd just have another one ready for her.
"Lauren was actually the only girlfriend I've ever had, and I was not the one to initiate anything." Tobias wasn't sure if that was the best thing to admit, but it was him, so it wasn't something that he could just lie about. Besides, he didn't want to lie anyway.
Tracing a finger along the grain of the table so that he wouldn't exactly have to meet Andra's eyes, he continued, "So I guess I'm stuck with a bunch of girl friends until I find someone who'll just come out and tell me she likes me. Either that, or until I find someone who I can just be forward with."
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She watched him, grateful that he was looking down and not at her; had he been, he'd have been able to see her look of complete defeat.
Andra looked down, too, thanking him softly for ordering her drink. Her mind was still wrapping around what he'd said, and it was unnerving. He was stuck with a bunch of girl friends until he found someone who could just come out and tell him that she likes him.
That?
That was not her. At all.
Of course, she hadn't even pondered whether or not she was someone he could be forward with. She doubted it, though; they'd just started being friends not that long ago.
"She'll be lucky," she offered, smiling as she looked back at him. "So here's hoping .." What? Here's hoping you find her? Here's hoping she finds you? Nope, just that. Here's hoping. "Cheers!"
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That, perhaps, made Tobias blush more than the adorable grin comment had before. That was saying that he was worth that kind of affection from a girl, and while he knew that he was a good person, to hear that he was worth it from someone else?
Well, suffice it to say, he blushed.
"Thanks," he murmured, shifting in his seat and thanking the barmaid as well when she brought the drinks. He assumed that they'd be leaving the Three Broomsticks soon, but another drink wouldn't hurt.
Taking a sip, he cleared his throat. "What about you, Andra? What kind of a... relationship are you in right now?"
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She quickly finished her first butterbeer before sliding the glass bottle across the table and gingerly taking the second. She couldn't recall ever having taken the time here to have more than one drink. Usually, she came to Hogsmeade to pick up something, and only stopped to grab one on the way in or out. She rarely sat and socialized; it was nice.
As he asked about her, she sputtered lightly with a laugh. "Me?" she asked, as if completely baffled as to why he'd even ask. She looked up, shaking her head. "I'm not... Definitely not in any kind of relationship," she replied, shrugging. "I've not really been interested in it before... Or rather, the boys that I have been interested in either didn't know or... didn't reciprocate. You know."
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Tobias sounded incredibly surprised as he looked up at her with a curious and wide-eyed expression. He couldn't believe that, so for a moment, he wondered if she was just kidding around. But no, she looked quite serious about that fact.
"I would've thought that any guy would snap you up in an instant, honestly."
Shrugging as he traced the table once more, he realized that he was probably blushing again. He wasn't used to just complimenting someone, because he wasn't sure how she'd take his words.
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She looked up, still grinning wide. She wasn't complimented often -- not at all, really, except by her parents, or Lauren -- and so it meant quite a bit to her. And coming from Tobias?
Well, the red cheeks were evidence enough.
"Thank you," she finally said, beaming wide. She didn't know where to go with it after that, so she cleared her throat and tried to at least keep the conversation moving. Difficult, for her; she wasn't used to leading the conversation.
"So, what do you like to do? Besides play Quidditch?"
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At that thought, his gaze dropped back to the table. Why had he thought that? No, no no no. She was pretty, yes, but he wasn't going to be thinking about her and pretty together. That would make for an awkward moment, seeing as she didn't think about him in that sense in the least.
"..what?"
A mixture of his thoughts and the ringing in his ears meant that he'd missed her question, something that embarrassed him to no end. He couldn't very well tell her what he'd been thinking, and he wasn't about to explain the ringing, so now it just looked like he'd not been paying attention.
"Sorry, I... was... got distracted." Oh, bollocks.
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