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Mia looked at Parke in surprise for a moment. "You can see that? How?" Was it possible that the Slytherin boy was like her. Although she hadn't checked out his aura sometimes she liked to figure people out the old fashioned way. By just talking to them.
Well it seemed they had sort of the same thoughts about love and marriage. Of course Mia didn't think like that anymore and she had never thought of marriage as a business partnership more that she couldn't imagine herself with the same person year after year. But again things had changed since Nik.
"I think you are going to have a very interesting time at Hogwarts, Mr Ives." Mia couldn't help smiling. "I do believe you will be thinking differently before you know it." The girls at Hogwarts could be rather irresistible at times and she was sure that Parke was going to discover that.
Any other girl probably would have found that comment rather patronizing but Mia merely beamed. "Okay. And you can call me Mia when no one else is around too." Because that was only fair, right?
Ooookay.
Obviously she had said the wrong thing. Mia held up her hands and leaned back away from him. "Woah. I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that you all went to the same school, studied the same things, attended the same parties which meant you really wouldn't have much too talk about."
She certainly knew not to ever say something like that again.
And then he was back to his formal self and apologising. "It's quite okay. I probably shouldn't have said that." Mia put her hands down and straightened back up. "What did you have in mind, Parke?"
He gave her a curious look. Why on earth would she think that? "Yes, well, it's been rather interesting already", he said simply. As for thinking differently, he doubted it. That was one topic of which he was sure of his opinion.
He felt sheepish as Mia explained what she'd meant. He had a tendency to get defensive rather quickly. A character flaw, he supposed.
"Well...", he paused, thinking. He wasn't sure what you were and weren't allowed to do here. "Dinner", he decided finally. "I'd like to take you out to dinner. Wherever you'd like to go." That should make up for his outburst, right?
Parke glanced at the sky. It was getting a bit dark. He should probably get back to his studies. He'd been out here talking for quite a while. "Miss Gibbon, it has been a pleasure." He just couldn't bring himself to use her first name. "I thank you for allowing me the privilege of your company. I'm afraid I must be getting back to my studies before it gets too late, but hopefully you'll grace me with your presence again in the near future. And I meant what I said about that dinner."