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emmafan123 · 01-11-2012, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

....Uh oh. Aspen had .... oh no. The cherry got him in the face?! As needless as it was, she still reached for another napkin to help him clean his face. She went ahead and dabbed at his shirt, too, in a very motherly fashion. "Clean? I don't think the word quite fits me today." No, she was the cheesy, clumsy cherry-bomber. CCCB, they'd called her in the history books....

She just kept on cleaning him for lack of anything else better to do, her expression torn between utter defeat, amusement, and TOTAL humiliation.

"Shamefully, yes. It's not a very successful campaign, I admit. Your company seems to be a catalyst for disaster." And yet.... she was smiling. She was also wiping his shoulder for cherry-goo that wasn't actually there, but Aspen Odessa was smiling. How could she not? "Do you usually have this effect or is it just me?"

She was pretty sure of the answer, but maybe...

Cornelius was distracted from his own words as he suddenly found Aspen coming towards him with an extra napkin, soon finding that she was cleaning his shirt of any cherry found there. It wasn't all that difficult for her to reach him, his substantial height making his shoulder well within her leaning-across-the-table distance. And so all he had to do was sit there as Aspen decided his shirt needed extra cleaning, watching her with pure amusement in his light brown eyes as she explained that he was, indeed, the catalyst for disaster in her day.

"I kinda like that...catalyst for disaster," he repeated thoughtfully, his gaze locked onto her expression, similarly to the way he stared at her in the Common Room, and flashed her a grin. And he noticed she was smiling. What a difference it was so see Aspen's face when she was in the Common Room with a book over her head and when she was cleaning cherry tart off of him with a genuine smile. He couldn't help but look. "I feel like you don't exactly hate the catalyst," Cornelius pointed out, raising his eyebrows at her with a small smile, referring to her own smile.

Maybe it was just him, but it seemed as though Aspen was enjoying his company. Or at least he hoped she did.

"That depends on what effect you're talking about," he decided as she asked if she was the only recipient of this 'effect'. "The whole 'catalyst' theory, or this nice smiling thing that's happening on your face?" Cornelius grinned at her, not even acknowledging that she was still cleaning off the cherry tart from his shirt that wasn't even really a stain in the first place.

This wasn't the first time he'd gotten a girl to smile, but there was something about Aspen that made the smile feel earned; something he felt surprisingly proud of.

01-11-2012, 03:26 AM	#54 (permalink)
emmafan123 Niffler Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 20,190	Blonde&Proud Sirius Sense of humor Quote: Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz ....Uh oh. Aspen had .... oh no. The cherry got him in the face?! As needless as it was, she still reached for another napkin to help him clean his face. She went ahead and dabbed at his shirt, too, in a very motherly fashion. "Clean? I don't think the word quite fits me today." No, she was the cheesy, clumsy cherry-bomber. CCCB, they'd called her in the history books.... She just kept on cleaning him for lack of anything else better to do, her expression torn between utter defeat, amusement, and TOTAL humiliation. "Shamefully, yes. It's not a very successful campaign, I admit. Your company seems to be a catalyst for disaster." And yet.... she was smiling. She was also wiping his shoulder for cherry-goo that wasn't actually there, but Aspen Odessa was smiling. How could she not? "Do you usually have this effect or is it just me?" She was pretty sure of the answer, but maybe... Cornelius was distracted from his own words as he suddenly found Aspen coming towards him with an extra napkin, soon finding that she was cleaning his shirt of any cherry found there. It wasn't all that difficult for her to reach him, his substantial height making his shoulder well within her leaning-across-the-table distance. And so all he had to do was sit there as Aspen decided his shirt needed extra cleaning, watching her with pure amusement in his light brown eyes as she explained that he was, indeed, the catalyst for disaster in her day. "I kinda like that...catalyst for disaster," he repeated thoughtfully, his gaze locked onto her expression, similarly to the way he stared at her in the Common Room, and flashed her a grin. And he noticed she was smiling. What a difference it was so see Aspen's face when she was in the Common Room with a book over her head and when she was cleaning cherry tart off of him with a genuine smile. He couldn't help but look. "I feel like you don't exactly hate the catalyst," Cornelius pointed out, raising his eyebrows at her with a small smile, referring to her own smile. Maybe it was just him, but it seemed as though Aspen was enjoying his company. Or at least he hoped she did. "That depends on what effect you're talking about," he decided as she asked if she was the only recipient of this 'effect'. "The whole 'catalyst' theory, or this nice smiling thing that's happening on your face?" Cornelius grinned at her, not even acknowledging that she was still cleaning off the cherry tart from his shirt that wasn't even really a stain in the first place. This wasn't the first time he'd gotten a girl to smile, but there was something about Aspen that made the smile feel earned; something he felt surprisingly proud of. __________________ Last edited by emmafan123; 01-11-2012 at 03:32 AM.