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Alexander River Hirsch
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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow  Ella looked up at Alec and nodded, her cheeks growing a bit warm when he tucked her hair behind her ear. She really liked it when he did that. She liked most things about the boy, actually. "Yeah. I'm still tired but it helped." And she gave him a small smile. "Thanks for sitting with me." Because she would have slept worse if he hadn't of been there. That's just the way things were lately.
Messy? The blonde glanced around the table at the mention of his name and frowned slightly. "Where is he, anyway?" He was doing that disappearing thing again. Ella didn't like that so much. She also didn't like the thought of no ice cream. "You don't think that'd happen, do you?" She was whispering now, her eyes wide with worry. No ice cream CLEARLY warranted a very worried expression. Besides, they had plans. Ice cream and blanket fort plans that the blonde was looking forward to.
...
Any look Lottie had almost given was missed by Ella as her focus was now on the paper cup in front of her. She wasn't exactly thirsty but faking interest in that was far better than watching air kisses. At least for right now.
And the blonde continued staring at said cup when she felt Alec grab her hand and give it a squeeze. She glanced up and saw that his cheeks were red, causing her to look at their hands instead. She even squeezed a little too.
She knew she was being completely silly about this. That was the worst part, too...The knowing she was being ridiculous. Knowing that and feeling bad were two different things, though. She couldn't help the feeling anymore than she could help the knowing. Still tired. Alec smiled a little back at her, secretly wondering if there's anything he could do to help her feel better. But then again, if she really was just tired, then there wasn't anything he could do, yeah? "Maybe you need another nap?" Or just some proper sleep? "Oh, hey, what are boyfriends for?" GRIN.
"Messy? Erm... I dunno," he said, frowning slightly, "I haven't really heard from him all summer. Have you?" Dude was going to get a serious talking to afterwards... and maybe a hug too. Maybe. Being in his own thoughts, Alec almost didn't catch onto the whispering that Ells was doing. Almost. "Erm... well, I hope not!" he whispered, shrugging his shoulders and frowning slightly, "People treat them nicely, right?"
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So... this was probably not the way to start off this year. Nope. And he sincerely hoped that the blonde girl wasn't upset or anything. Because... that just wasn't something he wanted to see from her. Upset/sadness/frowny faces. Nope.
Except... she did squeeze his hand back. And he smiled slightly. Text Cut: Minnie! Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Alec was such an awesome friend, Minerva looked around the table, honestly most of them were awesome friends, but Alec was one of the tops. One of her little badgers as well as adoptive brother. So when he was happy that it helped she couldn’t help but give a smile, “It did, really.. I guess sitting alone in that compartment my mind was going in a few different directions. One of those direction was Ethan’s last term. So I really needed a friend and you just showed up.” She gave him another quick hug.
Looking at Alec she frowned a bit, she didn’t want him to think he made her sad. No he didn’t she made herself sad. “Alec you didn’t make me sad at all, I was already feeling it before we talked, but like I said you helped.” Giving him a smile, “But anyway this is a happy time, all the new firsties and classes starting. It’s just great to be back.” Seeing Minnie smile had to be one of the nicest things ever. In all honesty, Alec really liked it when anyone smiled because it meant that they were happy, yeah? He liked happy people. They were always really really awesome. Nodnod.
"Really?" ... Oh! The sitting alone thing and overthinking thing. Alec knew a lot about that and how it felt so... this made him even more glad that he had decided to sit with Minnie. Not that Minnie would have minded him sitting with her, yeah? "Were you overthinking things?" Overthinking was not great sometimes. "Well... I'm glad you let me sit with you!" he said, before reaching over to return her hug with a big, squeezy one.
"I'm glad because... you shouldn't be sad, yeah? Ever," Even though it was inevitable for people to be sad. But still, he didn't want to see that from her. "Yeah, you're right! New firsties and classes and a whole year of really awesome things," GRIN. "Are you looking forward to this year?" Text Cut: Laura! Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Laura suddenly heard her name. "Oh Hi Alec." Laura smiled. "I find just thinking about a few things." Laura had been having a busy summer and a few other things had happened during the summer, especially with her twin sister not even answering the letter she sent, there was all that plus the fact that she couldn't sit still and was dreading exams but no one needed to know that. "Did you have a good summer?" Laura smiled. Just thinking... Nodnod. Although, now Alec was starting to feel slightly bad about disturbing her thoughts and just disturbing her. What if she wanted to spend some time alone? Or what if she just wanted to sit there thinking, even if it was with lots of people around her?
... Eh, this was the Hufflepuff table. Everyone talked to each other here.
"Hey!" he said, grinning at the girl, "Yeah? Erm... what kind of things were you thinking about?" Unless she wanted to keep those things private because... you know, thoughts were thoughts and sometimes they should stay that way. Maybe.
Oh summer! That question! He could answer those. "Oh yeah! Summer was really awesome!" What happened, what happened? "Erm... I mostly stayed at home and visited people but... still awesome." Nodnod. "How was yours, Laura?" Text Cut: Awar-bear! Quote:
Originally Posted by Awarlesta Black Alec's ginormous grin was always a mood lifter and always a joy to see. Yay! Big hugs! Big hugs are awesome! Reeeally awesome! "I've been well. GREAT, actually." Which was true. There were no more eh's or meh's or better's. It has been absolutely great. "I had an awesome summer! I spent it in Switzerland with my uncle and cousin. I loved it! However, my brother spent the summer alone and I felt quite bad about it...He almost squeezed me to death with his hugs when I got back home!" Oh, Manolo. You weirdo. Awar was officially his sort of younger sister person, okay? Okay.
... He probably needed to ask her about that. Maybe. Later.
But back to the girl. "Really? That's AWESOME!" Because... there had been a time when the girl had said that she was doing 'better' yeah? And better meant that she had been sad before? ... Alec didn't want to think about that so he simply went on to say, "You look really happy!" GRIN.
So she had an uncle, a cousin and a brother. Got it. "Yeah? How was Switzerland? Did you do anything interesting there?" Details, he wanted lots of those! Nodnod. "Oh! It sounds like your brother really missed you, then!" he said before letting out a small chuckle. ... Pause. "Erm... so is it only you and your brother at home?" ... Maybe... this was a touchy topic. Oops. Text Cut: Haruka! Quote:
Originally Posted by SakuraMochi Haruka was fiddling with her fork, daydreaming about a cat army invading a yarn factory, when she heard someone approaching her. She turned and saw an older boy leaning over to her with a big smile on his face. He introduced himself as Alec.
Haruka smiled back and said, "Hi Alec, I'm Haruka. Nice to meet you!" ... Oops. Had he disturbed someone else?
Alec reached up a hand to ruffle his hair, a sheepish expression momentarily crossing his face. He didn't really mean to disturb people, it was just a sort of... habit. Yeah. Greeting new Hufflepuffs was just something he tended to do at Start of Term Feasts. But maybe this girl wouldn't mind meeting someone new?
Plus as if he was scary.
OH. GRIN. "Hey Haruka!" Could he possibly call her Ruka? That sounded like an awesome nickname, yeah? ... He'd probably have to talk to her at least on one other occasion before nicknames could be given. "It's great to meet to you too! Erm... so are you looking forward to your first term here?" Text Cut: Tucker! Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom "Nice to meet you Alec!" Tucker said as he got comfortable in his seat. There was a LOT going on around him and he was trying to soak it all in...keeping track of who was who and what was going around him. Everyone seemed really cool so far!
Not counting those dudes on the train of course. Another new Hufflepuff dude! Which was good because Alec had a feeling that there were a lot of girls in this house. ... Actually, scratch that, there were a lot of girls in Hogwarts in general. That was probably something the guy would find out soon, yeah? If he hadn't already.
"It's great to meet you too!" GRIN. "Erm... so are you looking forward to your first term here?" he asked, tilting his head to the side, slightly. ... Also, did the dude do hugs? That was important for future references, see. And... he should probably ask about the guy's summer as well. Maybe. Text Cut: Forrest! Quote:
Originally Posted by Deniiz Can we stop shouting at each other?
Forrest was, naturally, STARTLED all over again and it took him some time to realise the boy meant HIM. (He meant HIM, right?!) He met his gaze too and it took all his will not to lower his head, because the boy looked so confident there that if all the Hufflepuffs were like him, Forrest would be honoured to call himself one too.
Yeah. Now find your voice to answer him, or he'll think you're deaf or something.
"I'm Forrest." As opposed to boy's growing confidence, Forrest's looked like it was diminishing with every second. "Thanks--I'm--I'm a muggle and I'm--" He blushed awfully and looked down at last, surprised to see he'd been nailing the plastic plate. You can't imagine how excited I am. You fill in the blanks in my sentence, yeah?
And let's ignore he called himself a muggle instead of 'muggleborn'. ... BLINK.
Alec couldn't help but feel slightly awkward right about now. And not the awkwardness that he usually experienced when him and Ells were talking about... things; that was a whole different kind of awkward. This was more of a: Oops, I didn't mean to scare you or anything, I just want to be friends? Maybe?
Confused boy was confused.
OH HE WAS SPEAKING! ... Quietly. He was talking very quietly but he was still talking. "It's great to meet you, Forrest!" Forrest, Forrest... he couldn't come up with a nickname from that. Hmmm... Also, did the guy just call himself a muggle? "Erm... so all of this must be really new to you, yeah?" Yup, he was going to ignore the muggle bit... sort of. "Hogwarts is really awesome! I hope you really like it here." And if he didn't Alec would... would... give up ice cream.
... Nah. Text Cut: Oakey! And small mentions of Theo! Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE Oakey's final Starting term feast...was lacking in luster. He eyed each of the banners over head and noted how droll they all looked. Hufflepuff especially. Yellow was normally a vibrant color, but this was more like...if someone threw up on it, which could have been the case cause he thought he spotted a stain on it somewhere while looking up. He leaned his head back down and looked forward at the tables. Were those plastic cups and forks, the plates were looking flimsy too. He moved his way to the Hufflepuff table and sat beside three students in Green. Great even the wardrobes were getting moldy. OH HOLD ON! That was West, Theo, and and the younger girl...Sonea he thougt her name was. He turned his head over to the Slytherin table had they run out of seats were those cut back on too? How many first years were sorted into their house that they couldn't fit these two and the girl? He quickly remembered the plastic as he saw Wim... Theodore snap on of them. "You could go over to your Table and do that you know."
Oakey looked down at his paper plate. and over to the one Theodore was sitting over. Paper was something he needed as he wasted all the parchment on the Train ride up trying to write Professor Flamsteed's Summer Assignment. Without asking Oakey grabbed the plate in front of the Slytherin and layed it on top of the paper plate in front of him. He pulled a quill from his robe and started writing down on the Paper Plates. So long as the Assignment was done the Large Foreheaded Professor would have to accept it. ... Oakey had entered the scene.
And Alec... didn't know how to feel about this. Sure, Ells had explained things but the guy still felt slightly uncomfortable just by remembering things, not by the actual guy himself. Maybe. ... He really didn't know.
But... Oakey was here and he was working on things and basically being Head Boy-y. And it was still great to see the guy again. "Erm... hey there, Oakster!" he said, grinning and waving at the boy, "You okay? Had a good summer?" ... Were those too many questions to ask all at once or...?
Also Theo was there. More uncomfortable-ness. Text Cut: Bliss! Quote:
Originally Posted by ForeverYours "I wonder too," she said, blinking again at the plastic stuffs. It was just weird. Normally, she'd just be like, 'pffft, it's Hogwarts', but this just seemed strange. More than Hogwarts strange, because ... why? She didn't think there seemed to be any point at all. "You don't think anything happened to the elves, do you? Or the kitchen itself?" She asked, slightly worried. Honestly, it was probably best not to put too much thought into it now and wait to the Headmistresses speech, where she'd hopefully explain it all.
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Question one. "I've been alright. Maybe good." She'd been coping, basically. It was a long story, all her emotions and stuff, but she could sum it up quite easily. Alright, because family. Good, because West, who she snuggled next to at that very moment. It was pretty simple actually, when she thought about it. Now then, Summer: "Summer was ... weird and awkward for the most part, becauseofmyfamily," she mumbled, before brightening slightly, as the next subject was about West. "West and I went to Brighton and that was REALLY fun." Back to Alec, now. "How are YOU and how was YOUR holiday?" She needed to know all of the glorious details. Something happening to the elves? Or the kitchens? Hearing this, Alec's eyes grew a little wider and he looked from the plastic cutlery to Bliss and then back again. What if the elves were in danger? Or... or... something had happened to the food? Or the kitchen had burnt down over the summer? "I... hope not!" he said, frowning slightly and looking back up at the girl, "I mean... if something did happen, we'd hear about it, yeah?" He didn't really know how much he believed in his own words but he did find comfort in knowing that no news is good news. Maybe.
ANYWAYS.
Maybe good? "That's really awesome to hear," he said, grinning at her. Yeah... really awesome. Especially considering the things that had happened to her before the summer holidays. ... Oh. "Yeah? Erm... how is everyone in your family?" Even if he didn't really know them that well. He only really knew Bliss and her little sister, Tianna. But mainly Bliss. "Oh really? Brighton sounds like a really awesome place!" And she went with West so naturally, she had been happy, yeah? "Erm... what was it like there?" ... That was a better question than the one he had been meaning to ask.
As for him... "I'm great! Just really nervous about being back, I guess?" Or maybe not really nervous since his hair wasn't ruffled beyond control. "And my holiday was great too! Dad and I built a shed," Which was boring news, now that he thought about it. "And I met up with Ells a lot! And... I made pizza with Tag too." He wasn't looking for any signs on the girl at the mention of his best mate. Nope! Text Cut: Ethan! Quote:
Originally Posted by emjay Ethan had been greeting all his new Claws and catching up with friends at the Ravenclaw table, but he couldn't help his eyes from continually drifting towards the Hufflepuff table. Once he found a lull in the conversation at his own table, he got up, if only for a few minutes, to at least say hi to his favorite Hufflepuff.
It was no surprise that she was surrounded by a bunch of people, old friends and new housemates.. she was always so friendly. As he approached her, he caught Eliza out of the corner of his eye. Hadn't he just seen her at their own table? Chuckling a bit to himself, he offered his housemate a little wave before continuing his walk. And not too far from Minerva were a couple of Puffs that he knew at least a little bit. "Hi Ella.. hey Alec," he greeted the two, giving them both a nod and smile. Min had told him that Alec had kept her company a little bit on the train while he was gone and had been grateful to the other boy for that.
Nearing Minerva, Ethan lightly placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey.." he began with a bigger smile. "I won't keep you too long.. just wanted to come over and say hi to my favorite Hufflepuff." His eyes wandered over to their table.. oh, so Eliza's theory had not been correct. "So, your table has those too," he said, curiously looking at the plastics gracing the table. It wasn't about Ravenclaw being in last place, because Hufflepuff had pretty much won everything last term and they had the same second-rate tableware. OH LOOK LOOK LOOK!
Alec GRINNED at the sight of the older Ravenclaw who was probably here to see Minnie. Except, the dude had said hey to him, Alec, and Alec couldn't help but feel really really happy. How awesome would it be if the two of them could become friends? Or at least get to know each other a bit? ... Hopefully. Before the end of the term came around and Ethan left forever.
... Anyways...
"Hey Ethan!" he said, waving enthusiastically at the boy, "Erm... congrats on your Prefect badge!" Because it was better to say these things in person, yeah? It sort of made it more official and meant that he, Alec, could see the smile on Ethan's face. And the pride. "And... did you have a good summer?"
... Also... since Ethan was here to see Minnie, Alec wouldn't bother him for too long. And he will look away if they started kissing. Text Cut: Nate! Quote:
Originally Posted by natethegreat Nate first noticed Alec...because Alec wasn't that hard to notice. So he said "Hey Alec. How was your summer?" Truth was Nate didn't really want to talk right now...he just wanted to eat, get to the common room, then take a nice long nap. Hopefully he would get to do that. I mean Nate wouldn't mind a little talking...just not much. Which was kind of weird because normally Nate was a talkative person. ...
BLINK. BLINK. STARE.
Nate? Nate was here?! The dude had practically disappeared for most of the previous term! Just like Messy had. And Alec had practically been left alone in the dorm which... wasn't great actually. ... Was this some sort of disease that was slowly spreading across their dorm? Was Alec next?
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ANYWAYS. Back to Nate. "Hey, mate! It's great to see you again!" And don't disappear this year, okay? They needed to have bro chats and candy eating nights and just keep each other company. "Erm... yeah! Summer was great! I spent most of it with Ells and Dad and Tag," Which immediately made it awesome. "How was your summer? And... how are you?" Text Cut: Kace! Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan18 After he found out he was in the hufflepuff house, he was so relieved. He was in the house his sister was in. As he was approaching the hufflepuff table he was shaking in his shoes because he was so nervous. Kace walked to the table and he saw everyone else talking and making new friends. He did meet new friends on the boat and they were nice but he wondered what other puffs were first years.
Kace saw Minnie the girl he met on the train. She seemed to be popular and he decided to let her chat. But he did not mind this house. He thought he was going to like it here. So in all the kerfuffle of greeting people and hugging people and asking about summers -- GRIN for unintentional uses of his surname -- Alec had almost forgotten about greeting the new Hufflepuffs that were joining them. Almost.
He turned his head and was about to look up to see where the Headmistress was on the 'giving the speech' front when his grey-blue eyes landed on a small boy. A really small boy that Alec hadn't seen before at Hogwarts. So... he had recently been sorted, yeah? Hopefully otherwise what Alec was about to say would turn out to be... well... awkward to say the least.
"Erm... hey, there!" Grin and wave, grin and wave! "I'm Alec, Alec Summers. And welcome to Hufflepuff!" Text Cut: LochNessie! Quote:
Originally Posted by Talikins Still as adorable as ever, that was her Alecutie. She had missed him way to much, along with her other kiddos of course.
He had grown though, grown plenty over the holidays, she could tell by his hug. It made Nessie sad yet proud at the same time to see that her little kiddos were becoming bigger, better and of course more and more amazing each day. She knew they'd all be special individuals one day, in actual fact they already were. They honestly meant the world to her and she would do close to anything for them.
Smiling she took her own arms and wrapped them around him tightly. "Hey, Alecutie!" She was still allowed to call him that, right? Or did outgrow it? He'd say something, wouldn't he? Heh either way, he's still be her little cutie no matter what anybody said, even if she couldn't call him that aloud, still he'd be her little bro, cutie.
Nope, not that she remembered ever seeing them torn. She shook her head at him then pouted, pouted and thought. Hmmm..even the fact that they were torn, why weren't they fixed with a simple repairing spell before the students arrived? It was odd, that was one thing for sure. "I don't know kiddo, I don't know." The pouting just continued as she finally took a seat. Alecutie!
Alec couldn't help but chuckle a little at that special little nickname from the Head Girl. It was nice that she was the only one who called him by that. It sort of made it their special little thing, even if it was something as small as a nickname. And he had a small feeling that even if he was 30 and the girl was 32, she'd still end up greeting him with Alecutie.
Not that he minded, of course.
... Oh. So they were never usually like that? Frown. His grey eyes looked up at the banners, taking in almost every tear and rip they landed on. This was... weird. Really really weird and probably not the best way to start off the new term. Hearing LochNessie's voice, he tore his gaze away from the banner and looked at the redheaded girl. "Oh..." he started, frowning some more, "There'd be a good explanation to all of this, right?" Text Cut: Bay! Quote:
Originally Posted by Riverlynn The newly sorted Hufflepuff skipped down to the table with the....well rather homely looking yellow and black banner over it. Odd considering how lavish the train had been. Her green eyes tried to spot Minnie as she was extremely excited to be in the same house with her new friend. It seemed she was surrounded by a bunch of people so Bay took an empty seat near the end.
A frown crossed her face as she looked at the dinner ware. Paper plates and plastic cups? Honestly she had expected nice china or something like it. Even the orphanage had actual plates and glasses. This was just....well....disappointing. Sighing Bay took a drink of water from her plastic cup and waited for dinner to start. All the excitement from today had the 11 year old starving for food. Her little body was still shaking a bit but that would pass eventually. ...
NEW PERSON.
Or newly sorted person. One of the two. But he hadn't seen her around at Hogwarts before and she did seem to be coming from the stools... area so... yeah.
And this girl seemed to be frowning which only made Alec feel slightly uncomfortable. The idea of anyone being sad or upset or just frowny in general wasn't something that sat well with him. Especially since this girl was frowning over, what he assumed to be, the plastic cutlery. Not great.
Despite this, the nearly sixteen year old grinned at the girl and gave her a small wave, trying to attract her attention. "Erm... hey there!" He wasn't being awkward, nope! "Welcome to Hufflepuff! Erm... I'm Alec, Alec Summers." GRIN.
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