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And just like that they were walking and talking with the broken jewellery box held tight in her grasp. Common sense should have told her to have them turn back, find something safer in Diagon Alley but as it stood, she had good company and this was too good to pass up.
Lex couldn't agree more. What did one really expect by putting a bunch of daredevils high off the ground? Knitting? Reading? She shook her head at the questions to follow. "We're reckless but we usually know what we're doing--'sides, the Healer would have strung us up by our ankles down in the dungeons if we went to her about injuries sustained from leaping through windows on the seventh floor." Tillstorm was fierce, injury was NOT an option. "And that was the beauty about our Common Room and our house; hardly anyone ever came to check on us. I was being quite literal when I said we did what we wanted. Our Head of House's office was all the way over at the Greenshouses. It's a wonder we didn't wreck the place entirely."
These days Gryffindor was under new management though. Airey...didn't let that many things slide, he was just around the corridor.
Lex actually had to laugh. Stable jobs and picket fences? What even? "You might say that...yeah. One of them insisted I move in with her to learn some responsibility. Something about not being so carefree now that I'm in the big world." But she rather liked being carefree and had the means to continue so... Her eyebrows rose at the mention of party planning (who knew you could go to University for that?) but it was the next thing Abbi said that got her and it took all her self control not to have her mouth hang open. "You've basically described the last 4 years of my life--especially the last one that just went." Surrounded by idiots and all her friends graduated and leaving her behind. That had been truly miserable.
Alexa came to a stop when they got into the shop. It was the first she'd actually come inside, despite having seen it before and it...looked very much like she imagined...Creepy. A door leading to the back caught her attention. "Bet that's where the real stuff goes down." She said with a nod in it's general direction.
Common sense was something Abigail had long forgone. Her older brothers were the ones with the common sense, and her father and her mother, so really there was no point in her having it too. Thus, there was nothing in the brunette’s head to remind her just how dangerous this could be.
Abbi laughed, not a chuckle of wry amusement, not a snicker at someone’s expanse, and not feminine giggle meant to entice or charm, but real, proper laughter that slipped unheeded past her lips. “Your Healer doesn’t sound like how I imagine she would, aren’t they supposed to have a bedside manner and be all sweet?” The healer at her old school had been a matronly woman with too many loose grey hairs, wrinkles around her eyes and was the kind to give out chocolate frogs to the sick. “Really? Seriously? Hogwarts sounds… Kind of like a death trap waiting to happen. Which I mean in the
best way possible.” Abbi added with a nod of her head. Barely any supervision, a ridiculous amount of freedom and they lived in a castle? Yeah, Hogwarts sounded like the school Abigail had never known she wanted to go to.
She scoffed at Lex’s words. Thank Merlin the other girl seemed to hold the same distaste for the boring and the ordinary as Abbi did, otherwise this conversation would have been draining as all hell. “what’s wrong with being carefree and enjoying life? Aren’t you so done with dealing with people telling you how you’re supposed to live your life?” Nothing was worst in the American girl’s mind, well, aside from bad teeth and clingy, cuddly types of people and their…. Feelings.
Shudder. “You have my deepest sympathy.” No way Abigail could have survived another year at her own uni, let alone four.
Creepy, dark, dingy… The shop was like something from a nightmare. Jonah would have hated it, absolutely loathed the place with a passion, the thought brought another smile to her face. Abbi followed her new friend’s line of sight. The door was so inconspicuous that it was suspicious. She had to agree. “Do you think… That maybe
that’s the main entrance?”
Okay, it definitely wasn’t but they could certainly pretend to think so, yeah?