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Old 09-11-2015, 12:05 PM   #18 (permalink)
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SPOILER!!: Ava and Nora

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Originally Posted by RandomRaven
Still petting her cat, she noticed that there was a boy standing not too far from her. Oh, Hello theeeere.... "Thank you." The brunette beamed as that boy complimented her cat. "And nice to meet you, Tom! I'm Ava." She introduced herself to Tom.

And what was the older girl doing? To be honest, Ava didn't have any idea. It seemed like she lost something or maybe not, dunno. The world was full of weird people, that's what her big brother said. And maybe she realized that she was being watched by two first-years students so she stopped her activity and greeted them. Oh my, she's the Hufflepuff prefect! Ava did notice the badge because it was same as the one that Adi's and he's the prefect too. "Oh. Meet Preston, my cat." She said and showed Miss Prefect her cat when she asked who Preston was.

Catching the butterfly? "Well, I don't think the butterfly will be there since it flies." That's the logic. "Maybe it just flew higher and higher. Or I think the butterfly knows that it's gonna be caught so perhaps it's hiding somewhere." The animals did have good instinct, you know?
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Originally Posted by Sararara
]"That's a really nice name for a cat." She gave the younger girl a big grin, then turned her attention down to Preston. "Can I--I mean may I pet him? Or her?" It wasn't fair to just ASSUME it was a boy cat, okay? If it was Ava's very own cat then she was allowed to name 'em whateeeeever she wanted. That's just how it worked, or so she had heard, because her parents still hadn't let her get a cat yet. You'd think being a prefect would prove that she was responsible enough for a kitten but apparently not. Maybe her parents still couldn't figure out why they'd chosen her for the badge, 'cause Norah sure hadn't figured out yet.

Grinning sheepishly, she glanced back at the bushes she'd just been climbing through. "I'm sure it had loads of places to go, but there must be a way to bring it back. Butterflies like bright colors 'n stuff." All of a sudden the idea sounded a whole lot dumber than it had before, especially with TWO whole firsties there staring at her. They probably thought she was a total weirdo too, which was extra unfortunate because she'd promised herself to be normal-er (whatever that meant). Butterfly catching. Who DOES that. Okay fine, she still thought it was a kind of good idea but she could pretend she didn't for the sake of non-weirdness. "I guess it was silly." Norah chewed on her bottom lip and cast her eyes downward for a moment because that'd hadn't been entirely true, before looking Ava in the eye again and standing up to her full five feet of height. Prefects were WELCOMING. YEAH. "It's really nice to meet you, Ava!" AND YOU, OTHER FIRSTIE WHOSE NAME SHE DIDN'T KNOW. "What're you and Preston doing out here?" Probably something more respectable than catching butterflies. Sigh. Wasn't this all supposed to get easier now that she was old?

Butterflies? Tom remembered what his older brother had told him once about girls being practically a different species. He hadn't understood it then, but maybe he was having a better time seeing it now. He blinked a couple of times in confusion but otherwise managed to keep his expression neutral.

"You know, you can catch butterflies lots easier if you're just really still. If you try to run after them it just makes them run away. And of course if you put sugar water or something on your hand then they'll want to land on you...." Tom trailed off before he crossed the line into lecturing, because his father and brother had always told him that it was really annoying when he lectured and that really nobody wanted to hear it. He cleared his throat uncomfortably. "I'm Tom, by the way," he said to the older girl, then he turned back to Ava. "May I pet Preston, too?"
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