Text Cut: Daisy and Skylar
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Crayola 
Getting Levi and drag him out of there was much more important at the moment --he had been mighty impressive with his toothy grin, his resourcefulness and an overall brilliance that needed to be acknowledged-- so the girl didn't even stop as she walked past Brent and Skylar, accidentally overhearing the boy's words. Hmm. How much daydream potion had Brent been given?
"Brent, you really should visit Healer Reed. It's January 10th, mate."
Valentine's Day wasn't coming up; Levi's birthday was and Daisy was still not sure of what she was doing for that so, yes. No Valentine's Day for her yet, please.
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PhoenixRising Hopefully Brent knew that by showing off his cleaning spells abilities, she was never going to live it down. But attention away from cleaning and runes for awhile, because the Headmistress was speaking and Skylar was listening because obviously she was curious to see if his cleaning and runes and wits were enough to give him enough points to continue on.
Okay, so those Ilvermorny kids? They were smart, because despite being on foreign grounds, they were not going down without a fight! Etta was out, as was the female Slytherin champion ... and two Ilvermorny kids. But that left five Ilvermorny kids in the running and only Brent, Levi, and Dora to represent Hogwarts ... which if she was being honest with herself, she only really cared how one fared. And yet, if she was also being honest with herself, she half was okay if he didn't make it to the final round because it meant he could sit in the stands with her and eat junk food and relax.
What had he asked now before the results were given out? Hogsmeade weekend? Valentine's day?
Before she had a chance to respond though, Daisy had passed by to correct him on the date.
"Well you know how time flies at Hogwarts. One hour feels like a month." Skylar mused, "but don't worry, before Hogsmeade weekend in a few weeks, I'll make sure Healer Reed has a look at him."
But back to the question. "So people really do plan for Valentine's Day a month in advance? But yes, of course, I'll go to Hogsmeade with you... though I usually spend the morning with my dormmates and of course, it's Hattie's birthday." How was her best friend fifteen already? Weren't they just like five yesterday? "But after lunch." She was all his, which went without saying.
"Although, in a way, you're kind of tied for fourth," she said as an afterthought. Except there were three people tied for second, so... but still, tying for fourth made it seem even better. Even if she was proud of him no matter how the competition fared, which seemed to be in favor of Ilvermorny kids.
Brent was barely aware of what was going on around him. He had no idea that people had fainted or others were in need of healers. Maybe he was just standing in the wrong place for all of that? He did, however, hear his name as Daisy passed him by. She'd come and gone so quickly that he didn't have time to actually say anything to her, but she did leave him somewhat confused. Hadn't he said it was
coming up and not here
now? He thought he had, but maybe he hadn't. He shrugged it off and turned back to Skylar and the other names filling the screen before him.
Dude, his fellow Slytherin was out, which earned a small frown from him, but it was only temporary. After all, despite the fact they were housemates, they were opponents in IMPS. He just bet she did an awesome job anyway, though, and hey, she'd at least made it to the second round!
"Those Ilvermorny kids are tough," he said, which kind of sounded odd in a way, she'd he actually had three years of Ilvermorny schooling under his belt, and he was technically playing some of his former housemates.
"Must be teaching some major survival skills over there." It'd kind of be a real bum if an Ilvermorny kid won this thing on Hogwarts grounds, but at the rate they were going now, he could honestly see it as a possibility.
Then Skylar brought up something about the date, too, which somewhat surprised him. People really took calendars seriously around here, didn't they? Maybe planning a few weeks in advance was just an American thing, and he hadn't caught on to the new culture or something? Maybe it was customary to just totally do last minute around here and pick up gifts and make reservations at the very last second? If that was the case, he should really change his thinking before the next holiday!
He shrugged in reply to her question.
"Well, I just did," he said,
"but if last minute is your thing, we can totally do that, too." He kind of laughed on that note. What she said next, though, took his mind off Valentine's Day and back to the challenge.
"Tied for fourth? Awesome," he said.
"I'll take that over sixth place any day." Things looked like they were wrapping up here, so Brent finished that comment with
"You want to head back to the castle with me?"