Mel was ready for summer – she wasn’t really. That was entirely a lie. Really, the Gryffindor was just ready to get her dads to meet Kirk, after all it had hit her that she was going to be meeting his parents after the train…it may as well have been an excuse to not study for just a moment longer, studying. It was everything she ever did these days when she wasn’t managing to scrape up whatever time she could manage to be near Darce. She loved the way Darcy’s fur had changed colors and how her markings had become more defined over time.

”you look beautiful today deary,” she told her companion as she lowered a dish of food into her enclosure. Darcy immediately chirped and cursed at the dish before dashing forward and eating.

Darcy’s mits were white…but, well, sort of red as well from the cinnamon coloring of the rest of her fur. ”Hey bud…I could have named you Cinn but…I think that’d have been weird my sister works with a Cinn” she admitted with a laugh as she smiled at Darce. ”I don’t remember if I told you, but I brought up co-parenting you with Hadley the other day but she’s been so busy…” she paused before laughing ”nah…that’s a lie she’s not busy she’s just off somewhere being a mermaid” Mel winked at her Jarvey and reached her hand down waiting as Darce climbed onto her outstretched hand and began to curl up into a relaxed and comfortable ball almost immediately.