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Felixir · 08-18-2018, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Harron Peasley

Diagon Alley was way busier than he'd thought it was going to be, and giving Flynn the slip had proven more difficult than previous occasions because he couldn't just get on his skateboard and zip away. Józef did eventually manage to, though, when his cousin was occupied with his boyfriend, and without a backwards glance he was out of the bookshop (who had time for reading when there was so many, much more exciting things to do?) and

.....

Instead of running off to somewhere or something more interesting, Joey was confronted with a boy clambering all over a bench and balancing on the backrest of it! That looked cool, and of course the eleven year old immediately wanted to try it. So he did, climbing up and standing wobbly but grinning massively next to the other boy.

"Good view."

Spencer liked to believe he was a lot better at this balancing malarkey than he actually was. The threat of falling and injuring himself was very real, but Spencer barely considered it. There was definitely a KNACK to it though, a trick to staying balanced and looking COOL while he was at it, and it had everything to do with keeping composed and still and blah blah blah. But Spencer was a ten year old whirlwind, he didn't like being composed and still and blah blah blah. So, naturally, he wobbled. A lot.

It was while he was wobbling (a lot) that Spencer became aware of someone joining him, and instantly turned his attention to them. This lapse in concentration led to even more wobbling, and Spencer had to employ emergency windmill arms to stay up on his precarious perch.

More importantly, though, he had an audience. Another participant, even. Spencer grinned back at the other boy, nodded his head, and found that that threw his balance off even more. He stopped abruptly, but kept grinning.

"The best," he said, with an obvious lisp. A shuffle of his feet later, and Spencer found that sweet spot that would enable him to keep his balance a little better, and maybe even have a conversation at the same time. "Cool kids don't sit on benches, they balance on them." He was, of course, asserting right from the off that he was one of the aforementioned 'cool kids'. That was very, very important.

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