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Tegz
Well that was an improvement. The smiling. Jimmy was a sucker for a pretty smile. It was about the third best thing a girl could do, he reckoned.
"Well, I figure if just seeing me made you smile, then if I made a little effort to show you a good time, maybe a few good surprises in a row, maybe the year won't be a total loss."
He took a few steps and then paused, waiting for Marie to join him. "Can't figure out why the hat got it wrong. It argued with me and everything." He nodded at her explanation of the Room of Requirement. He'd read enough to know, and of course Neptune had plotted romantic escapes there... before. Not that he'd gone along with it. Pshhh. Give Neptune Bott an inch and she'd take a mile. Not that she mattered right now. Not with another pretty blonde smiling at him and keeping him well distracted.
He grinned, dimpling at Marie. "Oh and, call me James S. Wilkes. There's only one of me."
He was going to make an effort to show her a good time? Really? Now Marie really couldn't get the smile off her face.
"I like the sound of that." she said.
"Surprises are good, just as long as they aren't like the ones I've been getting lately." No, she did not want any more bad news surprises. She has had enough of those to last her a lifetime.
She started to walk with him when he stopped to wait for her. Yes, going to the Room of Requirement was definitely going to be more fun than standing there in the dungeon corridor. Not that she was complaining about that.
She would stand out in the rain with him if he wanted her too. "Well let me see, could it be because you're smarter than what you let on? Wait, you argued with the sorting hat?" How had she missed that? Oh right, it probably happened when she was getting her heart broken by Carter... again.
Oh my Merlin, he was so cute when he grinned like that.
"Well James S. Wilkes, you can call me anytime you want Marie J. Salazar. There's only one of me too." she said as she gave him a little wink.
As they walked her mind started to wander a bit wondering what the Room of Requirement was going to look like when they walked in.