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"I know right? Very important. Going back to Hunter/Gatherer days." Rawr. He grinned lightly and nudged a cushion into a more comfortable spot behind his back.
Now that was... a big question. Jimmy's expression was thoughtful. "See the thing is, when you're good at something, people start taking for granted that you'll be the best, that you'll always work hard. It stops being... special I guess. Expectations happen and then you don't get a break. You can't relax and the balance of how you live your life changes. You start living for success, and you beat yourself up for failure instead of just being proud for trying in the first place." That was part of it at least. He met her eyes. "Thats just for starters." And she was gonna keep it quiet? He smiled in appreciation. "I feel like I owe you for that."
He was pleased when she sat down, and James nodded in agreement, smiling wryly. "You'd know." Slytherin. He was interested to hear her answer to his question, though he made an effort not to seem too interested.
Hehe was she really worried about that? "I guess, you know, our families associated with one another in the past." He ventured casually. Wilkes. Yes. Of those Wilkes.
Jimmy smiled. "You can do better than that." That wasn't about her after all.
Listening to Jimmy explain himself Marie started to understand him better. Basically to her it sounded like he didn’t want to be judged because he was smart. Kind of like she didn’t want to be judged for what her family had done in the past. Yep, totally understandable.
“That’s just for starters? You mean there’s more?” What other reasons could he possibly have other than people expect too much, can’t live a normal life, and he’s too hard on himself?
“You don’t owe me anything. What kind of friend would I be if I went and blabbed all your secrets?” Besides, now she knew who to go to if she needed help with her homework
or even if she didn’t need help.
She looked at him a little strange when he said their families associated with one another in the past. She played back in her mind all she knew about her family and who they were associated with. It took her a couple of minutes before it hit her… his family was on the same side as hers. She had heard the name Wilkes a couple of times from her grandfather but she would have never pictured Jimmy as part of that family if he wouldn’t have said something about it. Well no wonder he wasn’t running from her. He had a dark past in his family too.
“Right, I guess they did. And look, here we are, associating with one another now.” She said smiling at him. Who would have guessed that all these years later the two families would be brought back together again?
Yeah she knew she could do better than that but she wanted to get her family issue out of the way first, before she went into details about herself.
“Let’s see, what do I want you to know about me?” she said tapping a finger on her mouth like she was thinking about it.
“Well for starters I love being in Slytherin, I'm just not crazy about our Head of House." That woman was just mean. "
I have no siblings so things can get pretty boring for me at home." It also meant she pretty much got what she wanted from her parents. If she didn't get her way from her parents then she went to her grandparents. Yeah, you could say she was pretty spoiled.
"My favorite color is green and I hate doing homework." Okay so that wasn't really anything interesting or exciting about her but hey it was a start. Plus if he wanted to know more then she was pretty sure he would ask.