Nathaniel didn't think that he needed anything from this store but he walked in anyways. Where was everyone he thought to himself. He looked around for a while and chose to get a Leather-bound Journal, a sketchbook,Galen's Gala of Gryffindors Getup, and a color changing quill. With the few things he had he walked up to the counter.

Mariel bounded into the shop in search of quills. She loved her self-inking quills and was quickly running out seeing as the tips kept breaking off. Strange. She couldn't be writing that much, could she? She was so absorbed in her quill-hunting mission that she failed to look up to see if any other customers were in the store.

Walking over to the display of quills, Mariel noticed a sign that read, 'Buy 5 and get 1 free!'. Shrugging at the thought of a decent deal, she picked up 6 of the self-inking quills. The other types just seemed silly or unnecessary. Mariel walked a bit around the store. Ink and parchment she seemed to have enough of. What about Stationary Sets? Mariel wasn't convinced until her eyes fell on Relena's Roaming Ravenclaws Rising. Swelling with Ravenclaw pride, she picked up that very set and headed up to the counter with her purchases.

The familiar face at the counter made her stop in her tracks. A devious grin spread to her face as she realized it was the Gryffindor from her flying lesson. She didn't know his name so her little nickname would suffice for now. Approaching him, she wondered if he would be as easily annoyed outside of class or, worse yet, as annoying outside of class. Still grinning, Mariel said cheerfully as she leaned her arm on the counter, "Ello Gryffie Boy. Manage to lose any more points?"

Ahh, the joy of schoolwork meant using quill after quill and parchment after parchment. And Rapunzel was considering buying a journal, so why not head to Scrivenshaft's?

She strolled in the door and started browsing the quills...whoa there were so many! How to pick just one? Ay yi yi....

Nathaniel about faced and turned around and saw the stuck up Ravenclaw. "You again!?!" he said with a raised eyebrow. "If you haven't noticed you guys have six hundred and seventeen points where as Gryffindor has eight hundred and eleven" he said with a grin. Looking at her he continued "Actually I gained twenty points for doing my Muggle Studies homework. Are you always like this or is today just a bad day for Little Miss Perfect?" he said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice

Mariel's grin turned into a slight frown. She was a bit disappointed. He did seem so easily annoyed outside of class as well. And here she was being so friendly...

"Am I always like what, exactly?" Mariel looked at him quizzically. She couldn't quite figure out what he was so angry about. "Just why are you yelling? I mean, I was trying to be friendly, coming over here and saying hello." Friendliness certainly was not her strong suit although she would make occassional attempts... in her own way of course. Mariel thought for a moment. "It's not about the points is it? Surely you can't still be upset over my comment earlier... Although I do find it quite interesting that you know the exact total of all the House points, even I don't know that." She watched him curiously for a moment. Mariel was one to easily get over things, usually anyway, so it was beyond her understanding that anyone could continue to be upset over one silly comment she made previously.

Then he said something to make her snicker. "Little Miss Perfect huh?" Mariel thought for a moment, then nodded. Of course he wouldn't know her name either. "I kinda like that. You may continue to call me that if I can keep calling you Gryffie Boy... provided you lose the sarcasm." Mariel raised her eyebrow speculatively at him.

Nathaniel looked around the store. It was nice in here. He didn't feel like making a scene and upsetting the shop keeper. He pushed up his glasses and retorted,"My dear girl I didn't take it as you being nice come up and asking me if I'd lost anymore points. You chose to make a few snide remarks on a very bad day. Not your fault of course.. but it still happened.. Nathaniel was sizing the girl up. Father would absolutely beat him if he knew that Nate was talking to a girl in this manner. "Look, I'm sorry I've been a jerk. I've been really ticked off today. Okay?" he said with a serious face and continued "You can call me Gryffie Boy if you like but for the record my name is Nathaniel. he stuck his left hand out to shake hers.

Mariel stared at the boy incredulously as he spoke and had to stifle giggles as this eleven year old, she guessed, sounded very much like her father, calling her my dear girl. Regaining her composure, she leaned her arm back on the counter and tilted her head. "You're right, maybe it wasn't very nice, but I was just joking." She shrugged, then added a little sheepishly, "A little conversation starter?" Mariel felt a little badly. She hardly knew this boy at all, she didn't know her ribbing would hurt his feelings.

"Listen, I apologize if my remarks made your bad day worse, certainly not my intention." Gah! Was she actually apologizing? So unlike her. Luckily this Gryffie caught her in a weak moment. "It's just that I saw you arguing with my friend and I was afraid that she would lose points the same way you did. That, and it seems like every class I'm in, people act like it's social hour. Just me being a studious Ravenclaw, I guess." She sighed as she pulled out her money bag and turned her attention to pulling out the correct amount for her purchases.

Mariel looked back up at him when he apologized, gave him a small smile and nodded. "Okay. Sorry you're having such a bad day." She grinned when he held out his hand. He did have some manners. Shaking his hand, she said, "Good to meet you Nathaniel, I'm Mariel. Although I may still call you Gryffie Boy and feel free to call me Little Miss Perfect. I think it suits me." Why oh why did his name have to be Nathaniel? She actually liked that name. It would be so much easier to call him Gryffie Boy if he had gotten stuck with a weird name. Oh well, she was sure she could work his fun nickname in somewhere and it just made it easier that he agreed to being called that.

Kairi walked into Scriven Shaft's Quill shop, her shoulder-length red hair tied up in a loose pony-tail and her baggy jeans dragging along the floor, her wand tucked in her pocket. She'd never been one for writing, but she'd promised her sister that she'd buy her some new quills, or otherwise her sister would do something very bad and blame it on her. She sighed, her eyes were a purply-grey, not the usaul vibrant purple that normally filled her eyes now that she was going out with Chris. She bent down to look at a Self-Inking Quill, and then felt familiar vibrations in the ground, "Hey, Nate," she said with a smile and a small wave, then she felt somebody elses vibrations, a girl, they'd never talked, but Kairi had seen her around school, she was good friends with Jenn as well, and she was talking to Nate.

Nathaniel observed the girls every move. "Truths?" he asked with a grin. "It's nice to meet you. Feel free to call me the nick name you have been. So do you like flying? My father taught me. He's kinda big deal." he winked at the girl. He totally acted like he was older than eleven years old. Oh well. He is who he is. The Ravenclaw seemed okay. Maybe they were both just having bad days. Where was the shop keeper?!
Nate looked in the nearest window and fixed his hair.

Mariel managed a smile, shrugged, and said,"Sure, why not?" when Nathaniel mentioned a truce. He did seem like a decent person now that they weren't trading snarky remarks. So, conversation... Mariel figured that that would be okay to partake in.

"I love flying," she said with a grin. "I've been doing it my whole life. I had thought about not taking flying lessons. I figured they were more for kids who've never been on a broom, but when I heard Professor Vindictus was teaching it, I knew I had to take it. He's something of a Quidditch idol, you know," she added with a knowing look. "Speaking of, I tried out for my House's Quidditch team this week. Tryouts were really hard though, playing against older kids and ones that have already played on the team. I think I did ok, but I don't know if I'll make the team." Mariel sighed. She really loved Quidditch and would love nothing more than to play on a real team. She paused and gave Nathaniel an appraising look. "Did you try out for Gryffindor? I noticed that you were a fairly decent flier in class... when you weren't busy being arrogant," she added playfully, with a smirk.

"A big deal?" Mariel asked with eyebrows raised. She inwardly groaned as that phrase set off a bit of a warning in her head. Was he now going to spout off about how important his family was because he's related to so-and-so and how she was supposed to be so impressed? She had come across too many kids like that; it seemed like half the school was related to someone they thought was famous or important and they expected everyone around them to bow down before them, or so she thought. Mariel silently prayed that Nathaniel wouldn't now do the same, now that they were having a civil conversation. She might not be in control of her words, if that were the case. Ok, maybe she was reacting a little too quickly and he wouldn't be like that at all. She would just listen to what he had to say first.

Mariel did her best to stifle her chuckling as she spotted Nathaniel checking his hair in the window. Could be as obsessed with his hair as I am about mine? She thought that was pretty funny. She was quickly snapped out of her reverie at the sound of a girl saying 'Hey, Nate.' Oh, she must mean Nathaniel. Mariel looked back over at the boy and subtly shook her head to herself. Nathaniel suited him better, she thought. Nathaniel or Gryffie Boy, not Nate, at least not to her. She figured he must not have heard her since they were talking. "Um... friend of yours?" she asked, subtly gesturing to the young girl behind them.

Jinx Moon walked in gracefully. Her eyes scanned the room.

Jinx Moon had long black hair. Her eyes are green and around the outsid of the green is black. Her skin is pale and soft and she had full red lips which are covered by black lipstick. Jinx had a black skinny jeans on with a body hugging black and red striped V-neck sweaterwith a white sleaveless top under it. Her shoes were red converses.

Quidditch. It was Nates passion. "No, I didn't try out. I want to focus on my studies, actually." he said sound way more dorkier than really was. "I only came to the lesson to fly. I didn't come here to learn. Since we can't have our own brooms.. which by the way is not cool at at!" he said with a frown.

"I was totally joking about father being a big deal. He just played professionally for the Falmouth Falcons..." he said trailing off. He wasn't trying to brag at all he was just saying. "Flying is in my blood. Father and my sister both played at Hogwarts." he said thinking about the flying he'd learned from his father and older sister.

Why wasn't his hair being nice today?! he wondered as he heard Kairi call him. "Oh hey!" he said to her.
He leaned closer to his new friend "Yea she's my friend and she's really cool. She's blind but can see stuff from vibrations.

Livvy walked into the shop and glanced around. She spotted Mariel with a boy and Kairi. Geesh. Was everyone getting together with some guy. Livvy held back a laugh as she approached Mariel. "Hey Mariel. Kairi. Who's this?" she asked, smiling at them. The boy seemed rather familiar.

"Oh, that's actually a good reason," Mariel said in response to Nathaniel's remark about focusing on studies. That almost sounds like something a Ravenclaw would say, she thought, before getting annoyed at herself for thinking in such stereotypes. She hated immediately being thought of as a bookworm just because of her sorting, even if she was. Anyway, she was a little impressed that he at least tried to be a good student; she didn't know him well enough to know if he actually was. "Next year, I expect?" Mariel asked with an inquisitive look.

Her face lit up. "So you come from a family of Quidditch fanatics too? That's really cool that your Dad played professionally, the Falcons are a decent team too. I have an aunt that played for the Holyhead Harpies, well, Great Aunt, I think. Anyway it was a long time ago. My father and both my sisters played at Hogwarts too. None of them played professionally though. I do love the pick-up games that my sisters and I play at home. I guess that's why I thought I'd be good enough to play on a team this year." Who knew they actually had something in common? Mariel was overjoyed to talk to someone else about Quidditch other than her own family. Everyone else she tried to talk to either looked at her like she was completely mental or, worse, hardly knew a thing about the game, and still looked at her like she was mental.

Mariel smiled at Nathaniel's friend and simply said, "Hello," still not knowing her name. She looked at her appraisingly before decided that she must have seen her at flying class, then turned back to look at Nathaniel quizzically when he mentioned about her sight. Seeing things through vibrations. Mariel had never heard of such a thing before. Curious.

Mariel's attention was once again diverted when she heard a familiar voice approaching the counter. "Hey, Liv," she grinned at her fellow housemate. And apparently Livvy was friends with the other girl, as she called her Kairi. To answer her question, Mariel gestured to the boy next to her and said, "This is Nathaniel. He was in our flying class." She did not, however, feel the need to add the fact that she met him by telling him to shut up and him yelling right back at her.

"I suppose maybe next year. Are you really into your studies?" he asked. I assumed a lot of Ravenclaws were. Gryffies were what brave? he thought to himself. Nathaniel looked into the window again and saw that weird blue streak in his hair again. Where did that come from?! he thought again.

"Yea, father was a chaser and my sister who was in Ravenclaw was a beater. She's really tough." he said laughing as he thought about all the times they rough housed."Unlike my father and my sister I observe things. I pay attention to everything. I like playing seeker." Nate was happy to be talking about Qudditch.


Nate looked over at the girl "hello.

Livvy smiled at Mariel. "You rascal, you seemed to be gone a lot lately," she