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Ellie couldn't tell what was running through Theo's mind when she slipped up about her ex. For some reason she found it rather embarrassing that she messed up just then, but she just shrugged it off. And she actually a tad surprised that he didn't say anything more about the subject. Ellie assumed that he must have known from his past relationships that talking about them wasn't really such a fun thing to do. It was still too recent. So, she appreciated that he didn't ask her about it. Ellie almost chuckled. A long story. She was all too familiar with those.
Listening to his story, as average as it was, was still interesting. So Theo was basically an American. And for some reason, Ellie thought Americans were fascinating. They were like a different species completely different than these Londoners. "Do you miss New York at all? Or do you like it here better?" She asked curiously. "And it wasn't that boring, don't worry." Ellie said with a teasing smile. Her mind was successfully away from Alex now. See, maybe meeting new people wasn't such a bad idea. So much for become a flame-thrower at a circus. "Plus, it's much more exciting than mine." Well, that depended on which story you were talking about. As far as living, she was born in raised in the same spot her whole life. Not too exciting.
Hm, Hogwarts was definitely amazing. That was for sure. The school life had it's ups and downs, but the castle and the grounds were completely fantastical. "It really is, isn't it?" Ellie said with a faint smile while nodding her head. She looked around the courtyard again and at the greenery. It was beautiful, too. "I think you'll love it here even as the year goes on. It only seems to get better as you go." And Ellie earnestly hoped she was right about that. Optimism is key. Ellie laughed lightly and looked at the ground. "I actually just got here... today." She looked back up. "But now you'll probably see me so much, you'll get sick of me." She joked with a grin. Whaaat? Ellie cracking jokes...?
"Ah, no. I'm a fifth year." Ellie said with a nod, slinging one leg over the other and leaning back in the bench. And it was still hard to believe she'd be leaving Hogwarts in just two years.
"I..." Theodore attempted to find the right words to explain the mix of homesickness for New York, yet admiration for his new home. "I try not to think about home... or, the States, too much. I don't like being homesick. But... here, it's hard to even think about the fun, amazing things back in the U.S. when the U.K. has just as many cool places." Sighing deeply as a few images came back to him, from the Empire State Building to his quaint home back across the Brooklyn Bridge, the Ravenclaw tried to shake his memories from his mind.
Theodore couldn't help but smirk at her teasing smile and her minor self-deprecation, which reminded him of himself. It seemed that this encounter wasn't just serving to soothe Ellie's worried mind, but his own as well. Good karma, maybe?
As Ellie commented on Hogwarts, marveling at it's beauty just as Theo did, he narrowed his eyes as he peered far across the courtyard, a stretch of green, and to a large, gnarled tree that lay near the forest. "I definitely hope I can enjoy it as much as I can until I graduate next term. And don't worry, haha, I don't tire of people easily.
It's usually the other way around. However..." His blue eyes remained locked on the tree in the distance, which oddly enough, looked like a boxer ready to step into the ring. "That bit of... vegetation over there, that tree in the distance?" Unclasping his hands, he pointed with one finger at the Whomping Willow. "It gives me the creeps. I can see it from the window of the boys' dormitory and it always looks... scary, I guess?" A quick thought flashed across his mind: what if she laughed at him for being frightened of a harmless tree? His middle name should have been 'anxiety.'