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Samia 
Orlando smiled or maybe grinned, when Ryden's hand sneaked it's way to his. The boy gripped it back without any hesitation. He decided not to make her uncomfortable by mentioning how nice it felt to be still holding her hand.
She already seemed hesitant and maybe not all that into sharing and caring!
Orlando didn't mind. He was too happy to mind anything. When the Head Girl started talking, Orlando's grin got more determined to stay. He looked over toward the water .. the robes, the slide - it was all so perfect.
"Looks like, Hogwarts realized your discomfort, Ryden. They are trying to please you" he teased, looking over at her. It was true. She hated the cold - she missed the warmth. What better way to make her feel at home than all this?
Oh. They get to change too? Brilliant. "Why don't we chnage and meet back here in ten minutes?" he proposed, he could not wait to get started and explore everything
.. with Ryden.
COOL. coolcoolcool.
Okay. Awkward moment over. YES. Very very much over. Relieved, and quite confident that he wouldn’t start serenading or anything – MERLIN, no – Ryden felt comfortable enough to give his hand a little squeeze and smile to herself. Yup yup. Looking over to the Head Girl as she started talking – and ignoring the flow of people as they arrived, for she kind of wanted to yell at them for ruining the serenity of the place – Ryden couldn’t help but grin in delight over her words. They could go SWIMMING! And there was SUN. And it would be just like back home.
...
Except it wouldn’t REALLY be, because the companion she usually had back home looked remarkably like her, was also a midget and was a girl, while here there was Koala Boy. Orlando. NOT a midget. The guy currently holding her hand. Hehe.
"Yeah, it really does look like it, doesn’t it?" the brunette replied back with a grin and a nod.
"Perhaps the end of the year will be better, what with this place existing and all that," she added, looking left and right as she took it all in, shoes held in her free hand as she wriggled her toes in the sand.
HEAVENLY sand.
Ryden nodded.
"Right, ok – I’ll see you back here in ten," the fourth year agreed, then let go of him so that she could scamper off excitedly to the bathing suits. After rummaging and making faces at the horribly tacky designs and shapes that were available – because, seriously, BLEH - she picked out a plain, light blue two piece and went over to get changed, banishing away her robes and things to the castle, while putting her wand away in the tiny little pouch that had LOADS of space inside it – a nifty little thing she’d bought for herself a few years back – and attached it to the bottom bit of her swimsuit.
Tying her hair up in a messy bun, mostly to keep it off her face and back, Ryden made her way back to where she’d left Orlando, her walk bouncier and that almost permanent disapproving frown she had completely gone. Ryden Di Marco was in her element – sunshine and sand and HEAT. Her mood might usually suit the weather here, but the star that enabled life on Earth certainly made her much more bearable. Yes, she liked Astronomy.
Yes, anyways. Where was Koala Boy?
"Orlando?"