Gaby smiled - she had made a new friend! Well, possibly, anyway. Hopefully.
'Nice to meet you too, Erin,' she said happily, and then glanced down at her plate.
'I'm really hungry as well, actually,' she said, nodding in agreement, and then remembered that she had four chocolate frogs in her
bag, from the food trolley earlier. '
D'you want one?' she asked, digging them out and setting them on the table. She took one for herself and left the other three there.
Her friends? Yay! More people! Gaby smiled round at the other two girls, waving again. She would have to stop that.... it probably looked weird. Oh wells - she was weird, so it didn't really matter.
'Hey, y'all,' she said, grinning.
Right. Erin had just said that this girl's name was... Valeria, right? Awesome.
'Hey, Valeria,' Gaby said with a smile.
'I'm Gaby, Gaby Parker. Looks like we're housemates!' she said happily. Yup, housemates. She wasn't really sure if that was an actual word. Well, if wasn't, she had just made a new word. She was that awesome. Anyways... housemates. That probably meant that they'd be sharing a dorm, she she had better make a good impression on these girls, otherwise they could make her live pretty awful. Not that they would do that - they all seemed nice.
So far.
Right. If the other girl was Valeria, this was Jayden. Gaby smiled again, making an effort not to wave. She just looked like a moron when she waved to people who were less than ten inches away from her. It wasn't normal.
'It's amazing, isn't it?' she agreed, looking back up at the ceiling. It was just so awesome! She wasn't going to be able to stop staring at it all evening. Her neck was going to hurt the next morning.
Listening in - accidentally, of course, she wasn't quite that nosy - to Jayden's conversation with another boy, Gaby glanced down at the plates.
'Oh goodness. That's disgusting,' she said with a grimace.
'They expect us to eat off of that? I thought there were House Elves,' she said weakly. She wasn't usually snobby, not in the least, but that was really gross. They could catch something, eating from those plates! She would have to do something... rummaging in her pocket for her wand, she eventually came up with it and pointed towards the silverware. 'Scourgify,' she murmured... and nothing happened. 'Scourgify!' she tried again, and this time a few of the plates became visibly brighter. Well, it was something. Plus it was her first time using that spell.
Or any spell 'I'm Gaby, by the way. Gaby Parker,' she said pleasantly, extending a hand towards the boy and being careful not to touch anything on the table. How gross.
'Are you a First Year?' she asked curiously. She hoped he was, because then she'd have another potential friend in her year, which would be aweosme.