Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Ok he heard something.... but Vickers was raised with too much manners to ever point it out, most specially if it was a girl. He reached out for his Runes pouch and had just lay it on the table when Elijah said something that nearly made his jaw fall out of its hinges. "W-Whaaaat??? K-Kurumi and m-m-me?..." terrified blue eyes darts towards the Gryffindor Prefect just as Nessie mentions her boyfriend. "Yeah Kurumi has a boyf--" the starts then pauses as his sight returns on the Curly!Puff again. That look and the sound of that voice. "Wait... I'm not Kurumi's boyfriend...." guh he wished. Sighs for life. "Kurumi's boyfriend is YOUR Prefect-- Lewis Rasting." So stop looking at him like he was Quirrel or something. He was no Ravvie traitor to the brotherhood yo.

And just when he though he could clear his mind for a reading he heard another sound-- this time from Elijah. His eyes shifted back to the Curly!Puff. Did he just quack? Was there some kind of subtle message to that? Then he heard Nessie tootin again. Eyes shift to the Ginger!Puff. Oh another quacking. Eyes back to the Curly!Puff. Tootin and quackin, quackin and tootin.... was this some kind of Hufflepuff ritual prior to making a Runes reading? No he's not making a sound other than "Lets stop this Kurumi talk and focus on the diamond spread ok?" Yes thats the reading their supposed to do.

Trying to desperately clear his mind (which is really hard now at this point), he reaches in and randomly pulls out one rune at a time until he has formed the diamond spread. "Alright, I start with the first rune at the bottom which is.... inverted." he whispered, suddenly crestfallen. Inverted runes were never a good thing to him. He flipped through his book to find out what it meant....

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Too distracted with making farting sounds, Renesmee hadn’t realized how shocked Elijah was about Kurumi having a boyfriend. Good thing Vickers knew about the latest gossip and knew what to say. The young Dixon on the other hand hadn’t even noticed the two were speaking at all until Elijah started ..well making an odd noise.

Wait…quaking? Was he really quaking?

Ness moved her hand away from her mouth and stopped making noises for just a few seconds. She raised her brow at Elijah and then giggled at him. He sounded like a duck begging for some bread or begging to be send to the duck pond with the rest of he’s family.

Before the Hufflepuff could comment, Elijah had something first… How blooming rude! Was all Nessie could think as Mr. Popular asked her if she had farted. How dare he! Did it smell like she had farted? No! It didn’t stink according to Ness at all. Everything smelt perfectly normal.

"No it was not." She said rolling her eyes at him. "Is there a duck in this classroom, or is that you?" she asked as her comeback.

She wanted to say more, but Vickers words had distracted her. Right! They were in a classroom for a reason and that was to work not fool around. "I think that’s a good idea." She said as she nodded at him and put her hand to her mouth as she began with the farting noises again. Nobody had said she couldn’t make noises whilst working right? And if they had a problem with it, they could just say something, couldn’t they. Yes they could, so no need to be all worried for nothing.

Taking the pouch, Ness picked out four runes and placed them just like Vickers had done with he’s. Of course she had different runes though and of course she had, had a different question in mind whilst picking her runes. She had chosen her question based on her relationship with her best friend, Thomas. She wanted to know where it was going.

Her first was one that looked a bit like an ‘F’ and if she remembered correctly it was called something asuz..no ansuz. Yes that was it! She looked up as Vickers said something about inverted. Those usually weren’t too good. Poor boy! Anyways, she didn’t want to bother him, she was too busy making noises. So instead she went onto reading about her first rune, which was supposed to tell her something about the past…The Hufflepuff read through this and stopped with her noises so she could pout. “What yours about?” she asked Vickers before she said anything about hers. It was then that she noticed Kurumi waving, and so she waved back. She hadn't over heard what they were talking about right? It wasn't bad or anything, but sometimes people didn't like getting talked about, most of the time they didn't.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Quill to her parchment, Kurumi began to write down her thoughts on her rune reading, but was finding it hard to keep her focus. What did this mean? Was she being given a good sign or a bad sign? It was so vague and depending on how you chose to look at the different signs. On the one hand it seemed as though what her gut and heart were telling her to do was right, that she should keep trying because there was still something there and that he felt it too. Maybe even he wanted it. There were just misunderstandings getting in the way.

On the other hand...the runes also seemed to be telling her that it was time to stop. Just like Lewis had said a few months ago. And she had, but with the term coming to a close...those fears and feelings had resurfaced.

Maybe she shou---

Wait? Was someone saying her name? No, wait, three someones?

Turning her head around slightly, Kurumi spotted Vickers, Elijah, and Nessie sitting at the same table and undeniably saying her name. Hmm? Maybe they needed help with their runes? Elijah had come to her before for help, so he was probably just telling all of them about that and suggesting they ask her? It seemed plausible at least.

Leaving Tiffany to her own work for now, Kurumi got up out of her seat and walked over to the trio and stood in between Vickers and Elijah. "Did you guys need me?" she asked, glancing around the table at each of them. Which is why her eyes couldn't help but wander to the runes there and notice that Vickers had an inverted Thurisaz or Wunjo. She had a hard time telling the two apart. "Well, if that one is Thurisaz," Kurumi whispered mostly to Vickers since it was his own reading. "I mean there in the Facet of Distraction position, the meaning isn't too different from when it isn't inverted. Just means that you need to listen to the warning or message the other runes are telling you." And that whatever good luck he may be having was coming to an end, but Vickers didn't look like he needed to hear that right now.

Originally Posted by Steelsheen

Flipping through his text book, Vickers finally found the chapter on the Wunjo rune. Just then he felt and heard that familiar voice right beside him. Oh no....

Instinctively he wanted to use his book to cover his runes spread but it was too late. Kurumi has already seen it "H-Hi Kurumi..."
Need her? Errr define need "...uhm, we're just doing our Runes reading...and yeah its a Wunjo rune, inverted. And its the bottom rune so it represents the basis of the issue." He actually had a question in his mind when he started to do the Runes spread, but with all the distractions he had wondered if the reading was revealing what was truly bothering him...

He glanced down at the chapter definition for Wunjo...



Ok that wasnt particularly very encouraging. And it has brought to light something he was hoping to keep away from most people at school-- most specially Kurumi and Elijah. Or maybe thats why he liked hanging around them. They were "the joy". "So it says I'm feeling miserable... what else is new really..." he frowned and shrugged it off. Emotions werent something he paid attention to much, being the cerebral guy that he is. "Ok the rune on the left is the Dagez rune... and its in the position of forces acting on the issue..." he said as he started to flip the pages back for the Dagez rune...