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Text Cut: Alice, Jake, James, Anya Quote:
Originally Posted by lemon  And then James and Jake appeared. Soon, their teensy compartment was filled with people. UHM. Alice beamed at everyone and bounced a little bit more. She was already having fun and she hadn't even reached Hogwarts yet. Jake was going around giving hugs to everyone; Alice gave him an extra big one when he came around to her. James and Anya were making small talk and.. Penelope was sitting all by herself, stroking a cat. She looked sad. Penelope always looked sad but whatever. She squashed herself in between Jake and Penelope. half-sitting on Jake's lap, and turned to her fellow Gryffindor. "Your cat is pretty."
Mellow.
She set her own pet, Frank, on her shoulder and gently stroked him between the eyes. He burbled at everyone in the compartment and then settled down for a nice nap. Alice gently slipped him into the overhead compartment, where he could rest peacefully on her trunk.
And then took a good look at the people she was surrounded by.
Penelope looked sad. And withdrawn. Was James.. sad as well? The third year couldn't tell. Anya looked excited and flustered. And Jake looked nervous. And fidgety. What was with everyone today? They were all being odd. Hmph. Did this have something to do with the almost-boyfriend thing Anya had told her about? "Are you all okay?" Alice didn't think so. Huh. Whatever. She turned back to Penelope and stared at the cat again. "His name is.. is Spot, right?" She had mentioned that at the Quidditch match. Quidditch.. she missed that almost as much as the food..
And now she was hungry. Drat. Quote:
Originally Posted by Syd Jake smiled, mostly to himself, and pulled his trunk into the compartment. He took a seat between Penelope and Anya, turning slightly toward Anya and opening his mouth to ask her the question -
...Then James walked in.
Jake sighed and leaned back against the bench, leaning his head against the wall. He gave James a small wave and a forced smile. It wasn't that he didn't like him, but he just... didn't like him. Sorta. Kinda.
Then they were all settled, and Jake was pretty sure he could ask Anya. But then Alice sat on him.
"Hey, Ali," he said, unable to keep himself from smiling. He couldn't help it. The girl was adorable. She might've reminded him of his sister. Maybe.
"Are we all set?" He asked the compartment in general. He didn't want any interruptions when he asked Anya to be his girlfriend. This was important. and he didn't want to have to deal with dramatic silences or distractions. Quote:
Originally Posted by omnomnomRAWR Well. This was awkward.
Only Anya actually answered his question. James did not know how he felt about that. He looked at Alice and smiled. "I'm fine, Alice" he lied. He wasn't okay. Family problems the last few days of summer had really depressed him. He sighed and ran a hand through his curly hair.
He looked up at Penelope, who was stroking her cat. It was a pretty cat. "You're cat's really pretty, Penelope" he smiled, trying to force on a conversation so his voice didn't get hoarse from disuse.
And......did James not like him? It didn't seem like it.
*sigh* Oh well. Quote:
Originally Posted by LilFox06 Why were people being so quiet?
...would have been what Anya thought if she were capable of thought at the moment. Which, she wasn't. All she was capable of was using all her will power not to reach over and just grab Jake's hand. Maybe she should have just agreed to be with him when he asked yesterday? Did she really have to be asked in person?
But now that Alice did mention it.... She got to thinking. She glanced around the compartment. Maybe everyone was just... sleepy? She wasn't though. She fiddled with the bracelet on her wrist for a second. She was pretty wide awake.
And impatient.
"I've got gummy bears..." she said fiddling with the bag at her feet. She tossed a few unopened bag to the center of the room. Happy hunger games.
Heh. She probably should have slept more last night. She was being weird.
All set? "Completely." Anya said a little too quickly to Jake. Penelope didn't pay much further attention to anyone else until she heard Alice mention "your cat". And since she seemed to be the only one with a cat in this compartment, it was obviously directed at her. Spot noticed this too and purred her approval. "Thanks," Penelope answered, only glancing up when she heard Alice's pet Frank. Spot noticed the toad too, and her eyes were now focused solely on him, flicking her tail playfully.
Penelope then ignored the "are you all okay?" question, keeping an eye on Spot to make sure she didn't try to attack Frank or anything. But since the toad had seemed to have decided to take a nap, the cat lost interest and simply curled up in her owner's lap once more. That was when it seemed Alice was addressing Penelope once more. "Her name," she corrected. "But yeah. Spot."
A second question went ignored by Penelope, this time from Jake, and she turned her attention to James when he also commented that he thought her cat was pretty. "Thanks," she said, and this time she even managed the faintest of smiles, if briefly. Because apparently, if two people thought that something related to her was pretty, it somehow made her feel a tiny bit better. Not much, but a little.
It probably wouldn't last though. Because those gummy bears were ignored as well.
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