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Originally Posted by
Kaos.Doodles 
Jacinto felt stupid...and blown off and ignored. But mostly stupid. Standing there he wondered if everything was alright with Mel. First he hadn't seen her at work. Now this. She seemed confused or embarrassed. Perhaps he had done something wrong.
Coughing Jack tried to take his mind off the awkward silence. Looking around the room a bit he noticed more people had entered. Lorraine had been one of them, and a man who he had never seen before. However Lorraine and him looked pretty close.
About to repeat his question again he stopped as Melanie answered him. Handing her the bottle he titled his head to the side. "Yea' okay?" He asked slowly. Looking over his shoulder to see what she was talking about Jack shrugged. "No clue. Bu'...they look like they 're." Jack really wasn't observant with these things. "Oh! Yea' I tried ta' find ya before, but I couldn't. So, left it there instead."
Upon noticing Jack's obvious confusion and anxiety which was probably due to her weird behavior from before Melanie blushed slightly in embarrassment. Oh great, now she had made him feel uneasy! She mentally slapped herself for her actions as she took the butterbeer bottle from Jack giving him a warm smile.
"Thank you, Jack." Nipping at the butterbeer Melanie's blue eyes flashed back towards Oceana and Armen who definitely looked quite close.
Watching the two interact with each other Melanie had to think back at her first day of work and how Armen had to Lorraine's obvious annoyance kissed the Department Head's hand as he had introduced himself. He definitely was sort of...well,
different.
Chuckling at the memory Melanie rolled her eyes at Jack as she heard his answer. How could Jack not have noticed that Oceana and Armen were well slightly more than co-workers?! With a sigh Melanie gave Jack a quite pitying look before saying,
"Jack...you really didn't notice, did you?" Gee, men could be so unobservant about those things at times. It had been the
first thing she'd noticed after entering the breakroom but whatever.
Melanie almost choked on her butterbeer as she heard what Jack said next. Coughing she tried to put on an innocent look and even half-managed to Melanie replied,
"Ah yes, I...uhm...must have been...in the backroom or something." Or hiding behind the racks.
"Sorry I missed you, Jack." Quote:
Originally Posted by
KatieTessa As Melanie noticed her Angelica smiled saying "Armen, Oceana and Jack planned and organized the whole christmas party. I'm glad that you could come." Watching the exchange between Melanie and Jack she wondered if they actually had taken the time to talk about Melanies new job in Diagon Ally. Deciding to intervene in the akward moment Angelica asked "So, Melanie how do you like working in Madam Malkins?"
Melanie's eyes started to twinkle in excitement as she heard Angelica's answer.
"Wow! Really? You did this?" Her blue eyes scanned the room looking at all the amazing decoration her ex-co-workers had put up.
"It's awesome!" She said her eyes now on the banners Oceana had bought at her shop not too long ago. And her delivery of the banners hadn't been too late either, apparently. Amazing!
"My job?" Melanie asked before turning her head and her full attention back to Angelica.
"Yes, I absolutely love it!" Gesturing at the banners that had been hung up all around the breakroom Melanie added cheerfully,
"I sold those to Oceana, you know. She was my first real customer."