Luna was a very curious little ball of fluff. She preened and made a small, purring noise when she was petted before sticking her nose in the air and sniffing in a very dramatic, obvious way. Emmeline couldn't hide a new smile at the sight 'cause TWO of her three pets were dramatic like that; her cruppy was even worse!

The twelve-year-old frowned when she saw the professor's expression go all upset and sad and stuff. That was exactly why she tried to smile ALLL the time, 'cause she didn't want to make other people sad just 'cause she was sad. She studied Professor Marchand's expressions carefully, maybe a little too obviously, and her brows furrowed a little bit in confusion. Grown ups always seemed to think they could make the fake smiles trick work, but he couldn't and Cami couldn't, either. Or Mr. Healer, or Professor Hirsch, or... Now that she came to think about it, LOADS of professors tried to hide their upset-ness. Emmeline had thought she was a master of that trick before she'd come to Hogwarts and met all these adults who could see through it, but maybe it was 'cause they all used it themselves?

She tilted her head to the side as he asked her a question and paused to think before answering carefully: "The magical creature zoo, I guess. I liked seeing LOADS of creatures AND I got to play with baby nifflers!" Which had been so, SO fun, even if she did feel kind of bad about it at the same time. Seeing creatures in...not really cages, but made up habitats inside the zoo had really hit her after the trip. Like how she didn't like being trapped anywhere, even if it was a biiiig place. Or what Derf or Stasya would say about the zoo. She tried super hard to keep the negative thoughts off her face, though, and especially in front of one of Cami's professor friends!

Professor Marchand's fake smile kept tugging at the back of her mind, though, like she couldn't let it go. 'Cause what if he was upset about something and she could tell Cami and Cami could help? Emmeline bit her lip nervously, before blurting out: "Are you okay, Professor?" She lowered her voice and scanned the area super quickly before adding, "Was it a bad full moon?" Maybe that was all it was. She was sure that being a werewolf was NOT annny fun at all, especially around the full moon. She hadn't checked any lunar charts or anything, but she figured that maybe the professor would be okay with talking about his full moons now that she already knew he was one, maybe? She hoped so anyway.

Lemondrop and strawberry jam? That sounded so...boring.

Cameron had been thinking they could be MORE adventurous than that. "I want to try something like....Jalapeno and Nacho Cheese." Which sounded REALLY gross as an ice cream flavor but today was adventure day apparently."And maybe I'll get a fruity one afterwards if that one isn't very good." Which was highly unlikely. Eying the list for a moment he tilted his head. "Maybe I should just get one of the normal ones after all." That other one sounded VERY risky. And Xavvie was getting normal flavors too.

"Well.. " Kalen began, "How could I not help you since I was the one who caused said homework to fly around the courtyard? " He asked her with a grin. "I had to be chivalrous, did I not? Not to mention, of Skye had found out and told my parents I'd be in big trouble. " He said with a soft chuckle. "So part chivalry and part self preservation.."

He grinned as she chuckled at him, she really had a nice laugh, and such beautiful blue eyes, and dark hair.. So different from Serena, but in a good way. He didn't want the same as what he had.. That had been perfect when he was younger, but he was older now, not to mention a bit more bitter and cynical. "Well that's Tris, he's always been kind, if not a bit too mischievous for his own good. " He said with a laugh as she said that his friend wasn't her type.. and then he kinda wanted to ask what her type was..

Merlin..he spends fifteen minutes talking to a beautiful woman and suddenly he was a teenager again.

He nodded as she spoke and then shrugged as she asked how he was doing. "I got a job at Hogwarts last year, I'm the Librarian there, so that's been good for me. A great change of pace and scenery, I actually work with Tristian, he's a professor there as well. "

Eno had yet to get his ice cream since it would be rude if he and Jessa did not get it together and since they had planned this since almost middle of the year. Well here he was. Diagon Alley was always nice to come to during the year. The only sad thing is he lived so far away that he really only had maybe two chances a summer to be here for friends and whatever. Home was a totally different story since Axel had crazy ideas about family bonding and just made everyone agitated.

He was waiting outside for her in the cool seating they had out here.

Was he early because he didn't have a watch on him.

Her family had gotten better at not giving her the weirdest of looks when she asked to go somewhere. She suspected it had more to do with the passage of time and her proving to be in a better place than she'd been perhaps a month ago but whatever the case, if they were no longer overthinking it, then she wouldn't be overthinking it either. An afternoon and a sundae with Eno. There was nothing there that needed over-analyzing and there was a certain beauty in that bit of simplicity.

Jessa made full use of the freedom to floo over on her own, stepping out onto the familiar cobble stoned street. Had it been a week since she'd last been here? Probably a little longer than that.

Two weeks maybe. It was funny how in the absence of the structure school provided, all her days began to merge together. Was yesterday Wednesday? Or was that tomorrow?

Curious.

Deciding it wasn't of any real importance, Jessa put the thought aside, focusing instead on her friend as he came into view. "Hey Eno!" She chirped, her tone as light and airy as she could manage it. "Weren't waiting too long, were you?"

All Jasper had been thinking about for the last days was going to Diagon Alley and getting a scoop of chocolate frog and ton-tongue toffee flavoured ice cream. It wasn't that muggle flavours weren't good, but they were definitely missing something that the wizarding flavours had.

It was why he hadn't put up a fight when his little sister had basically demanded that he take her to Diagon Alley so she could look around for the first time ever. Her excitement at seeing the place Jasper mentioned from the time he was still at Hogwarts was intriguing.

After being dragged around half the stores by the overexcited child he had somehow managed to bribe her with ice-cream. Which was how he found himself sitting in the courtyard of Florean Fortescue's waiting for Felicity to finally return with their ice-cream. Jasper had given up on her making a quick decision almost immediately, retreating to save both of them a seat and started drawing to keep himself occupied.

It was a shame his phone didn't work. He would've enjoyed listening to some music or playing a game to pass the time.

Ahhh Diagon Alley!

Azura was excited to meet up with Leon and Juno and perhaps spot some of her old friends. She hadn’t seen much of them since she had left school in December, since she lived in Paris now. Sure a few of them had been at the wedding, but she hadn’t had much time to talk to people.

Part of her knew though that the people she was looking for, wouldn’t be around. Jace was probably in Japan, and if she spotted Cornelius walking down the alley. She was going to hide in the nearest store she could find. She didn’t want to run into people who abandonded her and keep a smile on her face. Maybe she would be able to see Noelle? But she was busy with her wedding planning, so she didn’t think she would see her either. The seventeen year old tamped down any expectations she had and blended into the crowd as she walked.

She sighed softly as she moves into the ice cream shoppe and looked around seeing if she could spot her older brother, but he didn’t seem to be here yet, so she moved out into the courtyard to find a table to wait.

Her purple eyes scanned the seats, trying to find someone to wait when her gaze landed on a boy sketching in a seat near the back..

The dark haired girl stopped in her tracks as she looked over at him, and she blinked a bit as she stared at him, almost as if she had seen a ghost..

“Jazzy? ” She whispered out, before clearing her throat.. “Jasper?” She said a bit louder. “Is that you?”

Zarina was here at Diagon Alley visiting for the summer before her fourth year of Hogwarts began. Woah her fourth year? Where did the time go? Just yesterday she remembered beginning her first year. As she was reminiscing, in the corner of her eye the bright colors of the ice cream parlor drew her in. She beamed and managed to find a seat to sit in. She was exhausted walking around the alley. She forgot how big it was. What better way to relax than have ice cream on this hot day?

She saw there was a menu on her table and she picked it up and began to skim it. She wondered what flavor or flavors she wanted. Soo many decisions. This slytherin was really puzzled.

London, it had been a while since she had had the time to visit the city. Finley wasn’t used to the rainy summers that came with living in London just yet…what she was used to was raging wildfires and burning heat of summer…this, it was different. It was colder, but she could manage that. The young witch let her eyes scanned the crowd of people at the icecream shop as she looked for anyone near her age.

There.

She didn't even ask, she just plopped down in a seat next to the brunette girl. "anything look good?...i'd personally kill...for some horchata flavored ice cream" she grinned at the girl..."they don't have that here do they?" because there were priorities here.

Lost in thought with the sketch that was currently coming to life in front of his eyes, he assumed that hearing his name quietly was just his imagination. Jasper had assumed that he heard his name said often enough when it wasn't, and Felicity would've already shoved the ice cream under his nose if he hadn't heard her approach.

And what were the chances that he would run into any old friends from Hogwarts? It had been 4 years since he had last been there, and even then he had only really studied there for two years quite sporadically.

It wasn't like he had made a whole bunch of friends in that time.

Hearing his full name though, with a question caused him to jolt up. Green eyes scanned the area around him to figure out exactly who in this crowd was talking to him. But the moment he caught sight of a girl with purple eyes he knew exactly who it was.

"Azura!" he greeted cheerfully, quickly pushing himself to his feet. He hadn't really thought about how to greet her until he had moved to hug her and then assumed that maybe she might not be so comfortable with that and moved backwards in a slightly sheepish fashion. "You didn't run into me this time," he teased referencing their first meeting. And probably many during the time they knew each other at Hogwarts.

"Do you wanna join me?"

Jasper had his fingers crossed behind his back that the answer to that question would be a yes.

For a moment Azura wasn’t sure if Jasper was going to recognize her, after all she had changed a bit and grown up, but then again, who else had black hair and purple eyes? Barring the rest of her family that is. Purple eyes met green and a smile crossed her face as her friend said her name.

Phew! He recognized her!

She took a step towards him as he pushed himself to his feet and she went the extra mile and moved to finish the hug he had stepped back from. Her arms wrapped around him briefly before pulling back and looking up at him. A soft laugh came from between her lips as he spoke and she shook her head.

“No I didn’t! I’ve been getting a bit better on my feet lately. I can even run now.” Yes there was pride in her voice, it was an accomplishment, especially for her! She was sure that whoever was left of her friends would appreciate that fact. She could now walk and function like a normal person. Woo!

A grin lit up her face and she nodded. “I would love to join you.” She said as she moved towards the table he was sitting at and slid into a seat across from where he was.

“So how are you? It’s been forever since I’ve seen you? What’s been going on?” She felt like a lifetime had gone by since she had last seen him, and yet.. she has never counted him among the people who abandoned her. She never knew why.. she usually put people in that column so fast, Cornelius, Jace, Noelle had all been put there, but never him..

Hmm.. well she could ponder that later...

Zarina was casually just minding her own business and felt a presence next to her. As soon as she looked up her gut feeling was right. There was some blonde chick sitting right next to her. It took her off guard for a few seconds and then it wore off. She shrugged at her question and looked at the menu. "Horchata?" she questioned with a raised brow. "Is that some made up word?" She was not familiar with it. "It is like a creature I should be aware of?" She scanned the roads incase the girl was playing a joke on her.

That sinking feeling of dread filled Finley’s heart as she heard those words. ”noooo, seriously? You’ve never had it?” Fin made a face and sighed, ”seriously you are missing out…its like…life y’know if you like cinnamon” which obvious Finley was a fan even with a slight whif of the air it was evident. She was wearing cinnamon lipgloss.

”…its basically a cinnamon rice almond-milk drink…its perfection” looking at the girl for a moment she grinned. ”its Mexican I think or well cali-mexican?” she smiled, ”where I used to live – I’m Fin by the way.” She smiled softly, trying her hardest to not let her resting horrendous witch face out.

Not only had he gotten a hug, but he'd also managed to make her laugh. And in under 5 minutes! Jasper was definitely getting the hang of 'breaking the ice', as one would say.

Maybe it helped that it was his first friend from Hogwarts sitting across from him, even if their friendship had come to two abrupt ends as he moved back to Australia. He should have probably sent her an owl, but in the moment he had never found the right words.

Perhaps a drawing would've been enough. He had promised her a sketch back in third year.

"Good to know that I don't have to worry that you're in a hospital at any given point," he added on. The smile played on her lips, hopefully indicating that he was still teasing her. Even if he was serious.

What had been going on in his life?

"Uuuummm..." he tilted his head to the side as he thought. "Well I just moved back to England, starting university next semester. Fliss is actually visiting at the moment for her winter break, she's always wanted to come to Diagon Alley."

The other benefit was that she was not with her boyfriend. Even the thought made him cringe, and he was pretty sure that his face showed his displeasure for a split second. But he quickly brightened up when he looked into the purple eyes across from him.

"How have you been?" he'd always relied on her to get a conversation moving. Especially when he was younger and could barely speak to her without blushing.

A soft scoff left Az’s lips as Jasper spoke and she shook her head, “I have been doing remarkably well with the not landing in the hospital thing.” At least she had lately, now if they had met two summers ago, it would have been a different story, or even last winter after she had been kidnapped, but now.. she was mostly okay. “It’s a good thing my mom and my Uncle are Healers though.” She said with a soft chuckle as she leaned her head on her hand and looked at him.

For a moment it was like they were back in first year again, she was just sitting there talking to one of her first friends, before her life had left turned and dove off a cliff.

Her purple eyes went wide as he spoke and she sat up straighter, “Really? You are moving back? Where are you going? What are you going to do?” The questions came at him in rapid fire succession, fueled with hope that perhaps one of her friends was coming back.. Not many people came back.. “Your Little sister? Is she here? ” She asked as she looked around, and thankfully missed his eye narrowing, last thing she needed was a spiral right now..

How had she been? That was a loaded question, but.. she wanted to answer it as best as she could. “I’ve been good.” She said as she adjusted her hair with her left hand and the sun caught the diamond in the ring on her third finger. “So much has happened, I don’t even know where to start, but I dropped out of school, moved to Paris, got a job in an Orchestra playing piano.. and... ”

Heh.. here come the big one..

“I got married about a month ago.” Technically it had been five months, but no on really knew that, just her and Chris.

"I live in Canterbury now," he responded with a shrug, not really sure if Azura actually knew where that was. It was only an hour and a half outside of London by car, which seemed like nothing to him. He was used to travelling for about two hours by any form of muggle transport to get places. "I'm starting a philosophy and film degree... it's at a muggle university."

It was probably important to add that bit.

Film wasn't really a subject offered at the magical universities as far as his knowledge went, but Az didn't know that he wasn't pursuing a career within the world of magic.

"Yep, she's buying ice cream at the moment," he tilted his head to the side as he thought. "She takes a while to choose because she can't make up her mind."

"Congratulations!" he grinned at her getting a place in the orchestra, even if he was slightly disappointed she dropped out. She would have gotten amazing scores, especially because she had always helped Jasper out when he didn't get things.

Married? Jasper tilted his head to the side in confusion. But... they were 17? Was that a normal thing?

Now he was wondering how he was going to get rid of his sister before she even came close. She didn't need ideas of marriage floating around in her head.

How did someone even get married that young? He'd never even thought of getting married before, like 24? 25? At some point when he had finished his degree and had a stable job and could support himself without help. Beyond that, his girlfriend had agreed with that sentiment. She did have to survive finding out he was a wizard first though.

"Huh."

And there goes the award for the lamest answer ever when someone told you they married. He immediately kicked himself back into functioning so that Az wouldn't think that he was judging her, or opposed to this sudden revelation.

"Sorry, I'm just surprised... I've just never thought of marriage. Congrats though," he finished with a smile.

Purple eyes widened a bit as he spoke about where he lived. “I know where that is, I have relatives who live there and when I lived in England, we lived close to that. ” Of course her family lived in France now and she herself hadn’t lived in England since her mother’s disappearance and subsequent reappearance.. But she knew where things were of course. Azura couldn’t believe he was going to be so close!

“Ohhh, That sounds super amazing.” She said as he spoke about what he was going to do. Somehow she wasn’t fully surprised about his choice of major, or that he was going to go to a muggle college, if seemed to fit him.

Part of her felt a sadness crowding in, one that comes with a bittersweet reunion of old friends and first crushes, she had it with Jace a year and a half ago when he said he was going to live in Japan after he graduated and she had it now with Jazzy, they were all grown up, and saving China and moving away and getting on with their lives and it made the dark hair girl long for a simpler time.

“Ohh! So I’ll get to meet her then?” She asked him as she looked around before she seemed to have stunned her former best friend into absolute silence..Yeah, she got that reaction a lot, especially from muggles but wizards seemed to get married at an earlier age..

And.. she and Chris never did anything by halves, it was apparently all or nothing with them this time. Not to mention..

Azura needed this. She needed something that was permanent and stable, with everyone leaving her, and her being kidnapped, she couldn’t just wait around for the other shoe to drop. Even with them being married she was still scared of something happening, she was so easily abandoned it seemed. After all, it had taken Cornelius over a year to say he loved her and then he just left two months after that and never talked to her again?

Obviously something was wrong with her..

And she would take what happiness she could before it all fell down again..

“Thanks. ” She said simply as she looked up at him. “Chris and I got married. I’m Azura Jensen now.” She said with a soft smile. “We have a great apartment in Paris..” A happy little smile came over her face...

"It's a small world," he laughed, thinking about his place there. "My parents got me an apartment there, I'll be living there for at least the next three years."

After that, who knew? He wasn't even sure if he wanted to head back to Australia after he finished his degree. The green eyes glanced down at the girl in his sketch, causing him so smile a bit absently. If they were still together he was pretty sure he wasn't going to leave England.

"Yeah, unless you have to run off or she takes a few hours to decide what to get," he responded with a shrug. It was slightly joking but really also quite possible. Azura had probably come to Diagon Alley for a reason if she was married and living in Paris, so if she had to leave he wouldn't be surprised. Perhaps a bit upset that they didn't get to spend a longer time catching up, but definitely not surprised. And equally, it was possible Fliss would take hours. He was pretty sure she'd been inside for half an hour already.

Chris? Jasper tilted his head to the side. He couldn't remember a Chris, but he smiled at Azura anyway. "It sounds good," he responded, not sure if that was actually a response. But if she didn't pick up the fact he was talking about her name, it could always be interpreted as being about her life in Paris.

Besides. She looked happy, that's what was important.

It had taken Felicity exactly 38 minutes to decide which kind of ice cream she wanted to eat. By which time she was pretty sure that she had forgotten her brothers order and it took another 13 minutes to remember it, managing right before she contemplated going out to ask him.

That's how the curly haired blonde ended up walking outside with ice cream for the both of them.

Only to find her brother with someone else?

This was intriguing. She hadn't ever seen Jazz with anyone. It was probably a side effect of him not wanting her to meet his friends. Or maybe the fact that they never came to Australia... either way she grinned as she sauntered over to the table.

"Hey Jazzy,"she greeted, passing him his ice cream and waiting to evaluate his response. The girl across from him looked oddly familiar. It took 6 seconds for her to place her as the girl from a portrait Jazz had drawn years earlier. She sent him a mischievous grin, before turning to the purple eyed girl once again.

"You're... Azura... right?" she asked with a bright smile. "I didn't know someone else would be here, but Jazz has a Ton-Tongue toffee and chocolate frog ice cream, I just have Rocky Road, I'm sure you can grab either of those and I'll just go back and buy some more."

Azura smiled a bit as he spoke and she nodded, “Well it’s nice to know that at least you’ll be sort of on the same continent as me, I can apparate or floo to England easily. My brother works at the Ministry and my mother and Uncle work at St.Mungos so I’ll always have a reason to come here. ” She said as she bit her lip a little and looked away for a moment. She was trying to dial back how excited she was to see him and hang out, but they both had their separate lives now.. so..

Will you chill out Azura? She chided herself as she folded her hands and swallowed a little bit.

“Well I’m here for now, so we can focus on that.” She was meeting Leon here later, but the bracelet she was wearing wasn’t heating up yet, so that meant he wasn’t close. He had bought that for her birthday, all she had to do was touch a specific link and his bracelet would warm letting her know that she needed him.

Extra precautions were needed now, especially after her near run in with her kidnappers a few months ago.. she touched the necklace on her neck which held her mirror to Chris should she need him. People weren’t thrilled with her walking around in the open, but she needed to live her life and not be scared.

“Thanks.” She said as she looked up at him with a smile before turning to see a girl who had come up next to them..

Her purple eyes widened as the girl guessed who she was and she nodded. “Yeah, I’m Azura. ” She said as she blinked a little, “And you must be Fliss?” She said as she looked back at Jasper and then up at the girl..

“Oh, I like Chocolate chip cookie dough, but I’m good for now. ”
she said with a grin.

Jasper couldn't help but grin at her comment about actually being able to be around. It had taken 4 years, but they were finally on the same continent. And things just felt... like they hadn't really changed? "I'm always up for a coffee," he smiled. "Well, between work and classes that is."

Because those were still necessary things that he unfortunately couldn't just drop in order to spend time with friends.

"I still can't believe how much has changed..." he mused. That was mostly him being finished school and attending a muggle institution back in England, and the girl across from him having dropped out and married.

He still couldn't wrap his head around either of those concepts.

And his sister had arrived. While Azura was distracted he sent the younger girl a warning look, but she'd thrown herself in ignoring him completely. He knew that smile. This was not going to go well. He contemplated throwing his wallet at her in a bargain for her to just leave.

"Ohhhh, he does talk about me, I knew you loved me Jazzy," she cooed, winking at Azura. Although the girl in question looked startled that she immediately knew who she was. A smirk crossed her face and she turned to try to watch both of the 'adults' reactions to her explanation.

"He's had a portrait of you in his art room for years, he's still working on it," maybe if she got enough teasing in now then he'd leave her alone too.

"Only if you're sure, I mean, it's Jazz's treat."

Azura was content with his answer, it seemed she hadn’t come off as super desperate and she was glad for that. “Of course, well anytime you are free, let me know.” She paused for a second before looking up at him. “And If you ever find you have a night free, you are most welcome to come to Paris and see me perform at the Orchestra, I get a few tickets every night I perform, a few could be yours if you wished.” She said softly, she had given a few to most of her friends. Though so far only Oliver had taken her up on it..

A certain someone who wasn’t going to be named had sent his back. It had hurt far more than she had thought it would, but it wouldn’t matter soon. She’d already made sure of that.

She chuckled softly at his words and lay her hands on the table, “I know right? Here I thought that you, Jace and I would be the three amigos, and I would have been torn between you two for whom I liked.” For awhile in first year it had seemed that’s how it would go. Though of course Jace had turned her down..

Ahh well.

“And here we are, scattered to the ends of the earth..” She turned her attention towards Fliss as she teased her brother and tried to hold back a laugh. Though at the girls words Azura’s eyes went wider and she looked at Jasper..

“Of me? Surely... that’s not right, I mean I’m nothing special.” She said with a shake of her head.

"Of course I'd love to watch you perform," he responded with a smile, thinking back to the times in Hogwarts where one or both of them had played an instrument as they spent time together. "You know, you're the reason I kept learning how to play the piano."

Azura was, after all, the first person to ever be considered his piano teacher. He wondered for a moment whether or not she'd continued to like the guitar or had even learnt that one herself.

"I actually teach kids how to play now, guitar and piano," they were typically private lessons and he did those between ongoing busking, but it was something nonetheless.

He'd laughed at the thought of it. Him, Jace and Azura in an awkward love triangle. Jasper couldn't really imagine that. Though, perhaps if he had been around more there would have been the option for something to happen between the two of them...

Then Jasper levelled a glare at Felicity for opening her mouth, feeling the vaguely familiar sensation of his ears flushing. He managed to control it from covering his face at least, giving a small shrug to Azura who now seemed focussed on him. "The sketch I started for you in third year didn't seem... enough? I tried to do it on a canvas afterwards but I've never gotten it quite right."

He hoped the explanation would save this whole situation.

Felicity grinned to herself. This whole situation was beautiful. She hadn't seen her brother this flustered since he had first started on that particular painting and she'd teased him about the girl inside of it.

"What are you talking about Jazzy? It's so good that I immediately knew who she was," if death glares could kill, she would have had an instant death. Thankfully, they didn't, and she just smiled sweetly at both of the 'adults' sitting across from her.

"I'll go grab that ice cream for you Az, can't have people saying that my older brother isn't a gentleman," she concluded, deciding to give them space. Also to get away so that she could laugh at them.

How were these people considered adults again?

Zarina furrowed her brows and shook her head. She thought she made her point quite clear. She never had horchata. It sounded like a horse like a name for a horse. "It's life? Well I am not a huge fan of cinnamon.." When she heard this girl describe it in more detail, she scrunched her nose. "Nahh I am good." Oh right introductions! "Oh yeah I am Zarina." She returned the warm smile. This girl was trying to be friendly and Zarina being Zarina was giving her a hard time.

"Do you go to Hogwarts?" she asked and was skimming the menu. "What other drinks do you recommend?" She might as well ask a local who knows what they are talking about.

Fin just shrugged when Zarina mentioned not being into cinnamon. ”its…an acquired taste, its honestly better than I can describe it” she admitted with a shrug of her shoulder.

”Cool name…its not like all of the Becky’s and Emma’s I had at my old school” she laughed because it was true. Her old school was one where everyone seemed to have the same name. ”Oh…you go there? Hogwarts…I’m supposed to start there is term but I mean honestly, I’m not a huge fan of the death and impending doom vibe the school gives off.”

It wasn’t like the school’s torrid history was under lock-and-key. Heck, the school historically had had a basilisk but that made it cool and not boring like really….”Oh…yeah, I kind of want to be a slytherin or a hufflepuff…I mean c’mon the commons are close to the kitchens”...there were priorities here.

Olivia couldn't wait to see Ace.

After spazzing out and squealing over the news that the owl had brought in its parcel this morning, she made her way to Diagon Alley. They needed to celebrate because she had a hunch that he had some news for her too. Head Boy? she wondered and crossed her fingers as she headed down the street towards the famous ice cream parlour.

Heart beating quickly and LOUDLY, Vi made her way to the Ice Cream Parlour because that seemed like the best place for such news to be delivered. It was an exciting occasion after all. One that she felt if she kept it a secret even longer that she was going to EXPLOOOODE! Alright. So maybe not literally explode. That was a little ... dramatic.

But..... Her heart was pounding now.

Maybe she'd faint?

No. She was NOT going to be someone that fainted. She needed to breathe. Vi took a deep breath and then chose a table that had a little bit of shade. Ahh... Breatheeeeee.

Her heart continued to race. They were meeting up today, right? She hadn't gotten the days confused?