"Oh." Remy couldn't really comprehend working for something whilst being under the age of 11, but she understood that everyone's upbringing was different. She wished she hadn't made a comment now, because she couldn't relate, but she did try to empathise. "Fending for yourself must be a little scary at times. But I suppose you'll have some good practise for when you grow up." She smiled a little. Remy, however, would probably be dependent on others for a while.

Remy sniggered. "I reckon it's fun to answer them back!" She wouldn't try and pick a fight with one, though, any fights occurring would be purely resulting from self defence. "Haha!" Remy laughed. "Yeah, good one. Why don't you cover them up with something, like a blanket? They wouldn't be able to do anything about that!" Actually, it sounded kinda evil, but Remy wasn't thinking that way right now, clearly!

STOP PESTERING HER ABOUT IT, OLLIE.

As her friend moved closer, Remy moved away from her. "I... I can't just tell you. What if someone is listening?" She had to be careful, especially after the greenhouse incident where Scarlett was eavesdropping on her and Lisa's conversation and totally killed the vibe. "You probably won't know him anyway, he's an older student." Kinda. DRATS, she had already given out too much information!!!!

The "work" that Ollie previously mentioned, was probably not the work Remy was thinking of. Ollie didn't have to do dishes or chores very often. Her dad had a cleaner come once a week and there wasn't ever really a mess. It mostly felt like it was just Olive who lived there and she was fairly neat. The work Ollie did was purely mental. She would have to stay after school and practice her academics or learn a very hard piece to play on her violin and play it perfectly for him. She always thought it was just her dad's way of making sure her brain was in tip-top shape.

The paintings didn't bother her as much as she had made it seem, though it wasn't the most pleasant situation. Sure they made comments about her but they were fairly easy to over look. "I could cover them, but I'm sure the prefect or someone would take them down." She would probably loss house points if a specific Headmaster found them covered that way."Whats the Gryffindor common room like?" Ollie bet it was warm and cozy. Much more what she preferred.

Did Remy just move away from her? Wow, she must really want to keep this a secret. But she had already given too much information out! Ollie had to find out now. She looked around. " Nobody's listening" She assured Remy. "And If you don't want to tell me, I can find out another way" She smirked devilishly, reaching for her wand. It was totally an empty threat. Ollie would never use her magic like that but she reaaalllyy wanted to know who Remy had written about in her notebook. And if Remy didn't tell her, maybe she would use magic.....

The blonde was very pleased that the family conversation had dwindled, and she decided not to ask any further questions since Ollie didn't seem to appreciate it. See? SHE knew how to realise when someone didn't want to talk about something. Maybe OLLIE should take some notes from her.

"True, they probably would." She smiled as she shrugged. "Still, they would learn not to mess with you again." Getting a reputation like that could be a good or a bad thing, though. Oooh, conversations about HER common room. "It's soooo great. It's really warm, and the colours are really... homely... and it's just super cosy, I guess." She didn't mean to rub it in but she just couldn't help it!

Remy's mouth fell open in disbelief as Ollie THREATENED her with magic. Wha....? Maybe Ollie was getting too comfortable with their friendship, or maybe Remy was finally seeing her true colours. Interesting. "Ollie!!!" She raised her voice, looking pretty angry. "I'll totally tell on you if you use magic." What bigger counter threat could there be than that?!?!!?!

"Fine... it's a boy... he's in second year... he's... in my house." That's ALL the information she was giving. Ollie could make her own deductions.

Dahlia had just barely greeted one blondish haired Gryffindor Flamsteed twin when there was suddenly another coming straight down the path towards them. She had actually heard him running and that was what had caused her to look over in the direction he had been coming from and away from the one who was staring at a tree.

"Hey! Lo-" she had seen that root but clearly he hadn't. OUCH! That had to hurt. "Are you okay?!" Reaching out she offered her hand to help him back onto his feet.

If she had to guess which twin this was she would say Atlas, he was the one always getting hurt, right? If memory served her right anyhow. Hadn't he closed his fingers in the compartment door on the Hogwarts express at the start of term? She had been meaning to ask him about that, it still seemed strange to her.

As she listened to Remy describe the Gryffindor common room, Ollie couldn't help but be jealous. Of course, she would get stuck with the un-homeliest common room of the four. Whhhyyyy universe. "Sounds like it must be nice." she let out a huff of air. She knew she was making a mistake asking about the Gryffindor coom room before she asked, but she just had to know!

Ollie's eyes opened wide and Remy yelled at her. She could see her face getting red and could hear the anger in her voice. Gees, Ollie didn't mean to actually upset Remy. "I was only kidding about using magic. Sorry." She bit the inside her lip. She hoped she hadn't upset Remy too much. What could she do to defuse the situation? Oh! She knew just what to say to cheer Remy up. "What if I told you a secret of mine?" She wiggled her eyebrows at Remy hoping to make her smile. In the meantime, she ran through the roladex in her brain to see exactly who Remy was referring to.

Remy grinned. "It is. You should come by some time." She thought about the name of a potion that she read about recently but the name had slipped her mind. Polysquash? Something like that. "Maybe you can borrow some of my Gryffindor robes and we'll see if we can sneak you in. The Fat Lady would probably be too busy singing to notice anyway!

She took a deep breath when Ollie said she was joking. Of course she was, when Remy really thought about it, she KNEW Ollie wouldn't do that to her. "Sorry..." For her outburst. "I knew you wouldn't." All Remy could think about now was that she had given Ollie important intel into who her diary post was about. Utter PANIC. Her attention perked up when she said she had a secret to share, too."

"Oh? Yeah? Go on, then..."

V thought it was a LOVELY & BLISTERING day for a walk with the wind hitting her cheeks and making them red. Which only meant she looked like she was wearing blush, and since she couldn't wear makeup yet, this was totally cool with her.

It was, like, early November, right? Cool cool cool. Her thicker robes were being put to use for sure.

However, the separation from Prince Charleston was okay on some days, and other days she just wanted to cry nonstop about it. She had give pictures of him in her hands as she escaped the confines of the castle to come cry about him outside. Him posed with her dad, with the twins, even one with him licking her mum's face. Ugh. Alix probably hated that. And V missed them all terribly. HORRIBLY. TERRIBLY.

She sniffled and wiped her eyes on her sleeve. Here she went again, crying.

Maybe she was totally a crybaby, like Yoon thought.

But her sniffle was louder than she wanted it to be, and she hadn't noticed the slightly older Ravenclaw girl nearby, but she plopped onto the ground next to some of the stone steps. The moving pictures were a bit of a comfort for her. Ugh. He was so cute ;_______; She missed him ;______________;

Ash was minding her own business, and BOOM! Crying children. What was Ash supposed to do with crying children who she didn't know? Especially when she didn't even know what to do with HERSELF when she cried??? Uhhhh, help. Hellooo, random crying child? Ash hoped this one wouldn't yell at her. Crying led to yelling more than Ash would appreciate. Uhhhh... but maybe she should check up on this crying child? "You good?" Nevermind. Bad question. "I see you have photos too... weird coincidence. Mine don't move though." Yes. That was a much better Thing to Say. Ash wished her boyfriend was here. He always knew what to do when people cried. Ash did not know what to do when people cried. Yikes. Well, she could try and help. But no guarantees. Ash had been known to make situations worse, especially ones involving emotions. Not on purpose though. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Okay. Chill. Stop stressing. Ash looked at the girl from the corner of her eye. She could handle this, as long as the girl didn't do anything unpredictable or rude that would stress her more. Fingers crossed.

OF COURSE SHE WASN'T BLOODY OKAY!!!!

But V didn't say that. She was too upset to be snippy. She just looked round and saw the nervous looking girl holding up her own photos. "W-why don't yours move?" she asked, ignoring the question about being okay because surely it was OBVIOUS she wasn't. She gave a few spare sniffles and wiped her eyes again. "Wh-what do you have pictures of, anyw-way?" she asked curiously. V recognized the girl from lessons, but she didn't remember her name. She'd ask for it in a second or two depending on if it were worth her time.

So.

This was at least somewhat of a distraction from the HOLE in her HEART.

It was probably a good thing that the girl didn't get mad. Because Ash couldn't think straight when she was stressed and there was yelling and crying, and that never ended well. Instead they could focus on pictures. What a relief.

"I'm sending them to my muggle boyfriend, so they can't move because he doesn't know about magic." Blah blah blah, muggles won't be accepting of your magic, blah blah blah. Did the government know what was funny? Wizards didn't accept her either. She had nothing to lose by telling him she was a witch. Nothing. But okay, whatever. Laws, etc. Yup.

"I've been taking photos of the scenery to show him how much I love it at the 'prestigious boarding school' I'm going to." Which was a lie in two ways. One, she was at Hogwarts, not a fancy muggle boarding school. Two, she was miserable. That was none of this girls business tho. They didn't even know each other's names, so of course Ash wasn't going to bring up her past, present, or future. "He got worried when I didn't write last year, so I'm just showing that... y'know, I'm alive and stuff. What do you have pictures of?"

As much as Ollie would've loved to go hang out with Remy in the Gryffindor common room, she didn't want to get in trouble. If a prefect found her in the wrong common room, Merlin knows how much trouble she'd be in! Maybe she could make a polyjuice potion...

Wow... She really thought that Remy would've known she was only kidding. Her friend's nerves must have been really high. She wondered if there was anything she could do to ease the tension. When Ollie got supper stressed, she normally took a nice bath, bot really something you get to do at Hogwarts. "It's okay, sorry I said if." Though she wasn't really.

"Wellll what do you want to know? I'll let you pick." She winked at her friend, she didn't have many secrets so Remy had to pick something reallllyyyy good.

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Dahlia had just barely greeted one blondish haired Gryffindor Flamsteed twin when there was suddenly another coming straight down the path towards them. She had actually heard him running and that was what had caused her to look over in the direction he had been coming from and away from the one who was staring at a tree.

"Hey! Lo-" she had seen that root but clearly he hadn't. OUCH! That had to hurt. "Are you okay?!" Reaching out she offered her hand to help him back onto his feet.

If she had to guess which twin this was she would say Atlas, he was the one always getting hurt, right? If memory served her right anyhow. Hadn't he closed his fingers in the compartment door on the Hogwarts express at the start of term? She had been meaning to ask him about that, it still seemed strange to her.

He was OKAY. A mouthful of dirt never hurt anyone. And he would know from personal experience. Even if said mouthful contained a few ants and a worm. Mum had made Aries and him those cups of dirt treats eventually to get them to stop making their own out in the yard. Crumbled up Oreo cookies and chocolate pudding obviously did date loads better than actual dirt. Go figure.

He could use one of those sweets right now. Extra gummy worms.

Spitting out the dirt and scraping his tongue with his fingers, though it was not doing enough to get ALL of it out of his mouth and he would need some water for that, Atlas rolled a bit into a sitting position and tried not to look down and see the state of his pristine whites that were most CERTAINLY streaked with dirt and moss right now. Not looking....not looking.....he looked...and it was...well...not worse than he expected so there was that.

Ears twitching, he turned to look at the source of the voice and felt his face flush a bit when he saw Dahlia.

"Who? Me?" he said while clearing his throat and brushing some of the dirt off his chest. Which was a bad move because all that did was push the dirt more into the material and smear it around some more. And he knew that. "Totally. Yeah."

Remy had completely calmed down by this point, feeling bad for getting so mad with Ollie. It was just an outburst reaction, because she was scared for this information to get overheard. “No, I’m sorry. It’s just… me and Lisa had an eavesdropper the other day and it freaked me out a little.” She just REALLY wasn’t ready for it to be public knowledge. Imagine Scarlett Mordaunt finding out…..?!

Well, THAT was anticlimactic. Ollie had made it sound like she had something juicy to share. Remy sighed, loudly. “I dunno… do you think anyone is cute?” Hopefully Ollie would know that she was talking Hogwarts crushes.

Realising that Ollie was not going to back down, Remy opened up a FRESH page of her diary and scribbled a name on it. She uncovered it for approximately 3 seconds for Ollie to see and then ripped the page out and screwed it up. Now, who knew the incendio charm?

Wait, someone was eavesdropping on Remy and Lisa!? Ollie could only imagine that they had something juicy to share and thats why they had someone eavesdropping. Why go through all the trouble for something dumb."Wait, who was it!?" She really wanted to know so that way she could avoid talking around them.

She noted Remy's sigh. Sorry Remy, Ollie doesn't have that much to hide! She hated to admit it, but she lived a very, very boring life. She didn't have any interesting friends nor did she have any boy crazy stories. "Ummmm, not really." Though she immediately knew that wouldn't suffice. "Honestly, an even bigger secret is that I've never had a crush! I mean I don't even know what it feels like." Obviously she had found boys cute before, but she only thought that for a second and then she didn't think about them again. "I really liked talking to Evan, Lisa's brother, but I don't really like, like him.... I don't think" Remy was probably the best person to confide in about this. She probably knew all about this!

“Scarlett Mordaunt.” Remy said her name with a bit of a scowl, she couldn’t help it. Butting into someone’s conversation and undermining their magical ability wasn’t cool, no matter who you are, or how cute your brother was. “She thinks she’s sooooo smart….” Remy shrugged, not wanting to be any more rude about the Hufflepuff.

Ugggghhhhhhh……. Ollie was totally playing her right now.

Trying to lure her in with fake secrets that she didn’t even have, in order to find our hers. Smart, sure… but annoying. Remy decided to make a huge deal out of the information Ollie did give. “Oh!!!” She winked. “I’ve met Evan, he’s totally cute.” That wasn’t a lie, he was, but he was Lisa’s brother, ya know… “I’d understand if you did like him.” Remy giggled.

What? No reaction???

That was good… but… also… what??? Remy furroed her brows at her friend and cleared her throat, still clutching the ball of paper in her fist.

Ollie's brows furrowed together. Scarlett as in the Hufflepuff Scarlett? She couldn't see the girl doing something like that. "Really? Oh my..." She tried hard to envision the scene of Lisa and Remy talking and Scarlett eavesdropping, but she couldn't! It seemed so unlike her. "Were you guys talking about something really important? Or super secret?" It was important to know how secretive this talk was to know how bad the eavesdropping was.

Maybe Evan was cute but Ollie didn't really care. She wasn't one who was overly boy crazy - she just didn't care! She noticed Remy's grip on her paper tighten and saw her face. Oh Right! Ollie was supposed to make a big deal about this kind of thing. "Oh Evan's okay, but he-" Ollie pointed to the paper and winked, "Is super cute! I totally get why you'd like him." Was she doing this right? She wasn't use to talking about crushes and it kinda weirded her out. Then Ollie remembered her herbology professor. "Isn't he related to someone at the school?"

Oh my god, Atlas, why are you so obsessed with me??

Aries had been half way up the tree when all the commotion took place. Dear MERLIN.

"Yes, you, idiot" he called out from behind the two. "I think she is also asking if you are okay in the head" he said all too cheekily as he jumped off from where he was and made his way over.

Turning to Dahlia, he smiled politely, "Hello, I am Aries. You can tell us apart by remembering I am always the one who doesn't eat dirt"

So THAT was quite the distraction. Muggle? BOYFRIEND? "What's his name?" she asked curiously. "That's so....DANGEROUS. Like...romantic dangerous. He can't know ANYTHING about your double life...wow. Your life is like...a movie. Or a book. Or something." V smiled as she finished wiping her eyes. "Is he cute? Is he nice? Do you two kiss?" she asked with an eyebrow wiggle. Didn't teenagers kiss?

When V turned 13, she wondered if she'd get to kiss anyone.

"Oh, what's your name? I'm V. I know we've had a lesson or two together before. Sorry I don't remember it, though. OOOOPS!" she grinned and held up her photos. Moving ones, though. "My dog. His name is PRINCE CHARLESTON, and he is the most preciousest yorkie EVER." She siiiiighed. "I miss him SO much, but that seems silly because you probably miss your boyfriend like crazy, too." And most people thought people were better than dogs. V would disagree, but you know...she wouldn't say that right now.

Was it a secret discussion…?? Ehhh… “No, it wasn’t important or secret, but… she was still really rude about it.” Maybe Ollie had to be there to have known how annoying it really was. Thankfully Lisa agreed that Scarlett was totally rude at the time.

Hmm.. it sounded like Ollie was just making up stuff about Evan just to get Remy’s secret out of her. It was a good game, one she’d probably do herself, but it was UNAPPRECIATED.

O___O

Remy looked around to make sure no one was around as Ollie kept discussing the details of the mysterious name. Way to make it obvious without actually saying their name!!!! Imagine if she knew about OTHER pages of her diary. Remy suddenly realised that anything else would remain a secret. “What? No- I dunno.” She shrugged. “Wanna go to the kitchen for a snack?” It was her way of getting out of this situation fast.

Ash sighed, internally. Having a double life was not good at all. She didn't want to be withholding important information about herself. She was sure her boyfriend knew she was hiding something. That's why he kept asking if she was alright- and she couldn't tell him what the problem was, and that made her sick. He was probably worried sick about her, and the worst part was that he was right to be. And he probably thought she didn't trust him, when really she couldn't really legally tell him. All of these things combined made her feel really sad when she thought about her boyfriend and the wizarding world at the same time.

"His name is Theodore. Yes he's cute, yes he's nice, yes we've kissed." And however romantic her dangerous life was, it was SUPER NOT FUN.

Yay. More questions. Did Ash hate questions? Not exactly... but she did hate irritating questions. She hoped that V wasn't going to ask irritating questions. She ran her fingers through her hair. "I'm Ash. Don't think we've met before... cute dog." Yes. Cute dog. Ash was not a dog person, but judging by the girl's attachment to PRINCE CHARLESTON, 'cute dog' would be a correct and true(but completely unnecessary) response.

"Everyone has the right to miss someone. Regardless of whether that someone is PRINCE CHARLESTON, the most preciousest yorkie EVER. Or a different pet. Or friends, or family, or whatever." Ash did not particularly care that much for PRINCE CHARLESTON, but V did. And Ash hated to have her feelings invalidated, soooo of course she was gonna say that it was okay to miss pets. Ash was very unpredictable, but also very consistent. It was weird.

Ivy had been curled up on this bench for a little while now, quietly reading through this collection of a few of Shakespeare's plays. With the announcement of the play and the time for auditions drawing closer, she'd been inspired to read through some of her favorites. Because maybe they'd do one of these! Anything was possible. And maybe she could use something from one of them for her audition.

Which one she wanted to pick though...she wasn't sure.

And, as she flipped to the next page, it was beginning to feel a bit chilly again, which probably meant her warming charm was fading already. But she didn't want to go back inside yet. So she pulled out her wand and gave it a quick wave as she mumbled the incantation.

Ahh, much better.

And now to continue reading.

As much as she hated to admit it...running every day was getting...old. So today, she was skipping. None of that high vertical skipping, either, she was speed-skipping, putting most of her energy into pushing herself forward, rather than upward. Mamie might not be very good at most of her subjects, but she had a working knowledge of physics, especially gravity and energy. You could go faster if you weren't also trying to go up.

She spotted someone on a bench while still far away, and peered curiously at them until she got closer. Oh! It was Ivy! Misa's friend. Margaret stopped skipping and grinned at the older girl, waiting for her to look up from her book to greet her.

She didn't want to interrupt...whatever she was reading. Mamie was polite.

Once again, Dahlia had opened her mouth to say something but this time rather than being unable to finish because someone had fallen first.. she had been cut off by someone else speaking first. The Ravenclaw cast a quick look over her shoulder at the identical blonde to the one in front of her. Her blue eyes returning to Atlas once more as she rummaged through her bag to pull out a thermos of water. "I have some water if you want it." To rinse his mouth out. Dirt was gross. No need to ask how she knew that. "I haven't drank any." She knew how some people felt about sharing things.

As for introductions, Lia turned her attention back to Aries smiling lightly. "I'm Dahlia. We crashed into each other last term in Flying class." Perhaps he would remember that. Which meant, the other one was the one who closed his hand in the train compartment door. Yup, she was still very curious about how that had happened.

She heard footsteps approaching, though they didn't sound like normal walking footsteps. Or running, for that matter. So what was...

Oh! Mamie was skipping down the path. Assuming that the third year was going to continue on by, Ivy simply glanced up and smiled before returning her eyes to her book...but the skipping had stopped. And when she looked up again, Mamie was there.

So Ivy grinned, tilting her book so she could focus on her and not the words on the page. "Hey! What're you up to?"

Eavesdropping wasn't a nice thing to do, but why was Remy in such a big fuss over something that wasn't even a secret? Maybe if Ollie had been there to have her business listened to, she would have a different opinion. What they were talking about now... Ollie could see why Remy would want that tk stay secret. Well, she didn't fully understand but she got it enough. "Well, it wasn't very nice of her to eavesdrop on you and Lisa."

Hmmm, Ollie wasn't crazy hungry but could go for a snack. She guessed that her secret info wasn't good enough for Remy to care about. At least she didn't seem upset with her anymore. She really liked Remy, and didn't want to upset her! "Yeah! What do you wanna get to eat?"