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Post by Michael Pucey on May 10, 2007 21:07:21 GMT -5
Bored?
Yes, bored.
Michael was bored. He was standing out there, in the freezing cold, trying to draw warmth to his fingers, leaning against a tree (with snow falling onto his shoulders) and he was bored. Bored. Hogwarts was dreadfully boring around this time of year, when the time went by the slowest.
And he needed something to do. What in the world was he going to do? There was absolutely nothing - if there had been, he would have quickly found it and set to... doing whatever it was.
However, there was nothing. Which was why he was standing here at this particular moment, attempting to thaw his fingers to no success.
Ah. There was someone approaching. Someone he knew, he hoped. It only turned out to be, of course, one of his sister's friends. Hailie's friend. Ugh. What was the girl's name?
Heidi. That was it. Heidi. She was the Weasley girl... [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 10, 2007 21:22:03 GMT -5
"Heidi..." A hand shook her, and Heidi let out a groan. Several giggles.
"Heidi..." The Weasley looked up with blurry eyes. "What the bloody hell do you want?" She asked in a straight-forward manner. "I was trying to sleep, in case you didn't notice," she said very slowly (for her anyway). "But Heidi," Ellie reasoned. "It's snowing." Heidi scowled at her Potter cousin before the words processed. "I don't bloody ca- SNOW?" She leapt out of bed, and the girls scattered.
In minutes, she was out the door dressed in warm clothes, skates flung over her shoulder. She reached the ice that had been frozen for a month and tested it with her palms. Sturdy. Spotting a bench, Heidi walked over to put on her skates. Within seconds she was on the ice, twirling and skating and squealing - her favorite parts. A person out of the corner of her eye was walking, and she spun around. Oh. It was Michael.
"Hi!" Heidi called, walking over as her skates tried to fall into the grass under the snow. "What are you doing?" |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 11, 2007 15:48:25 GMT -5
Michael blinked several times, hearing a voice, before realizing that he was being spoken to. Ah well. At the very least, Heidi was an /interesting/ person, no? Of course, there was the fact that she said the oddest and most random things at times, and she was one of Hailie's friends - if that told you anything - but then again... she was interesting to talk to.
"Hey," he greeted, in a much more dull tone of voice than she had been using. "I'm... um... walking. Back up to the castle." Although, he supposed, the castle could wait - it wasn't as if there was anything up there that wasn't out here anyways. Well, other than the classrooms and more students and warmth, and the library... well, there was a lot that wasn't out here that was in there. That, however, was besides the point.
"What are /you/ doing?" [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 11, 2007 18:40:22 GMT -5
"Ohhh."
Heidi nodded knowingly. "I walk to the castle in the snow too," she said, as if letting him in on a secret. "Like, a lot. And Lynn Woods who's in Gryffindor does too and Ellie Potter and Kenzie Lupin and Hailie." She started walking back toward the rink. "I was just skating and it's so fun cause like the ice is frozen and you can skate on it. So like I was. And it's fun."
"You should try it," she insisted. |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 11, 2007 18:48:59 GMT -5
"How... interesting," Michael commented, raising his eyebrows slightly. Ah, he'd never be able to get used to that... erm, spontaneity of hers. It was true, yes - Hailie and Heidi were like each other's twins in mind, and he knew that his sister would most likely start rambling about a similar topic within time. However, that wasn't any concern of Michael's... at least, not yet.
"Lynn Woods...?" he repeated, frowning. "Like, Marissa's sister, you mean?" Ah. Marissa Woods. The most annoying little... well, something or other that he probably shouldn't say. Hopefully her sister wasn't as annoying. How in the world were you expected to deal with /two/ copies of Marissa Woods?
"I probably shouldn't," he told her in a fair warning tone of voice. "Last time I tried ice skating, I fell. Flat on my face. And Hailie laughed." He'd been a child at the time, and had held that against his sister for... the longest time. [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 11, 2007 19:08:32 GMT -5
"Well, Lynn's really nice. I think Marissa is just mean cause she maybe got sorted into the wrong house in her family and Slytherins rub off on her so soon she becomes habit in cussing and stuff."
Heidi smiled a bit. She was sure that was it. You needed a reason to frown, but you never needed a reason to smile. And it took more muscles to frown, too. So that's why Heidi rarely did. But MAYBE Marissa wanted to keep her muscles in her face worked out. She didn't know.
"But skating is so fun! I could teach you. It's really easy and fun and there's no one out there to laugh." Heidi promised. |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 11, 2007 19:33:48 GMT -5
"And to be a slut," Michael commented, raising his eyebrows. It was true, of course. He was never one to say anything that wasn't true - unless, of course, he was talking to his sister, but she had enough common sense to know that he was joking... or so he hoped at the very least. "But that's... a different subject."
He was sure that it was only effects of the other Slytherins, as Heidi had said... after all, Marissa had been a nice enough person in her first year. It was only as time went on... Actually, Michael wasn't sure of the facts - he'd only noticed her a year or two ago, seeing as he didn't pay much attention...
"But you would laugh... if you're anything like how Hailie was anyways," he pointed out. Actually... again, he didn't know. But she was Hailie's best friend, and he didn't quite trust his sister's friends. [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 15, 2007 19:51:45 GMT -5
"You're right," Heidi agreed, sighing, as she clomped back toward the lake. "She is a slut. And her sister is a bit pink-happy. But enough of this. I don't really favor talking about the Woods family." She commented, thoughts whirling. The Woods were...erm....okay, but their Dad hated her, of course.
But that didn't stop Heidi and Hailie from becoming BFFLs. "I won't laugh," Heidi promised solemnly. "I only laugh if Hailie is talkingreallyfastandfalls, or when people fall on EFV. You know, England's Funniest Home Videos?" She asked, knowing it was a muggle channel, but loved it. ooc;; reference credit to America's Funniest Home Videos. |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 15, 2007 20:09:12 GMT -5
"EFV? Like... a Muggle show? On a Muggle television?" His parents had never exactly been Muggle-friendly, and what with Hailie being deathly scared of televisions, he really honestly had no idea what she was talking about. "I really wouldn't know then..." His sister was known to have a fit and throw things until a television within five feet of her was broken... and then she'd calm down, and be her usual 'oh my gosh, look at the pretty butterfly' self.
"And fine," he muttered. "But really. Where am I going to get a pair of skates?" Not only was Michael not Muggle-friendly, but he also honestly had forgotten the fact that he could conjure one with his wand. But that was Michael... [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 15, 2007 20:24:22 GMT -5
"Yeah. When I tried to watch a DVD with Hailie, she broke my portable DVD player," Heidi frowned. "She has, like, TV-phobia." She said quickly. "And, like, duh. You're a wizard, remember?" the blonde asked, giggling. She flicked her wand. "Mine are too big anyway." She banished hers and created two new pairs. One bright and pink with her name on them in exactly the right size, and white ones for Michael with his name in dark green.
"I hope that's your size," Heidi apologized in advance in case they weren't as she laced up her own with the purple laces. "I love these colors. Here. Put these on while I make sure the rink isn't about to collapse." And she set off like a firecracker across the ice. |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 15, 2007 20:42:27 GMT -5
Michael smirked slightly. "Yeah, that would be Hailie. We stopped taking her shopping anywhere near Muggles because she freaked walking past an electronics store when she was three." He shrugged. "But... you know, she's my sister, I have to get used to her... insanity." Yes, his sister was insane. Yes, she still thought she was the best sister.
He watched her now, as she streaked across the ice, while he got on the skates, trying and failing miserably to figure out the laces before figuring out that they were more or less like shoes. Just more... long. He finally ended up tying them properly, and of course nearly falling flat on his face with the skates sinking into the snow. [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 17, 2007 16:38:50 GMT -5
Heidi grinned at Michael fiddled with his lacings. They were easy! All you did was tie them and voila! you were done. Holding out her arms as a pirouette was doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled, one leg was thrust to her knee, then out, then held in the air. This was so much more fun than the Muggle rinks, where the little kids wanted to play crack the whip, so she did.
"Want-some-help-cause-I can!" She said quickly, wading over to where he had stepped. "You pretend you're in the army and sort of march. It's hard," she nodded quickly, blonde flying everywhere. She grasped his arm quickly and pulled him to the rink, instructing him to hang on to the side rail. "It's easier that way," she added.
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 17, 2007 17:05:36 GMT -5
Michael blinked slowly at her, raising his eyebrows and trying to process all that she'd said and stay upright at the same time. Pretend you're in the army and march? Sort of? Huh. This /was/ hard. He should have chosen his better judgment and said 'no'. He took several steps, however, deciding that this was... fairly easy enough, despite the snow causing him to sink in several inches.
He put a hand out to the side rail. Well. This wasn't as difficult as he'd remembered it as. Or perhaps it was because he did have a side rail this time, and last time his sister had dragged him onto the ice and left him to fend for his own. "Well... it /is/ easier that way..." he mumbled, offering her a smile. After all, smiles were something Heidi had to be used to. [/size] |
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Post by Heidi Weasley on May 17, 2007 17:24:36 GMT -5
"Yes it is," Heidi agreed, beaming. "Now try skating. It's like sliding your foot forward, like this." And she shot away to the other side of the ice, coming back again quickly. "But you don't have to start that fast I just like to cause like I like to go fast and talk fast so yeah." She nodded, grinning slightly.
"Do you like singing? I like singing." With that, she shot off. "Aunt Suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell. Aunt Suzie went to heaven, the steamboat went to hello operator, give me number 9. And if you disconnect me, I'll kick you from behind the refridgerator, I found a piece of glass. Aunt Suzie sat upon it and broke her little ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies. The cows are in the pasture, eating all the pies." |
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Post by Michael Pucey on May 17, 2007 17:35:58 GMT -5
"Do you do /everything/ fast?" Michael asked, shaking his head. He assumed the answer to that, of course, and therefore didn't really need her to say anything in response. However, she did seem to have a ton in common with Hailie, and nothing like rhetorical questions had ever stopped his sister before. Now. He really did have to stop comparing the two of them. It wasn't as if they were twins in mind... right?
Did he like singing? Well, no, he couldn't say he did. He was used to his sister singing, all the time actually, however, and if anyone could sing worse than Hailie... well. That would be a living nightmare. "No, not really. But sing. Go ahead." He would have shrugged, although as he was grasping onto the railing he couldn't, and settled for rolling his eyes. [/size] |
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