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Post by mgirl03 on Jul 13, 2009 22:51:30 GMT -5
It seemed so much more normal when Rory slid over to the edge of the bed to sit side by side with Al. At first he had been suspicious that she was going to try and get up, but he was glad that she didn't--she knew that he would be all over her if she did something so dumb. He let out a small chuckle when she asked what he wanted to talk about--it was only on the first day that Rory wouldn't be able to think of some topic to ramble on about. Not that her ramblings bugged him--that was just who she was.
"Hmm, I don't know," he said after a moment, shrugging his shoulders slightly. He bumped his shoulder against hers gently and smirked, wiggling his eyebrows. "I saw you talking to that one fifth year yesterday at the face. What-his-face, with the blonde hair." Al grinned sugestively, glad that he had found something to tease her about. "He seemed quite happy to be talking with you. If you catch my meaning."
He gave a very over-exaggerated wink as his stomach gave a little twinge. Confused for a moment, he looked down at his stomach and then realized that he must be hungry--he took a bite of the licorice wand, still smiling coyly at Rory. "I'm sure you were very happy to be talking to him too, yeah?" His stomach gave another twinge, and he gave up and stuffed the candy into his mouth. He really needed to not skip breakfast.
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Post by .RORY KAY BLAKE ! on Jul 13, 2009 23:34:35 GMT -5
Rory wasn't the blushing sort, at least not in her experiences so far. So when Al mentioned the other student she simply shrugged and looked down at her hands.
" He was wanting to know if I'd give him some flying pointers. said he was thinking about trying out for the team this year..."
Her brow wrinkled in thought as she turned something over in her mind.
" Thing is I've seen him fly before and he does just fine on his own. "
At Al's suggestion that she was probably thrilled to have to boy's attentions she screwed up her face.
" I don't know, he's cute and all but I've heard some rumors about him.. if their true and he thinks I'm going to become one of them he's got another thing coming..If there not.."
She shrugged and toyed with her wand which she had pulled from her back pocket just to have something to fiddle with. Turning it over in her hands she kept her eyes focused on its length for a few moments before lifting her gaze to meet his again..
" And what about you hu? Think you'll be able to shake the nerves this year? "
Grinning knowing at Al she waited to hear his reaction. He was such a chicken when it came to girls, at least she 'talked' to guys. Even if they did usually end up being total prats that she wanted nothing to do with.
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Post by mgirl03 on Jul 13, 2009 23:44:32 GMT -5
"He's cutte and all.." For some unknown reason, that particular part of Rory's comment on the boy stood out in his mind, and he found his eyes widening a bit and another twinge passing through his stomach. He closed his eyes for a moment, wondering if he was getting sick. He opened them again quickly--her calling a boy cute had just thrown him a bit off guard. He wasn't used to her referring to other guys as anything but annoying. However, she was a girl, and she was fifteen now, so he knew that it would have come along to this eventually.
Suddenly she looked up at him and grinned, asking if he would 'shake the nerves' this year. He made a face at her, pulling out his own wand to toy with. After a moment he forced his gaze to his lap and gave a shrug that was slightly irritated and slightly embarrassed.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he mumbled in denial, taking his wand in his right hand and pointing it at a vase on a table across the room. He levitated it for a moment before letting it rest back down with quite a loud thunks. Turning on his friend he said defiantly, "Yeah, maybe I will. I can talk to girls if I want to. Who knows...maybe I'll even date somebody this year."
He knew of course that those words would be tough to follow through with. Rory knew that he was horrible with girls, that he could barely make his voice box work around them. However, the fact that she was teasing him about it made his male pride take control of his actions. He wasn't angry of course, or really irritated, just a little offended. Yeah, maybe he would shake the nerves! She didn't know, he could get a girl...well, he better bloody well if he wanted James to quit taking the mickey out of him.
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Post by .RORY KAY BLAKE ! on Jul 14, 2009 1:11:16 GMT -5
Her grin faltered as Al all but snapped at her. Bloody hell.. what? he could tease her about guys but she teases him a little and it all goes south? How was that fair? Frowning she looked back at her wand focusing on the pattern in the grain on the wood. She saw him, out of the corner of her eye as he wordlessly took out his frustrations on a vase across the room. Where did he get off being frustrated anyway? after all he had started the joking right? As he mentioned dating someone this year she felt her stomach bottom out and grimaced.. She had no business thinking that way, if Al managed to find someone then she would be happy for him, like a best friend should be. All the same though he was the one who had brought up the topic. so why was she the one getting her head bit off.. Lifting her gaze to scowl at him she told him as much.
" Look .. your the one who picked the topic and poked fun at me first, if it bothers you for me to play back then fine... i won't bother to... alright? "
Irked by his sudden attitude she glanced at her watch.. fifteen bloody minutes to go, part of her wanted to simply hope off the bed and leave. As that wasn't an option yet she glared down at her wand again..
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Post by mgirl03 on Jul 14, 2009 1:22:03 GMT -5
Usually, Al was as pleasant as can be, most definitely to Rory. The two of them teased each other of course, but he was rarely ever mad at her or snapped at her, and when he did it was over in about two seconds. However...something about the topic of her dating boys, and him trying to date girls just...made him get angry for a moment. He didn't know why he had the rage buble in his stomach, but it subsided almost immediately and he was left with a friend who he had just snapped at for no good reason. Brilliant.
Al listened with a cringe at Rory's response to his actions. She was right, of course, and was in the right to be mad at him. He had just been a git then, and he hadn't even had a reason to. Sighing, he ran his hand through his hair again and turned on the bed, and looked at her with an apologetic and guilty look on his face. She was glaring down at his wand, and he knew that he irritated her quite a bit.
"Hey I...I'm sorry," he said honestly, his voice sincere as he reached forward to gently flick her nose again. He kept his eyes trained on her face as he lowered his hand back down to his lap--he hated it when she was irritated with him. "Really, I didn't mean...you were just teasing, I didn't have a right to snap at you. I dunno what...came over me." And that was the truth, he really didn't have a clue why that had bothered him so greatly. He had been teased by her before about not being good with girls, and he didn't know why now was any different.
"Guess it's because you're so right about me," he said soflty. "Bloody horrible with girls and all that."
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Post by .RORY KAY BLAKE ! on Jul 14, 2009 17:01:49 GMT -5
Still starring into her lap, her nose twitched a little as he flicked it affectionately, she finally relented after a few moments and eyed him with a rather grumpy look. She knew he meant the apology, but she couldn't help still being a little irritated, stung that she had been the one to catch it when his his mood had decided to take a three sixty and bar a subject that had always been on a joking level between them.
"Yeah.. you were last year to though, and it didn't bother you to joke about it then. I mean, it's not like I'm the reason for your being like that.. right? "
She was completely unaware of the subtle stomach problems Al had been having a moment ago when she'd been talking about dating a guy, and so was also oblivious to how those words might or might not be taken. She had only meant by them that it wasn't her fault he had always been nervous around girls, that she wasn't the one who had created him with that little quirk. She sat quietly for a few moments turning over the whole thing. Why would it suddenly bother Al and make him snap like that... that just wasn't him.. at least not when it came to talking about it with her. They'd always been able to tell each other anything. So what was different about that this years that would make him suddenly so edgy about the topic?.. An idea hit her that caused an unpleasent wrenching somewhere in her chest area. Shrugging the feeling away as if it were an uncomfortable thorn, she simply looked at Al for a moment. When she did speak her voice had no iritation left in it. Though it did have a touch of nerves overlaying it's gentle tone, what if he snapped at her again for asking?..
" Al?... are you?..."
She frowned and paused for a minute, still worried about how he'd take her question after his reaction a few moments before. If she could get him to answer though, and the answer turned out be yes... it would explain alot.
" are you 'crushing' on someone?"
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Post by mgirl03 on Jul 14, 2009 18:09:52 GMT -5
When Rory asked whether or not she was the reason that he was the way he was about this particular topic, Al made a surprised face and looked down at his lap, resisting the urge to place a hand on his stomach. It had given a painful lurch, and he wondered for a moment what in the world was wrong with him. Casting his mind over what she had just said, he began to wonder if there was any truth in that...Usually he didn't mind the teasing, from her or anybody else...and then now when she asked, he felt extremely irritated. After a moment he shook his head in bewilderment--she couldn't be the cause of this, he was just in a weird mood or something.
He looked back at her face and was about to tell her that no, of course it wasn't her fault, when she half asked him a question. Quirking an eyebrow, he heard the nerves that were present, and felt another guilty wave wash over him. Was she always going to be afraid that he was going to snap at her now? Bloody hell, he had really screwed things up, hadn't he? Frowning slightly, he leaned a little more towards Rory, waiting to hear what the actual question was, seeing as 'are you?' didn't make an ounce of sense.
"Are you 'crushing' on someone?" Taken totally by suprise this time, Al made a noise at the back of his throat and leaned back from Rory, his eyes widening greatly and his face flushing. Was he...crushing on someone?! No, of course not who on earth...the only girl he hung out with Rory, and she was just his friend. Who would he crush on? Sure there was a few cute girls...but he wasn't really crushing on any of them. Besides the only girl that came to mind that was really logged as cute to him was Narcissa Malfoy...wait... WHAT?!
"I...No, no no no no," Al said, vigurously shaking his head. He stared at Rory, running a hand through his hair again, still flushing. "Not...no, I'm not...not that I know of, anyway." While some people would ask how it was possible not to know if you were crushing on someone or not, Rory would understand--Al was a dense bloke sometimes, so he really didn't know if he felt anything for a girl or not. Like before, the only one he hung out with was Rory, and she was his friend--and then the only cute girl that came to mind was Narcissa...but there was no way he was crushing on her.
"Er...why? Does it...seem like I am?" he asked embarrassedly.
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Post by .RORY KAY BLAKE ! on Jul 14, 2009 18:58:44 GMT -5
Watching her best friend babble on she couldn't help but quirk an eyebrow and smirk. You just had to like Al, she thought, there was no way not to. He wouldn't know he liked a girl if she feel right into his lap. Grinning she nodded....
" Umm... yeah, actually it kinda does.. It would make you snapping like that make more since anyway you prat."
All irritation gone she reached up and messed his hair before assuming the front lines of best frindom . Sighing and rolling her eyes she smiled and dove into a run off list of things any 'normal' teen would know to look for...
" Met anyone new lately? Some one you'd consider pretty or really nice? Someone you maybe talked to for awhile and got to know some? A girl you'd sit and talk with again if you got the chance?"..
Eyeing him for a minute in his flustered state at talking about the subject at all she chuckled..
" Someone your even more of a spazz around than you usually are when it comes to girls? ..."
She smirked
" if that's possible that is.."
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Post by mgirl03 on Jul 14, 2009 19:15:51 GMT -5
While listening to Rory list off things that he should look out for to know if he was crushing on a girl, and when she messed up his hair, Al's face softened from suprised to a small smile. Rory really was a great friend--it was also a great advantage to have a girl as a best friend, so that she could help him out. He listened to her list, and her quirkly comment at the end, before sticking his tongue out at her.
"I love how you find my awkwardness around girls funny," he said, although he was still smiling as he said this. He felt the irritation buble again in his stomach, but ignored it to the best of his ability--there was no reason to be embarrassed or annoyed, considering this was just Rory.
Again, he forced himself to think over the list that she had rattled off, and then gave a slow shake of his head. "I don't know!" he said desperately, staring down at her. "It's only the first day....How about...how about we talk tonight? After I've...seen other girls? Besides the girl who sat on the other side of me at the feast yesterday, you're the only girl I've been around."
Al still looked sort of lost and desperate, but he smiled a little as he flicked her nose. "So feel special. But thanks for the help. If I ever figure out whether or not I'm crushing on somebody, you'll be the first to know. Promise." He paused for a moment, and then quirked his eyebrow again.
"Feel free to come to me, of course...not that you need my help," he offered. "But I'd be glad to threaten any guy for you." He grinned at her, his stomach bugging him again.
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Post by .RORY KAY BLAKE ! on Jul 14, 2009 21:31:30 GMT -5
Rory chuckled again as he spazzed some more over her questions. When he asked about talking about it later on in the common room she smiled and nodded.
" Sure, ...it's a date. "
Feel free to come to me, of course...not that you need my help,"
She opened her mouth about to say something when his next joking words caused her mouth to clap shut and one brow to arch rather high...
But I'd be glad to threaten any guy for you. casting him something between a frown and a smirk she scoffed..
"Well I 'was'.. going to ask you what you thought of a guy I'm thinking about talking to. But after that comment.."
She laughed and looked up as the healer came back over to them and stooped down to check out her ankle again. Looking over at Al she crossed her fingers and grimaced. As the healer stood up and nodded she lept down to the ground with a thrilled shout only to be chastised by the healer about taking things easy for a bit. Trying to play the part of what she was told to do, she reached over and grasping Al's hand gave it a tug . The sooner they got out of here the happier she'd be. Walking slowly till they got out of the wing , she let out a huge sigh of relief as the doors closed behind them. Turning around she walked backwards grinning at Al, her arms swinging at her sides..
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