Who: Jimmy & Alex When: The Eve of the Hogsmeade trip - backdated Where: Near The Hog's Head? What: Alex believes his runaway attempt has been succesful and has no idea that Jimmy is frantic and looking for him Rating: R? Alex's disgusting mouth and his non-PC opinions on girls and Purebloods
If he'd even half believed that anybody would be looking for him Alex may have made more of an effort to run further away than the Hog's Head. As it was, he'd left the note for Hagrid and didn't think the man cared for his bad attitude enough to spend the effort looking for him and Jimmy, well. That ship had sunk. The rest of the faculty wasn't even an argument; his Head of House certainly wouldn't be bothered that he had disappeared and there was no one in his dorm who would notice his absence either. This wasn't just young teenage angst, this was a certainty that there was literally nobody who would miss him. He minded it, if only because of Jimmy, but he'd been on his own before and he'd been able to cope. This change of pace just put him where he'd be in three or four years anyway and he didn't have to put up with girls either, pretending that sitting in class with them didn't make his stomach sway with nausea.
It had been as easy as he'd expected to go off on his own and wait until the rest of the students had left. He'd changed out of his Hogwarts robes and shrunk his trunk to pocket sized so he looked like a little midget wizard under the hood of his robes.
He waited until it started to get dark before making his way to the Hog's Head, a place that he didn't particularly like but where he knew his money would be taken for lodgings without question. He didn't sleep very well there, staying awake all night with his wand pointed at the door in case the loud men and women he heard downstairs decided to stumble in, but it was better than sleeping in a doorway and besides, he could always sleep through the day and get some kind of afternoon job. Or something.
He lingered around to get something to eat for the night, a pasty, before tucking it away and heading back to the Hog's Head to rent a room.