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Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-07-22 13:23:00

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character: blaise zabini, character: bryce dunstan, character: lucy spinks, character: megan jones, character: richard summerby, character: stacey rivers, character: susan bones

Pool Party!
Who: Lucy and open to everyone invited - please tag your characters!
What: Pool party!
Where: Mews House, Hanover Terrace
When: Wednesday 22nd July, 3pm til late
Rating: SFW, there's children present!

Lucy hadn't intended the times on the invitation to be really taken seriously - they were more an indication of the hours she was free and she was hoping people would drift in and out as it suited them. It had been a display of pool toys in a pound shop near Tufnell Park that had inspired the whole idea, and there was a collection of them already floating across the surface of the water.

Outside in the garden there were tables for food, which would be produced later, and coolers for soft drinks. The alcoholic punch was in Susan's fridge - warded so that the underage guests couldn't get at it by accident (or by design).

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Lucy, Megan, and open (3pm)

addingvalue
2015-07-24 12:35 pm UTC (link)

Lucy sat up at the first notes of the happy birthday song, using an oar to push her closer to the edge so she'd be able to greet her guests. "Megan!" She hadn't seen her old friend in some time - not since she'd first ventured back to the wizarding world, and that had only been briefly. It probably had something to do with the Quidditch season taking up all of Megan's time, but Lucy was glad to have time to reconnect.

"Oh, you didn't have to!" she said, throwing her arms out for balance as she tried to clamber out of the boat without getting more than her feet wet. She hadn't mentioned it was her birthday on the invitations, partly because she'd just forgotten and partly because she was inviting a lot of people she didn't know terribly well and didn't want to pressure them to bring gifts.

Safely restored to the poolside, she jogged over to Megan to give her a hug. "I haven't seen you in forever," she said. "How are you?"

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Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

pinkyink
2015-07-24 11:04 pm UTC (link)

"Like we wouldn't bring you birthday presents!" Stacey called out from the door, hearing Lucy's protestation. She made her way over, grinning, a gift bag in one hand. Since she'd Apparated over directly from the flat, she was only wearing her swimsuit, with a sweater wrapped over her shoulders for some sort of covering. There was a bag on her shoulder with a towel and a change of clothes if she needed them later on.

Once she was standing next to both other girls and could speak at a reasonable volume, she said, "Zacharias wanted to be here, but he had some work meeting he couldn't get out of. Mysterious things he can't talk about, and whatnot." She shrugged, and then continued, "Happy birthday, Luce. Having a good day so far?"

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Re: Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

gingerkeeper
2015-07-25 07:47 am UTC (link)

Megan offered a very excited and happily encompassing hug to Lucy when she clambered out of the pool. But before she could answer the question asked a very familiar voice interrupted and Megans smile grew larger.

She distractedly answered the original question with a quick, "Im fantastic." Before Stacy was close enough to ramble about Zacharias' excuse for not attending. Which wasnt all that surprising, honestly.

"Yeah," Megan added to the question posed to Lucy as she offered a side hug to Stacey. "Are you accomplishing all of the appropriate Birthday necessities of doing what you damn well please?"

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Re: Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

addingvalue
2015-07-27 08:20 am UTC (link)

Lucy's gaze darted to the door and she grinned when she recognised Stacey - waiting until she was close enough before she gave her a hug too. It was incredibly good to see them both again, and knowing Susan would be here later only made it better. "Why've we waited for my birthday to do this, again?" she asked. She pouted when Stacey mentioned Zacharias couldn't come, but she did understand. "Aw, I was hoping to see him. He seems like he works too hard." She made a mental note to find another excuse to see him soon - he'd done so much to help her lately, she really felt like she owed him a good time.

Lucy gestured to the pool and its toys. "I think this qualifies as doing whatever I want, don't you? I always wanted a pool party growing up, but mum and dad couldn't really justify it." Hiring a whole pool for an afternoon was expensive, apparently, though Lucy had been to a few parties hosted by others. "I'm really going to miss this if I move out."

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Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

pinkyink
2015-07-28 09:50 pm UTC (link)

Stacey returned both hugs with a grin, and answered Lucy's question. "Because we're adults now who have to things like work?" She glanced at Megan and then added, "Well, most of us." She stuck her tongue out and winked to show that she was just teasing, and then looked back at Lucy and nodded as she said, "Yeah, he does. I try to get him out of the flat from time to time, which is only partially successful."

Smiling widely, she had to agree that the set up definitely looked like someone was planning on having a great time. "Wait, you're moving?" Stacey asked with something almost like horror. "When? Why? You can't abandon us, we just got you back in our lives!"

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Re: Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

gingerkeeper
2015-08-03 02:52 am UTC (link)

Megan returned the tongue and added a nose wrinkle at the jest. Alright, she didn't have a normal job - but.... you know that's everyone else's problem. She was relatively use to the joke having relatives who reminded her frequently that her problems - had very little relevance to others. Megan didn't mind...she was, after all, winning at life for the most part.

"Yeah," Megan quickly added to the argument with very little additional statement. Lucy had been gladly returned to the Hufflepuff love fest in the wizarding world! All were rejoicing! She couldn't just....leave again! Well, actually she could...but that wasn't the point.

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Lucy, Megan, Stacey and open (3pm)

addingvalue
2015-08-03 01:29 pm UTC (link)

"We should form a committee," Lucy decided. "The 'get Zacharias to enjoy himself' committee." She snorted. "He'd probably hate that, but we should do it anyway." She laughed at the exchange between Stacey and Megan, waving a hand. "Nope, no, no talk about 'adults' on my birthday. I'm not getting old - I'm just having a pool party." Her tone bore a faint, deliberate, resemblance to a child singing 'la la la I can't hear you'.

Flattered by their outrage, Lucy pressed a hand to her heart. "Not leaving, not abandoning you, just... you know, moving into a house that I can actually afford to pay rent for? I can't live off Susan's charity forever." Like Megan, she paused a moment to reconsider. "Well, I probably could, she wouldn't stop me, but I won't. I'm going to find a nice muggle flat where I can have a TV and an oven I understand how to use and where my mobile will work - and then I'm going to get it hooked up to the floo so I can still get to everything in the magical world."

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