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Halo's Cast ([info]cast_no_shadow) wrote in [info]mistaken_pieces,
@ 2009-01-15 10:08:00

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Entry tags:! rp, - 2020 september, - library, [player: gabby], [player: halo], brenna mckimmon, eline dovers, landon farnsworth

September 15 - Stupid Books
Who: Brenna, Eline
Where: Library
When: After classes
Rating: PG

Status: Closed, completed
Summary: Brenna catches Eline's attention by swiping the book she was checking out. The two girls chat for a bit with minimal snark before Eline attempts to trick Brennan into talking about Lan, who's standing behind her looking at books. When Brenna doesn't catch on, the trick backfires, though eventually Lan's laughter catches Brenna's attention. They joke about it for a bit and after Landon leaves, the girls talk about boys and dating before Eline notices how late it's gotten and they head to the Great Hall for dinner.



Brenna was waving her wand around absently, slouched back in one of the chairs in the library, just glaring at the History of Magic text open on the table in front of her. She still needed another six inches for her essay, despite using her largest handwriting, and she was stuck on what to add in.

Sure, she could tangent, but hers wound up really venturing off the beaten path, leaving her with comments like 'please stick to the topic' when she got the papers back.

Making a face at the book, Brenna looked around the library for someone - anyone - to bother.



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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 12:33 pm UTC (link)
Brenna blinked and kind of made a face. "Date Lan? That'd be like, dating my brother or something."

Not that she had a brother or anything. Nor was she overly interested in dating boys. "No. But if you really wanted to, I could ask him for you. We have pickup games some nights. You know, before practices actually start? And he's usually there."

Lan had to bite down on his knuckles to keep from laughing, amusement gleaming in blue eyes. Oh, it was a shame Tristan was missing this. The other boy was going to kick himself for not coming down to the library with him.

Inhaling slowly, he moved a little further down the aisle, away from the girls. Not far away that he couldn't hear, but hopefully far enough away that any escaped laughter would be muffled.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 12:41 pm UTC (link)
Eline had to bite down onto her lip to prevent from laughing. Brenna actually believed her? She had to be one of the worst actresses ever! She usually put things over the edge and was far to dramatic.

“Do you think you could do that for me?” She asked, her voice getting higher in mock excitement. “But then again…” she averted her eyes insecurely, “I don’t think that would be too cool, y’know? Its kind of lame to have your friends ask guys out for you.” Woah, back up she just called Brenna her friend? Eline barely had any of those.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 12:52 pm UTC (link)
Brenna shrugged. "Not really. You ever listened to the older girls in our commons? They do it like, all the time. Oh, Amy, will you go ask Brad if he'll go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend, tee-hee?" she imitated the older girls in a falsetto, fluttering her lashes and everything.

She heard a noise, and whipped her head around to see who was behind them. When she saw who it was, she rolled her eyes. "Oh, ha-ha you guys."

Lan was red in the face from keeping the laughter back, and he grinned as he wandered over to their table, now that the jig was up. "Sorry, kiddo," he said as he ruffled Brenna's hair, grinning to Eli. "That wasn't half bad, by the way," he told her, his eyes slightly crinkled at the corners.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 01:03 pm UTC (link)
Eline covered her mouth as she laughed, trying to be as quiet as possible so they wouldn’t be kicked out of the library. She attempted to talk a few times but couldn’t get it out. When she finally controlled herself, she looked at Brenna, smiling.

“I’m pretty sure I’m the worst actress ever. I can’t believe you fell for that.” She told her, smile widening as she replayed the memory in her mind, giggling again. “I’m not trying to be mean for once though, I swear.” Eline was well aware of her personality problems.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 01:13 pm UTC (link)
Brenna snorted, and rolled her eyes. "What was there to fall for? We were talking about Tristan, so of course Lan came up." She scoffed faintly, flushing a little at having been caught in such a silly trap.

Lan nodded. "It's true. It's like, we're the same person sometimes."

"Speaking of, where is he?"

Lan shrugged. "I dunno. He said he had to go upstairs to get something, but when he wasn't back down in ..." he trailed off and smiled. "He probably fell asleep."

Well, there was probably a bed involved, anyway.

"I'll wake him up before dinner though. We're probably going out again tonight if you wanted to come with." He glanced to Eli. "And you can come watch, if you want."

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 01:27 pm UTC (link)
Eline shrugged. “I have nothing better to do,” she said. She did have to finish her homework for Muggle Studies about stoves but she could just wake up early to finish it. Or skip breakfast. Or just not do it at all. Probably the last one, even if she risked getting yelled at.

“I can take pictures, I haven’t done much this year, usually I’ll have a hundred by the first week…” She said a hundred pictures like it was nothing. Her camera was about the only thing from her Muggle life that she ever brought to Hogwarts. She couldn’t live without it. She pushed her bangs to the side and flashed her camera which always seemed to come out of nowhere, as if by magic.

Well, she was a witch.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 01:31 pm UTC (link)
"Brill'," Lan said with a grin. "I'll see you lot later, then. Gotta go spread the word in case people mysteriously forgot we sometimes have games after dinner."

He waved to them before he headed out, already composing the story to incorporate pauses for Tristan's inevitable laughter, 'oh man you should haves' and 'I wish I'd been theres'.

Brenna watched him go, then glanced to Eli, smirking slightly. "So you don't really want to date him, right? You were just saying that stuff 'cause he was behind me?"

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 01:42 pm UTC (link)
“Yeah,” Eline said folding her arms then looked at the library doors to make sure Landon was gone. “I think he’s cute but I wouldn’t date him. Don’t really know him,” she shrugged.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 01:50 pm UTC (link)
"You could ask Rose Weasley. She dated him a little last year. Bet she could tell you loads about him," Brenna assured her with a grin. "Besides, isn't like, half the point of dating someone getting to know them? Or is really just all about the snogging?"

She really couldn't get behind snogging. It seemed kind of disgusting to her. But without the snogging, what was the difference between dating and being friends?

Ah, the many mysteries of life.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 02:13 pm UTC (link)
“That’d be a great conversation. ‘Hey Rose, you used to go out with Lan right? How was he?’” Eline smiled at Brenna to show that she wasn’t trying to be mean. She was doing that a lot lately. Maybe she was turning over a new leaf?

Doubt it.

“But I’d never go out with someone I didn’t know, I mean I’m getting to know you and we’re not going out.” Eline paused then processed her words. “Okay, bad example but you get what I’m trying to say, right?”

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Brenna blinked at the odd logic. "Right, but unless you were into girls, you wouldn't be going out with me, anyway. And you know me. I mean, we've been in the same commons for years now."

Her head tilted slightly before she shrugged it off. "So if you only date people you know, how do you get to know people well enough to decide if you want to date them?"

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 03:28 pm UTC (link)
“If its there, its there. If not then…” she shrugged. “I don’t know really, I don’t get into relationships that much. Boys aren’t my main concern, after all. And I’m definitely not into girls. If I like somebody I‘ll tell them, I don‘t know him enough to like him. Get me?” Eline ran her fingers through her hair. Because of stupid Brenna she was beginning to think of Landon in that way.

“But what about you? How do you figure out if you like somebody?” She tilted her head. It was an attempt to get things off of her shoulders and onto Brenna, not the nicest thing to do but it was exactly what Eline was doing.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 03:34 pm UTC (link)
"Well, it should be pretty obvious, shouldn't it? I mean, I can tell Autumn doesn't like me, but she loves me, y'know, 'cause she has to? But I can really tell when I'm annoying her."

She looked thoughtful. "And if I'm feeling generous, I'll back off."

Brenna shrugged, glancing around. "I dunno. I asked my mum once when I'd know if I was in love with someone. After she decided I shouldn't be in love with anyone 'til I was at least eighteen, she said you'd just know. She said you like to hang out with them, and spend time with them, and that you think about them a lot, and when you have important news, they're the first person you want to tell. Stuff like that."

Her nose wrinkled briefly. "Guess I'm lucky. I haven't gotten all obsessed with anyone yet."

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 04:15 pm UTC (link)
“ ‘Love risks degenerating into obsession.’ Have you heard that quote before? Its by this guy who won a Nobel Peace Prize…” Eline began babbling, “He’s an American though so you probably don’t know him… I have a thing for Americans, I love their accents.” If she had the choice she’d move to America, but seeing as she’d probably have to take care of Elaine when she was older, she doubted ever living there. Elaine wouldn’t like the prospect of a plane or boat ride.

Maybe she loved America because it was a world away from certain stupid, irritating parents who refuse to take care of their own children since ‘they’re so young’. Maybe.

“I’m not obsessed with anyone yet either, but I guess it happens to everyone one day. At least once, anyway. Apparently you haven’t lived till you’ve fallen in love. Says my grandmother. Supposedly when she met my grandfather it felt like she had been slapped.” Eline couldn’t really make sense of this, isn’t love suppose to be a wonderful experience, not a painful one? Well, how would she know? She’d never been in love like that.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 04:34 pm UTC (link)
"I heard there's someone out there for everyone," Brenna agreed with a nod. She hadn't heard the quote, and opted not to comment on it. Or on American accents; they didn't really do much for her.

Australian ones however were a completely different story. "Think I'd like to go to Australia," she said, following the train of thought to a vocalization. "For the accents."

Then she cocked her head. "Slapped, really? I'll have to be on the look out for any slap-like feelings then."

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 04:56 pm UTC (link)
“I’ve decided something!” Eline clapped her hands together, smiling. “I’m going to find love this year!” It was a mediocre decision but between being childish and careless, it was exactly Eline. Then she thought over her words and realized how stupid she was being. Love was suppose to come to you, you weren’t supposed to hunt it down. “Or at least a boyfriend. I haven’t had one since I was in Muggle school,” she said less enthusiastically. Did boyfriends come to you too? Maybe you went to them…

"We should both do it!" She encouraged. Honestly, Eline didn't think she'd be able to do it alone.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Brenna looked moderately skeptical. "So, what, we track down some poor boy, decide he's our boyfriend, and go from there?" She cocked her head. "Do we have to ... you know. Snog and stuff?"

'cause otherwise, why couldn't she just say one of her guy friends was her boyfriend, for all that?

"I dunno if I really want a boyfriend," she hedged. Of course, if Eline insisted, she'd go along because she couldn't exactly turn her back on a competition, however impromptu it was, or how little she actually wanted to participate. A challenge was a challenge, after all.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 09:32 pm UTC (link)
“I just think that we should both try to find guys that we’ll care about and that’ll care about us back. It’d be nice,” Eli swiped her bangs out of her eyes. “And the whole snogging thing is optional. But if you don’t want to I’ll just do it alone…” She shrugged nonchalantly. She was pretty sure she could handle the boyfriend hunt alone.

“This isn’t a bet or anything, it’s just a… thing I guess. A goal for the new school year?”

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 09:45 pm UTC (link)
"My goal is to help the team win the quidditch cup this year," Brenna said. "I dunno if a boyfriend would fit into that," she decided.

Unless he was on the quidditch team, but she really couldn't see herself dating any of the boys on their house team. Well, none of the ones currently on it, anyway.

"Guess we'll see. If I find one, I find one," she decided.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 09:55 pm UTC (link)
“Well how about this, I try to help you with your goal--if that’s possible since I can’t fly all that well--and you help me with mine, if that is possible. It could be like a… friendship thing?” Eline asked warily. The last person she had declared her friend, she blew off in about three days. Could she risk this again?

It couldn’t help trying, she supposed. If worst came to worst, she’d just have no friends again and she was fine with that. More of… used to it actually. Either she insulted her way out of friendships or she got bored. She doubted that she could get bored with Brenna though, maybe annoyed instead.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 10:16 pm UTC (link)
"You could do both." Brenna decided. "You could get a boyfriend in another house who's on the team, and distract the hell out of him so he doesn't fly as well. You know, keep him up really late the night before a game and stuff."

She paused. "Like Landon. You could definitely do that."

Though she doubted Lan would fall for a distraction like that. Still, it might happen.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 10:26 pm UTC (link)
“I might just do that for you,” Eline giggled at the idea. Landon? A possibility. She never said she wouldn’t date him. She wasn’t sure if he’d like her though… Wait, back up, why was she thinking about him? She really must have been changing. Eli wondered if it was for better or worst, though. She preferred the former but she could be losing her mind so it wasn’t a guarantee.

“I’d feel bad if I went out with a guy just to distract him though.” She’d just stay in denial until she could find some other guy on a Quidditch team. One who didn’t matter.

So Lan mattered to her now? Brenna had completely screwed her up now.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 10:34 pm UTC (link)
"Right," Brenna said. "Well, maybe some guy will ... you know. Fall into your lap or something, and it'll be love at first sight."

Sure, it was unlikely, but that didn't mean it wouldn't happen. Hadn't a lot of great loves been spawned as a result of klutziness coupled with gravity?

Brenna was sure there was a section in a history book about it somewhere.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-16 10:42 pm UTC (link)
“Maybe,” Eline shrugged and glanced out the window. The sun was setting. They had been in the library for that long? Talk about a record on Eli’s account. She picked up her book and stood up.

“Well… it’s almost time for dinner. I have to check this out, I guess I’ll see you tonight?” Eline asked, brushing her bangs out of her eyes. She had so many weird habits she stopped counting. She fancied that she didn’t sound too hopeful, but she probably did.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-16 10:48 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, sure. You can even walk with me down to the pitch," she teased lightly before she dropped her attention back to her own essay.

Oh right. That's why she was here.

Well, there'd be time after dinner and after the match. Closing her parchment in her book, she started to pack her things away.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-17 09:48 am UTC (link)
“What do you think I‘m going to trip on somebody‘s broom?” Eline smirked, knowing she‘d probably do that. She had to deleted some photos off of her camera anyway, so when they were getting ready she could do that. Eline had never been to one of the mock games, but maybe she’d learn a few things. Like how to not crash a broom, that was a hard one for her.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-17 11:43 am UTC (link)
Brenna grinned. "I think it'd be hard to manage that," she assured her. "It isn't like they go about kicking them down the hallway where you could trip."

Though she supposed Tristan might do something like that for a joke at some point ... but generally, they carried their brooms properly.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-17 03:39 pm UTC (link)
“Peeves might do that.” The little bugger had thrown five dung bombs at her in first year and she smelled like a skunk for a week. It wasn’t a very pleasant experience, and they really didn’t get along much after that. He tended to make things explode on her lately. Like her lunch… That was embarrassing.

Eline walked over to the desk and checked out her book then shoved it into her blue messenger bag--blue was her favorite color--then she looked at Brenna.

“So when are you going to finish your stuff?” she asked.

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[info]cast_no_shadow
2009-01-17 03:45 pm UTC (link)
"I dunno. Later. Before bed or something," she said with a casual shrug. Odds were, she could get a classmate to let her copy the important things. She could be very ... insistent if she had to be.

Of course, she might be too tired after the match to bother with a bath let alone homework, but she supposed they'd see.

Either way.

She glanced over to Eline with a little grin before they started out of the library, and presumably toward the Great Hall.

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[info]e_dovers
2009-01-17 04:21 pm UTC (link)
“I don’t know how the Gryffindor’s do it,” Eline glanced at the four flights of stairs they had to go down. Since the Hufflepuff common room was in the cellar, she was used being able to run to the common room from anywhere. She hated climbing stairs as much as she disliked the library, that’s why she never signed up for Divination.

Their trip was short, although Eline complained a lot and hid behind Brenna when she saw Peeves, and soon they were in the Great Hall.

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