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Andrew Kirke (dragondrums) wrote in reduxpitch,
@ 2016-10-14 23:15:00

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!thread, character: elise kirke, retired character: andrew kirke

Who: Andrew and Elise Kirke.
What: Halloween Costume Shopping (Part 2).
Where: Magical costume shop, somewhere.
When: Friday 14th October, afternoon.

After his rather disturbed night, Andrew was grateful to have Friday off. Instead of going for a run, he'd stayed in bed until Evan had to leave for his 10am lecture and had then headed to the gym. Focusing on weights, then swimming, had helped to clear his mind of the nerves about meeting Elise again in person. They'd had two journal conversations, now, which had been fine - but which hadn't exactly inspired Andrew with any brotherly feeling. He knew he should be patient, but it was a virtue he struggled with, and waiting to see whether his feelings changed wasn't doing anything at all to help with the nerves. He felt unsettled, and talking about it had so far only done so much.

After a light lunch, he didn't have very long to wait before he met Elise. He spent that time in front of the mirror, frowning at his hair as he tried to make it behave. Once he'd got it perfect, he grabbed his leather jacket without thinking and headed out the door. He'd thought about inviting Elise to Panquake House, possibly even to talk to Nina before they went shopping, but had decided it felt overwhelming - though whether for himself or Elise or both, Andrew wasn't sure.

Having had an entirely free day to prepare, Andrew was slightly early. He leaned against the wall of the train station for a moment before pulling out his wand to cast a warming charm on his clothes. It was, sadly, getting to that time of year when it was too cold not to.

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elise_kirke
2016-10-14 09:38 pm UTC (link)

To say this week had been interesting was probably downplaying it extremely. Between rubbing oil all over the chest of her favorite Quidditch player to having written conversations with Andrew. Those things by themselves would have been enough but throwing in work and university was causing her head to spin out of control. She had a feeling that everything would settle down and she could focus better on the real important things that were going on.

Elise was worried that she was coming on too strong to Andrew when she said that she would be willing to go costume shopping with him. She didn't know what the proper amount of communication was in a situation like this. Deep down, Elise wanted to get to know him as a person. Elise liked talking to people anyways but the simple fact that their dad was such a major arse to him made her want to let him know that she would never be like that. Not all family members sucked. She grew up in a happy family, and this whole situation made her feel guilty.

All morning at work she was distracted but obviously didn't tell anyone the real reason, making an excuse about a paper she had to write over the weekend for a class. She knew her work place was the one place where she certainly couldn't say anything about Andrew. When it finally was time for her to meet him she hugged her jacket a little closer to her as she walked to the train station. She saw him and couldn't help but smile a bit at his jacket choice. Giving him a little wave she laughed, "Nice jacket."

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dragondrums
2016-10-17 08:52 am UTC (link)

Grateful that Elise hadn't tried to hug him or shower him in any other sign of sisterly affection, Andrew gave a sheepish chuckle. "Thanks," he said. "Evan said he thought we'd get on, before -" Well, she knew what would've ended that sentence. "Guess this is why." Or at least, part of why. Andrew assumed Evan had better reasoning than just that they shared a fondness for leather jackets. "So do you want to go to a muggle shop or a magical shop?" Andrew asked. He'd got information for both, and he didn't really have a preference. "I went to a muggle shop yesterday, but I didn't really find anything I liked, but there's loads of other muggle shops so -" He shrugged.

Not quite sure what to do with his hands, Andrew shoved them in the pockets of his jacket. Conversation usually came relatively easy to him, but confronted with Elise he just had no idea what to say. "There's bound to be parties at uni, right?" he mused aloud. "So maybe you need something muggle so you don't get people asking questions about how you got it to move or changed colour or whatever." He smiled to himself. "Or if you want to impress them, maybe you should get something magical and make them think you're just the most awesome costume designer ever."