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| Posted by: Sariss Aug 12 2003, 10:53 PM |
| Sariss was walking over the lawn. Her bag was as always cutting into her shoulder. She welcomed the pain. She knew she'd screwed up royally. Seb would probably never talk to her again, let alone look at her. She'd messed up and she knew it. Finally, she dropped her bag and sat down on the lawn, just looking out over the grounds. There was the Forbidden Forest. Maybe she should just walk into it and get herself killed. Then it would be over. She wouldn't have to feel anymore... Sariss sighed. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 12 2003, 11:03 PM |
| "You know," Seb said loudly as he walked behind her. "Sighing doesn't get you places." He sat down infront of her, throwing her a bar of chocolate. "Brooms. Now THEY get you places. So do muggle cars, but they make me feel sick." He blinked a few times. |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 12 2003, 11:22 PM |
| Sariss jumped a mile high. "S-seb!" she exclaimed, her voice sounding about an octave higher than usual. "Hey..." She blankly looked at the chocolate, mumbled a thank you and nervously bit her lip. "Um... listen... I'm really sorry... What happened yesterday... It was all just a terribly misunderstanding. It's just... I was avoiding saying this... but... When you and Cien are together, I seem to be invisible all of a sudden... And that hurts..." She looked at her hands in her lap, expecting Seb to jump right back up and leave. At least she'd told him the real reason for everything now. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 12 2003, 11:29 PM |
| "Sorry about that. I don't realise I do that. Sorry. I'ma git." Seb crossed his legs on the grass and went off thinking. 'If I had a beach ball, and two camels, they'd be playing football by now - or... Beachball I guess.' He covered his mouth as he tried not to laugh out loud. "You know that thing called the sun? You do know it melts chocolate right?" He said, nodding at the bar in her hand. |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 12 2003, 11:40 PM |
| "Sorry about that. I don't realise I do that. Sorry. I'ma git." Sariss nodded slightly and whispered. "No, you're not a git. I am being a silly girl, that's what it's all about." She tried a smile when she looked up at him, but felt it was more of a grimace. What's so funny? she asked herself when Seb covered his mouth and so obviously suppressed the laughter. Sariss was very confused. Seb looked at her. "You know that thing called the sun? You do know it melts chocolate right?" he indicated the chocolate bar she still held in her hand. "Oh!" Sariss exclaimed. "Um... yes. Thank you. Wouldn't want it to melt, right?" she said and carefully unwrapped it. It was still sufficiently cool to not be all disgusting. If there was one thing that Sariss hated it was half-melted icky sticky chocolate. She took a bite and chewed. It seemed to cheer her up a bit. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 12 2003, 11:56 PM |
| Seb raised one eyebrow. "I don't think of the words 'silly' and 'Sariss' in the same line, unless you crack a funny." He said finally, after she took a bite of the chocolate bar. He licked his lips and oogled the chocolate. Ever since he had a taste of it without passing out, choking, being sick or worse, he'd got to like the taste. "Nice? Hope so." He paused and giggled quietly. "Sorry, sorry. Picturing camels playing beachball... with a beachball. Its..." He shrugged. "It's a 'Seb' thing I guess." Sariss still looked, annoyed? Piddled off? Upset? All of the above. He didn't like to see his friends being sad when he was around. Seb liked happiness too much for that. |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 12:19 AM |
| "I don't think of the words 'silly' and 'Sariss' in the same line, unless you crack a funny," Seb said, while Sariss munched away on the chocolate. And she suddenly remembered that Seb was allergic to chocolate. Great. She couldn't even offer him some chocolate to start a conversation. She frowned in thought. "Nice? Hope so. Sorry, sorry. Picturing camels playing beachball... with a beachball." Sariss blinked, chewing chocolate. She was sure she must look like a cow... or a camel. "Its... It's a 'Seb' thing I guess." He shrugged and gave Sariss a strange look. "Um..." She swallowed the chocolate. "What is it with you and camels anyway?" she asked. It was so strange. She felt really daft, dense and stupid when she was sad. Hopefully, she'd soon feel normal again. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 12:29 AM |
| Seb chuckled once more when Sariss asked him about camels. "Well they're so cool! And cute. Strong, clever, .. just, they have loads of interesting facts! Like how they have two sets of eyelids. One's transparent so they can see AND keep sand out. And how their milk doesnt curdle. Which is good, coz they're always in the heat. Oh," He said, grinning, "And how their hump decreases as they use the fat which is stored in it, when they need it." He smiled widely as his eyes grew wide too with excitement. "One day, I'm going to visit Morocco. Have you ever been?" Seb asked Sariss, smiling. |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 12:39 AM |
| Sariss listened to Seb animatedly telling her facts about camels. Cute, strong and clever. Oh, she knew a person whom she'd describe like that too--but she'd blush furiously if she did so. "Oh oh! I know that their milk doesn't curdle. Learnt it in Herbology last term," she threw in. "--one of the few things that we actually learnt," she added wryly. Seb's smile was infectious. Sariss felt the corners of her mouth twitch. "One day, I'm going to visit Morocco. Have you ever been?" Seb asked her. His eyes were sparkling. Sariss shook her head. "No, haven't. But I'm sure it would be lovely there. My dream has always been going to Egypt as soon as I was officially an adult and had full access to the Gringotts vault. I find the desert fascinating. I'll just have to remember to take some good sun-blocker with me or learn a spell that does the trick," she mused. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 12:48 AM |
| "You know, I was the one who told the Professor about their milk not curdling. Part of my homework, it was." He listened, as she told him about Eygpt, and sun blocker. "I don't like sand that much, I can't walk in it." He looked at the grass he'd been picking to pieces, then slyly back up at her. "Camels can, they have special hooves." Seb leant back on his elbows, and took a look over to the huge Castle. "Hmm." He suddenly felt lonely, even though Sariss was sat with him, and it made his stomach ache. After a minute silence he thought outloud. "I need to do homework soon, or i'll get into trouble." |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 12:54 AM |
| "I need to do homework soon, or I'll get into trouble," Seb said after a long silence. Why did Sariss get the feeling that he wasn't comfortable around her anymore? She felt another one of those little stabs in her heart that she'd grown accustomed to. "Well then..." she tried to sound halfway cheerful. "You'd better set to work soon, no?" |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 01:04 AM |
| "That's just it," he said, "I'm actually confused. I don't know what I've already handed in, or what I need to do, or what new ones and gah!" he said, as he stuck out his tongue and crossed his eyes. "Mental. And that's another thing, though it's not, but, it is. Have you noticed anything weird with Tua recently?" He sat up again, and frowned. "He's not been as lively and playful recently. I mean, I feed him everyday, and he goes for wanders... It just seems he doesn't want to be handled by me." he pushed some hair from his eyes, which fell when he sat up. "Do you have any idea what's up? Maybe I should send him to the MM tomorrow? I've never had a pet die on me... well, I've never really had a pet!" 'Apart from that snail, but the seagulls pecked it's shell off when I left him out for air...' |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 01:13 AM |
| Sariss patiently listened to Seb's ramblings and nodded. "Well... if you want... I could try and help you figure it out--only if you want to that is. I mean..." she trailed off, not wanting to sound pushy or something. "And about Tua... Well... He's been... yes... sort of quiet--if you can call it that. Haven't seen much of him recently. Do you know anybody else who has a Tuatara for a pet? Maybe he has a new friend and rather plays with him or her?" she said, more to herself than to Seb. She was just thinking aloud. "Well, of course you can send him to Miss Feline tomorrow. I'm sure she'll determine what's wrong with him. You've been so good to him that I'm sure it can't be anything too serious," she gave a small encouraging smile that was the first smile that came on its own without having had to be triggered by somebody else's (read: Seb's) infectious grin. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 01:19 AM |
| Seb chuckled under his breath. "You think ol' Tua has himself a girlie?!" He grinned. "Well, I don't know! You do the selling to the students, so you'd know who else has one. It's probably just a phase, but i'll take him in tomorrow anyway." He groaned when he came to homework. "You can try, but I seriously don't have a clue. It's like a black hole in my head." He said, proding the side of his head. "Sshhllpp! My memory of homework got sucked into it. Or fell in on it's own accord.... But it could've slipped too." He tried to look innocent. |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 01:29 AM |
| Sariss shrugged. "Well, I guess a girlfriend could keep him away from you. As for whether there actually is a girl for him around, I have absolutely no clue. Maybe Miss Feline sold another Tuatara? It's not like I were doing all the work there." She rolled her eyes slightly. "That would mean that I'd be terribly under-paid." She sat up on her knees and made her way over to where Seb was sitting. "Hmm... Black hole in your head?" She made to knock on his skull, but hardly touched his head with her knuckles. "Interesting. I'll have to investigate this more closely. Scientifically quite the miracle. Do you think it's going to suck me in too?" she grinned. "Or my homework for that matter?" |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 01:33 AM |
| Seb rubbed his chin in thought as she rapped on the side of his head. "Well, if it sucks in YOUR homework, I'll see if It could spit it back out, then I'd claim it as my own." he paused. "Do I get famous for being a scientific miracle?! Maybe that's why my attention span is so bad? As soon as I think of something, the black hole sucks it away..." He gasped. "Oh my god. I'm a goldfish! Three second memory!" |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 01:40 AM |
| Sariss almost keeled over with laughter. "A gold.... fish..." she gasped through the giggles and sniggers. Then she took a deep breath and tried to compose herself, blushing like never before. "Um... well... hehe... You'd make a nice pet then, Mr. Goldfish. As to claiming my homework as yours... go right ahead. If the black hole sucks in my homework parchment scrolls, it's big enough to suck the entire me in. So no problem there. I'm only waiting for one professor to reject my homeworks because they're too long. Terribly rambling person, moi." She grimaced. |
| Posted by: Seb_Darwin Aug 13 2003, 01:43 AM |
| "Easily ammused, eh?" He asked, before snickering. "Well. I should go back to the common room. I need sleep!" He then stood up and dusted off the grass from his knees. "Coming back inside?" |
| Posted by: Sariss Aug 13 2003, 01:49 AM |
| "Oh, um... sure... You know... Maybe I'll head for the kitchens first. This chocolate actually reminded my stomach that its purpose of existing at all is food," she scrambled to her feet and grabbed her bag, groaning when she heaved it on her shoulder. "Phew! Alright, let's go." She couldn't put in words how relieved she was that Seb was talking to her again and that they'd actually sorted it out. But the slightly evil feeling of jealousy remained. She pushed it into a dark corner, hoping that it would rot and die there. It only caused her pain for as long as it existed. |