| Title: Lunch, and solitaire. Time: Saturday, March 27, 2004 The Thespians: Josh Harper and Wally (NPC by Scarlet) Location: Boys' Dormitories - Egg-White Common Room |
| +---[ Boys' Dormitories - Egg-White Common Room ]----------------------------+ | | | Soft couches and chairs of a dark blue fabric are placed throughout the | | room, perfect for one to plop down on and stretch out one's limbs out full | | length. Placed in strategic positions near the couches, small tables of | | dark-stained oak sit, good for playing board games on or doing homework | | upon if one chooses to sit on the floor. The smooth walls are painted a | | creamy white, their flat expanse broken by large windows that allow the | | sun's rays to come streaming in and flood the room with light. They are | | also adorned with moving photographs of great moments in Quidditch | | history. The players grin cockily at the watcher as they soar toward their | | goals as though to boast: watch me! In spite of the room being so large | | and open and the ceiling arching high, the softness of the carpet and the | | positioning of the couches may lend to it a more warm, close feeling. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
| It is early afternoon when Josh Harper enters the common room. Oh, good, nobody's here, he thinks to himself, looking around the empty room with satisfaction. His timing had been just right- most of the other students were eating lunch in the Dining Hall, where he had just come from. With a smile, Josh sits down in one of the chairs. Out of his pocket comes a deck of Muggle cards, which he take out of their box and begins to shuffle. Ahh, nothing like a good game of Solitaire to clear your mind! |
| The sanctity and peace of the common room that Josh so requires is actually broken by the sound of singing that is incredibly off-key. Still, it sounds cheerful enough and soon afterwards a rather large (in the round and fat sense of the word) boy comes padding in heavily, a broad grin on his face. In his hands he holds a plate each, full of food that he's managed to snatch away from the Dining Hall. His hazel eyes spot Josh, the cards, and the grin stretches even wider, if possible. "What're you playing?" Is the automatic, immediate question, posed in that friendly and innocent childish manner. |
| At the sound of that cheerful, off-key singing, Josh's smile fades from his face. Darn. A person! At the other boy's entrance, he regretfully stops shuffling his cards. "Hmm? Oh, I was just gonna play Solitaire..." Josh answers, shrugging. Solitaire, as in, ONE person. Of course, he doesn't actually say that, but the boy is a bit irritated at the interruption. So, he turns his attention back to shuffling the cards, saying nothing more to the other boy. |
| The pudgy boy, henceforth called Wally for ease, tilts his head to the side and with much difficulty manages to set his two plates on a nearby table. Clumsily, he wipes his pudgy sausage fingers on his robe and just continues beaming brightly, a flush brought to his face probably at the exertion of having to wipe his hands. Wally doesn't play cards, but he still looks rather interested, not really realizing that Josh has made it so that Wally should have nothing to say, and move on. "Can I watch?" |
| Watch? Well, at least he didn't ask if he could play, Josh thinks to himself. And, unable to think of an excuse to say no, he shrugs again. "Yeah, I guess..." he mumbles. He begins dealing out the cards, placing them face down on a table (Not the one with the larger boy's food on it) in a triangle-ish shape. He does this all with swift movements that suggest he has had a lot of practice. The cards are soon laid out, and Josh places the remaining deck on the table, before surveying the cards. Hmmm... |
| Wally doesn't try to make himself annoying. He's just generally not all that bright, and as a consequence he tends to ask a lot of rather, well, /dumb/ questions. "So, what's solitaire?" He asks, hovering between the tables; one has his food on it, so he tends to spend more time at that one instead of the one with Josh's card game on it. He strides back and forth, taking a large mouthful of some random lunch, and then goes back to watch Josh while the other boy just sits there and looks at the cards. |
| What's /solitaire/? For a moment, the look on Josh's face says, 'How can you not know what Solitaire is?' but he quickly gets rid of that look. Don't want to be mean, even if the boy /isn't/ all that smart. "It's, uh..." How do you explain what Solitaire is? "Um, a game where you try to get all the cards stacked up, in order, here." At the last word, he points to an empty space above his layout of cards. Then, a 9 of clubs is picked up and placed on top of a 10 of diamonds. Instead of trying to further explain the game, Josh decides to concentrate on playing. Several more cards are rearranged, and some face-down ones are turned face-up. |
| Wally's seen the look, and for a split second, his pudgy features falter slightly, but he manages to keep his cheerful disposition, on the outside at least. He falls quiet for the moment as Josh explains to him, and then watches distractedly (most of his attention is still on his food at the other table), as Josh starts the game up. Again, the pudgy boy pads back and forth between the two tables rather heavily, stopping longer at the one with his lunch to steal a few more quick bites before he moves back to Josh's table. "Do goo alwags wig?" He asks again, his mouth full of food, so it sounds rather like gibberish. |
| Aha! A card is turned over to reveal the Ace of hearts, and Josh smiles to himself. He play the Ace, and then the 2 and the 3 of Hearts on top of it. More cards are turned over, played, amd rearranged. Wait a sec...'Do goo alwags wig'? Um...Taking a guess at what the other boy is trying to say, Josh answers, "No, a lot of times you can't win. But I've done it before." Because he is paying more attention to the cards than to his companion, Josh doesn't notice Wally's change of expression. |
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