Evelyn Stones
February 25, 2019 4:25 PM
On an Autumn day (Tag Malikhi) by Evelyn Stones
Sitting upside down on the sofa, her legs crossed at the ankles over the back and her hair hanging onto the floor, Evelyn was pleased to discover that fire is even more interesting this way. She was supposed to be reading her charms textbook and writing an essay on something or other, but she just couldn't get interested in it. Of course, it didn't help that she was only half sure what she was doing. Either way, the book lay open on the floor near her head, and her hands were clasped on her lap.Beside her, Malikhi was working on something as well. It was supposed to be homework - they'd decided they should study together so they'd maybe have somebody to keep them accountable - but it could've been anything. Evelyn was hardly going to tell him what he should be doing when she wasn't doing her own assignments.
"Do you think that fire goes up on purpose?" she asked, pointing at the fireplace. "I'm sure there's some science behind it. Or magic," she added. She'd always thought it was science, but she wondered suddenly how all the Muggles could be right and all the wizards wrong about these things. That didn't make any sense. It was like all the religions that said they were right and literally everyone else was wrong. That didn't make sense. There had to be some right and some wrong in everyone. Lord knows she was full of it. She was maybe a 50/50 split of right and wrong on a good day.
"Of course, it goes down if you look at it like this," she added sarcastically, tipping her head to look at her friend and smiling. "You go . . . that way." She pointed towards the ceiling, not actually sure which way was up or down anymore. "But you go that way whether I'm upside down or not."
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Malikhi Hill
February 25, 2019 6:01 PM
You think too much. by Malikhi Hill
Malikhi sat with his legs pulled up on the sofa, his defence textbook open on his knees and a piece of parchment lying over the pages. He had been intending to start his latest assignment for Professor Hawthorne but he didn't really feel in the mood and had long since started idly doodling across the page. Also, Evelyn was distracting and not even focusing on her own work so how could he? And why was she upside down? Wasn't all the blood rushing to her head? He had only sat upside down a handful of times but he always got a headache from doing so and preferred to remain upright.He blinked when she suddenly spoke, shattering the calm silence of the common room. His surprise was then replaced with a deep frown as he considered her question. If he was honest, it didn't really make that much sense to him. He looked from her to the crackling fire and then back to her, his features starting to twist in confusion. Fire was fire. How could it do anything on purpose? It wasn't sentient. Was it? Given that he was currently sitting in a magical school, it probably wasn't fair to assume such things. He settled for a shrug as an answer. He didn't feel like his mind could cope with such questions at the moment.
Then, she started talking about which way up he went and he nodded. He did always go up, towards the ceiling. Everybody did, even Evelyn when she wasn't hanging upside down. That was just a fact. You were always upright until you did something to change that.
He moved his book and parchment from his knees, resting them on the arm of the sofa and moved to join her in sitting upside down. Sure, he'd probably get a headache and it wasn't the most comfortable of feelings but he was with Linney and she seemed to be in a funny mood and she made him smile. She was also his friend - Malikhi would even go so far as to say his best friend - and friends did things together and if that meant hanging upside down on the sofa, then that's what he would do. It was at least a break and a distraction from all the other, more unpleasant thoughts in his head. It was nice to have a conversation that didn't involve feelings or thoughts about his dead father.
"But if I sit like this," he murmured, his brown eyes visible now that his mop of blond hair had fallen back. "Then I don't go that way anymore and we're both going down."
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Evelyn Stones
February 28, 2019 2:45 AM
Says you. by Evelyn Stones
Evelyn's eyes widened when Malikhi joined her sitting upside down on the couch. She was certainly not expecting that and when it struck her that he was really truly joining her, she laughed aloud. It felt so good to laugh with him. Turning her head so she could see him directly, she smiled a full blown grin and reached her closest hand over to grab his for a moment."This is much better than studying," she confided. "Now we are on the up and up!" The word play made her laugh and she released Malikhi's hand to put both of hers on the floor beside her hair. Malikhi's hair was doing that unfair swooshy thing that her mop of blonde could never accomplish and she wished that it would now because it would be so much cooler. "I wish I could do a hand stand," she said. She feigned a hard push, pretending to strain for a moment before apparently giving up and turning back to Malikhi.
"I suppose I'll just have to stay here. Tell me, friend, does time go backwards if you're looking at the clock upside down? Then we can stay here all night and no one will think we're funny for doing so," she giggled. It felt so good to giggle with him.
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