Professor O'Leary
August 10, 2008 4:10 PM
Lesson II: Third through Fifth Years by Professor O'Leary
Before class began, Drake walked around the room, whistling, yes, whistling, as he placed a random item on each student’s desk for the lesson he had planned. Every year, immediately following midterm, found Drake to be in the unusual mood of being chipper, which lasted only for about the span of a week. It was mostly due to the fact that during the midterms, he was able to go back to his roots, to his passion for ice-skating, but it was a passion that he gave up long ago, reserved only for certain times.However, despite his good mood, he was still dressed in his obligatory black robes. He had a set for every single day, preferring them to any other color or style. The ones that he owned were long and flowing, giving his gaunt frame a bit more to it than if he wore something more form fitting. The other positive, at least, a positive to him, about the robes were that they gave him a somewhat menacing appearance. Unfortunately, this seemed to work best on the younger students, as the older ones tended not to be so impressed.
Of course, it made sense that they wouldn’t be, giving their age range. Adolescents tended not to be impressed by anything that an adult did. It was more important to be impressed by their peers and to impress their peers, which made it even more difficult to get through to them the importance of learning defense on top of the fact that many of the students thought they would never need it. When he had been their age, he had been just like them. He had been just like them for years after that until just how far someone would go to win had come into play.
Regardless of whether or not they realized just how valuable what they learned (not just in this class, but in every class) was, he would do his best to provide them with the quality of education they deserved, which meant this class would be more than just idle time to catch up on other classwork or to gossip with friends. As he placed the last item on the last desk, students began to trickle in signaling that class was about to start. Moving to the front of the room, he used his wand to place the following on the board:
Disillusionment Charms
Acclaro Prastigiae – reveal an illusion
Creo Prastigiae – create an illusion
Once this was finished, it appeared that everyone was seated and ready to begin. “Welcome back. I trust you all had a good break and are ready to begin learning once more. Today’s lesson is going to focus on Disillusionment Charms. As the name suggests, these charms are used to create or reveal an illusion. These charms are useful for keeping an object, or if the magic is advanced enough, a person, hidden or to reveal what has been hidden. This differs from what you learned previously with Specialis Revelio, because Specialis Revelio reveals magic hidden within the object whereas Acclaro Prastigiae reveals the object itself. These charms are especially useful for anyone considering being an Auror or a similar career path.” The charms were also useful for any teenager wishing to keep something hidden from roommates, parents, or the obnoxious sibling, but he wasn’t about to state such, even though, it was one of the things he had used the charms for when he was growing up.
“Creo Prastigiae works by casting an illusion over the object, which makes it blend in with its surroundings. To perform the charm, wave your wand, as so,” he said, as he flourished his wand towards his desk,” and state firmly Creo Prastigiae.” With this, his desk seemingly disappeared. After doing so, he did the same thing to demonstrate how to reveal the object using Acclaro Prastigiae. “To practice these charms, I want everyone to divide into groups of two. Each person will cast Creo Prastigiae on the given item. Once both people have successfully accomplished this, I want you to switch items with your partner and attempt to reveal the object using Acclaro Prastigiae. If you have questions, raise your hand and I’ll be around. Otherwise, you may begin.”
OOC: Please remember that posts should be a minimum of ten well-written sentences. Points will be rewarded based on length, detail, etc. Most importantly, be creative and have fun!
Subthreads: Where should I hide? by Paul Tarwater with Echo Elms, Paul
Da-da-da, I feel <i>pretty</i> (WotW) by Cissy Tarwater with Josh Santoro, Cissy
Pink Bunnies? by Danae Dupree with Elly Eriksson, Danae
Hopefully finding a partner by Hannah Laurent with Oliver Abbott, Hannah
Partners? (Tag-Talitha) by Adam Brockert with Talitha Cumni, Talitha
Making an excuse for conversation (tag: Eavan) by Matt Santoro with Eavan Valentine, Matt
Just in the nick of time. by Amber Carey with Saul Pierce, Amber
Showing up by Devian Dupree with Rosalind Rabindra, Devian, Rosie
Ready and focused. Or rather trying to focus. by Meredith Lail
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Professor O'Leary
Lesson II: Third through Fifth Years
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Matt Santoro
August 14, 2008 7:08 PM
Making an excuse for conversation (tag: Eavan) by Matt Santoro
Matt left Josh’s side the minute the two of them entered the classroom. Josh headed up the middle row of desks while Matt hung back in the last row. He found it odd that Echo was sitting back here considering the boy seemed the sort to want to get involved in lessons, but he merely shrugged off the thought. Maybe he was getting tired of the touch-happy Elly? Matt doubted it though.Focusing on the item in front of him, Matt found himself staring down at a hairbrush. Confusion entered his face for a moment while he looked it over, but the Professor cleared that up relatively quickly once the lesson began. They would be learning how to make objects disappear and then reappear. Sounded interesting. Sounded fun. Sounded like something that he could use to his advantage once he had whatever it was worked out. Although, Josh would probably tell him no. He spent more time working on that stupid map than wanting to actually have fun.
Matt twirled his wand in his hand while the professor explained how to do the spell properly. Magic, through his wand, had always been the easiest thing for Matt to do. He wasn’t really sure why. But it just seemed to come to him naturally. He never questioned it, just took it for granted. Perhaps it was because he didn’t think too deeply about it the way he knew some of his classmates did? Who knew. It wasn’t really the issue so long as Matt continued to do well with his wand work. Now, if only he could apply that to his essays.
Standing up when the announcements for partners were made, Matt looked around for a moment. Josh was his natural first choice, but apparently Josh had other ideas as he seemed to be talking to some girl Matt couldn’t recognize from behind. Wasn’t Danae though as she was sitting a little bit away from him. But the sight of Danae brought Eavan to Matt’s mind. Glancing around, he spotted Eavan and made his way over to her with his object in his hands. “Hey Eavan, think you can handle trying this out with me?” He asked, joking as he grinned at her.
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Matt Santoro
Making an excuse for conversation (tag: Eavan)
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Eavan Valentine
August 14, 2008 10:38 PM
You needed an excuse? by Eavan Valentine
Upon entering the classroom, Eavan glanced around, looking for Danae. She spotted her best friends almost immediately, but a frown formed when she realized that there weren't any seats near her. She shrugged and took the seat closest to Danae she could manage, which happened to be diagonally behind her. Eavan reached into her bag, pulling out her pen, ink and parchment, as well as a shoe box wrapped in shiny blue paper with a big silver bow on top that had been crushed accidentally in her bag. Eavan quickly tried to smooth out the bow before giving the gift to Danae, but while she was trying to make the bow stand up again, O'Leary started the lecture and Eavan put the box back in her bag. She'd give Danae her present later.Once the box was removed from her desk, something else was in Eavan's view: an hourglass the size of her hand. Eavan stared at it for a second wondering what dark powers an hourglass could have before the lecture caught her attention. She began furiously taking notes having missed the first minute of lecture due to staring at inanimate objects. Luckily, the day's spell was on the board, so she didn't miss much.
O'Leary finished the lecture by stating that they were to divide into pairs to work on the spells. Eavan really wasn't that big on group work, but it was a lot better now, having a built-in partner in her best friend. She looked over to tap Danae on the back, but stopped short. Danae was already partnered up; with Elly nonetheless. Of course they could be friendly and Eavan not know it. They were in the same house, it was only natural. Eavan sighed. Sometimes she wished she and Danae were in the same house. It was annoying to have to go to the library or Cascade Hall or the Gardens in order to meet up. It was so easy to talk into the night about everything when Eavan had gone to visit over the summer.
“Hey Eavan, think you can handle trying this out with me?”
Eavan looked up from the hourglass she was staring at as she pondered to see a familiar face. Unlike Danae, Eavan could rarely tell Josh and Matt apart, though Danae had informed her of some tells. Matt was the more outgoing of the two, which made her almost immediately assume that this was Matt. Eavan smiled back at him and gestured to the seat next to her which had recently been vacated.
"Take a seat...if you think you can handle it," Eavan said, continuing the joke.
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Eavan Valentine
You needed an excuse?
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Eavan Valentine
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Matt
August 16, 2008 7:50 PM
Nah, not really by Matt
Matt tilted his head at her when she replied to him. “Handle the seat?” Matt looked at the chair and then back at Eavan. “I’m the master of sitting. I think I can handle this la silla.” He was still grinning, of course, always have to smile for the ladies. Taking the seat, Matt set the hairbrush down onto the desk and glanced over at Eavan with some sort of expectation.Ever since Josh and Danae had become friends, Matt and Eavan were the ‘other’ friends. But they were never together as a group. It really never made much sense if one were to really think about it. But, Matt hadn’t really paid it any mind because for the last year or so, he had been preoccupied with the blondes of the school. One in particular. But, as that never panned out, Matt realized that although he got along just fine with his Pecari housemates, they had their own clique that had established long ago. There was no point in him trying to tag along with them. So, instead, he wanted to have another group in which he knew he did belong in.
With that in mind, he had made his brother’s life a living hell with wanting them to all hang out together. Matt figured, when the group of them could hang out and be comfortable, none of them would have to feel awkward around the ‘other’ group of year mates. They could even include Eavan’s roommate and the other brunette of their class, Helena. And, Paul if he ever wanted to talk to people. But Josh didn’t want Matt bothering the girls, so Matt had to take things into his own hands and this was the perfect opportunity.
“So, you’re my sister in law’s best friend, right?” Matt asked, using his pet name for Danae merely out of habit. Taking the moment to remember they actually had a lesson, Matt looked at the hairbrush again and away from the girl beside him. Speaking as clearly (and lazily) as he moved his wand over the object, Matt managed to vanish his object with an ease that should never be allowed for anyone. Smiling at his accomplishment, his attention returned to Eavan. “How come we’ve never hung out?”
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Matt
Nah, not really
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Eavan
August 17, 2008 2:25 AM
Good. Remember you never need a reason to talk by Eavan
Eavan smiled back at Matt. His smile was contagious and he smiled a lot. It was something else she had noticed when trying to tell him apart from Josh. She suddenly wondered indeed, they hadn't hung out more. Eavan knew that she kept her distance from Josh and Danae sometimes because she always hoped that Danae would come back one day and with the news that they were finally a couple. But she saw no reason why she could be friends. When Josh and Danae were hanging out together, Matt was just as like as she was to be lonely.Eavan rolled her eyes at his nickname for Danae. Danae had told her previously about it, and while she agreed wholeheartedly that it was annoying and not at all funny at the time, Eavan secretly thought it fantastic. She was their clandestine cheerleader...sans pompoms.
"I guess I am," Eavan retorted, after her eye-rolling. "I hope that's okay with you." For some reason, she was feeling rather playful. She was usually only this way when she was annoying her brothers. She mentally shrugged it off and instead, followed Matt's lead and stared at the hour glass she was supposed to be vanishing.
Waving her wand theatrically over it, Eavan repeated the incantation and watched the entire hourglass turn to glass. It was completely right, but it was close. She may have been distracted by the fact that Matt seemed to have gotten the spell so easily. She idly wondered if had known about the spell beforehand before giving the spell another go.
This time, the hourglass morphed into the same exact shade and texture of the table beneath it. She stared at it for a moment in awe, but looked up at Matt's question.
"I honestly don't know," Eavan replied, going through her mind of what could have caused her to continually forget that Danae wasn't the only one who was allowed her very own twin. "I think we should hang out more," Eavan added, sliding her hourglass across the table so he could try his hand at returning it to its former splendor.
"I mean, you seem like a really nice person," she said, grabbing at the table in front of Matt, trying to locate the brush so she could practice. Her fingers brushed the handle and she swept the tabletop, sending the brush spinning into Matt's lap.
"Oops, sorry. I guess you just did way too good a job at the spell. Are you just naturally good at wandwork or did you practice beforehand?"
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Eavan
Good. Remember you never need a reason to talk
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Matt
August 17, 2008 9:57 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's my motto by Matt
Hm… she rolled her eyes at him, what for? That didn't seem at all necessary. He got the eye roll a lot from Sofia whenever she felt Matt was being immature and he was sure that he hadn't been immature during the brief conversation he was having with Eavan. And, he didn't think he had said anything that was deserving of such a reaction.Her words weren't that much better and Matt wondered for a moment if he had somehow offended her without even meaning to. Maybe Danae didn't like Matt and that had rubbed off on Eavan? Except, Eavan was smiling at him which indicated that she was, at the very least, being friendly with him. "It's perfectly okay. If you weren't her friend, I'd be a third wheel and that's just a terrible position to be in."
Eavan seemed to have a bit more difficulty with the spell than Matt had, so he sat back and waited for her hourglass to vanish. He was used to waiting. Josh usually took a couple of tries before he got a spell down, unless his frustrations got the better of him and then it took him even longer, which only made things worse. Thankfully, Eavan only took two tries on the spell before the item vanished from both their eyes.
He grinned in approval of her spell skills. His grin widened when she suggested that they should hang out more. "I agree, which was the exact purpose of why I decided to come over here under the pretext of only wanting to be your Defense partner." Matt informed her, still grinning. "Why should Jose and Danae get all the fun?" Matt said and then almost jumped when he felt something land precariously into his lap. It took him a moment to realize that it was the brush that Eavan had moments before tried locating.
Picking it up, he set it on her desk before carefully locating her hourglass and setting it onto his own desk. "I'm just good at it." Matt replied honestly, this reverse spell was going to be a bit harder to do since he couldn't see the object. "Jose likes to read up on things first and then he can't get it. I figure, if I don't think too hard about it, it'll happen."
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Matt
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's my motto
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Eavan
August 18, 2008 5:37 PM
It's a good motto. i should get one myself by Eavan
"Yeah, I know what you mean," Eavan said at the mention of a third wheel. "It's part of the reason I don't hang out with Danae when they're together. I think maybe Josh thinks I don't like him or something, but in reality I just feel left out. Plus," Eavan added with a grin. "How are they ever going to realize their love for each other if I'm always hovering around?"Eavan watched him find the brush and set it down in front of her. He was just good at it. That's what Earl used to say when she asked him how he drew so well. It didn't explain things at all. Eavan wasn't 'just good' at anything that she knew of. She just surrounded herself with people that were. Maybe that was her 'good' thing: making friends with interesting people.
This time, Eavan was more careful in locating the hairbrush and held it in her hand, so it wouldn't go flying off if she got the spell wrong. She positioned her wand over the brush, but paused to listen to Matt.
"Hmm, I would've thought reading up on it would help more, not less. Let me try that not thinking thing," she said, trying to think of other things besides the spell in front of her. Acclaro Prastigiae!
She turned to stare at where the brush should've appeared in her hand. Nothing. "Well, that didn't work at all," she said, slightly put off. "Maybe it's just easier for you to not think." It took Eavan a second to realize what she just said, and then started laughing softly.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that," she said in between giggles.
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Eavan
It's a good motto. i should get one myself
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Matt
August 22, 2008 6:29 PM
Everyone should have a motto. by Matt
Matt was highly amused over the idea that Eavan thought that Josh believed that she didn‘t like him. As far as Matt could remember, Josh had never really said a negative of anyone, let alone Eavan and that included believing the girl didn‘t like him. And why would he have thought such a thing of her or why would Josh dislike the girl next to him? Eavan was friendly. And she was always smiling. What could someone possible not like about her? Josh may have just been his usual quiet demeanor whenever Eavan was around.“Realize?” Matt questioned. “What makes you think they haven’t already? It’s all about getting them to actually admit it…which I doubt is likely to happen.” Matt explained. Glancing at his brother and then at Danae. “They’re too proper for such things. Anyway, Josh doesn’t think you don’t like him. He just doesn’t see the point in being around both you and Danae when he figures you all just want to talk about stuff that doesn’t pertain to him in any way.” Matt tried to explain, although he knew eventually it would all play itself out.
“For most people, I’m sure it does. But, Josh has a habit of thinking too about it because of all the stuff he read on it.” He couldn’t really be sure if that was the case, but that was the best reasoning he could come up with for the time being.
He concentrated on the task at hand, his wand was lightly touching the hourglass to be sure that he was going to be hitting the right spot. He cleared his throat and spoke the spell. Much like it usually happened, the hourglass appeared, granted not in its usually solid form, but it was hinting at becoming visible. So, the return of the object was going to be more difficult than the vanishing, but he at least had the basis of it and that’s what really mattered.
Matt looked over at Eavan and grinned to let her know that he hadn’t taken it offensively or anything. He had been called worse. “Maybe you aren’t doing the wand movements right or something.” Mat suggested. “Try picturing the brush, maybe that’ll help?”
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Matt
Everyone should have a motto.
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Eavan
August 24, 2008 4:50 PM
I was thinking of "Let your smile be your umbrella" by Eavan
Eavan followed Matt's gaze, first to his brother, then to Danae. "The only reason I think they don't know is because Danae would've told me if she liked Josh. She tells me everything." Eavan's thoughts wandered back to when Danae told her about their kiss and wondered if Matt knew about it. "Maybe we could just lock them in a broom closet together, speed things up a bit," Eavan added on with an impish grin. She usually wasn't for forced coercion, but she'd been best friends with Danae long enough to know that she had feelings for Josh. And she was very comfortable in letting things take their natural course until Danae confessed to the kiss. Experimental or not, they kissed, and for some strange reason, Danae sees no significance to it! Sometimes, people need to be nudged."I felt the same way," Eavan said when Matt gave a reason for Josh to be distant from her. "I always just felt like I was getting in the way of everything." She shrugged and went back to the brush and Matt's advice.
"Picture the brush, but don't think about it too hard. Geez..." She tried picturing the brush, but had trouble remembering the color. Still, she tried and then she had to think about the wand movement. Luckily, holding the brush made her not have to think about where it was. And feeling the shape helped her picture it. Eavan took a deep breath and said the spell.
The brush seemed to gain some stability. Instead of pure invisibility, there was a vague outline, as though the brush were made from bubble. "Oh, much better!" Eavan declared. "You're a pretty good teacher, Matt."
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Eavan
I was thinking of "Let your smile be your umbrella"
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Matt
September 03, 2008 10:26 PM
That seems to be a chipper motto. by Matt
Matt nodded as though he knew exactly what Eavan was talking about. To him, it didn't seem possible for one person to completely confide in another person. Especially with something that they felt was very private. Josh was a good example of that. If Matt hadn't walked into the secret passageway last year looking for Josh and having spotted Danae and him together, Matt would never have known the two of them were socializing together. Matt liked to think that he would tell his brother everything, or whomever he considered to be a good friend, but he knew that there would eventually be some things that he wouldn't feel comfortable with talking about.But, Matt left this all to himself. He didn't think it was his place to tell Eavan that there was a chance her best friend was actually keeping something from her. Besides, he could be wrong. They both could be wrong and Josh and Danae merely considered themselves friends and nothing more.
He chuckled at Eavan's suggestion, but shook his head. "Knowing Josh, he'll just sketch out the closet onto his map and mark it off as one less thing to worry about." Matt joked. As much as Matt believed the two of them were heading in that direction much like most people believed Echo and Elly were heading, Matt wasn't going to hold his breath with it anytime soon. Plus, he knew Josh well enough to know that instead of being grateful for being shoved into a small locked closet with Danae, Josh would only be angry with them for pushing them into something they didn't necessarily want.
So, there would be no pushing from Matt's end. Just constant teasing.
The hourglass was once again restored to all it's glory after Matt's second attempt at the spell. He looked rather satisfied with his work even though it had to have taken more than just the first try. Matt never became frustrated when it came to his wand work because he knew eventually it would come to him. Magic was who he was, why worry?
"Gracias." Matt stated after Eavan had complimented his skills. "You're getting better already. Awesome job."
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Matt
That seems to be a chipper motto.
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Eavan
September 06, 2008 4:40 PM
Well, I'm a chipper person. by Eavan
Eavan stared at her mainly invisible brush, thinking. She sighed after a bit and looked back up at Matt with a small smile. Danae had told Eavan about Josh's map, or rather that she helped him with it. She didn't know too many specifics about the actual map. "I guess Danae probably wouldn't be too thrilled about being locked in a closet. Even with the best of intentions." She widened her grin. "I guess we'll just have to wait it out."Eavan's frown at how quickly Matt got the spell to work properly for him was replaced by a shy smile. "Thanks," she replied to his compliment. She went back to staring at her brush, still gripped in her hand, though it looked like she was grasping at something made of glass and air. She brandished her wand a tried again. This time the brush looked like glass with a sheer layer of color over the top. Like someone had carefully applied a layer of water color over it. Better, but not great.
"I think this is going to take a while." She looked over at Matt, apologetically. "Sorry, I'm holding you up."
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Eavan
Well, I'm a chipper person.
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Matt
September 08, 2008 10:19 PM
That you are. by Matt
“Yeah, she probably wouldn’t.” Matt agreed. He only knew the minimum information about Danae. Josh kept his mouth unusually quiet when it came to his female friend. Probably thought Matt would tell anyone and everyone the secrets between the two of them. Well, who was Matt kidding? He totally would without hesitation. “She’s the nervous type, Danae. I don’t think she’d have a clue about what to do locked in a small space with him. Poor kids.” Matt said, shaking his had sadly at his twin and sister-in-law.“Anyway, I know that Josh invited Danae to hang out with us over the summer. Should be fun. I don’t know when she’s coming though. Or if she’s coming.” Matt added as an afterthought. Josh had talked to their parents over midterm and they were both willing (and their mother equally excited) to have Danae stay with them for a couple of weeks. “If Danae comes around, you should hang out for a bit with us too. Could be our own little summer reunion.” Matt suggested to her lightly.
He watched Eavan as she tried the spell again. Her progress was slow, but it wasn’t terrible. Really, Matt thought she was doing a great job with it. Better than some of the other students in the class were. He knew that how quickly things came to him made some people frustrated, so he hoped that she wasn’t at all put out by his ability. It was one of the few things he was capable of doing on his own. He grinned openly at Eavan, “I’m in no rush. I don’t mind watching you.”
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Matt
That you are.
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Eavan
September 10, 2008 2:49 AM
*smiles* by Eavan
"Poor kids," Eavan repeated in a small voice. Of course, she wouldn't have any idea what to do in a locked closet with a boy either. Perhaps even less so. She glanced at Matt and wondered if he had any idea. She hadn't heard about him with any girl at Sonora, but that didn't mean that he didn't have a girlfriend. Or that he didn't have someone at home.Danae had mentioned Josh asking her to spend some time at his place, and Eavan had obviously been very happy for her. The idea of a little summer reunion sounded even better. Eavan grinned. "I'd love that! You live in LA right? We ride the same Wagon. My dad would totally be okay with that if Danae were there." Good. That was so much better than what she was originally planning on doing this summer: nothing.
Eavan knew that Matt just meant that he didn't mind watching her failed attempts at restoring the brush, but she still couldn't help the flush that crept into her cheeks. She quickly turned away from his smiling face and stared down at her brush, trying to make it look like she was just concentrating. After a few seconds with her wand poised over the semi-visible brush, her blush faded and she tried her hand at the spell again.
It must have been the immense concentration, because it only took another few minutes to make the brush flicker a few times like an old tv in a storm and become fully visible.
"Finally!" She grinned widely and waved the brush to show Matt, her previous flustering forgotten. "That was awful. I wonder why it took so much longer than the other spell. Do you want to try the spells again or should we consider that a full day's work?"
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Eavan
*smiles*
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Matt
September 21, 2008 1:17 AM
Do you ever have a bad moment? by Matt
"It's a shame, though." Matt began, "that Danae's already got a boyfriend or whatever the guy back home is considered." He was refering to Danae's betrothal, Emeric. Josh made mention of him at one point while they were discussing the girls of Sonora. Matt was rather surprised that people were chosen for other people as that had never occurred in his family before. Or, at least, not while he was alive. Bella had told them that practices like those had gone off with the wind when the new millenium had hit, but that not everyone had received the news. Apparently, she wasn't impressed by them and neither was Josh. But, although Matt kept telling him to make a move on Danae since Emeric wasn't around to stop him, but Josh simply told him to just leave it alone. "I think if she didn't, it might make things a whole lot easier on the two of them."Matt blinked for a moment after Eavan agreed to hang out with them over the summer. She seemed to assume that they actually spent their summers at their home. Well, he supposed most people actually did spend their summers at home, but that wasn't what the Santoros did at all. In fact, Matt rarely ever saw his home since leaving it to come to Sonora. They were lucky enough to be able to have Christmas there, but sometimes that didn't even happen. At least, not the last couple of years since Abuelo seemed to keep getting sick. So, they spent their Christmases in Mexico. "Well, technically, we do live in Los Angeles, but we don't spend our summers there." Matt corrected her.
"We spend the first half en la casa de la familia del Papá en México y the second half en la casa de la familia de la Madre en España." It took a moment for Matt to even realize that he had slipped into his natural language when he spoke of his family homes. "Er… we spend it in Mexico and Spain." He corrected, unsure if Eavan had been able to understand what he had said. "I don't know when Danae is coming, so it could be either. Would your parents even let you stay with us if we aren't in America?"
While Eavan was busy trying to bring her brush back to life, Matt's mind wandered slightly on to other things. Some thoughts were about the class projects. Some on the summer. Some where even on their C.A.T.S. examinations the following year. But most were on his classmates. More specifically, the girls in his year and the year below him. He had recently heard Jake and Bella discussing school couples and how they would have never believed so and so would have ended up with so and so. Would their class be like that too? Or would it be rather obvious with who dated?
"Finally!"
Eavan's voice startled Matt out of his thoughts and he refocused on her to see that the brush was back to its original beauty. "Good job, Eavan. Totally had faith in you." Matt said with a slight nod. He wasn't really sure how to answer her next question. He didn't really think he needed to keep practicing, but Eavan seemed to need some more help just so that she didn't forget what she was doing. "We can still practice if you want to."
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Matt
Do you ever have a bad moment?
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Eavan
September 30, 2008 4:34 PM
They're few and far between by Eavan
Eavan sighed. She remembered very well when Danae had confessed to being betrothed. She had even met Emeric when she was staying with Danae over the summer, but it didn't make Eava n like or understand the situation any better. And after pestering Danae with queries and making suggestions on how to escape, she gave up. And knowing the fate of her cousin, made Eavan very reluctant to breech the subject again. She now chose to ignore the tiny fact that Danae had her future already written out."Whoever said the easy way was the right way?" Eavan replied in way that was hopefully obvious that she didn't want to continue on this subject anymore. Luckily Matt changed the subject as abruptly as she had hoped and listened with interest when Matt said that he didn't spend his summers at home. She was trying to decipher his speedy Spanish, knowing only a few words herself (most of the being cuss words) when he interupted her cognition and translated for her. She smiled.
"Oh wow. I didn't know. That must be amazing," Eavan gushed, but she slowly turned thoughtful at Matt's question.
"I don't know. My dad let me go to Danae's house for a while and that's not in America, but Spain is a lot farther away. Plus, you're a boy. That might be held aganist you." She gave Matt a shy smile and shrugged. "I'll borrow my brother's owl and ask him after class. Can't hurt to ask.
"I can practice later, I guess. Now that I've got it, I can probably perfect this thing on my own. I'd rather do other things, like talk to you. This brush isn't much of a conversationalist."
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Eavan
They're few and far between
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Eavan
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