Billy Cobb
September 16, 2021 5:20 PM
I've been lookin' for you [Ray] by Billy Cobb
OOC: Class scheduling info taken from the sheets document. BIC:
Thank goodness, he was finally done with classes for the day! Billy dumped off his school stuff and headed for the hall. It was definitely time for some food. Plus the other thing he had to do. He hadn't seen Ray in the common room when he'd dumped his stuff, so hopefully she was getting food as well. If he was remembering right, beginner DADA got out earlier than his potions class had. Hopefully he weren't to late.
As he entered the hall, he scanned the great chamber looking for the girl. It didn't take to long for him to spot her. Grinning like a fool, he made his way over to where the slightly younger Pecari sat. "This seat taken?" He asked as a pure formality as he dropped down into it, still grinning but not giving Ray a chance to answer. "So what's the big idea?" He asked while starting to load up his plate. Man he was hungry. "You just gunna stay in beginners and leave me to face my fate in intermediate without ya?" He shook his head slowly with a forlorn look on his face, "You got any idea how boring them classes are without you?"
Billy sighed overly dramatically then gave her his usual grin. "Anyway I've had a question I wanted ta ask ya all day an' you weren't around." He eyed her up, "You ready for it?" Another dramatic pause, then he dove in headfirst. "Do you want to play Quidditch this year?"
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Reighleigh Mae Thorn
September 21, 2021 12:08 AM
That's because you don't pay attention. by Reighleigh Mae Thorn
Classes basically sucked without Billy in them, although Ray wasn't about to admit that. She'd been dreading it all summer, almost enough to get her out of the other things she hated about summer. She only had academics to focus on now and that was mostly fine because she was pretty good at them but they were way harder to focus on when she didn't have someone to help keep her moving, someone to stay focused for (because Billy definitely never paid attention), and someone to get into trouble with. Now if she got in trouble, it would just draw attention to her and she'd be in trouble on her own and that was boring. She had a really hard time focusing in the lecture classes especially. She'd often catch herself lost in thought over something else and having missed half the lecture by the time she remembered that it was going on, or have such a hard time sitting still that she'd be moving around and people would look at her funny.So basically her day sucked.
It helped when Billy joined her at the Pecari table, although she felt a bit sour at him for looking so happy. At the same time, she found that she felt a bit like smiling now that she was with her friend too. She punched him lightly in the arm.
"Hey, someone has to review everything from the year before you or you won't remember what you learned," she pointed out. Then, giving into what almost felt like real friendship, she smiled a little more kindly. "My day was boring without you in class too."
She took a bite of a French fry as he geared up to go about asking her something. Her mind flitted briefly from have you ever seen a roach half as big as this one?, at which point he'd probably pull a roach out and she'd have to act cool about it, to which night are you free soon so we can plan a heist?. She'd be lying if she didn't also momentarily think of the Ball but she was pretty sure Billy was absolutely not thinking in that direction and she was just fine with that. By the time she got around to swallowing the bite of fry, he got around to asking. She grinned, feeling smug, and pointed at the sign up bulletin.
"You really don't pay attention," she said. "I already signed up. What would you do without me?"
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Billy Cobb
September 21, 2021 7:21 PM
Attention? Pay attention to what? by Billy Cobb
Billy rubbed his arm where Ray had punched him, as if it had hurt while she talked. It hadn't of course, she hadn't punched hard, and he'd taken far too many falls, tumbles, slides, and other beatings for it to have barely registered. Still, it was all in good fun. "Ow," he moaned exaggeratedly, "Now my arm ain't gonna work and you'll have to do alla my homework as well as that review." He grinned again and deftly manipulated his silverware with his 'injured' arm to shove some food into his mouth.Her more friendly smile was nice, but looked a bit out of place on her. It made her look more like a… well, a girl. It was weird. He hadn't really thought about it, but Ray was kinda a bit pretty, maybe. Not that he'd ever tell her that. For one thing, it'd be weird, and for another she'd probably actually hurt him. So, Billy swallowed the food and returned the smile, but only for a moment. Suddenly he had normal Ray back again.
"You wha..?" He asked in confusion as he followed her pointing finger. He saw the signup sheet and squinted as if he could actually make out the names upon it from this distance. "Dope!" He replied with the appropriate word that Gus had taught him ages ago. He grinned back at her, taking her word for it. Though, he weren't no fool, she could just be saying that 'cause they were far away. Then maybe she'd run over and actually sign up when he wasn't looking. Either way though, she'd be in the team this year. The idea of her not making it through try-outs was ludicrously unthinkable.
"Well, if today was any answer to that question, bored out of my mind." He sighed, then perked back up again. "What position are ya tryin' out for?" His brain swinging wildly back to the Quidditch discussion.
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Reighleigh Mae Thorn
September 28, 2021 3:38 AM
Much of anything, if I'm honest. by Reighleigh Mae Thorn
"Guess you'll have to learn how to do everything with your other hand," Ray decided, not about to do Billy's homework for him even in their hypothetical world where she'd completely destroyed his arm. She could barely be convinced to do her own most of the time unless no one was looking and it was interesting.She pulled a face when he said her sign up was 'dope' though, not sure when Billy had transported himself back into ancient times like the 1980s or something. It was fine though; Billy was weird and slang was weird and it wasn't like people in Denver didn't say 'dope'. They even meant it the way Billy had used it sometimes.
"I'm glad you're excited," she laughed. "I signed up for chaser or beater." She swallowed a comment about how she could either play with him or let him protect her this way because that was definitely not what she meant and it didn't seem fair to set him up to say something that might get him punched for real. She was pretty sure again that Billy was the social equivalent of a table or something so it really wasn't fair to go making comments she didn't mean to be making. "Gus is signed up too," she added.
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