Snap! "Stupid pencil!" Zepha screamed, throwing the pencil at a bookshelf and collapsing her head into her hands. The librarian glanced at her with an evil glair and sternly shushed her. Zee mouthed a sorry as she got up to retrieve her pencil. She couldn't help it. She was stressed, confused, frustrated and who knew what else.
She sat back down and glanced at her homework. She didn't understand. Even though she had been at Hogwarts for a good two months now, she still struggled. Sometimes she understood what the teachers were saying but other times, like now, she had no clue.
Zepha turned her focus back onto the book and sighed. She started scribbling down random answers, not even trying to make an educated guess. Finally once the page looked some what completed she shoved it in her book and slammed it shut. She pushed it aside and grabbed the next book on her giant stack of homework. Herbology she read . This was another one of the classes she struggled with. Glancing at the clock, she realized that she had been in the library for two hours, only managing to get one assignment done.
Awesome she thought I'll be here all night.
((Sorry its short, I was running low on inspiration. ))
Aiden walked into the library. He always hated librarys, the smell, the atmosphere, everything about them. He already felt out of place walking in here espeically without a reason he was just walking around the school, or more like wandering.
He walked through one of the aisles of endless books, seeing nothing of interest. Looking through the section titled POTIONS he sees Zepha looking through a book while sitting next to what looked like an entire stack of homework and more books.
"Homework I'm guessing?" He asked while he grinned and walked over beside her.
She started to scribble on her paper when she heard a familiar voice. She looked up to see Aiden heading towards her. "No of course not! I just do this for fun. she said, her tone dripping with sarcasm. She pulled her bag of the chair next to her and signaled for him to sit down.
"But I guess the better question is what are you doing here." the library didn't really seem like Aiden's scene. He looked like he was enjoying the library just as much as she was. "Surely you have something better to do,", she was cut off by the librarian shushing her again, more severly. Zepha shrugged and said sorry. "besides getting me in trouble" she said with a grin.
Aiden turned the chair around and sat down so he could rest his arms on the chair's backrest.
He gave the librarian a long look before turning to Zee again.
"Pfft, course not! I don't get people in trouble, just so happens it's the opposite. People get me in trouble." Aiden said with a grin.
He began picking at the wood of the chair's backrest.
"Can't really say what I'm doing here, I was just walking around the school looking for some trouble to NOT get into when I saw you reading, doing homework...whatever you're doing." He said directing towards the large pile of books in front of them.
He chuckled and picked up book at the top of the stack. He flipped through the pages without really reading the words he just scanned for any pictures he could look at.
"Looks like you're going to be here awhile." He said, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh of course you were! Poor inocent Aiden, always the victim!" she said, mocking him. "And I'd suppose you never do anything to instigate trouble either. It always just finds you." Zepha said sarcastically.
She turned to the paper under her pencil and then at the giant stack of books. "Thanks for reminding me" She glanced at the clock and it glared 7:12 back at her. She sighed if she stayed here for another hour she might get one or two more assignments done if she was lucky. But most of the time she wasn't that lucky. "How did you ever manage to graduate?" she asked. Glancing at the books again "This is next to impossible."
Aiden closed the book he held and layed it back on the desk. He layed his hand on it and drummed his fingers over the cover of the schoolbook.
He shrugged his shoulders, "Hell if I know. I guess you'd say luck and a smart neighbors in each class." He teased.
He scratched his neck and followed her eyes to the clock. It was early for him but he wondered if she would have to go back to her room. It'd been so long since he had actually been a student here he forget when students had to be back in their house's room.
"Now I'm serriously jealous." she paused and tried to think about her neighbors, but she realized that she had never even talked to her neighbors. "I don't even know my neighbors. I never talked to them." or tried too she thought.
"Guess thats the downfall of being a hermit" she joked. "Yet, as hard as I try to be anti-social I still manage to meet obnoxious, people like you" she poked him in the chest. "Who keep hard working students from succsess by distracting them while they are trying to do homework." she said this but was actually glad he was here. She wouldn't of done the homework anyway and he was making being in the library suck less.
His eyes turned to look at her and he tilted his head.
"I guess I understand that but not from you. I was pretty shy when I was in Hogwarts but you don't seem the type. I don't see you sitting next to someone in class for a whole year and not to talking to them." He said.
He leaned his arms back on the backrest of the chair. He rested his chin on his arms and chewed on his lip.
"You would be suprised." she said, more serriously. She tried to keep people out, and didn't trust them. Up untill about two months ago she hadn't even bothered saying hi to someone, even if they had said it to her first. Maybe it made her look like a snob but she didn't care what they thought. If they thought she was snubbing them then they wouldn't bother to talk to her again, which was the outcome she was hoping for.
"I guess its just easier when you don't try." she paused, that sounded bad. "When you don't have anybody close to you, nobody can hurt you."
Aiden nodded thoughtfully. He turned his chair to where he faced her.
"That maybe true, but give people a chance. They might surprise you." He said, looking at her.
After a few moments of silence the librarian came back and shushed them both again. He rolled his eyes and looked back at Zee.
She pretended she didn't hear what he said, but she was thinking Been there, done that She started shoving books in her bag, she couldn't be in the library anymore. Whether it was the librarian glaring at her, her suddenly intense conversation with Aiden, or the giant pile of books, she suddenly felt like she couldn't breathe. She nodded towards the door " Wanna get out of here?" she whispered. She stood up and slipped on her hoodie. Yes a walk was deffinitly a good idea.
She pushed open the doors and let out a sigh of relief, the atmosphere in there was just unbearable.
Before he could reply Zee was grabbing her things and heading for the door. He followed her out before shooting the librarian a dirty look and sticking up a certain finger at her. He caught up to her and squeezed her elbow gently to get her attention.
"Whats wrong?" He asked.
He, too, felt better after getting out of that stuffy room, however he felt something else was bothering her.
She turned to face Aiden, who was right on her heels. He looked genuinley concerned, but she didn't want to get into it right now "I'm fine, just needed to get out of that library. It was making me sick." she smiled and put on a happy face. "It feels so much better out here." she said, trying to get Aiden of the subject.
She pulled her bag onto her shouldur and started walking down the path, rather quickly, hoping to distract him.
Aiden followed her. He zipped up his white jacket and put the hood over his head.
"Where are we going?" He asked, his eyes turning to look at her.
It actually was a nice day out. The sun was bright out and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Out in the courtyard there were students doing all sorts of activities such reading, playing frisbee or just sitting in groups talking and enjoying the weather.
Now that he brought it up she didn't know where she was going. She stopped and looked behind her, she had gotten rather far away from the library. "Dunno. I guess i just went where my feet took me." she shrugged.
She followed his gaze up to the sky, it was really nice out. "You've been around here longer than I have, where is the cool place to hang out?" she asked, sticking her hands in her pockets and rocking back and forth on her heels.
Aiden shrugged, thinking of a nice place. He'd snucken out of Hogwarts finding all kinds of magical places, but now he couldn't decide where he wanted to go.
"I don't know really, theres so many places." He said still thinking.
"How about we just wander and find a new cool place to hang out?" He suggesting, rubbing his chin.
Aiden kept her pace as they left the courtyard and walked farther away from the school. It had been a moment until he looked up to see how far away they were from the school now.
She shrugged "Sounds like a plan.". She tossed her bag behind the bush, it was far to heavy to cary around and followed him off the path.
For about five minutes she didn't say anything, she was admiring the gorgeous day. The sun was burning bright in the sky and the trees were just starting to turn green.
"So howcome you are out wandering when you have a wife and kids at home." she asked him, just now remembering Stacey and the twins.
"You would think that would be enough to keep the average person busy." she joked, a sly smile spreading across her face. She kicked the grass as she waited for his answer.
Aiden grinned a wide smile, his white teeth shining in the light. He moved his dark hair out of his brown eyes as they, too, shined a light color in the bright light.
"Oh yes they do. But I a little break every once in awhile is always good I believe." He said, choosing his words carefully. He didn't want to make it seem to her that he didn't want to be with them. It was quite the opposite.
"I think it's good to have friends outside of your family. If you think we're friends." He said, the last sentence coming out more as a question than a statement.
He always set himself a silent distant away from others, making it harder to make friends here at Hogwarts. He kept in step beside her, following her wherever they were going.
Aiden's smile was infectious and she too had a wide grin spread across her face. Remembering her giant bag of books stashed at the school she agreed "Yes, a break is always a good thing."
She looked around to see where they were at, she wasn't quite sure and figured Aiden probably didn't know either. Her green eyes were soaking everything in, she didn't think she'd ever ventured out here before.
Friends. She furrowed her brow at the word. Other than her mom, and maybe Kali, she didn't really have any. It was something that she was deffinitly lacking in. Were she and Aiden friends. He did know more about her than anyone else at hogwarts, even though what he knew wasn't much. "Friends" she mumbled, the word had a weird taste in her mouth.
"Yeah, I guess we are." she finally stammered after thouroughly thinking it over.
Aiden smiled wider.
"Sweet." He said cheerfully.
Aiden pushed his hair out of his eyes and matches Zee's pace. He had no idea where they were, or where they weere going.
"So where we going buddy?" Aiden said in a small voice. He chuckled.
"Hmm... thats a good question." she looked around, "But I think the better question is, where are we?". In her time at hogwarts she never really ventured out and this place was rather unusual looking. She looked behind her and the schoool was no where in sight.
She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and grinned. This was so typical, she would be the type to go for a walk and have no idea where she was. She started laughing, her body was shaking she was laughing so hard. It was really that funny, but for some reason she couldn't stop.
Aiden shrugged, not really caring where they were at as long as they weren't too lost so they could find their way back.
"Who knows?" He said with a half grin.
He turned his head to Zee as she was laughing uncrontrollably. He tilted his head sideways with a curious expression.
"What's so funny?" He asked, smiling wider.
Zepha let out a small snort and fell to the ground. Whats funny? If she only knew. She wiped a tear from her eye and stood up.
She finally caught her breath and answered"I don't know." she started to giggle again and then stopped herself."I'm just happy I guess."
That was the best she could do, and but she figured she was right. When was the last time she laughed, or smiled, or had fun? She skipped ahead and turned around. "Laugh a little Aiden!" then turned and kept skipping.
((mehhh))
((?))
Aiden grinned a smile that stretched wide across his face, his white teeth shining in the light. He wasn't laughing but he did find Zepha amuzing. He sprinted after Zee until he caught up to her and followed her pace with a quick walk.
"You're crazy, you know that?" He said in a teasing tone.
(( oh I don't know! Seems slightly sucky I guess... ?!?!?!))
She stopped skipping and slowed back to his walk. "Sure I'm crazy. I'll give you that." she laughed then pointed at him "But that makes you crazy by association by hanging out with a crazy person."
She raised her eyebrow and grinned, "But that might just be crazy logic, if I'm crazy that is.". She loved playing word games and speaking hypothetically like this. "Which according to you, who may also be crazy, I am."
Aiden stopped suddenly. He stared at her with a confused face. Her little word game confused the hell out of him so he had no idea how to respond.
He suddenly said teasingly, "Takes one to know one." He stuck out his tongue.
Aiden started walking again keeping a pace with hers. He chuckled and started walking faster.
"I'll show you crazy!"
He jumped forward and randomly landed in a handstand. He attempted to keep walking but instead he failed miserably and ended up falling on his head.
She smirked when she saw the confused look on his face, she had deffinitly won that battle.
After his little handstand stunt she started laughing uncontrollably., "No that wasn't crazy, that was nuts!" she said as she wiped a tear from her eye.
Once she finnally caught her breath she stuck out her hand to help him up, "Are you alright?" she asked, keeping one hand over her mouth to hide her smile.
Once he was up she joked, "There isn't any dammage on your ego is there?"