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Interacting with @ Aurora Ranvier

The dark circles under her eyes worried Vivian a lot. It was probably because of the sleeplessness but what could she do? Is overthinking her mistake? She was not able to control her mind rather she was moaning in worry, uttering nonsense at herself whenever she looked at the mirror. But one day she decided ‘no more cry’ and took a long breath to relax herself and wrote to her mother to get her an under eye cream but didn’t write anything about her sleeplessness for some reasons. Being as happy as a clam when she received her cream, she applied very little to her under eye.

Unfortunately, nothing worked out, it was still there and she dissolved into floods of tears. It was a few minutes before lunchtime when she wanted to give it another try, she wiped down her tears away and applied a lot to her under eye, maybe applying a lot would help, she thought. Opening her mouth wide in shock when she heard the lunch bell rang, her hands automatically went to wipe her eyes but stopped, she used a lot of cream now and did not want it to get wasted. No, she is not going to waste it rather she went down with her under eyes full of white cream.

That’s when she noticed a huge chessboard in the Ravenclaw table and a Raven haired girl sitting in front of it. It must be hers, and the chess pieces looks so different, ‘weird’ in the blonde’s language. When her mind said ‘don’t go there, just eat’, her legs didn’t listen and pulled her with it to the girl. While looking at the chessboard intensely with her eyebrows raised in awe “Hi.... what is this? A chessboard? But it’s so different” she said dreamily. Taking her eyes off from the chessboard, she looked at the girl “I’ve seen you somewhere before” she narrowed her eyes as she said it. Vivian half closed her eyes trying to recollect her memory of talking to that Ravenclaw.

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Saturday, June 12 2021

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Interacting with @Vivian Fletcher

Today’s lunch was absolutely stunning. All these savoury from eggs, sausages, and portions of bacon should be balanced with a bouncy pudding with chocolate milk on top. Aurora was truly vibing with the beauty of the foods in the great hall, anyone who sat close enough could hear her hummed some songs and saw her moved her body to the left and right. That was her favourite part of Hogwarts and will be the memory that she will never forget. As her fork violently stabbing the poor sausage, a rather familiar light blond haired girl talked to her in a dreamy voice, almost like a lullaby. The Ravenclaw’s eyes shifted from her plate to the source of the sound, immediately recognized her face. She was positive that the blondie was the lunatic who attempted to sing that sounded more similar with a barking seal at the blossom ball.

Aurora scrunched her eyebrows, then did a sceptical inspection of the girl. It was weird that she did not look like a crackhead nor she indicate any maniacal behaviour, maybe not yet. “I know you! You’re the one who challenged your vocal chord to reach the highest octave note!” She cringed at the memory of that other girl who ripped her own voice in public, then continued to put a slice of bacon into her mouth. “Please don’t do it here” The words that came out sounded a bit ruder than she intended it to be. Aurora dropped the fork, it made a little too loud 'clang' sound that echoed through the great hall. She looked up once again, “I-I’m not saying that your voice was bad, but, uh- yeah.” The tension between the two of them was unbearable, though, maybe the young eagle was the only one who felt that way.

It turned out the Ariana Grande’s version of Hogwarts was more interested in the bulky wooden box that Aurora brought. Perhaps she was the chess god Merlin sent to Aurora, better not judge a book by its cover next time. “Ah, yes.” She nodded, “It was gifted, never play it before, but kind of want to.” Aurora took another bite of her meal, and continued “Do you- do you maybe want to play together?”

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Interacting with @Aurora Ranvier

Vivian face reddened as soon as she recognised the girl, she was the one who called her Ariana Grande, no sorry, Ariana ‘Bloody’ Grande in the underworld when she was possessed by an evil spirit. Not wanting the girl to recognise her, she opened her mouth to distract her. Unfortunately, before she could say anything, the girl started to talk and to her disappointment, she said she remembered Vivian. “You remember me? Why?” Vivian blurted out and smiled nervously.

Not wanting to blab something nonsense, Vivian took a long breath to relax herself and continued “Well, I am not going to, its- it’s just that- I - well, I” as she narrowed her eyes in difficulty to explain. What if that girl laughs at her if she tells the real reason, that she was possessed. It was already embarrassing, she didn’t want to feel more awkward. She tried taking another long breath, at least the second time would help, she closed her eyes as she said “it was not me actually”.

Her eyes moved to the chessboard again and the chess pieces looked so different, different from the muggle’s. Maybe their looks alone are different. Or how they work is different? Glancing at the Ravenclaw when she began but her eyes mostly focused on the chessboard, her ears listened to her carefully. “I could join?” she asked with her eyes wide and smiled at her, tilting her head to one side “I would love to, but..... do you know how to play?” she continued as she sat facing her. All she knew about the muggle chess was where they are placed and how they move and this one was wizard chess. Knowing nothing about it, she just wanted to try it and maybe, if she haves fun she would continue to play this.

“I’ll be.... white?” asking the girl with eyes narrowed. She thought it matches their hair colour, white for the Hufflepuff and black for the Ravenclaw but What if that girl wants white? But she continued “Then I’ll start the game” keeping her hands ready to move the piece. “Okay, pawn B4” she said as she readied her hands to move them but to her surprise, they moved on their own. Opening her mouth wide, she looked at the girl “How?” as she giggled.

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Saturday, June 12 2021

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Interacting with @Vivian Fletcher

Aurora slightly tilted her head, she was one hundred percent sure it was her. Her memory of names was questionable, but anyone should trust her when it came to faces. Even though the blondie denied the fact that it was indeed her, the brunette decided not to push an answer out of her, solely because there was a tad of worries that the tone deaf singer would go bananas and snap her rickety bones into tiny pieces. “Weird, she could be your twin.” Eyes back to the plate which now lack of egg, the girl decided to add some more. “I’m Aurora Ranvier, by the way. What’s yours?” When the dreamy girl asked her whether she knew how to play or not, Aurora awkwardly chuckle and lied on the spot, for what reason? Who knew. “Y-yes, of course, I-I mean, who did not, am I right?”

Pawn? G? 4? The Ravenclaw had no idea what those were, but of course, she would not admit as it is going to be embarrassing. The sudden move of the pawn, or the tiny guard according to the eagle, made the water that she drank came out from her nose and back to the goblet followed by uncontrollable coughs. She hated the unexplainable weird feeling on her nose It was almost identical when she smells her step aunt who seems like nine times out of ten showers in a tub full of perfume. One of her hand hit her own chest as she looked at the other girl with teary eyes but excited at the same time. Aurora’s socks had been knocked off entirely. “D-did you j-just-“ She took a little sip of the water, “Did you just casually cast a spell without any incantation and wand?” Straightened up her sitting position, ready to absorb the wisdom from the master. She mumbled under her breath “You really are the chess god”

It was now her turn. She tried to make a confident face, to cover up her zero knowledge of the game. “P-pawn to uh-“ She searched for any alphabet on the board but couldn’t find any, so she just blurted out random letter and number. “-G 5.” The magical chess seemed to understand her despite how it sounded more like a question than a command. The black pawn slowly moved forward, and of course, a gasp could be heard from the brown haired girl. “DID I JUST-“

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Interacting with@ Aurora Ranvier

Vivian remained silent when Aurora came up with her own assumptions but smiled at her with nervousness. Being glad that she didn’t find out the truth, she smiled brightly as Aurora introduced herself, “I am Vivian, Vivian Fletcher... I am a First-year student and you?”. she asked as she looked at her with wide eyes, not because of shock, surprise and all but because the under eye cream she applied seems to enter her eye if she didn’t widen her eyes.

As she sat down, her plate filled with ‘today’s lunch’, eggs, bacon, sausages and the pudding. Well, she was not the fan of anything there but her stomach made some noise in hunger forcing her to eat it. Chocolates.... she hates them but doesn’t want to waste food. So what if Aurora like chocolate? But what if she snaps at her? “do you- do you want extra pudding?” she asked looking at Aurora with a hesitant tone with wide eyes, she didn’t close her eyes at all and barely blinked.

Well, Vivian did not know how to play chess and that too, wizard chess but not wanting to admit it when Aurora said that she knows, “Yes, yes- I mean a- almost everyone k- knows it and so do I” she giggled but to her bad luck, the cream entered her eyes slightly and irritated her eyes making the tears flow. But she didn’t wipe them or anything but continued to keep her eyes wide.

It was a wizard’s chess, she’ll be surprised if nothing happened like this but not now, rather she was amused and found them cute. Glancing at Aurora “I- no, I didn’t cast any spell” and continued as she looked at the chessboard piece “I think we have to command them” she laughed when she was saying that, breaking her voice.

It was her turn to make the move. “Horse c4” she commanded confidently to the board. Nothing moved rather her confidence level decreased, “H- horse c4” she repeated but stammered. “maybe the movement is invalid in wizard chess”Laughing nervously at Aurora she tried again, “h-horse c3”. Why isn’t it moving? What’s wrong with this? It looked like a horse, it was so embarrassing for her. Recollecting the memories of her mom teaching the names of the pieces, “O- okay, now Knight c3, did it work?” to her relief it worked.

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Saturday, June 12 2021

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Interacting with @Vivian Fletcher

Both hands on the table, eyes intensely studied the once unknown name blond girl across her, Vivian Fletcher, that turned out to be a fellow first year, "Ah, likewise." Until the giant squid flies, never thought she would find a person who has a different opinion towards the most important thing in her life, which is chocolate. “Y-you don’t like CHOCOLATE PUDDING!?” As she let out another dramatic sharply drawn breath, a fork that had some grease from the fried foods that she was eating scooped the sad pudding that just experienced a terrible rejection out of Vivian’s plate and onto hers. “What a disgrace to the society!” The one thing that went unnoticed before slowly came to the surface. There was indeed something strange with the other girl’s eyes. The first bell that rang in Aurora’s hear was that the blondie tried to experiment with makeup but unable to do it properly. Of course, the Ravenclaw knew nothing about it since she never uses it before except a sheer tinted lip balm from time to time and a little eyeliner that she wore at the ball. Aside from the perfect cat eye out of hundreds of failed attempts, she was not entirely sure if it was a real eyeliner or a drawing marker. Though, it had a ‘safe for skin’ label, so maybe it was not a cosmetic after all.

Contemplated between telling Vivian about her odd white residue madness under her eyes, the brunette awkwardly shoved a spoonful of chocolate pudding and a slice of bacon simultaneously. Aurora knew pretty well that this kind of thing will make her stay up all night with the regret of not telling her chess mate of what seemed to be makeup transformation gone wrong, because, in all honesty, it did not look good at all. The mean girls, if there were any, will throw their words at the blondie, which will be horrible. Repositioned her sitting posture, now putting her hand as her head support, “H-hey I was wondering, is that-“ Her finger touched her own under eye, “-is that normal?” The intention was not to be mean, hopefully she would not take it as an insult.

The tiny guard was the pawn, and the horse was the knight, silently tattooed it permanently on her brain. Presently, her knowledge of chess was merely a pawn and the knight. Her ego didn’t want to show her new acquaintance how dim she was when it came to chess. It was a good idea for her to play safe, “pawn, A6."

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Interacting with @Aurora Ranvier

Looking at Aurora, she smiled and nodded, Vivian already guessed that she must be a first-year or second-year so it wasn’t so surprising to know that Aurora was a first year like her. Flinching when Aurora spoke, she raised her eyebrows in shock, “wh- what’s- what’s wrong with not liking chocolate pudding” she stammered, “Not everyone likes everything” she shook her head as she murmured. Is it so necessary to like chocolates? she loved them once upon a time but not now. So what’s wrong with liking or not liking something? she got bored of it and never tasted them since then. Chocolates... she winced at the thought.

As Aurora touched her under eye, Vivian furrowed her brows and scratched her head. Pointing her finger to Aurora’s eye “...yeah, your’s looks normal... to me, why?” she started hesitantly. What was she asking about? What is that she finds abnormal with her own eyes? Her head was filled with lots of thoughts as she bolted down the egg from her plate, “OH- D- did you ask about mine?” she laughed nervously as she realised, it was so awkward now. “No, I applied under eye cream” she chuckled sheepishly as she brushed away the imaginary strands of hair from her face.

Well, it was her turn to move the piece, rubbing her forehead with her finger, she chose to move the Knight again so that she wouldn’t forget how it moves and what’s its name next time, “Now.... Knight.... E4..” she said with hesitation wishing it not to be an invalid move. A little of the white cream entered her eyes making her squeeze her eyes shut and open, “OUCH!” her eyelid turning a little reddish and the tears continued to pour down. “I- it’s nothing, sorry for shouting”

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Saturday, June 12 2021

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Interacting with @Vivian Fletcher

Chocolate is the most beautiful thing in the world. Just look at those creamy and silky textures, when it made some kind of glittery effect while standing too long under the sun. The astonishing scent brings back nostalgia. A person who cannot appreciate such beauty will never deserve happiness on earth. Well, that was extreme. Those thoughts were floating around inside the Ravenclaw’s mind as she glared at her chess opponent with disapproving eyes. She looked more flushed than ever from using her entire emotional energy to stop the itchy feeling to give Vivian an entire day presentation about the all mighty chocolate or shove a bar of chocolate down the blondie’s throat. But she did not jump to that action, of course. Not today, at least. A long deep sigh could be heard from her direction and yet another bacon combined with chocolate pudding entered her mouth.

More facts about the chocolate hater slowly began to unravel. It was not makeup that caused the not very amazing look on her face. For some reasons, unblended skincare looks slightly worse than foundation and all that jazz. On second thought, both have the same level of grossness. Why was she being so irritated by that? the answer was still up in the air. Responded with a nod, while silently judging people which was never a part of Aurora’s talent. On the contrary, she could not really hide the feeling of dislike towards something. Not that the young girl despised Vivian, it was more of her improper use of eye cream that she loathed. Both of her spoon and fork kept scooping the food into her stomach, to restrain herself from saying unintended mean things.

Shifted back her focus to the chessboard, putting her almost blowing up thoughts to the chess pieces. “Go to C6 you ugly horse!” But, it seemed to not listen to her command. Even an inanimate object hated to be called ugly, Aurora needs to work on her mood swings, the sooner the better. There was an awkward pause before her hand swiftly put her and Vivian’s plate to the left and said, “You know what? I can’t take it anymore-“ She put her legs on the bench, stepped on it, then the table and crouched down right in front of Vivian, “-just dab it around your eyes and do not put too much!” If the blondie did not try to stop her, she would put her fingers on the girl’s undereye and blend whatever stuff the Hufflepuff put before. “It looks like whipped cream under your bloody eyes, blend it for Merlin’s sake!” Once the sight in front of her is not as messy as before, the young eagle would sit back on the bench and put her plate back in front of her. “Knight to C6."

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Interacting with @Aurora Ranvier

The only thing that was crystal clear to Vivian was that Aurora loves chocolate to the core. When she glowered at her, she looked like she would kill her if they were alone. Her Goodness, they both were in the great hall filled with a throng of people so she was definite that this wasn’t the day her life’s coming to an end. ‘Chocolate lovers’... why does most of them loves chocolate? What do the chocolates contain to make people love them so much? She shook her head responding to her thoughts. Maybe... is someone casting some spells or spiking some potions on it to make people like it? But if that’s what happens, she should’ve liked it too, right? Maybe, the magic didn’t work on some people like her. Hearing Aurora sighing, Vivian couldn’t stop herself from saying, “What is so good... about... chocolates? What is so wrong about.... h- hating it” she asked as she tilted her head.

What is that bothered Aurora? She was so confused about it and the tears from the blonde’s eyes poured down like water from the faucet but she had no problem with it other than wiping it with her sleeve’s end every now and then but was careful not to touch the remained white cream in her eyes. ‘Poor Knight’, Aurora looked so annoyed and from calling the Knight ‘ugly horse’ for no reason, the blonde could perceive what she was irritated by something, for sure. But what was that? Maybe her comments about the chocolates? If she had known before that it could trouble someone, she would’ve not talked about chocolates at all or she would’ve lied that she liked chocolates as well.

As Aurora started to speak again, Vivian looked at her with raised eyebrows. The chocolates... no one would’ve faced this kind of chocolate problem in their life. When Aurora pushed the plates aside and started to stride towards her, Vivian gulped down, nearly choking on her food. What was she doing? As she has gone bonkers? As Aurora crouched down, wiping down the wetness in her face caused by her faucet, sorry tears, “W- what are you doing!?” As Aurora crouched in front of her. What!? All this time she was worrying over the chocolates but the issue was with her under eye cream! Before the Hufflepuff could say another word, Aurora just wiped the cream from her eyes, “Hey! Why!” she gasped. Not knowing whether she should be glad that Aurora didn’t wipe out completely or be sad that her hard work went in vain, she just opened her mouth wide not able to utter another word.

Just when everything went back to normal, Aurora took her seat and made her move, still not recovering from the shock, “Knight G5” she started dreamily. Another shock, her mouth opened wide as the Knight just killed Aurora’s pawn by breaking it. W- what just happened now!?

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