Nice Day For New Friends

As sun rose further up in the sky Prat decided he had spent enough time studying and doing his daily chores in his room, as he glanced out the window he looked at the beautiful scenery laid in front of him. Deciding it was a waste to not explore the open grounds Prat changed into his Pastel Blue shirt, black trousers and a cream colored sweater vest his mom sewed for him as a gift for getting into Hogwarts, this was a change of clothing from his usual everyday wear in his room that he'd center around chores and working out.

Before rushing out Prat fixed his medium length hair into a flowy medium part right as he preferred and grabbed his glasses before putting on his shoes to roam outwards.In his rush to sight see Prat forgot his wand in his room as well as the snacks he'd picked out for the day. As Prat roamed the premises of his new school he remembered the lake his parents told him about. Finding it was a bit of challenge as Prat kept getting distracted easily but ultimately he ended up finding the lake and decided to go further on his exploration."Hmm, it looks way more magical than mom described, maybe i should see if there's a prefect or person of authority.", Prat said to himself ,"and if there's not,then there's no one to stop me from taking a swim in it.",he thought to himself before moving ahead towards the lake.

As Prat walked towards the lake he saw a brown haired girl with her hair up sitting on a big stone at the edge of lake, her bag lying beside her with various articles lying in it. Prat slowly walked behind her without making a sound, trying to observe her while she goes all in her craft in her natural state."Maybe it looks weird if i just stand over shoulder like that?,she wouldn't think i'm hostile right?"he asks himself.

With that hesitation in mind Prat clears his throat,"Ahem-Ahem". "Hello there, what are you painting!??", putting on his best obi-wan voice Prat inquires, immediately breaking her focus and giving her a slight scare.

─────It was a nice day, the sun was shining, and a few fluffy clouds were floating across the sky partially hiding some of the sunlight, it was nice. Nearly half an hour had gone by, and that time was full of peaceful bliss, Alex had been having a lovely time drawing, alone. She had just finished sketching out a large oak tree she saw in the distance when someone decided to walk up behind her and ask, quite loudly mind you, what she was painting.
Is he blind? Perhaps he is, it's quite clear that I'm drawing, as painting would require, you know, paint.
Alexandria turned around and began to speak, "Now who exactly do you thi-" when she lost her words. The young boy standing over her appeared to be around her age, most likely a fellow first year, she thought to herself. He was also fairly attractive, not in a bright, in-your-face kind of way, but in a more subtle and quiet way. He had brown skin and black, kind of wavy hair. He was dressed in a fairly presentable manner, which made Alexandria determine that he must be a fairly normal kid who maybe just didn't know how to socialize extremely well. But perhaps the most out-of-place thing was his glasses, they made his light brown eyes very apparent, they were deep and it was like the girl could see a long story she wanted to read behind them. The young girl determined at that moment that instead of being rude and getting upset at the boy, she'd give him a chance and try to befriend him.
"Well, um, I'm drawing actually," she said looking up at the strange boy, "Would you like to sit with me? I have some snacks if you'd like to share," she offered, moving her bag to the other side of her, gesturing for the dark-haired boy to sit down. "My name is Alexandria Clark, but I'd prefer if you called me Alex, but only if you'd like."

As Prat looked down at the light brown haired girl offering him snacks and a place to sit beside,Prat wondered earlier if she was a bit slow from her initial reaction of getting spooked. As she revealed her name to be Alexandria Clark ,and made apparent the preference of Alex, Prat returned the favor with nod,"I'm Prat, Prat Pass",slowly whispering,"I'm BATMAN."

When He asked her,"What are you painting?" and how she nearly snapped back at him, Prat thought it was a little endearing. Seeing the snacks she offered him, Prat takes some and sits down at the place she cleared for him.

After silently watching her doing her own thing for a while,Prat starts asking again, "What are you painting??", "Is it those trees over there??" he asks while looking around and snooping in the small bag she was carrying."What do your parents do? What's your house,what's your favourite animal so far?"

As the conversation continues, Prat starts dozing off while feasting on her snacks before a wicked idea comes to him. With the intent to tease her and not use Alex for her name like she asked,Prat begins with "Ms. Clark, Fancy a dip in the lake?, i've heard mermaids reside down there,the water might be cold but you wouldn't wanna miss the chance to see some mermaids would you?" Prat sighs and whispers towards her, "there's no Prefect nearby either, this could be our chance, it's as good as it gets right now." Prat ends his attempt at her compliance with a sly grin seeing if she'll be into it and actually agree.

─────So the boy has a name.... but who the hell is batman?
"Who is this 'bat man'? some kind of fictional character, or something of muggle knowledge?" she asked the boy who's name she now knew to be Prat.
Prat seemed to be of the... interesting sort. He again asked her what she was painting, and she replied, "Well, if you were listening previously you would know that I am drawing, not painting. But yes, it is those trees over there, but also the surrounding area, I'm drawing the scene that is before us," she gestured to the area in front of them.
He asked Alex a bunch of questions, what do her parents do, what her favorite animal is, and what her house is. She paused for a moment to register all that he had just asked her, and then finally responded after a near thirty seconds, "My, you certainly are inquisitive, one might consider it a bit invasive, however it's fine, I do love to talk. Well my father works for the ministry as an auror and my mother runs her own business. I'm in Gryffindor, what about you, Prat? And my favorite animal... hmm, well I certainly haven't thought about such an elementary question like that in a while. I would have to say a horse, though if we're taking magical creatures into consideration I would also say hippogriffs. They're just so magestic!" Alex motioned basically nonsense with her hands while she talked. It was a habit she had picked up years ago from her grandmother, who she spent considerable time with before she left for Hogwarts all those months ago.
Ms. Clark, ew, I hate the way that sounds.
Dip in the lake? Was he suggesting they swim in it? Alexandria wasn't much of a rule breaker, but this boy was certainly starting to give of vibes that he was, what with that sly smirk on his face and all.
"Me synchoreís?! Excuse me?! Absolutely not! No matter if there's a prefect around or not, it's simply against the rules! My word, I'm in the presence of a criminal..." she said with a laugh.

"Batman, what do you mean who he is,It's me ofc, i just told you" Prat told her,gaslighting her further.
"I apologize, i misspoke, you weren't Painting, You were "DRAWING",obviously." Prat reiterated in a mocking tone. Prat looked ahead as he Alex showed her the scenery she was drawing,Prat without saying a word silently admired the scenic beauty and tried to capture it in his eyes and memory.

As Alex said "it's fine, I do love to talk." after Prat's questions he shot back with,"Yeah,i can see that.". As he listens to Alex answering his questions and then telling him how her favourite animal was a horse and her favourite magical was a hippogriff ,Prat fondly thought back to memories of his home and the Private Ranch that his family owned. As she talked about her interests her hands moved around in a nonsensical manner ,which Prat thought was "Old Woman habits" but didn't say anything to make fun of instead listened carefully as she spoke.

"Well i like horses too,but my favourite magical creatures are Dragons, i wish to make friends with one of them and ride across the giant sky, but i also like the theory about the basili- nothing. I really like dragons." Prat caught himself before Telling Alex a myth from the Slytherin Dorms and decided to not talk about it.After a while of this as Alex outright rejected his idea of going into the lake and jokingly said,"Absolutely not! No matter if there's a prefect around or not, it's simply against the rules! My word, I'm in the presence of a criminal...", Prat replies with , "Live a little you scared cat, what are you even afraid of, there's no one here,we'll jump in quick,get out,use a spell or something to dry ourselves and leave.", Prat gave her a little smile sitting beside her, in an attempt to get her onboard, "no one will be any wiser,i'm telling you, just take the leap of faith." Prat said while munching on Alex's snacks.

─────The girl smiled as she listened to Prat talk about his dream of taming a dragon, it sounded so farfetched, but then again, they did live in a world full of magic. "Oh I love dragons! Back home, in my grandfather's study, he has dozens of books about dragons, and on one of the walls is a living portrait of a dragon that my grandmother painted," Alex said rather excitedly. The dragon in the portrait her grandmother had made was one that her grandparents had seen during their years traveling around Europe together. That was something Alex hoped to do herself after graduating from Hogwarts, perhaps she might one day meet someone to go with her.
Did he say basilisk? Like the giant snake thing? I wonder why he's so hushed about it...
She scoffed as Prat called her a "scared cat," she was not scared, simply just didn't wish to get into trouble. She knew there were no prefects around at the moment, but no doubt one would show up just in time to get them in trouble.
"I'm not scared! I just don't want to get caught and end up in detention. I feel that's plenty fair, Prat. Also please don't eat all of those chips, I do favor that flavor," she added, hoping he'd leave some for her. Probably not.
"Also, no, you're not batman," Alex said with a smile. "I am." plot twist

Prat listened intensely as the brown haired girl talked about her affection for dragons, describing how her grandfather has multiple books on them as well as how her Grandmother's an artist who painted the living portrait of a Dragon they saw together in one of their escapades in Europe.
As Later Prat realized he spoke too much about the chamber and shifted the conversation to the lake, He saw Alex visibly scoff as he noticed the fear of detention in her eyes.

As Alex tried to stop Prat from munching on her favourite snacks, he let up a bit and instead of trying to eat them all he started enjoying each bite to savour the flavour for longer. "Ok Fine i won't eat your stupid chips and i'm only doing that because I'M Batman and not you." .As the conversation died down Prat decided he no longer wanted to annoy her for a quick minute and leave but rather wished to keep their conversation going. Unsuccessful at thinking of someone to talk to her about.

Prat blurted out, " So Uhhh if you ever wanna see Horses in real life,fast strong ones don't hesitate to ask me, My family has a ranch,we've got so many horses there, there's even open ground to run around and play or something i guess." in an attempt to gain her curiosity and hope she didn't exit the conversation looking at her trying to judge her expression after going back to munching on her snacks.

Prat nudges her a little with his elbow,"Since you don't wanna jump in, will you atleast help me if i drown? I have a dare to fulfill." before even finishing his sentence he took off his shirt and jumped right into the shallow parts of the lake, shallow enough to not completely blindside him,deep enough to let him swim.

─────He has..... a ranch?!
"Wait no, that's so awesome!! We're best friends now. I don't care, you're stuck with me. It's for the horses," Alex laughed, it felt nice to be able to actually talk to someone, even if he was eating all her snacks.

"What kind of horses do you-" she began to ask, but before she could finish her question, Prat announced that he was about to jump into the lake. "Prat, no! Don't be stupid!"

But he was too carried away to listen. He took off his shirt, causing Alex's eyes to widen in shock, and quickly look away, blushing. Fortunately for her, he had already jumped into the lake (inadvertently splashing Alex), and couldn't see her reddened cheeks.

She took a moment to gather herself, why's he actually cute??, and then yelled at him.
"Prat, you absolute moron! You're going to get yourself in trouble! And worse, you got water on me! I had no intention of getting wet when I came down here! Ugh, why are you so difficult? I feel it's fairly easy to follow a rule such as 'do not enter the lake.' I'm not helping you if you get in trouble, you've brought this upon yourself, my friend." She scolded.

It was not a difficult rule to follow, yet he had such ease in ignoring it. Alex couldn't understand the temptation to get into the lake either, many things were living in there, bacteria and such. She, being a bit of a germaphobe, could not seem to grasp the idea of the lake being fun.

"If you end up drowning, don't expect me to jump in to save you," she said half joking and half serious.

As Prat jumped in the lake he thought he heard the brown haired say something but he was already under the water, as the cold water surrounded Prat's body all around he felt a wave of relief,still feeling enough oxygen in his lungs Prat decided to Trick his newfound friend and show her how great it felt being in the lake.

He decided to not come up for air but rather stay underwater making it look like he drowned, and with time his plan proved successful when Alex started calling out to him," stop joking around and come up you imbecile,this is rule breaking,we'll lose house points you dolt" she said while sounding somewhat nervous now. Prat waited for his chance before jumping up out of the water and going "BOO RECOGNISE WHO" and pulled her into the lake with him.

She might've cursed Prat but underwater he couldn't hear anything she said, he later just helped both of them out of the water and started looking for his shirt that he dropped before turning back to the brown haired girl,now looking as Red as a tomato. Prat couldn't for the life of him figure out if she's red from the Cold water or if that was just plain Anger.

"Look if you're angry about your clothes, i can just dry your clothes right now" Prat said stammering as he looked around for his wand lest he suffer the wrath of the Brown haired brute he had just enraged. Prat looked around everywhere before the realisation dawned on him ,"Oh Shi- I forgot my wand at my dorm." he declared at a very low tone,hoping she won't get mad while trying to judge her expressions sheepishly. Prat picked up his shirt and offered it to her, "You can have this until you dry up i guess,sorry."