Open! The Aftermath of a Tea Party Closed

Alan asked her about her foot. Opeila looked down on it and moved her toes a little. "Completely fixed.", she said and smiled at the Gryffindor, before she looked over to the Slytherin table. Where could she sit...
"Oh! There is someone I need to talk to. See you guys later!" She smiled at the others before walking over to her table. Opeila was so hungry...

She had missed breakfast and dinner the day before and that seemed to pay off now... Opeila grabbed some food and joined a conversation between some girls. Defense against the Dark Arts. That reminded her... she hadn't done her homework yet. That got her to hurry up a little and soon the twelve year old left the Great Hall to go back to her common room. She needed to pack her things, she had lessons in a few minutes and she wanted to use the break afterwards to do her defense against the dark arts homework that was due tomorrow.

Opeila always put a lot of effort into her grades, since her wish was to become a healer. As far as she knew, she needed good grades for that. Sure, probably not in the first year, but it wouldn't do any harm to get used to the amount of work, right?

Opeila left the thread.

Interacting with @Alan Vanes @Ruthie Greer

"Um...a little better..." Jake said shyly to Ruthie as she returned his hug and asked how he was feeling. He WAS still feeling kind of shaky but it wasn't so bad as it was yesterday...but there were too many people around to talk about that. Jake looked up nervously when Hazel brought up the tea party. It was just what he didn't want to talk about.

One by one new students came over to the group and Jake shrank in upon himself. He remembered yesterday at the party when Ruthie had put her hands on his shoulders, and that had made him feel better, but it was probably better if she didn't do that now since everybody was watching - yesterday he had just been too scared to care. Unfortunately even she had to leave soon, giving him just a tap goodbye on the shoulder. He waved bye back and tried not to look too reluctant, then looked around the circle at the other students without saying much. He was happy when the crowd began to lessen until Alan asked if he'd like some breakfast.

"Um...I guess I'm kinda hungry..." he admitted, putting a hand on his tummy. What he DIDN'T admit was that he'd been too scared after the tea party to eat dinner the night before, and he was about as hungry as he'd been in a long time.

"But um, am I allowed to sit there...? 'Cause ya know...I'm not very um...G-Gryffindor-y," he mumbled. He had meant to say brave, but had chickened out at the last second. Which just went to show how not-brave he was in the first place. Eating breakfast with Alan sounded nice. But what if he sat down on the table and the bench just...threw him off or something?

interacts with @Jake Morris

Alan gave the younger boy a small smile, hoping to give him some reassurance. "D-Don't worry, it's g-gonna be fine!", he mentioned confidently before he would wish the other students that were still in their small group a pleasant morning and left towards the Gryffindor table with Jake. He had met the student a few times and he was sure that there would be no problem if the badger joined him at the lion table. Alan himself had been sitting at the badger table a few times. Only recently he had met Reid and spend some time with him, chatting about some of the plans the two of them had and most importantly they spoke about Reid's duties as a prefect.

Alan sat down at the table and patted on the spot next to him to indicate for the Hufflepuff boy to sit down with him. There would not be a lot he would say, because Alan usually kept to himself when he was eating, but occasionally he would exchange a few words with the kid that he had invited to sit with him. They would be talking about casual things like what subjects they would be having that day and whatnot. Once they were done with eating, the two would part ways and go to their classes.

Alan had no idea what he would plan for the day, but he was sure there would eventually be something that he could do. He also still had to do some of his homework and would probably get even more of that throughout the day. He might just spend the time outside or in the Study Room, if it was too cold for studying outside.

Jake and Alan leave the thread; Permission to control Jake was given