Cupid's Cookies Errand

Speech -- Thoughts

Pam watched the two newcomers interact with growing amusement, watching one whisper into the ears of the other, and the consequent reddening of the latter's ears. There's no way I'm thinking too much. Something is definitely going on here.

Pam was already starting to forget their names though.

However, Pam found herself stuck rather awkwardly between them three boys who had already met each other before. Unsure of what she should say or how exactly she could contribute to the conversation.

Or if she could at all. The girl was alright with one-on-one conversations, that too assuming the age gap was not too large. But when it came to big groups, she always found herself stuck in the background.

Not like she really minded that.

Her ears perked up at the mention of duelling. It did not interest Pam at all, especially after that last unofficial one she had moderated, but she was instantly reminded of Ruth, who was in the Hufflepuff duelling team.

Pam was yet to ask her friend what appeal she saw in the sport.

Pam on the other hand, had grown to adore quidditch with a startling intensity. She'd been glad to make it into the team, and as long as the others didn't kick her out, she was definitely gonna stay in there forever.

Hopefully.

She blinked out of her thoughts as the youngest of the trio addressed her again, and Pam tried not to visibly glow as she was offered the sketchbook. She carefully accepted it, holding it as though it was something fragile.

Which, in reality, it was.

"Can I really...?" she asked, and immediately winced inwardly at how genuinely delighted she sounded.

Brilliant. So much for subtlety.

She flipped the pages, quickly flipping through the only three drawings the pages housed, before stopping at the last one to study it. Pam herself had very mixed feelings about drawing. It wasn't something she would choose to do. Ever. Nevertheless, a beautiful drawing was beautiful irrespective of whether the viewer liked the art.

And Pam had a decent eye.

The first page held a sea serpent, body coiled as though preparing to spring. The face reminded Pam distinctly of water dragons, and Pam would've easily mistaken it for one if not for the labelling. "Pretty..." she mumbled, flipping to the previous picture, and immediately lighting up at the sight of what she'd been hoping for. A griffin, complete with a large tail, sharp claws and large, powerful wings-- oh wait, it wasn't quite finished, Pam noted, peering at the lighter strokes which seemed barely existent. She was, however, more interested in the spellings scribbled into the sides.

"There's another which goes g-r-y-p-h-o-n," she volunteered. "It's nearest to the original ancient Greek word... er what was it-"

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" Him?" Hanako ensured he looked as if that was quite the surprise to even suggest, as if he had not stayed up nights considering the unfortunate unlikely possibility. He put a finger on his chin as if thinking. " Hm…. I don't know Sergei… I'm a little too far from his type I think…" he casually leans in closer to Jack. " What do you think, Burnett? Think I can pull you?" , he teased.

At Jack's question, Sergei answered first so Hanako didn't feel the need to explain it on his end. In fact, if he could choose it - he wouldn't want Jack to really know too much details about his meeting with Sergei. " I'm helping him make friends" he smiled innocently.

As Jack told him it wasn't necessary to tease them, Hanako shrugged. Evidently showing that he hadn't share the same opinion as his roommate. However, he did look delighted at seeing the flush on Jack's face, letting out a laugh as he was shoved away. Oh it was these moments where he wished phones worked here in Hogwarts. This would've been a lovely wallpaper.

His delight was short lived as both Sergei and Jack seemed to come to a mutual agreement that Hanako acted like a cat, in which he looked offended by. Those too similar to each other do repel. Like the matching poles on magnets???? Fuck that. He visibly got the chills just thinking about it. " Shut it, you two. I have tons of far better qualities than those furballs from hell" he frowned.

" Say for yourself" he says boostfully at Jack's mention of them not being cool. " I got people coming and trying to get my attention with posters last time at the spectators area"

At Sergei's mention of not being able to concentrate due to the noise that often followed when sports events happened, Hanako laughed. " 'Yet' ,Sergei? Could you perhaps be open to seeing the appeal? It's quite a popular sport for a reason"

This Pamela girl…. Hanako didn't know what to think of quite yet. Apart from boring. She didn't respond to Hanako's subtle bait, and neither did she reply to Jack's polite response about it being nice to meet him. Now- he wasn't the most politest person in the room - but didn't that usually mean Pamela should say it back to Jack. He supposed that was better than empty kind words. Did she maybe wanted to be left alone with Sergei? Could she perhaps have an interest in Sergei beyond drawings? A nice senior probably would've left them alone, as the two kids seemed to have a shared interest in drawing.

Too bad he wasn't a nice senior.

Before the angel on his shoulder could protest and urge him not to be himself, alas - fell death earths on Hanako. " Sounds like you need a nerd, lemme find you one". He interlocked an arm around Jacks. " Found one~. He might be able to give you some insight".

" Say, Sergei" Hanako directed his attention to him. " Speaking of animals and beasts, have you done anything new after the last letter I sent you?"

@Jack Burnett, @Sergei Voronin , @Pamela Graham

"...'Pull'?" Jack repeated uncertainly in response to both Hanako and Sergei's comments. Surely they couldn't have meant...?

"Heh...you're going to have to be a little more specific if you want me to answer that question, Tone. Especially because I'm assuming you don't mean the term literally." He hoped it didn't mean what he thought it might mean. Or that, if it did, Hanako might be too disinterested to continue his line of questioning or pressing the subject. Why had Sergei brought him into the embarrassing conversation, anyway?

"Oh...my condolences," Jack told the ash-blond boy, trying not to smile and failing. "But I think I can understand why he would come to that conclusion. You're one of his favorite types of people to pester. The stoic-seeming, unshakable ones." He chuckled. "And I whole-heartedly agree about the magnets, too. For someone who claims not to be social, you sure know a lot about people, don't you, Voronin? You must really be very observant." That comment seemed to be confirmed by how Sergei mentioned hearing his housemates being obnoxiously loud over having beat Slytherin.

"Ah...yeah. They beat us. I'd like to think we put up a pretty good fight, thought, before we went down."

He turned to Hanako with an incredulous grin. "You? Helping someone make friends? And by that, do you mean keep everyone as far away as possible? Because last I checked, you didn't do friends, much less help others make them."

At Pamela's mention of the spelling of the word 'gryphon', Jack looked over. "Oh, do you mean the word 'gryps'?" he asked excitedly. "Do you really like griffins?"

The implication that he was a nerd earned a subtle look from Jack to Hanako, but he supposed he couldn't really deny it. He did adore things like history and things that were tied to it.

@Hanako Tone, @Sergei Voronin, & @Pamela Graham

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The younger boy quietly studied the redhead's reaction to Tone's 'teasing', seemingly completely undeterred by their 'surprise'. Ironically, that surprise seemed rather uncharacteristic of them, given how they seemed to go with the flow of conversations rather easily. Burnett's obliviousness seemed rather genuine, causing the pale boy to cock his head curiously, raising a brow.

At Graham's initial question he nodded, "Why would I offer if I didn't mean it?" His attention then briefly shifted back to the two older boys as the redhead addressed him again.

At the mention that he was their 'favorite' type to pester, he cast a glance over to the shorter of the two, giving them a rather unimpressed look. "Am I? How unfortunate," he drawled idly. Perhaps that was the actual reason they had singled him out, or perhaps it was a blend of that and the reason they had initially given him. Honestly though, he didn't much care, dismissing the concept as Burnett moved on. Though their next words, he quirked a brow once more before shrugging. "Well, I grew up having to be observant, hard not to be when getting tossed into unfamiliar country," he responded, resting his chin on his fist.

Though at Tone's next words he gave them an uncharacteristically blatant dubious look, "uhuh.... I'm sure."

His eyes flicked back to the taller of the duo at their next words, he seemed completely uninterested in the concept of his House winning, or their House 'putting up a fight'. He seemed equally unimpressed by Tone's following question, "It sounds loud, and troublesome... potions are more interesting then waving around little sticks anyways." He huffed, gaze trailing away from them dismissively.

The redhead's next, slightly belated reaction to Tone's admittance caught his attention quickly. His gaze slowly shifted back to the shorter of the duo, before returning to Burnett. "Well, he hasn't scared people away any more then I already do myself," he commented with another shrug. Notably he didn't address whether they actually helped him either.

Sergei then paused at the mention of the letter, trying to recall what they were talking about for a few moments. During those few moments though, he just silently stared at the older boy without a single expression crossing his face. When he finally remembered, he blinked. "I haven't done anything. Why waste money on pet when I can use it on potion supplies," he stated flatly, quickly dismissing them as Graham spoke up again.

He didn't quite understand what she was referencing at first, peering over her shoulder to see what drawing she was on, before his attention was pilled by Burnett, which answered his question. His nose scrunched up a bit, "As if learning English wasn't hard enough, now I have to learn twenty different names of same animal." The words were grumbled, before being followed by the boy saying something in Russian, which had a tone to it that sounded suspiciously similar too the one people use when they cussed.

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Notes: @Jack Burnett, @Hanako Tone, @Pamela Graham

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Text Hexcode: a80049

Encyclopedia Link: Here

STATS

Reducio

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40/40
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Stamina: 6

Evasion: 10

Strength: 5

Wisdom: 6

ArcPower: 3

Accuracy: 10

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Abilities | Sixth Sense | The Martial Artist

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Speech -- Thoughts

Pam was, quite truthfully, enjoying all the flirting.

If this could be called flirting. Could this be called flirting?

The sketchbook had risen upto her face in an attempt to cover up the grins that were occasionally threatening to break through. Pam found her eyes drifting up from Sergei's sketchbook every few seconds, only to find Hanako saying something increasingly outrageous while Jack would react the same way every single time— somewhere between confused, horrified and resigned.

The older student had much more patience than Pam could ever even hope to come near.

Honestly it was kind of fascinating.

Something was definitely going on here. There was no way friends interacted like that on a normal basis. Did they? Pam tried to remember if she had ever openly, knowingly flirted with Ruth but came up bare-handed.

Pam bit the inside of her cheek in an attempt to school her facial features as Jack once again responded to Tone's nonsense with the air of someone trying hard to not combust on the spot.

How fun.

Luckily, before Pam could lose whatever remaining self-control she had, their conversation had shifted to the griffins again, and Jack had smoothly supplied the Greek word, Pam had, for the life of herself, been unable to remember. His words were accompanied by a geeky excitement that made Pam instantly like the boy a lot more.

"Right, that." She nodded, "Griffins are really cool- like they're magnificent creatures. I remember seeing those for the first time in that animated show called 'Sofia the First' when I was like... five and found them really cute. Then I read about them in Greek Mythology and found them rather scary. Then again, half of the animals in Greek Mythology are scary, although I feel like the hellhound would actually be pretty cute—"

And then, Pam abruptly stopped talking.

Right.

She'd known these people for approximately five minutes.

She'd overexposed herself.

The realisation hit all at once and she immediately ducked behind the sketchbook again, suddenly finding the unfinished griffin extremely interesting.

Damn it, I got too carried away.

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" For someone who grew up muggle, your understanding of modern slang is same as an elderly's sometimes" he laughs, " 'Pull' means charming someone. Sometimes enough to cuff them - in a relationship. Or just earn a date from " He simplifies, putting all his energy in sounding and looking as casual as possible. Acting as if Jack's reaction to this doesn't sate any sort of curioisty Hanako had. He figured Jack could connect the dots himself with this new bit of information, and he would much rather see that red face again if Hanako was lucky.

Jack proceeds to expose Hanako's fondness of people with characteristics like Sergei. It was almost flattering enough to know Jack knew this facet of Hanako that it led him to smile a before, before laughing just a smidge, turning his face away for a moment. Though returning it back to the group when Jack complimented Sergei. Well, of course. That was a pro and a con for Hanako. From his memories of Sergei, the boy was definitely interesting to talk to. It's just that sharpness that came with it that Hanako had to thread lightly with. He hadn't threaded lightly with Jack before, and look where that got him.

" Bah you'll miss me when I'm gone" he snickered at Sergei's mention of it being unfortunate that he caught Hanako's attention. Though it didn't seem like Sergei needed much help with branching out - with the right people, he supposed. Like Pamela here.

At the mention of the duel, Hanako gave a proud nod.

" I thought I told you?" he returned Jack's incredulous look with a smirk. " I'm in my angel era." Sergei then mentioned something about Hanako likely not scaring people more than Sergei did and Hanako laughed. That bit was quite true.

Sergei mentioned liking potions better than wands and Hanako and nods with a laugh. " I suppose duelling does get a little more noisy. That just happens when fires, wind, and exploding stuff is thrown around, I suppose. Some tournament about making potions might suit you better then. I do recall something like that happening a while back, hadn't it?"

" Haaaa?" he laughs lightly, amused by the time it took for Sergei to remember what he was talking about. At least it didn't look like Sergei even spent the money. Hanako felt Sergei would see keeping up with a lie to be far too much energy wasted compared to just being truthful about what happened. " Because that particular bunch of money is not yours to spend on potions" he teases, " Well, I suppose I'd be up for a shopping trip one of these days. Say, Burnett do you happen to have an extra permission slip?"He turned to the red haired boy.

Perfectly content with Jack's limited resistance to Hanakos arm wrapped around his, he seemed pleased at Jack's glance towards him - which earned a wink from the Japanese boy but nothing more. " Nahhhh" he answers Sergei instead, " Probably not going to show up on exams unless you're planning to take Care of Magical Creatures next year as an elective".

It was then that Pamela - reacting oh so positively at Jack being able to provide the etymology of Griffins - started yapping on about them. Which caused Hanako to blink, though unconsciously showing an amused small smile at the sight. Realising a bit too late what he was doing after she halted herself. What the fuck - when did a display of nerds being nerds made him happy? The embarrassment realizing why was shown on the pink tinge on his cheeks, which he covered with a laugh. " Why'd you stop? We're listening" he teases lightly. " Oh y'know what- Sofia the first? Gotcha. Banger opening. I'm with you with the hellhound thing. I have a 6ft snake and while plenty of people scream and yelp at her, I thought she was always pretty cute y'know?" he shrugged.

@Jack Burnett, @Sergei Voronin , @Pamela Graham

Jack couldn't help but laugh when the Gryffindor boy commented on how it was unfortunate that he happened to be Hanako's favorite type of person to pester. If it had really bothered Sergei, Jack was certain the young man would have done a great deal more to avoid Hanako's unwanted attention. As he wasn't, though, the Welsh seventh year had to wonder if some part of Sergei didn't appreciate it at least a little. At the very least, he seemed willing to tolerate it.

"That makes sense," Jack said when Sergei explained the reason for his being so observant. "Where are you from, then? Russia? How'd you end up here instead of some place like Durmstrang? If you don't mind me asking, of course. Otherwise, feel free to ignore me."

Hanako's criticism of Jack's lack of knowledge regarding modern slang caused him to bristle a little bit with indignation. "It's been years, okay? Modern slang like 'pull' in that context wasn't a thing when I was going to muggle school. At least I don't think it was..."

The line of his mouth twisted before he leaned over to murmur in Hanako's ear, mimicking how Hanako had murmured in his own: "...Pull me? Maybe if you count crying alone in your room over letters..." Though his voice was deceptively calm, his face still flushed as if getting flustered himself was the price he paid for teasing his dormmate. But Jack quickly moved on with the conversation at hand.

"Right. Remind me again what 'angel era' means, exactly, please?" he asked his peer. "Is that more modern slang?" The Welsh teen then glanced back at Sergei when the ash-blond boy mentioned Hanako not scaring people away any more than he already did himself. "Well...if you say so," he told the younger student.

As Jack listened a little more, he began to wonder if Hanako had actually given wizard money to Sergei to...buy a pet for himself? "Uh...yeah, I do," the redhead said when his fellow Slytherin asked him if he happened to have an extra permission slip. "Need one, Sergei?"

The way Pam seemed to match Jack's enthusiasm for the word he had mentioned and the creatures it referenced both astonished and delighted the Welsh student. "Oh...yeah, I think I know that show. They had griffins in that? That's cool! But yeah, I agree about Greek Mythology creatures too." He shook his head. "They say the Greek Gods made monsters to make the Ancient Greeks come to them for more aid and to pray to them and worship them more. Not to mention to remind them who had the real power. But who knows how much of that is really true."

Jack shrugged. "Maybe the Greek Gods were Ancient Greek wizards and witches who were breeding, cross-breeding, and raising the creatures themselves to make muggles rely on them and their magic. I guess if people want you on their side, they're too busy trying to win your favor to accuse you of being monsters yourselves and to try to kill you for it out of fear. Like they did with witches in the Salem Witch Trials and stuff." Oops. He'd gone off-topic. Pam seemed the sort who liked animals more, anyway.

Just when he was about to ask her about why she thought a hellhound might be cute, the Hufflepuff girl seemed to clam up. Jack took a moment to realize why as she hid herself behind Sergei's sketchbook. But it was Hanako who spoke up to address her behavior first.

Hanako watched Sofia the First? Well, that was news to Jack. He couldn't help but give his dormmate a fond look, however, as the Japanese Slytherin tried to indirectly assure Pam that it was alright for her to speak her mind by telling her how he related to her in a couple of different ways.

@Hanako Tone, @Sergei Voronin, & @Pamela Graham

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He deadpanned at the older boy as they tried to bullshit what the word meant. Their 'explanation' seemed more like them attempting to censorship."Trying to explain slang around someone younger then you? Alright unc, keep yapping," he drawled flatly. The sentences were, perhaps, even funnier thanks to his accent.

He may not use slang often, but everyone he went to muggle school with certainly did. To an almost annoying degree. He was practically force-fed slang, though a lot of it was satire, thankfully... not that the adults really realized it. Admittedly though, some of the memes-- when the language barrier wasn't in the way-- were funny. But he'd never admit it to anyone.

While Tone tried to pass off the definition of 'rizz' as the definition of 'pull', his attention shifted to the redhead as they asked him about how he ended up here. "I do not mind, though it is not light topic," he responded. "Yes, Russia is my birthplace. When I was younger me, my mother, and my brother lived in St. Petersburg, near Finland. If you've been paying attention to muggle affairs and news, you'd know that that Russia is..." he shrugged, making a so-so motion with his hands, "Not in best state right now, when I was born was around the time everything started going sour there. On top of that my family affairs also weren't doing well. To put it simply, I never had childhood home, unless you count car." He kept the details vague, given it was hardly the time and place. "My aunt stepped in, taking guardianship of us before sending us to United Kingdoms for our safety and placing us in foster care. Though, I was separated from brother as result. He paused, "I do not know of Durmstring, is it other wizard school?"

As Tone spoke of him 'missing' them he quirked a brow, " I don't know, if you want to be missed you might have to try harder, perhaps buy me potion supplies," he quipped dryly. Though when the boy explained they were in an 'angel era' he rolled his eyes, though was mildly amused by Burnett's reaction. He straightened at the mention of some sort of potion's tournament, "Oh? This place had actual entertainment once? Shocking."

As he was jokingly chided, he huffed, "If you want back you could always try to sneak into Gryffindor tower and steal it from dorm-- oh wait," he paused, "you do not know what dorm I'm in, right." There was certainly a hint of sass in his words this time. When the boy brought up a permission slip, and even asked Burnett about whether they had one or not, he quirked a brow, "Your persistence is almost admirable."

Glancing over to the redhead as they addressed him, he shrugged. "No, technically I don't. Perhaps Tone will try to convince you I do though," he mused.

Huffing when the boy in question tried to reassure him, he absently scratched at the scar on his jaw. "If all magical creature have too many names I might not," he mused. Though his attention was soon pulled to the conversation between Graham and Burnett. He tried to keep up, though the more rapid-fire English made it a bit of a struggle. When people spoke too fast it was hard to translate all of the words in his head in time. At the very least Tone's comment was easy to follow, something he unashamedly focused on thanks to it. "Some people are actually scared of snakes?" He snorted, finding the concept bizarre, "Weak. They are less dangerous to person then deer running into middle of road. Unless you live in place with few roads. Or no deer." He tilted his head then, considering if he should bother joining the other part of the conversation, before choosing not to. Too much talking to participate in already. Gaze drifting away from the group that had somehow gathered around him, his eyes wandered the activities of others at the event while trying to figure out how much longer it'd be until curfew, his finger idly tapping the cookie left forgotten on his lap.

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Notes: @Jack Burnett, @Hanako Tone, @Pamela Graham

Tags:

Text Hexcode: a80049

Encyclopedia Link: Here

STATS

Reducio

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40/40
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Stamina: 6

Evasion: 10

Strength: 5

Wisdom: 6

ArcPower: 3

Accuracy: 10

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Abilities | Sixth Sense | The Martial Artist

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Speech -- Thoughts

Was the phrase "pulling" someone not that common? Pam wondered as she listened to the conversation. On second thoughts, she couldn't quite remember when she'd heard the words used for the first time. Where did she learn it from? Through people at Hogwarts? Or because she read too much? Back in her Muggle school, people used slangs pretty often. Pam herself wasn't too comfortable with it, unless it was with someone she was close to.

She hadn't had a lot of close friends back then.

Whatever, it didn't really matter.

Her eyes occasionally drifted back to the sketchbook as she listened to the others. For a generally quiet guy, Sergei sure was good at being unapologetically brutal with his words.

She'd never quite met anyone who spoke the way he did. Ruth was always too nice, and Pam herself was more on the "dramatically sassy" spectrum than the "brutally honest" spectrum when she was with her friends.

She flipped the page, focusing on the sea serpent. It was truly beautiful, she thought, studying it carefully. If not for the label, Pam would've mistaken it for something different. "Its like what I would imagine a water dragon to look like," she admitted softly.

Her attention shifted to one of the boys, Jack was it?— and Pam perked up as he replied to her previous words, volunteering ideas of his own. His words however, gave rise to a rather unpleasant thought. She shook her head as she voiced it."Somehow that's even worse. The Greek Gods were truly terrible as... well, gods." She considered it, "Except perhaps Artemis. From whatever Greek mythology I've read so far, she's wronged the least amount of innocent people."

Pam's introduction to Greek Mythology had been through the book series called Percy Jackson and the Olympians. She'd then taken to reading up Greek myths with the purpose of comparing them to what she already knew from the series. She continued, "I partially figured that a lot of their ego came from the fact that they didn't know how to be human. So if you are to tell me they were humans in disguise, that's even more hypocritical."

"...but can wizards be immortal—?"

Snakes. Yeah no.

She was not about to think about petting a snake. She flushed slightly at the other's teasing, latching onto the part of his words which was not about reptiles or the embarrassment that was Pam. "Sofia the First has nice songs." She agreed, voice turned shy yet again, "There was also a lot of mythical elements so four-yr-old me was pretty attached..."

She glanced at the others, "Do you guys have pets?"

^{14 FEBRUARY}

Sergei's Bg @Sergei
While he listened to Sergei's explanation of how he grew up as an answer to Jack's question, Hanako merely did just that. Listened. It was the sort of question he himself wouldn't have bothered asking. Partly thankful for Jack, because now he had bits of information in Sergei's upbringing. Sergei's answer was precisely why Hanako avoided asking anyone about how they grew up. In a car? Really? Foster homes? Seperated from his brother? Well now he just felt like an ass - merely concerned about how much Sergei's stoic nature is entertaining to him or not. His relationship with Sergei was nowhere near close enough for Hanako to ask any follow up questions. Not to mention his discomfort in asking such things in front of Pam and Jack.

" Yepp" he answers to the Dumstrang question, hopping on to a topic that was actually lighthearted enough. " A bunch of brutes actually - not a fan of em. One time during a spin a bottle game, one dared me to kiss him and his bear-like boyfriend went all alpha male and threw me across the room" he shrugged with a dramatic sigh. "You're better off here, Sergei. We have more class". Generally.

Modern Slangs @Jack , @Sergei
On the topic of slangs, he laughed at Jack's defence. " It wasn't back when I was in muggle school either. Somewhat recent, I think. It's a good thing, Burnett. Just means you're not likely to doom-scroll enough to get slangs."

At being called an unc, Hanako merely laughed. For someone who was learning english as a 2nd language they knew quite a bit. He was tempted to play dumb and let Sergei answer instead, but he felt Jack wasn't ready to hear what it really meant.

It was then that Burnett did the unexpected that made the Japanese boy freeze. Whispering stuff and teasing intimacy was not something for foreign to Hanako that he'd blush like school boy with his first puppy love. It was the words that Jack said that brought a red tint to Hanakos face, his face taken aback - almost distressingly embarrassed, before a glare settled on his face. You don't get it, you're supposed to pick an actually charming scene, dumbass. But the memories tied to that said scenario and the implications that followed- as ridiculous as it was - got his tongue tied. He frowned, tilting his head to the side to huff as Jack moved on to another conversation.

" It's pretty much exactly how it sounds, " he clasps his hands together in front of him with a meek expression. Like that of a lamb. Minus the demonic eyes. "I've seen the light and I dedicated my life - and by life I might mean until we graduate- to spread joy and kindness and making the world a better place… or whatever" He smirked, unclasping his hands now.

Potions @Sergei
He smirk. " I'll keep that in mind when I get a salary and you're struggling with the more expensive potions as you get older", he jested casually. " Hmmnm" He nodded with a grin. " It's not an annual thing from what I understand. But hey maybe stick around and they'll host it again".

Shopping @Everyone
At Sergei's sass, he laughed. Man, this kid was funny. If Hanako had met him when he was a lot younger, or perhaps they were closer in age - he knew his younger self would've liked to hang out with them. With or without their permission. Perhaps in another life. " Right? That's what I'm saying- I have a lot of great qualities" he says, appearing as if he had only heard the word ' you - admirable'. " C'mon - I'll even treat you someplace. Food or potion ingredients, you can pick. You can bring a friend along too, Graham - you coming for pet shopping? I could always ask for another one if this guy only has one" his thumb indicated towards Jack.

At Sergei's shrug at Jack's question about needing the permission slip. If Jack turned towards Hanako's direction, he would give him a convincing argument as to why Jack should definitely give Sergei the permission slip.

He smiles, batted his eyelashes - " Please?"

Nerds were Nerding @Sergei
While the nerds were being nerds, Hanako turned to focus on Sergei's comment on the snake, earning a genuine smile from the older slthering. " Right? I bought her along to an event for a little show and tell, and one of the people in my group didn't take her very well. She's way less scary if people knew what shes saying. Really. Not a hint of interest of harming anyone in her" he shaked her head.

Greek Gods: @no one
At the back and forth happening between Jack and Pam, Hanako only let out the lightest chuckle hoping it was enough to stay hidden. If only he had not been reduced to this pathethic fool who found the scene heartwarming. Would things have been easier if he was more like himself younger - where by now he would be tempted to interject and make the conversation about himself? Who knows. He let the nerds be nerds.

Sofia the First + Pets @Everyone
" Right?" he agreed, chuckling though quieting down when he notices Jack looking at him strangely. In response, he misunderstood and gave a smirk. " What? It had some good arcs. I quite liked that Amber character. Not that into the mythical stuff though- " he returned his attention Pam. " But hey it worked out well huh? You ended up being a magical kid and you get to see mythical stuff all the time, right?. "

" Pets?" he side-eyed Jack, and loosened his attachment on Jack's arm as if Jack had done a great crime. " Sometimes I wished some of us didn't. But I'm trying to get a pet for Sergei, hence the shopping trip. You got one? If it's a cat, pretend I never asked"


^{guys we got 8 convos or more going wth- xD thats crazy}

@Jack Burnett, @Sergei Voronin , @Pamela Graham