Closed Forgotten Halls and Precious Moments PV w JUNIPER KELLY

Juniper scribbled into her notebook, but not notes. She was doodling in the back of the classroom trying to run down the time. But she swore everything she looked at the clock, they had lost a minute. Time was not moving. She leaned back in seat as her professor leaped into a rant about O.W.L.S. great, cool. Like they needed to be reminded. Class would be over in 3 minutes. Juni slammed her book shut, earning some annoyed glances. She shrugged in apology as she shoved her book into bag, she was too excited. More than she dared admit. Of course, she had to keep her cool. She couldn't seem like she had been waiting ever since they agreed to meet to today, even though she had. And soon, everyone around her was shoving there things into their bags, and Juni was trying to reach the door before everyone else. Everyone else was so much taller than her. But Draven? He stood out easily. Maybe she just really was excited to see him.

She shoved her way through the kids to get out of the stampede. "Draven." She exhaled and she grinned. "Yes, actually. " they had become good friends through owls, and Juniper would be lying if she said she didn't have other feelings for him. Suddenly, she felt weird. Her shirt was in a messy tuck, at least her skirt was okay. Her robes, still presentable. But Juni stood there with her messy hair (the hair she never brushed). She had tried her very best to brush it today, actually.

"And you, Mr. Draven. Did you leave a class early to be here?" She raised an eyebrow, clearly amused and trying to hide her big great grin.

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A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth the moment Draven spoke. "Ohhhhh, Dray is being a rule breaker, now?" her seemingly reserved friend offered many things for Juni to tease about, but she only teased in a flirtatious way, it was her best way of flirting sometimes. Her only way of flirting, since feelings were oh, so confusing. Like the little flutter in her chest the moment the compliment slipped from Draven's lips, when she was wearing nothing but a school uniform. Still it wasn't the compliment but who said it that caused the feeling many called "butterflies." Certainly she couldn't just stand there and stare, she had to say something.

"I- so do you, like always."She looked into his eyes and debated complimenting them to make a reference to when they first met. When Juni had foolishly blurted that he had pretty eyes. But she didn't. Instead she shut her mouth and let Draven led her down the halls of Hogwarts, wondering where they were headed. She shrugged to Draven's comment, "you're my close friend. And you don't seem to mind." Juniper cringed inwardly. Did that sound like she was friend zoning him? Shoot. She grinned as she sat down on the blanket. As Draven spoke,she looked in awe of the shadows that played on the floor and carpet and the green glow from the Windows. "that's what makes the moments we do have together, extra special." She said, grinning. She checked behind her shoulder with a frown. "I keep thinking that I hear other foot steps." and suddenly, a boy popped on with trays of food like a waiter.

Juniper looked at Draven then back at the boy. "you were eavesdropping? Her face blushed a furious shade of pink as she wrinkled her nose at the boy. "friends? I'm sorry, who are you again?"

Youssuf held his hands up, after placing the platters on the blanket. "Easy, people. Easy. No need to kill me. I'm just helping, or so I like to think. These platters are designed randomly, compliments of....well, me. The nuts aren't nuts, Draven. They're berries. Dried. Don't worry. I mixed it up a bit, since I don't know your tastes. Just leave the nuts."
Youssuf looked at the couple (they looked like a couple too; Draven standing to protect Juni without hesitation). "Yo, dude, no need to look at me like I'm a beggar or something. I'm a first-year too. Youssuf Baid. Gryffindor. This is my default nervous mode of being. I'm a Metamorphmagus. When I get nervous, I literally change. Gimme a minute."
Youssuf hadn't even realised that he'd changed until Draven looked at him weirdly. He'd become a raggedy-looking weirdo tramp in strange clothes with badly buzz-cut hair. He closed his eyes, and concentrated hard. Almost instantly, his hair became smoother, his face changed subtly and Youssuf's height shot up. He was the same height as Draven now, and he fit his clothes perfectly (he was pretty muscular in his non-changed form). "Sorry about that. I can't properly control it yet."
He looked at Juni. "You don't remember me, huh? Youssuf? Amakir the Elf? From the Morgansfort campaign with Cody? I'm a good friend of his. And Draven, we haven't met, but I've seen you around."
"It won't kill you to eat. Don't worry. Just keep to your platters. Easy and simple. Anyway, now I'll leave you to a romantic evening. Lovely to meet you. Sorry again for disturbing, you can get back to what you were doing. Buh-bye!"
Youssuf left the secret hall, feeling much more chipper. He'd performed a good deed!

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"You brought pancakes?" She asked in disbelief. With the pancakes he brought out strawberries and whipped cream. "Awe" She said, holding her hands to her face. "You know me so well Dray." She said this in a teasing tone, catching his eye. She could tell the pancakes were freshly made, making her mouth water. "Oh no no, it's fine. Really, these will do just fine. I wouldn't want you going through so much trouble just for me anyways." She was beyond thankful that he had taken the time to do all of this for her, he had even gone looking for sweets that the magical world didn't have.

The chocolate turtles would do just fine, just fine indeed. The fact that he had searched for M and M's and found what would work just for her made her want to- well, she wasn't sure. "These candies are really cute! M and Ms are just circles, they don't move or anything." She grinned at the tiny candy as it tried to crawl out of the bowl. Super cute.

Then the boy. Juniper watched him walk over as if they were besties. Juniper eyed the plate and frowned in discomfort. There were nuts on the plate. She looked at Draven, worried. What was this boy up to? Did Juniper need to kick him? Suddenly, he spoke Draven's name. "How do you know his name? Huh?!" She stood up and advanced towards him. "And how did you know what he's allergic to? Who are you? And those aren't berries. Do we look stupid to you?" She frowned and wrinkled her nose. "Compliments of you? You're telling me you made this all on your own?" Most likely it was the house elves. Nice try buddy.

Juniper eyed the boy, who was not a pretty sight. As if he was reading their mind, he stated that he changed when he was nervous. "WOW, Draven did you see that?! He changed entirely when he was only a firstie. " She knew that was not possible. "I would have recognized you, but now you're a bald kid. Last time, you were much shorter. You had hair, you looked a lot different, too. " Why did he look that? He didn't even like the Indian boy she had known.

"Weirdo." She said as he left, then she sat down. "Ignoring that... let's eat?"