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Clair looked up as Simon walked in, he had come! But Angelfyre had run off, what was wrong? Did she have a fight with Simon beforehand and not want to see him?
Well pushing that all aside Clair grinned, "Happy Birthday Simon!" She wanted to hug him, but how would that make Haley feel? Clair barely knew Haley, and she was pretty sure Haley barely knew Clair, so hugging Simon would be a bad idea, might make 'em fight.
So she fought the want and stayed in her place, hoping he would enjoy the party.
But she also hoped he would be ok without a cake, she knew he hated cakes, so she had not gotten /baked one.
Her mind wandered back to Angelfyre again she wondered if they had fought, She did not want to ask and wreck the party, again she barely knew Angelfyre either, and she did not even know how close the two were, friends? More then friends?
Today was for Simon, and she was sure that nothing could make it be bad, nothing at all.
So she would just wait to learn if they had a fight, she rubbed her hands on her dress, a odd habit she had when she was not doing something, she stayed back letting Simon choose what he wanted to do.
(wc 222)
@Simon kincaid, @Haley Rose, @Angelfyre McCubbin and @Winter Wolfhartz

Interacting with: @Angelfyre McCubbin, @clair fernandez, @simon kincaid & @haley roseX (interactions open) Mentioning: same as above

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Outfit: X

Winter had waved to Clair and Haley who popped out from beneath one of the tables had shown their presence. Though she said nothing her smile and soft expression were enough to show she meant well being here. She had continued to talk to AngelFyre when little by little she could tell there was a change in the aura of the room, it was coming from none other than the blonde herself. Winter furrowed her eyebrows slightly as their conversation came to a close.

Winter could tell something was off and so once the first year had rushed out of the room she looked around before going after her. As she went to leave she was shocked to bump right into Simon with a grunt "agh-" once she looked up to see it was the birthday boy she gave off a slight smile "o-oh Hey Simon! I uhm- ill be right back here in a second, I promise ill be back!" she gave him a small pat on the shoulder and nodded before going out of the room, looking back and forth to see where the poor girl had gone.

She peered off of the edge of the stairs to see AngelFyre going down the stairs in quite a hurry. Winter tilted her head in confusion before apologizing to Simon and letting the doors to the room close. Darting down the stairs, she was going to find out what happened to the girl she just started to become slight friends with not too long ago. It was simons party, after all, she was going to bring the girl back with her, she knew it would not be the same for Simon if she hadn't been there. Winter jumped multiple stairs at a time to be sure she'd catch up with AngelFye before she left the corridors and entered a new room.

Wc: 328
Gifts:
A small bag of lemon drops & a customized snowglobe with a piano in the inside

Outfit #2

Heading back to the party

Running through a mental checklist of her dresses, she realized she had no dark blue or navy dresses. She decided to go with the animal print. While it was not quite the golden color currently decorating the Rehearsal Room, AngelFyre felt it would be a nice counterpoint for the blue dominating the room.

Then she looked in the mirror. Mistake. For the first time ever, she wished she was a Veela. Ah well. A hurried application of light makeup, some Lumify to get rid of the red in her eyes, and she was almost good to go. She pulled her hair up and back into a messy kind of ponytail, and she felt ready to go back up and have some honest to goodness fun.

Much to her surprise and great relief, she actually felt better. She had worked herself up into a pure bundle of nerves, and the cry had been cathartic. Now that the pressure had found its release valve, she was feeling more herself.

Just a couple of slow, deep breaths, and off she went, headed back to the party. Climbing the stairs, she marveled that Simon was now 1 day away from officially becoming a teenager. She had a feeling it was going to be quite a year for him. Heck, it was going to be quite a party!

@Simon Kincaid @Winter Wolfhartz

Dave: #fff79e

Time flies, and there isn't anything you can do about it. I mean, sure, it feels slow if you're waiting for something, but if you were like me, it flew by you and before you could realize what happened, and pretty soon, it was February the 13th. Now what was special about this date? Well, it was Simon's birthday and I was invited to it. Well after I had made my cupcakes and written my letters in the great hall, I started going up to the fourth floor where I'd try my best to get there to the Rehearsal Room where Simon's birthday was to take place according to the invitation I had revived from one Clair Fernandez, someone I was pretty sure was called up to get sorted at the beginning of the school year, but someone I hadn't bothered to memorize the looks of. Not that I had bothered to memorize many faces, I mean, I was tired and hungry after the trip to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express, and my brain wasn't functioning very well right then and then.

But even though I didn't know who Clair was, I didn't worry too much about this being a false invitation since if it was, it wasn't that big of a deal, I had a whole Sunday ahead of me. But then, that also meant there was a chance Simon's birthday wasn't today and that I had sent him a cupcake all for nothing. And it also meant that I had told my parents to send me a guitar keychain as a present for my friends fake birthday. And speaking of the guitar keychain, I had forgot it in my common room but luckily for me, I had only gotten to the second floor and was going up to the third one when I remembered that, so I didn't have that much ground to walk before reaching my dorm. I turned around and headed towards the Hufflepuff Common Room and once I got to the portrait of the fruit bowl, I reached out my hand and tickled the pear after which the door swung open. I went inside and went to the boys dormitory where I went beside my bed and opened a small suitcase where I had stored the guitar keychain in. The keychain itself was stored inside of a small box on top of which, written in permanent marker were the words:

From: Dave
To: Simon

I took the box out and put it in my pocket after which I went down to the common room and out the door to the hallway. I then started going to the fourth floor again, not in much of a hurry, but not so slow a turtle could beat me there. The party wasn't supposed to start for another half an hour so I had time. Once I got to the fourth floor, it took some asking around to get to the Rehearsal Room and when I got there, I saw that the room was decorated in navy and gold, and there were some balloons here and there of the same colors. There were also some tables that were covered in navy tablecloth laid with golden patterns on top of which were plates which hosted food, as well a plates that would be used by the attendees of the party to hold the food they'd be eating and speaking of the food, I had noticed that there was no cake so I thought that it was saved for later like it was at most of the parties I had attended. But aside from the tables hosting the plates, there was also another table which seemed to hold some presents for Simon, and so, I headed over there before taking the box containing the guitar keychain out of my pocket and setting it down on the table. Now even with everything going on, it was impossible not to spot the three people that were already attending the party, three girls I didn't know and the birthday boy himself, Simon Kincaid.

Well, the room was awfully quiet, either that, or I they did all the talking before I came in so I decided to start up a conversation. "Well, there's not that much of us here but based on how the room is set up, I assume there are more to come? I'm David Howard by the way but you can call me Dave, not required but certainly recommended, and if you don't like me, I'll be more then happy to leave. And I didn't realize the ladies are supposed to wear dresses but based on the way Simon is dressed, I hope I'm correct to assume that the males don't have to wear anything like that but correct me if I'm wrong." The last part was mostly meant as a joke since it was just two girls, and everyone else would probably wear casual clothing like me and Simon.

The room looked absolutely amazing. The large chandelier at the middle of the room illuminated the gold on the navy and gold tableclothes and caught light onto the shimmery balloons. And the banner. Simon looked at the banner and could tell it couldn't have been something bough at the store so someone must have made that amazing banner. Did his friends really put this together for him? He knew they were special but this was absolutely brilliant!

His eyes fell on Clair when she spoke and he smiled brightly. Very brightly. "This is amazing guys, thank you," he said and looked to her and then Haley and over to Winter. Winter went to leave and he wasn't quite sure why but was fine with it. "Come here, you two," he said, speaking to both Clair and Haley and he walked halfway towards them. When they'd come to him, he'd engulf them both into a group hug.

As he squished them into a hug, he pulled back. "You really shouldn't have," he told them. The heavy wooden door of the Rehearsal Room could be heard being pushed opened slightly a little more than it was and Simon glanced over his shoulder to see AngelFyre enter the room. He smiled again and was just starting to realize how underdressed he felt when David joined them.

"Well, my dress is over there in the corner, I just haven't changed yet," he said, jokingly correcting Dave about the attire. "Kidding, man, kidding. I don't have the legs to pull off a dress. No one needs that," plus it wasn't his attire by choice. "You look fine and," he paused to look over to the girls, "you girls look beautiful. It's all so very great. I'm going to put some music on!" and he hurried over to the corner of the room where the gramophone was. With a selection made, he cranked the crank a few times to get it started. Music made everything better - although this was already great!

[ @Simon Kincaid ]

Lucia had been a little confused when she'd gotten an invitation to a birthday party. She didn't know anybody with a birthday coming up, did she? Most of her friends, herself included, were summer babies, with Henry Knight (if he counted as a friend) being one of the few exceptions. The only birthday Lucia knew about which was soon was that of her mother Ebony, which would be on the 25^th, but - of course - nobody at Hogwarts would be having a party for her birthday. So, she read the rest of the invitation. Simon Kincaid. Oh. Lucia had almost forgotten about the friendly Hufflepuff who was brave in the face of geese and had referred to Alexa as one of his best friends.

Almost.

There was no way that she could forget him completely though, although she hated to admit that she had been trying. Simon had adopted Rascal, Alexa's pet rat, and had approached Lucia a little while ago to ask if she could find any toys of his, and Alexa's scarf, so the poor pet could feel a little more at home in Simon's dorm room. She'd been putting it off, but... maybe this was a reason to finally open up the curtains surrounding Alexa's old bed and open up the box of memories which she often found herself trying to supress.

Yeah, it didn't happen.

Lucia got about as far as three steps away before she realised she couldn't do it. She wasn't quite there yet. But she knew where Rascal's things were stored, and Alexa's scarf was right there on the bedstead. She could get those, at least. And she did, as well as writing a card for Simon and buying a little gift for him. ('Little' being the proper word - Lucia had already contributed most of her pocket money to the present which she and her sisters had bought for Ebony.)

On the day of the party, Lucia made something of an effort to dress for the occasion. She didn't have any really fancy clothes at Hogwarts, the dress which she had worn at the 2021 Samhain Ball being in her wardrobe at home, but she could wear a nice dress, and she could twist her black-blue hair into a bun, and she could do her nails and makeup, and she could put on some nice jewelry. In this case, 'jewelry' included the necklace with Cash Ironwoods had gotten Lucia for her own twelfth birthday. (Simon was turning twelve, right? Or was it thirteen? Another glance over the invitation confirmed that it was the latter.) The act of getting ready in this way was something Lucia hadn't done since Alexa's death, and it was strangely theraputic to go through all the old motions. She was humming to herself as she blew on her nails to dry the paint and buckled up her sandals.

Judging by the amount of people already in the rehearsal room, Lucia (and River, who was perched on her shoulder) was a little late. She hung back for a moment under the balloon arch (balloon arch? Lucia was glad she'd dresssed up) and watched the guests and birthday boy. Simon had just put on some music and Lucia looked down to find that her toes were tapping along to the beat. She cleared her throat. "Simon? Happy birthday!" With a smile which didn't have to be as forced as she'd expected it to be, Lucia held out a rat cage with various rat toys and food in it, as well as a bright yellow scarf. "I- I found the scarf, and Rascal's swing - Henry made it - and some of his food was left over so I found that was well, and there's his cage, so I've put everything in that, is that okay?" The moment that Simon held his hands out to take the cage, if he did so, Lucia would practically shove it into his arms. If not, she'd put it down next to a table."And I also got you some chocolate frogs." She carefully balanced five chocolate frogs on top of the cage. "And a card!"

note: got permission from clair for lucia to be on the guest list

Outfit #2

As AngelFyre opened the heavy wooden door, she was glad to see more people had arrived. Simon looked absolutely delighted and was smiling as happily as she thought she had ever seen him smile, and for Simon Kincaid, that was really saying something. He was hugging both Haley and Clair, and though she could not see Haley's face, Clair was just beaming. Good. Everything was right in the world, for now at least.

While walking towards the punch bowl, she caught sight of David Howard. Thank goodness. A friendly face to talk to. While getting her punch, she could not help but laugh at Simon's remarks about his own dress being in the corner. That she would love to see!

As Simon was about to put on some music, AngelFyre saw Lucia Fox come into the room. The upperclassman was still nowhere near her pre-holiday break happy self, but AF had to admit she was looking much better in the days following Twelfth Night. That made AngelFyre's heart smile.

Walking over to Dave, AngelFyre was aware that Lucia was carrying a cage and a scarf. Looks like Rascal was also going to share in the Simon Kincaid birthday bounty, she thought. Very nice. Also, a quick scan of the room revealed Winter was nowhere in sight. Hmmmm.Then turning to Dave she remarked, "It looks like we are going to be officially added to the Hufflepuff duelling team's wait list. Willow gave me the good news today. Exciting, huh?"

@David Howard @Simon Kincaid
@Lucia Fox @Winter Wolfhartz
@Clair Fernandez

Interacting: Loki | @Simon Kincaid | @Lucia Fox | @Clair Fernandez
Mentioning: @Haley Rose | @AngelFyre McCubbin | @Winter Wolfhartz | @David Howard
Gift Bag; Gift 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | plus drawing

@Clair Fernandez @Simon Kincaid

Outfit

A lot has happened since Clair and Haley finished. AngelFyre and Winter appeared. Before Haley could talk further with AF, she had already disappeared from the room. Her eyes fell on the girl, Winter, AF had just been talking to and Haley smiled at her from afar before her gaze fell on the door Simon had just walked in to. Haley gave Clair a gentle nudge in the side with her elbow and nodded in Simon's direction, drawing attention to the almost birthday boy. "Looks who's here."

"Happy Birthday!" chimed in Haley with Clair and started laughing. She was happy that the surprise had worked. She pulled Clair lightly with her to go into a group hug with Simon and laughed into his neck. "All credits to Clair. I was just helping out a bit." She spoke, hugging her boyfriend and giving him a kiss on the cheek to finish.

Soon the next guests and the old guests arrived again, Haley pulling back a little so Simon could greet everyone, receive his congratulations and most importantly have fun. She went to the glass bowl with the punch and poured herself a cup, stopping at the table and watching the whole spectacle from a distance with a slight smile on her lips. She sipped her drink here and there and noticed the door open another time. It was Henry, they didn't have much to do with each other but knew each other and had spoken a few times here and there. She nodded at him and her gaze fell on his cat, which was going on a little exploratory tour.

Dave: #fff79e
AF: #17451b

"Well neither do I!" I exclaimed after Simon he replied to me. "Thanks for the compliment by the way and you weren't lying, those girls do look beautiful." Moments later, a girl I knew as AF, her actual name being Angel something I couldn't remember what, came up to and said "It looks like we are going to be officially added to the Hufflepuff dueling team's wait list. Willow gave me the good news today. Exciting, huh?" I had mostly seen the girl in classes and our only official conversation was when we were signing up for the dueling team back in January of who knows when so I still didn't know her very well, but I decided to act like I did and said "Is that so? Well if that's the case, then congratulations to you and congratulations to me for almost getting our applications accepted!" I exclaimed. "Now we just have to wait to be put on the waiting list and then we have to wait for a few people to leave before we actually make it to the dueling team after which I'm hopefully gonna stay for a long time but whether or not you choose to do so is completely up to you although I really hope you stay because based on the spells I've seen you cast in class which was probably only one or two," Well, that was a lot of talking without pausing to breathe and I had to force myself to keep going, despite the low amount of oxygen I had left in my body before stopping for a bit. Once I had taken a breath, I continued "you're gonna be a really good duelist." I then turned to Simon before saying "And thanks for the music Simon!"