Locked Happy Birthday Simon! Pv with everyone on the list

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AngelFyre smiled at Dave. She enjoyed listening to him. He had a unique way of expressing himself; kind of blunt and honest. It was actually refreshing. But behind all of that, he seemed like a genuinely nice sort of fellow. "Thank you for the compliment, but I expect we are both going to get our clocks cleaned by the more experienced duelists, for a while at least." Then looking over to Haley, AngelFyre realized she had left rather abruptly to change her clothes earlier and should probably go apologize for bolting so quickly.

Turning to Dave she said, "I see one of our two hostesses, Haley Rose, the beautiful redhead in the green dress. She is Simon's girlfriend in case you did not know," and that last sentence burned like acid in her throat. "Have you ever met her? I met her verrrrrry briefly a short time ago, but I should go over and try to make a better impression than my earlier one. Feel free to come over, if you want and I will introduce you. If nothing else, you can get a glass of punch if you want a better excuse for going over there."

Then, as AngelFyre headed over to Haley and the punch bowl, she noticed Haley was fixated on something on the floor. She stopped for a minute to track her gaze and saw that a cat was wandering around. Close enough now to the table that she was pretty certain Haley could hear her over the music, she tilted her head back in the direction of the cat and, honestly smiling, she asked, "Is that a party crasher or was its name on the official guest list?"

@David Howard @Haley Rose @Simon Kincaid

@AngelFyre McCubbin

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Haley was lost in her thoughts, still had a slight smile on her lips and just looked like a happy girl. Her gaze fell from the guests wishing Simon a happy birthday to Henry's cat prancing around the room. It seemed as if everyone was happy - humans and furry noses. The day had been stressful, first preparing for Valentine's Day, then preparing for the birthday party but it had all worked out and Clair had really done a wonderful job of setting up the room.

Haley started to grin when she heard the comment from the side. Her eyes now wandered to the blonde girl, AF, she had met earlier in front of the table. She had noticed that she had disappeared for a short while and now Haley knew why, she had changed and was now wearing a dress. "I would definitely call it a party crasher." Haley joked looking back at the cat before looking back at AF, "You look good." Haley said and with the way she said it, you knew she meant it. As she almost always did when she said something. But even without dress AngelFyre was a pretty girl, Haley hoped that she would not misunderstood her compliment.

"May I offer you some of the punch Miss?" Haley asked and would wait for her answer before pouring some into a cup and handing it to her to follow. If AngelFyre would accept the drink, Haley would hold up her cup for a toast, "Here's to a great birthday, to Simon, and to Simon having such great friends like you that everyone wishes they had." She would say to the girl with a big smile before taking a sip of her punch. Haley was really glad that Simon had such great friends who prepared a birthday party for him and were always there to support him and be there today. He deserved to be surrounded by good people and to Haley it seemed like they all were.

It only reminded her even of her friends, Cosmo, whom she loved so much and couldn't imagine a more loyal person. Cosmo would probably be the last person who would ever betray her. Then there was Lavinia, Elena, Cash and Charles too. And then there was Simon, who stood by her side even in the dark times. Haley knew how lucky she was with that, but at that moment she felt an incredible amount of love and happiness for her friends.

Looking satisfied, Haley looked again at the blonde girl next to her. "You're a fellow Hufflepuff of Simon, right?" they didn't really know each other but Haley thought she remembered that AngelFyre was a first year from Hufflepuff and a good friend of Simon.

Interacting with @Simon Kincaid, @Haley Rose, @Henry Knight and Loki

Late, late, late. She was late. Samantha hated being late and rarely was, but today out of all days, at her friend's birthday party, she was late. She was carrying around the reason she was late. A big wooden crate, filled with lemon drops, was laying in the young girl's arms as she hurried to the rehearsal room.

She had thought it was a great gift, hundreds of lemon drops dumped in a box. Simon would have enough lemon drops for the next months, depending on how much he ate. Samantha had opened 15 bags of lemon drops and placed them in the crate. She may have eaten a couple, but the crate was still extremely heavy. The idea of hundreds of lemon drops became a little worse every time she had to put down the crate because it was too heavy.

When she finally arrived the rehearsal room was already filled with students. The brunette was exhausted from the trip from the Ravenclaw tower to the rehearsal room. "Hello, hello," she said to make her presence known, as she walked to the first table she could find and dropped the heavy wooden crate on it.

Only when she was freed of the heavy weight, she looked around. The room looked amazing, there were beautiful blue and gold balloons, which colors could also be found in the banner and table cloths. The students also looked great with a lot of the girls wearing dresses. Samantha wasn't wearing a dress and didn't care about it at all. After all, the most important thing was that she was there, that she was wearing whatever she found in her closet that morning shouldn't matter.

Where was the birthday boy? Samantha's blue eyes scanned the group of people. Before she noticed Simon, she noticed his girlfriend (and wife) chatting with another girl. The brunette waved at Haley from across the room. "Hi Haley!" It seemed like the Gryffindor girl was always wearing a dress when she and Sam met. The few interactions they had shared had been taking place during the chaotic school balls.

After a quick wave, the brunette continued searching for her friend. Samantha found him talking with Lucia, who she had dueled against, and Henry. She walked towards her friend and would wait until she had his attention, not wanting to interrupt the conversation. While waiting she noticed Henry's cat. Did that animal follow its owner around everywhere? Samantha wasn't the greatest fan of animals, except when it was her own, so she kept her distance from the cat and made sure not to lose sight of him.

"Happy birthday, Simon!" A big grin would appear on her face, as she hugged her friend. "I got a present for you and I also got a card for you, I even drew the things you love on the card!" Well, drawing was a big word. She had tried to draw something, but the results were awful.

In the card, she had written: "Dear Simon, happy birthday! I hope you have a great day and you will like my present! Samantha" Around the text she had drawn a guitar, which could be a violin or a weird brown pan to cook with as well. The young girl had also tried to draw Haley... Samantha knew Simon loved his girlfriend, so she had thought it was a great idea. The only thing she forgot was that she couldn't draw. The Haley on the card existed out of a circle as a head with two green dots representing her eyes. She had a curved line as mouth and two red lines down her "head" as hair.

Still, Samantha was very proud of her work and pushed the card in Simon's hand as soon as she realized him from the hug. "This is the card! I hope you like it! My present is on that table," she pointed towards the wooden crate. "It is really heavy so you need to move it, you are a lot stronger than me. You can also just let it stand there, I mean it is really heavy and you shouldn't be working, it is your birthday. Well, tomorrow it is, but we are celebrating it now!" The young girl had managed to start rambling again.

"Are we going to sing if everybody is here? How many people still need to come? I want to sing for you!" she said cheerfully to her friend. She loved singing, she wasn't the best, but she still enjoyed it.

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Clair decided that she would eat the carrot that she had be looking at, carrots became boring fast.
as she chewed on the carrot she decided to attempt at talking to one of the other people, maybe someone she did not know, Clair had never been Shy, EVER.
yet at the thought of talking to someone who knew Simon, it made her feel all like she was jelly, maybe she was worried about the others being mad at her for doing a Lift with Simon while skating at the great lake, why they would be mad she was not sure, but they could be.
she decided to try AngelFyre out, walking over to the girl she smiled, "Hi! I'm Clair, I'm not sure we've met, but Simon bas told me about you."
was that a good start? ok maybe she should bet out there and talk to people when she was at home, not living in a city made that hard, but She now realized that even if she had tons of friends, she was not great at talking to strangers, well not strangers, but not very well known people.
"You look very nice" she commented, pointing at Angelfyre's new attire.
(wc 202)
talking to @AngelFyre McCubbin,
at @Simon Kincaid's birthday party.

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“A party crasher. I knew it. He just has the look of looking for the food without wanting the bother of dealing with the guests,” she laughed. “I hope Rascal is safe in the dormitory.”

As she heard Haley compliment her on the results of her quick change artistry, she smiled gratefully. “Well, thank you. I appreciate that. After seeing you and Clair so beautifully dressed up, I was feeling rather like a fish out of water. Kind of a silly thing, I suppose, but it was bothering me. I do want to apologize to you, however, for leaving so abruptly. It was rude and my parents did raise me better than that, I assure you.” She stopped for a few seconds and realized that Haley, like Simon, smiled a happy, kind of inviting smile. And contrary to everything AngelFyre thought she would be feeling when speaking with Simon’s girlfriend, the overwhelming sense of peace and ease she was currently experiencing were most unexpected. And surprisingly welcome.

”Thank you. Yes, I would like some punch.” Then, upon gratefully accepting the glass, she started to take a sip but realized that Haley was making a toast to the birthday boy, the party, and to his friends, so AngelFyre raised her glass as well. When Haley was done, AngelFyre added, “And here is to Haley Rose and Clair Fernandez, party planners, and Simon’s heart friends extraordinaire!”

It was then that AngelFyre saw Clair walk over to the table and introduce herself formally. “Hello, Clair. It is nice to officially meet you. I have seen you around, of course, but it is nice to put a name to the face.” And then teasing her she asked, “You are the Ravenclaw who threw the rock at Winter at the beginning of the broom race, right? That created quite a buzz in the stands, let me tell you!” She looked at Clair and laughed good-naturedly while deciding not to follow up with her on what Simon had said about her. But a part of her was thrilled that he was talking about her at all.

“I was telling Haley that I was sorry for leaving so abruptly earlier, and now I have a chance to make my apologies to you as well. Vanity is not something I usually struggle with, but when I arrived and saw how beautiful you both looked and how elegantly the room was appointed, I suddenly felt completely out of place.” Then in an effort to get off the subject of clothes, something AngelFyre could normally care less about, she nodded to the room and remarked to Clair, “I was also telling Haley what an absolutely amazing job you both did on getting this party together and decorating the room so beautifully. You both really outdid yourselves. Simon looks over the moon happy right now.”

And looking over at him, she had to admit he really did.

Interacting with @Haley Rose @Clair Fernandez mentions @Simon Kincaid

Dave - #fff79e
AF - #17451b
Haley - #008000

“Thank you for the compliment, but I expect we are both going to get our clocks cleaned by the more experienced duelists, for a while at least.” Angel said, and I smiled at her comment. She was correct, we were probably going to get our asses handed to us during our first few rounds, depending on the strength of our opponents. “Well you’re certainly not wrong there, common sense really but I don’t have it turned on half the time.” Well, that was partially true, I didn’t usually care about what I said, so long as it didn’t get me into too much trouble, otherwise I refrained from saying it.

Angel then looked away somewhere and said “I see one of our two hostesses, Haley Rose, the beautiful redhead in the green dress.” I looked over to where she was looking and saw a redhead in a green dress, just like Angel described. “She is Simon’s girlfriend in case you did not know. Have you ever met her? I met her verrrrrry briefly a short time ago, but I should go over and try to make a better impression than my earlier one. Feel free to come over, if you want and I will introduce you. If nothing else, you can get a glass of punch if you want a better excuse for going over there.” Well that was nice to know and seeing my options, I decided to get the glass of punch first since I was pretty sure I could make at least one good joke out of that so I said: “I’ll just go get some of that punch and then I’ll come by.”

I then walked over to the table containing all the food and drinks before pouring myself a glass of fruit punch and taking little sip of it, playing with it in my mouth before I allowing it down my throat. I did this a few more times before realizing what I was doing and how much drink I had already drank, so I refilled my glass even though it was a quarter full and walked over to Angel and Haley who were already joined by another girl in another dress. As I walked over I overheard Angel telling the other girl “getting this party together and decorating the room so beautifully. You both really outdid yourselves. Simon looks over the moon happy right now.” I looked over to Simon and said “Well that he does, that he does, sorry for being late, I was playing with the punch in my mouth and yes, I still do that.”

At the last part I broke out into a bit of a laugh, not that it was funny or anything but it still made me laugh. “Anyways, it’s good to meet you Haley, AF here has told you a bit about you so I must say it’s my pleasure to meet you. And before I completely forget to ask, what’s your name?” That question was directed towards the girl I didn’t know yet, and speaking of that, she and Rose probably had no idea who I was so I quickly said “I’m David Howard by the way but feel free to call me Dave. Not that it’s required but let’s be honest, Dave sounds better then David and that’s not a fact but I wish it was. By the way, are you Hailee or Haley? The difference is that the first one is spelled H-A-I-L-E-E, and the second is spelled H-A-L-L-E-Y, wait no, it’s one L not two. Anyways, that’s not the point, the point being that this punch tastes like strawberries, pineapple, and a hint of lemon. That was a lie, I can’t tell what’s in here, my taste is far too poor for that.”

More guest had arrived! He saw Lucia enter, someone he met only briefly during an exceptionally random goose attack at Hogwarts. Then again, it was Hogwarts, and maybe the exceptionally random was expected. He smiled upon seeing her and then she mentioned how she found the scarf. He had asked her previously if she could look in Alexa's things and maybe find something that Rascal could use that reminded him of home and reminded him of his former owner and beloved girl. It was asking a lot because it was also asking Lucia Fox to go through things that belonged to one of her best friends; things that reminded her of her best friend. "Lucia, you're fantastic!" he said and thought about hugging her but didn't think it was the best idea. Maybe it was because she was part veela (although he didn't know it) and that made her intimidating to the male gender, or maybe it was that little adorable fluff of purple on her shoulder that was sort of glaring at him, seemingly still upset at that way he less than valiantly handled the goose situation. Hey, hadn't he saved the day - and with lemon drops? That wasn't anger worthy, that was sweet! "Thanks for coming, Lucia!" He was grateful that she had done so.

"Hey, a gift for Rascal IS a gift for me," he said as he made his way over to Henry to thank him for coming. "As long as that little guy is happy, I'm happy," and he meant it. That was one of his ambitions right now. He knew that common rats only lived so long unfortunately and so he was determined to make Rascal one of the happiest little rats that could be for the rest of his days. Simon glanced down to Loki who seemed to perk up with curiosity and sighed, "glad you like your playmate, Loki, but Rascal was being lazy and wanted to keep sleeping. You two can hang out sometime though." He gave the cat a gently tap on the head. Simon still wasn't much of an animal person, but having visited Clair and alllllllll the animals on her farm over the Winter Break and now having Rascal as his own, he was getting better. Slow improvements.

He looked more around the Rehearsal Room and saw that the portraits were joining in on the party and conversing with one another, probably sharing stories about things that had gone within the room and the performances they had seen.

AngelFyre was over talking to Dave and hesitated just a bit. He wanted to welcome his friend but AngelFyre was there with him and something about talking to AngelFyre right now didn't seem to be the best of ideas. He was just about to turn elsewhere when he saw her walk away and he felt a bit of relief. I mean, he HAD seen her in the corridors. Now he could greet Dave. "Dave! Thanks for coming, mate!" he said and began to approach when he realized that yes, AngelFyre WAS leaving this area, but to go to talk to Haley.

No, no, no.

His heart beat a little fast and he glanced over to the two of them but then looked back to Dave and forced out a smile. "I'm uh, I'm going to go see what other music we've got," and he dashed off back towards the gramophone where he could look at the entire group of friends at once - keeping a close eye on the interactions of Haley and AngelFyre. Both seemed to smile enough and that put him at ease enough to look down and make another choice in the few selections that Hogwarts had. He found a jazzy sort of number and picked that one up. By then he looked up and saw Dave approaching, talking about flavors he tasted in the punch. Keep going Dave. Good work. Keep those two girls occupied and not talking directly TO each other!

Simon then saw Samantha enter, his study buddy who was upgraded to friend status. He smiled. Samantha was one of his favorite people to talk with. "Thanks for coming!" he said and gave her a hug. She mentioned her card and it seemed she put a lot of thought into it and then needed help lifting the wooden crate that was her present. He did so, placing it onto the table. "Is it a dragon?" he teased with a smile. "And you're right, I shouldn't be working, I should be dancing. Singing soon. But as of now - WE ALL SHOULD BE DANCING!" he said loudly and went back to the gramophone and finished setting up that more jazzy sounding number. He turned the crank and then started off the dance, bringing both hands up and motioning for all the others to come join him in the open space for some a dance.

Clair, Haley, AngelFyre, Winter, Henry, Samantha, Lucia, and Dave. He wanted them dancing with the birthday boy under his birthday sign.

@AngelFyre McCubbin @Clair Fernandez@David Howard@Samantha Salwis@Simon Kincaid

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While Haley was engaged in conversation, another familiar face came into the room. It was Sam, looking a little stressed, waving to Haley from across the room. When Haley caught sight of her a big smile immediately came across her face, she was glad to see her again, the last time must have been at the ball and somehow the two of them always managed to run into each other at some event. "Hey Sam! It's nice to see you!" Haley called back and turned her attention back to AngelFyre.

"I totally agreed with you, he already has the look of a rebel." Haley agreed laughing. "No worries!" Haley assured as AngelFyre apologised for disappearing so suddenly. "But you really didn't need to change, you looked great without a dress and I'm afraid I just have a thing for dresses...for green dresses." She continued a little more seriously, because she meant it. But quickly the serious look was gone again and her inviting smile was on her lips.

It was just then that Clair joined the small group, smiling at her from afar and stifling a giggle at AF's comment about the Broom Race. "Thanks, I'm glad it all worked out the way it did and that Clair had the idea for the party." she replied and her attention now swung to another new face approaching the small group.

It only took one sentence and the unknown boy made Haley giggle, she found it instantly enjoyable how easy and honest he simply talked. "The pleasure is all mine." she said, continuing to listen to the boy who introduced himself as David. "It's Haley, the H-A-I-L-E-E variety." The redhead explained further, trying to process all the information in her head that David had packed into his sentence.

By now it seemed like almost all the guests were there, if not all. Haley saw Sam handing over her gift and suddenly noticed a rather worried look from Simon as he glanced towards them. A little unsettled, Haley wondered what was going on, but in the end she had probably just misunderstood, because suddenly Simon stood in the room and shouted for everyone to dance. Shaking her head, Haley started laughing. "I guess the birthday boy wants us to dance." Haley said to AF, David and Clair and with her gaze asking everyone to go to the middle of the room where Simon was just waiting for everyone to come.

Outfit #2

AngelFyre was feeling much happier at the birthday party than she ever could have imagined. Still, there was a niggling little voice in the back of her head that was all too quick to remind her that she was only happy right now because the business of ripping the band-aid off had yet to be achieved. She was still living in her little fantasy world, where all things were still possible. Well, where one thing was possible at any rate. That lovely little world where she and Simon belonged to each other, but AngelFyre could feel that world was about to come crashing down around her in the next few, crucial minutes.

Smiling at Haley and the rest of the gang that had congregated around the food and punch bowl table, AngelFyre heard Haley remark that the birthday boy apparently wanted everyone to join him in the center of the room to dance. AngelFyre nodded to let her know she had heard her and then quickly finished the punch in her cup, set it down on the table and took a deep breath.

You can do this, AF. You can love him as a friend and be happy that your friend is happy with the girl of his choice, and if you cannot, she scolded herself, then you are thinking only of yourself, and that is not love. Dang. She hated being right sometimes.

Looking over at Dave and hearing the jazz fill the room, she wondered if he danced. What did Simon have in mind exactly? There was a shockingly disproportionate number of girls to boys at this here party, which was actually not a great shocker in and of itself, because well... Simon was rather a chick magnet. And at that she laughed a little and shook her head. But still, was he thinking mosh pit? To jazz? Hedging her bets, she leaned over to Dave, smiling, and spoke a little more loudly than normal due to the volume of the music. "Do you dance at all, Dave?"

mentions @Haley Rose and @Simon Kincaid interacts with @David Howard

Dave - #fff79e
AF - #17451b
Haley - #008000
Simon - #000080

“The pleasure is all mine.” Haley replied before saying “It’s Haley, the H-A-I-L-E-E variety.” Well that was good to know, but then Simon shouted “WE ALL SHOULD BE DANCING!” before changing the track so Hailee said “I guess the birthday boy wants us to dance.” to which I replied “I guess so, but shouldn’t you two dance together first? Or am I just thinking of this as more of a wedding than Simon’s birthday right now?” It was then that Angel leaned towards me and asked rather loudly “Do you dance at all, Dave?”

Like usual, I spent a bit less than two seconds thinking of my answer before spitting it all out out in one, very long, and rather loud sentence unlike I usually did: “Well I usually do it to my beat boxing but that sounds nothing like the music Simon has turned on here, and I’ve only seen people dance to similar music that was played on a saxophone or whatever, and that was only at my uncle’s wedding a few years ago but if you wanna dance with me like an old married couple, then I’m completely up to it although I might be a bit bad at first, the keywords being at first since I’ll probably learn quick depending on how good you can dance. Or if you wanna dance alone like everyone else then I might as well continue drinking my punch, until I’m finished with it after which I’ll likely join you along with everyone else, in slow dancing to the music unless someone decides to change it to, something a bit more upbeat in which case I think we can all break out our super awesome, never before seen by anyone else in the whole wide world dance moves! Well, fat chance that’ll happen unless it’s Simon’s birthday, not mine.” Well, perhaps I was talking a bit too loud with how much breaks I took and they made my sentence sound a bit worse, but then again, I wanted to make sure that Angel could hear me from distance she was at.
@AngelFyre McCubbin, @Clair Fernandez, @Haley Rose, and @Simon Kincaid