16 Mar 2022, 22:51
A date but not a date but it is- er
Permission to lightly godmode Adlai given by the writer
Interacting: @Adlai Rod
Mentioning: N/A
Date: March 20th, 2022
A few minutes into lunch, the hall was emerging with the sounds of laughter and chatter of the days ahead. One topic that would surely be discussed is the upcoming ball.
Henry stood outside of the hall, pacing. Pushing back his hair, running his fingers through esch individual strand as he mauled over what exactly he would be doing. The young teen never normally liked loud or large social events, finding them to be rather overbearing at times. Much preferring a night alone with a book that sounded like a paradise to the lad and what he intended his plans to be for the night of thr next ball.
That was until he started to spend more time around one specific person. Adlai Rod. A third year hufflepuff who he mer last year once or twice, they shared a few conversations amonf each other but not enough to call one another friends or go to a dance together.
That year, after getting parthered up a few times in classes with the girl and meeting up together for study sessions. Henry was able to learn more about her, spot similarities between the two and find her to be a kind yet sensible and gentle person who he wouldn't mind being around. To him, Adlai wasn't like the rest of his friends who he confided in or planned acts of mischief with. Adlai was someone he could sit with, talk about the day with or sit silently with, watching the day unfold.
She seemed like a friend that you would treasure. Henry only hoped that she saw him as a friend as well....
Pacing the hall, the teen has never technically asked someone to the ball before that wasn't already a close friend or group that he agreed to go with. Stumbling over his thoughts, pulling at different ideas and concepts.
Rubbing his hands aginest his jeans, moisture leaked out and settled onto his palms. Attempting to rub off the liquid, confused as he didn't even know that he could sweat this much as his chest rose suddenly quicker than before and heart beated a tad faster.
The teen felt himself placing his hands behind his neck, stumbling backward toward the wall that he leaned aginest. Unsure if this is the beginning of a panic attack or perhaps something else? It didn't feel exactly as one. His fingerstips tingling and stomach felt empty as his mouth suddenly became filled with a outpour of saliva.
He started breathing through his mouth, a bit irregular as he fler himself look aroind blinking up at the lights. Everything felt as if if was rushing toward him, screaming at him, unsure what is happening or how to rid himself of these feelings.
Henry felt himself jump a few times, shaking back his head as he wrinkled his nose once or twice. The sensation lessen at the sign of movement- actively. Parts still lingered. Henry wished his brother was at the school, maybe it would give him someone to talk to about this sensation and also advice in asking a girl to the ball. Letters and owls was a way to keep on contact but they weren't the same, they couldn't shorten the distance or provide a more face to face interaction during the school year.
Peering into the hall. The teen knew that eh couldn't wait, that he couldn't put this off for much longer. The ball is only a few days away and time is tinkling down.
A breath. The teen rolled his neck to the sides. Shaking his hands once more as the tingling sensation started to crept once more up his fingers.
A look fown toward his feline partner. Loki. Henry nodded once toward him and couldn't contain a soft smile at the feline's single meow. He found himself growing in confidence and social skills when near his mischievous yet loveble feline.
Looking toward the doors, the teen took anorher breath. Silently telling himself that he will ask Adlai to the upcoming ball that dayas his legss felt like lead with eveey step taken nearing the hall.
The teen felt himself nearly close hia eyes as he steped inside the hall, the bursting of light and sounds suddenly washed over him. Suddenly, his left hand jerked toward his eyes to block out the visuals. A reflex. The teen pushed his arm down through slow, calming breaths.
Eyes scanned the hall, looking for one person in particular. Hia mose twitched a little at the mixing of scents, some familiar and some not familiar all rushing toward him and mixing at once. The teen wrinkled his nose as he perked up his ears, staining them to attempt to cacth her voice.
The teen took a few more steps in the hall, looking over the heads of students when a sickening thought entered his mind. What if Adlai isn't there? Whay if she wasn't at the great hall for lunch or what if she already left?
Trembling. The teen stuffed his trembling hands into his jacket pockets. Thoughts rushed into the lad's mind. Doubt started to set in as he questioned if he should leave the hall...
Looking around, eyes flickering to each shining face. The teen cuaghta glimpse of the hufflepuff at one od the long tables, taking his hands from his pockets. The teen pulled at his shirt collar, clearing his throat.
Taking stiff yet slow strides to the girl. The teen apporched Adlai, a single wave and soft smile. Loki looked up, casting a friendly meow toward the girl. The teen wasn't sure how others did this, casting a gaze around before focusing back on Adlai as he stumbled over his words, "Hello, Adlai. I w..was-uh w..would you- er- Iwaswondering-" his words came our in a rush with his stutter present. A breath. The teen cloaed his eyes for a moment then reopened them as he felt himself open his mouth to a mouthful of words.
"Iwaswonderingifyouwouldliketogototheballwithme?"
Rushed and sounding like a single word. The teen rubbed his left hand behind his neck as he took a breath, attempting to relax as he forced himself to slowly say"I was wondering if you would like to go to the ball with me?" A soft smile, the teen actually said it. He asked her? He asked a girl to the ball? The teen found himself smiling, first time he did the action and he didn't falter well didn't prove he is a total failure.
In the moment the teen forgotten that it sounded like he was asking Adlai to the ball as a date or to be her parther which he wasn't... was he? The teen pulled at his jacekr sleeves as he quickly added"not as a date! Well, I mean it is a date but not a date date, I fancy you type of date- uh I'm asking as a friend who is asking their friend to go to the ball with them as friends, friend- mate. Uh- another friend of mine is joining us to so it isn't a duo date or anything but as friends because I would like to go with you and get to know you better- uh as friends!" The teen felt himself spiral into awkwardness as he lowered his head and gaze to the floor, Loki looked up at his owner and then over at Adlai. The feline seemed bad for his awkward onwer, walking over to the girl and rubbing aginest her legs. A single meow.
Last edited by Henry Knight on 23 Mar 2022, 16:08, edited 1 time in total.
"There's no such thing as strange creatures, only blinked people" - Newt Scamander
19 Mar 2022, 01:11
A date but not a date but it is- er
@Henry KnightAdlai was seated at her typically spot among the several long tables of the Great Hall as she began to serve herself and eat her meal. She thought nothing different of that evening, people we talking and laughing. People she knew and were friendly with were smiling and cracking jokes here and there. She was itching to get out of her uniform and into her pajamas. Yes, this was a very day-to-day evening.
That was until Henry Knight approached her table. It wasn't uncommon for people of different houses to visit each other during meal time. Sitting at ones house table wasn't inherently required at all times. However, it was the following that was said that caught her off guard. At first she didn't quite understand Henry when he first spoke to her, he seemed so nervous and she could see he was sweating. "Everything ok?" She had asked.
He then looked as though he collected himself as he repeated himself in a much more clear manner. Adlai choked on her own spit.
A dance? The ball? THE BLOSSOM BALL? One of the only events that everyone went to from all years and houses? He, Henry Knight, the very boy in front of her who was a duelist on the Slytherin house team and grand academic achiever, wanted to go- no, was asking Adlai Rod, a straight P student with no record of being athletic at all, to THE BLOSSOM BALL?
She couldn't believe what he was saying. She was so shocked that whatever he had said afterwards in an anxious burst was blocked out. Never in her fourteen years of life did she think she would be asked to a dance, sure she had hoped but she never expected for those hopes to come true so quickly!
She didn't think Henry was an awful boy, in fact she quite liked him. She thought he was fun and full of surprises, especially since he had several hobbies she would have never thought he would have had. She wanted to know him more, much more.
"I- um-" she started, her entire face felt as though it were on fire and she was sure her face was beat red. "Yes!" She blurted out, not really thinking about her answer or the volume of it as a few people began to look in their direction from the boisterous sound. "I'll go with you."
Adlai Winifred Rod
23 Mar 2022, 18:16
A date but not a date but it is- er
Interacting: @Adlai Rod
Mentioning: N/A
Henry felt light-headed, as if he could shut his eyes and faint right there in the great hall. Nervous spiraled within, spinning around his mind contemplating the worst of the worst situations.
The teen thought of leaveing or running, running away into hiding didn't sound that terrible and he wouldn't have to hear Adlai reject him. Not sure why he would choose to do this, what motivated him to ask a girl to the ball. A girl who is of kind nature and a good heart, one that helps others and whoes smile is contagious. A girl who he did want to know betyee and become closer with but on the otherhand still terrified about going to a ball with her.
The lad questioned the possibilities that she would say yes, he doubted it at first. He thought that she might already be going with another and there isn't anything special about him. He isn't a superior quidditch star nor a captain of a sport. He isn't a prefect or earned any glamorous awards, he doesn't step up and do brave acts like enter the hexwizard tournament. He thought of hinself as a nerd, one with good grades and a mischievous feline who gets him into trouble with his dormates.
The teen considered leaveing, dropping his head then heard Adlai'a voice. The teen jerked his head up, eyes widening a little as he stared at her. She said yes? She said yes! The teen felt his heart beat escalate quickly as he rubbed the back of his neck attempting to contain his excitement, the soft smile growing a tad as he spoke"you will? Bloody Brilliant!" The teen felt a unexpected weight lifted, his breathing becane lighter and the sensation of dizziness left him.
Smiling, the teen looked over at the girl unsure what exactly to do now. He perpared for failure but not for what do if things didn't end up in denial. Loki sat besides his onwer, softly meowing once toward the hufflepuff as the teen spoke"Alright, great. Brilliant! Uh- I should go, I have a potions essay to finish but shall we meet at the ball on the night? Loki will be with me so you can spot me and I'll look for you," nerves starting to set in once more. The teen wasn't sure why or how he could be even more nervous now.
"There's no such thing as strange creatures, only blinked people" - Newt Scamander
25 Mar 2022, 01:05
A date but not a date but it is- er
@Henry Knight"Yes! Yes!" She said with overenthusiasm before clearing her throat and saying in a much more refined tone, "That would be perfect." She sat there, looking up at him as she twiddled with her things that laid nervously in her lap. Nervous? Why was she nervous? She didn't think she had anything to be nervous about, it's not like Henry revoked his proposition, it's not like he was playing some mean trick on her. No. He would never do that.
"I'll see you then." She added. She wanted to jump and run around and get the ball of nerves in her stomach to go away. Why was she nervous? It wasn't a bad nervous, she could tell it was a good nervous but what even was a good nervous? If she didn't figure it out soon she was going to loose her mind.
Yes, her mind that was immediately thinking about who in the world she'd go shrieking to about the fact that Henry Knight had asked her to the blossom ball, her very first date, but not a date that is technically date but is not. Perhaps more simply, a platonic date? Yes, that was't as much as of a mouth full.
Adlai Winifred Rod
25 Apr 2022, 19:33
A date but not a date but it is- er
Interacting: @Adlai Rod
Mentioning: N/A
The teen felt his mind spiral and race, how is it possible that he could feel ever worse but also better now. The teen nodded toward her words as he replied"brilliant, alright- great. Okay!" The words tumbled from his mouth. Taking a few breaths, the teen wasn't exactly sure he just did the following. Asked a girl- another person to the ball. To a dance.
His mind knowing well that he will be sending a owl to his brother about this and asking for advice but also will be asking Logan for help on choosing a outfit and advice for the dance.
Feeling himself fidget with his fingers, rhe teen nodded towsrd Adlai's words as he crossed his arms over his chest. Holding them to keep himself from fidgeting. Adlai couldn't change her mind or could she? What if she stood him up or said yes as a joke? The teen tried not to imagine those possibilities, Adlai seemed polite and kind. Someone who wouldn't do those things.... right?
"Right, yes- uh I'll see you at the ball and perhaps before or uh- bye," Henry replied with a soft smile not wsnting to embarrass himself more than he already had. A small yet awkward wave as he turned and left the hall with Loki on his heels.
Rounding the corner, out of view from the great hall. The teen leaned aginest a wall. Smiling slightly. Still not fully believing that he just asked someone to the ball.
Henry and Loki left the thread
"There's no such thing as strange creatures, only blinked people" - Newt Scamander