An Accidental Brewing PV Annette Hazelriggs Closed

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"Ehhh?....Already??-..."

Her squeal of surprise was clearly heard, that girl called Annette widened her pair of eyes, they were considered to be glaring the other girl in front of her.

The back of her neck, which had been fine before, started to shed a cold sweat, and the tip of her shoes were always fiddling with each other. Annette's reaction shows the same exact thing every time she is in one of the places that students are unlikely to be unfamiliar with, The Dungeons.
The area being muddy and cold might be a reason for her figure to be so anxious, but it's not really something to back up with. What she had been afraid of all this time was nothing other than the lesson in making potions in general.

And yet today, the memory where the cauldron of hers exploded right into her face when Annette was trying to brew a potion on her own in her dorm started playing, over and over inside her mind.
Just thinking about that aside and now needed to work up with the other student in this class made her gulp. She glanced away from the girl she just knew..

Oh God, I'm begging you..
..Nothing unpleasant happens to me today...

While she was silently praying, one of her hand which was wiping the not-too-large cauldron in front of her accompanied by a rag with the intention of cleaning off all the dusts that are sticking there finally paused. Annette grunted as she then put it right ontop of the stove's burner. After that, she patted herself on the pink floral-patterned apron she wore, using it like a tissue.

"H-here you go..."

The other students who were also taking part in the lesson were aware of Annette's strange choices on choosing to remember bringing that instead of the school's robe. As time passed, their eyes kept glancing over her. Some faint giggles they would throw. However, she tried her best to ignore it.

Annette faced back to Kaitlyn, and her voice was heard again.
"...I guess we're ready...Now.."

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Time: Reducio Late Morning, Monday, January 22, 2024	Interacting with : Reducio @Annette Hazelriggs
Outfit: Reducio Impeccable Slytherin uniform Hairstyle: link Self-made tulip earrings: link	Notes: Reducio Speech: #3CB371 Thoughts: italics

Kaitlyn smiled brightly to Annette. She noticed that the Ravenclaw was shy, like her, but even shyer, if that was remotely possible. As such, she felt more comfortable around Annette than some of their peers. It was almost as if seeing another shy student made her feel less like an enigma, less of a weirdo. Plus, she found Annette absolutely adorable. She had to wonder what went through the girl’s mind.

“Great!” Katie smiled warmly to Annette, before turning to look at her textbook. “Um, it says the first ingredient here is to crush 6 snake fangs with a mortar and pestle,” she said. She took six snake fangs for herself and handed six snake fangs to Annette. She added hers to her mortar, and began to crush them with her pestle. After a few moments of doing so, she stopped and looked over at Annette, flushing. “Ah, sorry. I should probably ask, did you need any help with it? I honestly don’t mind crushing both of ours,” she offered with an apologetic smile.

Katie was unaware of Annette’s abilities and didn’t want to assume that the Ravenclaw knew what to do. They were both first years, after all. So, they both had a learning curve as it was. She didn’t want to frustrate Annette. Plus, they were partners for a reason. To Katie, that meant that they either succeeded together or failed together. In her opinion, there was no in between. If either of them succeeded without the other, that meant failure to her. And she was absolutely scared of failure.

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From the moment Kaitlyn once started until she almost finished pounding the ingredients she had in her table, she had been staring at her own where she had her opened textbook laying there while still holding the snake's fangs.
It was possible that Annette was reading the same potion recipe on her page, Why shouldn't she?... But yet it's rather more of memorizing it by how narrowed her eyes were. She looks very focused on doing so, as identical as a person who prefers not to be bothered at the moment. Though she immediately dump her attention right away after hearing her partner beside her offered a geniune-like help.

She-...She's done??..That was quick..

Like a reflex of her body, she gave her a smile in reluctant. And then she quickly shook off her head for the reply.
"Ah! I'm okay, really, I can do it by my own!..There's no need to worry....Oooh they look smooth already.....You-..can continue making your potion on the next step, Miss Kaitlyn!.."

She tried to assure. It may be unnecessary to call a girl around her age miss, but it is best for her to act professional during this whole lesson..

Without being thinking too much, she started to act up on something that she secretly still doesn't fully know how to do so ( It was her fault for not watching Kaitlyn earlier...) Namely starting the same method about the fate of the snake's teeth she recently poured in her mortar.

"6 fangs of snakes right here....and then crush them until they become powder...." Her movements were distinctly stiff, she was actually too hasty in crushing them. Annette thought to herself that would result in her getting the work faster and it just resulted in the opposite.

One of the fangs that managed to survive the impact of her pestle's strike jumped from the bowl, and was thrown to the floor. It wasn't long before the girl's panicked yelp was heard.

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Time: Reducio Late Morning, Monday, January 22, 2024	Interacting with : Reducio @Annette Hazelriggs
Outfit: Reducio Impeccable Slytherin uniform Hairstyle: link Self-made tulip earrings: link	Notes: Reducio Speech: #3CB371 Thoughts: italics

Kaitlyn flushed bright red, as she noticed that Annette was not working as fast as she was. That was one of the reasons why she wasn’t a big fan of group work. Here at Hogwarts, she kept an open mind because she needed to make friends. And working with another person required that sense of trust that easily blossomed into friendship. So, she had jumped at that opportunity here, despite not knowing much about Annette.

At Katie’s previous muggle all-girls Catholic boarding school, St. Ann, she had a consistent friend group that all took higher-level courses together. They were almost always allowed to work together, a great attribute to how small those classes were. She was used to her friends all being on the same page, working coherently, and efficiently. She failed to remember that no one at Hogwarts knew anything about how Kaitlyn worked, a fact she just realized she should have thought about before.

“Sorry,” Katie said again. She smiled brightly to Annette. “I don’t mind waiting, crush the snake fangs at your pace. We’re partners for this, and I want both of us to do well. I won’t jump ahead,” she promised, the honesty glowing in her blue eyes. As she waited for Annette, Katie separated out four measures of the crushed snake fangs that she had completed but hadn’t added to the cauldron yet.

Kaitlyn tucked a stray strand of her brunette hair behind her ear and jumped when she heard Annette’s yelp. Immediately turning to her partner, she noticed the Ravenclaw was not hurt. Rather, one of the snake fangs was on the ground. Wearing a friendly smile, Katie stood up and picked up the snake fang and handed it back to Annette. “I like your enthusiasm, by the way,” she said with a bright smile. She continued to wait for Annette, not showing a hint of displeasure. She wanted them both to do well.

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"I'm sorry..!!"

Annette hurriedly stepped forward and almost bent down her body with the intention of retrieving her snake fang which had been left on the floor.
However, seeing that Kaitlyn was already doing it, even much faster than her, she paused during moving, she thought about what she planned to do for a second time. When her mind finally clicks, she straightened her posture like it was before without looking at what was next to her.

The occurrence happened so rapidly, Annette almost can't keep up reacting until the right side of her waist hit the hard edge of the table.

As you might be expected from her, she couldn't stop making a noise after that—It really does hurt...!—Annette accelerated her whine and was more concerned with lifting the single material from the girl's palm while being fully cautious about it. No matter that her waist is now throbbing, she didn't want Kaitlyn waiting just for her!
"Ouch-Thank you!....I accidentally dropped it off-...huagh.."

She gulped down those whines instead this time..She's very sure that she was noticed by few of the students there over what just happened, but still she tries to confront her mind that all that was around her was only herself, her deskmate, and the unfinished potion.
So, with a now more humorless face expression she finally started to ground her last fang. Hissing a little when she can still the pain down there but still somewhat acting nothing's wrong and such. Not referring about it openly at all.

Forget it..Just forget it!...don't even think about it, Annette....Did she sees that? I hope not!!!...I'm embarrassed...huhuhu..

She was dead inside a little..

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Time: Reducio Late Morning, Monday, January 22, 2024	Interacting with : Reducio @Annette Hazelriggs
Outfit: Reducio Impeccable Slytherin uniform Hairstyle: link Self-made tulip earrings: link	Notes: Reducio Speech: #3CB371 Thoughts: italics

After she had handed Annette the dropped snake fang, Kaitlyn tilted her head to the side. It appeared that Annette hit the side of her waist against the table. She heard the Ravenclaw’s yelp of pain. It didn’t sound pleasant, and likely hurt. She wasn’t the type to openly criticize someone, and she was trying to make a good impression on Annette. While she was making friends at Hogwarts, she didn’t want to say something stupid and cause a potential friendship to be ruined. And she quite enjoyed being in Annette’s company. Hopefully the Ravenclaw girl agreed with her.

Silently. Kaitlyn moved closer to Annette. Not so much as to invade her personal space, but closer than she was before. She lowered her voice to a whisper, hopeing to not embarrass Annette. “Hey, is everything alright? I promise I won’t judge you. I do want to sure that you’re okay,” she whispered, concern in her voice. “If you’d like, you can take a break with the brewing? The next step is to change the temperature and let it brew for a little over half an hour. I can watch both of ours for a bit, so you can rest?” She offered with a smile, still whispering.

Katie wanted Annette to know that she cared about what happened and that she cared about how Annette brewed her potion. It made her realize that she’d likely have to change her working style to match whoever was her partner. Despite this hiccup, she did enjoy working with Annette. She just hoped that they could finish both of their brews in their allotted time. Naturally, she was concerned about her own grade, but she also felt partially responsible for Annette’s grade. Would she be deducted points if her potion was right and Annette’s was not? Or vice-versa? She didn’t know how this type of thing was graded at Hogwarts. Then, there was the emotional side of it. She’d hate to see Annette get hurt while they were brewing together.

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The hands of Annette's which were busy pounding started to slow down.

Rest?...
She was in total silent for a moment after hearing her decisions about that. Annette had no problem with the idea, in fact she would gladly accept it, honestly. That sounds a really good idea to do especially when she's under pressure as she is right now.
But there was some gut feelings that stopped her from replying frankly. A tingle sense of guilt washes up in her chest if she said yes. It's so unpleasant, but it will be far outweighed by her doubts if she can keep handling her potion smoothly until the very end part.
The performance is already quite poor enough despite being only a few minutes have passed...

"....Please do...but I beg of you that if you want to borrow a hand during so, you can call up my name..
..—I want to help Miss Kaitlyn too..."

Her face depressed afterwards as she stated the sentences in a faint whisper, wanting to interpret clearly that Annette doesn't want Kaitlyn to work alone, and have no absolute fond with the picture. She geniunely wanted to open her lips and say much more at length—at least thanking her—but she was too scared.

She sympathizes the girl for being paired up with her, out of all the students, and she felt so bad about it.
Like a bad taste she can't easily swallow.

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Time: Reducio Late Morning, Monday, January 22, 2024	Interacting with : Reducio @Annette Hazelriggs
Outfit: Reducio Impeccable Slytherin uniform Hairstyle: link Self-made tulip earrings: link	Notes: Reducio Speech: #3CB371 Thoughts: italics

For the second time during this brewing, Kaitlyn’s cheeks flushed dark red again. Merlin, she needed to watch what she said to Annette. Annette was such a sweet girl, and she was trying her best to help. But she kept putting her foot in her mouth. That was not a good thing. “Sorry,” she apologized for what felt like the millionth time. She sighed lightly at her clear inability to say something so simple with her social anxiety. She just hoped that Annette would forgive her.

“I saw you hit the table before. I was only trying to help,” Katie said, her voice quiet. “I don’t mean to say that you can’t help. I like working with you, and I think you’re a big help,” she said, smiling to Annette. “I only meant for you to sit for a little bit until the pain goes away in your waist,” she continued. She shook her head again and sighed. “I’m sorry,” she repeated again.

Katie looked up at Annette in her eyes. “I want to continue to work with you, Annette,” she said clearly, giving the Ravenclaw girl a bright smile. “Please forgive me. My social anxiety doesn’t let me think straight,” she sighed. She glanced back down at her open textbook, then at Annette again. “When you’re finished with the snake fangs, we would add four measures of it to the cauldron, then adjust the temperature up to 250 for ten seconds,” she recited, turning back to Annette. “Please take your time, I can wait,” she continued, giving Annette an encouraging smile.

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"Hahaha...I'm alright-..No need to worry about me, it was just a small bump anyway.....Aaah- I didn't mean for you to think that way-...No, that's not it. You didn't do anything wrong at all, so there's no need for you apologize to me, I swear..!!.."

The troubled girl initially gave a stiff smile. Hope it doesn't look so forced, she hoped, and after that it was replaced with a pair of her widened open eyes as she waved her palms around, to the right and left in a bit of stagger. So quick that Annette had a drastically different expression due to Kaityln's words which hit right to the spot.

"Please believe me on this, you really are a good student right now...Even better than the others- I mean! Me!- Ah- No!..You're a smart girl-..Ergh-..."

..She gasped for breath...

".....My request doesn't mean that I t-think that you don't have the concern to complete this task by yourself...I just mean t-to present myself as your companion if you want someone else's help while brewing, just that...Because....I still haven't done anything important yet ehehehe..However, you don't need to force me to drag me in! I won't mind it! It's a promise!.."
Her sentiments, in order to comfort her reflexive spoke up more generous, explaining each of her intentions by stumbling all over her sentences. It's convoluted and perhaps impossible to define if the person listening doesn't focus on the bit of it halfway through.
Annette herself was aware of this. It was too late for her to regret so, and it was impossible to repeat what she just stated for one more time. She just prayed that the girl from Slytherin could somehow understand every words she spouted. Then her head turned to another direction, away, with her cheeks now bruised and full of a shade of red, hunched in ashame.

"I also apologize for triggering your anxiety..I won't take too long to grind up the fangs.."

She ended, still visible to see Annette sneakily giving a glance before she returned to holding her pestle and began to continue what she had paused. "Miss Kaitlyn, let's light up the stove. I'll measure the amount of mine!.."

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