Fallen Ice Cream for the Rowdy PV Victoria Lena Jones Fin

Tori was going to get ice cream with her new pet mouse, Vick. A very good way to end the day, she thought. She had 5 galleons in her pocket, which she gave to her mother. She came to the place his mother described. She enters the ice cream shop.

It wasn't that crowded inside and it was cold like normal ice cream parlors. When she realized that the mouse on her shoulder was not disturbed by this, she got in line a little more comfortably. When it was her turn, she was looking at the menu without even knowing what to get.

Before she could say anything, she heard a high-pitched scream. 'I think a girl is in trouble.' she thought. She quickly walked out of the ice cream shop. She relaxes slightly when she sees a girl's ice cream falling to the ground a little further away. She saw people passing by looking at him. She went to the girl. She smiled and started talking.

"Hey no problem. If you want, I can buy you a new ice cream. Don't worry."

She gently grasped the girl's arm with his other arm. She was warm and friendly when talking.

august 26th, 2023
saturday, afternoon
wc: 350
@Victoria Lena Jones

She wasn't inconsolable, but for a moment she felt like there was reason to be. Scout's favorite ice cream, that she had spent almost a galleon on, was sitting on the pavement, melting away. What an absolute waste! And of her precious money... what she had left wouldn't be enough to buy another cone, and her father- though he'd probably give her more- she'd feel pretty horrible to bother him when what happened was her fault.

Then, like an angel, a young girl appeared! She had fiery red hair, though her hair was much lighter than Scout's- oh wow, did that mean she had that color naturally? Scout was totally jealous, how cool it would be to have that color without having to dye it? And it would be so cool to not have to worry about your mother getting upset because you 'ruined your hair'! (Even if her mother did come around eventually, Scout gets upset thinking about how long she was grounded for.)

"Huh?" It takes her a second or three to compute what the girl had said to her. This red-haired angel was offering to buy her another ice cream cone! But a part of Scout felt bad about the girl having to spend her own money for something like that... what to do, what to do? Sitting here in silence though was kind of awkward.

"Oh, wowie! Thank you for the offer!" She dug around in her pocket and handed the red-haired girl the four sickles she had left. "Here, this is what I have left. I'd feel bad making you foot the bill by yourself!" Scout's smile is lopsided, and she tilts her head a bit. Oh, she should probably stand up, shouldn't she? If she's to go get another cone, she can't do it sitting on the ground!

The red-haired girl is shorter than Scout, she realizes. Is she going to Hogwarts, too? It's not a bad idea to make as many friends as possible before the year starts, maybe she should actually start conversation! "Hey, are you going to Hogwarts, too?"

Tori gets an idea. In this way, choosing ice cream may be a little easier. Vick on her shoulder made an approving noise, as if understanding her thoughts.

“We agreed, but you will help me choose ice cream, so we will both be equal in kindness to each other."

Tori couldn't help but be surprised when the girl stood up. The girl looked Chinese. She had slanted eyes that resembled them. It matched so well with her hair.

“Yes. I wonder how it will happen? Have you heard anything about this? I guess it will be your first year too."

She might have been shorter than the girl, but she didn't look that big on her.

“By the way, I didn't ask your name. What is your name? I'm just realizing we haven't met yet"

She asked as they walked to the ice cream parlor. Meanwhile, she carefully picked up the mouse on her shoulder. When they entered the store, she put it on his shoulder again.

“So, which ice cream did you buy?"

She asked curiously. She took out two galleons from her pocket. Even though she wasn't that familiar with currencies, she knew that Galleons were worth more.

august 26th, 2023
saturday, afternoon
wc: 320
@Victoria Lena Jones

"Oh, yeah, so much." Scout waves her hand as they walk back to the parlor. "Both of my parents went to Hogwarts. My dad's from Shanghai, but he moved to England like a year before he got his acceptance letter." Though she omitted why her father had moved to England, she had figured it was for the best. She had spent the better half of her schoolyears being teased and relentlessly bullied for looking like a 'vampire', so she decided to just keep it a secret for the future.

"He says that I'm going to be a Gryffindor, which, from what I've heard, sounds very much so like me. It's like a house for brave and reckless people. What about you- oh, or do you not know much about Hogwarts?" The way that the other girl had phrased her question made Scout believe that she probably didn't know much about the school. Ooh, maybe she was a muggle-born! Just like Scout's dad, what a coincidence!

The ice cream parlor was just as cold as Scout had recalled maybe five or ten minutes prior. Her fingers seemed to shiver just at the air, but she was excited. She could rectify her fallen sweet treat, and she had even made a new friend! Well... friend might've been a strong word, considering Scout hadn't even introduced herself to the girl she was waiting in line with.

"Oh, right! My name is Scout!" Scout Yi Fu-Hai, but she didn't want feel the need to explain to the girl of her full name. In China, her family would constantly explain the meaning of her name, and how pretty and courageous of a last name it was. "I got the strawberry cone, by the way. It's my favorite flavor- but if you're not a soft serve person, I really like the popsicle's here, too!" Popsicle's were majorly secondary to her strawberry delight.

"Wow, are you a half blood? Me too. It's like a half-blood sisterhood."

She said this in a cheerful and slightly excited way. This thought made her very happy because she had never had a brother or sister before.

"Gryffindor? Wait a minute, what does house have to do with this? How is this going to happen? So..."

While listing the questions in her mind one by one, she paused for a moment. That's why her hair turned gray. But she changed it immediately.In fact, she had a lot of questions in his mind and didn't know how to put them all in order. Because her father was a muggle, her mother didn't explain anything to her and didn't talk much about Hogwarts until she found out he was a Metamorphmagus.

"I'm glad, Scout. My name is Victoria. This little furry thing on my shoulder is Vick. I bought it today. Did you know that your name means 'observer'"

Vick on her shoulder made a sweet little sound. Tori guessed that meant she loved Scout.

She tried to understand what Scout was saying for a while, then she realized that she couldn't understand and started talking.

"I'd better buy the same ice cream as you"

She started watching the ice cream being made with curiosity.

OOC Note: Tori didn't realize you were Dhampir, she said so because she thought you were half Shanghainese, half British.

august 26th, 2023		saturday, afternoon
wc: 320		dhampir | sensitive to sunlight
interacting with: @Victoria Lena Jones		mentioning: nobody

"Yeah! My dad's a muggle-born and my 妈妈mum is a pure-blood." Scout waved her hand. "But from what they've told me, once we get off the train and go to Hogwarts, apparently we go to this huge dining hall and then they put this hat on our head and it tells us what our house will be."

Saying it out loud, Scout realized how weird the sorting ceremony sounded. But there was an air of excitement regarding it, still. Even if Hogwarts was weird, figuring out where you'd be for the next seven years of your life, as well as who your housemates are and who you'd be going to class with- well, what could be more exciting than that?

"I like your ferret. Vick is a nice name." Wasn't Vick usually a nickname for Victoria? How cute! Aw... now Scout wanted her dad to get her a pet. But he was already probably thinking of how to tell Scout that she wasn't allowed to have a pet. Maybe if she did well at school, she could get a cat or an owl the following year, instead! Or maybe she could get a cool ferret like Victoria. That'd be fun! "Oh, yeah. Scout was the name my 妈妈 liked. Since my middle and last name are Mandarin, she was like 'I want her name to be English like from my family', but I don't know how she settled on Scout. Do you know what Victoria means? It's a pretty name."

Scout likes her name, she thinks her mom did a pretty good job. Sometimes her aunties have trouble actually saying it, so they mostly call her "Yi", since it is her middle name. The only problem is... Yi is such a common word that Scout's never entirely sure when someone's referring to her, or if they're just saying it in a sentence. She really needs to work on her Mandarin...

Tori was listening to Scout, fascinated. She couldn't think of such a moment. She was so impatient to live. She didn't know that much about the wizarding world in her entire life. But she never regretted it.

When Vick said this, he started hissing on her shoulder. She had just received it but he probably understood it and didn't like it when Scout called him 'ferret'. She calmly held it from her shoulder so that it wouldn't go away.

"Uhm he's a mouse. Not ferret. And I guess he didn't like you saying that."

When she thought Vick had calmed down, she slowly removed her hand from her shoulder. When Scout speaks Tori thought for a few seconds. She had done research on names at the time. In this way, she had information about some names.

"Victoria means 'Victory' in Latin and also comes from Victoria, the Goddess of victory in Roman Mythology. It's a very interesting story, isn't it?"

When the ice creams arrived, Tori couldn't believe her eyes. It looked magnificent. They took the ice creams and went to an empty table. She placed Vick on the table and began eating the ice cream.

"It looks very nice. Does something magical happen when you eat ice cream like this?"

She was so fascinated that she ate very fast. She suddenly felt his brain freeze due to the cold. When she looked at her hair, she saw that it had turned ice blue. She looked at Scout with a smile.

"Do you think this color suits me? I wasn't making my hair too ice blue."

august 26th, 2023		saturday, afternoon
wc: 300		dhampir | sensitive to sunlight
interacting with: @Victoria Lena Jones		mentioning: nobody

Wait... Vick wasn't a ferret? It had suddenly occurred to Scout that she had never actually seen a ferret in person... or a mouse... From the definition she had been given in books, Vick looked just like what she imagined one to be. "Oh... really?" She asked, looking a bit closer. Er... she didn't have much experience with rodents. "Actually... I've never seen a ferret before but... I guess I just thought that that's what they look like. Huh." If she were a character with statistics, she'd only imagine that she'd have three or four wisdom or smarts. Maybe even less, given this interaction. "Sorry, Vick. There's not a lot going on in my head."

Unlike the first time she got her ice-cream, Scout treated this cone with the utmost respect, not daring to even think about dropping it. The sweet taste of strawberry ice-cream made Scout excited. Here she was, eating her favorite treat in the whole world, with someone who she would be classmates with in just a week! This was so exciting!

When her thoughts stopped trailing off, she looked over at Victoria to see her newfound friend had bright blue hair. Wait... didn't she just have red hair a few minutes ago? Maybe Scout was misremembering, but then Victoria brought it up and she suddenly wondered if her friend was more magical than she was!

"Woah! Your hair is so blue!" Scout kind of wished that her hair could be pink to match her own ice-cream, but she'd still prefer the red of her current hair. "That's so cool, how'd you do it? It looks good- but I thought we weren't allowed to cast magic outside of Hogwarts?"

Tori looked at her mouse on her shoulder. He seemed to have calmed down a bit. 'I guess Vick's temper is wearing off fast,' she thought.

“I think he forgave you. I mean, I just bought it, but I feel like it.So, I wonder how you compared Vick to a weasel?”

She couldn't keep his mouth shut again and asked the question on his mind. There was only curiosity when he said it. She spoke directly what was on his mind, as she had done since she was a child.

“I am a metamorphosis. So I can change the color of my hair as I want."

She explained it very easily. She didn't plan on hiding it. She changed her hair to the red color it was before. Her mother just didn't want her to use this feature when she was doing something naughty.

“So do you have a pet? Or will you buy it? Which animal would you buy?"

Meanwhile, he walked towards Vick's Scout's hand on the table. Tori couldn't help but smile when she saw this. It was his show of love. This made her smile.

“You can love it if you want. This is a show of love. Don't worry, mice bite only when they are under threat or something like that, but nothing like that will happen. Otherwise he wouldn't come."