Mystique silence Open Closed

Verla was now too nervous, another girl had entered and she felt her stomach twist. This was a terrible place to be alone, but it's better than the hallway she said to herself. She saw her reach into her bag and move her hand as if she were petting something. It was none of her business to ask what she was doing. Verla felt like screaming, but she bit her tongue and took Oliver out, when she was nervous, he was nervous, and they both did what they could silently to try and calm each other down. So Verla hugged him, and she began to feel better as her twinge of annoyance disappear. 

Verla took in deep breaths and decided to redo her homework, in case she were missing somethings. She hummed in one of the lullabies her mother sang to her as a girl. Then she quietly began singing it out loud, in it's language too, which was different from any of the others. It wasn't common at Hogwarts not to hear a different language, but this one was one from a long time ago. Verla wished her friends were with her, but she could take this opportunity to make new ones.

Lilith heard Verla start singing and recognized some of the words. she didn't know what language it was in but she sang along with verla on the parts she could understand and knew that she was worth trusting. grabbing a few ribbons Lilith started to do her hair like verla's hair . she grabbed Grif from her bag and snuck up behind verla . "hiiiiiii! lol I'm Lilith " she laughed as the girls in front of her turned to look at her and Grif who was still munching on parchment. she sat Grif down on the table and let him move around. " might wanna move any books and parchment , he loves to eat anything of that sort. honestly I don't know anything he won't eat other than mint." she pulled up a chair and sat down watching Grif sniff everyone's hands to see who they were. he finally took a nap on the table after getting to know everyone including Oliver. it had taken Grif a few minutes to realize that Oliver was not the same as the books and parchment that he liked to eat. after realizing this Grif rubbed against the bowtruckles leg in apology and left him alone. Lilith smiled at the girls not sure what they were thinking.

She seemed a bit surprised by the girl and her pet. Though he seemed to be getting well with Oliver. Oliver loved teasing him in a playful way. Verla wrote her name on a piece of paper and showed it to Lilith. Then blushed away since they knew she could talk. Verla hid her books and such away from her pet Grif. Just as she had said. Verla giggled and offered him a cookie, she watched him sniff it, then take a small bit off, then almost eat her entire hand. 

Grif was cute, and looked like a cute companion. When Oliver stood in front of him he said his first actual word "hewwo" he smiled.

"Good job Ollie!" Verla exclaimed. "Oh, I'm so proud of you my little boy." And she was. Oliver danced around as he was rewarded a cookie. He loved being center of attention. But now Verla wanted to teach him more words. So she picked him up and gave him another little book to begin studying. He seemed to love this. She was glad to be his little tutor. It made her feel like she was more than just a student. It made her feel smart.

Reading the note she smiled and introduced herself "Hi Verla I'm so glad to meet you , my full name is Lilith Mary de Rose , I moved to England from Ireland. Quite frankly I love the song you were singing it's beautiful ! Also I love how you treat Oliver like your own child , you two are so wonderful ." She smiled giving grif and oliver a few pieces of candy and some water to drink. " also I don't know if anyone else would be interested but I really think we should start a club of some sort , it would be fun!" Lilith went of on a whole rant about life and clubs becoming totally zoned out for a while until grif tried to eat the book she was holding. she giggled and gave him more food . "oh gosh I've been talking for a while , does anyone else wanna talk bout something?" she waited for a reply while she tickled grif and oliver who protested rolling around on the table swatting at her hand . eventually oliver shouted for her to stop so she backed off and smiled "you two are very ticklish and its way too cute" she took out her wand and turned grif bright pink.

Verla giggled as Lilith played with Ollie and Grif. This girl was definitely one filled with energy. Ollie was adorable, and she though making a club would be fun, so she nodded when Lilith asked. Ollie retreated away from her since he was slightly annoyed. 

Verla began to study Grif, then poof! He was bright pink. His face began to blush with anger, as if to say I'm pink! They were cute together and looked like they'd made an alliance. She remembered Lilith saying she was glad Verla treated Olive like her own child. In some ways, it could be true. Not really but she acted like his mother. And he was her mischief troublemaker. When he became bored, he snuck out and tied Lilith's shoe laces together. And Verla yelled at him, he apologized with his pride hurt, and stomped off into Verla's pouch. "Sorry about him" she said and fixed Lilith's shoes.

He was in deep trouble once they got back to the dorm. She began to yawn but covered her mouth so she didn't seem rude. What should we call our club? Verla asked. She began to think, but she failed at her attempts to guess even a name.

"well what kind of club do you think it should be ? I'm ok with just about anything honestly , though maybe something with animals ? I'm a big animal lover they are all just so awesome even the naturally violent ones can be tamed to some degree " Lilith blushed remembering the time she met a baby dragon whose mother had died. she knew that it was weird to love such violent creatures but she still had a few secrets , and secret pets, hidden in plain site . she played with her hair before taking it down and hiding behind it as it fell around her face. if anyone found out ALL of her secrets then she would have to leave. she didn't want to leave but if she did she would miss oliver , verla , and grif who she would have to leave behind with verla. her hair started changing from blue and pink to a pitch black color, she could change her appearance at any given moment because she was a metamorphmagus but this time she didn't realize that she was doing it , she was stuck in her own mind and in her own secret memories. at this rate everyone would know everything .

Amadea had tuned out the girls, not on purpose, but because her eyes had locked on a very interesting portion of her History of Magic textbook and she was intrigued. Once she realized she had read the entire chapter, she looked up and saw Verla and Lilith playing with some sort of creatures. She listened to them as they laughed together and chatted easily. She wanted to say something, but at the same time didn't want to interrupt the two girls who clearly were in the middle of a conversation. Amadea longed for some type of friendship like the one that Lilith and Verla were clearly forming at the table a few feet away from her. Amadea often felt as though she was observing from the outside, so close she could almost taste it, but not close enough to actually be involved. She wished she could make friends with the ease that the other girls did, but she just didn't fit in with them. All of these thoughts brought tears to her eyes, and she quickly repelled them by squeezing her eyes shut. She couldn't do this whole self deprecation thing. She needed to be strong and to start taking the initiative to actually make friends. There was a break in conversation as Lilith mentioned something about a club and Amadea found her opening.

"What about a club?" she asked. "I love clubs. I'm sorry if I'm interrupting."

From behind her now pitch black hair Lilith muttered " ya a club , I was thinking maybe a club having to do with magical and non-magical creatures? taking care of them and studying them. that sorta club." she was still lost in her own mind feeling like she was slowly going insane. she started crying quietly at first but eventually was sobbing . "I'm sorry girls but does anyone have a tissue?" her words were barely even words and she was having trouble breathing. Her glasses fell off her face and shattered on the floor as she continued crying. she was making things worse for her self but she couldn't help it anymore. a harsh squall came from the depths of her school bag but it did not move more than an inch before settling down. the squalling eventually got louder though and Lilith knew that she was totally busted this time because this pet was much more dangerous than Grif who was only two inches tall. Lilith's crying got so bad that before she knew it even Grif was crying . Lilith picked up her bag and hugged it as her crying came to an end and she was reduced to hiccups . the noises abruptly stopped and her bag was as still as a stone.

Amadea sat still in shock, unsure of what to do. She shouldn't have butted into the conversation. Obviously it was not her place to be intruding, and now the girl was sobbing. She didn't know what to do. What a Hufflepuff she was. This whole making friends thing was a lot harder than she expected, especially when her potential friends burst into tears. The club the girls wanted to form sounded interesting though. She waited quietly as the girl's tears subsided into hiccups. She quickly pulled out a tissue.

"Here," she said, handing it over. "Um. Are you alright?" She cringed inwardly. Even the girl's pet was crying. Amadea had no idea what to do. She wished she could do more to help than offering a tissue but Amadea was not well versed in the whole comforting people area. She decided to let the girl have a moment alone and turned back to her book, picking up where she had left off in her History of Magic textbook. After finishing the chapter that was very interesting and filled with information Amadea wanted to take notes on later, she looked back up at the girl who looked a little bit more calm now. "That sounds like an interesting club," she said hesitantly. "I would love to join...if you want me to."

smiling and wiping away her tears Lilith nodded "thanks , I would love it if you would join. Obviously I have a few creatures to start off the club with , I mean m-my bag can't just move around and squawk on its own , I guess I'm kinda busted . Please don't freak out when you meet my other animal , she isn't really a pet more like my own child if I'm being honest." She opened the seemingly almost empty bag and felt around till she found an invisible lump. Picking it up she took off a small invisibility cloak that was loosely wrapped around the creature. a small black dragon came tumbling out on the table and looked around slightly dazed. "this is Iris nd this is about as big as she will ever get" Iris looked at Lilith and made a small sound of concern over her red teary face. After the small dragon was sure Lilith was ok it wandered around and sat on everyone's laps for a while. Lilith sat still in her seat wanting to scream at how fast she was letting go of all of her secrets and internally wondered after seeing her hair why no one was freaking out but her.