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INTERACTIONS | @Lucia Fox @Cassandra Ironwoods @Alina Rosier @Scarlett Aden
MENTIONS | Clifton Troublefield, Alexa Mackenzie

[font=Times New Romans]Walking past the numerous bookshelves, Lindsey couldn’t help thinking how large the shop was. At least there were so many books. Or so many great books, as she perceived. Lucia was busy greeting everybody, and Lindsey was glad that she knew everyone here. It seemed that they still had some guests. Or one guest, she didn’t know. Anyway, the other who hadn’t arrived was still on time, so it really didn’t have much matter.

Though she wasn’t staying anywhere near Lucia and Cash, instead, roaming around the shop, she still kept a ear listening for the guest’s names. Someone seemed arriving. She listened carefully, intended to jump out suddenly and surprise the newcomer. Sadly she didn’t catch the name this time, and Lindsey turned her head back to the books. She picked up one randomly, and started reading. It was quite interesting, and lovely.

It wasn’t long till Lucia called her name. Seemed that everyone’s here and upstairs now? Merrily she called back “Comin’!” and the chocolate brown eyed girl soon disappeared, jumping up stairs and caught the others.

She wasn’t surprised to find that not only Lucia and Cash were there. Alina Rosier, a Hufflepuff whom she had went on an adventure with, was presented. And there came Scarlett the Gryffindor, who was lively talking. “Hi Alina, fancy seeing you here.” she greeted with a smirk. “Haven’t seen you for a long time. How’s Clifton? And Alexa, if you had met her during the summer?” she really wanna to know how her old friends were. Clifton, Alexa and Alina gave her great help when she first started school, and she was really grateful for this.

Turning to Scarlett, Lindsey waved happily. “Scarlett!” she exclaimed, clapping her hands. “How are you? Haven’t seen you after school, too!”

Glancing around, she found Lucia’s home gorgeous. They weren’t even in the Fox’s house, objectively speaking, but Lindsey was already excited. Living above a shop! She could never think this in her three floored mansion back in Kensington. Probably never…unless you pretend the kitchen’s a food shop. “Can’t wait to meet your family, Lucia! Thought you have another sister, right? The one’s going to attend Hogwarts this year. Her name’s Briar, if I’m not mistaken?”

Oi guys so sorry for this late reply…[/font]

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SEPTEMBER 5TH
@Lucia Fox @Alina Rosier @Lindsey Springhall @Cassandra Ironwoods

Scarlett seemed to be later than the rest of the arrivals, but she didn't mind. After all, the girl was technically early, was she not? Scarlett had already informed Lucia she would be coming a bit later, but here she was, actually on time. The girl was glad as well. If she was late, she could've missed out on so much stuff - and Scarlett did not want to miss out on stuff. FOMO was a big thing in her mind.

"Actually, so did I! It was just the excitement that brought me here early," laughed Scarlett, playfully punching Lucia on the shoulder. "Hope you saved some food and I won't, you know, starve."

Lucia pointed a thumb in the direction of the upstairs floor of the shop in the answer to her question about Lucia's siblings. She looked a bit hesitant to introduce Scarlett to the cute little things, which the Gryffindor found funny. "Upstairs? I can't wait to meet them!"

She clapped her hands in enthusiasm. Energy radiated off her today - it was like Scarlett herself was emitting, er, positive vibes. Evidently, the girl was excited about this whole birthday/sleepover thing. Scarlett glanced at everyone else - goodness, she really needed to talk to them all. That could come later though, because at that moment, the spectacular host of the event, Lucia Fox, jumped off the counter and called everyone over. Scarlett adjusted her position as a pretty Hufflepuff walked over from the shelves - Lindsey. They had met once or twice, most prominently at the club the badger had set up. Holly, Woody and Adey would probably go down in history one day.

"Hello there everyone," said Scarlett jovially - rather like a pleasant man in the Victorian times - as she waved at Cash and Alina, before turning to Lindsey, who had clapped her hands as the result of some positive emotion (like Scarlett) and asked her how she was. "I'm great! Summer-camp was awesome: the literal best!"

She didn't mention her personal summer, preferring not to dwell on the negatives and opting to focus on the good things. Screaming into a pillow and smashing vases would do her good no more. Instead, Scarlett liked to remember the food and the epic Quidditch match.

Another whirl was made round to Lucia, as Scarlett nodded to Cash's agenda question. "Where do we sleep?" asked Scarlett eagerly. "Merlin, where do we eat? Are we going to play games? Meet your siblings?"

Scarlett's eyes might've resembled that of a starry-eyed, Muggle anime girl at that moment.

Interacting with @Cassandra Ironwoods, @Scarlett Aden, @Alina Rosier and @Lindsey Springhall.
Sorry for such a late reply!

Cash seemed as surprised as Lucia when Scarlett jumped out from behind them, which amused the Hufflepuff slightly. At least she wasn't alone in obliviousness.
In response to their question, Lucia started, "Lunch first. Then, basically we'll figure it out as we go along." The Hufflepuff squirmed a little, giving her friend an awkward half-smile. "I had a whole bunch of stuff we could do... But I've forgotten what most of them are."

Scarlett was her usual over-enthusiastic self, asking a thousand questions at the same time and making Lucia wonder why she was friends with an extrovert. Or maybe Scarlett's extrovert-ness was what made the ambivert which was Lucia Fox want to be friends with her."I'm never letting you talk to Willow..." Lucia muttered jokingly, although she couldn't help a smile. The bubbliness was catching, it seemed. "But yeah, we saved you some stuff, don't worry."

Alina seemed a little quiet, but that was fine - Lucia was finding it hard enough to talk herself as it was. "Hey, Alina!" she grinned, swinging her legs on the tabletop.

Lindsey quickly appeared once the blue-eyed girl called her name, and greeted Alina and Scarlett with a smile and several questions as Lucia jumped off the counter. Then, she asked Lucia about her family, and Lucia replied with, "Yeah - Briar's going next year, she's hoping for Ravenclaw, and Willow's only six so she won't for a while yet. Thank Merlin." It was hard enough keeping the girl out of trouble at home, let alone within the neverending corridors of Hogwarts.

"Scarlett... Have you overdosed on sugar or something?" Lucia joked. "You seem hyper. Very hyper." It was fine, though. At least she was happy to be here, right?
As Lucia replied to the redhead, she ticked everything off on her fingers. "We sleep in the lounge, 'cause my bedroom's not big enough... sorry... and we eat in the dining room, duh... and we're gonna play games, sure... and you're not going anywhere near my poor sisters in case you explode of extrovert-ness." Lucia snickered - the last sentence was a joke. "Yeah, you'll meet them. Unfortunately," the eldest Fox daughter finished.

"Right, ok! 'Cause everyone's here, we can just go up and get food now..." Lucia said to the group. "Rosa, you coming?"
"I'll stay down here, Miss, if it's alright with you," the elf replied from behind her stack of books, and Lucia nodded.
"Okay. But make sure to get yourself some food this time, I'll leave some out for you, she instructed. Sometimes Rosa attempted to cook for herself, but seeing as her last master had nearly executed the poor elf for her terrible cooking, it wasn't really the bast idea. No-one wanted her to die of food poisoning.

Rosa turned back to her books, snapping her fingers and watching them fly onto the correct piles. "Okay," Lucia said a little nervously, and turned to the group. "Right. Come on."
The girl turned towards the staircase she had flown down earlier, and held the door a little wider before begining to climb up. "It's a little narrow!" she called back, checking over her shoulder to make sure everyone was following. "Oh, and," she stopped and winced before turning around fully. The girl lowered her voice and told her friends, "Uh, so this is a bit awkward," she started, an embarassed blush creeping onto her pale cheeks, "But you should know... We don't live in, like, a mansion... It's not very big... So it might be a change to what you're used to." She knew that Cash lived in a large house, and that Alina and Lindsey both lived in rich areas. However, she had no idea of Scarlett's financial situation and was in no way going to ask. "Just... thought I should let you all know."

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"Relatable," joked Scarlett, in response to Lucia's statement about how she had had some fun activities but had consequently forgotten them. "I'm assuming you didn't write them down? It's a good idea to, if you want to remember things - though of course that's pretty obvious-" She chortled. "And what you just said seems to have made me want to talk to Willow even more now," continued Scarlett with a hair-flip. "Also, thanks for saving me food haha-"

She took a backseat and Lucia jumped off the counter and responded to Alina's question, ordering everything and chattering away to her. Well, what with Lucia's more ambiverted tendencies, Scarlett knew that it was probably just her answering Scarlett's questins rather than actually initiating a conversation. Scarlett didn't mind though - some people were like that and they were great friends nonetheless. Judging by personality didn't mean judging by how extroverted you were.

"Ooh that's cool!" said Scarlett, when Lucia detailed her sisters and which houses they were aiming for at Hogwarts. Scarlett herself hadn't really cared which house she would be placed in as she entered the school in September, but now, she couldn't imagine being anything but a Gryffindor. "Hope Willow gets into Gryffindor - from what I've heard, we'll get along well." An over-dramatic wink followed this.

"Pfft I'm always like this." Scarlett decided that perhaps she had talked a bit too much, and shut up slightly for the next part as Lucia explained everything and Scarlett nodded along like an O-student...which she definitely wasn't in Hogwarts.

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