movie night! open Closed

Interacting with @Duna Nixis

Piérre could almost see the surprise in Duna’s eyes as she glanced back and forth across the room looking for the person who had just yelled at her. Finally her eyes flicked to him and they widened. Surely by now, Duna knew of Piérre’s silliness. It should have come as no surprise to her at this point.

She entered the room, her shoulders bobbing up and down with her version of laughter. Piérre smiled. He was glad that Duna decided to come. He knew how difficult it was to socialize. He was grateful that he was able to teach another kid to avoid his mistakes.

Duna quickly crossed the room, picking her way past the people already sitting down. She waved at each of them as she passed, and soon, she stood over Piérre.

She made a movement, putting her hand to her mouth before pointing it towards him. Piérre recognized it as ASL Thank you, one of the few words Duna had been able to teach him so far.

”No problem.” Piérre said, waving a hand nonchalantly. ”Why don’t you sit down? Stay a while and meet some people!” He patted the ground next to him to invite Duna to sit beside him.

Duna pulled the pencil from behind her ear, scribbling something in her notebook before flipping it around to show Piérre.

’What are we watching?’

”’Hocus Pocus’” Piérre responded automatically. ”Never seen it before, so I’m excited to watch it today. It’s almost like when I had movie night with my old adoptive muggle parents! We loved watching Halloween movies, like ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’, ‘Dark Shadows’, ‘The Corpse Bride’... My personal fave was ‘Coraline’. Have you seen it?” Piérre asked Duna, grabbing a pillow, putting it in his lap, and then putting his chin in his hands as he looked up at Duna curiously.

Interacting w/ @Gem Stuart

Brielle giggled at the reply of her little joke. She turned her head slightly when he did, curious as to who he had been looking at. Lark? James? Had he wanted to talk with her. He had earlier seemed to long to interact, but came to Brielle anyway. She then frowned, a guilty feeling left inside of her. She hadn't forced him to sit with her.. had it seemed that way? Had she been to desperate and pushy?

Brielle followed his sad eyes, meeting them for a short moment. As she begun to open her mouth, he had asked her a question. It seemed like a question just to break silence though. Either way, she forced back her frown and appeared with a more cheerful one. Maybe too cheerful, like she was obviously faking it. "Heh, yeah I guess it is a bit weird. With Sarah and all practically falling head over heels for all the guys in the movie."

Then there was the question about the ties. She figured she wouldn't tell him, telling by the fact he didn't look that enthused about a prank. Though lying wouldn't be all that great either. So instead, she just shrugged and looked at him blankly. "Ah, I have no idea. Probably for a prank, yeah.

She then smiled and motioned towards Lark and James, signalling he should go talk with them if he really would like to. It made her sad that he would leave her, but she figured she would go sit with Piérre and learn about him a bit more. After all, they both we're trouble makers.

Gem always seemed to have a flare for noticing facial expressions, and Brielle's grin was very clearly fake. Maybe she'd noticed he was looking at his friends, thought that his silence was one that dripped with longing and sadness-- it wasn't, just... saudade, maybe? He looked concerned, now, with the way he furrowed his eyebrows at the gesture towards his friends.

"Naw, they're busy. I wanna stay here, you're quite good company." He nudged her lightly, "you all right? You've gotten a bit short. Yer replies, I mean." He felt himself smiling, more so sympathetic-- he didn't like to give anyone the impression he liked to play therapist, but that was often the category he fell into. Though, he did want to hear her speak about it, he was curious about the way she thought. Her boundaries, what she thought was funny, what music she listened to-- it mattered, he already considered her a friend at this point.

"Besides, we've got some time ta talk about Pierre's prank. I've always liked to watch people who... make them up, so to speak. I'm... not vereh good at executin' them, but I can tell you sorta have a knack for em'." He wiggled his eyebrows, knocking his head against her shoulder like a needy puppy. "Should we ask 'im? He's doin' somefin' right now, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind us stickin' our noses in a bit." He was hoping she'd sort of come out of the shell she'd crawled into, he liked her company, the very last thing he wanted was for her to shut down because she had the idea that he didn't like her all of a sudden. Girls scared him. They really did.

@Elzabeth Gillan, @James McMurtrie, @Duna Nixis, @Charlotte Cadunt, @Carson Miller, @Dan Palmer, @Euphrasia Millie, & @Sylvie Maple

A few more people trickled in, the well of new students obviously drying up. Maggie recognized three of the four new faces, James McMurtie, Elzabeth Gillian, and Charlotte Cadunt were are familiar to her. One girl, who Maggie didn’t recognize, walked in, and she thought she heard Piérre call her Duna. Deciding that, as host, she should probably go introduce herself, she strolled over to the group of younger students by Lark.

“Hey guys!” she waved, smiling happily at them. “Glad you could make it— especially so we can talk in more, well, friendly setting.” she winked, referencing the time the three had first met. “The movie’s starting— y’all should find seats.”

With that, Maggie gave a small wave, walking over towards her group of closer friends. She quickly greeted Charlotte, assuring that she’d find a seat near her when she gathered a group to sit down.

“Guys,” Maggie greeted, tapping Dan on the shoulder. Out of the group now assembled, she was probably closest with Dan, Sylvie, Carson, Charlotte, and Millie, and she wanted to sit with them. She obviously wouldn’t be opposed to sitting with anyone else, and they were more than welcome.

“Let’s sit— the movie’s starting.” She nodded towards the screen, walking over to a clear patch of blankets and plopping down. Patting the pillows next to her, she gestured for her friends to sit.

There were so many people, Marian loved it! She poured a glass of carbonated pumpkin juice and grabbed lots more Doritos. Everything at the snack table looked amazing! She chose a seat next to Maggie, who had come off to Marian as a very nice girl. She sat cross legged and took a sip of the new drink. How had she not had this before? It was so delicious!
Around Marian were many people, a girl wearing a huge sweatshirt, and what looked like her boyfriend, both sitting on the other side of Maggie. Another girl was writing in a notebook. Everything was just so cozy and warm. Marian loved the atmosphere and smiled to herself as she took another sip of the incredible fizzy juice. Then she remembered something.
"Oh, um thanks for the compliment. About my sweatshirt."
A voice from a girl Marian recognised asked about the movie and how it worked. Eager to learn, Marian nodded. Marian had seen a couple movies, not enough to understand how they worked, but enough to get the general idea.
"Yeah, how does it work? I've seen a couple movies, but I still don't understand how it does it."
Marian picked up a Dorito and crunched it between her teeth.

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Lol maggie, "She looked like Eleven" That made my day.

late reply sorry dudes,
@Maggie Parker @Carson Miller @Charlotte Cadunt

oliver cleared his throat and reared his head around the corner, his eyes flitting around the room.
his eyes met the familiar figure of maggie, and his smile was almost instantaneous, he quickly said a little hello to the people in the room, smiling towards the little faces that were beginning to get cozy, and slumped down next to maggie, his legs crossing together as he held out a little box for her.
"hey mags," he said, placing the box between them, "uh, i saw it in london a few weeks ago, thought it would suit you." he flashed another little smile and carefully revealed a little silver bracelet band, it glimmered a little as it emerged out the box, and oliver gently wrapped it round maggie's wrist.
he could feel his cheeks blushing a little as he swiftly pecked the side of maggies cheek, and scraped his fingernails over the back of his neck.
real smooth, oliver. he scolded himself. he did try not to act like a dork, but this was oliver.
he quickly turned his attention to the snacks, smiling timidly as he reached for a handful of crisps, eyes greeting carson.
"hey carson," he smiled. "you doing okay?"
a cheeky knowing grin spread across his face as he looked toward charlotte. he figured it was a similar situation between carson and charlotte, as it was between himself and maggie.

Reducio

Interacting with any and everyone

There were many reasons one could be late to an event like this, or anything really. Galton didn't have trouble finding any of those reasons, they seemed to stick to him like a half-finished lollipop. No doubt the boy actually had one of those stuck to a robe pocket somewhere. But, this particular night's lateness was due to a particularly bad sweet tooth.

A package had come earlier filled with sweets from his parents, as they do often enough. Though thi time instead of a array of candy the package was exclusively filled with blue raspberry lollies, Galton's favorite from his parent's shop. As any self-respecting young lad would, Galton decided to finish as many as he could in as short a period as possible. The result 2 hours later was a serious stomach ache. Many a more hours were spent in bed, cursing the delicious sugar treat's existence.

Eight bells from the clock tower reminded Galton to collect himself for the important event that this party was. Fear replaced the lingering stomach ache as he threw a casual button-up on. Maggie was always extremely nice, pretty much the first friend he made, and he was happy to have remembered such an event. He lifted a few of the evil lollies from his parent's package and made for the classroom.

When he arrived he was out of breath, holding himself on the door frame to suck in some much needed air before entering. He saw quite a few people inside, some faces he had seen around, some not, but the real prize was the food. What was a stomach ache to a seemingly endless snack table? He took another breath and headed inside. A few steps in and he looked around once again to find the hostess.

"Hi Maggie!" Galton yelled towards the young lass. His social awareness was rather low at times, and with so much food nearby it was only logical that now was one of those times. He smiled to a few faces in front of him while pondering what to do, mingle or eat?

Her smile formed into a more relieved one when he had replied he still wanted to sit with her. Not that she was clingy or anything, she just liked having company. Okay, I take it back Brielle is kinda clingy. Though she laughed at herself when he commented on her faltering replies. "I'm fine.. I just thought you preferred them over me, that's all. She said with a reassuring grin. It shocked her, though. A guy she just met was actually concerned, and tried to make her feel better? She couldn't find the sense in that, but she appreciated it none of the less.

She kind of twitched when he knocked into her, though she giggled when he implied asking Pierre about his prank. Her eyes darted to where he was sitting. He was with Duna. Brielle had never spoken to her, but that may be because she doesn't speak. Someone told Brielle she was a mute, that was all she knew. Brielle then nodded, agreeing he wouldn't mind all that much. As she stood up, she folded and placed her blanket neatly in the floor and ran to sit with Pierre, bringing Gem along with her, of course.

"Hey, we have a new member of the ties plan." She whispered, a smirk worn across her face.