Rustling Leaves PV with Alex Cheong Closed

The boy wrapped his scarf around his neck tighter. Man, it was so cold. He wasn't used to this cold of temperature. The boy had pitch black hair and dark brown eyes, lined with long eyelashes. His skin almost blended in with the snow. He was wearing a white beanie and a thick winter coat over his Ravenclaw uniform. He just came out here to get his feelings and thoughts together.

This week had been so confusing. He felt like crying and laughing at the same time. Everything was so....weird, and he felt numb. He's met so many people and Min-seo had helped him come out of his shell while she was still in hers. he chuckled slightly. Min was a good friend. He shivered. He should head back soon. Miko even said he shouldn't stay out too much or he'll turn into a popsicle since he was so small. Alex smiled a little. He looked ahead and saw a girl with blond hair sitting on a blanket. He also saw a black creature with her. She looked like she couldn't see it. Then it came to him. It was a thestral. He smiled. Lucky her, she hadn't seen death. He walked over. "Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not there." he said and pet the creature as it nuzzled him. "I'm guessing you haven't seen death. You're lucky."

Alex smiled down at her. "Correct. It is a thestral. Only can be seen by people that have seen death." he said. The boy was quite elegant, heck, even his posture. He chuckled as she touched the thestral's leg and yelped. He offered a hand to her to help her up to pet the creature, although she couldn't see it. She seemed quite nice, only a little shorter than him, the Asian boy being short himself. He kept petting the creature and it nuzzled him while he chuckled. He looked back at the blonde girl with a sad smile. "It's alright, no need to apologize. It's happened, there's nothing that could've helped, sadly." he said. Nothing. She already knew she was going to die. She wanted to leave. The pain was so severe for her. He tried not to think about it. He turned back to the girl again. She asked what they were like. He looked away. "My mother......was an extraordinary woman. She was the one who taught me the things I know. Dance, piano, singing, all of it. I...I was the last one to see her alive." he said quietly.

Alex tensed up as the girl gave him a hug. What? He barely knew her. But, luckily she hugged him instead of someone else, because the boy liked hugs, and wasn't bothered by them. He hugged her back lightly. She let go, looking him in the eyes. She looked calm, but he could see beyond that. She looked a bit panicked. You could see it in her eyes. He smiled at her lightly. "Don't worry, I don't mind. And thank you for the hug, hugs are always lovely." he said with a small smile. He turned away, still a sad person behind his small smiles. He just seemed to get into the worst situations. First, his mother died when he was six. Then his aunt on his father's side died when he was 9. When he was seven, his father decided it was the best option to send them to London, where their uncle on their mother's side lived. His family was extremely rich, but extremely broken. He shook out of his thoughts. This was not the time to be sad. He was here now, with a bunch of friends, and possibly a new one also. He smiled as the girl felt the thestral, guiding her hands sometimes. She asked what his name was. "Alex Cheong at your service. And you are?"

"Pleasure to meet you Sylvie. I think I'll just call you that, I think that's a perfect name for you." he said with a smile. The Asian boy had already seen most creatures, but the ones that he definitely hadn't seen were basilisks and dementors. He probably couldn't ever see a basilisk because he thought the last one was killed in the Chamber of Secrets by the infamous Harry Potter, but who knows, there were probably some still out there. He wouldn't want to see one either. They would kill you, and they had sharp teeth. Also, Alex was kind of afraid of snakes. The poisonous ones, at least. Dementors were definitely not something that Alex wanted to see. Who would want their soul sucked out of them by a creepy, evil, hooded black skeleton thing with no eyes? When near them, they take your best memories and make it so you don't feel cheerful in their presence. Yeah, no thank you, he's good to keep his soul. He turned back to Sylvie. She said that she was a Slytherin. "Oh? Nice, I'm a Ravenclaw. And yeah, the coat is covering up everything." he said with a small chuckle.

Alex laughed a little. "Thank you, and that's literally me and my thinking like, every day. You seem like a Slytherin, although I can't pinpoint the reason." he said with a smile, his eyes shaped like crescent moons. He was glad that he met someone like Sylvie. She seemed quite ditzy at first just looking at her and her actions for some reason, but after a while, she just changed personalities, and it made way more sense. Alex was shocked out of his thoughts as he saw Sylvie get hit by the thestral's wing. DO NOT TOUCH THEIR WINGS IF YOU CAN NOT SEE THEM. That's what he always kept in his mind to tell people if they were with him and a thestral. Shoot. He ran to her. "Sylvie! Are you okay!?" he asked. She got out of the snow, shivering. Alex internally smacked his head. She giggled and said it seemed like it didn't like being touched there. "Yeah, no shit Sherlock," he thought in his head. He sighed and went to help her for she kept on falling back into the snow. "Yeah, sorry I should've warned you about that. You seemed to be sort of poking them, so I'd see why they didn't like that." he held a hand out for Sylvie.