Sliding!

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic rubbed his temples. "I hope so. I really don't want to hear Reina or Charlie's voice. I know if I fail them they're both gonna be upset. The others I don't care, but those two are the prefects. They can get me in trouble." Nic turned towards Ari. "Do you think they'll get me in trouble?"

[arianna]

"Or make your life hell," Arianna replied. She was teasing. A little. Charlie wasn't so bad as the other girl, but Reina...she could really get on your nerves and then some. "But all you can do is your best, and if they don't like it, learn a few good hexes."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic laughed, but it seemed that Ari was serious. "Seriously! I can handle myself if we were in the muggle world, but this magick conjuring stuff is new. I know about magick, but I never intentionally tried to do it. Man, this place is -" Nic thought for a moment. "weird."

[arianna]

"You get used to it," Arianna claimed with a small nod. "Before you know it, you'll be wondering how the heck you even got around without magic. Just don't get to dependent on it. You might find it's disappeared suddenly."

[Nicolae Torque]

"You're magick can disappear if you use it too much? Are you serious?" Nic looked at his hands as though he could tell if he was still magickal or not. "Did you ever lose your magick? How'd you get it back?"

[arianna]

"Oh, no. I don't think you can overuse your magic," Arianna replied, shaking her head. She tried to keep from laughing at the boy's misunderstanding. "But, yes, we have lost our magic before. It was something to do with a necklace or something that prevented anyone from doing magic inside the school. We had to do everything the normal Muggle way, which was hard for some."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic sighed with relief. "Ohh, I thought, well you know what I thought. I could do things the muggle way. That's easy. What's hard is doing things the wizarding way. But if you keep helping me I'm sure it'll be easy enough." Nic had asked her in certain words if she would help him with this wizarding thing.

[arianna]

"Depends on what you mean by 'helping,'" Arianna replied, making it obvious that she would certainly not be doing his homework for him nor let him cheat in any other way. She could help him study, of course, and answer some of the questions he might have, but that would be the extent of it.

[Nicolae Torque]

"Naw, man I don't cheat. I see what you thinkin a brother gotta be tryin to get outta of doin work. Naw I ain't like that. I actually want to learn this crap you call school. What I meant is can you teach me about the girls? Like what they look like under their clothes?" Nic paused for a moment then laughed loudly. "Naw, I'm kidding, but you deserved it. Naw I mean you have any notes or anything that would help me learn this stuff better. I just need an edge."

[arianna]

"You want picture books for that?" Arianna asked. Teasing back was the only way she could keep herself from getting too embarassed. Nic really was different. She doubted she'd be able to talk to any other guy about such things. "Unfortunately, we don't have Health class around here, so those might be a little hard to come by."

"Notes, though...I don't have many of those," the girl admitted. Arianna rarely took notes. Potions, Transfiguration, and HOM were about the only classes she ever took notes religiously in. She seemed to soak up everything else like a sponge and rarely had to take notes for her other classes. "Allegra would be a better bet for notes."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic howled with laughter at her retort. She was something else. He knew he would have embarassed her or shocked her, but nope she was cool as a cucumber. Whatever that old phrase meant. "Naw it's cool with a capital K. Though those notes would have been useful. Allegra... Allegra ... Allegra ... oh snaps Drew's sister. Aiight I'll ask her then. But hey you wanna slide with me? Or something else, I don't wanna talk about school anymoer. Man, what do yall do here for fun?" Nic found himself asking that question more and more.

[arianna]

"Sure, sliding sounds fun," Arianna replied with a short nod. She pushed herself up off the floor and dusted her bottom off. "Unless you've got some cards or a broom, there's not much around here we could do that I'm actually good at. Unless you want to paint."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic slowly turned his head looking at Ari. "Wait, you play cards? Do you know how to play poker?" Nic loved that game. Well he actually like Spades, Tunk, Pitty pat, but with a girl strip poker all the way. "I do have cards if you know how to play."

[arianna]

"A little," Arianna replied with a small shrug. She definately didn't want him to know that most of the card games she knew involved fishing or staying away from the Old Maid. War and California Speed were the only decent ones she knew well enough that she could rattle off the rules without much thought. "I've only played a few times, though."

[Nicolae Torque]

Nic laughed. "Okay so we'll play strip poker." Nic looked around the empty hall. He tried to state the game fast so she wouldn't catch it. "Hold on I usually keep cards in my pockets and these robes pockets are so huge," Nic kept fishing around in his pockets, " that's it hard not to try and store everything .. A - ha! Cards." Nic took out a pair of regular muggle cards. "I'll deal. Dueces are wild." Nic fished through the stack taking out the jokers and other non useful cards.