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Post by scobee on Jan 13, 2007 15:10:33 GMT -5
“So the beaters are kind of like tennis players or baseball players in a way? They use a bat to hit a ball in a particular direction.” Ryan said trying to connect what he was hearing to something that he knew. This concept he had no problem grasping since he had played both muggle sports before and was really quite good at tennis. “The chasers seem more closely related to basketball players or a quarter back in football.” He continued trying to decide which one would be the most fun to learn to play. So far he was leaning towards beater or chaser. He didn’t really know what to compare a seeker to. His mind was drawing a blank at the moment for that position.
Ryan did find it odd though that no one guarded the goals in this sport and wondered if maybe Braxton hadn’t remembered that position or maybe he just thought that it was common knowledge that there would be a goalie. “Does anyone guard the goals or is it just the first one down to either side has a clear go ahead to shoot?”
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Post by spicer on Jan 14, 2007 18:20:18 GMT -5
Braxton just listened to Ryan as he started comparing the positions to sports, or what he assumed were muggle sports, and didn’t have a clue what he was talking about most of the time. Then finally there was a question he could understand, “Oh, ya I forgot. There is a keeper in quidditch and they are in charge of guarding the goals against the opposite teams chasers. I can’t believe I forgot that. I actually like to play that position from time to time.” Brax said with a smile before finishing off the last of his dinner.
“Have you been to Quality Quidditch supplies?” he said with a smile remembering what he had seeing when he went there earlier that day. “It’s a pretty cool store with lots of cool brooms and quidditch stuff in it.”
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Post by scobee on Jan 14, 2007 18:51:04 GMT -5
“Not yet.” Ryan said glancing over at his dad. He had wanted to go into that shop a couple of times when they walked past it, but his dad wanted to get the things that were on his list for school first before looking at other things. His dad just wanted to make sure that they had acquired everything before the stores closed, since they were only planning on staying just the day in Diagon Alley. But now that plans had changed they hadn’t had a chance to stop into that store just yet because they were making plans to stay the night and getting it cleared through Ryan’s mum. “I want to go there though, especially now that I know what exactly Quidditch is. I think that is would be cool to pick up some stuff there.”
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Post by spicer on Jan 14, 2007 19:24:04 GMT -5
“You should go and check it out. It’s one of the best stores here,” Braxton replied. It was one of his favorite stores in Diagon Alley, even if he would never be able to buy much out of there considering his families predicament he still liked to look at all of the cool things it had. He really liked one of the brooms on the main display, but knew that it was way out of his league of ever attaining. He would just be happy with a new lower class broom, because almost anything would be better then his parents old brooms which was his current options, but they were even out of his price range. Maybe one of these days he would be able to have one, but for now he would be ok with his parents old brooms. They were fun enough to play on, and it wasn’t like he was playing for anything at the moment anyways.
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Post by scobee on Jan 14, 2007 20:08:16 GMT -5
“I think we will check it out tomorrow.” Ryan, with a grin, said thinking that he wanted to pick up a broom of his own, even though he wouldn’t be allowed to take it to school with him come September. He had been seriously thinking about what position he would want to play and it was a toss up at the moment between Chaser and Beater. He would probably just see if his dad would buy him the supplies needed to play both positions, so he could just mess around practicing both.
Finishing off his steak Ryan took another drink of his butterbeer. Once everyone had finished with their dinners and the plates were cleared off the table Ryan’s dad asked if anyone would like some dessert to finish off the meal. He would be willing to bet that all of the kids would want some, since he hadn’t known many kids to pass up sugar, but he wasn’t sure about Braxton’s parents. “Ya.” Ryan said looking at the dessert menu and trying to decide what to get. “What are you going to get Brax?” he asked wanting to hear Brax’s opinion in case there was something really good that they served as dessert that he hadn’t heard about.
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Post by spicer on Jan 15, 2007 20:22:23 GMT -5
Dessert? They could have dessert? Braxton thought incredulously as he looked down as the menu that the waiter had given them. He hadn’t ever been able to order a dessert before so this truly was a rare occasion for him. Looking up in his mothers direction she gave him a small smile and a nod, as if to say go ahead. Because of this his shock passed rather quickly and was soon turned into happiness as he looked over the dessert menu. There were so many to choose from, some of which even he didn’t know what were. Thank goodness for the description that accompanied each one. He had no clue what he wanted, he would like to try them all if it was possible, but since he had to choose one he would probably go with something chocolate. Hearing Ryan ask him what he was going to get he said with a smile, “I’m not quite sure yet, but I think I will get something chocolate. What about you?”
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Post by scobee on Jan 17, 2007 21:28:49 GMT -5
“Chocolate sounds good.” Ryan said continuing to look over his menu, “I think I might go for something that is a custard or something.” He really couldn’t decide about what dessert he really wanted and since it was a toss up out of a couple of things he thought he might just go and get a couple of desserts and see if Brax wanted to share them, so that they could try a variety of things. “Brax, I have an idea. What if we ordered a couple of things and split them so that we can try a variety of things?” he asked. Ryan’s dad would have gladly boughten the kids any dessert they wanted, even if it meant that they both ordered everything on the menu, but decided to just let the boys figure it out between themselves.
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Post by spicer on Jan 18, 2007 0:32:12 GMT -5
“Sure,” Brax said with a smile. He wouldn’t mind trying two desserts instead of just one. He didn’t get to try them all that often so it would be a novelty for him to get to try different ones. “So which two should we get?” he asked looking back over their choices. There were so many to choose from that he didn’t know which two Ryan would want to try. He wouldn’t mind trying any of them so he would just leave it up to him to choose. After all it was his dad who was paying for everything.
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Post by scobee on Jan 18, 2007 11:44:43 GMT -5
Two? Ryan thought to himself before realizing that Braxton probably didn’t ever get to have more than one dessert at a meal if he got any. He didn’t quite know what to do at the moment. Should he just order two? Or should he go ahead and order more? He didn’t think that Brax would mind if he went with the second option, but he didn’t really want to make him feel stupid for not understanding what Ryan had meant exactly. But then again Ryan hadn’t really made it all that clear on how many desserts he was thinking about getting, so it was natural for Brax to think that they were getting just two. “Umm...I don’t know.” Ryan said reading the descriptions of the desserts.
As the waiter appeared to take their orders Ryan’s dad just decided to step in and order for the two boys. It seemed that they weren’t going to come to any real decisions soon, since both were leaving it up to the other to decide. “I think we’ll try a bit of everything.” he said with a smile in the waiters direction, “So why don’t you bring us two of everything.” After all there wasn’t that many desserts on the menu and he figured that everybody could just share them all, though he had a sneaking suspicion that the kids would be doing most of the eating.
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Post by spicer on Jan 18, 2007 12:12:12 GMT -5
Braxton continued to look over the menu, trying to decide what he wanted, when he heard the waiter approach. He wasn’t ready yet, but didn’t want to have to make him come back if everyone else was ready. So he hurriedly looked over it once more and tried to just pick one. He had narrowed it down to a couple when he heard Ryan’s dad speak.We get to try them all, he thought to himself a grin appearing on his face as they all handed the menus back to the waiter who promptly disappeared to go and get their order. He couldn’t wait to see all the different kinds. Oh yes he wanted to try everyone of them, especially all the chocolate ones.
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Post by scobee on Jan 18, 2007 18:16:05 GMT -5
Ryan stared at his dad as he ordered desserts for them. He was on the verge of protesting until he caught that his dad had ordered everything that was on the menu. Hey that was fine with him. Everything just meant that he wouldn’t have to make any kind of decision that might turn out to be the wrong choice on the menu. Then again if it was the only thing that he had ordered he wouldn’t have anything to compare it to so it couldn’t be considered that. As the waiter disappeared he looked back over at Braxton and said, “So which one are you going to try first? I think I’m going to go after the custard first and then try the chocolate cake.”
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Post by spicer on Jan 19, 2007 18:03:35 GMT -5
“I’m all about the chocolate cake,” Braxton said with a smile. It was the one that he was going to go with first so he figured that he would try the one right off the bat. It wasn’t long before he would get to taste them all, because within minutes the waiter was back with a tray full of desserts and laying them out on the table.
Smiling Braxton reached for the chocolate cake plate and put a little of it on his plate. The waiter had brought them extra plates so that they could share all of the desserts with everyone at the table. After putting the rest of the chocolate cake back onto the table he dug into his part of it. It was one of the best desserts he had had. Deciding that he would also like to try the rest of them before they disappeared. After all his brother was eyeing the pudding pretty hard. He took a little bit of all of them and put them on his plate. Once he had gotten what he wanted his mum put a little bit on a plate for his brother. There was still a ton left, but undoubtedly it would be all taken care of before the bill arrived.
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Post by scobee on Jan 21, 2007 13:45:32 GMT -5
Ryan watched as the waiter arrived with the desserts and loaded up his plate right along with Braxton. He was really looking forward to trying the custard. For some reason he had been craving it as soon as he saw the menu, so it was the first one that he reached for and put some on his plate. It reminded him on a similar version of a muggle dessert, that was one of his favorites, when he had taken his first bite of it. His dad, unlike Ryan, wasn’t that big of a fan of desserts so he didn’t really take much of anything, instead opting to order himself another drink. “Care for another one?” he asked Braxton’s parents.
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Post by spicer on Jan 21, 2007 15:20:38 GMT -5
“Sure,” Braxton’s dad said taking a plate and putting a little bit of dessert on it. “I wouldn’t mind another one.”
“None for me thanks,” his mum added as she to took some dessert. “I think this will be just fine for me.”She was content just having a couple of bites of dessert, and didn’t think that she needed another drink along with all the food that she had.
Braxton on the other hand had made quite a dent in his plate of dessert. Oh yes, he was happily eating it all. He would probably even be going back for seconds if there was any left by the time he got to it. If it was up to him he probably would eat himself sick. Oh well a minimal price to pay for such goodness.
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Post by scobee on Jan 21, 2007 15:34:43 GMT -5
“Two it is.” Ryan’s dad said with a smile in the direction of the waiter who had been waiting for the drink orders. With that, the waiter left and returned in a matter of moments with the two drinks and set them in from of the two men. He would hold off on the check for awhile longer, at least until they were done with dessert.
Ryan had almost devoured his plate of dessert and was thinking about getting more. He just had to figure out what kind of the desserts he wanted more of, because if he took seconds of everything he knew that he wouldn’t be able to finish them. Coming to a decision he placed a bit more of the chocolate cake onto his plate and a bit more of the custard. They had been his favorite so he just went with them.
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