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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 10, 2007 22:37:27 GMT -5
"I didn't ever collect the cards for myself," she told him, trying to sit up a bit higher to see what else was available. "I used to just toss them, I preferred the candy to the prize. But I give 'em to Freddy now, he likes them, thinks they're interesting."
Felicity's brown eyes caught sight of some chocolate clusters, and she couldn't quite see the price of them, but she knew immediately that was what she wanted. Letting her legs drop, she let go of the Ravenclaw entirely, getting her feet on firm ground.
Grabbing at his hand, she pulled him towards the front, and decided the price was fair. Digging a few coins out of her pocket, she paid the man for a good amount, at the same time pointing toward a chocolate frog, gesturing that she wanted one of them as well, for Drew, of course.
Taking the candy, she handed the frog over to Drew and smiled at him, hoping he didn't mind if she paid for it, but really it was her turn to buy. "Here," she smiled. "And you can have some of these too, if you want."
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 10, 2007 22:59:23 GMT -5
"You can't do that!" Drew cried out even as she was paying for the candy and he hurried to grab his own wallet, but by the time he had the money out she was handing him the frog. He wasn't mad, but he was a little distressed, wondering if he really came across as the kind of guy who asked a girl out but then expected to go Dutch treat.
"I do the asking, I do the paying," he told her seriously. "When you ask me out and pick me up at my house and have my mother interrogating you, then you get to pay." It was rule number 4. He thought everyone knew that.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 11, 2007 3:24:27 GMT -5
Raising an eyebrow at him, she tried not to smile. No, not everyone knew that rule. And as for him telling her she couldn't do something, well, she just had. And one little bit of candy wasn't really much of anything, he'd paid quite a bit in her eyes for the bears, she'd paid a sickle a knut for the candy, it wasn't nearly close to being even.
"It's just a bit of candy," she told him, hoping he wasn't mad. Tugging at him to move along with her so they weren't blocking others from the stand, she stopped before they reached the next, and pulled him back into one of the smaller alleys Diagon offered between buildings.
"Drew," she started, lookng up at him. "I didn't mean to offend you, but it really is just candy. It isn't really anything," she told him, holding the bears out towards him. "I didn't pay nearly as much for this as you did for these. And I don't think it's fair if you pay for everything, if I have a little bit of money," she told him. "It's just a snack, and I don't think it's going to be any time soon I can go over to California, knock on your door and let your mum try and scare me. I don't exactly have the kind of money it would take to be able to do something like that."
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 11, 2007 3:42:47 GMT -5
She held the bears out to him and his biggest fear at that moment was she was trying to make him take them back. That would have been worse than a knife to the heart at this point. He refused to even look at the wooden figures, keeping his eyes locked on her brown ones.
"If I do the asking, I want to do the paying. It makes me feel like a lout, asking you out and then having you pay," he told her. What good was it having money if you couldn't spend it on people you cared about? "What if I want to spoil you a little? Can't I do that? Isn't that my job?"
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 11, 2007 3:54:33 GMT -5
No, she didn't want him to take the bears back, she liked them, a lot, even if they'd cost a bit of money. She was just using them as an example, and having them in her hand made it an even better one, because they provided a visual aid.
"It didn't cost a lot," she defended. "And it's just candy, it isn't dinner, it isn't a gift, it's just a bit of candy," she tried to explain. Really, she wasn't sure he needed to pay for everything. Yes, he asked her out, but he didn't have to pay for everything, especially when she had some money. "And you shouldn't feel like that. I want to pay for this. I didn't ask you, so you weren't refusing. I wanted to buy something for you, and like I told you, it's candy."
"And you spoil me enough as it is," she smiled at him. "You just carried me around, again. And you bought the bears," she continued. "I don't know about it being your job. I mean, isn't it more your job to get into the auror training, so you can be one?" she asked. "And to be a good person? I don't think it's your job to spoil me."
Felicity wasn't telling him he couldn't, but she just didn't see how he thought it was his job to do so.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 11, 2007 22:52:13 GMT -5
"Okay..." Drew answered, but it was an agreement he gave grudgingly. He still thought the rule should be whoever does the asking does the paying. He already felt bad about asking her out for New Years and she, in essence would be treating since it sounded like they'd be hanging out at her house all night.
He bit his lip at the second part, still not sure how to explain it right. "But what if I want that to be my job... to spoil you?" he asked.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 12, 2007 0:52:33 GMT -5
At least he was all right with it, for now. Really, it was just candy, and while she'd given him some for his gift, that was different, that was special candy. And it seemed fair enough, especially when she doubted she'd ever be able to pick him up and be interrogated by his mum in order to take him out on a date.
Raising an eyebrow at him, she wasn't sure what he meant. His tone was a little different, but not too much so. "I don't know if wanting to spoil me is a good thing though," she replied with. "Like I told you, you spoil me quite a bit as is. Whether you want to or not, you spoil me," she teased him.
Feeling like things were better, with her free hand, as one was holding onto the bears and the bag of chocolates, she tugged at his coat to move closer to her. A small kiss on his lips, and she let her hand slide to his and laced their fingers.
The alley they were in was nice, but the snow was much prettier out in the little sunlight that was available, and she preferred to see it. "Come on," she told him, pulling on him. He was of age and could preform magic, maybe she could convince him to make an angel with her.
Passing by a few more vendors, she found a nice flat surface of snow that was close enough to a store front and far from the walking area, she turned to him and pulled him closer. "Will you make a snow angel with me, right here?" she asked, pointing to the spot.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 12, 2007 12:41:29 GMT -5
He didn't think she understood what he meant by spoiling her, but maybe that was okay. He wasn't sure he understood it either. She gave him a quick kiss and pulled him along the street, signaling that the seriousness was over and they could go back to having fun. He was okay with that too.
"A snow angel? Here?" he asked, a little surprised. He had planned to do the whole snow angel thing with her back at school and hadn't really thought about doing that stuff before hand.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 12, 2007 15:24:25 GMT -5
"Where else, silly?" she asked, grinning at him. School just seemed too far away in time, and there was a nice spot right in front of them. "The snow's really pretty right here...and if we got too cold and wet, well, I suppose I wouldn't be opposed to letting you use a charm or something to dry us off." Felicity's words were nervously strung along, not keen on letting a wand being pointed at her still, but it was Drew, she trusted him.
"It would be fun. And it's not like I really care if anyone laughs about it. I mean, if you don't want to, then we don't have to," she added. But, the blonde hoped Drew would want to. It was a really pretty spot, and there were a few lights over them, or there would be a few lights lit in a while, and the snow was not trampled, so it really would be a perfect spot.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 12, 2007 15:30:48 GMT -5
Drew looked back at her nervously, not over making snow angels... he had no problem doing that even in the middle of Diagon Alley. It was the idea of performing a drying charm. It was only this year that he finally realized he needed to figure one out, but he hadn't had much of an opportunity to practice it, and had definitely never tried it on anything alive before.
"So let me see you do it then," he told her with a crooked grin. He was no where near being a snow angel expert and tended to mess them up when he got up.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 12, 2007 15:54:20 GMT -5
Felicity had seen Drew preform one before, one reason she wasn't extremely nervous about letting him perform one on her. The day out at the lake, he'd offered to do her, too (perform the charm on her), but she'd refused, instead taking up the offered towel.
The tall Ravenclaw didn't exactly refuse, but he didn't say he'd make one with her, which was what she'd been hoping for. A little bit of disappointment hit her eyes, but she wasn't going to say anything, it wasn't the end of the world if he didn't want to make one with her. Besides, it meant he could probably hold the bears, the candy, and her cloak, and that way they wouldn't be sitting in the snow getting wet.
"All right," she told him, smiling a little as she held the things in her hand out to him. The bears could probably have gone in her pocket, but with her luck, they'd fall out. Slipping her cloak, gloves, and hat off, she felt the golden locket making its way out from underneath her sweater, but she didn't think anything of it. It had been a nice gesture from Lucas, and it held a picture of Sammy in it, Felicity loved it.
"Will you hold these, too?" she asked, holding her bundle out. If she was going to make a snow angel, she was going to do it right. Carefully picking her way to a big spot, she turned to face Drew, and fell right back into the fluffiness.
It was so soft, she giggled as she hit, and began waving her arms and legs around, creating the angel wings and gown. Sitting up, she could feel the snow settled in her hair, and the rosiness of her cheeks from the adrenaline of excitement. Now the problem was climbing up out of the angel spot.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 12, 2007 16:10:05 GMT -5
Ah, that's right. He had done a Drying charm at the lake... and fumbled over offering to do Felicity as well. It had still only been a few months knowing the spell though and Drew wasn't feeling as confident as he had that particular day.
He was starting to wonder how much she was going to give him to hold, but he took everything with a smile as he watched her make her angel. She really did look as if she could sit atop a Christmas tree with the snow in her hair and her face all flushed. He shifted the bundle to one arm and offered her a hand up, knowing this was the hardest part of the process.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 12, 2007 16:17:43 GMT -5
Seeing his hand, she instead shook her head at him, partially to tell him no, and partially to get some of the snow out of her hair, and partially to see if anyone was really paying attention to them, no one was. Instead, she tried out a coy smile, feeling it probably faltered in so many ways, and patted a bit of snow next to the angel she'd just made.
Really, she didn't mind if her stuff got wet, and if he sat everything on top of the cloak, then it wouldn't get wet anyway. Biting her lip lightly, she hoped he would sit down with her, just for a moment, but she really didn't think he would. He didn't want to make an angel with her, maybe he just didn't want to get in the snow, so she prepared herself to propel out of the blanket of white.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Aug 12, 2007 16:30:56 GMT -5
Drew smiled back, knowing the signal to join her. He put her things carefully on the ground, not wanting to get them too messed up, but figuring the cloak would protect them well. Looking over his shoulder, he backed up to a spot close enough to her, but not so close that he'd wreck her angel and fell backwards into the snow, wincing a little as he braced himself for the fall. His arms were longer than he had figured and when he flapped them in the snow to make angel wings, he messed up some of what she had done, so when he finally sat up and looked at what he had done, he smiled at her apologetically.
"We'll have to work on the distances more," he told her, knowing it was probably going to take some trial and error to get it right.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Aug 12, 2007 16:42:16 GMT -5
Grinning, she clapped her hands when he fell back into the snow. He was going to make one with her, which excited her a bit. And even if he had messed up one of her wings a little, she didn't mind. "I think it's all right," she said softly. "If they had hands, it'd almost be as if they were holding hands."
Of course, Drew's angel was bigger than hers, due to his size, but it was a nice one all the same.
"And I don't really think distance is too much of a problem," she grinned at him, teasingly. Really, it kind of was, because he was sitting a bit away from her. Sliding out of her angel, she sat in the snow facing it, comapring the two. They didn't look much different, other than his size to hers.
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