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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 0:26:11 GMT -5
Shrugging, she looked down at her feet. It was kind of what she was getting at, at least, she didn't want him to hold her. And that's what he did, he held the girl, at least in her eyes, and it was a constant thing. If it were only once in a great while, she probably wouldn't have minded so much, but he was constantly doing it, almost every time the girl joined them, he was trying to get close to her somehow, and Felicity didn't like that, at all.
Really, she didn't know how to answer his question, because of the way it was. She didn't understand why he had to hug the Ravengirl in front of her, all the time. Again, it wasn't as though Felicity went around putting her arms around her guy friends directly in front of Drew, she didn't greet them with a hug hardly ever. Normally, it was with a smile and words, not physical contact.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 0:54:50 GMT -5
Drew didn't care for her response, recognizing her shrug as an affirmative answer but an unwillingness to take responsibility for making the demand. It was almost as if she knew it was slightly unreasonable. Drew would have shrugged in the same way if she had asked about returning the locket to Lucas.
But that's what he didn't get. Why was the necklace just a gift between friends but a hug suddenly meant he didn't like her anymore?
"It doesn't mean anything," Drew told her, neither agreeing to or rejecting her shrugged request at this time. "It's just a hug. I don't... I don't get what the big deal is..."
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 1:09:31 GMT -5
Shrugging once more, she again wasn't sure how to answer him. It was a big deal, it was a big deal to her. Felicity was jealous of her friend, but only when Drew was somehow involved, and he was involved by opening his arms to her, by pulling her into him.
"Yes it does," she mumbled, not taking her eyes from her feet. "It means a lot to me. I...I don't much like it," she continued. "Celina's my best friend, Drew, and I know you're kind of friends with her..." kind of friends, but only because half the time Celina didn't seem to be able to stand him for something he'd done. "But I don't like it when you're always trying to put your arms around her, especially right in front of me. And it isn't her trying to do that to you, it's you doing it to her."
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 1:23:47 GMT -5
They were "sort of" friends but that was only because Celina was a Ravengirl and therefore most suceptable to Drew's stupidity for some reason. Even when he was trying to help them, things always ended up wrong. Why did he even bother?
He was still confused and wasn't getting anything cleared up so he thought he better just ask. "So you don't want me hugging Celina... or anyone? Or just people you're friends with? And right in front of you? It's okay if I do it behind your back?" Okay, that last bit really didn't make any sense to him.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 1:53:26 GMT -5
At first, Felicity shook her head. No, she didn't want him holding Celina, but then she stopped. Why was he asking about anyone else, she hadn't really thought much about that. On top of it, she didn't like how he'd ended it. It sounded so much more worse than she was thinking of it all.
Was there even a way to explain it? She'd already explained it to him, as best as she thought she could. She didn't want him holding Celina, period, end of story. Looking at him, she felt the tears begin to fall again, was it really that incomprehensible? All she wanted was for him to stop pulling Celina into him, to stop holding onto her.
And the behind her back thing? That just made it worse. What he said made her think of even worse things than she had been thinking, and she really didn't like that at all.
"No, Drew. I don't want you to always be or trying to hold Celina all the time. That is what bothers me," she stressed. "That's what I don't like. You are always holding your arms out to her, pulling her into you, and I don't like it. And you're always, always doing it in front of me. I don't want you going behind my back, but I don't want to see you doing that either."
Hugging a friend was different than holding a friend, extremely different. "I don't care if you hug your friends, but don't hold them. Don't get that look in your eye that's expecting something just because they give a hug to someone else."
He got that look a few times when she hugged Celina, and then he would hold his arms out to the girl, as though he was expecting something, too.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 2:04:09 GMT -5
It was moving past confusing and right into being down right distressing. How many more ways could he try to get her to explain it to him? Very little of it made sense to him and he just didn't understand what she was thinking. Okay, so a hug was different from a hold, but how was he doing anything like trying to hold Celina?
"Okay," he finally answered, biting on his lip. He figured the only way to solve the problem was to just not touch anyone ever again. And it wasn't even that bit that was distressing him. It was the fact that the only bit of the conversation he did get was that she didn't trust him.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 2:23:18 GMT -5
Felicity wasn't entirely sure he understood, and his one word answer didn't do anything for her either, nor did the biting of his lip, or the look on his face. No, she really didn't think he understood, but she didn't know how else to explain it to him.
Hugging was completely different from holding, she didn't care if he hugged someone, but she didn't want him to hold onto them. She didn't want him to hug someone all the time in front of her, it didn't make her feel to good to have to see him always holding his arms out to someone, especially to her best friend.
And what he was thinking wasn't true either, she did trust him, albeit it may not have seemed that way, but she did. She just didn't like feeling how she did when he pulled another girl into him.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 2:38:03 GMT -5
A number of thoughts ran through his head during the silence and what finally came out of his mouth after the brief pause surprised even him.
"I mean... no. No, it's not okay," he said, frowning but not looking at her. "It doesn't mean anything. I don't get why you think it does. It's just a hug. I'm not trying to do anything and I don't get why you think I am."
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 2:49:58 GMT -5
In the lull of silence, she didn't know what to say, still not believing that he fully understood. But when he broke it, she didn't think he'd sound the way he did.
"I don't think you are trying to do anything," she stressed. She didn't think he was really trying to get anything out of it, she just, plain and simple, didn't like it. "And I don't care if you hug someone, hugging is a good thing. I don't like it when you hold her, that is different from hugging Celina. And I don't like that you're always holding your arms out to her, I don't like how I feel when you do that."
Felicity was becoming a bit frustrated, how many times did she have to tell him she didn't like him holding her? "How would you feel if every time we ran into one of your best guy mates, I held my arms open to him? Expecting to get a hug?"
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 2:55:33 GMT -5
Maybe he had a huggier background, but he had been in that situation and it hadn't bothered him in the least. If she wanted a hug from Hiro everytime she saw him, Drew probably wouldn't think anything of it.
But that wasn't the point. Drew didn't even remember doing what she was talking about, seeing as it had been a tease forgotten soon after it had happened, so it was with even more confusion that he asked "When did I do that?" He hadn't to his recollection because if he had the expectaion would be that Celina would not give him a hug.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 3:12:16 GMT -5
Believing his question was about his holding Celina, Felicity frowned. She had just watched him do it, right there in the Great Hall, only a while ago. "You just did," she insisted. "At the table, I watched you pull her into your arms."
Having been quite distracted by the scene, she had barely focused on the fact that one of the faceless people had gotten so close to her friend, and really she wouldn't have thought that he would dare to hurt her right then anyway. Would there be a point in hurting someone so soon? Felicity didn't think so.
And had Felicity thought his question was aimed at when he'd held his arms out to the girl, well, he'd done it right in her own home.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 3:33:24 GMT -5
That's what this was all about? Was she serious? She was upset because he was trying to protect a friend? What was he supposed to do? Let the creep harass Celina like that? Let some faceless guy whisper lewdly in his housemate's ear?
If she was really going to get upset over something like that, then the whole discussion was going no where fast. He had come over becuse he had been worried about her. His worry had led to confusion, confusion had led to distress, distress to frustration and now was fast approaching anger. He needed to leave before he said something he regreted... unfortunately he had promised Corey he'd stick around until the Gryffindor got back.
"I can't have this conversation now..." he grumbled, turning his face away from her.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 3:47:45 GMT -5
His words stung, the tone, and how he'd turned away from her, and she didn't understand. He was the one who'd asked, he was the one who had wanted to know, and she told him. Suddenly, after all of everything that was just said, he couldn't have the conversation? Did that mean...? No, Felicity wasn't going to believe that.
Lowering her eyes, she again, felt the tears begin to fall. She had done something, even if he wasn't willing to admit that she had, she must have done something, why else would he react that way when she made mention of what he'd done? He'd acted as though he hadn't understood right up until she made a direct point out of something, and now he wasn't even willing to talk.
Tightening her grip on her knees, she didn't know what else to say. She had tried to explain, and from her point of view, as she'd really only paid attention to the fact of what she'd seen, that was what he'd done.
But she had to know. What had she done to make him act like that? Was it because she answered him, was able to point out an exact example?
"Drew...I don't understand what I did to you," she said softly through her light sniffling. What had she done to him that he couldn't tell her? "But I'm sorry..."
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 1, 2007 4:07:44 GMT -5
His head was in his hands and he gripped at his hair as if hanging on to some last bit of rational thought. They were both upset, topping off an already stressful situation with a stupid fight over something as innocent as trying to protect a friend. It was a stupid stupid fight in his opinion.
"Where's the necklace Lucas gave you, Felicity?" he asked quietly. It was all the same thing to him except for the fact that he was sure the hugs meant the same thing to Celina as they did to him.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 1, 2007 4:20:04 GMT -5
For a moment, she was taken aback by the question. He didn't like it, so why was he inquiring? But dutifully, she pulled the locket out from beneath her shirt, where she'd taken to wearing it so he wouldn't hopefully get quite as upset about it being on her.
"Right here," she mumbled, not slipping it from her neck, but holding it out enough for him to see if he so chose to look. Felicity didn't understand why he was asking, but she wasn't about to lie to him and say it wasn't on her, especially when she figured he very well knew she wore it. It had Sammy's picture in it after all, and she loved it mostly for that fact. But it wasn't the only thing she carried on her person. The quartz-cut squirrel and the walnut bear carving were in the pockets of her robes, Drew had given her those, she loved them much more than the locket.
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