just acting tough[

[.magnarock.]

[saturday afternoony, two weeks after BIUAB or whatever it was. But thats about where we are anyway so we're even]
[soz for all powerplays]

Elsie, Tobi and Donna flicked lazily through the latest glossies, absorbing the fashion facts more carefully than they did even with schoolwork. The occasional gasp escaped their lips as they saw monstrous neglect or abuse of fashion, as featured this week!
Leo was feigning interest in the divas and dorks of the wizzarding world, if only to avoid having to speak to May who was being rather clingy of late. He pondered for a moment; he had told her he would meet her up in the library for a little study session, but... all the girls in the library were either buck-teethed and frizzy haired, fat as barrels, or both. The popular girls stayed in the common room, the ones that took care of their appearances almost as meticulously as if they were on a live tv show every second of their lives. It was just so much easier on the eyes. He did feel a little regret for standing her up; but she wouldn't mind, knowing her she'd probably be hard at work on their project already, glad of the fact she was getting good marks for charms as well as doing him a favour. He would ask her to the halloween ball perhaps if she seemed to moody when she got back. That would be more than enough to place her back around his little finger.

Kik was milling around the common room, poking general fun at Charlsies, not really paying any interest in anything except potential homeworks she could copy from Cenizo who was hard at work in his comfy chair.

Sei was still in the dormitories, staring deeply into the dowsing crystal on his bed, fully clothed, but with no intentions of leaving anytime soon. Not now that Charles was back friends with Kyli; how could she even like the guy? He was just so nasty! And it was clear to see he absolubetly hated him. 'What did I ever do to him?' He mumbleed quietly and turned the crystal slowly in his hand.
'Maybe it's just inconditional hate...' He shuddered, now unable to shake the thought of Charles attempting to kill him in the night from his mind.

[mely]

Kyli and charles were sat next to each other on a poofy couch, doing History of Magic homework. Kyli gave a sigh, dropped her quill, and sunk her head onto her arms. Charles grinned and gave a slight snort of laughter.
"it's not funny" came the muffled and rather pathetic reprove, "I hate History of Magic"
"Aww, c'mon, it's not that bad"
Kyli moved her head slightly so she could glower at him.
"y'know, you look rather cute when you're grumpy" Charles said, and although he was smiling, he wasn't joking. Kyli wasn't sure how to react to that. She felt herself turning red, and buried her head again. For a moment, there was silence.
When Charles spoke, his voice was serious, and hesitant. "Look, kyli, I was wondering" he wasn't sure how to phrase it, "d'you think, maybe, you and me, could, well, y'know... try again?"
Kyli moved her head slowly to regard him for a moment. Then she said, "no charles, I don't think we could"
Charles looked cresfallen, "But - why not?" he asked, pathetically.
"because if we did back together, it'd just all be the same, wouldn't it." Kyli replied, sadly, "and then we'd go back to hating each other..."
"no, that's not true!" Charles said, earnestly, "it would be different - we'd, I'd..."
Kyli shook her head, "don't try telling me that there's any way on earth that you could ever accept that Sei and I are just friends"
Charles struggled to find something to say.
"look, I'm behind enough on homework as it is" kyli said, changing the subject, "I need to get this finished"
She picked up her quill again and they both went back to their work. Charles' face was set with determination. He knew what he had to do.

[.magnarock.]

Sei rolled over onto his back and sat up for a moment. He chewed his lip something didn't feel quite right, as though a great disturbance was coming his way and flopped back down. Stretching, he picked up his wand from the floor and began swirling it round in slow circular motions sending little dark clouds drifting out slowly. They soon dispersed though, none of his magic seemed to be working well these days.
He sighed and rolled back over so his head was lolling off the end of the bed and he had a clear view of the ceiling.

[mely]

After a moment more, Charles finished his essay with a neat flourish. He looked at Kyli, struggling over hers, and smiled. She looked up and scowled at him. He grinned wider.
"you can copy mine if you like" he offered. Kyli shook her head, "No thanks, but I don't do copying"
Charles shrugged, "Suit yourself" Then he stood up, "right, well I'm off to the dormitories, gotta go unpack" Kyli gave a snort of laughter.
As he headed towards the stairs, he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, Kyli cautiously dragging his essay round to an angle she could read it from.

[.magnarock.]

Sei was now holding the dowsing crystal above his head, which felt more like beneath it from his strange angle of lying. It spun slowly in the silence and dully reflected the light.

[mely]

Charles made his way carefully up the stairs and pushed open the door. He knew Sei would be here. the stupid loner was always hiding up in the dormitories.
'now charles, no more thinking nasty things'
'I can think nasty things. I jsut can't say them'
He pushed open ze dore.

[.magnarock.]

[ze dore? lol]

Sei was lost in the crystal spinning, ever so slightly hypnotised and didnt even notice the sound of the door swinging open.

[mely]

what the hell was sei doing? He was staring a a necklace, swinging it round and round, and nto taking his eyes from it. Weirdo. Freak.
'you could at least try'
"erm, hey, sei?" he asked, cautiously, trying to sound... nice?

[.magnarock.]

He jumped, startled by the sound of his name and fell forward backwards off the bed, just about avoiding a broken neck by putting his hands to the floor and rolling backwards. Except it wasn't quite as graceful as that and he fell sideways. He bit down on his lip, thoroughly embarassed. But when he saw it was Charles he almost jumped again. What the heck was he doing talking to him, of his own free will? No, surely this must be Kyli's doing. He studied Charles' face for a sign as to why he was here. Well, he was definately trying to disguise the fact he wasn't too keen to be here. Wait. Speak! He forced some words out, not really thinking about them before doing so.
"Oh-uh-hey- hi Charles."

[mely]

"hey" said charles, forcing a smile. now for the hard part, "look, sei, I think we've got off to a bad start" he continued, "and, well, what I'd like to say is that maybe we should just put our differences behind us and, well, try and get along" he threw a hint of hopefulllnes into his voice at the end of his rather unexpected, and he thought rather heroic, little speech.