Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 2, 2009 18:27:53 GMT -5
(OOC: First post to Niobe or Chika)
Phugsius looked around the dance floor enjoying the scene from his seat. He sipped on the sparkling apple essence that had been provided by the assumed chefs. Phugsius realized with horrer at that moment he was going to run into trouble!
He had asked Chika to the dance when he was twelve years old. He hadn't ever talked to Chika before the dance since he turned sixteen. She didn't know he was sixteen. She probably would find it hard to find him...
To further complicate this issue, he had Niobe. He had recently become very close to her and she would obviously want a dance with him. If Chika found him first he would have to explain why he was dancing with another girl. If niobe found him first he would have to explain to Chika why he was dancing with someone else, and why he was sixteen... THEN he would have to explain this whole story to Niobe! He slapped his head and leaned with his elbow on the table when realized one more thing.... They were both from Hufflepuff...
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 2, 2009 19:02:52 GMT -5
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) Niobe was the first one to find Phugsius. She knew very few people at the school and had debated even going to the dance. What was the point if she didn’t see people she knew? Well, the Hufflepuff had seen the Slytherin and was glad that she had. There was no thought in her mind of what he was going through at the moment.
Niobe had dressed for the event. Her dress robes were a blue to perfectly match her eyes and it was hanging lightly to her slim form. She was wearing white heels that clicked softly on the floor as she walked and had small white pearls in her ears. Long red hair was done up with curls and partially pulled back with blue flowers in her hair. Niobe had chosen it all to match her hair and it looked quite nice. There was no sign of Hufflepuff in her wear, but she had found yellow made her look sallow.
It was this vision that was walking up to Phugsius with a large smile on her face. The Slytherin looked troubled, and she didn’t like it and hoped that her appearance would help. Little did she know she was probably wrong.
“Why so down?” Her voice was light as she took a seat next to him.
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 2, 2009 19:29:12 GMT -5
Oh god, as much as he had wanted to see Niobe, this was going to be bad. He smiled at her. His mind wavered. Should he tell her? if he didn't and Chika recognized him, he would have no excuse. Maybe, if he told her right out he had asked someone to the dance before he had met her, she wouldn't get upset. "
Niobe, I really, really like you. I really think that we can have something special together. But i'm upset because...well..." He didn't know how to quite explain this. He didn't know how to explain the other things tha were bothering him but he would save that for later.
"Let me put it this way: How would you feel if I told you that before I met you, I had already asked someone to the dance?"
He watched her through guilty green eyes. Even if Niobe would be understanding, that didn't mean Chika would be...
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 2, 2009 20:05:56 GMT -5
“Oh.” It slipped out of her mouth before she could catch herself. Suddenly she felt the urge to smack herself. There was probably a reason he had kissed her and yet hadn’t asked her to the dance. So why did she get all dressed up for him? Niobe was smart and should have seen that. She smiled at him trying to reassure him.
The redhead reached out and put a hand on his knee for a moment. “It’s alright, I understand. There’s some things you can’t avoid.” She said as kindly as she could.
Niobe stood up and smoothed out her robes. “I’m not going to make this more difficult for you. Dances are supposed to be fun.” The Hufflepuff said, trying to cheer him up. Not much sense in her staying around, so she’d say goodbye to Phugsius for now. At least he said he liked her.
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 2, 2009 23:04:58 GMT -5
"Niobe!" He said desperately taking her hand and looking at her beautiful form. He didn't want to let her just walk away. He didn't want to let her put all that effort into looking so nice just so he could tell her he was going with someone else. He wasn't going to let it happen. She was the girl he cared for.
"You look... fantastic," He said almost feeling like a stupefy spell had hit him upon a closer, non-distracted, observation, "and regardless of what happens I would be doing myself a great disservice if I weren't going to at least dance with you". Phugsius paused and looked into the eyes of the only person in this school he trusted.
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 2, 2009 23:22:37 GMT -5
He wanted her to stay, that much was certain. The way he grabbed her hand, the tone of his voice. Niobe bit her lip and looked at him. Of course she wanted to stay and dance with him. The Slytherin boy was the reason she had gotten dressed up and came down instead of enjoying a quiet Hufflepuff common room with some cozy clothes. But if he had promised someone else a date to the dance then she wouldn’t interfere. That was a deal he had with this girl and she wouldn’t be the one to mess with that.
Ugh, but it would be so nice to just enjoy herself and dance with him!
“You’d be doing this girl a great disservice if she caught you dancing with me Phugsius.” Niobe said seriously, reaching up to give him a kiss on the cheek. “Thank you for the compliment, you look quite dashing yourself. But I won’t let you break a promise over me.”
Why did she have to do this? Part of it had to do with the fact she’d rather not have some screeching girl yelling at her when she got caught dancing with her date. And part of it was she’d rather not hurt anyone, or let someone else be hurt.
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 2, 2009 23:45:21 GMT -5
Phugsius wasn't going to let her leave. He was adamant about this. The boy wrapped her up in his arms letting his actions do most of the convincing. "C'mon Niobe..." his eyes pleading with her. "I haven't even seen her in a long time, such a long time she probably wouldn't even recognize me"
He gazed off to the right as he fell into the thought that this was absolutely true. He hadn't spoken or seen Chika at any point after he had become his sixteen year old self... She would be looking for a boy younger than her and a lot shorter than he was. If he gave himself a slight change of hair, he would bear no resemblence to his twelve year old counter-part. With a slight wave of his wand he had put blonde streaks in his hair...? He had intended to make his hair blonde for the night, he then remembered Talon's speech about dark magic... ugh. This was karma... at least it was a slight temporary change though.
"There, I don't think she'll even recognize me now." Phugsius looked into her ocean blue eyes giving her a look that said "C'mon we both know you want to..."
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 2, 2009 23:52:36 GMT -5
Niobe had to bite her lip as he put blonde streaks in his hair. It was to keep back the laughter that she wanted to let go. That would be rude though and she held it in, her face going a rosy pink. The blonde streaks didn’t look good in his black hair at all and she found it rather comical. That didn’t make what they were doing right though. With his arms around her it was hard for the Hufflepuff to refuse, but she still didn’t feel right. Just because he was using some form of deception he had still invited this girl to the dance. And she was still there somewhere, waiting for her date probably who was off with another girl in his arms.
It nagged at her mind, but she wondered if she’d even be able to get away from Phugsius. “I don’t like that you’re doing this to this poor girl, whoever she is.” The redhead said firmly, wrapping her arms around his neck. It was too hard to resist him, always too hard. It was like he was her magnetic opposite and she was fighting the inevitable to try and get away. He intrigued her, he supported her, and something about him couldn’t let him walk away from her either.
“If this girl shows up and starts hexing me, I blame you.”
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 3, 2009 0:13:42 GMT -5
Phugsius grinned at her and realized he must look silly, but as long as it made her happy he probably didn't care. "You can laugh if you want, Niobe, I'm willing to go through humiliation for this, your just that beautiful" she didn't like what he was doing? Then he probably wouldn't tell her that same girl was in her house. Yeah he'd best avoid that.
The thought momentarily crossed his mind to say the girl was a Ravenclaw and that they never did anything but study anyway, but that would only show poorly on him since their house won the house cup. At this thought his stomach churned.
He knew the debate was in the bag as she wrapped her arms around him as well. "If hexes start flying at you, just remember what I said at our last lesson, I'll protect you" Phugsius said planting a kiss on her lips and giving her a slight smile and he would gladly protect her.
"So, shall we dance, darling?" He said gesturing to the dance floor which didn't have too many people on it yet. The night was still young though and hopefully wouldn't be too eventful.
Chika was happy tonight. She had a date, the one night she had gotten one. Chika made sure she was dressed nicely. She wore a long wite dress with puffy sleaves. around the waish it hada dark red-ish belt on witch a large pin of 3 flowers was haning from. Her hair was down long tonight and she had but an aray of cherry blomsoms in in.
Chika walk into the hall were the dance would be held. She saw Phugsius, so she started to walk twords him. As she got closer she saw him with another girl. She stoped and figured she would listen to what they were saying to find out what relations they had.
She listend for quite a bit. So what she grasped from this was Phugsuis was in love with this girl Niobe, and that chika was in the way. She figured it would be best to back out now afterall her love was one-sided.
Tears came falling down Chika's cheeks " how strange, I shouldn't be crying I should be happy for them, yes." Chika stumbled a bit and them figured it was best to leave, but her legs wouldn't move. after an hour or so her legs finally moved so she made her way to the exit.
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 3, 2009 20:46:19 GMT -5
The rosy tinge didn’t leave Niobe’s face when he said she was beautiful. Of course it wasn’t every day that she got to dress up like she did, and she did feel pretty when she had looked in the mirror. But just hearing him say it made it all the nicer. “You are very sweet Phugsius.” She said when he drew back from the kiss. They’d see if he held up to that idea of protecting her from hexes if they started coming. Maybe they’d just get lucky and not run into the girl that he had invited. Maybe she had left the school or forgotten.
Sadly that wasn’t going to be the case. The Hufflepuff had nodded at his request to go and dance and was turning around to lead him to the dance floor. It was then her eyes saw Chika. The moment she did her stomach dropped and she held her breath. It wasn’t very hard to see that this was the girl that Phugsius had stood up, not with the way she looked and the tears in her eyes.
It hurt a bit more to realize this girl was in her house, she had seen her in passing in the common room before. Before either of them could say anything Chika turned around and left, obviously having seen that she had been stood up by her date for another girl. “Oh dear…” Niobe said quietly with a sigh, suddenly feeling very bad and very rotten. The girl wouldn’t have seen that if she had backed away like she should have.
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 3, 2009 21:15:16 GMT -5
Phugsius turned around to lead Niobe onto the dance floor when he saw something that made a bad twang on his heart string, Chika. The boy watched as she ran off with tears in her eyes and couldn't help but feel a large sense of guilt looming over him. He hoped Sam would pull through or else he would go dance with Chika.
Phugsius looked to niobe looking rather worriedly for a moment. He looked into her guilt ridden eyes and took her hand, "Don't worry, Niobe, Chika will have a better date than me" He gestured over towards the corner where Chika was, and there was Sam Nanten picking her up from her teary eyed state. "I saw them out by the lake the other night and I realized that Chika should have gone with him. He is a much better match for her and now she'll see that"
Phugsius looked back toward Niobe, "This was all my fault I realize that Niobe, but don't feel bad. I know Chika will have a good night, a lot better than she'd have with me. So I guess it's up to you whether or not you are completely disgusted with me, and want to go find someone else, or if you want to try and have a good time"
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 3, 2009 21:34:37 GMT -5
It was hard to tear her eyes away from the teary girl. What Niobe had done was not at all loyal and was not exemplifying the traits of her house very well. She had just betrayed another member of that house. Even as she watched someone else came over to comfort her, but Niobe still felt bad. Nobody should cry and be upset on the evening of a dance. It was a joyous occasion and one of the few they got to dress up and do something other than magic work. Wizarding schools were not like the muggle schools she had attended until she was 11. Biting her lip she looked from Phugsius to Chika.
“I am not disgusted with you Phugsius, I just feel bad is all. And don’t think she wouldn’t have a good night with you. As charming as you are it’d be hard to have a bad night with you.” Niobe tried to give him a reassuring smile, glancing back at Chika one last time. She’d apologize later, she’d have to. There was no need for division in the house.
The redhead sighed and turned back to Phugsius, leading him onto the dance floor. “We can dance for a bit I suppose.” She said with mock resignation. “I just hope you are better at dancing than you are at your tact with women.”
Post by Phugsius Charadus on Aug 3, 2009 21:52:20 GMT -5
Phugsius felt the tension loosen from his heart when she complimented him. he had truthfully been worried about her walking away from him, not only would he lose her, he would look like a fool for blowing off Chika (Not that he didn't deserve it). Niobe seemed to be feeling bad as well. Maybe in a little while they'd feel better.
With a quick face change Phugsius was following her to the dance floor. He spoke in a jokingly upper class British tone " Thank you, Miss Wattson, i'm very delighted to hear you feel that way about me" He let his emerald eyes catch the light glimmering in her blue ones as she suddenly took a jab at his dancing ability. He raised an eye brow and spoke in his normal tone, "I'll have you know, my tact for women could ONLY be surpassed by my dancing ability" He grinned at her and took her waist and her hand as a waltz started to play. He gazed into her eyes with a sly look. "I'll show you... Niobe, I just hope you can keep up" He laughed and began moving and swaying to the music. It wasn't hard for him to dance because music would always take over him and he could move with the music as it flowed like a stream.
Post by Niobe Wattson on Aug 4, 2009 12:28:07 GMT -5
She had to bite her lip again to keep in the laughter as he put on a British accent. Well he was certainly going to make a fool of himself tonight wasn’t he? With the bad accents and the colored hair and the whole Chika fiasco this was one night he shouldn’t forget. At least he was a pretty decent dancer. Niobe figured that out as they started the waltz and she let him lead. Her arm was on his shoulder where it belonged and her other was in his. The bottoms of her robes swept across her feet as she waltzed and Niobe laughed her clear laugh.
“You’re right. You are a good dancer.” She met his emerald eyes with her own blue ones, smiling. The Hufflepuff didn’t mind letting him lead as she wasn’t a bad dancer but she wasn’t a great one either. It helped him that he was into music. Niobe wasn’t a musician in anyway so finding things like rhythm were harder for her. “And don’t flatter yourself thinking you are great with girls. You’d think tonight would be a huge hit to your ego.”
Even though she wasn’t a spectacular dancer Niobe held herself with grace and poise. Her mother had drilled good posture into her since she was younger and the heels she wore helped. The two made quite a pair on the dance floor as they waltzed to the music.
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