Chocolate covered cherries ((Tobias))

[dana]

It wasn’t summer. Actually it wasn’t really warm spring either. When someone said spring everyone usually thought of may, late April when tulips and other flowers started to bloom, the sunshine simply drew you outside and life on the whole seemed to pretty. The warm weather hadn’t reached Hogwarts yet. But it was already spring. The dropping of an icicle and the first thrillers of the very earliest birds told that much. Nevertheless, here behind the Hogwarts castle, where the castle itself blocked the bit chilly wind and the sun warmed you - it was rather pleasant already. At the very least Dana felt herself quite warm and content as she was stretched out on a wooden picnic table situated here. The black clothing she wore was doing it’s part in making sure the sun kept her warm as well.

One more bonus to dressing in black really. Not only did the colour make you appear slim – even if Dana being fit enough didn’t really need this effect – it also made you appear chic and stylish and drew sunrays to you. One more reason to wear black. It wasn’t the most happiest colour and required a strong character to wear it our proudly. But Dana didn’t have too much time to be a child anymore either. After her grand-parents passing away and inheriting a small business empire from them Dana had been a busy girl outside school as well. Not to mention apparition lessons she was taking as after turning 17 in May she would be allowed to use apparition as a measure of transport. But Dana didn’t want to think of all that. Not today. Not when the sun was showing itself fully again after the dreadful winter months.

Dana shifted slightly bending her right leg from the knee and placing her foot on the table-top as well while her left leg swung freely over the edge. Turning her head Dana peered upwards locating the bag consisting of the things she had bought earlier from Hogsmeade. While Dana wasn’t really a fan of chocolate and ate it very rarely – a fact that always shocked her friends – she had bought herself some sweets from Cat’s Cubby. She had gotten along rather well with the previous Head Girl of Hogwarts. She had even worked as a chef at the Cubby at one point before things simply got too busy for her to continue. But she still dropped by from time to time, especially since the sweets they sold there were the best. Even now Dana picked up a big box of chocolate covered cherries. Sliding the nail of her index finger under the wrapping Dana opened the box and threw one of the sweets into her mouth. Closing her eyes with pleasure at the taste Dana laid back onto the table placing the box with sweets next to her picking up a cherry form time to time. Dana grinned to herself at the sudden thought that she might remind a lizard sleeping on a sunny rock on the table right now, but this thought didn’t really bother her. Besides she wasn’t exactly sleeping right now… she was just… Dana just existed at that moment without any proper thought passing through her mind.

[tobias]

Tobias woke up to him falling off his bed; he slowly got up from the floor and lied back on his bed. "It’s going to be a good day." He thought then groaned trying to fall back to sleep. After ten minutes he gave up and got out of bed again. He looked out a window and the put his hand on it like he normally did just to see if it was cold outside and it seemed to be. Tobias then went to his trunk and put on some of his everyday cloths, which was black like most of his other clothing, seeing as he didn't need any uniforms today. He toke his wand with him as always and a small black book and a ballpoint pen, The first time he came to Hogwarts he wished he had one some much. He did the class work and work he had to turn in using a feather and bottled ink but writing notes and other stuff no one was ever going to see was easier in pen.

He walked around the school but then decided to go outside as soon as he did he started to wish he didn't, because of a cool breeze that whipped past him as he left the castle but he kept walking anyway. Still with the black book in hand he walked around the lake then felt like sitting down somewhere that wasn't so cold, he headed over to the other side of the castle. He was right, behind the castle was a great way to block the cold breeze. When he got there he saw what looked like a park bench then walked over and sat down, he saw a bag on one side of the bench but didn't see anyone around so he just left the bag alone and opened his book and pulled out the pen he had.

Tobias looked at the book and wrote a few words down in an empty page then looked over at the other side of the bench and thought he saw what looked like a leg. ”How did I not see that before?" He thought to himself getting up from sitting down and looking over the table. "Sorry about that I didn't see you were already here." He said looking down at the girl feeling kind of bad for just sitting down and not seeing her lying there. "I could leave if you want to be alone?" He asked still looking down at the girl trying to think if he knew her from somewhere.

[dana]

Sun was a star actually. At least that’s how much Dana understood it. She had never learned astronomy and didn’t really found any star-signs from sky. But she knew some bits and pieces of the subject. And she knew that the sun was actually a star. It made Dana wonder if there on a planet circling some distant star was also someone laying down and feeling the rays of her sun on her face and trying to imagine what lay beyond eye’s reach. What would aliens look like? Purple, orange, green, blue, red? With tentacles or without them, slimy and tall or short and plump. There were so many possibilities. But Dana believed that aliens existed. Looking how big the space was it would be much too arrogant to think that humans were the only things inhabiting it. The only thing Dana sometimes doubted was how intelligent different species of aliens were. But maybe the indicator to proving that aliens were intelligent was the simple fact that they hadn’t contacted mankind. Depended on your point of view.

Dana heard someone sitting down at the table but as whoever it was didn’t acknowledge her she didn’t bother to do it either. She could hear the light ruffling of paper so they could both enjoy the warmth of sun and still exist in their private worlds. Precisely after the thought the person seemed to stand and walk over to Dana though. “I didn’t exactly catch attention here,” Dana commented lazily after swallowing the chocolate covered cherry from her mouth. Stretching lightly Dana opened her eyes looking calmly at the boy. Her eyes flickered briefly to his hair-cut making Dana grin and decide that she liked it.
“And I wasn’t really searching for solitude either, so no need for you to leave. I just… were… I suppose. There has been much too little sun for me to not enjoy the first rays of it now. Speaking of which – while you don’t have to leave I would appreciate if you took a step in some direction so you’d stop blocking the sun from me.”

Dana closed her eyes again shifting her bent leg lightly as she crossed her fingers over her stomach. Feeling sunshine hit her face again Dana raised one hand waving it towards the general direction of the treats she had along. “Help yourself if you wish,” Dana commented reaching over and propping one more cherry into her own mouth as well.