A Huffie Run-In ((Nokomis))

[nathaniel]

The thudding off his shoes on the cobblestone street seemed to flow with the music of the chattering of the many merchants and other witches and wizards, visiting Hogsmeade. Nathaniel grinned brightly up at the shining sun, although he had to put his hand above his eyes, since it was rather bright. Nathaniel had been feeling too down lately, and he needed to get back onto a happier note. Everything was just getting so overwhelming from him, and he just needed to escape from the whole thing. Nathaniel was pretty sure that a nice weekend trip to Hogsmeade would get his mind off of everything that had been bothering him terribly.

Nathaniel quickly pushed the thoughts to the back of his mind, where he wouldn't be able to reach them for a while. All he wanted to do was enjoy himself for a while, and not have to think about everything that was going on in his life right now. The boy shrugged.

Nathaniel didn't exactly know what he wanted to do today... So he simply stopped by an ice cream shop. The small bell tinkled above him, as Nathaniel stepped through the door, a wide grin now replacing his frown. Nathaniel walked over to the counter, and patientally awaited the man behind the counter to help him. "Hello." Nathaniel greeted. "Umm... could I please have a chocolate, ice cream cone?" the man nodded, as he went about, scoping the ice cream into the ice cream cone. The man told him the amount of coins needed, and Nathaniel gladly gave them to him, picking his ice cream up from the counter.

The boy shrugged, and walked outside, searching for a small table outside of the small shop. Nathaniel plopped himself at a small table, and began eating the treat. It wasn't the best thing, especially since it was now getting colder and colder outside, but it worked fine for now.

[Nokomis Astarra H5]

She only had a few coins left, and now it was the hard task of deciding what to do with them. She really could only afford a bottle of butterbeer, or maybe a snack. At least she didn't need to decide yet. She had quite a while still at least, and she decided to spend it by walking down the streets until something caught her eye.

As she walked, she noticed a slightly familiar face. She was pretty familiar with most of the Hufflepuff's especially the ones in her year, even if she almost never talked to quite a few of them. It took her a moment to think of his name, but she was pretty sure it was was Natahan..or Nathaniel...something that started with a Nat- anyway. She smile slightly, just in case he looked din her direction, and she was planning on walking by when she stopped herself. He was along...maybe he wanted some company.

She walked over to the table, and smiled nervously at him.
"Um....Hi...I don't think we have ever really properly introduced ourselves, so I thought I would come over....I'm Nokomis."

[nathaniel]

Nathaniel looked up as a girl, that looked about his age greeted him and introduced herself as Nokomis. Nathaniel recognized her as a Hufflepuff fourth year, but they never formally met. Nathaniel set the ice cream cone on the table, picked up a napkin, and wiped his mouth, sensing that he had probably gotten the sticky treat all over his lips. Nathaniel suddenly felt a blush rising to his cheeks, as he set the napkin down and indeed, there was a small glop of light brown substance on the paper napkin, that was indeed chocolate ice cream.

"Umm... hi." Nathaniel greeted, a bit of a sheepish grin plastered across his face. "I'm Nathaniel Benson. Erm... care to join me?" Nathaniel asked a bit nervously. He had to admit, he wasn't the smoothest guy, when it came to being around girls his age or older... Well, at least he tried not to look like a complete idoit... although, he didn't succeed very well most of the time. Nathaniel looked back up to Nokomis, and put on a bit of a grin, waiting for her response.

((Sorry it's not very good. I don't have very much inspiration with Nathaniel for right now.))

[Nokomis Astarra H5]

She smiled at Nathaniel, partly to be friendly and because he asked her to join him, and partly because he seemed to not know what to say either. It made her feel a bit better. She was use to being the one who didn't know what to say or now. Now she felt like she wasn't alone.

"Ah...sure." she said as she pulled out one of the chairs at the table and sat down, feeling proud of herself for being the one to talk first and taking charge of the situation. "So um...its sort of sad that we don't really know each other huh? I mean...its just that...were both in Hufflepuff...and in the same year....righ?"

She was almost completely certain that he was a fourth year like her, but then sometimes she got a bit fuzzy on the years of anyone who wasn't on a quidditch team. He mom had been telling her since her second year that life didn't revolve around quidditch, and even if she could play she still needed to get good grades and make friends. Since she had gotten better on the field, but her grades were suffering, but maybe she could turn out to be good at this making friends thing after all.