Moonlit Talk ((Ivy))

[JordanCortes]

Jordan looked at Ivy.

"Oi. At least it doesnt get you in trouble all the time. My mouth wont stop running. Do you know how many sickles I would have if I got one for everytime I back talked. Horrible really." Jordan said with a small smile. She looked up at the moon.

"So, you going to go as Selene? We'll make some boys want to dance with you. You'll just see. Every boy there would wish they asked you to the Ball instead of their date." Jordan smiled and looked at Ivy, hoping she wasnt saying anything offending, or wrong.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy gave a small, bitter smile to Jordan's comment. She really doubted it. She thought herself quite pretty, but she just didn't talk enough. No boy would ever want to go out with her, she was sure, and she was unlikely to even meet one, considering the secluded life she led.

"Hmm," she said, not wanting to offend Jordan. "Yeah, I'll go as Selene, that'll be great," she said, in a stronger tone of voice, looking up at Jordan and smiling, but tears were shining through that smile.

She really shouldn't do this. Why was she doing this so much recently? Ivy just hoped and prayed to the God she didn't really believe in that Jordan wouldn't ask her what was up. Because even Ivy wasn't sure. She'd just had a wave of sadness had enveloped her.

[JordanCortes]

Jordan watched Ivy as she answered, something was wrong. But as much as Jordan wanted to ask her what was up, Jordan thought Ivy seemed confused and she didn't want to make her even more confused.

"Perfect! Hey, believe me, you will have all the boys after you. It's just common sense..." Jordan said, an encouraging smile on her face. She looked at Ivy and nodded confidently, her dimples showing through with her bright smile.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy looked down away from Jordan and forced the tears away. When she looked back up, she had a doubtful expression on her face which was not entirely friendly. Not that she was cross with Jordan or anything, it was more an action which closed up her face so it couldn't be read like a book.

"Oh come on, you know yourself it isn't true," Ivy said, allowing herself to smile again, having fully regained control of her emotions. She wasn't going to have Jordan talk nonsense at her, not about this topic.

[JordanCortes]

"Well, it could be nonsense. But, oh i dont know, life's unpredictable. Youll never know unless it happens, right?" Jordan asked, afraid this was pressing the subject a little too far. Jordan tried to smile, but failed.

"So onto a less sore subject, favorite class and why?" She asked, this time succeeding in a smile.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy chose to ignore Jordan's last comment. It had been unwise of her to say it.

"Favourite class?" she repeated, glad to have something else to talk about. "I'd say Charms. Cos it's one of the only things I'm any good at, I guess. Let's think, you... would be Astronomy?" She was making a guess, but she thought it was a good one.

[JordanCortes]

Jordan smiled. She loved Astronomy. She was always entranced by the stars and the moon and anything in the night sky.

"Of course! I love it! But if I had to choose anything other than Astronomy, it would probably be Care of Magical Creatures. I just love the creatures we get to see." Jordan said in a dazed voice.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy smiled as Jordan confirmed her guess.

"Care of Magical Creatures?" she asked. "Is it good? Cos I don't do it."

Ivy was slightly scared of some of the creatures, to be honest, but she didn't want Jordan to know that.

[JordanCortes]

"Oh, it's fabulous! You get to see beautiful creatures you would never get to see in everyday life. Though, some do make me back away a little bit. The really big ones that are fierce frighten me." Jordan answered with a genuine smile on her face. She nodded.

"Yeah, I wouldn't be doing Magical Creatures if Nokomis hadn't talked me into it." She said as she brought out a bag of bertie botts every flavor beans.

"Evil things."She said pointing the bag,"But quite tasty and surprising. Dare to try one?" She lifted the bag in Ivy's direction and smiled, before popping one in her mouth and chewing.

"Mm, cinnamon." She said with a satisfied smile on her face.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy smiled. Perhaps she wasn't such a coward after all, and it was just natural to be frightened of some of the creatures.

Ivy took a bean, wondering just how many sweets Jordan carried around in her bag. She must practically live on sugar. She took a bite of it, and tasted very little to start with. She put the rest in her mouth and chewed. She wasn't finding it very easy to determine what it was. The taste was slightly unpleasant, mainly just dull.

"I think that was cardboard," she said, a smile on her face despite the taste.

"Do you do Divination?" Ivy asked. She was doing Divination for the first time this year. Most people who did it didn't seem to think much of it, but she thought she might as well try it.

[JordanCortes]

Jordan scringed at the thougth of eating a carboard bean.

"Ew." She said in response to Ivy's thought on the bean. Then Ivy asked if she was doing Divination. Jordan smiled and nodded.

"Yep! Divination is my favorite, besides Astronomy and Care of Magical Creatures." Jordan answered with a broad smile on her face. She was glad she was taking her favorite classes, instead of the dull ones.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy smiled at Jordan, looking up at the night sky.

"Hmm. Ancient Runes is about as hard as it gets. But maybe it'll turn out to be like Charms." Ivy creased her brow, thinking about what an idiot she must have seemed in the first Ancient Runes lesson. But maybe she would get better at it.

"So you like Divination?" she asked, picking up on Jordan's previous comment. "Most people told me not to do it."

Ivy smiled, thinking of one particular person's reaction.

[JordanCortes]

"Divination is by far the most interesting class. You never know what you will get in that room. I had one friend who disagreed with me taking that class, but then again she disagrees with everything I say. So yes, I like Divination. Only because it's unpredicatable. What about you? Do you like it?" Jordan asked as she popped another bean in her mouth.

"Egh, dirt." She said as she swallowed the bean relunctantly.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy grinned. "Nasty," she said. "I think cardboard is better."

"Me? I've never done it." she said in reply to Jordan's question. Since an urge to be difficult was rising in her, she continued. "But surely the point of Divination is predicting stuff isn't it?"

[JordanCortes]

"I think so." Jordan said thoughtfully. "But, I'm not that good at it, so it could be more." Jordan added as an afterthought. She then nodded.

"I've never come across a cardboard bean. I have yet to taste it." Jordan smiled.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy nodded to what Jordan was saying. She then picked up on Jordan's comment about the bean.

"You never know, maybe that was the only cardboard bean ever in existence and I just ate it." she said, with a small light-hearted laugh.

'Laughing at your own jokes. Just how sad are you?' The evil voice inside her contributed to her evening.

'Tush,' she replied, 'stuff and nonsense. At least I'm in control here'.

'For how much longer?' the voice replied maliciously.

Ivy's eyes widened at the unspoken conflict inside her. 'Great, she thought, 'a leadership challenge between 'good' and evil going on inside your own head. You really are mad, Ivy.'

Ivy looked up at Jordan, smiling. Being mad was sometimes a positive attribute, she thought to herself, casting the worry to the back of her mind. 'As long as you're fairly happy you'll be fine,' she told herself. That had its worries too.

"May I?" she asked Jordan, taking a bean that was brown.

"Here goes," she said, popping the bean into her mouth and biting into it.

"Mmm..." she said, "cappachino." ((Yeah, sure, I know that isn't how you spell it.))

[JordanCortes]

Jordan laughed as Ivy took another bean and liked it. Jordan didn't really care for cappochinos, nor any other substance with coffee, too much caffiene. In the back of her mind she was thinking of pranks, as she always did, and of Dillion.They had met near the Forbidden Forest, and had hit it off immediatly. She wondered if she liked him, more than a friend.

"So, Ivy, how long have you known Kiyla?" Jordan asked as she propped her chin on her hands, which her elbows were propped on her knees. She looked at Ivy with her chocolate brown eyes and smiled.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy looked at Jordan in surprise at the slightly random question.

"Um..." she said, thinking. "Um... I think since first year. I mean we got sorted into the same house so we all knew who each other were. And I've been friends with Kiyla since... about half way through first year." Ivy smiled, slightly confused, at Jordan. "Why?" she asked, curious.

[JordanCortes]

Jordan thought about this, why had she asked that? She figured that it was because of a lack for a better topic to think of.

"Just, trying to start a conversation...it started to drag off and you and Kiyla seemed like really good friends. So I thought, hey why not?" Jordan answered with a smile. She tucked a stray strand behind one ear and looked down at her hands, trying to think of another subject to touch upon.

[Ivy Tunstall]

Ivy smiled at Jordan.

"Let's think, um, you and Dillon." she said, smiling again. "Are you just friends?"

Ivy looked straight at Jordan with her soft brown eyes. They were serious, but there was a twinkle in them.