do you ever want to dance with me .. -- hadni

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@hadni

ice cream. probably not the best idea for a first date .. or would that be second. could they count their first meeting as a date? was this even a date? he had asked her out for a drink the first time ..  and now he'd asked her to join him for an ice cream. which now he thought about it made him feel like a teenager again but who didn't like ice cream .. but he wasn't sure she would see it as a date .. he wasn't sure if he did. they were just friends getting an ice cream? right? it had been years since he'd been on a proper one.. he didn't think he had been .. he shook his head and ran his hand through his hair. he wasn't going to think about it. friends getting ice cream is what it was .. though it was strange how he found himself starting to hope it could be something more .. in the depths of his mind.

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Hadni loved Ice Cream, and was incredibly thrilled when Calex contacted her again and asked her out of some. She had gotten dolled up, but only a just enough for a simple casual thing. Whether he was or not, she was considering this their second date. Their first outing had been more like an introduction in her mind, and now this was an official date invitation. Either way, whether they would always be just friends or not, that's what it was. She arrived in Diagon Alley and say him standing near the Ice Cream parlor. She smiled at the sight of him, letting out a small chuckle that probably made people think she looked like a crazy person as she approached him. Once she was close, she waved. "Good afternoon, Calex!" she spoke cheerily as she greeted him, stepping into the ice scream parlor as they said their hellos.

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"Good afternoon, Calex!" he lifted his head as he heard her voice ring out and a smile moved onto his face as he moved to walk over to her. he had found himself getting more and more excited about the fact they were catching up again. from the moment he'd sent her the owl and gotten her response back it had been building. almost like a giddy teenager asking a girl out for the first time ever. though he hadn't done it in a while so maybe it was the prospect, or not. now he was standing in front of her he was almost more than sure it was her. should he hug her? would that be too much? he stood there for a moment, wondering what he should do. he wanted to hug her .. greet her and move to take her to a table so they could get their ice cream but he wasn't sure. would she let him? was it too soon into their date? he almost chewed his lip but he stopped himself when he mentally kicked himself in the butt and he stepped back to one of the tables to pull a chair out for her. "i'm glad you could come. hungry? they do the weirdest flavours here .. i thought we could get a taste of them all" he said with a grin as he held onto the chair, aiting for her to sit.

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"Glad to be here!" she said excitedly. As he pulled the chair out for her she sat quickly, smiling up at him. "I think they have an option that they give you a taste of them all. And French fries!" she said with a giddy little squeal, which she immediately regretted. Her cheeks reddened and she looked down at the table for a moment. "I mean, whatever you want to do is perfect!" she said, smiling back up at him again. She glanced up at the list of flavors. There were at least twenty, if not more. For being such a tiny person she could handle her ice cream rather well, however, and wasn't concerned about that. A part of her thought maybe she should have been more dainty in her excitement but... it's ice cream!!!

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"I think they have an option that they give you a taste of them all. And French fries!" he grinned when she squealed and he let out a chuckle. french fries? he could go for those. "french fries!? well we have to get those. i used to dip them into my ice cream when i was a kid. drove my parents mad and it's something blaise picked up from me" he said with a laugh as they glanced to the board at almost the same time. he thought the best option was to get a scoop of each .. on a plate and they could share it. "I mean, whatever you want to do is perfect!" he nodded a little and folded his arms lightly on the table. "a scoop of each and two spoons .. and a bowl of french fries?" he said with a grin as he watched her. he couldn't remember the last time he had been out for ice cream without his son. it was a weird feeling to not have an excited kid jumping around and begging for as many scoops as he wanted. "shall i order?" he asked with a slight grin as he looked at her, reached arcoss to touch his hand to her arms gently. "my shout" he said as he moved to stand up.

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She nodded as he agreed about getting french fries, glad that he did. ”Dipping them in ice cream is the best!” she said, giggling as she did so. Then he mentioned Blaise and she smiled wider, ”I’m glad he did. Does he take after you a lot, Calex?’ she asked. Then as he agreed to get a scoop of each, two spoons and a bowl of fries she nodded. ”Yeah, go ah-,” she started as he offered to order. Then his arm touched hers and she felt her cheeks turning red as she nodded even more. She forgot how to speak momentarily and as he got up to order she took the chance to take a few quick breaths and to bite down hard on her lip, trying to stop smiling so much. She hadn’t liked a guy this much since… well, since the last guy she had liked. That didn’t go so well… but she had to push that aside. IF they worried about their old relationships they'd never get anywhere. She was a quidditch player and he still wanted to take her on this date, right? So she had to push those thoughts aside.


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”Dipping them in ice cream is the best!” it was. even as an adult it was something that calex couldn't help but do. the best was chocolate. it wasn't the same when you dipped the french fries in strawberry ice cream. though they had so many flavours here it was going to be interesting and an exciting experience. if he did think so himself. "chocolate. my favourite is chocolate though .. i'm sure they have a load of flavours here that will go with the wonderful flavour that is potato" he said with a chuckle as he took a straw in his hands and began folding it. ”I’m glad he did. Does he take after you a lot, Calex?’ he shook his head a little as he finished folding the straw into a circle and he looked at her. blaise was his mother reincarnated. there was no doubt in his mind that while blaise looked like him, his personality he got from his mother. "in looks? the spitting image. but he's his mother through and through" he said with a warm smile on his face as he thought about it. it was a nice feeling, that one day he'd be able to tell his son that he was just like his mother, something that he could be proud of. "thankfully" he said with a small laugh. he touched her arm as he got up and went to place the order, a small bowl of everything they had and two baskets of french fries. he took the little rock that would apparently let the food know to appear on the right table and he walked back to hadni and sat down. "so how's your team going?"

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”Potato?!” Hadni leaned forward to get a better look at the menu to see if he was crazy. ”That’s… weird,” she chuckled again. Then he answered that his son looks just like him but otherwise he was his mother through and through. ”That’s a blessing, for sure,” she said with a chuckle, ”not because you’re not great! I just mean because you get to have a part of her with you always, you know?” she said. Then, as he gently touched her arm before getting up to order she felt her heart catch a little. She shook it off, smiling brightly again as he returned with the fries and ice cream.

She clapped her hands excitedly and reached for a fry, placing it in her mouth right when he asked his question. She smiled and forced herself to finish chewing before answering, ”Well! We’re actually setting up a charity game this summer with Puddlmere United. You should come!” she sunk back a little bit, ”I mean, if you wanted to, obviously.” Then she proceeded to shove several fries into her mouth to shut herself up.

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”That’s a blessing, for sure, not because you’re not great! I just mean because you get to have a part of her with you always, you know?” he laughed softly as she said it and he nodded slightly. he agreed with her. thank god blaise took after his mother. the last thing he wanted was a son like him and his brothers had been, he was sure that his parents had gone grey early on in life because of everything their sons had done. he was lucky with blaise though, apart from the teenage attitude he was developing he was a pretty good kid. he didn't go out of his way to find trouble and he seemed to like keeping his nose clean so calex was more than happy about that. "i know. i'm wonderful" he said with a laugh. "but i know what you mean. i'm glad i can tell him one day that he's so much like her." he said, a smile growing on his face as he thought about it. he was lucky he had met hadni. a lot of women wouldn't like talking about his late wife where as hadni? she didn't seem to mind and he loved that about her. ”Well! We’re actually setting up a charity game this summer with Puddlmere United. You should come! I mean, if you wanted to, obviously.” he listened as she told him about the charity game and he nodded slightly, wondering when it was. "i do" he said quickly, meaning it with all his being. he didn't like the game but he liked hadni and he could put up with it for her. plus he was sure blaise would get a kick out of going to a quidditch match. "if i said no and blaise found out he'd skin me" he said as he took some fries. "i'll come watch you play hadni .. anytime"

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She chuckled as he agreed that he was wonderful, clearly joking. Then she nodded as he put what she meant into better words. "Exactly. It'll be great for both of you," she nodded. Then as she asked about the came he said he wanted to come, more enthusiastically then she had expected. She nodded, her smile growing even wider and slightly smirkish as he went on to say that Blaise would skin him if he didn't come... then her cheeks flushed slightly when he said he'd come watch her play any time. "Thanks..." she said softly, biting her bottom lip for a moment before indulging in their treats. "You can bring Blaise to the game, of course. I'll get you tickets. That is, I'm assuming you wanted to bring him? With the skinning and all?" she chuckled.

She could feel that tug in the back of her mind, the one that told her she was getting in too deep and she needed to get out of there, put her walls back up and fly off like she always did. Her stomach lurched slightly and she looked down at the ice cream to distract herself for a moment. She willed herself to stop thinking those thoughts, to stop being so scared of commitment.

Because if she was going to commit... I mean, listen to this guy. He was amazing.

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"You can bring Blaise to the game, of course. I'll get you tickets. That is, I'm assuming you wanted to bring him? With the skinning and all?" he chuckled and shook his head. he knew there was no way he'd be able to get away with not taking blaise to the game. the kid was quidditch mad as he'd told hadni before, he was sure there was a poster of her team on his son's wall. he nodded slightly and leaned his arms down on the table, taking a scoop of ice cream and eating it before answering her. "yeah i think he'd get a kick out of it. he'll want to become a famous quidditch player after it probably" he confirmed. he was sure blaise and hadni would get on, i mean why wouldn't they? though there was the chance blaise would buck against his dad bringing someone into their lives at first but he'd calm down, or so calex hoped. it had been hard to imagine meeting a girl, going out on dates with her and then introducing her to blaise. he hadn't thought it possible, to meet someone he liked that much that he'd risk them meeting blaise. and then he had met hadni. he dipped one of the french fries into a fruit flavored ice cream and held it out to her with a smile on his face. "dare to try?" he dared, raising a brow in what some would call a challenge.

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Hadni nodded as he said Blaise would get a kick out of it. That he may even want to become a professional. "Oh... does he play?" she wasn't really expecting him to considering the fact that Calex had avoided games since his wifes death, but maybe the kid played at school. She was glad that Calex didn't seem like the type of person who would forbid his son from playing the game just because of what it had done to their family. That was rather brave of him, actually.

Then he held up a fry to her with some ice cream on it. Was that... pineapple? "That seems like a strange mix," she said, but nonetheless she learned forward and took a bite out of the french fry right from his fingers. She laughed, pulling back as she chewed and gave a face of contemplation. Then she nodded, "I deem this ice cream fry appropriate, now you try," she said, leaning forward to dip another fry and hold it out to him this time. It was a bit of a juvenile game, but Hadni had always loved those.

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"Oh... does he play?" thankfully at the moment his son was keeping his feet firmly on the ground other than his flying class. as hard as it was for calex to let him up on a broom it wasn't fair to keep him from something he loved in order to keep his safe. after all his wife had only been watching the game so apparently there were risks he'd never thought of with the game, it wasn't always players. "not at the moment. he wants to but i want him to get through his first and second year without quidditch being the only thing he thinks about" he said with a chuckle as he sipped his drink. he was going to have a hard time keeping him from the game any longer, blaise was chomping at the bit to start playing and trying out so calex was in for a fight.

"That seems like a strange mix," he nodded. he actually had no idea what he had dipped the fry into so he wasn't sure how it was going to turn out but when she tok the bite from the french fry in his hand he grinned a little and put the rest of the fry into his own mouth. "I deem this ice cream fry appropriate, now you try," he grinned as he nodded in agreement. it wasn't horrible though he had to admit it wasn't the greatest. he swallowed the fry and looked at the one she dipped into the other ice cream concoction, "well we all know i like to live dangerous" he said with a grin as he leaned forward to take a bite of the fry. though it wasn't the nice combination like last time. he pulled a face and forced himself to swallow the fry and shook his head. "ugh .. that tasted like fire"

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Hadni nodded as he explained he wanted to get Blaise through his first two years of school before letting Quidditch consume him, if it even did. She chuckled, "alas, I was a lost cause before I even went to Hogwarts. I knew I was a goner," she said with a smile. Quidditch was her muse, her best friend, her therapist. It was the only thing in her life that was completely constant, consistent and solid. Her mother was a close second, but even then Quidditch had been her only solace for many instances. She loved the game, more than anything in this world. Maybe even to the point of unhealthiness, not that she would ever admit that.

Living dangerously was something that they had in common. She smirked as he said those words then waited until he tasted the treat to speak. She laughed, "you've tasted fire before, Calex?" she asked, raising an eyebrow skeptically. She dipped another fry in the ice cream again and ate it herself, a grin appearing on her lips after she had finished it.

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"alas, I was a lost cause before I even went to Hogwarts. I knew I was a goner," he grinned a little. that was understandable. it was a game most kids were obsessed with from a young age. his brothers had been ones for it, always talking about the game. he himself had enjoyed it to but not to the extent they had. "i doubt you were a lost cause" he said with a smile as he took up some more fries into his fingers and ate them, thoroughly enjoying the company and the food.

"you've tasted fire before, Calex?" he grinned and wiped his hand over his mouth and shook his head a little. actually there had been once or twice when he'd been convinced he'd tasted it. there were some pretty nasty spells out in the world he'd been hit with while working as an auror. "well maybe once" he said with a grin as he took another fry and dipped it into the same ice cream she had. "i'll try this one, since you smiled after it" he said with a grin as he ate it.