No More Secrets (Oscar, Andy, Irina, Lily)

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Anna was nervous. And ecstatic. Actually, trying to put a label on her emotions would be too hard at the moment. Oscar asked her to the Yule Ball! Every time she thought about it, she couldn't stop herself from grinning ridiculously. Occasionally she wondered if she just imagined it, but she didn't think so. At least, that's why she organized this. She asked her close friends to come and talk with her. They probably thought it was another girl talk like the one they had in their dormitory the night she was made champion, but really ... she wanted them to meet Oscar. 

So they would come and talk with her, but Oscar said he had to come later, for some reason. So Anna would just make sure her conversation with the girls lasted as long as it needed to for him to get there. That shouldn't be any problem. They were girls and pretty good at talking when they were together.

At the moment, however, Anna was waiting for everyone to show up. She'd sent owls to her friends, asking them to meet her here in the courtyard and was positive that they would all come. They were there for her, after all. No matter what. So she sat on a bench and waited patiently, breathing in the fresh air. She loved being out in the courtyard for a reason. It was outside.

@lestrange
Irina Rose Krum
lily luna potter
@oscar

(OOC: This is where her friends are going to find out that Anna is going to the Yule Ball with Oscar and they're going to meet him! So excited!)

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"ANNA BANANA FOFANANA HELLOOOO," Lily ran up to Anna in the Courtyard and did not slow down until she was tackling the girl and knocking her off the bench. Once on the grass, she wrapped her arms and legs around Anna and gave her a tight squeeze before releasing her, hopping up to stand, and offering a hand to her fallen cousin. "What are you doing down there, darling? Don't you know the grass is still moist from this mornings dew?" she joked, giggling as she attempted to help Anna up. She sat on the bench, "so, what's with the owl, my love?" she asked, cocking her head to one side.

@annelise
@lestrange
Irina Rose Krum
@oscar

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina had received the owl from Anna, which made her feel a pang of guilt. Anna was her dorm mate after all, anything she’d wanted to tell her she could have jostled her awake and said something. She had been spending time with Dan recently, a lot of time actually, so maybe that was why. Nevertheless, Irina made her way down to the courtyard as her friend asked, her long hair tied in a long braid that she had thrown over her shoulder and was fiddling with. She was happy to see both Anna and Lily there; Lily full of energy as was usual. “Hey Anna,” she said, giving her friend a hug. “Everything alright?” she asked. She hoped that Anna had asked to meet them for a good news; she hated that Lucy had ruined Anna’s moment of glory and wanted her friend to be happy. She WAS Hogwart’s Champion for crying out loud!

lily luna potter
@lestrange
@annelise

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Andy showed up last, glad to see that Anna was okay and nothing was wrong. She worried too much. She didn't say anything as she stood next to the others, just giving Anna a gentle smile in greeting. She had a rather busy morning doing some research. Not anything for school, mind you, but something rather private. Something that none of these girls would ever know about if she could help it. Andy had her own secret agenda, a hidden life... but here she stood, arms folded and smile soft as she awaited Anna's response to Irina and Lily's questions.

Irina Rose Krum
lily luna potter
@annelise

@oscar

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Anna only had a few seconds of warning before Lily was on top of her, pushing her from her bench and onto the ground, hugging her tightly. Anna laughed and took her cousin's hand to help herself to her feet. She shrugged, feigning confusion. "I don't know. One second I was on the bench, but the next thing I knew I was on the ground. Almost like someone tackled me or something, but I don't see anyone that would do that, do you?" At Lily's next question, Anna covered her own lips with her pointer finger, gesturing for her cousin to speak more quietly. "I can't tell you yet. We're waiting for Irina and Andy," she replied with a shrug, looking around to see if they were there yet.

Anna grinned when Irina came up and gave her a hug. Rina seemed a little confused and worried, but Anna nodded her head quickly. "Everything is great. We just haven't talked for a while, so I wanted to get us all together." Also, I want you to meet the guy I think I'm falling in love with ... yeah, definitely a good thing she kept that last part to herself. Irina, Andy and Lily knew all about her non-existent love-life and Anna was sure they would freak out when they found out about Oscar. Still, she didn't want to mention him before they met him. Which should be any minute now.

Andy arrived quietly and Anna smiled at her, finally ready to talk at least a little bit. She shrugged, knowing they would probably suspect she was up to something, but not caring all the same. "So how are you all? I feel like we haven't talked since that night, and that was all about me, so I want to hear about you. Also, I wanted to thank you for being there for me, by the way," she referred to the night she was chosen as Champion, knowing they would all know exactly what she was talking about. She was so relieved that she had such great, caring friends who were always there for her when she needed them.

lily luna potter
Irina Rose Krum
@lestrange
@oscar (eventually ...)

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Lily waited impatiently for the other girls but when they arrived she looked at Anna expectantly. Then Anna just said she wanted to get together. It was kind of funny, Lily was close to Irina and Anna but she really had no opinion about the Lestrange girl. Erh, Andy or whatever. But now they were seeming to be part of this little support group, a team. And well, Lily liked working in teams just as much as she liked being on her own. Lily glanced at Andy and gave her an awkward little smile, one that she was a bit embarrassed about after having done it. Then Lily turned back to Anna. "Well, I'm fabulous. As always. Irina is off snogging some Durmstrang fella," she laughed, reaching over to poke Ri in the arm. "Not sure about miss moody here," she said, gesturing to Andy, trying to make some kind of joke. The girl really was moody, though, but all jokes were rooted in truth, right?

@annelise
Irina Rose Krum
@lestrange
@oscar sometime

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina gasped and made a face at Lily. “Excuse me, we do more than snogging!” she said indignantly. Lily was right of course, she had been with Dan a lot. She rolled her eyes at her friend and looked at Andy. “How is Phil enjoying South America? He must be learning so much about Herbology and the like there,” she asked her. She and Andy weren’t as close as she was with Lily or Anna, but they had a lot in common. Perhaps this year she’d make an effort to become more friendly with Andy; they did share a room after all. She looked back over at Anna. “So tell us! We’re dying to know if it’s about a boy,” she said eagerly. She and Lily had wondered if Anna was spending time spent outside the common room with a boy, and she swore she’d seen him with a dark haired fellow a few weeks ago.

@lestrange
@annelise
lily luna potter

@oscar

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ANDY

Andy listened as Anna spoke, explaining that she just needed some time to talk with them and whatnot. Andy could understand that, she supposed. Needing friends around right now. She only needed maybe one at a time, since she wasn't really a group person, but these girls were okay- miss moody? Was Lily Potter actually teasing her? It was a friendly kind of teasing, Andy could tell, which made it even weirder. They weren't friends, not really. But, Andys lip cracked into a small smile, though she wasn't sure exactly why.

Then the topic was on Irinas 'snogging' situation and Andy didn't chime in until Phil was brought up. "He loves it for the plants. Doesn't seem to be getting along with the people that well, though..." she frowned. He was always saying how he didn't fit in there, which she didn't believe.

Then Irina asked Anna about a 'boy' and Andy's eyes shifted back to her.

@annelise
lily luna potter
Irina Rose Krum

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Anna loved listening to her friends interact with one another. She knew that Andy wasn't too close with the other two, but she thought it was a good thing for Andy to do things with new people, hopefully make new friends. Still, they would need to have a girl talk sometime soon. She laughed when Lily said that Irina was off snogging some boy from Durmstrang. Anna wouldn't be surprised if that was true a lot of the time ... they did spent much of their time together, she noticed. She smiled when Andy talked about Phil for a minute and then the attention came back to her.

So ... how to say this the right way. She didn't really want to freak her friends out (with excitement, of course), but there really wasn't a way to say what had to be said that was calm. So, grinning to herself, she looked at all three of them in turn before answering. "I got asked to the Yule Ball already," Anna shrugged, trying to somewhat minimalize the fact that she'd been asked so early. Could they tell how excited she was just by that one sentence? After all, it was the beginning of November. She'd been asked more than a month before the ball was going to take place and she was so excited to be going with Oscar.

Irina Rose Krum
lily luna potter
@lestrange
@oscar

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Today, Oscar was going to meet Anna's friends. She had asked him to meet them as a part of their pre-Yule Ball festivities, and Oscar was more than happy to oblige; he needed to get to know more Hogwarts students anyways. It was a beautiful day outside, and it wasn't difficult for Oscar to locate Anna and her friends; it wasn't just one redhead, but two, and Oscar smiled to himself as he approached them. "Hello." He said, trying his best not to sound awkward. He looked at Anna, trying to figure out where they were in the conversation, before deciding just to bite the bullet and introduce himself. "I'm Oscar." If Anna hadn't told them about him yet, that introduction probably would have been strange, but Oscar could hope.

@lestrange
Irina Rose Krum
lily luna potter
@annelise

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Lily giggled as Irina tried to stand up for herself with the whole snogging thing. She knew that, of course, Irina did more than snog him! Even if he was incredibly good looking. Then Anna mentioned how she had been asked to the ball and Lily's jaw dropped. Just in time, a boy approached saying help and saying his name. Lily looked at him, then at Anna, then back at him again. "Can you dance, Oscar?" she asked, raising an eyebrow and smirking devilishly. This must be the guy. If it wasn't, maybe he was some shy dude coming to ask one of them or something. In which case, that was pretty brave.

Irina Rose Krum
@lestrange
@oscar
@annelise
(lilys hair would be the new color in this thread methinks)

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina opened her mouth to retort back to Lily, but was distracted by the new arrival. Oscar? This obviously was the boy Anna had been asked to the Ball by, but she didn’t recognize him. She took in his pale blue robes; Beauxbatons. Ah, this must be who was taking up so much of Anna’s time lately. She felt less bad about being basically attached at the hip to Dan then. “Irina Krum,” she introduced herself, extending her hand for him to shake.

@lestrange
@oscar
@annelise
lily luna potter

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Andy didn't say anything for the rest of the conversation thus far. She looked up as a boy approached them, but she didn't say anything. She simply raised an eyebrow, waiting to see what he would say or do. She wasn't surprised that Anna had been asked to the ball, Anna was amazing, and she was sure that she would be asking eventually. Plus the Champions were required to have dates, weren't they? So this was all well and good, but Andy didn't say anything. She was happy just being a listener in this regard. Especially with Lily being so forward and Irena speaking up. She was glad to just wait her turn, or just watch.

@annelise is next methinks

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Only moments after Anna said that she'd been asked to the Yule Ball, Oscar walked up and introduced himself. She smiled over at him, glad that he was here. Really, she just always wanted to spend time with him, even when she was with her friends. Anna was sure that the girls would be able to figure out who he was even without her saying anything, but she decided to clear it up. "Oscar asked me to the Ball," she said with an easy smile. Actually, it was hard to not smile when she was around Oscar. She wanted to reach over and grab his hand, but she didn't want to make Oscar feel uncomfortable in front of people that he didn't know. "Oscar, these are my beset friends: Lily, Irina and Andy." She tried to be as un-awkward as she could be, but she still felt like she was making a mess out of everything.

@oscar
lily luna potter
Irina Rose Krum
@lestrange

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Oscar beamed at Anna when she announced that he had been the one to ask her to the ball. He couldn’t help but preen a little, puffing out his chest slightly and running his hand through his hair as he grinned at all of the assembled girls. Anna introduced them as her friends, and the wattage of Oscar’s grin increased. “As we say in France, enchanté.” He said, committing all of their faces to memory. Lily was the redhead, but both Irina and Andy had dark hair, so Oscar had to really look to make sure he didn’t accidentally mix the two of them up. That would be embarrassing. “Anna has said all good things about you.” He said, even though Anna hadn’t actually mentioned her friends much when they were together, other than saying that they were all pleased she was Champion. Well, now they had something new to talk about to make that statement true.

@lestrange
Irina Rose Krum
lily luna potter
@annelise