I Know You Are But What Am I? | Dominic

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"Silencio," Adena said impatiently, pointing her wand at the crow before her. It cackled back in response, mocking her inability to perform the spell. Adena made a rather inappropriate gesture at the bird before pointing her wand at it again. "Silencio." The bird opened it's mouth and...no sound came out. Adena jumped out of her chair, thrilled that she managed to make the spell work, until the bird looked her square in the eye and cawed loudly. "Why you little --" Adena lunged at the bird, throwing herself across the desk to throttle it, but it flew away, flapping its wings wildly and cawing its little heart out.

Adena growled and righted herself, sitting down in her chair once more. She pointed her wand at the crow and muttered, "Accio crow." The bird floated toward her before sitting primly on the desk before her. She wanted to strangle the bird. The gleam in its eyes was directed at her, she knew. It was taunting her. But Professor Zhu would give her a month, no, two months, of detention if anything happened to one of her crows. At least no one had seen her attempting to murder a crow. She hoped.
Glaring at the crow once more, she pointed her wand at it and murmured, "Silencio."

@dominic

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Dominic was just minding his own business when he heard a voice coming from the charms classroom. He slowed his walk until he was in the doorway, and then stopped. He raised an eyebrow and he leaned against the door frame, folding his arms over his chest. He cocked his head to the side as he watched her struggle to silence the bird.

Once it was clear she was getting incredibly frustrated, and she even tried to summon the bird to her, Dominic let out a low chuckle. "Trying to silence the bird before it silences you?"

@adena

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A fiery blush flooded Adena's cheeks as she heard a voice to her right at the classroom entrance. She and the crow turned to look at the intruder and Adena scowled to see that it was pretty-boy Dominic Dippet. He was a well known arse at the school, and Adena wasn't thrilled to have attracted his attention. She glanced at the crow, who cawed mockingly at her her. She scowled again. "Up yours, Dippet," she said with the same hand gesture she used on the crow.

Leaning back in her chair, she sighed and said, "What do you even want?"

@dominic

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"Ooh, feisty today," he chuckled, holding his hands up in a surrender pose before pushing off the door frame with his back and stepping further into the classroom. "Just wanted to see what all the commotion was about. Though, now I clearly see it's just you trying to take this poor birds voice. What, he make fun of your hair or something?" okay, okay, so he didn't actually know what a lot of Adenas weaknesses were. The hair seemed like a good enough place to start with most girls... maybe she would be more bothered if he said that out loud, but he gave it a chance to let the last insult sink it. Plus, Adena usually always had something interesting to retort. He liked giving her time to do so.

@adena

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Adena's blood pressure began rising. She couldn't stand Dominic. She couldn't stand most people that lived off their money and good looks, but Dominic was the topper on the world's most expensive cake. He would've been attractive to her if he wasn't such a pompous prat, but any attraction she might have felt flew out the window the moment the boy opened his mouth. "All day and every day," she quipped back, turning back to her bird, trying not to let her embarrassment show.

When Dominic commented on her hair, Adena fluffed it lazily, trying to appear unconcerned with his comment but also trying to check for any imperfections as discreetly as possible. Stupid boys, knowing exactly what to target in a girl. Thinking quickly, she rose from her chair and walked over to Dominic. She patted him gently on the cheek, trying to look concerned for him. "Actually, he was making fun of your face, and I was trying to stop him before he wounded your ego," she said mockingly.

@dominic

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That was no surprise to him, her saying she was feisty all day every day. He wasn't that surprised that she fluffed her hair, either, considering he had mentioned it. Even if she didn't do it intentionally, bodies had a way of responding to things subconsciously. But then she was rising from her chair, which was unexpected, and walking over to him. He didn't move, holding his ground. She reached a hand up to pat his cheek and his eyebrow rose. "How could he have been making fun of my face when you were jinxing him before I even came in?" he countered, reaching up to grab her hand lightly and move it away from his face, "don't put your face problems on me, Den. Unless, of course, you're jealous. In which case I'll take the hit if that would help your ego."

@adena

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Adena rolled her eyes, snatching her hand away from Dominic's as he grabbed it. She blew on her fingers as rubbed it on her blouse as if wiping away the dirtiest of germs. Which Dominic was, really: the world's dirtiest germ. "You could take a hit. In the face. With a crowbar," she said sweetly. She raised her wand, pointing it daintily at his face and smirking. "And believe me, that can be arranged." She had to give it to Dominic. She would never admit it, of course, but he was a formidable opponent when it came to the ways of sarcasm. "So unless you have something useful to say, I would move along if I was you, Dippet," she added menacingly. "I would hate to have to spend the next hour cleaning up Miss Zhu's room."

@dominic

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She wiped off her hand and he chuckled darkly, letting her go ahead and make her show. Then she mentioned hitting him in the face with a crowbar...? Wow, she didn't hold back on her weird thoughts. "Arranged? You got access to a crowbar in a magical castle?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. She told him to move along, speaking about cleaning up the room. In all honesty, he wouldn't mind a good physical fight, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to do that with Adena here. "I'd love to be of some use to you, if you've got any ideas of how," he suggested, shrugging. He'd let her hold the reigns for a while longer.

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