Someday | Claudia & Toby

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Claudia laid at home draped dramatically over one of the sofas in their living room during the Winter Holidays with their glorious Christmas tree sparkling in the corner by a lit fire. She had been home from ballet for a whole of 15 minutes and hadn’t moved a muscle since. Her dance bag sat carelessly on the floor in the walkway and she was still wearing her tights and leotard under her sweatpants and over sized hoodie. She didn’t feel defeated by her class for the day, but she did feel a little annoyed, despite her attempts at school to keep up with her technique, she had lost a little of it and had to be corrected a lot more than she was used to. Hogwarts was really inconvenient. She wanted so much to be home schooled like most of the other girls who were serious about ballet were. It was either home school or they were off to some dance academy boarding school by this age. Life was so unfair for the young witch.

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For all of winter break Toby had been in a particularly nasty mood. His huge fight with Kinsey before Winter holiday had taken a metal toll on him, and he was stuck in his head battling himself and rethinking what he should have said over and over. There were a few highlights to keep him from going completely mad, such as the 'friend date' with Lusie Windsor. Sadly, that was the only memorable part of his break so far. Well, aside from the dragon attack in Hogsmeade with Anastasia, which was freaking terrifying. That had been a good contribution to his funky mood. All Toby wanted to do was stay tucked away in his bedroom upstairs with his door locked playing video games and surfing the web. Like any typical teenager, his family started to wear on him after a couple of weeks away from the castle. Toby was a dork, so he always missed school when he was on break. He missed his friends. Not that his best friend was even talking to him anymore. This was the first time they hadn't owled each other.

As Toby came down the stairs, he noticed Claudia sprawled across the sofas near the glittering Christmas tree, but he attempted to ignore her since she wasn't always in the best mood after dance class. He knew that was where she came from by the way she was dressed. That attempt of ignoring her fell short when his foot got stuck in her dance bag strap though. Toby instantly tripped himself, knocking straight in their mothers china cabinet with a groan. Nothing happened, it just gave the Ravenclaw a scare when everything inside the cabinet shifted. "Claudia!!" he exclaimed with gritted his teeth, "You're always leaving your bloody bag everywhere! Stop being such a primadonna and clean up after yourself." Toby scolded her, kicking her dance bag into the hallway with a thud as it hit the floor. 

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Claudia raised her head to look over the back of the couch as her brother screamed at her from the hallway as he came down the stairs. Obviously, given the noises that were coming from is mouth, he had tripped over her bag. She rolled her eyes and began to lay back onto the couch until she heard him kick the bag. “Hey now, if you damage my pointe shoes, you’re buying me a new pair, and those things aren’t cheap.” she growled from the plush cushions. “Don’t take out your anger on my dance bag. You could easily look where you’re walking.” she finally let her head collapse again onto the couch. She had rested enough and her body didn’t really hurt her, but she knew if she got up it meant that she had to start rolling out her muscles, and she wasn’t sure she was ready for her arches to scream at her for neglecting them.

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The annoyance behind Claudia's voice was apparent. She never liked when her brother touched her things, so, Toby offered another swift kick to the bag to annoy her, sending it into the living room beside her. "I'm not going to break your stupid shoes. What are they made of, glass?" Toby challenged with a smart ass response, rolling his eyeballs to the back of his skull with a snort. He shot a stupid face at her to mock her after kicking the bag a second time.  Claudia and Toby always had a weird sibling rivalry. They were alike in many aspects, but they couldn't be any more different. "I'd rather take my anger out on you." Toby yanked a circular pillow off of the sofa and tossed it at Clauda, aiming straight for her face. She was laid out looking all too relaxed, he needed to change that.

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“Hey! I’m serious! Knock it off!” she groaned, offering her brother a kick in the thigh as he came to grab a cushion to throw at her. She tossed it off of her when it hit and sat up. “Why do you have to ruin everything? Don’t you have somewhere better to be? Some friends or something? What about that girl? The bitchy one. Go see her or something.” The one who was obviously taking advantage of him. Claudia thought it was too funny to do anything about, but she had heard that his friend Kinsey, another girl in their year in his own house, had finally said something about it, much to Toby’s dismay. Then of course, there were the rumors about him and the little princess too, but she thought that was too far out to even believe at the minute. He was lucky to be friends with Lusie Windsor, she’d never fall for a guy like her dorky older brother.

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As Claudia sent a rogue foot straight for his thigh, Toby shielded his bits, yanking her foot in mid air and pulling her upwards so her bum lifted off the couch. "Oi! Simma down lil tea pot!" he howled dramatically, releasing her foot. If she was going to use aggression, he'd find other ways to restrain her. His eyes narrowed when she started talking badly about Anastasia, instantly triggered by any mention or insinuation of her. He was working on it, really. Toby sighed, "I would love for you to call her that to her face. See how that works out for you." he said dryly. Why did he always feel the need to defend a girl that had never done anything for him? Well, he wasn't really sure anymore. It was something he was asking himself all winter break and he was coming up short with respectable answers. There were the obvious reasons. Toby grumbled, gravitating to the sofa opposite of her. "She's not that bad. It's no wonder why she is the way she is when all you females do is talk mad shite about each other all the bloody time." Toby said quickly, his eyebrows threaded into an annoyed expression.

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He grabbed her by the foot and she felt like kicking him again. “Don’t damage the goods.” she cried. Her feet were currently her livelihood. A dancer was only as good as their feet, the last thing she needed was her idiot brother accidentally injuring her. But, she thought, he’d feel really badly about it, at least, and that would be cool. He challenged her to say that to the girls face and Claudia shrugged, “I would, except I agree, I don’t really think she’s all that bad, I just like seeing the stress on your face when I bring her up.” she teased. Her brother was obviously triggered by the mention of the girl and Claudia was a little proud for being able to have stuck that nerve, especially after he came down the stairs, loudly, disrespecting her stuff and her personal space as he did so. He brought it on himself really. “How’s that going?” she asked.

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Toby attempted to stay clear of her foot, knowing how deadly of weapons they could potentially be, from firsthand experience. He didn't want to get kicked in the face today. After more words started spilling out of her mouth, he remembered why he stayed up in his room all day. He didn't want to deal with the teasing about Anastasia MacFusty, or 'the princess' Lusie Windsor, which would get him hilariously defensive and annoyed. At least she finally got over the fantasy of him being in 'love' with Kinsey all of this time out of her head. Claudia agreed that Anastasia wasn't that bad, telling him she only did it to stress him out. Rolling his eyes, he shook his head, unable to form a comeback to that. Toby already knew this, but her saying it out loud irked him so much more. Sometimes she was such a jerk! The Ravenclaws jaw clenched and his face turned red out of frustration. He nibbled on his bottom lip, eyebrows furrowing to the center of his forehead,  "How does it look like it's going?" he grumbled with a huff, opening the doors for a flood gate of sassy responses his sister could summon. 

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He clapped back at her, asking her how it looked like it was going. She shrugged but then she felt the tug of her heart telling her that she was being too hard on her brother. As much of a dork as he was, and as much of a pain in her butt (literally and physically sometimes) he could be, she did love him. However, he was the one who let the girl use him, it wasn’t Anastasia’s fault that she was charismatic enough to trick her brother into partially being her slave. “You still doing all her homework?” she asked, curiously with just the slightest air of judgement about her words. “Or did Kinsey finally break it through your head?” How a girl as sweet as Kinsey could put up with a boy as annoying as Toby, Claudia had no idea, but it was nice that he had a friend, she supposed.

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Claudia's question if he was still doing Anastasia MacFusty's homework caused Toby's face to turn bright red, his jaw clenching tight at the judgemental tone. She always knew exactly how to grind his gears. What pissed him off the most was that she somehow knew, and that she was basically right about the Kinsey thing too. Was it sister intuition? Did she have moles watching him? Toby wasn't going to deny it because Claudia would find out anyways if she really wanted to. He shrugged his shoulders upwards to answer her question at first. The Ravenclaws mouth opened, and then slammed shut, before opening again. "N-Yes. Still suffering from wicked quill cramp. Maybe it's carpal tunnel, yay." His eyes widened with dramatic feigned excitement. When she mentioned Kinsey's name though, it stung more than Anastasia's this time. His stomach actually dropped, mouth going dry.  "Pretty sure Kinsey hates me now, so there will be no getting through this thick head anytime soon." he told her, trying to sound unbothered, although it was eating him up inside every  day.

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The thing was, as annoying her her brother always was and as mad as he made her, she still cared about him. At least sometimes. And overall, she just thought it was funny that he had managed to get himself into this situation. How could her brother be so naive? She had thought that she taught him better over the years. He got used to being on the lookout around her, but he obviously wasn’t expecting other girls or people to try to take advantage of him too. Not everyone was a nice person who only looked out for their friends best interests like he was. “Okay, well what are you going to do about that?” she asked when he suggested that Kinsey hated him now.

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Toby allowed his head to sink into the sofa cushions as he sent his sister an eye roll. She didn't really want to know what he was going to do about his stupid problems, did she? Hell, he had no clue what he was going to do about any of it. All he could do was take it one day at a time. Toby turned to his sister with a straight face, "I dunno." he grumbled with a comical sigh. "Continue to wallow in self pity as usual, probably." he deadpanned, throwing a Christmas tree pillow adorned with garish bells and tinsel at his sister without flinching. Toby wasn't an aggressive individual in the slightest, tossing pillows at Claudia did make him feel a tiny bit better though, especially when he could tell how much she was enjoying watching him suffer every day.

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Claudia rolled her eyes at his lame response and then flinched as the pillow came hurling at her face. “Hey now, that’s really uncalled for, I’m being nothing if not pleasant right now.” right now was the key word, however, she felt like it was true. She didn’t always hate her brother. Plus, how could she medal in his life if she didn’t know what was going on? “That sounds like a very productive use of your time. Might as well forget you ever had a friend in the first place.” Claudia replied, very sarcastically. “Or, you can get over yourself, admit that you acted like a stupid boy, and get down on your knees and beg Kinsey to take you back as a friend before she comes to her sense and replaces you with someone better.” Claudia shrugged, sitting up on the couch.

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Toby let out an audible huff when Claudia told him that she was being nothing but pleasant, right before insulting him again. Her words stung a lot more than usual, causing his insides to churn, only because he felt like she was right. For once. A part of him did think that he and Kinsey were 'broken up' forever, never to be best friends again. Okay, maybe Toby was being a bit dramatic, but it was their first explosive fight. They didn't usually fight about anything. His jaw clenched, unsure of what to say to his sister. Her words cut him like a knife, even if he knew she was joking, Toby was overly sensitive at times. "Aw. That's real sweet of you to say, Claudia." he shrugged, feigning an apathetic look on his face. "Thanks for the support." he grumbled sarcastically with an eye roll, pushing himself off of the sofa to start leaving the room in a hissy fit. Deep down, he felt like he was probably already replaced, he felt like he was easily replaceable. 


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“You’re being grumpy because you know it’s true.” She really didn’t hate her brother, but he was so angsty and annoying that she couldn’t help but be tough on him. “I’m just trying to help you. You get too caught up in your own head. Sometimes you need an outside perspective.” she admitted. She truly did think that she was being polite to him. Whether he saw it that way or not was his problem, but, she wasn’t trying to hurt or insult him in this moment, maybe it was impossible for her to not do so. She stood up also, but she wasn’t planning to follow him. If he was going to walk away from the conversation, than she was done talking to him. She rarely went out of her way to talk to him, but she was happy to if it happened. She just wished that he would get out of the house and go do something. He was being so mopey. “What does Princess Lusie thing about you being so angsty?” she asked him, since they seemed to be friends now.

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