i hardly gnome her | mina

[mina pandora oliveira]

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Mina bit down on her tongue. She’d said too much. Bran hadn’t known about Rue (though to be completely honest, she wasn’t sure how he hadn’t figured that out already). The two of them were always inseparable. Any business venture one of them delved into, the other did as well. That was just how things worked between them. Without Rue involved, Mina absolutely would not be able to smoke all of this. She also didn’t really have much business sense yet, letting her friend do all the talking. It probably worked out in their benefit to allow Bran a cut, only to diversify and make sure they didn’t lose it all should they end up caught. The odds of that were relatively high, in her opinion.

”Depends on how well we do. Obviously, we have our own cuts to take care of. We probably won’t have enough time to do too much before the end of the year…” Even with magic taking care a lot of the mundane issues involved, time was their biggest enemy. She and Rue graduated in June. Assuming they made it to that point. Her own grades were trash. Getting kicked out of Hogwarts was honestly more likely than graduating at this point. Mina had always assumed they would just pass her, that way they didn’t have to deal with her for another year on a repeat. Full on expulsion would solve that though.

She didn’t like the way Bran used Rue’s ‘nickname’, but nodded her head, nonetheless. There were unavoidable assumptions about both of them. Most were true, of course, like the bit about Rue’s proclivity towards potions and her own promiscuity. ”What’s it to you if Rue is involved? That’s not an issue is it?” Because if it was, she’d have to start exercising her memory modification charms about this encounter even happening.

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a little closer to grace.

october, 2021

IT WAS ALL VERY SERIOUS, BRAN THOUGHT suddenly. Staring at Mina's severe expression as she considered everything Bran said like it was some kind of proper business deal. He took a moment to consider if he was perhaps out of his depth, but brushed it aside, seeing as this was probably the most interesting thing he'd found since the start of the year. Plus, he really wanted some of that weed for himself. A supply so close at hand was an offer he couldn't deny.

"Obviously," Bran crossed his arms and nodded his head, trying to mimic Mina's posture as he watched the cogs turn in her head. She seemed a little more cautious since he'd laid out his terms, as if she might have regretted agreeing at all. Bran tried not to let it sting, seeing as he was getting something out of it in the end. "Suppose I can handle things when you all graduate." He shrugged loosely, pretending that didn't excite him beyond belief. Or, maybe they'd dig it all up to spite him. Bran decided to tread carefully.

"Hey, don't get all twisty on me now," Bran uncrossed his arms to hold up both, palms facing forward. "I didn't mean anything by it," He placated, quirking his brows at the force of her defence. Bran didn't know Prudence, only by reputation alone. He felt no particular way about her at all, and yet Mina seemed ready to tear him in two for using a nickname he'd only heard as a third party. "Just surprised, that's all." He muttered, moving out of the way to run an inspecting eye across their 'crops'.

"Do you guys harvest at certain times?" Bran asked curiously, eager to shift the topic onto bigger and better things. "I've heard its best just before dawn," He crouched down to run a finger over a half-bitten leaf, snorting quietly as he thought of all desperate the gnomes must have been - especially with the munchies. "Kind of fertiliser are you using?" He looked up, catching Mina's eye and acting as cool as he possibly could. It probably wasn't working as well as he'd like. 

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It was a strange feeling to realize that in a few short months, this was it for her at Hogwarts. Assuming, of course, that she managed to graduate. Failing and having to repeat was always a possibility for Mina. Almost everyone in her life was amazed that she had made it all the way to her seventh year without it already happening. To be fair, Sarah’s little incident took a lot of pressure off of her. At this point, she was positive that the school wanted to be done with the Oliveira family as soon as possible. Too bad for them, they still had a number of years to go with Evy. A second year wasn’t much harm to Hogwarts though. Unless her little sister decided to follow in her footsteps. Now that would be hilarious. ”Whatever you want,” Mina shrugged at him. ”I won’t be coming back for it once I’m gone. Hogwarts isn’t getting another sickle out of me.” Not that they were to begin with anyway.

Bran seemed to back off as Mina bristled about Rue. She heard what others said about her friend, and she was getting tired of it. ”Don’t know why you would be, but alright.” Mina didn’t buy his ‘surprise’ about the two of them being in on this project together. The two of them literally did everything together. Plus, if they could make a little extra cash, it would go a long way for their planned trip to the US after they graduated. She could only pilfer so many coins from her mum’s purse before it became obvious that she was stealing.

”I’m going to be honest with you, and I’m sure you’ve already realized it, but I’m not exactly the brains of the operation.” Meaning he would have to ask Rue those sorts of details. Mina only did what they asked when it came time to do certain tasks regarding the plants. She could do menial tasks with few problems but didn’t trust herself when it came to some parts of it. ”If you promise to not use that nickname again, I’ll see if I can get Rue to tell you.” Otherwise, both of their lips were sealed.

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