Sunny Reunion [Tag:Alena~]

All giggles and smiles, Alena had sat on the end of the Hufflepuff table, closest to where the Headmistress would sit. She was enjoyed her time at Hogwarts, and she knew the year would be over soon, so she was making sure she lived it to its fullest! She didn't want to dwell on how sad she'd be when they'd all leave, she just wanted to have fun now, and then she'd look forward to coming back.

Alena had a lot of friends, even if they didn't know her name, she was always so happy to introduce her self and she was so easy to be brought into conversations. She loved how quickly she made friends and how, wherever she was, she could find someone new to talk to and enjoy every minute of it. Even now, she hadn't know the girls and boys that she was sitting with until she had sat down half an hour ago, and already she was giggling and conversing so fluently. She just loved the feeling of laughing and smiling!

The new friends that Alena had sat with all stood up, slowly in small pairings, and waved their goodbyes. Seeing that they had been at breakfast for the past hour, it was about time to hurry to class, though Alena didn't have a class until noon today. So she smiled and waved to her new-found friends, saying her cheerful goodbyes until they had all disappeared from her sight.

On her face, her smile had still sat, bright as before. She had turned to her food now, having been too busy talking and conversing with the friendly 1st and 2nd years, she hadn't the chance to eat. Slowly she grabbed a half of a bagel, filled with sweet cinnamon swirls, and buttered it before taking a bite. Alena loved the sensation of sweet foods running through her teeth, though her parents always told her she'd get cavities. She never did, and thus had now acted as though cavities were part of a foreign culture, unknown to her.

Her bagel was still in her mouth when the boy became talking to her. She turned her head with her curious eyes open, and a smile ready to show on her face, but he never looked at her. She could only see his white hair.

Taking her time to swallow the delicious bite that was in her mouth, she prepared herself to speak to the boy. He must have not understood, they left because they had classes, it wasn't a mean departure or anything. She'd have to explain that well enough, but she was excited that the boy spoke to her. Maybe she could make another new friend!

"I just met them, they're really nice! They have classes now, that's why they left, it wasn't mean or anything. And I don't have classes until noon, so I just stayed!"

Confused, Alena shook her head. There were no alterior motives, none that she thought of. They were hufflepuffs, friendly and loyal, they were making friends simply to make friends. She didn't understand why anyone would want anything other then that.

"No, it's nice to have friends, and it's a good feeling to be nice to someone, because they always give it back!"

Alena, rather then seeing the boy's face, watched the knife drop to the ground. Or, quite close, but the boy had been quick enough to catch it. She was impressed, but her face soon shifted to shock, he was bleeding!

She scrambled to grab a napkin, and without looking the boy in the eye, took the knife and pushed the napkin to his bleeding hand.

"Are you okay? Does it hurt?"

She slowly looked up at the boy, finally meeting his eyes, and it was as if her insides froze. Those eyes...

She stared between the wound and the boy now, her worry subsiding, though not completely. Instead, something else took its place. Who else had an Amber and Blue eye, though she didnt know...magic could do so many things. There was only one way for Alena to truely find out...

"My name's Alena, what's yours?"

The name that she hoped to hear wasnt what one would have thought. She hadn't known Lucien Dupre, the 4thwork year Slytherin. The click would be with another name...Jared Adams. One that she didnt allow herself too much hope to hear.

At the sound of the name, Alena's shoulders and body had sunken from their previously tense, anticipating state. Of course it was him...it was just a coincidence. But Alena had never let her face falter, she had known better then to show disappointment, and to a complete stranger!

"It's nice to meet you, Lucien! I would shake your hand, but I think you might want to consider seeing the nurse?"

The napkin was soaking through, and she could see the red, just as bright as it would be without the napkin at all. That couldn't be any good. She reached over the table to grab another, clean napkin, and switched it out with the old one. In her hand, the napkin was clutched between two fingers, and she looked around, not sure where to put it.

You couldn't just put it on the table, with food, that would be unsanitary. Or would it disappear? She wasn't sure, but she didn't want to risk it. So instead she sat there, trying to figure out what to do.

"They don't have trashcans here, do they? There must never be a need with all this magic around..."

Her eyes constantly wandered back to his, and she did her best to resist. It was hard for her to know someone with the same eyes, and yet she’d be thinking of another someone. Rude, or something similar, that’s how she found it to be, and she hadn’t wanted to be anything of the sort.

Casting a spell, he easily rid the napkins of their blood, but his hand was still bleeding. Her eyes had glimmered, as she was impressed by seeing magic so openly used, and for simple and good tasks. She had never pictured anything like it before. But, again, seeing that his hand was still hurt Alena became a little uneasy, she hadn’t known him and didn’t know what to do.

“I’m fine, I think you should go now though?”

She posed her statement more like a question, but really she was caught up on something else. He has said ‘we’. She found it a bit odd, to be so included with the boy already, not that she minded at all! She was always up to meeting new people and making new friends, it was just that he hadn’t seemed like the type at first. Oh well, never judge a book by it’s cover!

Alena stood up from her seat and gave a happy nod of the head. She was prepared to go, but she had never been to the Hospital Wing before, and she didn't know where it was. She wasn't sure how she'd help, but she'd do whatever necessary. It was nice to help a friend, a new friend! Even though she couldn't provide much more then a walking conversation.

"Okay, and I'll help you! I don't have class until noon, so I have plenty of time!"

Alena now smiled, looking at Lucien. She tried to pretend that he didn't resemble her childhood friend, but it was a little hard no too. It was quite the uncanny resemblance.

With a happy smile, Alena nodded her head, ready to walk with Lucien to the nurses office. She was trying to think of what she could say to him, because there wasn't much right now that she knew about him. Or maybe that's exactly what she should ask him about?

"What year are you? I'm a first year, so I'm still getting to know the place. It's so big, I don't think I'll know everywhere even by my seventh year!"

She laughed as she looked up at the ceiling while they were walking, as though she could see the millions of floors through the walls.

"And what class do you have? I know that all of my friends left for Transfiguration, and I'll have flying lessons at noon!"

Alena faked angry, pouting and turning her face to Lucien. She couldn't hold it for long though, and started laughing.

"I'll grow! My mom just said it would be a while..."

Now that she thought about it more, it was beginning to phase her more that she had flying lessons today. And noon, too, the worst hour that could have been chosen. All the previous lessons were indoors, the basic things, but now she'd have to go outside.

The teacher knew of her problem, it was required that Hogwarts know of all concerns, but what Alena was most scared of wasn't going out into the sun, but possibly not being able to do it, messing it. She'd be so embarrassed...

(I'm so terribly sorry for the long delay!)

"I ate a perfectly healthy amount of breakfast! I'll be growing like a weed, just you wait, I'll outgrow you!"

That probably wasn't true, but Alena was having too much fun. She smiled and pushed past her concerning thoughts, all too allowing of them to have taken over her face.

Nothing was wrong, and nothing would be wrong! Everything would be well, for herself and for Lucien.

"I just hope you can be healed quickly! It would be a shame to miss a class."

Though she had spoken on different terms, Alena had meant it all as much. Classes here were so important, and such an opportunity! It was just wonderful to be here, and she'd appreciate every moment of it. Attend every class, do all of her work, and even make all of the friends that she could.

She smiled happily at the thought.

She hadn't thought about the OWLs, Alena hardly knew what they were. They were a sort of test, she had understood that, though not much more. If they had been frightening, if they could kick you out of school, none of those she could answer.

"Oh, that would be bad! Maybe, if you do miss class, you could ask the teacher to reteach it to you later? All of the professors here seem so nice! I haven't met one that I dislike!"

Alena followed him toward the staircase, staring up as the stairs began to move.

"How do you navigate? They just never stop moving! It can take me hours to get someplace."