Two friend's meeting up [Malkaiden]

Mak put her elbows on the table and intertwined her fingers together to show that she was interested in what he was about to say. She stared into his eyes and hung onto every word. She noticed that he blushed but kept looking at her. She thought to herself that this must be a good sign, though she wasn't totally for sure. Puddlemore United? No way that he supported them. "Of course I have heard of them. Before I got to school I supported The Flying Zorbas. It is one of the teams in the Greek Quidditch league. They are pretty good, but nothing compared to Puddlemore United. I quickly changed my support after watching them play a couple of times," she said excitedly.

The excitement could be seen in her eyes and her demeanor as she spoke about the game. "Did you see thier game against the Tornadoes in July?"

Mak cut her eyes playfully at him because she had to admit she was slightly jealuos. She had gotten to see the game, but only as a replay. Watching his excitement, however was almost better than seeing the game, just almost. "Lucky dog you," she added with a toothy grin, "But of course, it had to Puddlemere all the way. How could you pull for anyone else," she reassured him quickly.

Mak watched as the waiter placed thier food before them, but she was enjoying the conversation at the moment too much to want to start eating. She looked across, and gave him a grin seeing that he too was not ready for the food to have arrived this soon. She followed his lead, and picked up her tea, swirling the spoon around in it to mix the contents before taking a sip also.

School supplies. This she did not want to think about. She had been a bit of a procrastinator and had not yet done any real shopping. "I've been to London a couple of times," she admitted, "But I always seem to some how get sidetracked and not gotten anything for the next term." She blushed slightly at her irresponsible self, but continued, "Perhaps we will see each other there." Raised an eyebrow in a questioning way as she said this.

Mak glanced around the outdoor eating area for the first time noticing that they were not alone. There were many happy couples around. Some old, some young, but all enjoying their conversations. It made her feel all warm inside to see this. She smiled as Nick sounded approving of them ‘running into each other’ at Diagon Alley. She was feeling very proud of herself at being able to slide that in to assure herself of at least getting to see him one more time. She picked her cup up, and it stayed suspended in the air as she replied to him, “A couple of weeks before? Was that right? That is normally about the time I try to go as well. To beat the crowd you know.” She took a sip of her tea and sat it down as she cupped both hands around it.

Mak listened as he offered to give her some of his old spell books. Books were not a cheap commodity around Hogwarts, and it was a very sincere offer. She ran through the list in her head and saw this offer as a very helpful one. “That is very sweet of you. I just might take you up on the offer.” She said sincerely, and added with a tone of curiosity, “Which ones did you find most interesting?” She was eager to learn as much about her new friend as she could, and she was sincerely interesting in hearing about all he cared to share.

Names huh? She thought as nick said she needed a nickname. Makaiden was admittedly a difficult one for most people to say. It was a curse of being from Greece though. She liked his suggestions for her new names “I like both,” she admitted, “And you may call me either on, but on one condition.” She eyed him with serious, “You are the only one that can call me that.” And then she smiled to show that she wasn’t serious she was only joking, but she did enjoy the idea that Nick had a special name for her that no one else was going to use. At least not anytime soon.

As she awaited his reply her thought wondered to her favorite subjects. She was always trying to learn new and more advanced stuff for her age. Sometimes she would succeed like the time she tried to produced a patronus charm in an empty classroom right before the end out term. Mind you she only produced a silver wisp, but it was far better than most could do. But in other cases she wasn’t so successful like when she tried to apparate after reading all about it. She half of her ended up downstairs like she intended, but the other half remained rooted to the spot. It was a nasty situation to have to clean up. She shuddered as she recalled this. She heard all that Nick had to say of his favorite subjects and was a little confused when he began talking of the Dark Arts but his explanation of preparing him for a position as an Auror fit in perfectly. “Sounds like me a bit. I would much rather be involved in the class rather than been drummed with notes and such.” She winked as she thought about history of Magic and was sure Nick would follow her drift. That class was definitely her least favorite. The subject itself was probably very interesting, but all the note taking bored her to sleep. “I bet you have some very fascinating books. Dangerous, yes, but fascinating all the same.” She would love to be able to go to Knockturn Alley and the restricted section at school, but her parents had forbid her to visit the first, and the second was against the rules at school.
She took another sip of the tea, but it was such a warm day she began to wish that she had gotten another drink, but she smiled sweetly as she listened to Nick’s talk of names again. She had in fact been trying to think of a good nickname for him after her brought one up for her, but she was having some difficulties. “Well, I’ve thought of a few, but I haven’t liked any of them.., Nicky was the best I have been able to think of so far… I guess I’ll have to keep thinking.” she said hopefully, “Plus these things have to come naturally. Like you do something silly and the name stick with you forever.” She blushed as she recalled the time where she was about four years old and she took off on her sister’s broom, but she instantly flipped upside down and fell off. Her sister said ‘you silly goose you know better than to ride my broom,’ and ever since then when she does something silly or clumsy a family member will call her Goose.

Mak looked contemplative as Nick gave her something else to think about. With all the war going on around them it was very true that they didn’t need to be hearing about stuff in the past. It did seem a bit insensitive. She nodded in agreement as he gave her the different point of view. She then laughed as he told her that he got a ‘D’ in History. She wished she had the guts to skip an entire term. “I’m not quite so bold as to miss an entire term of classes,” she said at last and added sheepishly, “But it doesn’t hurt to miss one here and there.” At this point a broad smile came across her face as she knew then that Nick would know that she had skived off a few classes.

She looked at him with her left eyebrow raised in a speculative manner, “Aww how sweet you care whether or not the book would hurt me.” This being said made her laugh because she was picking on Nick for being so nice. She was feeling more comfortable with him as the day went on, and it was always nice to be able to joke around with someone and know that they won’t take it the wrong way. Suddenly a thought hit her; however, that she hoped would not come true. As much as they were enjoying each other now, she sincerely hoped that when they got back to school nothing would mess up their friendship since they were in rival house. She only allowed herself to ponder on this a minute before resuming to enjoy his company once again because she heard him say ‘I’m not a girl!’ “I know, I told you I didn’t like it,” she got out through smothered laughs