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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 25, 2008 12:29:26 GMT -5
Ali nodded—yet again, energetically—as Shane asked about the cherry song. “Yeah, but it’s all in Japanese!” she informed, like it was the best thing ever. “Only, I can’t understand Japanese, so I didn’t know it was about cherries at first, but the little picture thing has a cherry on it, so it has to be about cherries, otherwise ... [/color]” she paused, taking a deep breath due to the fact that … well, she needed it, and continued, “ otherwise the whole world would EXPLODE!” Alizabeth bounced as she almost screamed ‘explode,’ blue eyes widened in seriousness and arms flying about in large guestures. Oh boy …[/size][/blockquote]
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 25, 2008 12:38:47 GMT -5
Shane raised his eyebrows as the girl explained about the cherry song. Nodding slowly as he grasped the idea, he repeated her last statement. "The world would explode?" he asked, watching as she moved about, making dramatic gestures. He should have known he wouldn't be able to go a week without bumping into the Hufflepuff, and sure enough. Here they were talking. It was a good thing he liked little kids.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 25, 2008 17:14:00 GMT -5
Ali nodded vigorously. “Well, duh the world would explode!” Alizabeth spoke as if it were obvious that what she was saying was true. Of course, she had that uncanny ability to transform even the smallest of hunches into some sort of religious belief, but that was beside the point.
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 25, 2008 19:19:23 GMT -5
Shane smiled, nodding slowly as the girl repeated her statement. He had nothing more to say about the matter. If the girl wanted to make friends with purple flowers and say the world is going to explode, by all means Shane wasn't going to stop her. Arching his eyebrows at a thought he looked at her. "Shouldn't you be in class?" he asked, moving his gaze to look around the lawn. There was almost no one else on the lawn, though he could see a Care of Magical Creatures lesson in the midst a bit of a distance away. After all, it was the middle of a Wednesday afternoon.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 25, 2008 20:01:28 GMT -5
Ali shook her head as Shane asked if she should be in class, smiling the whole time. “Nope!” she informed more verbally, swaying back and forth randomly as she did so. “I have a free period,” she explained smiling brightly. And Shane should be very excited … or … peeved … that Ali decided not to take Muggle Studies that year. Sure it would be an easy ‘A’ for her, considering she was muggle-born, but … it was boring and she hated having to explain rubber duckies to everyone. I mean, sure rubber duckies were, like, the epitome of ‘awesome’ but … it did get annoying when everyone thought they were objects used to channel water … or something …
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 26, 2008 8:30:31 GMT -5
Shane smiled, a 'that's totally great, but not really' expression forming on his features. A whole free period. How was he going to slip away this time? Ah, he'd have to remember to stay slightly out of sight during this period. But what was he thinking? Like all little kids can be, Ali was annoying. Sure, we've got that part covered. But then again, his time between classes would be a whole lot less interesting.
Speaking of classes, "Did you sign up for my class this year?" he asked, not sure whether he was going to like the answer. He wasn't quite sure whether he would enjoy her in class, or miss her. Ah well, only time would tell, right?
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 26, 2008 16:11:39 GMT -5
Ali grinned brightly as Shane smiled, only catching the ‘totally great’ part of his expression. Yeah; that’s what you get when you delve into the mind of a purely optimistic person like Ali; especially one that also has ADHD and this childish air. “It’s so awesome!” she informed, tucking her feet under her to sit cross-legged and rocking from side to side just slightly. “I get a free period, and then I get to stay up really late every so many Fridays!” She was taking Astronomy, basically, was what she was saying. And apparently the Hufflepuff liked the idea of staying up really really late to point at the stars and make funny names since she couldn’t really remember any of the correct, long ones.
She blinked twice as Shane asked her a question, before her face fell slightly—reading apologetic. “No…” she pouted, hoping he wouldn’t be mad. “I’d end up hurting myself,” she pointed out, face breaking into a grin once more.
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 26, 2008 16:27:01 GMT -5
The top of his legs starting to hurt, he shifted from his crouch, sitting in the grass. He layed one of his legs out straight, the other was bent, his foot laying flat on the ground. His arm rested on top of his knee. Slowly his brows furrowed trying to understand just what the girl meant by 'staying up late'. "You signed up for Astronomy?" he asked. He never really understood the subject, though he did think the night sky looked pretty cool.
As soon as the apologetic expression appeared on Ali's face, Shane figured she hadn't signed up for his class. No, he wasn't going to be mad. He still wasn't quite sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing. "You honestly believe I'm that bad of a teacher?" he asked when she said she'd hurt herself. He raised his eyebrows, a few lines appearing in his bare forehead.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 26, 2008 17:24:11 GMT -5
Ali nodded, smiling just as brightly as ever, when Shane asked about taking Astronomy. “Yeah! There’s this one constel-thingy that looks like a muffin!” she exclaimed, blue eyes shining with the joy of the discovery she’d made a few weeks ago. Oh yeah, Muffanoborus was, like, the best constellation … ever.
Ali shook her head, giggling slightly, in response to his next question. “No, but I’m not an athletic person in the first place, and I already hurt myself more than normal in a regular day, think of what would happen if you took me off of the ground,” she pointed out, stealing her father’s reasoning for advising his daughter to not take Flying.
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 26, 2008 17:55:10 GMT -5
"Constellation?" Shane offered as the girl talked about Astronomy. Seriously, he couldn't figure out how the girl could think of the longest nicknames known to man and remember them, but couldn't remember simple words like such. "Are you sure that's a constellation?" he asked, though he regreted it shortly after. He knew more than well that he'd have to go through a ramble session or something that included 'of course its a constel-thingy!' or something like that. Yeah, Shane had spent some time around the girl.
Shane shrugged. "That hasn't stopped some of the students I've taught," he chuckled, leaning forward he again raised his eyebrows. "I've never had a student I couldn't get off the ground," he added. Sure, he's had a few with some injuries but if they listened to him they were never more than sprains. That was just something that happened, even in muggle physical education classes. Accidents happen. Shane honestly thought he could teach the girl to fly, but it was her choice and he wasn't going to push it any farther.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 26, 2008 18:05:09 GMT -5
Ali nodded as Shane named the word she couldn’t think of. “Yeah! Constel-thingy!” she grinned toothily, blue eyes scrunching up slightly. Of course, then he asked if Muffanoborus was a constellation. Uhh… “Of course Muffanoborus is a constellation!” Ali exclaimed, shock written over her face. Who would doubt that the infamous Muffan of the Sky was a constellation!?!?! “Abbey saw it too and everything!” she defended herself, pouting just slightly.
“Yes, but Daddy doesn’t want me to go anywhere near brooms … except for during Quidditch matches … but then I have to stay in the low bleachers … but it doesn’t really matter because Abbey and I always crawl under the bleachers to tickle people’s ankles,” she explained, breaking off in a giggle. Uhm … yeah … that was basically it.
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 26, 2008 19:13:22 GMT -5
Shane shrugged as Ali continued to call the constellations 'constel-thingys. He raised his rather large, calloused hands as if to express that she was right and he was backing off. "Alright, alright...um...'Muffanoborus' is a constellation." he said with a slight chuckle. The fact that Abbey saw it too didn't really help Ali's case in Shane's eyes. It seemed the two girls' mind ran the same things.
"Fair enough," he chuckled when Ali brought up the fact her dad didn't want her to take the class. He raised his eyebrows as the girl told him she was the one tickling people's ankles. "That was you?" he asked, suspicion in his husky, baritone voice. He had gotten a few complaints about that.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Mar 27, 2008 16:10:01 GMT -5
Ali nodded once, firmly, when Shane finally agreed that Muffanoborus was a constellation. “I told you,” she pointed out, her tone more sing-song than anything else. What? She had.
When he asked about the whole tickling people’s ankles thing, though, Ali flushed slightly, face returning to the guiltiness it had portrayed earlier. “Uhm … no …” she attempted to sway his suspicion, shaking her head back and forth violently enough to send her wavy brown hair whipping.
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Post by Shane Varrick on Mar 27, 2008 16:28:22 GMT -5
Shane simple nodded when Ali confirmed that she had told him that the muffin constellation was real. He wasn't going to argue with the girl. The obvious guilty look that appeared on the girl's face made Shane chuckle. It was cute... in a little kid type of way. He shook his head as she tried to take back the fact that she was the one doing the tickling.
He leaned forward a bit. "How about this," he offered, raising his eyebrows slightly. "I won't give you a detention now, but if I hear about the tickling continuing I will," it was a deal he hoped she would take. He really didn't want to spend an entire detention with the girl. She was annoying enough without begging to get out of the punishment.
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Post by Alizabeth Phillips on Apr 6, 2008 16:30:58 GMT -5
Ali sighed, pouting again before nodding in agreement. Detentions sucked … but tickling people was fun. Oh well, she and Abbey would find something new to play around with later. “Okie dokie,” she vocalized her agreement, looking up at him innocently. No, no more tickling for Miss Phillips.
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