april showers

[ELEANOR CORDELIA WORRALL]

It was dark but somewhat pretty

COLLIN LUCAS MARCS , 420, i mean - best friends are required to properly celebrate a birthday right?

April fifth, to most it was just another spring day. She had been born early in the morning sixteen years ago. It made her smile as she woke up early, almost as if it was just her own special way of greeting the day. Even if she had woken as the sun barely crested it didn't mean she was going to stay awake, it was a Saturday after all. After a few more and well deserved hours of sleep Ellie woke up and properly prepared for the day. Birthdays were....fun, but sad. It was difficult not to still miss her father after all these years, difficult not to miss a mother who at least seemed a little happier with her life. Yes, how could she not think about the two people and the lives she changed sixteen years prior this very day?

Never the less she would try her best. Collin wouldn't be too happy if she spoiled her own birthday being wistful of things that were out of her control. It wasn't that she put an extra effort into her appearance, its just it was an important day - if only to a few people in the world. So a little anti-frizz potion and perhaps she picked one of her nicer shirts and jumpers, at least the weekend meant they could disregard the uniform dress code. Still, her looks were far from flashy, she wasn't attempting to draw attention to stick out - those who mattered saw her no matter what she wore or did with her frizzy blonde curls. And even those that didn't matter gave her enough attention for her...oddities as they might not so nicely say.

Today was not about the masses though, after all for them it was just April fifth. Instead she would focus on him, the positive, the fun. Content with her look and her mind set Ellie made her way from dorms to the commons. She didn't rush, it was always good to take the morning in for all that it was. The spring rain against the windows brought a small smirk to her lips.

"Good morning Collin!" Ellie chimed in her own happy way as she made her way into the commons of hufflepuff house. She didn't have to look to know her friend would be there waiting for her already, not that she often kept him waiting - its just it would be rude to potentially foil any fun he might have wanted to have by arriving far too early.

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[COLLIN LUCAS MARCS]

Collin stretched his form half dangling off his bed as he attempted to wake up. Today was his bestfriends birthday and though he had spent most of the night wandering the castle with Kyle, he felt it was his sworn duty to make it a good day for Ellie. His normal routine of vandalizing walls in hogsmeade or finding an empty room to paint In wouldn't do for the day. No today was Ellie's sixteenth birthday which meant that he had to make sure it was special.



He was completely lost at how to make that happen, so he did the only thing he could do. He got up, freshened up and got dressed. Hopefully things wouldn't be too much of a disaster for him, with Kyle nestled in his satchel he descended the step from the boys dormitory and into the common room. Walking over to Ellie he handed her, his gift to her. It was journal.



"I figured it could help you sort out your vision and thoughts and stuff" He said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. Hopefully she liked it, he wasn't good at things like this. He was a selfish person, he normally only thought about himself.



"On that note, today is your day so whatever you want to do I'm okay with it. I'm willing to go along with anything" That was the best way to ensure she had fun on her birthday doing whatever his best friend could come up with.

ELEANOR CORDELIA WORRALL

[ELEANOR CORDELIA WORRALL]

It was dark but somewhat pretty

COLLIN LUCAS MARCS, 324,

"Thank you, Collin." Ellie said ever so politely as she delicately took the journal from her friend's hand. "Its a very thoughtful and useful gift." She did go through a number of journals, even more so these days as she learned more and more about divinations. "I look forward to making good use of it." As she turned the journal over in her hands so she could get a better look at it as a whole she heard Collin start to speak again.

'On that note, today is your day so whatever you want to do I'm okay with it. I'm willing to go along with anything' Ellie smiled softly even if she was finding herself feeling a little disappointed. Collin could ask a lot of her sometimes, she understood there were reasons why he was the way he was - but it meant that often he was indirectly asking a lot of Ellie. Many times she had been faced with having to choose between him and her few other friends to accommodate Collin's social preferences - not that she minded much as she adored Collin. However, she had to wonder when things would start to feel little less one-sided. Having never been too fond of her birthday it just felt awkward now having to think of a a plan for it - something she had thought he was going to do...maybe just once. Never the less though Ellie smiled at her best friend.

"Oh...so you, didn't have anything planned? I guess breakfast would be a reasonable place for us to start, and maybe we will find Benjamin, he might have something he wanted to do with me today - or maybe he doesn't have a plan either." Ellie didn't want to seem panicked about the situation, it was hard to say how her younger brother felt about her birthday - or even her for that matter - since their father had walked out.

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