rowan

After the graduation ceremony Eric knew he wanted to congratulate Penelope as a family, he knew it would mean a lot to her and he felt responsible for her. Their dad not being there was a glaring obvious thing, and it infuriated him on her behalf. So the least they could do was be there for her...

Emery had been seized by the fear of losing Raawhiti forever after graduation, as he realized how much easier it woud be for him to slip away after they left the castle. So once the graduation ceremony was over, Emery had left his seat and pushed his way through the row so he could corner...

After the yule ball, Vanity hadn't honestly wanted to go to the Valentine's Dance with Holden, but to her surprise he had seemed to assume they would go together. She hadn't corrected him, mostly because it was better to show up with a crappy date than with no date at all. She did remember how...

Alicia had never had a girlfriend before, but she was really enjoying it. She and Marama had agreed to date after the Yule Ball, so this was their first real event as girlfriends. Alicia had put on a flowery dress for the occasion and had met up with her girlfriend at the common room. They had...

Ezra was angry. He was angry with Gregory, he was angry with their teachers, but mostly he was angry with himself. Gregory had finally told them what was going on with him, and Ezra felt incredibly stupid for not realizing his friend (roommate?) had been unable to hear for at least a whole...

Vanity stood in the entrance hall, watching happy couples leave and still hearing sounds of the dance in the background. She had left the great hall once Holden had left her. The date had been a disaster. She told herself it didn't matter, she had looked cute on his arm and he had looked...

Alicia wasn't completely inexperienced when it came to romance, but she had never gone to a ball with someone before. She had known about the dances at Hogwarts beforehand, so she had brought a dress, but she had never thought she would get asked out by a cute girl. A cute girl who also happened...

Open after Rowan posts with Nessie Arachne Westwick didn't really see the point of the daycare she and her sister sometimes went to. It seemed like adults thought it was 'good' for them to socialize with other children, but neither her nor Nessie wanted to do that, so they mostly didn't. They...

Diana thought to herself that it had been too long since she had seen Lucy. They had never been as close as they could have been, their age gap of more than a decade creating a natural barrier between them. The twins had been born right around the time Lucy went to Hogwarts, adding even more...

It had been months since Vanity had received the mysterious pink rose from 'hm', and it had taken her a while to figure out those letters were probably an initial, because the whole note had lacked any punctuation. It had taken her even longer to make the connection to Holden Marshall. It wasn't...

((open after Rowan posts with Thistle)) Ezra thought he looked pretty neat in his costume, it was scary and cool. Though he quickly realized no one could actually see it was him, which was a slight problem. After walking around for a bit and waving at people in his year who just looked confused...

Lysander really wasn't sure how he had managed to get here, as his eyes apprehensively wandered over the front door to Rupert Cresswell's home. Not here physically - he'd apparated most of the way - here as in this point in his life. Expelled, cursed, and now at the doorstep to the home of the...

Penelope had been surprised by how busy the library was and had decided to head to the student lounge to do her homework instead. Unfortunately, it seemed to be just as busy. She grimaced, wondering if she should head back to the library or maybe to the common room, but she was wasting a lot of...

Vanity knew Emery never talked to her about anything important, and she honestly didn't mind that, but it still felt a little strange and hurtful to hear he was dating someone from a random person gossiping instead of Emery himself. Apparently, the person he was dating was pretty cool, which...

and with a final round of applause and cheer, the ceremony was over. The air, which had up until then been fairly calm or with just the turbulence of applause, suddenly became agitated with the sounds of chairs moving along the floor and people and the voices of a hall full of people overlapping...

Miro's head and heart were heavy, not in the sense he was exhausted, but more so in the sense he was overwhelmed with too much information in front of him and little capacity to retain said information. Information he had been trying to learn to no avail, letters and words on parchment covering...

When Hazel had gone home and told her parents about her school year, they had listened and enjoyed her stories, but to Hazel's surprise, they were really enthusiastic about her new friend Lucy Holland. From what she could glean, her parents were sort of important. It didn't really matter to...

Archie felt like he was drowning. In both his uncharacteristic nerves and uncertainty but also his overwhelming fear of not being enough. The fear that after all the tumultuous torture that had been the time spent trying to find his biological father, the man would reject him in the same way his...

Surrogacy was a viable and accessible way for many couples to become parents, and a subject Pia had tended to many times in her years in maternal medicine. She had just simply never imagined in all her experience with surrogacy as a healer that she would find herself walking the same path. At...

Valente's apprehension shows mostly in his hands. The irritating action of applying the cuff links he detested to each sleeve, the knotting and undoing, and eventual coming together of his messy tie as he attempts to piece himself together. To piece together a semblance of an appearance to...