Open Approach with Caution

[Riley King]

Open after Daphne

Riley groaned when she saw the rainy clouds imitated on the enchanted sky in the Great Hall. It meant outside was a rainy day too. She hadn't paid much attention on her way to breakfast so hadn't realized the miserable weather outside. It wasn't so much the rain that bothered her, it was more the fact that it meant that most people would be staying indoors and Riley struggled enough as it was to find quiet and peaceful places. She could usually block things out if she were outside, but she was just going to have to make do. With a small huff, Riley took a seat, pouring some cereal into her bowl before pulling out her book. She was just getting started on the second book and knew it was going to be hard to put it down.

 

[Professor Louis Alcott]

Louis came down to breakfast and sighed as he saw the clouds in the sky on the enchanted ceiling. He liked spending most of his days outside, and it made him sad that the weather was bad again. He had found a tennis ball in his trunk and had hoped to figure out some cool game to play with it. Or at least bounce it off the castle walls or something. As he took his seat at the Gryffindor table, he took the ball out of his bag and started tossing it in the air and catching it again in his hand. He was doing a pretty decent job, until he threw it too high. It flew in an arc and landed in some girl's cereal, which was kind of hilarious. Louis couldn't help himself, he laughed.

 

[Riley King]

Riley hadn't even had a spoon of her cereal yet when the milk and said food splashed all over her. Riley gasped, almost dropping her book before looking over to where the laughter was coming from. The first year Gryffindor glared at the boy. Great. Now she was going to smell like milk all day. She was yet to learn a cleaning spell. Putting down her book and picking up the soggy tennis ball, Riley looked at the boy. "Louis, right?" She asked, before throwing the ball at his head without waiting for an answer.

 

[Professor Louis Alcott]

Louis laughed at the chaos that resulted from him throwing the ball into the girl's cereal. He tried to say sorry, but he was laughing too much to get it out. He nodded at her question but before he knew it, the tennis ball had hit him in the head, making him yelp in surprise and stop laughing. "Ah, no need to be so grumpy about a little mistake." He said with a shrug, picking up the ball from the floor.

 

[Riley King]

Riley smiled slightly when she saw the ball hit his head. She turned back to her cereal before snapping her head back to the boy who told her to not be so grumpy. "If it were a mistake, you would have apologized instead of laughing." Riley scolded Louis, frustrated that she could already smell the off milk on her. Why did Gryffindors have to be so - brash?

 

[Professor Louis Alcott]

Louis grinned at the girl, leaning back a bit as he looked at her. She seemed to be the type to take everything a bit too seriously. "What a boring person would I be if I couldn't laugh at my own mistakes, no?" He said innocently, tossing the ball into the air and catching it again. "Are you always this humorless or only on Tuesdays?"