Dancing in the wind

[Madeline Dela Merced]

The sun shine at the clear window of Madeline's driver seat side on her car. She was on her way to her ballet studio at Wellington where she teaches ballet to little kids, it was Saturday, and typically ballet classes should be after school but she thought that making it every weekends, the children will have much more time to learn more and for her to tutor some children that has magical abilities like her and her brother, Ambroise, on weekdays. Madeline also teaches Ambroise magic because he needs more muggle studies than magic, Madeline's parents told them once, but Madeline herself went to Salem Witches Institution and stayed there for her 7 years in school but she ended up being a ballet instructor and a tutor. She looked beside her, Ambroise was just listening to his ipod that she bought for him on his birthday, she sigh and turned at the road as they enter the city of Wellington.

Once they enter the city limit, she looked for a spot to park her car but found none beside her studio and ended up parking at the other side of the road. Madeline pulled over, "Be back here at 5 o'clock in the afternoon or I will not wait for you." She told Ambroise in Spanish and they went out of the car. Madeline saw Ambroise walked away from the car, she couldn't understand why her brother is acting weird all of a sudden; nevertheless, she can always brew some potion that can change his mood but not to do so. Once her brother is out of site, she went into a coffee shop and order a latte on the go for her to take in class, Madeline is a coffee lover because this makes her stay awake like today. After ordering, she went outside and bits of air flew pass her making her dress flew, looking from her left to right on the road and saw no cars arriving, she went and cross the road.

She was slowly walking while reading a folded newspaper as well, a honk of a car scared her and made her run to the other streets where she was going to. An impact was made as she run down against someone and felt the hot liquid on her chest, it was stinging like a bite of an ant but in her case, a lot of ant have bitten her. "For Christ-sake, not another waste of coffee." Madeline told to herself in English rather than to someone who bumped her. It was her fault and not that someone. She was very busy on her shirt, making the stain go away but to no avail, it didn't work at all, Madeline wanted to use magic to it but she knows that if a muggle sees her using magic then she will be having the howler from the Ministry of Magic.

 

[Jared Mccoy]

It was just like any other sunny day in New Zealand. Warm and happy. And just like any other day which Jared was not in work he was out enjoying himself. He always seemed to be out of his flat on his days off, it was only really there for him to sleep in at night. He had always been the sociable type and now that he had left school that factor had not changed for him, in fact it had grown. Now he was free more often and getting more money to go out places. He had asked about a job lending a hand at a small music school to teach some kids how to play guitar. Seeing as he loved music it seemed like a good way for him to go. He did after all want to work in music when he was old and even now and then played at a few bars just for a bit of extra fun and cash. He had always been told to do what he loved because life was too short, that had been his mums saying though, his mum being a muggle he had been a child of both muggle and magical up bringing which was a main reason why he could play so well on a lot of instruments.

With a sigh he looked around the quiet streets of his street and decided he wanted a more exciting atmosphere. Taking a deep breathe and closing his eye Jared apperated to a dark alley way in the middle of Wellington. Because of the fact that he could not expose himself and the only way to apperate around safely was to land in quiet alleys. Once his feet touched the ground once more he stayed still for a few moments, getting his head back and taking a few breaths to let the sick feeling ease up before he opened his eyes again and began to walk towards the main street. The loud noise of all the hustle and bustle which was so very common in a major city such as this was something he welcomed with open arms. He could remember living in London and always going out with his friends in the center. He was just so used to it and it was so refreshing for him.

He had not been walking around for very long before he felt someone bump in to him, or himself bump in to another person. Which ever it still left and warm wet sensation on his chest, through his hoodie even. He looked down to see a wet coffee patch on his new jacket. He then remember why it was there and looked in front of him at the girl who had come off with a worse stain than himself. He cringed slightly. "Oh are you okay?" He asked making sure she had not hurt herself too much, he could tell the liquid was hot just by the little bit he had got but she had got more than him. "It was my fault, I'l get you another." He said doing the gentlemanly thing about this, he didn't actually care who's fault it was he just felt bad about it anyway.

 

[Madeline Dela Merced]

The hot liquid still sting her chest and as she wiped it with a tissue it gets worst than she thought it would be, but she noticed that her tone sounds rude and she doesn't want it that way either. It was no one's fault on the accident or rather, it was her fault that is why the hot coffee poured into her and some, she thinks, onto the person who collided with her. It was then she heard the person asked her if she was okay and by the looks of her chest which is not protected by her cami was red. Nevertheless, she has time for her to smile when she looked up at the person who happened to be a guy. "I'm fine, no worries ..." She looked at her chest and back at the guy and continued on, "Its just a tiny bit of redness, it will go away later on." Madeline patted her chest gently and smiled, but of course, the show must go on as she has to do her job and teach those children some ballet.

But this will happened if the guy didn't offered her another coffee, he too, took responsible of the damage and that made Madeline sigh but smiled at the guy. "It's not your fault what-so-ever, Mr ... Umm ... Handsome guy or just Mister." She giggled at her statement but meant it as always. It's not the guys fault, it was her's and she will took responsible for it and make sure to clean his sweater up. "Another one sounds great but I have to teach those children on that building some ballet first, if you could just wait inside for an hour then I would love to have another one." Madeline told him while pointing the building behind the guy. The children were warming up now and was just waiting for her, she was head instructor of the facility, Madeline has to teach first before she handed class to someone. "But before this -another coffee- I would like you to know my name. I'm Madeline, head instructor of that ballet school behind you." She smiled after she introduce herself.

 

[Jared Mccoy]

After hearing her tell him that she was fine, Jared breathed a slight sigh of relief. He was glad that she wasn't hurt on the most part, a trip to a muggle hospital for burns was not something which he had originally had on his 'fun day' plan. Although he guessed spending a bit of time with a nice looking girl would be something fun for him, seeing as he had gotten out of his last real relationship just before his NEWts he was free to do what he wished. Nodding slowly at her comment he looked at the bit of redness then away quickly after, not wanting to seem like he was checking her out. Which he had done a little bit, but she was pretty after all and hey he was an eighteen year old boy.

As he listened to her tell him that it was not in fact his fault Jared didn't say anything to it, he again did not really care who's fault it was. She was fine as was he so there was no big deal about the event for him to bring up. As he heard her called him handsome however he chuckled slightly and smiled at her. "Well as much as I like the name Mr handsome guy I think its a bit of a mouth full so you can just call me Jared." He answered happily to her, feeling quite happy with himself after being complemented like that. Folding his arms across his chest as she said that she had to teach some kids ballet for an hour if he wanted to wait he thought that proposition over. Watching her dance may not be such a boring thing to do so he would accepted her on that. "Sure, I used to have a friend who did ballet." He said looking behind himself at the younger kids by the building, they looked like they were warming up for their close session. When the girl spoke to him again Jared turned his attention back on her and smiled at her once again when she told him her name. "Thats a pretty name you have there and head instructor, wow. Impressive." He said to her. It may not have been the thing which interested him much but he did know at her age, although he did not know exactly how old she was it was obvious that she was young, and head ballet instructor. She was doing well. He hoped he would do as well in his music career.

 

[Madeline Dela Merced]

The young girl pursed her lips with a smile to it, it was the first time after she broke up with her former that she ever spoke to a guy. It was sad thought for her but she was over it and promised that she will picked the guy that will like her for who Madeline was. Now that she knows whats his name, she will not call him Mister or Mr. Handsome Guy but she liked the nickname. "But I like the nickname "Mr. Handsome Guy" and I don't know why I just said that." She laughed this time and smiled after as she heard from him that he will stay for an hour watching her teach those girls just for a coffee. Madeline's former boyfriend doesn't even like kids and will sometimes shove her students when he always came to the studio and some girls are at the door going out their way. "I think your the most nice guy ever because I never met a guy such as nice as you ..." She trailed off as she stared at his eyes and noticed the girls from the window were looking at them both, "Maybe we should go inside." Madeline turned Jared around for him to see Madeline's students looking at them, smiles or rather giggles, the girls did.

Madeline grab Jared's left arm and pulled her inside of the building, she heard scrambling footsteps as they got inside, she led Jared at the studio where benches are lined up for the parents to sit. She frowned as they entered the studio, it was odd that her students parents was nowhere to be seen, "This is not what something you see everyday." She muttered under her breath and turned to Jared, "If I can just ditch the lesson today, but I can't, anyhow, you can sit tight and see the kids dance ... And not my butt." Madeline smiled at him and placed her bag beside Jared, she trust him for the first time they met and she knows some people has hearts in their chest still. She took off her cardigan revealing the whole dress and her sheer pink tights that she wore on classes but black on recitals. Madeline then went to her students, ordered them to line up horizontally at the barre where a mirror and steel long handle for the students to hold on.

She ask them to dance the seven basic position on ballet and her students obeyed it, starting on Demi Plie, then Grand Plie, Battements Tendus, Battements Degages, Ronds De Jambe A Terre, Battements Frappes, and Glissades. After her students have done the positions, she then did it with out saying the name of the said positions, Madeline did it perfectly and gently, landing on her toe on the last step, she smiled and clapped her hands once. Madeline told them that Teacher Marietta will be teaching them for the next hour as she will be going now, her students groan as she bit her good bye and went toward where Jared was, "Hope you're not annoyed and is cursing me in your head that I took so long." She giggled at her own statement, Madeline was just used that her former boyfriend will give her glares and cursing her but that was over now. The girl then took her cardigan and wore it again, "So ... Are we going?" As she asked this, her students on the background made kissing noises and she turned around to shush them and turned around again at Jared.

 

[Jared Mccoy]

Jared couldn't help but feel a slight bit of enjoyment at her facial expression when she pursed her lips and smiled at him. For a few moment he let his mind wander. Well he let it wander until the sound of her voice interrupted his thoughts. A smile crossing his face at them comment then with a slight shake of his head he answered. "Hey Im not complaining. If thats what you want to call me then your more than welcome." He said jokingly. He didn't mind it, after all she was complementing him so why would he object to it. Although used to complements off people he never seemed to get 'used' to them so to speak, they always made him feel good about himself and always made him smile. "I should get to call you hotness in that case then." He said with a half charming smile deciding that he may as well complement her back. He was certain that she was flirting with him and if he was lucky he could keep her attention for a while long, if you know what he meant. "Iv only said a sentence or so to you. Surely you would need to know me a little better before saying im the nicest person you have met." Jared said to her with a slight confused face. She must not have met many nice people if she thought that about a stranger. As Maddy turned him around to the building which she had pointed out a second ago He chuckled slightly as the young girl were giggling at them. Being an only child he was not acquainted with the ways of kids but that didn't make it any less amusing for him to see.

Jared was about to comment about the giggles and smiles the kids were giving them but he felt her hand on his arm dragging him towards the studio. Stepping in pace with hey Jared caught up and walked beside her before letting her go in to the studio first then following her in and being followed by various young girls in ballet clothing. Looking around the room he could not see what was so appealing about it, then again he was more of a rocker musician cross singer so his opinion was not exactly one which was very sided. Taking a seat to looked back to Maddy and laughed. "Surely its more normal to watch you and not the kids." He said giving her a crooked smile as he walked off. Jared took out his phone and stuck an ear phone in and began to play a few song. Being of both a muggle and wizarding background he was used to both ways of living but preferred the muggle way in a lot of different aspects. He had never been good at magic and because of his hobbies being mostly muggle related it made more sense for him to be more involved in the muggle world than anything else

The hour of her teaching seemed to fly by, then again he did have a nice view now and then but he tried to do as she asked and not look at her so he just flicked through his phone, sending a few messages to muggle friends. It may have been tedious but it took a lot to bore him. He gave her a quick smile as she walked over to him. "Nah not at all, in fact I thought it was quite entertaining watching something different like that." He said standing up, ready to leave. Another chuckle escaped his mouth at the girls again although this time they were making kissing noises at them. He wished. "Yeah lets, I can get you that coffee I promised now." He said happily heading for the door they had entered in.

 

[Madeline Dela Merced]

Madeline shook her head slightly and giggled, her students always do that whenever there is a guy at the studio. They all think that they can pick a perfect guy for her, but to think of it, children can always see on a person whether your worth it or not. "Come on, don't mind my students." Madeline told Jared and proceeded at the door way out. Once outside, she saw her brother going in at the studio and smiled to her slightly, "Hey, Ambroise, I'm just going for a coffee, you can wait for me here." She said to Ambroise but the boy just answered, "I don't care" This made Madeline mad but kept it cool for Jared.

They waited till Ambroise went inside, Madeline sigh and looked at Jared, "I'm sorry about my brother, his a pain in the @ss sometimes." She reasoned out and continued out of the streets. Madeline hope her brother won't sabotage this starting relationship between Jared and her, well, they are starting to know each other and that was good. She's becoming more friendly than before, after her brother have done such terrible things to her past dates. "I can get that stain out of your sweater, if you like though." She pointed on his chest where the stain was, if that stupid car just saw that she was crossing the street, the driver wouldn't honk the car's horn and made Madeline run against Jared. She was sorry though at him.

 

[Jared Mccoy]

Jared took a quick glance around the class and laughed slightly. He didn't have any younger siblings so he was not used to this sort of behaviour, but that didn't mean he didn't find it just as funny as he was finding it right now. He stood up and followed Maddy outside, a cold wind greeting his as he crossed his arms across his chest to keep himself a little warmer. As Jared was about to speak, turning to Maddy she began to speak to another boy. A frown appearing on his face at what the boy said, it was a little rude to say the very least. Up on hearing that the rude boy was her brother Jared's face returned to it normal happy feature, again he was not used to the whole sibling behaviour towards each other as he was an only child but he was open to most different kinds of attitudes they showed to each other. And not to mention it was really not his place to question

Looking down at his top he stared at the stared at the dark splodge now dried in to his hoodie. With a shake of his head he answered. "Nah its fine, its a dark hoodie anyway it will come out in the wash." He said with a shrug of his shoulders passively. "Anyway about this coffee I owe you. Where do you like the best for coffee?" He asked standing back up strait as he spoke to her. Although he himself was not a coffee drinker he wouldn't pass up a nice cup of tea with two sugars, a very English drink he had loved ever since he was really young and nothing had changed even now. He wondered what Maddy though t of his English accent, he had known a few girls to fall in love with it as soon as he spoke. "Besides you have more of a stain than me, surely thats going to be a b!tch to get out." He said tilting his head to the side slightly as he spoke. He was not sure any more who had gotten the brunt of the coffee spill but he was the one who had been wearing a black top

 

[Madeline Dela Merced]

She was already expecting for Jared to object on her to clean his sweater, but nevertheless, its always the guy's job to object in anything that the girl's would do; like buying dinner, or movies and even cleaning their clothes. "If you say so, I won't argue with you." She said to him and just continue to walked with him in the streets. "The best coffee you say? ... Well, starbucks is always my coffee, so, I think that's the best coffee for me ..." Madeline giggled slightly at his comment about her stain, "the stain went all the way to my bra, so, it's really a b!tch to take off. I will have to hand wash it instead of washing machine." Madeline doesn't blush when she said about her bra being stained on, she is a straight talker person and doesn't get embarrass that much. "I noticed your confused looked when you met my brother, it seems its the first time you saw siblings like that. Didn't you have any siblings?" Madeline had asked, but she knew that she wasn't in the way to asked about person things with a stranger that she just met by bumping into him. "You know, don't answer that, sorry for asking." Madeline became quiet and walked quietly beside him, its like nothing had happened and the question was just a thin air that pass by.

 

[Jared Mccoy]

jared felt slightly awkward and guilty when maddy said that she didn't want to argue with him about the matter. had he offended her by not wanting to let her clean his hoodie. he could not understand why that would upset her, maybe it was just a girl thing which he should not even try to understand out of risk of total confusion about the workings of the female mind. "oh iv been to starbucks and il agree with you there. they do some pretty good drinks there. when i was younger i would get the hot chocolate all the time." he said with a laugh remember his childhood. he laugh soon went to an expression of complete interest when she spoke again although he had heard the word bra and looked down, more to see the stain than anything but he soon looked up again when he realised just where his eye sight had been. "ah right um i see. well not having much experience with bra's myself i will just have to take your word for that." he said biting his lower corner of his lip. it was true jared had never really dealt with bra's much, he had never had a real girl friend so to speak and was still a virgin so when she spoke about her bra it just went over his head. "No no it fine i don't mind. but no im an only child so all the brother sister thing is a little different to me." he said rubbing the back of his head awkwardly as he spoke to her.