I hear symphonies

[Clara Zhefarovich]

The Forbidden Forest wasn't somewhere Clara had ever planned on venturing. She'd never been here before, and didn't really want to go. But Lucien had asked her to meet him there. Clara couldn't understand why someone would want to meet there, but she supposed he had his reasons. The year had only just started, but she did miss him already. So there she was, standing awkwardly in front of the Forbidden Forest, nervously waiting for someone she liked. Who actually seemed to like her back. Not like Fergusson.

 

[Lucien Snow]

The only reason why Lucien wanted to meet Clara in the forest was for privacy. He had something special to ask her, and this was the perfect place. Before he arrived to the forest, Lucien made sure his Slytherin robes were neat to meet with the Hufflepuff prefect. He stepped into the forest, and soon found Clara waiting on him, just as he said. She was really good at following orders. And all he wanted to do was just snog her lights out. But, he should probably put a claim on her first. "Looking lovely, as always, Clara," purred Lucien as he snaked his arm around her waist.​

 

[Clara Zhefarovich]

Clara's skin tingled when Lucien put his arm around her. She was so entranced by him, all he had to say was jump, and she would ask how high. Clara didn't think anyone would ever like her, and after the debacle with Graeme, if someone wanted to actually be with her, she would treat him like a King.
A blush reddened her cheeks when he said she was looking good. "Thank-you." Clara said, smiling. "You look. Really amazing." She said, but not fully checking him out, wanting to respect his body.

 

[Lucien Snow]

She thanked him, and she was smiling. She also commented on how good Lucien looked, which he was not surprised for. His answer reflected that, "I know. I always look my best." Except when he helped Avie with his rock collection. Then he got dirty. It killed him to get dirty. However, right now, Lucien was more impressed with his new wardrobe since he grew so much over the break. He was now close to six and a half. He was two inches shorter than that. He put his other arm around her so that he could pull her close to him. "I think it is about time I take you off the market. Make you unavailable to everyone but me. What do you say?"
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[Clara Zhefarovich]

Clara smiled when Lucien said he always looked his best. She liked his confidence, it was something she struggled to have. He pulled her in close, and Clara felt her heart thumping in her chest. She looked up at him, taking a few moments for what he said to make sense, before grinning. A huge grin. "Yes, that'd be...awesome." She said, trying to not freak out. But she couldn't believe it! Her first boyfriend! She couldn't believe someone actually wanted to be her boyfriend. She didn't know what to do next. Do they kiss? She wanted to kiss him. But Clara waited for him to make the first move. She didn't want to mess up, or do something he wouldn't like.

 

[Avie Mitchell]

Avie had been wandering around the forest, he had been doing some mushroom gathering, the teen had recently discovered a whole host of them with in the forest, and he just really enjoyed pulling them, removing them from the ground and then occasionally putting them in his pocket. He didn't like mushrooms, he thought they tasted horrible, all chewy and just not sweet enough. He hated the way they tasted, but he really loved pulling them out of the ground and throwing them. He was currently, in the forest doing just that, with his little pet rock in his pocket, and a slug was sitting on his shoulder, he had just randomly picked it up off the ground, though it seemed content to remain. The teen was just wandering through until he came to a particularly large mushroom, he tugged and tugged on it, but rather than it appearing he stumbled backwards, tripping up his own feet tumbling until he eventually hit someone. Avie dazed, and in a little bit of pain opened his eyes and spotted Lucien, "Lucien!" he exclaimed happily completely obvious to the other person.
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((Donna I hope you don't mind the God mod, I can change it if you need/want me too))

 

[Lucien Snow]

Lucien could almost see what Clara wanted, only because he wanted it too. He wanted to snog the lights out of her. He was just about to land one on her when he felt a bump, and he heard his name. Normally, he would be thrilled to see Avie, and if this was any other student, Lucien would be cursing them into next Wednesday. He gently pulled from Clara and folded his arms across his chest. "Avie... Um, meet my girlfriend, Clara?" Lucien gestured toward her since he did not even acknowledge her. "We were about to kiss and stuff. But... Well, what are you doing all the way out here?" Lucien didn't think Avie to come into the forbidden forest, but then again, he never really knew that unpredictable kid either.
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[Clara Zhefarovich]

Clara felt a bump, and was completely pulled out of her zone as she realized there was another person there. Her frown was short lived as Lucien introduced her as his girlfriend. She almost didn't hear the 'we were going to kiss' part, she had never been anyone's girlfriend before. Her heart was all a flutter, and she blushed slightly when Lucien told the boy named Avie they were going to kiss. Clara lifted her hand in greeting. "Nice to meet you." She said softly.

 

[Avie Mitchell]

Avie was gladly helped to his feet by Lucien, and it was then, as he proceeded to introduce him to the other person, the girl, that Avie even noticed that she was there, he looked back at Lucien and frowned at his words, "Girlfriend?" he barely hide the disgust at the word, as he looked at the girl, who seemed nice enough but he just frowned at her, his frown increasing when he heard what they were about to do, "Lucien! What did I tell you about kissing? It's gross, you'll get germs, she has germs, you'll die! I don't want you to die!" he hissed to him, looking back at the girl, he didn't like the fact that Lucien had a girlfriend, but just because he didn't want his friend to get nasty germs from kissing or whatever it was that couples did. He glanced back at the girl, "I was pulling mushrooms," he told him, before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a handful, holding them out for Lucien to see, "I don't like mushrooms, they taste funny and make me puke, but I like pulling them out the ground," he explained, handing most of the mushrooms in his hand to the girl, Clara, without giving her much choice "My arms have got this strange rash though, which keeps making me itch really bad, I get Rockie to scratch it when we're resting," the boy rambled on.
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[Jean Snow]

Jean had spotted Lucien heading towards the forest from a window, and he shot off down the stairs. He'd been looking for his twin for hours. As he reached the forest, breathless, Jean bellowed. "Lucien!" He continued on, hearing multiple voices within. As he reached them all, Jean took the scene in. "Hi Avie" he greeted the boy glumly. He'd become a bit jealous of him because he thought his brother preferred time with him. Then, he spotted the blonde. "Is this Clara, Luc? It's a pleasure" he nodded, his accent strong. If it wasn't, Lucien was going to be in big trouble with the girl. "Luc was talking about you. All. Break. Long" he added with a wicked grin as he turned to his brother. "I need to talk to you. Now."

 

[Lucien Snow]

Lucien figured that it would be a while before he and Clara got some alone time. He held her hand within his, like he was claiming her. Avie started to freak out about the thought of kissing, before he face palmed. "Avie, you don't die by kissing. That is only with dementors. And Clara isn't one of those." Lucien felt like he was talking to a first year but he wouldn't judge Avie for it. "If you got a rash, go to the hospital wing! It might be bad with whatever you were picking up!" Lucien wondered if that would get rid of him before Jean suddenly showed up. "Oh for the love of Merlin..." muttered Lucien. Jean started to go on how he talked about Clara all break. Well that was true. What wasn't mentioned on how easy she was to manipulate. And how pathetic that was. "Fine." Lucien bit out, very annoyed. He walked past Jean, assuming he would follow so the two would talk alone.
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[Jean Snow]

"My broom" Jean bit out as Lucien walked past him. He didn't care about them being alone. "I asked you to pack it for me, but I can't find it anywhere and I need it for tryouts" he began, his tone was very accusing. "Did you pack it? Tell me you didn't forget it" Jean put his hands on his hips. He wouldn't be surprised if the Best Quidditch Player sabatoged him.

 

[Lucien Snow]

Lucien stopped when he heard Jean mention his broom. Right he was supposed to pack it. Lucien knew right where it was. "It is in my trunk. I polished it with my broom yesterday. Sheesh. You are such a girl about it." Lucien shrugged his shoulders like it is no big deal. "Just use the summoning spell and it will come to you. But say to anyone what I did and I'll have to pummel you to the ground. I got a rep to protect." ​

 

[Avie Mitchell]

Avie looked at his friend as he told him that a person couldn't die from kissing and he look skeptically at him, how sure could he be of that! Avie didn't want to lose Lucien, not like he'd lost his mother, he looked at the other with pleading eyes, "You promise that you won't die?" he asked, he really didn't want to lose his friend, he didn't think he could deal with that he cared about his friend. At the statement about going to the hospital wing, the boy just shrugged, "It goes away, and rockie helps!" the boy argued since he didn't want to go to the hospital wing, instead he wanted to pick more mushrooms and search for more rocks. At the arrival of the other one, who greeted them, and said a hello to Avie, the teen smiled "Hello other Lucien!" he greeted him warmly, he always forgot about Lucien's twin and just watched as the pair walked away, he turned to the girl, Clara and pulled out the magically animated rock that Esme had gotten him, "This is Rockie, Rockie this is Clara, we don't know what she is, a girl possibly" he told the rock before looking up at her, "Or are you a dementor? I can't remember what they are, are they ones that are really pretty or the ones with the horse bodies?"
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[Jean Snow]

Jean flushed at how wrong he'd been. Of course, Lucien wouldn't forget his broom. He'd even polished it. "Thanks" he replied quietly. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone how nice you are when you want to be" Jean rolled his eyes. The Gryffindor pulled his wand out, ready to summon his broom when he reached the entrance hall. "And can you tell Avie to stop calling me Other Lucien?" he grumbled. He headed back to the group. "Luc is all yours guys" he told the pair as he left.

 

[Esme Lancaster]

Esmè Lancaster didn't often journey into the Forbidden Forest, not because it was against the rules, but more so due to discomfort the atmosphere gave her. Being surrounded by towering trees, with dry leaves crunching underfoot and no visible sign of civilization through the surrounding darkness. It reminded her too much of the times she and her brother had gone out camping, back when their father still seemed to actually care about either them. Back when she actually looked forward to coming home. Now, returning was more of a chore than anything. But today, she had chosen to enter the restricted area of the Hogwarts grounds for a little bit of divination practice. Since her previously latent inner eye had begun to manifest, she wanted to study and practice the subject as much as she could. The sound of voices had disturbed her from what she was doing however and curious by their familiarity, she followed the sound to its source. "Oh. I see nobody else pays attention to the Forbidden part of the forest." She smiled as she approached the group, smiling at Avie and Lucien as he returned, but payed little notice to the other two.

((Ugh, sorry that this was so long for OSW ))

 

[Clara Zhefarovich]

Clara tried, and failed to hide a smile when Avie told Lucien kissing was gross. She hadn't met Avie before, but he was very interesting. Clara took the mushrooms, taken aback she was being given them. She slowly put them on the ground when the boy said he had gotten rashes from them. That was definitely not what she wanted.
Clara blushed when the twin of Lucien - Jean - appeared, and told her Lucien had been talking about her. She couldn't believe that someone would be that interested in her! As Lucien walked away, Clara looked towards Avie again, as he introduced her to his, pet rock? She laughed at his question. "I am a girl. Dementors are the scary ones with black hoods." Clara told him nicely.
Another girl joined the group, and it became clear to Clara that she wasn't going to be spending alone time with Lucien any time soon. She put her arms behind her back, linking them, unsure what to do.

 

[Lucien Snow]

"I'll try to get him to knock it off. Good luck at try outs though, brother," Lucien said, as he saw Jean move along. 'One down, one to go,' thought Lucien, that is, until Esme arrived. For Merlin's sake, could he ever get any alone time? However, Esme was not with Vulcan right now, so maybe he could use this to his advantage. Heading closer to Esme, Lucien forced a smile, "Hey there, and we were hoping that this place would be forbidden for a reason." Lucien looked toward Clara before turning his attention back to Esme. He was trying to speak in code, but he didn't know if it was going through. He would love to hang out with Esme and Avie, but right now, his teenage hormones were definitely roaring.
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[Avie Mitchell]

Avie nodded at the girl when she said she was a girl and then explained what dementors were to him, "They sound scary," he admitted with a little mutter, he just nodded at her and then noticed Esme arrived, "Esme!" he exclaimed happily, before wrapping his arms around her in a friendly hug, pulling away when he noticed that Lucien and his twin seemed to be finished speaking, and one of them left, "Bye!" he said to him, and then looked at the remainder of them, Lucien was saying the forest was forbidden, "Why's it forbidden?" he asked, he knew it was, and the forest was dangerous was that it, "Is it forbidden because the mushrooms give me rashes?" he asked with a serious expression, although he was sure it wasn't for that reason, but to be sure he removed all the other mushrooms from his pockets and just placed them on the ground, "Do you think your brother wants to play with me Lucien?" Avie looked back at where Lucien's brother had headed, "I wanna collect rocks, think he'll want to do that," Avie looked between them all, he didn't want to hang out with Clara and the possible germs that he might get, "Don't let her germs kill you!" he told his friend, and then ran towards Jean, "Other Lucien! You wanna play rocks?" Avie ran towards the other brother.
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[Jean Snow]

Jean paused in his tracks as he heard Avie call him 'Other Lucien' again. He really hated that name. By the time, Avie reached him, though, he had a cordial smile on his face. He and Avie were far from friends, but considering what his brother had done for him, Jean figured he owed him one. Surely, the alone time with his girlfriend would make them even. "Rocks?" he asked, puzzled. No, Lucien is definitely going to owe me now,he reconsidered. "I don't know that game. Why don't you show me" he replied as he led Avie further away.

 

[Esme Lancaster]

"Avie!" Esmè responded as Avie embraced her, returning the hug with as much enthusiasm. She'd not seen as much of her friends as she'd liked to. However, as Lucien spoke she looked between he and the other girl she wasn't all too familiar with, realising that now wasn't going to be the best time to catch up. "I seeee." The Slytherin nodded her understanding, eyebrows waggling suggestively. It seemed like they were all starting to reach the point where being friends with a particular person just wasn't enough. Though, she couldn't see Avie in such a situation. "Well, I'll get back to what I was doing and leave you to it. You two be careful. There's all sorts of dangers lurking in the forest, but try keep your wand in your pocket." She winked at Lucien and as the other two boys went in one direction, she went back in the other.

 

[Sloane Halliwell]

Sloane was rarely on the grounds of Hogwarts. She mostly worked on the third floor and so rarely found the need to check on the grounds, however she had promised Steph that she would check around for any special types of mushrooms and apparently they grew in dark forests. The best place she could think of was, of course, the Forbidden Forest. However as she approached she noticed bodies heading away from it. She frowned and continued walking. The bodies that left were lucky, she hadn't seen their faces, but perhaps there were more. Sloane quietly made her way across the grounds and then sighed in annoyance when she saw two students. One of them was a prefect. "Oh, come on. Really?" This year was something else indeed.
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[Clara Zhefarovich]

More blushing ensued as Lucien spoke to Esme. Clara definitely felt the mood had gone, but she wasn't planning on leaving unless Lucien wanted to. Clara laughed softly as Avie left, telling Lucien to not catch her germs. He was such an interesting person and she hoped that he would grow to like her soon enough. Esme left with her own innuendo, and Clara felt a smile grow on her face, understanding what she meant. She looked down, embarrassed, but glad they were finally alone.
The moment was short lived, however, as, to Clara's dismay, a Professor arrived. She didn't even notice her approaching! "Sorry Professor," Clara said honestly. "We were just leaving." She said, grabbing Lucien's hand and hoping that she would just let them go.

 

[Lucien Snow]

Lucien breathed a sigh of relief when his friends finally got the picture to leave. Finally. Now, he could really fulfill his desires. Just as he was about to scoop Clara into a world of kisses, in came another one. "For the love of Merlin's ba-" Lucien turned around and immediately stopped what he was saying. "Oh. Sorry professor. We'll be going." Lucien took Clara by her hand, and started to lead her out of the forest. He was not about to back talk a professor. He knew better than to disrespect the Slytherin house. No, he can take Clara to an empty classroom and just, have some fun in there.
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[Sloane Halliwell]

Sloane was annoyed that there were students in the Forbidden Forest, but she also remembered her own time at Hogwarts in Scotland, if she'd hadn't gone traversing the grounds there she probably wouldn't be the person she was today. Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing she wasn't sure. Regardless, she wasn't exactly in the mood to be handing out detention slips and considering the state of Hufflepuff house right now, she wasn't sure there was much point punishing either of them, though she did have a few words that she wanted to say. "I appreciate that you both want privacy, really I do. However you aren't going to find the kind of privacy you want from the Forbidden Forest, it's forbidden for a reason." She crossed her arms and sighed. "I'll let you go with a warning, but I mean it, you both should know better, both as older students and particularly because of you is a prefect and the other, a Slytherin." Sloane did not know much about her coworker, but being caught in the Forbidden Forest was probably something he wasn't going to like. "To save you both the embarrassment of explaining to everyone why and how you lost points, I won't be taking any, but if I catch you out here again, you'll lose more than house points." Let them make of that what they would. She turned to leave before turning back with a small smirk. "I hear the Hogwarts Gardens are pretty empty this time of day, nice place for a stroll perhaps?" With that, she headed off in search of those pesky plants.
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