Summer Party!!!

[Demitris Zhefarovich]

Demitris apparated to his home, carrying a load of sodas before placing them into the fridge. He sent out invitations for his party which began at anytime now. He was wearing a white shirt and a pair of blue jeans. The band was setting up in the band room, and he was in the kitchen, using his wand to set out the drinks and food on the counters. Demitris had a special surprise in mind upon hearing about Jaken's engagement to Estrella. He barely remembered her, but nonetheless, he approved.

But what he did not approve of was Dietrich's attitude. The blonde boy came to him and told him about little Benjamin, and took off before Demitris could knock some sense into him. Demitris gave out a special invite to Apollinariya so he could speak with the two of them. Demitris wasn't sure who was going to arrive first, but he did hope it was his girlfriend Kailey. Boy, after dinner tonight, he was going to announce something that was tied in with the special surprise. Demitris made sure to not invite Svetlana. After graduation, he had no idea where she went or anything. Not that he cared.

Things were almost ready. Now, all he needed were the guests to arrive. He made sure to tell them to bring swimming items in case they wanted to swim inside his inside pool. The weather outside was superb, but it was still rather chilly for any outside swimming. Or rather, his pool was. He made a mental note to give the pool a heater like his inside one. Demitris murmured, "I just hope no drama goes down here." With a few members of the gang coming, there was no telling what will happen. But today would be a good day. Perhaps even a few guests would spend the night. Dietrich was spending a week with him. As for Jaken, Demitris did not know what the former Slytherin's plans were.

 

[Katerina Ivanova]

In the last few weeks, Katerina had been more cheerful than anyone had ever seen her. Sure, she was sad to graduate, sad to leave the sanctuary of Durmstrang, a place that had been her home for 7 (well, 6) years. But there was hope and happiness. At some point soon - the details had not been finalised yet - she and Yvan would be moving to New Zealand, the place where they had spent their fifth year and the very same place where they had come together. Together, they would go back and start off their future.
And as one final celebration of their time at Durmstrang, Demitris of all people had invited her to his graduation party. The old Katerina would have been frightened and apprehensive. But now, Katerina was in too good of a mood to be at all apprehensive. The eighteen year old was more than willing to make her amends and to celebrate seven years of education and the start of something new. Her muggle grandparents always told her not to let the sun set on an argument, and Katerina was going to make sure she achieved closure and resolution. She was an adult, a graduate, and so were they. It was high time they all started behaving as such.
Dressed in a brightly coloured summer dress from her mother's home of France, with swimmers concealed underneath, Katerina apparated to the address that she had been given. Seeing nobody else but Demitris around, Katerina smiled, nervously.
"Hello," she greeted, with a degree of warmth. "Thanks for inviting me," she added, politely. "And I don't know if I mentioned it before, but congratulations on graduating."

 

[Kailey Harrington]

When Kailey arrived at the nearest floo she was nearly thrown out of the grate and her trunk not too far behind her as she made the trip across the world via fireplace from Headmistress Cecilys office at Hogwarts New Zealand to Russia. She nodded a silent apology for her rough entry to the owner of the small store the got there through andquickly walked out the door her trunk going behind her seeing as if she had tried to go home first chances are she wouldn't have gotten back out. She walked the distance between the checkpoint and Demitris' house which wasn't that far.

She knocked lightly on the front door but realized after a few seconds that the chances were Demitris couldn't hear it from deep within his house so she slowly opened the door slightly surprised to see it unlocked and decided to put her trunk away for the time being before doing anything putting it in the same room she had used last time she had stayed here. She looked down at herself and ralized that her hogwarts robes probably weren't the best thing to wear at a durmstrang graduation party so she opened her trunk and quickly pulled out a Plain white dress. and changed into it. It was perfect for summer, light and lightweight, not to mention it looked nice with her newly blonde hair.

Closing the door behind her she quickly made her way back down the stairs of the large house and went in search of her boyfriend to help set up for the party. After a few minutes she found him in the kitchen talking to a girl with light brown hair who she assumed to be a fellow graduate. She hadn't been able to attend the graduation so she didn't know for sure. Though something told her aside from watching Demitris she wouldn't have had much place there anyways. Not exctly knowing what to do she simply stood n the doorway to the kitchen giving Demitris a sall smile in gretting not wanting to interrupt his conversation to give him the greeting she would have preferred to give him.

 

[Lemina Troque]

Lemina threw down her hair as she arrived at the floo network checkpoint. She had left her house not long before, travelling from Scotland to Russia. She was here for a party. A graduation party. A Durmstrang graduation party. Hosted by someone who she had never even met before. But she was still thrilled to be there. Kailey - one of her best friend's - had invited her along. It was her boyfriend who has holding this summer party, and she had said she would have liked to have one of her friends from school there.

But that wasn't the only reason Lemina was coming. Hayden had also asked her along to the do and she had been delighted to say yes. Any chance to spend time with her boyfriend could not be passed up. She grinned to herself as she brushed the soot off of her new dress, teamed with a pair of burgundy high heels and a heart shaped locket. She loved her outfit and had to resist using scourgify to clean it up. One of the wizards without a trace could clean it up for her once she arrived at Demitris' house.

As she made her way through the door, she heard voices from the kitchen. Kailey was standing at the doorway and further in were two older people. She very vaguely recognised the girl and she presumed that the male was Kailey's boyfriend. "Hey Kailey!" She grinned at her friend. She didn't was to invade on her time with Demitris, but she knew they would have time apart later on.

 

[Hayden Kerberos]

Relief that school was over, finally hit Hayden Kerberos as he changed into a pair of jeans and a white shirt that showed his muscular chest just enough then apparated into his friends home. Of course, he was still perfecting it so he accidentally ended up in one of the many washroom's in his friend's house. He was relieved that the shower wasn't on because he would have been soaked.

Hayden rolled his eyes at himself as he walked out of the washroom. That thought quickly left his mind as he thought of seeing Lemina once more. He had missed her throughout the year and only got in a letter or two, due to NEWTs preparations for himself and OWLs for her. But now this year he didn't have to study so rapidly and could relax, in that sense, but he did need to find a job. Hayden's parents wouldn't give him money until he had a steady job, as they spent their money on extravagant travels and ignored their six year old daughter, twelve year old son and fourteen year old daughter, all of which he had to care for when their caretaker didn't show up, which was often.

Now was not the time to worry about his younger siblings, however, and this was shown when he saw Lemina. He strode towards her and placed a kiss atop her head. "Hello Mina," he smiled, wrapping his arms around her thin waist from behind before looking towards her blonde friend. He smiled at the girl, assuming that this was Demetris' Hogwarts girlfriend. His attention for the girl was given sparingly, as he hadn't seen his own girlfriend in nearly a year.

"You're getting me dirty you know," Hayden said to Lemina teasingly, truthfully not minding at all. He would just scourgify the pair of them after he let her go.

 

[Kailey Harrington]

[I think if the shower was on he would have more to worry about then getting wet XD.]

Kailey was brushing a bit of lint off of the shoulder of her dress when she heard a familiar high pitched voice greet her from behind. She turned around and saw Lemina, one of her best friends, in a white dress similar to her own. Judging by the girl in the kitchens outfit Kailey felt she made the right decision about the dress instead of the regrular jeans and tee shirt combo she had thought about. "Hey Lemi!" she chirped, happy her friend could make it even though they'd both probably spend their time with their respective Durmstrang graduate boyfriends. She remembered when they found out they were both dating Durmstrang 7th years. That had been hilarious.

"You look great Lemi." she complimented her friends appearance, sure the dress had some soot on it buit that was easily fixed by a bit of magic, So one of the older wizards, More than likely Hayden, would probably cast a scourgify for her. Kailey knew her hogwarts robes were now filthy, That floo checkpoint was old and rougher than most of them, Kailey hadn't even known they got rougher with age. Though those like everything else never stayed in pristine condition. She looked at the guy who wrapped his arms around Lemina for a second or two in acknowledgement, returning the smile before looking back to Demitris.

Seeing as Lemina had her man with her now and Demitris's conversation with the classmate seemed to be over she walked out of the doorway into the actual kitchen her feet making almost no noise on the tile as she walked, only stopping when she was standing beside him. "Hey Demitris." she greeted softly smiling at the man she hadn't seen since January. Letters were nice and they both had major exams to crack down on studying during the last brightstone weekend. But she had missed him and was happy it was summer seeing as she would be spending about half of her break there more than likely.

 

[Demitris Zhefarovich]

Demitris flashed a broad smile to see Katerina first. One he regretted helping torture so much. It was almost heartbreaking that she even bothered to come when he invited her. Coming into his territory. Demitris nodded, "No problem. I think we should get on to a new start. I kind of...quit the gang a while back. Dietrich dropped out, though I think you know that. And Jaken...you know the deal with him. Svetlana won't be setting a foot in my house. Without her, we can actually have some fun!" Demitris laughed and replied, "And congratulations on you graduating. I am not surprised about that." He took a bottle of soda for himself and popped it open.

Demitris took a drink, before finally saying, "Oh, help yourself to the food and drinks." Demitris gave her another smile and his green eyes twinkled. Demitris glanced up to see Kailey, and wondered how long she had been standing there. Beaming, he wrapped one of his arms around Kailey, and pulled her close to him. "Hey there." He noticed a bit of dirt or something, probably from the travel by floo, and he flicked out his wand and cast a silent Scourgify on the four of them. "Sorry, I'm a bit of a clean freak." Demitris smiled sheepishly as he put the wand away.

The tall boy narrowed his eyes at Hayden. Though the two of them weren't exactly what someone would call on the best sides of each other, but now, things were a lot different. Demitris snorted, "Geez, come to my house and immediately go to your girlfriend. Not even a hello in greeting to me. I see how it is." His arm still wrapped around Kailey, he wondered when the 'guests of honor' would arrive. Demitris was light and warm today. After all, NEWTs were over, he had his girlfriend at his side, and everything seemed to go just right. He glanced over at his classmate and former victim, "Hey, are you still with Yvan?" Demitris planted a small kiss on Kailey's blonde head, before stopping to realize this.

"Kailey, your hair is blonde..." Demitris didn't mind the change, but still. It was highly noticeable!

 

[Estrella Drage]

Rolling onto her back, Estrella stared through heavy lidded eyes at the ceiling above her. As they had every morning since she had left Hogwarts New Zealand, the memories engaged themselves in a full out assault against her. Not that she was able or willing to fight back. She was happier than she had been in a long period of time; what girl wouldn't be when they were going to be married to the most perfect man in the world? Smiling as she realized that she had wandered from her side, she lay her head against his pillow, drawing in the scent that still lingered. It was going to take more than a few nights to get adjusted to her new accommodations. She wasn't used to this much space, nor could she remember how long it had been since she had last slept side by side with another.

The eighteen year old barely remembered her fiance telling her that he was going to be out to find their wedding rings. She had been simply too exhausted to drag herself out of bed and have an early start to the day. From the way the sunlight was bursting through the windows, she figured it was at least noon by now. The party would start soon, if she remembered correctly. She didn't rush to get ready; either she would be there in time, or she always had the option of showing up fashionably late.

When she was satisfied with her appearance, she turned back to the bed. With a flick of her wand, the sheets tucked themselves under the pillows, making themselves as neat as could be managed. Of course, there were a few creases, but the young woman shrugged it off. When it came to housework, and even the charms associated with it, she was rather lazy and set the bar below perfection.

Although she would be surrounded by mostly strangers, Estrella was elated to go to a party that was not far off. No freezing her backside off on a broomstick, fighting the urge to throw up after apparating, or getting bruised and battered using the Floo Network. Luckily she and Jaken were staying at his friend's for the time being. Getting to the festivities was only the matter of a stroll that spanned the breadth of this massive house. She wasn't too worried about getting lost, considering she would eventually find people.

The people she did find were not completely unfamiliar to her, as she had expected. Quite the contrary, in fact. Her expression changed dramatically as she recognized one of her greatest friends. "KATERINA!" she bellowed, flinging herself at the Durmstrang graduate in a hug that was more of a tackle.

 

[Katerina Ivanova]

Katerina vaguely recognised a few of the new arrivals - girls she believed to be from Hogwarts New Zealand, who appeared to be the girlfriends of Demitris and Hayden. Katerina couldn't help but smile - these girls appeared to be nice girls, perhaps that was part of the change in the attitudes in these two? One could never underestimate how much influence a boyfriend or girlfriend could have on oneself. Katerina herself was no exception - for how much had she changed in fifth year, when she and Yvan had started dating? She was the Ice Queen no more, espeically with Svetlana around, who Katerina percieved as the true Ice Queen. Yvan had thawed her out considerably, so perhaps these girls had softened the harsh attitudes of Demitris and Hayden. Whatever it was, Katerina didn't mind in the slightest.
"I agree," Katerina replied with a nod to the suggestion that they get off to a fresh start. She listened to Demitris, nodding. I am glad to see most of them got their acts together, she thought. When she had seen Jaken in New Zealand, he had turned out to be a rather decent human being, indeed he turned out to be a pretty good person.
"Heh, yes, I am still with him. He may be turning up later, if that's okay with you," Katerina added. The pair of them had plenty to organise in the coming months, as they were beginning to put the plans in place for them to move to New Zealand, hopefully by the end of the year. Katerina could hardly contain her excitement. It was the main reason she was so cheerful recently. Of course, she still had to officially tell her parents about it. She had told Sergei, but telling her parents would be difficult. Her mother would understand, but her father...he would take some convincing. Regardless, Katerina would go anyway. She was eighteen, she didn't have to live under the control of her parents.
Just as she was thinking to herself, Katerina was astonished by a sudden flying tackle. Looking up at her assailant, she beamed as she saw who it was. "Estrella!" Katerina exclaimed, hugging the girl back enthusiastically. "It has been far too long, how are you? Congratulations on graduating, too, I bet you aced every exam!" Katerina babbled, excitedly.

 

[Estrella Drage]

Estrella was glad for once that she didn't have super-strength; she would've probably snapped Katerina in two otherwise. Pulling back from the enthusiastic embrace, she beamed at her friend. She shrugged a bit. "Can't complain. I'm not so sure I aced them- but glad as hell that they are over!" She purposely twisted the palm of her left hand outward, having decided not to show off just yet. "And you? No one told me that you were going to be here!"

What the former Ravenclaw really wanted to ask was what Katerina was doing here. Not that she was opposed to her friend's presence- she was thrilled, in fact- but she was worried that something was up. Both men had been part of the group they had so unluckily run into not a year ago in Obsidian Harbor. To Estrella's understanding, they had given her friend an incredibly hard time in school. At this point, she did not associate the word trust with either of them- unless she compared that trust to what she would have for say, a hungry manticore. Demitris had been kind to her during their stay, and she could only hope that it wasn't an act. One thing was for sure- if anyone from the old 'gang' had any tricks up their sleeves, they would have one merciless witch to deal with.

Not wanting to ignore the rest of those in the room and come off as rude, she turned to the other four. "Hi guys," she greeted Kailey and Lemina warmly, grinning at the both of them. They would both be sixth years returning to school in the fall, and both were prefects. Estrella had good reason to respect and like them. She nodded and smiled weakly at Demitris and the other boy whose name she had conveniently forgotten. The eighteen year old wasn't trying to be unfriendly; she simply didn't know what to say.

 

[Apollinariya Dimitrova]

Apollinariyas journey to the large mansion that was Demitris's home had not been nearly as quick or easy as most of the other guests were sure to have been being nearly five months pregnant made almost all forms of wizarding travel too dangerous for the unborn child that currently resided in her rounded stomach which was noticeable under the mint green dress she wore that fell to around her knees. Brooms were both uncomfortable and too unstable for her tastes these days. Apparation brought the risk of splinching when she was in normal condition, let alone now. Floo, well that was such a rough way to travel it was risky at best.

So Apollinariya was thankful that Italy had forced her to learn how to drive when she pulled the rental car into Demitris's large driveway. She had gotten to Russia the previous evening and if she hadn't found a good hotel she would have been dead on her feet by this point. She had slept pretty much all day and really didn't even know why she had bothered to ntravel so far, and by muggle means at that. For a graduation party to a school she had left with almost no friends, not to mention the father of this child was bound to be there. With that thought she started the car again but quickly cut it back off again, she had gotten all the way here and now she would just have to deal with it.

She got out of the car and slammed the door shut behind her, walking up to the large door the knocked twice. After a few moments the realized it must have been an invite yourself in type of thing seeing as most people would be arriving inside of the house to start with anyways and turned the doorknob. Finding it unlocked she pushed the door open, it shut behind her with a thud and a click. She stood there for a few moments, she heard voices floating along from somewhere else within the houses great depths and followed the sound. She soon found herself in the kitchen and felt oddly out of place. Demitris had his arm wrapped around a younger blonde girl who Apollinariya assumed to be his girlfriend. Hayden was in a similar embrace with another blonde girl around the same age. The girl she assumed to be her old classmate Katerina was chattering away to a girl she didn't recognize.

Then there was her, Apollinariya Dimitrova. Durmstrang drop out, Mother of one, Italy's school for higher magical study graduate. Standing in the middle of all these people who connected in one way or another. Her stomach standing out infront of her sometimes seeming like an entirely separate being which in reality it was, or at least what it held inside of it was. "Hello Demitris, thank you for inviting me to the party." she said being polite but not intruding on his and the blonde girls space. Her accent was a lot lighter than it had been and was slowly being replaced with an Italian one. Little Allegra gave a kick from inside her and her mood lightened instantly. She may not have planned to have another child with Dietrich Metzger but fate seemed to have other plans and she already loved the little girl nestled in her womb.

 

[Kailey Harrington]

Kaileys smile grew wider as Demitris wrapped his arm around her, pulling her closer to him. She had to hold back a snicker though as he pulled out his wand and cast a nonverbal spell. She assumed it to be scourgify after hearing his next statement about being a clean freak and knew it was the truth. She had never seen a more spotless house in her life. Cleaning with magic sure made everything easier that much was certain. But she unfortunately would not have that luxury for another eleven months so her room back at home was still in a dissary of things scattered about and a half made bed which she found amusing considering how little she was at her house anymore. She had gotten onto Trista about it when they were younger and now she was doing the same thing, oh how times changed.

When Demitris pointed out that her hair was blonde Kailey raised her eyebrows. Had it really taken that much time for the change to register in his mind? This struck her as odd, remembering back that winter when she had changed her body just slightly to accomodate the bathing suit she had picked out to wear and he had noticed it almost immediately. Yes she does something glaringly obvious like changing her hair to a completely different color it took him a bit. She supposed this just backed up that everyones minds truly did work differently. She looked up at him and nodded, "Mhm... I just felt it was time for a bit of a change." she said pausing for a moment, "Do you like it?" she asked hesitantly his tone hadn't given his opinion on it.

Shortly after this another Estrella entered the room and nearly tackled the other older girl to the ground in greeting, the two of them quickly got caught up in conversation and she noticed another lone woman, Who had skin that made Kaileys look like porcelain and whos dress flowed over what looked like a Baby bump. Was this woman a fellow graduate? Kailey couldn't imagine having a child at seventeen or eighteen but this woman seemed to have a happy maternal glow. She watched as she gave Demitris her thanks and greetings. But her attention wasn't focused on the girl long as neither of them seemed to have much to say.

 

[Demitris Zhefarovich]

"Kailey, I love it." Demitris spoke with all honesty. However, his attention drew near to Apollinariya, and he released a sigh, and prayed it wasn't Dietrich...again! He was going to get a talking to, and boy, Demitris was going to let him have it. He checked the time. Dietrich could be arriving at any moment. "Hey there, how is the kid? The...born one." Demitris added, "Dietrich..." Demitris shook his head in a non approving manner. He glanced over at Estrella and inquired, "Estrella, where is Jaken? If he is still in bed..." Demitris chuckled. His green eyes sparkled with glee.

 

[Estrella Drage]

Estrella turned her attention from Katerina as Demitris spoke to her. She hadn't told her friend just yet. With a small smile at Demitris, she responded, "Nah, he woke up hours ago. Had to go shopping for something. Wouldn't tell me what." She of course knew that Jaken was out searching for rings, but she didn't think this was the right moment to spill. At first she had thought that she should go with, yet her fiance had been insistent and she couldn't do much more than trust him. He had good taste. Hoping that Jaken's friend would get the hint, she observed the new arrival. She was glad that she had Katerina, having a feeling that the few she knew in this room would probably be the extent of those she could call by name at the party.

 

[Demitris Zhefarovich]

Demitris smirked a bit. Shopping for the rings. "A surprise then," his lie came out so easily, but it was more or less code for Estrella. Demitris gave a sweet kiss to Kailey's forehead and he murmured, "I better go check on the band. I'll be back after a while." He glanced over at Estrella and the rest. "Do what you guys want. If you want to go swimming, I'm sure Kailey can show you the inside pool. It's a little windy and chilly for the outside one." He smiled at the guests, before leaving the kitchen, curving down a long hall way, and into the ball room where the band was setting up to assist them.

 

[Dietrich Metzger]

Dietrich felt cruddy after waking up late for Demitris's party. It was a graduation party, and he wasn't a graduate. In fact, he was just a Quidditch player. A handful of floo powder in his hand, he stepped into his fireplace, and he said clearly, "Demitris Harrington's house!" Dietrich threw the floo powder down with force, and emerald flames surrounded him. How much he hated this traveling, but he couldn't apparate from New Zealand to Russia. Dietrich felt himself going a bit faster than before, and when he saw Demitris's living room, well, he didn't see much of it. Flying out of the fireplace, his legs didn't touch the carpet first. Dietrich instead managed to trip and land on his face. Grumbling in German, "God, I hate floo traveling." He stood up, rather shaky, and he flicked out his wand and cast the cleaning spell so he wouldn't mess up the place very well. His shin hurt from some sort of impact, and his skin on his forehead was slightly reddened from the impact of the floor. He walked into the kitchen, struggling to maintain his cool attitude. His outfit was simple, black jacket, white shirt, and jeans. He spotted several people, including Apollinariya and his stomach twisted into a knot. Please don't let that be mine... Dietrich gulped and he stammered a greeting, "Hey!"