This is supposed to be private, right?

[Patricia Styx]

It felt good to be back at HNZ! The holidays had been good. Again Patricia had spent sometime between homes, finding Christmas time the hardest time to be away from her family back in Northern Ireland. Although this year she had enjoyed staying New Zealand as she had met up with Yvo a few times – the boy she had met back at Halloween and who had successfully got her out of the small rut she had been in that day, what with trying to forget about Ruki and everything she was grateful for him and unknowingly distracting her. Finding herself enjoying his company the odd day they had met in the Village Patricia thought it would be a good idea to keep in touch with him, he was so nice – quiet at the start but she had noticed a small change compared to the first time they met – so she couldn’t see herself not wanting to keep in touch. Sitting in the owlery with her parchment on her lap she wrote her letter.

Dear Yvo,

Hey, how are you? How were the rest of your holidays? I really enjoyed the few days we got to meet up; it was a pleasant surprise seeing you again after that day near Halloween. I never did tell you how grateful I was that day for your ‘painful’ distraction. I was going through some things so a friendly face was a great help, so thank you! How’s Durmstrang? It feels like I haven’t even left school, the homework is starting to flood in like usual and it feels like nothing has changed.

Write back soon,

- Patricia

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah sleepily rubbed her eyes as she made her way up to the Owlery. She had just recently woken up from taking the usual nap with Leviathan like she had been doing ever since Halloween had ended and they were both at the school together. She saw it was bonding time even though they were both asleep and didn't really say or do anything but it was however time spent between them not fighting or anything. Once she had woken up though she was reminded by the fact that she needed to write a letter to he father about something, he always wanted her to send him little notes so he would know if she was actually doing alright in school and wasn't getting bullied too much, even if she was she would have lied to him about it because she was actually having it pretty good here now. Ariah had friends, was doing well in school, even got along with her future husband to be and could only hope that they could get closer than before. However if one were to look carefully they would notice that slowly but surely she was turning into someone much different than she had been most of her life. The people she had become so accustomed to being around now were slowly shoving the light out of her and bringing her into the dark, but of course she didn't notice and probably wouldn't until it was too late. Once Ariah reached the top of the Owlery she stopped when she saw someone who looked familiar to her.

"Hey Hufflepuff girl whose name I don't remember." Ariah waved coolly before she headed over to where her Burrowing Owl, Arrow was perched sitting patiently for her. Just as the short blonde was passing by to go to her owl she stopped and stood right next to Patricia, she happened to let her eyes glance down to the letter and stopped halfway when she suddenly grew curious and looked at the name at the top...oddly enough it was the same as her brothers. "Yvo? Yvo who?Hey I have a brother named Yvo..err...sorry for peeking in. Couldn't help it." Ariah scampered away in case the Hufflepuff girl wanted to swat at her and nearly tripped as tripped over what appeared to be..air. Glancing around she wondered if the girl saw that, she hoped she didn't. The owl squeaked at Ariah when she got closely demanding for a treat or two, Arrow was so spoiled. However before she would give the Owl anything she needed to find the darned letter.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia read over the letter once more before she was happy with it. She never really liked to write letters to people, not because she didn’t want to keep in touch with them but because she always ran out of things to talk about; she much preferred to talk to someone face to face. Although she knew that when someone attended a completely different school half way across the World that choice wasn’t viable most of the time so she would have to make do with what resources she had at her dispense. Then again she didn’t know if she’d have to write back to Yvo because it wasn’t guaranteed that he would write back to her. It wasn’t like they had made a pact to keep in touch when anytime they had met in the past had just been random, chance meetings. In Patricia’s opinion she saw no reason why a letter would do any harm so she cleared her mind of any questions she had and decided to just do it.

Patricia started to put away her things as someone else entered the Owlery. Patricia looked up; her eyebrows frowned at the strange introduction. As her eyes landed on the girl who had entered the room she couldn’t help but think of the strange coincidence that just occurred. If it were any other time it Patricia would probably not give it a second thought. Although the girl that had just entered the room was none other than the sister of the person she was writing a letter too. “Hi Ariah!” she said, easily remembering the girls name. Reaching into her bag Patricia took out one of her envelopes. Leaving Ariah to do what she was doing Patricia jotted down the details for the letter to reach Yvo. Just as she was putting her ink and quill back into her bag Patricia heard Ariah’s voice again. Patricia blushed slightly as Ariah noticed the name on the letter that she was writing. Laughing softly she nodded her head, “I know you do. The one I’m writing too and your brother is one in the same in fact.” she added. Patricia was folding the letter, now that the ink dried enough for it to not smudge, and putting it into the envelope that she didn’t notice Ariah tripping slightly. “And don’t worry about peaking, it’s easily enough done.” she shrugged as she stood up to find a spare owl.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah stopped walking immediately and gave Patricia the funniest look she possibly could when Patricia said that was writing to her older brother Yvo, why in the world would anyone want to write him? Turning back and walking over to Patricia a look of confusion had become evident on the young Slytherins face, she had no idea anyone from this school even knew her brother that well. "Why on earth are you writing letters to my stupid brother? He's such a creeper it's not even funny." She muttered back out before Patricia even answered and then walked back to bother Arrow who was getting hyped up from all the action going on around them. Ariah of course loved her brother but he had moments where even he was a huge jerk who just needed to dig himself a hole and bury himself into it as soon as possible. He never really tried to stop the bullying either when she went to Durmstrang, he told her he would rather stay out of it and merely comforted her after all of the events. Yvo was such a pacifist at times that Ariah wondered how he expected to ever get out there in the world.

"I'm sort of sorry I did peek now, curiosity really does kill things." Ariah rubbed her cheek and gave a letter she had written to the owl's beak before shooing it off to her father. Sometimes Ariah wondered if her father even really loved her like he said he did, he never bothered to tell her about Leviathan either and a good parent would have told their child this to risk a freak out later. Yvo and her father barely spoke either. Mostly because Yvo chose to live in Russia with their mother instead of moving to New Zealand like Ariah, her youngest brother, and father had.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia looked down at the ground where she had been sitting to make sure that she hadn’t left anything lying there. When she was sure that everything was clear she turned back round to face the owls and choose one. When she turned round she saw Ariah looking at her with a peculiar look on her face. Patricia looked at her with confusion clear on her face; she couldn’t quite read the look on the young Slytherin’s face. Patricia shuck her head lightly as she laughed at Ariah’s question, she should have expected that question. If she was in the young girls shoes she would probably ask the same question. “I don’t think he’s a creeper nor stupid. Actually he’s really nice, we’re actually friends. So I thought writing a letter or two to him during school would be a good idea.” she told her as she attached the letter to one of the schools owls’. She found it funny though how the two seemed to have somewhat similar ideas of each other, Must be a close family she thought to herself. In actual fact she was pretty much like that with her brothers when she was that age, then again what sisters weren’t like that when it came to their brothers?

When Ariah commented on how she was sorry that she had peaked at the letter Patricia frowned while turning to face the younger girl. “Really Ariah, it’s alright.” she said with a reassuring smile. “It doesn’t matter to me.” she added. Then it occurred to her that maybe Ariah wasn’t sorry that she had looked at Patricia’s private letter but maybe she wasn’t happy that she was writing to her brother, it was a plausible idea. “You don’t…mind me writing to Yvo…do you?” she asked softly, in case she was right. For some reason the day she had met Professor Weasley in the gardens when she was writing a letter to Riley had come into her mind, except that was much more worse and awkward for both of them. Thankfully Riley hadn’t lasted long, actually when she thought of it, it really was nothing.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah was surprised that someone in this school even knew or had the chance to meet her brother at all so she was sort of confused as to how Patricia had ever met her brother. "How did you even meet my brother?" Ariah asked once she snapped out of her thoughts and figured that she would be able to ask a question and actually make sense enough to ask it. Whether not she would actually be told answer was all up to Patricia but she was just merely curious. Yvo was often one to wander around and stuff whenever the loser got the chance to so it wouldn't surprise her if they had met at random, thats how her brother met most of the people he was friends with today, through random outings. Ariah wasn't going to bother to ask what the letters were about either. They were probably nothing but friendly now but some time down the road it could get much different. Eventually girls always ending up seeing Yvo as the man of their dreams when really Ariah knew that he would have no interest in any of them.

"Hey if you have the hots for my brother, whatever." The blonde shrugged her shoulders before she went off to pet at another owl that was in the Owlery, she didn't think it was the case with this one but it was always fun to tease a friend of her brothers. Yvo himself was always really carefree so it was often really hard for him to get upset or annoyed. He was so much like their father that it was almost a little funny to Ariah because he claimed he didn't get along with dad.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia found one of the school owls that didn’t look too tired or too old to make the journey between New Zealand and Durmstrang, something which she knew was quite a journey, not from personal experience of course but from what she heard from other people. Before she attached the letter to the owl she thought it would be best to give it a little bit of special treatment. She felt sorry for making the owl go such a long journey that a few treats wouldn’t go a miss. “Uhh, kinda randomly one day in Brightstone around Halloween.” she said with a small laugh remembering the day, it was most certainly a random meeting. “He dropped a book on my foot and we just got to talking.” she said with a shrug, it sounded strange when it was said out loud but that’s what happened and she couldn’t change that – not that she’d want too.

The next thing that Ariah said made Patricia cough in surprise. “Wait…what?! No!” she asked as she doubled back on Ariah’s statement. “I don’t have the hots for Yvo!” she exclaimed. Some may say that she was being too defensive that she must be lying when in actual fact she was telling the truth. It always amazed Patricia that people always seemed to assume that if you were friends with a boy that you must automatically like them as more than a friend and ‘have the hots’ for them. It reminded her of Ruki all over again when people questioned her about their friendship status, but then again she had indeed ended up developing feelings for him but that was in the past now.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Oddly enough at this point Ariah actually felt as if she were a little bit left out if Patricia had known her brother since October and no one had said anything about it. Crossing her smaller arms over her chest she peered closely at the older Hufflepuff girl that really she had just started to really get to know over the past few minute's they had spoken to one another. "He dropped a book on you and you didn't beat him up?! Are you sure you two only talked?" Ariah had forgotten that not everyone really treated Yvo like she did as she often tried her best to beat the pulp out of her older brothers before they attempted to do something mean to her like lock her in a closet or something. Ariah just had a hard time seeing someone getting along with Yvo like that and only talking to be exact, Yvo once had a lot of admirers but knowing that knucklehead he probably scared them off with his weirdness. A small breeze blew by and pushed some of Ariah's blonde hair into her face before she rolled her mint green eyes and started to bring her attention to another owl.

"Riggghhht, I totally believe you. You icky Yvo lover!" Ariah muttered out with a sly smirk before she stopped paying attention to the owls all together. She may have been shorter, younger, and far more naive than Patricia was but she wasn't that stupid. Especially with the way she had responded to Ariah's earlier accusation. It was like one of those tv shows. It was obvious that something was going on and the blonde was going to of course figure it out, maybe after bothering Yvo a bit too.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia knew very little about Ariah but what she had learned from the Sorority when they had their meetings etc she could tell that she was a very cute, sweet little girl. Although as she watched the younger girl stare at her and cross her arms over her chest she began to wonder if she was as nicey nice as Patricia had first made her out to be. Of course she knew that younger sisters sometimes had things against girls that their brothers knew and became jealous that this new girl would steal their brother from them; or so she had seen in some television shows; she wondered if Ariah was like that. Although from what Yvo had told Patricia about their relationship this was not something that she would expect from Ariah, then again she didn’t know the young Slytherin girl all that well so she could surprise the Hufflepuff. Patricia laughed when Ariah found it hard to believe that she didn’t beat up Yvo for dropping a book on her foot. “Why would I beat up a complete strange for something that was an accident?” she asked somewhat rhetorically but left it open for a reply. “Yes Ariah, I am one hundred percent positive that we just talked.” she said, a laugh lacing her words, finding it funny that Ariah seemed to be freaking out about the fact that Patricia was friends with her brother.

Patricia snorted as she heard Ariah’s next comment, although she didn’t find it particularly funny, more surprised to hear from the young girl. “There was so much wrong with that statement.” she said shaking her head. Patricia rubbed her temples a bit because she had a fair idea with how this conversation was going to continue and she wasn’t looking forward to it. Why people just couldn’t understand that a boy and a girl can just be friends was beyond her but with a sigh she got ready for Ariah’s comeback, if she was going to have one.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah rolled her mint colored eyes. "I dunno, maybe because it's my brother and he needs a good punch or two?" Hopefully the whole dropping the book on someone thing wasn't his form of making an excuse to talk to a girl since Ariah has remembered him doing that to someone before. Usually she was such a sweet tempered girl but when it came to her brother she was a little out of it because of their obvious difference from one another these days. A small giggled escaped her as the owl she had been petting earlier tried to eat her necklace off of her neck. "You are so cute!" She stroked it's soft feathers again and it stopped trying to eat the heart necklace. Ariah loved animals so much as well as the outdoors but the closer it got to Winter the less walks she was able to take outside and such, sometimes it sucked living in one area most of your life then doing to school in a place where the seasons were the opposite. Once she was done loving all over the owl she turned back to Patricia and shook her head to show that she wasn't really that angry at the Hufflepuff Prefect.

"I'm not really mad Pattycakes, I think it's cute that my brother has a friend....if thats what you guys are." Ariah shrugged her skinny shoulders before she gave Patricia another small giggle, for someone who was supposed to be a Slytherin she was awful giggly at times but it wasn't like she could help it. However she was happy that someone out there wanted to be her brothers friend just to be his friend and not for another annoying purposes.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia couldn’t contain a small laugh after she heard Ariah’s answer to her question as to why she would beat up a random stranger for dropping a book on her foot. She was surprised by what the girl said which showed in her facial expressions. “What exactly has Yvo done to make him deserve a good punch or two?” she asked, her voice laced with laughter. It was always fun to see little sisters talking about their brothers when they didn’t get along all too well. That, and Patricia saw this as a good opportunity to find out things about Yvo that he hadn’t told her already and who knows, maybe wouldn’t tell her. She felt a bit bad that she was going behind Yvo’s back to find out things about him but it wasn’t like she intently went to find Ariah and make the younger girl tell her things about him. Then again Ariah might not tell Pat anything about Yvo so she wouldn’t have to feel bad about finding things out about him that he hadn’t told her, himself. Patricia frowned her eyebrows as Ariah cooed over one of the owls that had been playing with her necklace. One moment the girl was all cute and sweetness, then she went somewhat mean and in the blink of an eye she was back to being cute and sweetness; it confused Patricia slightly but she didn’t question her.

“Pattycakes?” she mumbled under her breath. She had be given many nicknames in the past but Pattycakes was a new one and probably one of the most unusual she had been given. It was kinda cute but then again, kinda weird. “Doesn’t he have many other friends?” Patricia asked curiously. Patricia had originally thought that she and Yvo had talked a fair bit and had gotten to know each other...now she wasn’t so sure. “And yes, we’re just friends.” she repeated for what seemed like the millionth time today.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah playfully shrugged her thin shoulders when Patricia asked her what Yvo had done to deserve a good punch or two, this should be an easy question for any younger sister to answer. "Dude he's my older brother, what hasn't he done to deserve it? If you have siblings you should understand exactly what I'm getting at." The blonde grinned as she responded to Patricia's question, sure she didn't hate Yvo but sometime he just ended up doing stuff that bothered her a little. Though she hadn't seen him quite some time due to him being in Durmstrang and living with their mother and her being in Hogwarts and living with their father. Her attention continued to be half with Patricia and half with the cute little owl. It seemed that Patricia was either a nicer person than Ariah was or she just liked to defend Yvo. Not even her oldest brother Isaak liked to defend him, he bullied all three of them the same regardless of their age or gender. He even picked on Adrian who was the youngest out of all of them, but Yvo seemed to limit his teasings to Ariah and just Ariah. One day she wore on her very soul that one day she would let Yvo have what was coming to him. He may be older but she was one to be stubborn, and how he was dropping books on people. Great.

"Yeah, I could call you Pat-Pat as well but I think Pattycakes suits you just fine." Ariah shrugged when she heard the girl mention something about the name Ariah had just give her, actually she could come up with so many more if she wanted but she was being sort of lazy. She gave them to everyone too, especially those she knew and saw all the time like Leviathan, Theodore, she was working on one for Aleyha but had really yet to come up with anything good. "He has the occasional few but usually Yvo likes to keep to himself. He doesn't like having a lot of people around him and stuff." The blonde answered honestly with a small shrug of her thin shoulders, he was friendly but often kept to himself. He especially did not like to be around a lot of girls as well. Ariah wondered just how much Patricia and he had talked because she seemed to know him but not so much about his odd quirks. He was a strange guy but a least he was kind enough unlike most purebloods she knew.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia contemplated what Ariah had said in reply to her question. At the end she knew there was no point in trying to argue with Ariah, she did indeed have siblings, older brothers include, and oh did she think they deserved a good few punches every so often. When she was younger and only had Christopher and Joseph as siblings she fought with them all the time, Joe more so. Those two were at each others’ throats for most of their childhood until they finally grew up and learned to stand each other and got on with each other. Unfortunately they hadn’t had time to embrace the new found likeness for each other as Joe had passed away a few years after and with Patricia away for most of the year at school they barely saw each other. Although not too long before Patricia lost Joe she had gained a number of other siblings and got on well with all of them so far, thankfully. She found it strange how in their first meetings Patricia had somewhat instantaneously clicked with her siblings from her father’s past relations. Hades, while creepy, Patricia liked him and due to certain schemes of theirs had grown close to him. Jaken was very sweet and Patricia liked him a lot, they didn’t talk very much but Patricia liked him regardless. Kaleb could be seen as the exception in Pat’s siblings as he wasn’t the nicest of teenage boys but Patricia didn’t let her bother her too much. Kailie was just the sweetest thing ever and Pat adored her so much. The twins and Bothizar were still too young to decide but she loved them regardless. “Fair enough.” Patricia said finally with a small laugh.

When Ariah told Patricia of the other nickname she had in mind for her Patricia shook her head slightly. Why did she have so many nicknames? In the Wizarding World she went by most nicknames that included the name ‘Pat’ in it as well as any variation on it and in the Muggle World the majority of her nicknames included the name ‘Tish’ and, again, any variation on the name. “Pattycakes will do just fine.” she said in an voice that suggested that while she didn’t like the name too much it was better than ‘Pat-Pat.’ Patricia listened to Ariah talk about Yvo and his friends. She nodded as what Ariah was saying sounded familiar to Pat. “Yeah, that sounds like Yvo. He was very quiet the first time we met but he started to open up a bit more each time we met.” she said with a smile when she remembered how hard it was for Yvo to say a few sentences the day he dropped his book on her foot. “He’s usually like that?” she asked for confirmation out of curiosity.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

"Yvo's always been the awkward one. He usually doesn't talk much unless he has a reason to." Ariah shrugged as she began to think back st all the people who had spoken to her about her older brother before. They always comment about him being quite and sometimes saying really abnormal things. Never had she really heard her brother talking about someone though because he just didn't take interest in people much. He was just one of those romantic yet hopeless losers that all the girls loved but he had no interest in them himself, Ariah often wondered if he would ever get a girlfriend with the way he acted most of the time. Did he even want one though? A small shrug of her shoulders made her dismissed the thought of her brother and girls, that was gross to think about anyways. "I could tell you a lot more about my brother if you wanted?" Usually it became really hard for people to figure these things out since he barely ever really talked about himself to avoid anything weird or strange coming up. The blonde could only wonder how much Patricia already knew about Yvo. Chances were that he hadn't told her much, or maybe he did. It would be really fun if the Hufflepuff did want to know because Ariah could write a whole book on Yvo and the odd things he did or liked. He would probably be the first in line to buy the book too. He was so weird sometimes.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia really didn’t know what to say about Ariah’s description of her older brother. She didn’t say anything now about her calling him names because in all fairness the younger girl had caught her out already; she would do the same thing about her brothers in a heartbeat without a second thought really; it was a thing that little sisters did and pretty much went without saying in most cases. In a way Patricia felt kind of happy that while Yvo was seemingly a quiet and slightly awkward person that he didn’t seem that way around Pat; well only during their first meeting but according to Ariah that was common. Then again, she couldn’t help but feel slightly bad that Yvo didn’t find it easy to talk to people. It has always been a natural thing for Patricia to talk to pretty much complete strangers…unless they were a creep and she didn’t want anything to do with them but that didn’t happen very often. When Ariah offered to tell Patricia a few things about her brother the Hufflepuff paused a moment before she answered. She wouldn’t mind finding out some more things about her friend but she didn’t want him to think bad of her about going behind his back to find out all this stuff about him. There was really no harm in Ariah telling her a few things about Yvo, what could she really say that he wouldn’t want her to find out anyway. “Mmm. Depends, good things or bad things?” she asked, figuring it would help her to make her descision.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

Ariah bit her lip and cocked her head to the side cutely as she thought carefully when Patricia had asked her if it was bad or goods things she would tell her. There were a list of things she probably shouldn't or didn't want to tell Patricia just yet regardless of whether the two of them were friends or not. "Well I can tell you both but if you want to know just little simple good things I think that'll be easier." Ariah shrugged her thin shoulders and let her eyes glance to the owl once again. For a moment she wondered if Owls liked hugs or anything that had to do with being cuddled. Bunnies sure didn't. After a moment or so Ariah decided that she was talking paying attention to the Owls and wanted to try and give Patricia an example of whats he meant. Her brother was of course really weird but he still had things he liked and disliked about stuff. The two of them were actually sort of similar but not enough to make it obvious that they were siblings or anything. "Like for example, my brother loooves apple pie. But weirdly enough he hates anything else that taste's like apple." Ariah told Patricia with a small giggle, it was a weird example but something that most people noticed about him pretty quickly. He disliked Apples, apple juice, applesauce...it was so weird since they all sort of had a similar taste to apple pie. Ariah let her mint green eyes glance over at Patricia and allowed herself to wonder if she liked apple pie. If not then her and Yvo weren't going to see eye to eye easily.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia eyes Ariah suspiciously, she didn’t know whether she should listen to anything that the younger girl told her anymore. She had a nagging feeling that Yvo wouldn’t be all that pleased that his younger sister was telling his friend all of this information that could be easily used against him or that he didn’t want anyone to know. When Ariah told her that she could tell her both good and bad things about Yvo but suggested that it be easier to just say little simple good things Patricia figured that it couldn’t really hurt. What harm could a few simple things really do anyway? If Patricia felt that some of the things that Ariah told her about Yvo were something he would be uncomfortable about others knowing then she wouldn’t bring it up. Although if she did happen to bring up something that he never told her about then she could just tell him that Ariah told her, it was the truth after all. Patricia nodded her head to show that she was alright with Ariah telling her a few things. Patricia listened to what the young Slytherin had to say. What she heard was not something that she had expected to hear from Ariah. She had thought that the little girl would tell her something that she could maybe use again Yvo, clearly not, well at least she thought that using the fact that he loves apple pie but nothing else apple against wouldn’t be very successful. Then again... she thought as she began to laugh a bit at the fact. “That is soo funny.” she said amongst her giggling. “It’s weird but really funny. Any other things like that?” she asked, no intrigued at the type of information she could learn, this type of stuff was just harmless fun really.

 

[Ariah Zhefarovich]

"Do you like Apple Pie?" Ariah asked the brunette when she started to giggle and admitted that it was weird but funny. Ariah personally liked to eat and make Apple Pie but enjoyed other Apple products. But there was just some people out there that could not stand the taste and such of Apple Pie like her brother could, Yvo could probably live off of it. When Patricia asked if there was any other like the pie thing that she could share with her. Carefully she bit her thin lips and tried to think of some things to tell Patricia that wouldn't make her brother become upset with her about. There was some things he didn't like being told that weren't that bad to her but still somewhat bad to him. Ariah cocked her head to the side and grinned, oh she had a lot she could say to her about her older brother. "Well Yvo likes to wander around at night, he's afraid of aliens, likes to sleep a little bit too much, oh...and his favorite color is dark red." Ariah quickly told Patricia a few facts about her brother that were either a really funny or just something she thought the girl wouldn't mind hearing. The aliens thing was a little funny though because he convinced they were in league with the Death Eaters somehow. He went through a huge phase with them but thankfully they were over now and he worried about other things other than stupid aliens.

 

[Patricia Styx]

Patricia still found the random fact that Ariah had told her about Yvo was rather funny but she was glad that it was nothing that Patricia felt awkward about knowing about Yvo. As a younger sister herself she forgot how fun it was to tell your brothers friends embarrassing facts about them just to make their life as close to a living hell as possible. Then again Patricia never really got the chance to embarrass either of her brothers because they were both so weird that their friends knew all the things that she was going to use against them and even knew things that Patricia didn’t know about. Patricia didn’t mind though because she was always able to get to the Girlfriends before her brothers could do anything to protect themselves. The Girlfriends were always more fun to tattle on than the friends because it always embarrassed her brothers more when the girls they liked knew the things that they tried so hard to hide from them. Patricia always said that it was better the Girlfriends knew now than later on down the line when it was too late. Patricia listened to the other random facts that Ariah sprouted out about Yvo. She had to admit that they were pretty general facts that Patricia could say resided in her a bit but he’s afraid of aliens? Patricia burst out laughing at that random fact. “He’s afraid of aliens? Oh he’s never going to hear the end of that.” Patricia said with a laugh, suddenly excited to meet up with Yvo again just to get at him about that.

With a sigh Patricia stopped laughing as she realised that she had spent more time in the Owlery that she meant too. Looking out of the window to see the big clock above the Courtyard Patricia noticed that she was going to be late for the start of her rounds as Prefect. “Damnit!” she muttered as she bent down to gather up her things. Turning back to Ariah she said, “Sorry to cut this short but I better run, I have to start Prefect Duties in a few.” Making her way to the door she turned and gave the younger girl a smile, “Thanks for the juicy goss on your brother, I can imagine it’ll come in very handy. Talk to you later.” she added with a small wave as she left the Owlery for the Prefect’s Common Room so she could ‘sign on’ for her duties.