sidd the sIoth
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- Posted: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:33:45 +0000
- Unlike his friends, Eunice's morning starts at the crack of dawn. After all, the early bird gets the quaffle (or, more correctly in Eunice's case, the golden snitch). It's not an uncommon sight to see the Shaw children bustling about their respective common rooms at ungodly hours of the morning, especially the only second Shaw boy. By six o'clock he is dressed in his practice uniform and has his broom in hand, out on the pitch. He has a small velvet bag in his other hand which when opened unleashes a dozen practice snitches. Despite the pouring rain and poor visibility Eunice mounts his broom and takes off, dropping the bag onto the ground below.
It takes Eunice forty-eight minutes to round up each of the twelve snitches, which in his opinion is much too slow. Forty-eight minutes doesn't get you recruited onto a professional quidditch team straight out of school. Forty-eight minutes doesn't grab your father's attention. Forty-eight minutes is an utter failure (or, as he likes to call it, pulling a Fabius). So he does it again ... and again ... and again, until he manages to get his time down to thirty-two minutes. By this time the sun has come back and the castle is beginning to bustle with activity. Accio snitches. One by one the golden orbs find their way back into his soaking wet velvet bag, and with his broom safely tucked away in the broom closet Eunice makes his departure from the pitch.
By the time he showers and debates on what to wear, he hardly makes it on time for his date appointment to play wizarding chess with Adonis. Thankfully his natural good looks aid him in streamlining the getting ready process so he doesn't look like a piece of walking garbage when he sits himself down across from Adonis in a stuffy green armchair. Mornin' gorgeous. Adonis, unlike his best friend, is not an early riser. Far from it, actually. And, like his usual self, Adonis is too absorbed in his own thoughts to realize that a gorgeous specimen such as Eunice has sat down across from him.
Earth to Donny. See, the thing is, Donny is never down on Earth. He's up in his own cloud (thinking about himself, mind you) and so Eunice decides to take on the challenge of bringing him back down. Usually this consists of an extremely vocal compliment towards his best friend or in cases such as this, physical assault.
It sounds worse than it actually is. All Eunice does is pick up a chess piece (a pawn) and at first he rolls it between his hands, trying to give Adonis the opportunity to notice him but when he doesn't, Eunice tosses it towards his friend. A few moments pass before Adonis springs to life, infuriated that the Shaw would dare throw anything at him. Adonis packs up the chess set in a whirl, insisting they start their hunt to find the third piece to their trio- the oh so lovely Dahlia Simpson. In Ravenclaw fashion they find Dahlia in the library, practicing charms with who-cares and who-knows, two of her mindless drones that are walking pieces of garbage compared to the amazing Eudonis.
Dolly was lovely enough to Impervius the three of them, and admittedly Eunice is a bit embarrassed he hadn't thought of it earlier when he was practicing on the pitch since he had returned to the castle like a sopping wet golden retriever. The trio practically slithers their way to the Great Hall, pausing only when Eunice sees the evil glint that he loves oh so much appear into Dolly's eyes. It doesn't take a genius to figure out her target; Callie is settled not far away, twisting a piece of her fiery ginger ho red hair around her finger while she blatantly flirts with an older Ravenclaw boy.
A part of him feels guilty for putting the target on Callie's back, being close as kids and a brief attempt at romance in their third year is what put Callie on Dolly's radar. Well Eunice, looks like you dodged a bullet with a certain ginger ho. It was like the words came out of his own mother's mouth which makes Eunice choke back a snort. The other part of Eunice wishes that Callie would grow a backbone and talk back to Dahlia- perhaps in some weird way it would make the girls respect each other rather than get their digs in every chance they get, but the day that would come is the day that Eunice compliments Fabius on his quidditch skills. It's not gonna happen.
The trio moves on quickly from Callie and makes their way to the Slytherin table in the Great Hall, elbowing basic bitches out of the way so there's enough room for Dolly to join them. She's an honorary Slytherin, Merlin knows she deserves a place at the table more than her hunk of a older brother Rowan. They make idle chit chat and Eunice builds himself a hefty plate for lunch since his allotted time for breakfast was consumed by golden floating orbs.
He attempts to be as polite as possible as he stuffs his face with tea sandwiches and lunch meat but fails miserably to do so. Adonis and Eu fire off bits of gossip they'd heard around school that week and it was almost like a sense of dread settled over the table. Eunice turns to Adonis and follows his line of sight to see their impending doom. Leon Prilace, Adonis' cousin (aka the son of the Mom of Magic, Athena Prior. Donny's aunt). A natural assumption is that Adonis is in some kind of trouble, so Eunice leans forward in anticipation of a howler being delivered or some kind of screaming match that would ensue. But it doesn't.
Leon takes a seat next to Dolly. Almost frozen in shock, Eunice is barely able to turn his head to watch the scene unfold. Has anyone ever told you that your smile is like Expelliarmus? Simple, but disarming. The Shaw boy was CONFUSED. Was this meant to be an insult? Did he just call Dahlia ******** Simpson simple? Eunice springs to life, taking a sip of tea to invigorate himself (and to essentially prep for the a** ripping that was about to ensue) but instead CHOKES ON THAT TEA when he hears the next words out of Dolly's mouth. There's no way this is Dolly. His Dolly, sitting beside him.
Haven't heard that one yet. My, aren't you creative? What brings you over here, handsome? Without saying a word Eunice grabs the sides of Dolly's face, patting them a few times as if to feel for any signs of a mask. His next move is to place a hand on her forehead to check for a fever, but finds none. Silently, he turns to Adonis. Donny I think someone took some polyjuice and disguised themselves as Dolly. Or we need to take her to the nurse or something since she's obviously on her deathbed. Or under the Imperius curse. Yeah, that has to be it. Imperius sounds enough like Impervius, hopefully Dolly had just hexed the s**t out of herself and wasn't actually going to tolerate Leon's advances.
- NOTES:
█ WEARING: ♔
◆ WITH: ADONIS, DOLLY & LEON
█ FEELING: GUUUUUUUUUUURL WHAT. SHOOK.
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