Lets Frolic, darling [Open]

[raelin]

Rose petal after rose petal fell from the sky, hitting objects and people on their way down before resting on the ground, only to be stepped on. It was a horrible life, but someone had to do it.

Raelin Noelle sat on a bench, alone as ever. There weren't many people out, because it was late and people were weird. Taking out her wand, she mutter a quick 'lumos' for more light. Pointing it up to the sky, she sat watching the petals fall, smiling.

Failing to notice someone come sit beside her, she jumped when they cleared their throat.

[heartsout]

Jackson hadn't been down to Rose Petal Lane in a long time, and it just sounded like a good place to be. He didn't know why, it just did. Climbing the steps to the Slytherin boys dorm, he slipped his sockied feet into a pair of green and black checkered Vans, taking a glance out the window, smiling slighty at the glimpse he got of the lane. Pocketing his wand, he left, making his way crossed the grounds.

Once he'd reached the lane he took to watching petals fall to the ground, trying to step around them. He didn't want to crush them, they were too pretty to do that. Besides, he, like so many others, would be responsible for killing a poor innocent flower petal. Awwh. Anyway, lifting his head and looking forward, he saw a light in the growing darkness.

Making his way to the bench they sat on, once he got closer he saw it was a girl. She looked younger and rather bored, or maybe lonely. Hard to tell. Raising a dark eyebrow, Jackson plopped down next to her on the bench. She seemed to not have noticed, so brushing hair from his eyes he cleared his throat. [:

[raelin]

A petal landed on her forehead. She giggled, taking it off and letting it rest on her thigh. Looking back up, an older boy sat down, but she was in her world of holding her wand up to the sky watching the petal fall.

He cleared his throat, making her jump. Her wand fell to her side as she looked at the new arrival. "Hello! You scared me! I'm Raelin, first year Hufflepuff. You might you be?"

[heartsout]

Letting out a small giggle as she jumped slightly, he wand dropping to her side, Jackson smiled a nifty little smile. His eyes rolled up in his head, following a particular petal as a fell, landing on the canvas of his shoe. But his attention was quickly drawn back to the girl.

"Ha, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to,"" he said pulling his legs onto the bench, sitting Indian style. It was much comfortable than sitting with his feet down on the ground. He nodded his head a little, "Jackson, fifth year Slytherin. What're you doing out here this late, Missus Raelin?"

[raelin]

"Oh, that's okay," she responded, mimicking his sitting positing. She let her hand rest on her shoe; yellow converse.

"It's nice to meet you, Jackson," she said, smiling at him. "Oh, I couldn't sleep. I was the last to head to bed, but I couldn't fall asleep so I came out here." She let her wand rest on her leg, pointing away from them but still providing light. "What about you, mister Jackson?"

[Avery Moretti]

Avery couldn't sleep. It was late and dark out and all the other girls had gone to sleep, but she was still laying awake. Why? Well, maybe it was because she was giddy about today. Her and her loverly boyfriend Jackson had had a picnic and it was splendid. They talked about really cute things and their future. Now Avery wasn't tired. She was just plain excited! She'd written in her diary all about it and everything. It was suh-wheat. :]

Getting up from her bed quietly, she slipped on a pair of neon green converse. She didn't bother changing, of course, because that would just take up her time, so she wandered outside in her night gown styled spagetti strap shirt and matching bottoms that were loose and ended just above her knees. They were Winnie the Pooh pajamas. She lubbed them. ♥

Grabbing her wand, Avery mutterd, "Lumos," a light immediately appearing in the dark. Sneaking through the castle, she made it outdoors undetected and had the urge to go to Rose Petal Lane. After all, she was feeling all love-y and romantic and such. It made sense to go there. "Nox," she said, since the light of the moon was good enough. Her blue eyes adjusted to the darkness after a little while and she saw Rose Petal Lane, making her way over there.

Spotting a light up ahead, she walked towards it, seeing two people on a bench. As she got closer and closer, she started to recognize one of them. Then when she stood in front of the pair, her eyes widened. Jackson. Blue eyes stared at him with shock before looking over at the girl, not even recognizing her, but she looked pretty young. What was he doing meeting some girl out in Rose Petal Lane in the middle of the night? It seemed very suspicious to her.

Maybe he was cheating on her.

Afraid of this, Avery began to get nervous, biting her lip ring, looking back and forth between the two. She wasn't going to explode with anger, no, but she might cry and run away. Finally, her voice said in the silence of the night, "What - what are you doing?" He could probably tell be her expression what she was thinking, so he better make a damn good excuse, or she would hex him [again].

[heartsout]

With his Vans tucked under his legs in his very comfortable sitting position Jackson picked at his pants in the dark. He was still dressed, he had had rounds that night and didn't feel like changing once he got back to the dorm, except for his shoes. He'd love to just walk the earth barefoot if he could. Oh yeahh. Anyway, he turned to Raelin, feeling really friendly today. But he was always friendly, so why the hell was he in Slytherin? His best friend was a Hufflepuff, wtff?

"I had my rou-" he stopped mid-sentance at the appearance of another wand light. He could see who it was, so taking out his own wand and mutter Lumos, he raised it up a bit. He didn't want to be the only one without a lit wand. Really, he should be busting Raelin for being out late, but... Raising his eyebrows at Avery he blinked for a few seconds, what was she talking about?

Oh wait. How would you feel if you saw your boyfriend talking with another girl in the middle of the night at Rose Petal Lane? Guh. Rolling his eyes a bit he raised his wand higher, wrinkling up his nose. After everything that had been said that day she thought this? Oh my. Excuse me but, she's insaneeee. Crazy lady. He's gonna marry a crazy lady. "Bloody hell, nothing's going on. It's not what you think!" Bad, bad thing to say. Everytime someone says that it is what they think. "I just met her, I swear it." He was innocent! But rather frightened, he knew what she could do with a wand...

[raelin]

He was going to answer her question, but stopped in mid sentence. Her eye brows raised when another girl came out. She assumed she was his girlfriend, because of the way they were talking.

She nodded her head, agreeing with him. "It's true. I was just sitting here watching the petals fall and he came and sat down and we started talking and then you came. It's nothing bad," she added, hoping it helped.

[Avery Moretti]

Jackson looked at her, not really saying much. At first he just kind of looked stunned. Why, she had no idea, because he was the one out late at night with some random girl on the lane known for being for lovers. If you had half a brain, you could put it all together and guess at what was going on. It's not her fault she jumped to a conclusion; anyone in the same situation as her would probably do the same. Avery couldn't imagine any girlfriend just going up to her boyfriend and a girl at night in lover's lane and saying, 'Hey, what's up?' No. She had every right to be suspicious.

Jackson wasn't even being that kind about it, rolling his eyes and all. She glared at him a bit, her hands on her hips. At his answer, she crossed her arms over her chest, looking up at the moon because she wanted to look every where else but at him. Her mouth was shut, not answering him because she honestly didn't know what to do. In Italy, she'd been cheated on before, so the pain of all that was coming back to her as she wondered if it was all happening again.

Even when the girl agreed, talking about watching petals fall, she didn't know what to do. It only took a second for a person to lie. How would she know if they were telling the truth or not? The girl's heart was beating wildly, but not for the same reason as it had been earlier when the two had had their lovely picnic. No, it was beating rapidly because she was the most worried she'd ever been in her life.

Changing her gaze from the moon to Jackson to the roses to Jackson and then down at her shoes, she played with her lip ring and murmured, "How am I supposed to know you're both telling the truth?" Aw, little Miss Moretti's heart was about to burst if the situation was what she thought it was.

[heartsout]

What Jackson couldn't understand is why Avery would even think he would ever cheat on her. Especially after their picnic at the lake, which he even went so far as to kidnap Mr. Lion and hold him for ransom. He loved her too much to hurt he like that, and she should know that, and he was positive she did. He thought she really should jump to conclusions or assume that he was out here in the middle of the night meeting this Raelin girl. But once he thought about the situation, it did sound pretty bad. And he hadn't been so nice to her about it, but he was mostly angry because she should be smarter than that.

As she went quiet, the boy took in a deep breath, taking it as a chance to steady his rapidly beating heart and calm himself a bit. She had more of a right to be angry than he did, but oh well. He cut a glance at Raelin, his face blank. Looking back to Avery he shook his head a little, "Because we are telling the truth. She's right, and I wouldn't lie to you," he said quietly, his blue eyes directly on her, hoping maybe if he stared long enough she'd look up so he could look her in the eyes, and she'd know he wasn't lying.

[Avery Moretti]

As Avery stared at her shoes, she tried to calm down. Closing her eyes, she tried to think rationally. Okay. Jackson loved her. He wanted to marry her. He wanted to have three kids with her. He got butterflies when they kissed. They were in love. Would he do something like this? Probably not. Maybe it was just coincidence that the two of them were out here at the same time. After all, she met up with random people or her friends sometimes. Taking a deep breath in and out slowly, she fiddled with her lip ring still.

Then, when Jackson answered her, she didn't move her gaze from looking at her shoes. This was probably the first time she'd ever not looked up at Jackson when he spoke. Normally she always looked at him 'cause she loved him. Right now, she just found it too hard to look at him, wondering if he was in fact telling the truth. Finally, she lifted her head and his bright blue eyes looking at her intently told her everything she needed to know.

At first, she was a little taken aback by the brightness in his eyes and the sincerity behind them. Then she bit her lip, keeping her eyes locked with his. No. He would never lie to her. They'd been together for over a year and their love hadn't died down one bit. No. He wasn't cheating on her. She believed him. A tiny little smile grew on her lips as she nodded her head slowly. Now she was totally embarrassed for accusing them of such a thing.

Blushing furiously, she looked down at her shoes again. Oh gawd. She hated blushing. She was so embarrassed. Covering her face with her hands, she said, "Well, I feel completely ridiculous. Sorry."

[raelin]

Her eyes had traveled between the two teenagers, wondering if she would be the reason they started fighting. What if they broke up? That wouldn't be very good for poor Raelin. She couldn't handle that, if it happened. It would be very bad for her to recall later in life.

But, things turned. The girl eventually saw she was wrong, and Raelin grinned. "Yay!" she cheered. Jumping up, she gave the girl a hug, wanting them to be friends, and forget what had just happened.

Letting go, she grinned brightly. "My name is Raelin, by the way. Not the best first meeting ever, but it'll do, won't it?"