Act The Part.

[cronos]

No future - Act the part.
You lose right from the start.
Play your role and play their game,
Don't live your youth in vain.

Wandering the halls like the little firstie he was, Cronos was dressed in his uniform excluding the robes. His twin-colored tie hung loosely around his neck and his sleeves were rolled up right above his elbows. So far he'd only seen a few people pass him by in the hallways as he traveled. There wasn't any particular direction he was traveling in, so to speak. It was... random, in a way. It came with not knowing that area all that well. So far the closest he came to knowing anything was a visit to the Owlery but that didn't quite show him anything. Nothing important at least. Unless piles and piles of straw were to be considered of the 'important variety'.

Sliiide. He nearly sighed in frustration. Those spectacles of his were quite bothersome when they wanted to be, which seemed to be at all times of the day. Once more they had found a moment to slide down his nose just purely for the loving chance to annoy him. They really were dreadful... So with that same following sigh he roughly pushed them up with his middle finger. Amane's voice rang out in his head, "Mommy! Cronos is sticking up the bad finger again!" Just as she always did. Then Alice would laugh and shake her head, not speaking a word. Amane would give her perfected eight-year-pout and sulk for a moment before brightening up entirely as though nothing had happened.

Troublesome little girl at the most. Kiri would just cling to him and not say a word but nodding along with Amane's reasoning. Always, always. It was routine. Karen would smile just as Alice had; Kariem would shake his head with one of his secret smiles; Toru would scowl and look the other direction, hiding his smile; and Yoshii would stuff his hands in his pockets as to look cool and collected. Ahh, and Daiiki, their father, would just shake his head and start muttering about appointments and crazy little girls. Then it would begin anew when Cronos pressed up his glasses another time.

"I think about them too often..." I need to think of something else.

The Mitsaki grabbed a hold of his glasses and removed them. Immediately the things around him lost their clarity and his vision became blurred. However he could still see shapes and such so he wasn't entirely blinded to the world. He held the spectacles down at his side, still traveling slowly down the hall. His fingers danced along the rectangular black frames; so familiar. A few blurry shadows of people passed him by. He could tell slight differences. Hair color, skin tone; the likes. Nothing too detailed though. That was something he didn't even attempt. There'd be no point.

Cronos turned his head to the side, now staring at the paintings lining the wall. They seemed to be fewer and farther in-between in the halls compared to other places. Now it felt more like an adventure apposed to merely wandering around aimlessly. He rather preferred that description. When he came to the next window and took the time to glance out, he noticed it was actually beginning to get quite dark... What was curfew again...? A frown lined his lips as he swiftly turned on his heel to walk back. That is, if he could somehow succeed in finding his way back...

[jessie]

Lifestyles...
...Of The Witches And Wizards.

Jessie Starr rummaged through her chest in front of her bed.Where was it? How could she have lost her camera!Her digital camera,at that! Jessie's camera was her life. She loved and lived that thing and now it had somehow gone missing. Jessie furiously ran her fingers through her long blonde hair.Where was it? She was using it yesturday.Small,digital cameras didn't just disappear like that. Jessie paused. Or do they? She was at Hogwarts.There was no telling what people might do there. Especially people who were mean and cruel. If someone like that found her camera,she might never,ever see it again. Jessie felt like launching herself out of the window next to her bed.She flung herself onto the floor and wiggled under her bed. There was a shriek of happiness and Jessie retreated out from under her bed. Surprisingly enough,she could fit.Even more surprisingly,there was her small silver camera.It was lying as dead as a doorknob under her bed. How it had gotten there,Jessie had no clue.All that mattered was that she found it. She quickly pressed the on button and held it for a moment,making sure that it worked. There was a beep and it cut on. Perfectly charged,too. Jessie smiled to herself and turned it off.

She stood up and scowled at the mirror across from her. There were little bits of dust particles clinging to her robes. Jessie sighed.So much for having cleaned them that morning.Jessie figured that since she had taken such poor care of her camera,she only deserved it. She wrinkled up her nose in a disgusted expression and turned away from the mirror. She sat her camera onto the bed,eyeing carefully for any wandering hands that came near it. There weren't many girls in the dormitory at the moment,but she didn't know any of them that well.There was no telling what some of them would do. Twice,she had seen people nick things from stores and from teachers' offices. It was quite a wonder why none of them noticed. Kids seemed to take things under their noses and the teachers//store-keepers would never seem to know. Jessie shrugged.She wasn't one for nicking anything unless it was really important.Really,really important.Her parents had taught her right from wrong,but sometimes wrong seemed like the better choice of the two.

After changing into a pair of jeans and a black and white halter top,Jessie tossed a black jacket over her shoulders.She glanced out of her window and noticed the darkening, multi-colored sky.Usually,at night,it seemed to get a bit chilly.Jessie wasn't trying to leave her dorm at night and freeze to death. Especially if she went up to the Dallin Tower or even outside. Jessie quickly slipped on the first pair of shoes she saw;her white flip-flops. She snatched her digital camera off of her bed and shoved it into her pocket. Jessie made her way toward the exit,but whirled around when she remembered her wand.She wouldn't want to forget that.Especially,if she went out and got lost.She had only been but so many places in the castle.Tonight was just another night to explore. Jessie pulled her hair into a messy ponytail.It was getting in her eyes again,and she didn't want to be made fun of for slamming into walls or stumbling down steps.Especially,the moving ones. Jessie gulped.That sounded painful.

Jessie made her way out of the girls dormitory and past the talking students in the Mihael Dorm. She soon found herself wandering down a hallway that she didn't recognize.Maybe because it was so dark,and Jessie was usually exploring outside or somewhere upstairs. Jessie had made a whole bunch of twists and turns and she had no clue where she was at the moment. There was a long creak and she stopped.Jessie whirled around.Nothing.Was she imagining things? Jessie frowned. If only the halls weren't so dark. Jessie nearly ran into a wall and glanced up.No-not a wall.A door. Jessie pulled it open slowly. "Wonder where this leads to..."Jessie peered in to see a longer hallway coated with a red carpet and torches leading deeper into it. Was this a dungeon? Nah.It couldn't be.Dungeons were scarier and they smelled really bad. A couple pushed their way by her and Jessie felt suddenly glad that she wasn't the only loser up and about that night.She slowly started down toward the hall,feeling her back pocket for her wand every time she heard a creak or a small sound.It only turned out to be a rat or a student passing by.And then there was silence. Not even her own footsteps could be heard.

Jessie continued down the hall.The awkward silence was making her extrememely nervous. Jessie hummed a small tune to herself.It wasn't even a tune,just random notes that happened to pop into her head. Jessie glanced at her wrist.Boy,she needed to get a watch. She had absolutely no clue what time it was,or even where she was. All of the twists and turns that she made,seemed to have her mind all jumbled up.Jessie sighed and decided to turn back. It was probably wayy past her curfew and Jessie was getting bored. To break the awkward silence again,Jessie hummed the 'Dora The Explorer' Theme Song in her head.It was silly and childish,but it was the first thing that popped into her head. And pretty soon she was singing it. Jessie stopped.

Footsteps.

Approaching Footsteps.Closer.And closer. Until....Jessie whisked out her wand and directed it at a figure coming down the hall.Jessie could just make out a skinny boy's characteristics.The pale boy had long hair and glasses that looked as if they were going to slide off of his nose at any moment.Jessie looked from her wand to the boy.What the heck was she doing? She hadn't even gone to classes yet.What spell would she use? Jessie only knew a few spells and they weren't hexes. Jessie dropped her arm to her side and shoved her wand back into her pocket.

"Sorry..."[/size]Jessie mumbled.Now,she felt like an idiot. She was a first year,who didn't know the first thing about spells.And yet,here she was...looking like she was ready to hex this boy.There was a small silence before Jessie noticed that the boy was facing the direction that she had been going."Are you...leaving?"[/size]Jessie asked almost without thinking.Jessie nervously fingered the wand in her right pocket and the digital camera in the other.She gave the boy a small smile and looked up at a painting with a sleeping man in it.

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