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It was the warmest day of the year they'd had so far, and a lot of the students were heading outside to the grounds and lake for some much needed sunlight. Atticus had got up early and woke up his dorm mates, asking them if they wanted to go fishing. He'd managed to find an old fishing rod from the muggle studies classroom and had been reading up on the practice, now raring to go while it was still early.

After a lack of response, he'd gone to the lake by himself. Later on, after being completely unsuccessful in catching anything, he was sat by the lake flicking through a fishing book. He'd been joined by Wade who was practicing his swinging technique, and had dug up some worms in the vegetable patches. Then Lien had come along and sat by him, reading a book of his own: for once it seemed to be a fiction book, and nothing to do with studying for the exams.

"You should know the most about this Wade, you've got muggle parents. Don't they go fishing?"

"Yeah, ten years!"

Although he didn't really believe that was the case, as he'd broken a lot of things in his time and mirrors were probably in there somewhere, he thought the idea would be funny to Marilyn.

Following where she was indicating, he picked off a bit of apple and chucked it on the ground. Then he picked up some more, and showed it to her. "It's just apple, look." He was putting it right in her face, grinning.

@Marilyn Grayson

The weather today was a great opportunity to finish up some assignments and have a great change of scenery! Cherry ventured outside with a smile on her face as she found a nice spot somewhat further up from the lake. Pulling out one of the hardcover textbooks, she stuck it on her lap and started to proofread an essay for charms.

"Ooh Cassie~!"

She nudged him, giggling. Then she waved over at Marilyn, but she probably didn't see. She was too preoccupied with Wade, which was fair enough.

"And what d'ye think she'd say to ye?"

@Lazar Tremlett

Atticus waved over at Cherry and called out to her:

"Cheh-reeeeeeeee!"

He indicated his fish.

"Look what I got!"

@Cherry Darling

"I didn't know breaking mirrors could cause that!"

Marilyn was learning a lot from Wade, such as red and brown making blue. Maybe Atticus and Cherry were right that he could be a genius!

"Ewwwwww!" She flinched slightly trying to not have any part of her body touch the apple gore. "Is that apple rotten?! Ewwwwww!" The germs from it...

@Wade MacKenna

"Atti!"

From where she was, she couldn't exactly see what he was holding; Cherry squinted as much as possible to no real avail.

"What is it? I can't see it!"

@Atticus Nott

Gulping, his blushing intensified.

"I-I duh-duh-don't knuh-know? Something about buh-biscuits?"

Cassie was pretty good at baking, and she seemed to usually have some sort of treat or pastry to bring to him at any given moment.

@Thalia Tremlett-Chang

Jeneva had made a great fuss about the weather and how it was an opportunity to sun tan, but Bellona was rather revolted at the idea of cooking her skin in the sun. She said she might join later, definitely not in a bikini, but when she glanced out the window of the ground floor and saw how many people were out there, she simply had to head out.

Several times she had worried that the skirt of her dress was too short, but it had petticoats underneath to save the day. Net tights, ribbon necklace, check, whatever the weather. Just as she was half way down the path towards the lake, she heard Rowle's voice behind her and turned.

"Are you happy with your new mirror, Bellona?"

She felt herself blushing. Had he somehow seen into her dormitory, and how she had hardly slept for looking at it while Jeneva was getting her beauty rest?

"Yes - thank you..." she said, and he continued to talk to her, wandering down the path with his hands clasped behind his back. Bellona watched him happily, admiring his sharp features.

She giggled.

"Something about biscuits?! Like she wants to make a biscuit with your face on it?"

She giggled again.

@Lazar Tremlett

"It's a fish!" he yelled, apparently unabashed at shouting over everyone else. "I'm fishing the muggle way, with a rod and everything! Come over here and join us, don't be shy!"

@Cherry Darling

Lien winced.

"Atticus... my ears are ringing..."

Spotting Bellona in the distance, Thius immediately dropped his book in awe and nudged at his brother. "Hector, look at her! Bellona... Isn't she just so stunning?"

He adjusted how he sat slightly as he scanned her to the best of his ability; there was plenty for his imagination to wander. Merlin, oh Merlin... How he'd like to pull her from behind and kiss her neck and down her arms...

He was conveniently ignoring the just-as-distanced Ptolemy walking beside her.

@Hector Burke

"I dunno. Wanna eat it and find out?"

Grinning, he taunted her by putting it closer to her face.

@Marilyn Grayson

"You caught a fish?! What kind?" she called out, much to the annoyance of some schoolmates nearby.

"Okay, I will! Just give me a minute!"

At least she hadn't been there for too long....

@Atticus Nott

"Ewwww, no!"

What if it got her sick?!

@Wade MacKenna

He managed to raise his eyes up fractionally, and could just about see Bellona Lestrange walking down the path with Ptolemy.

"She looks rather pasty with all that black," he commented, clearly not on the same wavelength as he. "I would have thought she was the entertainment for a rather obscure funeral. Those sorts of stockings are very popular with street walkers: you should probably enlighten her about that."

He went back to his paper, pursing his lips.

@Melanthius Burke

"I-I duh-don't knuh-know..."

This was getting embarrassing for Lazar, so he hid his face with his hands.

@Thalia Tremlett-Chang

"Er... a fishy one!"

He didn't actually know what type this was. It wasn't bream or perch, which was what he was after for cooking with.

"Okay!" he yelled back, much to Lien's displeasure (he whacked him on the head with his book).

@Cherry Darling

"Brother, are you nuts?!"

He knew for a long time that he and Hector had very different tastes, but to compare Bellona to a streetwalker? What was he on?

"Those nets drive me wild..."

Thius tried to get a good glance at her thighs from where he was.

@Hector Burke

Wade laughed, then just chucked the pulp aside again. It was really cute when she reacted like that. He couldn't get enough of it.

"Oi, Macmillan, gay boy one and two - how much do ya bet I could eat this?"

He took some more rotten apple pulp off his jacket and showed it to them.

@Hyacinth Macmillan

Once she got her things together, she headed down towards Atticus and the others with a wide smile. "Hey, guys!"

@Atticus Nott

"Eat what?"

He wasn't there when the rotten apple was bashed into smithereens. Macmillan was also concentrated on waxing his board; he had to get it just right before he could think of generating a surf.

@Wade MacKenna

"Perhaps there will be a time when you could do a favour for me," he told her loftily, "Having such a remarkable talent as you do, I am sure there could be a time that I'd be in need of it. Honestly, I think you hold back a lot on what you have. You'll probably enjoy using it, so it wouldn't be so much of a favour, but an awakening."

He smirked as he looked across at her. She was slightly open-mouthed, but didn't say anything.

"I just like to see our kind exeeding our utmost potential, Bellona."

She nodded, seeming bewildered for a moment. They approached the Burke brothers together.

"I wonder if you could freeze a large body of water, like the lake." he said, sharing Hector's blanket.

She smiled between Hector and Melanthius as she joined them, pleased to be alongside the older boys. She'd really worked her way up to be sitting here.

@Melanthius Burke

"A shitty apple. What about this one?"

He picked one off the ground that was practically brown mush.

@Hyacinth Macmillan