[Forward dated after Quidditch game]

[hagyjbeken]

[Guess who's absolutely pumped from that game and absolutely going to rub it in everyone's face that called them polite boring. Why yes, yes that would be her. Thus her writing is going to be very scribbled and very hasty, making it a biiiit hard to read.]

YOU BETTER BELIEVE WE WON. Who's "polite boring" now, huh? I'd say we were all pretty vicious out there and deserved each and every single point and move we did, whether you think we did or not. I congratulate the rest of my team on being absolutely amazing except Vald, you're still a total ass and doing their best out there!

Also, Graham. You better hope I don't find you for that crack you made, you won't be walking for a MONTH after I'm done with you.

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[edle_gestalt]

If you hadn't been so damned fixated on watching us you know what, forget it; let people think what they are going to think. I am absolutely sick and tired of qualifying each and every last action of ours with "oh, but we're not dating, mind."

But, of course, this is a public post, so, let the record show, et cetera et cetera

[hagyjbeken]

[Are you ready for an onslaught of Hungarian, Roderich? Because she's pissed about this and this sort of thing happens.]

Oh hell, here I was hoping you wouldn't even notice. You might be, but I'm not! I don't want for someone to think that we're dating when we very clearly aren't and thus are spreading rumors about the whole damned thing when they don't even know the truth!

You might not care, Roderich, but I'm insulted by the notion.

[edle_gestalt]

[He can read it, but isn't fluent enough to respond himself without making his grammar look awful. But he catches on that it's personal and responds in German.]

Am I that much of an embarrassment to you?

[hagyjbeken]

[Fine, fine she'll try German. It's not very good, but it's at least readable.]

Ye... N... I don't even know. That's not even what I meant.

[edle_gestalt]

I can still understand you in Hungarian, Eliza, I'm just awful at writing it.

What did you mean?

[hagyjbeken]

[OH, WELL. Okay, fine, Hungarian's good too.]

Just making sure.

It's not even about embarrassment, you have to understand that much. If you were an embarrassment then I wouldn't even be talking to you right now.

[edle_gestalt]

It's fine. You don't have to feel like you have to change for me, no matter what I probably imply sometimes. I'll admit I'm more concerned about others' opinions than I am about my own, if I say anything that comes off as manipulative to your behavior. I don't want to be manipulative towards you.

I mean I do understand. I've just given up trying. It calls even more attention to us, and gives them more ammunition for when if in case they want to continue mocking us. It's exhausting.

[hagyjbeken]

I don't... Look, you haven't been manipulative to me, or if you've tried it's always been shut down way before it even gets to anything insignificant. It just really drives me crazy that these people seem to get off on the thought of it and it's just... I don't know, weird. I don't want to prove them right.

[edle_gestalt]

I'd thought that; you're much too independent for me to even think I could. I'm glad to hear you don't feel that way.

I see what you crossed out, and I just think... [so many fucking ink blots]

That's what's exhausting. Letting it be a competition of who's right in the end. I don't want to say I've become apathetic over it, but in a way, I have. I mean, not over you, not that I would be or anything.

I'm not sure what I'm saying anymore.

[hagyjbeken]

Might be best to just stop talking then, huh? I don't know, there's just something that bothers me about playing into what everyone thinks and knows should happen, it's unnerving. Absolutely, completely, annoyingly unnerving.

[edle_gestalt]

I know. Believe me I do.

I suppose I can count on the possibility of you becoming jaded from it as I have They're disgusting, all of them. I just wish they would shut up. This wouldn't be so difficult.

[hagyjbeken]

It's... kind of hilarious in a way, it makes me much less likely to fall into the pattern they think I will.

[edle_gestalt]

Thigh-slapping hilarious, isn't it.

[hagyjbeken]

That and it all seems rather silly to me, I honestly can't imagine any kind of thing working out between us. [Nope, totally not projecting and trying to shrug all of this off. Deny all of the feelings, Eliza.]

[edle_gestalt]

[good thing nervous paper crumpling can't be communicated]

Right, it's not as if we've been the best of friends for sixteen years or anything already. Something like that is just so easily shattered by holding hands or something of the like.

[hagyjbeken]

Isn't that how most friendships end up dying? They end up dating and then it goes south and they no longer can speak to the other anymore?

[Hi, Roderich, can you tell one of her fears yet.]

[edle_gestalt]

I just can't help but wonder what would be all that different if we did.

[hagyjbeken]

The awkwardness of it all? Hand-holding, kissing, affection, all of that...

[edle_gestalt]

If you feel that would be too awkward then there's not much to be done.

It's ridiculous, really, if they weren't all breathing down our necks I should have liked for you to accompany me to the Yule Ball. As it is it doesn't make any sense to do so, but I've already talked with Peter Parker about staging a photo to send to our respective parents to shut them up. Whether or not we actually go together.

It probably makes more sense for us to go with other people, doesn't it? Or will that attract more attention?

[hagyjbeken]

[... Did he just, in the most roundabout way, ask her to the dance of all things? Weird, but she wouldn't expect for him to do things in any real logical way. The longest of inkblots, a few words written but quickly scribbled out with a ridiculous amount of ink.]

Did you just ask me to the ball? That... if it's for any reason other than to shut our parents up, you have the weirdest of ways to ask a girl.

[edle_gestalt]

[Ink blob. Hell, there's ink all over his hands now.]

By the way you were speaking, it didn't seem to be an issue. I honestly was just expecting you to shrug it off and tell me you already had a date anyway.

Is it too late to ask you properly, then?

[hagyjbeken]

[As if her hands are any better right now, aaaah.]

I'd rather it have been done in person, but it's not too late, no. [What is this, she doesn't even. Roderich, what.]

[edle_gestalt]

As would I. I'll wait.

We can at least pretend there is an element of surprise...

That being said, where are you right now?

[hagyjbeken]

Good choice.

Mm? In the dorms, though I don't have anything tying me down here right now.

switch to action?

[edle_gestalt]

Give me ten minutes, I'm not yet presentable. I'll be waiting outside the Hufflepuff dormitories.

[And after about ten minutes he's there, trying his damnedest not to fidget.]