Can't Shake It. (Kel/Stevie/first years plz)

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma had to be nudged a third time by one of the supervising professors. It was study time, and all, if not most, of the first year students were studying rigorously. Neoma, sadly, was an unusual exception this time.

No matter what she did, she could not shake the memories from the events about number of weeks ago. Had it been over a month even, already? She couldn't remember, and more so she couldn't stand keeping this to herself.

She had thought about telling a professor, or the Headmistress, about what had happened the other night. However, she didn't think it fair to judge to quickly. Maybe there indeed was an adequate explanation for everything, but a feeling in the pit of her stomach made her sense otherwise.

She stared down at her open text book and sighed. Potions, Transfiguration and Charms, were just not what she wanted to think about right now. With classes starting again soon though, Neoma felt helpless to do otherwise. Some of her friends in her grade were sitting close to her, but she barely even realized they were there anymore. Plus, talking in the Library was punishable by a hard fwap on the back of the head.

[Stevie Copeland]

Stevie was doing his usual at the library. He was leaning back in his chair and reading a book. But Daviv, being Daviv, did not notice this at all.

He looked at Neoma. Was anything wrong?

"Hey, Neoma..." Stevie whispered to try to get her attention. He only whispered loud enough so that she could hear, and even that was barely a thing. He shut his book after... Writing something in it. It was a book with a color of purple, mixed with blue. He stopped leaning back and leaned in to hear her response, if she even gave one.

[Keladry Lindenshield]

((OOC: I'm sorry, you guys, but I'm not gonna post because I'll be gone until Sunday. But I will read over it. Stevie, Kel still thinks you've done something, and Neoma, Kel has noticed how you're acting and is worried about it.
Sorry again!))

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma didn't look up at all at first. Was someone talking to her? She blinked and looked around her, and saw the expecting eyes of Stevie, the Gryffindor she had befriended. She wanted to tell him, really she did. But that wouldn't be fair, it was extremely rude to talk about others behind her back, especially in this case. Neoma could get in big trouble, and she'd have no reasonable excuse or defence.

She bit her lower lip gently, before shaking her head, her blond straght hair waving about as she did so. "No, but thank you."[/color] She whispered back to Stevie.

It was clear by her word choice and facial expressions that she was lying.

[Stevie Copeland]

Stevie blinked at her response.

"Wait... What?" He couldn't tell why she said 'No, thank you'. All he said was 'Hey, Neoma'... Maybe she was lying about something? Hiding something? Now, this caught Stevie's curiosity. What was she so worked up about?

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma mentally stomped and kicked and beated up herself for what she'd just done. She was slowly loosing her mind. She took a deep breath before looking back up at Stevie.

"I'm sorry, my mind is just... very much elsewhere." She admitted in a whisper.

[Stevie Copeland]

"Why?" Stevie asked. It wasn't the Slytherin type curious, one that is intended to start rumors or told to a teacher. It wasn't even one type of curiosity that was to be shared in whispers and giggles in the circle of one's friends. This was the Stevie kind of curious, where he wanted to know just for the sake of knowing. And plus, something was obviously troubling his friend, and he wanted to at least try to make it somewhat better.

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma looked around her, and came up with the best solution as not to get caught. She ripped off a small piece of parchment from her page of notes. She scribbled some writing on it, and then looked around again. The coast was clear for the moment, so she passed the note to Stevie.

It read;

"Something is very suspicious about Madame Davinmir. I ran into in the wee hours of the night some weeks ago, sending an owl. Don't you find that odd?"

[Stevie Copeland]

Stevie's eyes widened. He quickly nodded. He flipped it over and wrote, in small print,

'Was she mad or a bit rushed or anything like that?'

Daviv, still being his normal self, was still reading his book in his chair, unaware of everything.

[Neoma Tsylence]

"No! Neoma said louder than she had intended. Some of the older students even glared at her. She bowed her head down in some embarrassment, and waited for the eyes to move off of her. She adjusted her volume to return to a normal one that only Stevie and Keladry would hear.

"I mean, she didn't seem that angry that I was out late. She was more furious that she had been caught more than anything. I'm surprised she didn't bite my head off." She rolled her eyes and then went back to taking notes, making it look like she was homeworking.

[Stevie Copeland]

"Who do you think she could be sending a letter to?" Stevie asked, curious definitely held. He couldn't help but speculate on things.

There could be a secret family. Secret boyfriend. She could be really something spectacular like an auror or some high rank in the wizarding world. Or, she could be something horrible. Like a death eater. Though, Stevie really doubted that. There was no possible way she could be one of those. He thought she may just have some family she was sending a letter to, and didn't want to get students talking, so she went at night, and was just a little surprised at Neoma being there. Neoma IS in her house, anyway...

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma shrugged and shook her head, for she truly did not know. She sighed, as if defeated, and then she chuckled a bit to herself. It was forced, but it was all she could do to feel like she wasn't losing it.

"I guess you don't have any weird things to tell me do you? I'd feel a bit better if I wasn't the only one that had strange thing happen to them." Neoma was of course joking.

[Stevie Copeland]

Stevie shook his head rapidly.

"None. No strange things here. Not at all. I'm normal." He said, quickly. He was lying, of course, but he would never tell anyone about the book. How could he? This person entrusted Stevie with it, so why would he go off, telling the secrets that lie within, most of which he has not even begun to delve into yet?

[Keladry Lindenshield]

((Alrighty, since Neoma seemed to be pretending I was there, I'll just say I was! And that I was immersed in my book. But still listening. Yeah, that's right!))

Kel looked up when she heard Stevie's almost guilty tone. She raised one eyebrow, then put her nose back into the large tome she had been practically drowning in. It was all about movement, animation and illustration Charms and spells, and Kel was taking notes on everything that might help her animate her tree picture, to make it sway in the wind. She also wanted to see if she could find coloration spells so she wouldn't have to paint it, though she did have a neat paint set.

She was also managing to listen to the conversation, though she wasn't actively participating in it.

[Neoma Tsylence]

Neoma smiled in reply to Stevie's response, she had been joking after all. She didn't have very much to say anymore, it wasn't like the trio would go off and do something drastic. Neoma didn't really feel it was her style anyways, not like the stories she had heard about Harry Potter and his friends back when they were at Hogwarts.

She looked back down to her books, studying and note taking. She glanced to the book that Keladry was holding. She peered over at it, examining it from it's side. She smiled in satisfaction after awhile, sitting back up straight before speaking in a hushed volume again.

"I had heard that there were some books that had been tampered with in the library. That some were missing pages. I wonder, why anyone would do such a thing? The Librarian must not be at all pleased." Neoma seemed to ponder on the subject in her own head, before dismissing the though and returning to taking notes.