Swing Life Away

[Selli Riggs]

"Am I loud and clear or am I breaking up? Am I still your charm or am I just bad luck?"

Still singing like always. She really did sometimes act like a muggle, drowning her thoughts with their lyrics and songs. But that was the only thing that Selli associated herself with those silly creatures. Wizards were still superior at all..but not just any wizards. The pure-blooded ones. Yes she still went on about the same slytherin ideals. But it was hard to tell on her real mind if she truly believed them? Who was right these days anyways?

But that didn't matter for now. All that was important these days was she was back at the place she loathed. The place with rules and guidelines. Ew. Who wanted that in their lives? Not Selli that was who. But she still found ways of creating her own freedom. Like tonight as she sat on the hardwood floor of the tree house. A place she used to love to visit. A place where so many memories happened. But where was everyone now? It was reunion time wasn't it? Yet so far she had seen no one.

Selli was alone, but in her mind she wasn't. She always had someone with her. The spirit within her. And now it had been released as a small glow came from the floor next to her. There was a small fire, seemed to come from no where and it was amazing that the little thing wasn't growing bigger with all of the wood around her. One would think this was the feeding ground for fire. But this was no ordinary flame.

[Hermione Granger]

Hermione was still wandering around the neat places of Hogwarts, and enjoying the people she was meeting to.She was outside on the grounds at the time. It was a nice day, probably around seventy degrees, and very peaceful. this was much better than that garden she had been stuck in a couple days ago. As she was walking, she came across a huge tree house. Hermione thought, and decided that she would go in. What could possibly go wrong?
"Hello? Anybody in here?" There was no answer. This tree house was big enough where she couldn't see the whole thing, so she looked around. Hermione heard singing. Quite good singing, too. She followed the voice and found a girl.
"Hey,"Hermione said. "I'm Hermione, what's your name?" She stuck out her hand and said nice to meet you.

[Bert McCracken]

Awoken by a sharp (very annoying) chirping, Bert was roused from his very peaceful sleeping, groaning and moaning as he pulled himself to his feet. He hadn't bothered to go to breakfast, for there were too many people at his table and none of them seemed to particularly like Bert, so he had retreated to wandering almost immediately. A lot of people said that they wandered when the were bored, but Bert wandered as somewhat of a hobby. He thought it was fun to wander about because he came across so many interesting people. So, wandering was a scheduled activity that Bert participated it.

The boy's outfit consisted mostly of black, as it generally tended to be, and he had found the patience to put on make-up today. His shoes were clearly wearing from days of walking (and wonderful wandering) that Bert participated in and his shoes - converse - had holes burned into them from age. Though they weren't that old, Bert always wore his shoes down quickly and they were only a pair out of many. And real converse weren't cheap.

Bert stumbled up through the tree house, yawning a bit. He had only awoken a few minutes ago (against his will) and he was still getting into the mood of...blinking...and stuff. Hazel orbs quickly scanned the area of the wood that had two females about it. The second approached the first and said her greetings. Chewing on his lip ring gently, Bert watched the two curiously, wondering if he should invite himself on over. The boy looked at his surroundings more clearly, noting that there seemed to be a lot of wood lying about...yes...definitely a lot of wood indeed...maybe that's why they called it a tree house...because wood comes from trees...yeah.

[Selli Riggs]

Selli heard a voice and at once the fire that had been lingering beside her went out. She had become destracted and therefore the concentration put on to keep the flame burning was removed. Selli was annoyed at once, and even when she wasn't annoyed she was not the friendliest girl, but now she was looking for the person who had caused this disruption. With a scowl she put her head up, her eyes looking dangerous.

she saw the girl standing in front of her, and Selli, being Selli, sized her up. But paused for a moment when she saw the hand sticking out for a small shake. She simply glared at it, then ignored the girl's words. She stood up, her knees cracking as they did as she had been sitting for a while now so her body became stiff. She gave Hermione a phony little smile then turned her back on her.

"Let me guess, this is the part where I introduce myself and we become life-long friends? Is that the idea?" She said in a mockingly harsh tone. She turned around quickly and as she did so she shot a streak of fire behind Hermione, which coincidentaly landed right in front of Bert.

"Listen, I'm not that type of girl so...Hermoine was it? I suggest you get out of here, and fast before I do something I won't regret."

[Bert McCracken]

Eyebrows rose as the first girl spoke, sarcasm dripping from every word. "Ouch," Bert said, grin threatening the break across his lips. He couldn't help it, it was funny. Bert glanced to the second girl to see her reaction, wondering if she was going to take that. Gah, if the first girl weren't so...violent...Bert would be right next to them, instigating every move they made. But Bert wasn't that stupid and was currently glad that he had kept his distance, because that might be the end of little old Bert.

As eager as Bert was to see how things would work themselves out, a small fire suddenly appeared in front of him. Bert's eyes widened immensely at this sight, before he leaped over it, almost toppling out the way he had come it. As soon as he landed across the fire on the wood that he supposed would also be in flames shortly, Bert ran across the room, hiding behind the very person that had thrown the fire. Realizing a few moments after that he had walked into dangerous territory, Bert smiled uneasily, finding himself somewhat scared of this girl. "I'll...be leaving now..." Was the first and last thing he said to the girls. He backed away to where he had been, then leaped onto the ground below the tree house.