world, hold on,, open

[mason benjamin walsh]

[/style][style=width:400px; text-align:justify;]the fact that alice had just admitted to having feelings for him had his entire head spinning. mason didn't know what to say or do, especially as alice flew off in her crow form. he and xavier were the only two students that had known about it before that moment, and now it felt slightly less special that kieran was in on the secret. but at the same time, it was a bit of a relief. he didn't have to avoid mentioning seeing alice flying around the castle like she did every morning when he was on his morning runs, or the fact that the crow that perched itself outside of the gryffindor windows was her, trying to get his attention. but the one thing that wouldn't escape his mind was what she'd said about him. mason couldn't even get himself to speak. he just nodded lightly when kieran asked if she transformed often.

head spinning, mason sat down in the grass, his hand rubbing his forehead furiously, trying to figure out what he should do or say. he'd never once in his life had to deal with a moment like this, let alone many confrontations at all other than punching alice's ex boyfriend and leaving a black eye, which nobody but kieran and trent knew about. mason nodded his head again, weakly. "yeah. i do." it was all he could manage to say, and it wasn't even very loud. his mouth felt dry, and his head was becoming increasingly dizzier by the second as he tried to understand what on earth had just happened. magic, he could understand, but alice having feelings for him just didn't seem possible.

mason lifted his eyes to look at kieran, frustration written all over his face. "i love you too, mate. this is just.." he shook his head and looked back down at the ground. "why didn't i ever notice? am i really that oblivious, that i talked about other girls to alice when she had feelings for me? i feel like the biggest tosser on the planet, right now.." mason sighed softly, running the hand on his forehead through his hair a few times before scratching his neck. "i screwed up, man." he sighed, heavier this time, and fell onto his back into the grass, closing his eyes. his hands covered his face, rubbing at the throbbing that was continuing on inside of his mind.

[alice rose mournet]

Alice had stopped flapping her wings every now and again to simply soar over the students and look down at what they were doing. Her eyes saw one thing, but her mind saw another. The only thing that was playing over and over in her mind was Mason's face when he saw her and Kieran laying on the grass. She wanted to change back into her human form and simply fall from the sky; not to die, of course. But simply to feel the wind rushing passed her body at that incredible speed.

Finding her usual hiding place, Alice turned herself back into a human and landed with a soft thud. Her hiding place had once been somewhere where students would go with someone special, however now it was abandoned and the place where Alice loved to come and think. It was a large stone courtyard with a wooden archway which one had lights strung all around. In the middle was a large cherry-blossom tree and underneath sat a small, stone slab which Alice had turned into a seat. Smiling at her simple place, the young woman sat on the stone slab and placed her head in her hands.

"I'm such a fool... Why did I say anything at all? Why didn't I just stay inside like I was going to?" Sighing, Alice stood up and moved over to the stone wall. Kicking it, she began to yell.

"Stupide! Pourquoi avez-vous dit rien au sujet de vos sentiments? Il ne vous aime pas comme ça. Pourquoi quelqu'un voudrait-vous comme ça? Vous venez de perdre vous-même un ami." Beginning to feel hot tears stream down her face, Alice turned her back on the wall and slid down to the ground. Raising her knees to her chest, she began to sob.

Translation: Stupid! Why did you say anything about your feelings? He doesn't like you like that. Why would anyone like you like that? You just lost yourself a friend.

[kieran fergal ó flannagáin]

we've got no money but we've got heart,,

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If Kieran hadn’t already felt like a terrible human being for fucking with his friends’ romantic spot, he certainly did now. Which admittedly wasn’t very helpful considering that he did already feel like a terrible human being, and he didn’t know how to help his best brofrand feel like less of an asshole. ”It if helps, mate, ah didnae ken either…” he admitted, though somehow that didn’t seem like an entirely acceptable response given the circumstances.

”Ah mean, maybe she just didnae ken until recently, either. Ye ken how that goes—two mates having a laugh suddenly turns intae two mates together in the bath or somefin to the tune ay that. Ye didnae ken how she felt and she didnae ken how ye felt, so… everyfin’s even, yeah?” Not surprisingly things didn’t still seem to be all that even, but he was convinced that saying it enough times would make it true.

Frowning when Mase said that he screwed up, Kieran shook his head. ”Nay, lad, ah dinnae think so. Besides, lassies hearts don’t just change like that. If she likes ye now she’ll still like ye tomorrow. If anyone’s screwed up it was me, and ah was only trying for a laugh, likes.” Not wanting to push that particular subject too far, Kieran shifted the topic of conversation.

”But ah… on a more positive note, everythings out in the open now, yeah? Ye could go pull a great… Don Juan move or wotever. Romeo and aw that shite. Go do something nice for her, likes? Girls are keen on that, when ye make them feel aw special, likes. Flowers, chocolates, the works. Never tae late tae let a lass ken how ye feel, and gennnearllly speaking its best tae do it right after she’s let on tae ye, right?”

It sounded logical enough to him, and had worked a few times in his favor as well. He was essentially a professional at gettings girls who fancied him, at one point or another, to forgive him so that he could have one last shag. And that last shag was always the best, because the girls were all convinced that he really was a good guy, that he truly cared for him, and that things were looking up. Unfortunately, it usually didn’t work out like that for them in the end, but it certainly left him happy. And if Mason were to actually follow through with his promises, he was sure that he would leave Alice happy, too.