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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 3, 2011 16:20:24 GMT -5
For Kenny, Christmas was always a fun time with him and his Mother as during the time of the break they would get a chance to get a tree for there home and decorate the house while they listen to holiday style music which always seem like a treat. As he grew he got the chance to go with his mother to her family’s home for nice holiday visits which is in a way a fun festive party. Its those parties that he gets a chance to know his real wizard family and his relatives which are grateful and kind to him and he was nervous this year that he had to keep his friendship and possible romance with Cassandra secret being that she was slytherin and it may be tough.
“That is true and I hope that we can both manage to do well in Potions this year.” he said feeling a bit relived after Cassandra mentioned to him about learning everything in the book they need for potions. He had known about the book as it would be challenging for him to know the right stuff needed for the right potions. He laughed a bit as Cassandra was talking about her cat being lazy and fluffy as he would love to get a cat though he would have to wait for it to obey much so that it wouldn’t be a troublemaker. “I heard about that and I’ll remember that when I do get a pet someday” Kenny said as he was reminded by Cassandra about being able to keep a pet along when at school.
Suddenly, Kenny was asked by Cassandra about where did he come from before moving to England which was something by surprise. Kenny would never want to mention so much of his past life but it seemed that he should finally reveal it to her as they had so much in common with troubled lives as he took another sip of his tea before speaking. “Well, I was born in little suburb area in Port St.Lucie Florida. That’s where….My dad lived” he said as he felt a bit funny talking about the one person he and his mother left for good.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 3, 2011 17:00:30 GMT -5
The thought of bringing a hufflepuff home never really crossed her mind until right then. Her father probably could care less because he was in Ravenclaw and thought his daughter should be happy no matter what. Her grandmother would probably throw a fit since her grandmother had an older way of thinking... the pureblood way of thinking. Her son should have married a pureblood women and at least her granddaughter should have married a pureblood man. Restore the blood line in the Murphy household.
"yeah... potions should be fun." She commented. The book had been quite interested when she was reading it for fun. If he had seen her book already then he would have seen that she had marked it up all weird to make sure that she could easier mememorize all of the ingrediants. The OWLS had a tough potions section and she planned to ace it. She laughed and nodded. "yeah and it has been relaxing to have a cat around even if Pharaoh Anubis is lazy." She said and giggled. It took her forever to come up with a name for that cat. For weeks her and her father ketp calling it kitty until she finally decided on Pharaoh Anubis.
She sipped her tea and listened to him. "Florida... isnt that America?" She asked and smiled. "Arent all Americans like cowboys or something?" She asked. For once she smiled so brightly as she thought about the stereotype for Americans. Cassandra had lived in England all of her life and never got the chance to travel to American. "Can you ride a horse?" It must have thought she was ingredibly silly asking these questions, but Cassandra was book smart and sometimes just lacked common sense entirely. It was one of those weird things that she got from her father... his social skills. It was not the worst thing to inheirt from him but it still made her an interesting person.
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 3, 2011 18:32:53 GMT -5
He did wonder though if he was to be invited to meet the folks of Cassandra around the Holidays how would he prepare to let his mother know about Cassandra. He did worried if his mother had problems with Slytherins when she was a Hufflepuff student. He never really asked however because it would probably be too much for him to handle as he would probably know that his mom might be happy for him that he has met a girl regardless of the house she was in as long as he was happy then his mother would accept it.
When Cassandra told Kenny that Potions can be fun he did figured that maybe it could be if he did give it a chance. He did had a good attitude in the class but one thing that makes him a bit worried is that the class was in the deep dungeons which is often Slytherin territory and that did made him a bit scared a bit. He was certain that OWLS did had a section on Potions and he had to study so much to be ready for that part no matter how tough it looked. Kenny chuckled at the name Cassandra gave her cat as the name was Pharaoh Anubis. “Cute name for a cat” he said calmly as he sipped again on his tea nearly running out.
“Cowboys? Well not really in Florida. It’s mostly people that enjoy going to the beaches around the summer and people that enjoy oranges so much.” he said as he had to admit it was a bit funny when she thought Americans were all cowboys when in reality everyone else are really Business Muggles and rude people according to his mother. “Americans are not all cowboys as many are successful business muggles and people who can be bitter sometimes.” he said as he thought about his father which he was afraid so much of. Just then, Cassandra asked if he could ride a horse as he seen horses though never really got on one of those animals. “No not really, though I’ve seen a few before though its hard to tell when.” he added as he slowly took another sip as his cup was nearly empty.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 3, 2011 22:40:37 GMT -5
Her father was the type that would not care but she knew how her grandmother would react. Cassandra had awful visions of her grandmother screaming out blood status and she knew that was the last thing the Kenny needed to be put through. It would be unfair to subject him to her grandmother and her old fashion ways of thinking. Kenny was too nice to be put through that so Cassandra thought he could just wait unless she was at her dad house and it would be just her, Kenny, and her father. Her father would not care or shout about his blood status.
Maybe Cassandra had an advantage when it came to potions ebcause of her house. But since she excelled in most classes she assumed that was not the main reason why she did well in potions. Then she wondered which class was considered the place for hufflepuffs to excel. Obviously potions was for Slytherins and she thought astronomy was for ravenclaws and the gryffindors had transfigurations. So then what was the hufflepuff class to succeed in? "yeah... the name for the cat is comical because Anubis had the head of the dog" She explained and smiled.
She laughed at her comment about the cowboys. "So the beach? Is the water warm?" She asked. It borught up images of girls running around in bikinis and tan people. "but in the movies most Americans are cowboys." She said and smiled. It was funny but most american movies that she saw involved cowboys in some sort of reference. Those types of movies always made her laugh so part of her just assumed the all Americans were funny cowboys that could ride horses. Most of her knew it was wrong though since she did study a bit about america and the Salem witch trials. "Well I've seen a few horses as well. So no riding?" She asked and gave a soft pout. "So you moved to England how long ago?"
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 4, 2011 2:06:05 GMT -5
Kenny noticed as Cassandra looked like she was concern so much about something, he wonder what could be troubling her so much about him. He never really bother much to ask her honestly as it may seem so troubling for her. He did thought about with Christmas coming soon that maybe he can at least do something at least real nice for her as he thought if a girl did like gifts. He was often told by mother that girls do enjoy gifts and ever since he’s been meeting Cassandra he maybe wonder what can be a real good gift to give her for the holidays to show his kindness to her as her watch he make water appear to refill the tea obviously.
Kenny knew that Cassandra was probably good in potions because of how slytherins are often looked on as good in Potions class. However, Kenny didn’t really believe in playing favors at all as he felt that any student should excel somewhere and he was really a surprisingly notable good student in Transfiguration class as he followed the rules the years he had the class. He was also ok in Charms and isn’t too sure about Divination yet but he is at least being ready to study for the OWLS and be ready real soon. Kenny thought it was funny that the name of the cat was Anubis despite the fact that Anubis had the head of a dog which was explained by Cassandra after he liked the name.
“Well the water can be warm sometimes but sometimes it can be cold which is good for some muggles that like to swim and have fun.” he said as he was asked about the beaches in Florida. He really wouldn’t know much because of there home in America was basically suburban homes. “Well in the muggle films there are films called westerns where there are cowboys which happened in there past” he added as he was talking about muggle history as the films his father would watch when he is home from work. “Well to be honest I would love to ride a horse someday though I’d be nervous at first” Kenny then said as Cassandra wondered if he didn’t ride horses at all. Kenny was then asked by Cassandra on how long has it been since he moved here to England as he still had the haunting memories. “Well its been to long to say, when I was still a little kid probably around 9 or 10.” he said softly as it was tough to try and remember the troubled life he had.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 4, 2011 8:28:15 GMT -5
She was trying to not look concerned about what she was thinking about. It was just some silly ideas about her grandmother. But she did have to wonder how someone could have that whole pureblood mind set. Cassandra just had the need to be a pureblood since she was in Slytherin and she tried to prove herself good enough on a daily bases. But to actually hate people because of thier blood status did seem a bit over the top. Although if two people had any right to hate muggles and half bloods it was Cassandra and Kenny. Both were half bloods with pasts that involved thier muggle parent leaving them. They probably had the best reason for hating muggles.
She remembered the day she got Pharaoh Anubis. It was the middle of the summer and Cassandra had been working with her father in his potions shop for the entire summer. It was quite boring since technically she was not allowed to do anything like make potions. Well during her lunch break she went walking around Diagon alley and passed by the pet shop. Pharaoh Anubis was this little fluff ball in the window with the other cats. It was definately love at first sight. Later that night her father went and bought her the little kitty. Besides ever kid at Hogwarts needed some sort of pet.
It was always too cold to swim in the beaches in England so she had no memories of going to a beach or anything like that. "Westerns.... I've seen a few of those. Arent there like modern cowboys thought?" She asked. Cassandra kept playing with her tea cup and took a sip. "Do you think riding a horse would be like riding a broomstick?" She asked. Both would have to be mounted and controled. But with a broom there were so many sticks that could be done since one was in the air. Now that she thought about it probably not.
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 5, 2011 2:11:25 GMT -5
It wasn’t that Kenny wanted to think he was a pureblood at all, he never really consider people being different just because of there bloodline. When he first came to Hogwarts he figured he would talk about his life but when he did mentioned that he was half he was often laughed upon by purebloods saying he was a halfblood as if it was something to be laughed about. He wanted to show them that he may be a halfblood but can prove to do as good as a pureblood can when it came to studies and stuff like quidditch. He had no real opinions on muggles at all although he really did not like his father at all when he would be mad at his mother because Kenny had the magic blood just like her.
Kenny always wanted to have a pet as he was starting over in England so that he can see what it was like to have someone to play with. However, when he was quiet and lonely after being teased by muggle kids for being different the idea was put on hold. When he was at Hogwarts however he had the idea of getting a pet again as he noticed that some students did in fact brought there pets with them to school. This year was probably going to be the year that he might get a pet. He did so much in his work and studies that maybe he might be rewarded a pet from his mother as he once told her if they got a pet then let it be a cat.
Most of the time in England it would be pretty cold which was often tough for Kenny but his Mother told him that if doesn’t think much of the cold weather he wouldn’t feel cold at all. He was asked by Cassandra about modern cowboys as he nodded in agreement as he figured maybe she was talking about the modern cowboys that run places called ranches in some places in the US. “Well, that is something that I’m not really sure about because riding a broom sounds often different than a horse” he said as he got some more tea to take a sip. He loved riding the broomstick so much whenever he had the chance though he never really did it during school hours.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 5, 2011 15:52:54 GMT -5
Cassandra was tired of dealing with blood status and hiding hers. Somedays she just wanted to scream in the middle of the Great Hall that she was a half blood and a better witch than most of the purebloods in Slytherin. But that would result in an awful rest of her time at Hogwarts. Never would she be able to just enjoy her common room. She'd likely have to transfere to another magical school. Salem sounded nice after all... or maybe that school up north since she did like the cold.
Her mind had funny pictures of cowboys. British people always thought that Americans were so funny with their cowboy type things. "Well who knows... You will have to go ride a horse and tell me about how they are different." She said and smiled. There was no way Cassandra was getting back on a broom after her first year. It had been so terrible and she was so scared of heights. Who would willingly be up that high without some sort of seat belt or protection. Goggles to cover ones eyes did not count as protection either.
She used her wand to creat another fire since she needed some more water for tea. She was also starting to get hungry since it was getting close to the start of meal time, but she just did not feel like going to the Great Hall. Once the water reached a boil she poured more into her cup. It was fun to control the tea kettle with her wand. She smiled as she manuvered it around, but she carefully set it down and exstingushed the fire so it would not get bigger. Although she felt like she could put it out if it got to big. Maybe it was too self centered to think of herself as a powerful witch. In reality she would probably end up in charge of that potions shop with a husband and a few kids running around. It was not a bad life image but she wanted a better career than that
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 5, 2011 21:44:37 GMT -5
Kenny had a feeling that Cassandra didn’t want to be teased so much since she was a halfblood just like Kenny was. He did want to go and tell his friends that he was a halfblood and proud of it but he just had bad feelings that he would just make his life really worst around his fellow hufflepuffs if he went out and revealed to them that he was a halfblood student. He did enjoy keeping the secret of being a halfblood for now as he felt that he and Cassandra can at least enjoy there life of being halfblood for now being that they are here together and they had have there first date already.
When his mother took him with her to live in England he did had a funny feeling of how people of England are like. He did came across some books back in the states that took place in England and in his mind the people in the stories are very dressed up and rich with accents that are unique. When he saw England however as a kid he was surprised that it was really a very nice and normal looking country. He then heard from Cassandra that he should go ride a horse if he can and tell how it can be different as Kenny thought about it. “Well when I get a chance to ride a horse I’ll let you know I will keep my word” he said with a chuckle.
He watched as Cassandra was creating a fire with her wand as it really amazed that how she can really do well In keeping the fire safe and careful while heating up the kettle for more tea. He was feeling a bit hungry in his stomach but for some reason he didn’t feel like leaving this spot with Cassandra as he was having so much fun speaking with her and drinking this fine tea. He felt as if she wanted to go find the food but he had a feeling that she didn’t want to be bothered to leave the place with him at all as he wanted to help out in case she was to have trouble with the kettle.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 6, 2011 14:50:46 GMT -5
Most of her anger towards hiding her blood status was really just anger about her family life. She was angry at her sister for not teaching her how to be a teenaged girl and pissed off that her real brother was never there to be that protective older brother every girl needed. But mostly she was pissed at her mom for taking them away and leaving her. Having only one parent was rough and the house never felt complete anymore. Her father would never marry again because he loved his first wife too much. It was almost like she made up in her mind that she was going to be not spending time at her house this comming vacation.
"Have you ever wanted to travel?" She asked him just out of curiosity. The idea of seeing new and interesting places very much interested her but who wanted to travel alone. Maybe she would spend a year traveling after she completed school at Hogwarts. Afterall who wanted to go straight from school to work at 18 years old. She deserved a break or to at least keep going to school for a bit before she settled down and had kids. The perfect marrying age would be like 24ish... so that was 5 or 6 years past the age she would graduate Hogwarts from. There had to be some fun years where she did not have to have a care in the world.
Then she smiled. "We could buy a pair of horses and travel through Europe on horse back." She suggested and laughed at the idea. It seemed so silly and she would rather travel by floo powder any day and then once in the city they were traveling to use the muggle transportation like buses. The other truth is that Cassandra would probably hate sitting on top of a horse all day since she was not a nature person. The only reason why she would not want to leave that place would be because then they would not be able to interact since they were keeping them a secret and everything.
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 7, 2011 0:59:13 GMT -5
Kenny had always felt that his Mother meant the best for him when she took him with her to her hometown as she knew that he didn’t like how Father was always grumpy and cruel to her which would make him sad most of the time. He did feel alone that he was the only child that his mother had so far and that he never really had a real brother or sister to speak to about stuff at all. Although he did had relatives from his mother’s family that were his age, he felt that it was probably a bit nervous to ask why halfblood are often picked on by purebloods so much.
“Did I ever wanted to travel? That….That is something I really never thought of at all” Kenny said as he was asked by Cassandra about it. To be honest Kenny would like to travel places here in Europe but because of his plans to get a good passing grade in Hogwarts has really kept him from thinking about the idea at all. He wonder if Cassandra was intro traveling places as much as he was as he figured that they were too young to plan stuff like traveling for now.
She then told Kenny about getting a pair of horses to go travel around Europe as she thought about the suggestion and laughed about it as she thought it was silly. “Well it would be very nice to travel around Europe but I’m not really sure about horses honestly.” he said to her hoping that she was joking about the horses as he really found the suggestion to be so funny as well. To be fair Kenny thought it was a bit strange to go ride a horse as he was into modern transportations like the buses that are often seen so much around the muggle areas though he and his mother did ride on one while keeping quiet. He did wonder however about how it would affect them because they were in a secret relationship for now and he didn’t want it to be affected badly at all.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 7, 2011 15:53:20 GMT -5
Once at dinner after her second year at Hogwarts her grandmother was over and talking all that nonsense about purebloods. It was like her own grandmother was blocking out the fact that her granddaughter was a half blood. Well the things she would refere to half bloods as was just awful but Cassandra sat through it and kept her mouth shut. It was like having an out of body experience when she listened to her grandmother speak. Why did she not stop her grandmother from saying those things. She figured that kenny would never want to sit through that so she would never invite him over if her grandmother was over.
"Well what is your first reaction to that idea?" She asked since he never gave to her an actual answer. It was in her life plan to go through Europe and see everything that it had to offer. She would start in England and make a big circle around Europe so stop in France and then Spain next. Then Italy and Germany and then to a few different places along the route before going through Scotland and then back to England. "I want to see the ancient ruins and I want to see Rome." She explained to him.
Part of her found it weird that he did not laugh out loud alot. She wanted to hear him show some emotion since they were friendly and kind of sort of dating. She wondered if he considered them dating or just friends who have been on a date. There was no need to talk about it though since those conversations just messed things up. "yeah... horses are stinky so I would not want to ride one for that long." She said. It would take like a year to travel by horse through the entire continet of Europe... maybe longer and Cassandra was not that patient. She would rather travel by floo powder or by muggle ways.
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 8, 2011 0:32:06 GMT -5
When Kenny was at his Mother’s parents house for the holidays on his third year at Hogwarts he listened to stories from his relatives about how the halfbloods are often treated with poor respect around Hogwarts because of them being different. At first Kenny thought it was something to probably go and scare him as a small childish prank made by his cousins for fun but he felt that it was no laughing matter when he realized that being halfblood can lead to serious trouble if he ever told a pureblood. When he did finally told someone who happened to be Cassandra that he was Halfblood it felt like he was admitting to what he was and proud of it.
It seemed that he forgot to give Cassandra a simple answer to her question about traveling as he was still a bit nervous about the question as he took a deep breath and begin to finally answer. “Well, Yes I would like to travel someday.” He wanted to ask her if she was interested in traveling as he suddenly heard her talk about going to the ancient ruins as well as seeing Rome. He was really surprised by what she said as he finally got a chance to speak. “Well I guess you want to travel as well. Maybe it would be nice if we did travel together someday.” he said nicely hoping that would make Cassandra really feel happy about it. He didn’t understand it but she seemed so interesting in wanting to travel outside Hogwarts.
Kenny can sometimes be a bit nervous when he is talking to a girl but it seemed that it was not affecting him one bit since talking to Cassandra. The two have been on two dates so far which were this one at the lawns and the first one from Hogsmeade the other day and it seemed that she liked to be really close to him as if she thinks he is so cute. Even though its been a date she still hadn’t considered it to be romantic yet which Kenny had agreed to wait until it was appropriate for them to really fall in love. Cassandra then said to Kenny about horses being smelly as he chuckled about it for a bit. “Well that is true and it would be really a tough trip if we had to travel around Europe on horseback.” he added as he thought that magic travel or muggle transport are ok by him.
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Post by Cassandra Lynn Murphy on Jul 8, 2011 18:30:26 GMT -5
She knew that her grandmother was probably working on finding Cassandra a marriage match sicne she kept talking about cleaning her blood line. It was nothing that cassandra was worried with now since there were a few more years until she would graduate from Hogwarts and would even consider marriage. She did spend alot of time thinking about marriage and if she really wanted it. Like her mother she wanted to marry younge and have kids but obviously she wanted the perfect man first.
"thats good." She said and smiled. It would be pretty cool to meet other magical people in other countries. She knew that most countries had a magical school, some more fameous than others. But still there had to have magical people and maybe different techniques that could be interesting to learn. Then she realized what she wanted to do after she graduated from Hogwarts. After she graduated then she was going to travel and learn different magical styles from other countries. It was just perfect.
He might not have felt nervous but Cassandra felt like he was since he was not talking all that much. But that could have been his personality. She was slowly learning to live with it since he was a great guy. As they sat there she sighed and laid back on the grass. It felt nice under her and she ran her hands through the grass. At that moment she decided to wait for kenny to say something or make the first move. Honestly she was tired of making the first move since it felt like she was wearing the pants in the relationship. Afterall she was a lady and deserved to be the one to wait for the other to make the move. Maybe it was selfish but she was kind of curious to see if Kenny could be the dominate male in thier relationship.
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Post by Kenny Micheal Templeson on Jul 8, 2011 20:33:46 GMT -5
Even though they just really met and had already been out together once at Hogsmeade the other day and this was there second date it felt like it is forever for the two students as they are together for now although they haven’t really considered romance quite yet between each other. The two had a few more years of Hogwarts left and it seemed that maybe after Hogwarts the two might still see each other as they grow up. He could never really think of himself as the kind of man to propose to someone after being with them for a few years as they grow up but when he does grow up he might consider the thought somehow.
“Yeah it really is good” he said when Cassandra simply just said that’s good after his answer about traveling someday. It might be fun if the two did get the golden chance to travel around Europe together. He might even get a chance to see the many different type of magical students and school that his Mother told him about when they first arrived to England. He never really asked much about the other schools as he only assumed that Hogwarts was perhaps the well known wizard school for young students of magic. Maybe it would be really keen to see how other students do there magic techniques in charms and transfiguration and how it can compare to the lessons that he learns over at Hogwarts.
Kenny watched as Cassandra laid back a bit on the grass feeling so relaxed for the moment. He really did enjoy spending so much time with her as it felt like they were really alike and it seemed that they should be meant for true romance. He felt that she was such a pretty girl with a good future ahead of her and he really hoped that maybe she will get over her trouble past like he was doing as well. He watched her feel so comfortable with the grass and was waiting for him to probably speak as he felt that he had nothing left for now as he felt that after having her make the first move he felt that he should try and make the first move. He then moved a bit close to her and closed his eyes and softly kissed her hoping she would be surprise that he was making the move for a change.
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(Hope it was alright that Kenny make the first move of kissing)
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