Thank you to my dear friend, you know who you are. Thank you for helping me, and inspiring me. I wouldn't be able write this without you.
March 31st 2018 11:30 PM London, England
A fluttering noise, faint but growing closer quickly entered his senses as he turned his head toward his flats balcony. This young man was Teddy Lupin, renowned
prankster, Gryffindor heart-throb, and star Quidditch player. As his eyes picked out a dark shape moving into view he watched as the shape slowly came into the light.
It was an owl, with brown colored feathers in varying shades. With a final flap of its wings the owl transformed before his eyes into a tall and curved young woman
with brown hair, the same shade as the owls feathers had been. Not breaking stride, she gracefully opened the glass paneled doors and strode into his flat.
"You're a bit later than normal, have some trouble on the avian express today?" he commented with a teasing grin. Hazel eyes glaring at her currently bright blue
haired friend, she huffed before replying to his quip. "If you had any idea what kind of day I had you'd be late as well. We both know Apperating doesn't agree with
me, and the Floo is just as bad." Snorting, in response to his brown haired friend he watched as she all but fell into the seat before him with a huff.
"Yeah, Mia we all know that you and transportation don't mix well."
The young woman before him was Amelia West or more commonly known as Mia by her teasing family and friends. Currently studying at
a prestigious performing arts center, which was known to produce the best singers, dancers, and actors in the country she had managed
a scholarship within its program. One which was highly sought over and extremely hard to achieve. As he studied his long time friend
who slumped before him, he silently noticed how her normally tamed hair was a bit more fizzy, and her normally clear skin was now
specked with blemishes which he assumed were one the many effects of stress. Ever since they were children, she had explained in
detail to him of how after she learned to control her magic, she wished to pursue a career in the arts. It had been a long road of long
study nights and even longer private lessons to train her into, in his mind one of the best performers he'd ever seen. It made perfect
sense to him why she would be accepted into the program. Although she seemed to doubt herself, even now after she'd been attending
for almost a year.
Letting out a quiet sigh before looking up at her blue haired friend, Mia watched as the his hair shifted to a darker
shade reflecting his thoughts perfectly before she spoke, "Lupin, what's wrong?" Blinking quickly, Teddy's eyes focused back on his friend as he
quickly replied, his normally laid back voice serious, "Nothing, nothing at all… it's just you've been looking a bit under the weather these
days. I'm just a bit worried you might wear yourself out."
Her tired features shifting into one of shock she stared back at her friend, " I'm fine its just the evaluations are coming up and it essentially determines whether or
not I'll be good enough to stay at the school. It's a bit nerve racking to see the people you've seen as your classmates get shoved out the door without so much as a
'goodbye'."
Stretching her limbs out, she vaguely waved her hand in the air as if to brush the thought away, " Besides, that's not what made you all in a fuss for me being late.
So go on, ask away, I know you want to. Due to the fact that you stayed up to wait for me is evidence enough."
A Cheshire grin appeared on Mia's face as she watched her friends face and hair flush a bright shade of red. Teddy quickly stumbled over his words, "I
don't… I mean its not…. I'm not… Oh just shut up! Its not like that!"
Quietly beginning to laugh at her friend, Teddy meanwhile began to question why he had alerted his friend to his current situation, she was much too crafty
sometimes. As her teasing continued it only left his normally functional brain in shambles. Not that this was helping in anyway due to his already existing
embarrassment with the situation. His accent changing at his embarrassment he spoke, " If you kindly stop trying to take the mickey out of me it'd be much
obliged love."
Her laughter quickly dying out she seemed to sober up before him, although her previously dull eyes held a new spark
behind them which was the only hint at the teasing which was still to come. " I gave Victoire the letter just as you asked, flew up to her
window sill, delivered the letter and she didn't suspect a thing. Her parent's couldn't have seen me either due to the fact I flew right up to
her window." Pausing to take in his now calmed color and barely veiled excitement her voice took a slightly teasing tone. "She seemed
very excited to read whatever you put in the letter. But what I want to know is why you and her haven't simply gone on a date like normal
couples to discuss whatever you're writing to each other. I may be able to transform into an owl, but sadly I don't get paid for my
deliveries."
Letting out a bark of a laugh at her words, he rocked back onto his couch and clutched his chest with his hand while playfully
groaning at his friend. "Oh my dear, dear, Mia you wound me. I give you payment in my joyful company and uncanny wit. The information
you carry for me is of utmost importance and I prefer to know that my information is in safe and secure hands or well talons, I suppose in
your case." Mia's teasing grin morphing into a frustrated pout at his now joking tone, her hand quickly moved to throw a nearby pillow at
her friend. Letting out a noise of complaint as a pillow roughly hits him in the face he speaks his voice muffled. "Ow! Ow, I get it you're
clearly not in a good enough mood to appreciate my good humor." Dragging the pillow off his face to see Amelia, he grimaces at the
highly un-amused expression on her face. Grumbling a bit she comments, "Well now that I've got my daily joke about my animagus form, I suppose I can finally head
home now."
Standing and moving towards the flats balcony, she calls back over her shoulder, as he watches her from his seat.
"Teddy, as much as I love you, you need to man up and just go see her. You've been together long enough and letting
yourself be scared is not something I'd expect out of Teddy Lupin. So just use that Gryffindor courage your oh so fond of flaunting and go
ask her out already."
Leaving him to sit on his couch completely shell-shocked of her words, she swiftly walked out onto the balcony
before transforming and flying of leaving only the decreasing sound of flapping wings in his now empty flat. Running a hand through his
newly colored hair, his thoughts which had previously stumbled around his head seemed to clear as he reflected on his friends words.
"Mia, when did you get so smart?"