[Great Hall] So Hungry

[Alexis Heart]

Alexis had just come from a jog outside. She ran around the lake for about a half hour and she was sweating profusely, it was not a good look for her so she decided to run upstairs and shower. When she was finished she dressed in a comfortable pair of jeans, a navy blue t-shirt, and a pair of muggle Keds slip on shoes. Then she realized just how hungry she was, so she made her way downstairs to the Great Hall for some dinner.

Sitting down at the Ravenclaw table she didn't really look to see who was there but just sat down and started pulling dishes toward her and filling her plate until she was satisfied. Beginning to eat she saw someone out of the corner of her eye looking at her...

[richard]

It had been along night for Rich, he was up until the early hours of the morning trying to complete his Charms homework and still he had not completed it. He slowly wondered into the Great Hall blurry eyed and flicking frantically through a book searching for answers to help with his work. Once he had found himself some space at the table and filled his plate, Rich began to pick at the fond as he continued to read. He had missed breakfast as he had over slept but still he looked over his hunger in search of answers.

His study was soon distracted by the sight of a fellow Ravenclaw pilling her plate high with food. His mouth hung slightly open as he watched on unable to believe that someone could eat so much. It suddenly became aware to him that the girl had noticed that he was looking straight at her. Fumbling around out of embarrassment Rich managed to knock over his goblet full of Pumpkin juice and knock his fork on the floor. Other people on the tables around him seemed to have found the whole occurrence of events rather amusing, Rich however did not. He pulled out his wand and cleaned up the liquid that was slowly spreading over the table and gingerly picked up his fork before giving it a wipe on his shirt.

[Alexis Heart]

She saw an older year Ravenclaw staring at her, or rather at her plate. What was it that was so darned fascinating about it. Then she looked down and saw that she had taken a lot of food, more so than she normally would have. Well, she was hungry she had just come in from a jog and she had barely had anything for breakfast, and she was feeling famished. Nothing wrong with that, nothing at all.

Getting a bit agitated she was about to say something, it probably would have been something smart, but just then as the boy noticed that she had seen him staring he seemed to fumble and knock his juice down. It spilled all over the place, and several people snickered in her vicinity. Feeling rather bad for him, she watched as he cleaned up the mess. Moving a bit closer she said, 'Um I hope that wasn't my fault,' she smiled her annoyance floating away after the events of the last few moments.

[richard]

As the girl came over to apologise Rich kept his gaze fixed on his plate, a strange move considering he had just been staring open mouthed at the poor girl. As she began to question what happed and also a sort of apologue Rich finally managed to find his tongue, all be it a rather sarcastic remark.
“Yes, because you looking at me forced me to knock my drink over.” With a small laugh Rich looked back to his plate of food once more.

“Do not worry it was one of those things, I should not have been gawking at you like a fish in the first place, it is just that you do not see many girls piling their plates that high. It is good to see.”

Rich shot a glance up the table and saw many other girls in his house with small amounts of salad or simply eating soup. It would not be good for their focus in lessons, Rich personally always found it easier to work on a full stomach. With one last smile at the other girl Rich returned his intensions back to his book, turning the page slowly, finding that his concentration seemed to have gone.

[Alexis Heart]

Well, it was nice to see that her fellow Claw wasn't mean, and seemed to have a sense of humor. His comment about her filling up her plate might have been insulting to another girl but not to Alexis because well she had a healthy appetite and there was nothing wrong with that. Smiling she said, 'Most of these girls would gladly fill up their plates if the Great Hall was full of nothing but other girls. I think a lot of them pretend they have little to no appetite because they're afraid someone might think they over eat or are likely to become I hate to use the word since I find it so ugly but fat. As for me I see nothing wrong with eating if you're hungry if you don't over do it all the time. The saying 'Everything in moderation' is a good to apply in these kinds of situations.'

After she had finished her rather long diatribe Alexis couldn't help but feel a bit silly now. She couldn't believe she had just gone on and on like that. Now he was liable to think she was a huge dork with a big mouth. Looking anywhere but at him she had actually moved a little ways away from him pulling her plate toward her she began to eat, but then she suddenly felt self-conscious...

[richard]

Rich could not help but blink as the girl went on her rant. He made sure that he did not burst into a fit of laughter and so only a small wary grin filed his face. However it still did no justice to the amount of amusement he was feeling. Once his fellow Ravenclaw had finished her small rant on food, and moved away Richard turned back to his book, however he could not help that he should say something in response. With a small glance up at her Richard knew that if he remained silent any longer he would seem like complete idiot and that he was not paying any attention.

“I think you are quite right. Teenage girls are very aware of the people around them, and normally those who care what others think are the insecure ones, who to be honest, are either hopeless cases or rely on finding males who are just as insecure as them, who need to show there masculinity every second. The prime example of this our Slytherin’s.”

Rich looked over his shoulder towards the Slytherin table and gave a small smirk. The girls were hanging off every word of the boys and all they were content on doing was to tell stories about how they beat up a first year. Rolling his eyes Rich turned back to face Alexis with a smile.

“Now you on the other hand seem quite different.”

[Alexis Heart]

When Richard turned away from her Alexis could feel the heat growing on her cheeks. She was close to putting her hand to her face but stopped herself short the last thing she needed was him seeing her blush.

He had continued their conversation, and now she was hoping that her blush had disappeared but knowing her luck it probably hadn't. She wished that the ground would swallow her up, but then she thought to heck with it there was nothing she could do about the blushing.

When he started to speak again he started to mention how the other girls acted, how they were so concerned with how they looked and Alexis agreed whole heartedly. If he could hear the way some of the girls talk in the loo you'd think that they live and breathe other people's opinions.

Then he started to talk about they Slytherins and she had almost started to laugh because usually they were the girls talking that way. When he finished watching the Slytherins and looked back at her she laughed when he had rolled his eyes. Turning her head to look over at them herself Alexis couldn't help but feel that he was truly right. Those Slytherin girls were so busy watching the boys and listening to everything they had to say they didn't even seem to be eating. Shaking her own head Alexis took a hearty fork full of food and slipped it into her mouth.

It tasted good and she was pleased to eat it, and when Richard told her that she was "quite different" she swallowed and smiled, 'Well I like to think I am, I mean who are you if you can't be true to yourself. I believe you have to make yourself happy not others, so I tend not to base my actions upon what others think. I believe if I did that I'd be rather miserable, like most of those Slytherin girls are." She said nodding her head toward the table but not really looking at it.

[richard]

Richard had picked up a goblet of pumpkin juice and was taking a rather large draught of it when Alexis mentioned about the Slytherin’s not being happy. He had to fight everything not to spit the drink out over the whole table. Swallowing the juice quickly and rubbing his mouth with his sleeve Richard was finally able to laugh.

“Now that statement could not be more truthful. They simply follow the leader, I bet if we told them that the new fashion was to wear their underwear over their trousers they would all follow, even the boys. That house is full of fakes and people who have serious insecurities.”

Richard did not hate Slytherin house, he just saw them as petite a healthy rivalry he liked to call it and was always pleased when Ravenclaw beat them academically. With a smile at Alexis Richard turned back to his text book, turning over the pages readily as he tried to find the answer to questions that were flying around his mind. Sadly not all of the answers he was looking for would be found in a text book.

[Alexis Heart]

Now it was Alexis' turn to laugh. Richard was right the Slytherin's didn't lead by example they simply just followed a leader. Unfortunately, for them their leader was a right bit pathetic. 'Can you imagine seeing them all standing there with their underwear over their pants that would be a laugh. Hmm too bad we can't find a way to do it.I think all the other houses would give us a nice little reward for it.' Glancing at the table once more she saw one of the boys making fun of a Gryffindor who had passed by their table Alexis shook her head and her eyes rolled up to the ceiling. 'Why are they even allowed to go to school here. I sometimes wonder if it would be that big a loss if we tossed out the whole lot of them.' Alexis did have something against Slytherins. She never told anyone why and she never would. What happened would stay between her and that horrible Slytherin who luckily had since left the school.

Now that those horrible memories had been allowed to resurface she no longer wanted to talk about they Slytherins so she made an attempt to change topics. 'So how are you finding school this year?'