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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 7:09:15 GMT
Study.. You have to study. Ben thought to himself as he sat at a lone table in the library. But it was Sunday, he didn't want to study, he would must rather be outside on the grouds throwing snowballs at innocent bystanders. That sounded much more fun than this. Too bad he had an exam the next morning that he'd barely even studied for yet.
He looked down at his open book, trying to read the first paragraph on the page. The same paragraph that he was trying to read nearly thirty minutes ago. Ben was really trying to get better at this whole studying thing, but it almost seemed like everytime he attempted it, he just kept getting worse.
He dug his hand into his pocket, taking out his set of keys that he carried around with him. There were only a few keys on it and there was really nothing special about the set of dull keys, but they were much more interesting than the Goblin Rebellions.
Ben started to twirl his keys around his fingers and before he knew it, the set of keys went flying off his finger and across the library. Ben jumped slightly and turned around quickly in the direction of where he thought the keys flew, hoping that they didn't hit anybody.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 7:34:38 GMT
Shelby was walking through the library on Sunday afternoon, only for the shear fact that many students had not turned in their essays on what constellation do you think is most important and why. She didn't think she was asking much for it... only seven pages and using Azul Marino ink only for the paper.
Shell sighs lightly before feeling a set of keys smacking her slightly in the arm causing her to drop the few collected essays everywhere, while all the individual pages went flying in every direction. Now I have to figure out what page went with what... grrrreat. Looking up briefly noticing Benjamin Holbrooks, the keeper for the Hufflepuff team. Shell never honestly liked Hufflepuffs and this was widely known. They weren't the smartest of the group and definately just humble and sweet, just nothing between the ears. "Holbrooks, come here now, please."
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 7:43:28 GMT
When he turned around, he saw papers flying in the air and Professor Crescent infront of them. That's not good.. He thought to himself before shaking a few pieces of his hair out of his face. She called me over and glancing at my book for a split second, stood up and walked over to her.
Of all the people to hit with keys.. He added in his mind, as he approached her. "Sorry Professor.. they just got away from me." He said said explaining what happend, hoping she was in an okay mood.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 7:48:00 GMT
Shell sighs, crossing her arms over her arms before glancing at him for a second as she started to gather some pages. "Help me out here before I give you detention." she says sternly after a few seconds. Once she picked up a few pages and glancing at them, Shell knew that they were not similar at all.
"What were you studying that was so boring you had to throw your keys at an innocent bystander." she asks with a slight bitter tone as she raised an eyebrow at Benjamin as she let out another sigh once she picked up his keys and pocketed them in her teaching robes.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 7:56:59 GMT
Ben nodded and crouched down to the floor, picking up the papers that were around him. He knew from then on that he was in some deep trouble. He didn't know why, but Professor Crescent never seemed to be a big fan of him.. or any Hufflepuff for that matter. With exception to her daughter.. at least he figured.
"I was studying History of Magic.. but I couldn't concentrate." He said shaking his head slightly as he picked up another paper. "Sometimes doing something else helps.. I didn't mean to throw them at you." He tried to explain to her, hoping she would believe him. He didn't want any trouble.. well, except that he wanted to go start a snowball fight, but that was it.
She pocketed his keys and he sighed slightly. Well, wasn't getting those back for a bit. That probably meant detention.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 8:01:45 GMT
Shell nods slightly before stacking the pages up into a short pile before glancing up at him again. "I guess that's feasible. After all, I hated History of Magic just as much as any other student that attended this school." she says with a faint laugh before taking the stack that Benjamin gathered in his hands and placed them on top of the already formed pile.
Shell stands up once all of the pages were collected and in her arms again, except now were all jumbled and slightly crumbled up on the edges. "For your detention, you will be sorting through all of these pages and correctly lining them up so they make sense. Then you will be helping me grade them, seeing as you had a smashing start with Astronomy already. Speaking of Astronomy, did you turn in your paper?"
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 8:08:29 GMT
He felt a bit more relieved now that he knew she seemed to have believed him. He was being completely honest with her which is why it would've been ridiculous if she didn't believe him. He nodded slgihtly at what she said and as he stood up as well, handing her the stack of pages that he had picked up.
There goes my history of magic grade.. He thought to myself as she told him what he was going to do. No use argueing now.. Ben thought again before nodding. "Alright.. and yeah, course I did.. it's in this pile somewhere." He told her with a small nod. I may not be good at working on things, but I was good at getting them turned in.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 8:11:15 GMT
"And if you have time... I'll be helping you with your History of Magic. Think of it as a gift from one keeper to another." she says with a small wink before walking back towards the door entrance of the library. "Gather your stuff and follow me please Holbrooks." she says with a nod and with that she turned about and walked out of the room and started to head to the Astronomy Tower.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 8:17:13 GMT
She winked at him and he couldn't help but be slightly weirded out. Teachers did a lot of weird things sometimes, so he just nodded. "Alright.. thanks then." He said back to her, not wanting to sound ungrateful or anything. That would just land him in more trouble.
He nodded again when she told him to gather his things and follow her. "Yes, Professor." He said in response before going back to the table he had occupied and grabbing all of his things.
He looked out the window and hoped that maybe the snow would stay a bit longer than a day so he coudl actually go outside and enjoy it.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 8:21:14 GMT
Shell was in the Astronomy Tower, glancing out of a window. She was watching few of the students having snowball fights and making snowmen. Shell noticed a bunch of snow was sitting along the edges of the windows and smiled faintly. The child side of herself was so tempted to open of them and throw a snowball down at them, but she obviously couldn't do that.
"There you are Holbrooks. Just sit at this desk and sort through the pages for me."
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 8:28:35 GMT
He followed her up the Astronomy Tower and walked into the room after her. Ben saw her standing by the window, looking out and it caused him to look out too. He sighed a bit when he saw what was going on. Everybody having fun.. without him.. with perfect packing snow! That doesn't come very often. Stupid keys..
He nodded at what she said and sat down in the desk, staring down at the papers for a while. This was going to take forever.. especially since he doubted she would let him use magic.. "Alright.." He said as he nodded before starting to look at the pages, attempting to identify each one. Shouldn't there be something against the rules about this?
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 2, 2008 8:31:50 GMT
Shell continued to glance out the window for a few minutes before noticing Benjamin sorting through the pages without magic. "You know I never said how you can sort the pages Holbrooks." she says with a nod and one of those teacher smiles you get if you got an A+ on an essay.
She walked over and took one of the essays that was already sorted through and started grading it as she waited for him to figure out that she meant he could actually use magic to go through the sorting and grading.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 2, 2008 8:35:28 GMT
He looked up to her, "You mean you'll actually let me use magic?" He asked her, wanting to make sure he was hearing this correctly. He wasn't expecting that.. most teachers wouldn't allow magic for this.. especially since this was technically a detention. In his opinion this was more of the Professor not wanting to sort through the papers herself and since she has the authrority, she's using it.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 2:13:13 GMT
"Why not you could get done faster." she says with a nod and a smile. Shell couldn't help but tilt her head slightly and look him up and down for a second. "I know I wouldn't want to sort through them, so you probably don't either."
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 2:21:53 GMT
"Well, yeah." He started saying, shaking his head a little bit, "But most professors don't really care.. I mean, it's detention." He shrugged a bit, looking over to her, seeing her look him over for a moment and slightly wondering why she did. "But you're definitely right there, I didn't much want to sort through them."
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 2:43:15 GMT
"Well I'm not like most professors Benjamin." she says walking pass the desk and to the door, and locking it. "I'm sure you can sort through them quickly. You seem pretty smart, maybe even Ravenclaw smart."
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 2:48:31 GMT
He looked up as she walked past him, seeing her lock the door. Um.. Was it just him or was the door in no need of actually being locked? Ben raised his eyebrows slightly at what she said next, feeling a slightly bit more unnerved. I seem smart? He thought to himself a moment later. "Well um.. You can look at my grades and I'm sure you'll see otherwise." He said after a moment before starting to sort through them a bit.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 3:00:28 GMT
"Oh don't be silly. You're passing my class right?" she says with a smile as she walked back to her desk. "So, are you going to finish that or not?" Shell asks nodding to the stack of papers.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 3:08:01 GMT
"Well, yeah.. I think I'm passing your class." Ben said, shaking his head faintly. But in his opinion, he wasn't too smart... or at least he couldn't concentrate. Maybe he was ADD or something. She asked him if he was going to finish and he nodded. "Yeah, I'll have it done in a bit." He said, starting to work at it again. A few moments passed and the papers, were hopefully, all in the right place.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 3:17:09 GMT
Shell shrugs lightly before leaning against her desk. "So, do you have a girlfriend? Every seventh year tends to have one." she says with a smile.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 3:23:21 GMT
Ben set his wand down once he was finished and looked back up to her when she spoke to him. He shook some hair out of his eyes and shook my head. "Nope, no girlfriend right now..." He told her, even though he found that question quite strange. Was a teacher even allowed to ask something like that?
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 3:35:32 GMT
"That's a pity then, isn't it? No dates or anything of the sort?" she asks with a frown before looking at him up and down again.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 3:42:32 GMT
He shook his head. "No, nothing but hanging out with a few friends..." He said looking over to her again, catching her look him up and down again and becoming slgihtly nervous. Why did she keep doing that? ".. Sort of fancy someone though." He said with a faint nod and shrug.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 3:49:45 GMT
"Oh really? Who may that be?" she asks with a curious grin on her face. "Older perhaps?"
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 3:53:05 GMT
"Um.." He laughed a little bit, shaking his head a bit. He would have told her, but well, seeing as it was her daughter, he decided that he didn't really want her knowing that. "Mind if I keep that bit of information to myself?" He smiled.
"And yeah, she's a bit older than me." He said with a small nod.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 3:57:03 GMT
Shell sighs a little before getting up from her desk and standing in front of his desk. "I'm just curious, who?" she asks again with a faint frown now.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 3:59:07 GMT
".. I'm not sure I feel.. comfortable.. telling you.." Ben said after a moment, looking down to his hands before shaking some hair from his eyes and looking back up. He noticed her frowning and sort of wondered why, this wasn't a big deal, was it?
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 4:12:34 GMT
"No, I guess not." she says before crossing her arms over her chest. Her charm was definitely not working for her anymore. "You're dismissed. I'd rather not keep you here when you clearly don't want to be." Shell sighs lightly before taking the stack of paper and setting it on her desk.
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Post by Benjamin Holbrooks on Dec 7, 2008 4:19:15 GMT
"Look it's really nothing personal." Ben said shaking his head a little bit. "Could you just tell me why you really want to know then?" He asked her looking up to her, seeing her obviously not looking very happy.
"Wel, really, I don't have much of a reason to be here anyway." He told her, looking over to her again. "It's not like I hit you purpose." He added, then wondering if that was going to actually make her give him a detention. Talking back to her. That would be just his luck.
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Post by Shelby Crescent on Dec 7, 2008 4:43:19 GMT
Shell rolls her eyes lightly. Right, I'm practically flirting and throwing myself at you... "Who is it you like then? It can't be that big of a deal." she says with a raised eyebrow once he started talking back to her. "Watch it there Holbrooks?"
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