Listless [Fin]

[Poppy Hunt]

Poppy was doing something very strange, even by her standards. She was braiding her hair.
Poppy barely ever brushed her hair, it seemed and she definitely didn't obsess over it. Most of the time she seemed unwilling to touch it even and would just blow it out of her eyes occasionally.
But here she sat, leaning forward on the couch, having combed her fingers briefly through her hair and now braiding it into a long neat plait.

Anything to distract herself from homework.
Her homework sat on the table in front of the couch. The parchment was completely bare, the books were all open to semi-appropriate pages and spread out across the whole surface so no one else could use it.
Her quill was lying untouched and neatly arranged to be parallel next to the edge of the parchment itself.
She didn't feel like doing Charms tonight. She never felt like doing Charms really, homework particularly.
But she didn't feel like doing anything tonight.

She was sort of strangely listless. She never thought she would reach the point of boredom where she was just apathetic, but it seemed she'd surpassed it.
She was sick of Hogwarts now. She couldn't wait for these last few weeks of term to hurry up and pass her by so she could go home.
God how she wanted to go home.

Stifling a yawn, she combed her fingers furiously through the plait to unweave all the strands of hair from each other again and tossed her hair carelessly back over her shoulder.
Okay, time to concentrate.
She leant forward a little bit, picked up her quill, tapped it a few times on the parchment...no, she couldn't do it.
She flicked her hair over her other shoulder and meticulously began braiding it from a different angle.

[Finley Andrews]

"Your hair will all fall out if you keep doing that," Finley stated expressionlessly as he fell onto the couch next to her.
He'd seen her on his way into the common room from dinner. He'd seen the homework neatly laid out on the table and decided that he'd let her get on with it, and slipped up to the boys dorms before she could see him. He'd stayed there for nearly an hour, reading and doing his own homework and glaring at his roommates, and then decided maybe it was alright to come back down now.
He should have known the homework would still be laid out neatly and untouched. He really should have known by now.

It'd started off quite strangely, really. They'd both been loners in the common room, and then they'd started to sit together and still be loners by not talking. Then they'd sat together at the table in the Great hall as well. And only then had they started to talk to each other.
Now that he knew her, Fin had no idea how she'd managed to keep so quiet so long when she had trouble keeping quiet at all...ever.

Didn't really matter though, he wasn't that curious.
Leaning forward in his chair, he closed one of the books to look at the title, "Charms. Having much luck with that Poppy?"
He glanced briefly at the blank parchment as he said this.

[Poppy Hunt]

"No, it won't," She eyed him doubtfully as he spoke, but quickly tugged her fingers through the plait and flicked her hair back over her shoulder.

She'd been wondering where Fin was. Usually, they sat together in the common room and sometimes they talked and sometimes she just talked at him.
Lately, it'd been much more of the latter. He didn't really seem to have anything to say anymore. Not since Logan-...she had to resist the temptation to shudder just at thinking his name. She remembered her best friend's father in excruciating detail, he was the butt of her nightmares, and she knew it was even worse for Fin. But ever since-...well, for a few months, he'd not had much to say about anything. Just quiet, even more than usual, so she'd had to talk at him even more to compensate.
She'd worried when he'd not come and sat with her after dinner, wondering what on earth had happened to him that meant a break in tradition. She didn't like it.

"No I am not," She sniffed, jutting her chin in the direction of her Charms homework, "And I hereby give up. Where on earth have you been young man? I was worried sick."