A Lonely Lunch.

[Abia Halkyn]

A shy black-haired girl stepped into a large hall, known to students as the Great Hall. Kaceda walked to a nearly empty table and wondered what to eat; she wasn’t very hungry she just thought it would be a good idea to eat something. As she thought she looked down t the Ravenclaw badge on her uniform and sighed, it didn’t suit her all her family used to be in Griffindor, she had broken a family tradition. A hot chocolate appeared in front of her, she gave up thinking of what to eat very quickly.

Kaceda looked around and saw many people talking and laughing with their friends, everyone looked happy they fitted in here but she got the feeling that she never would. She drank some of hot chocolate, then thought of something to eat. A bar of milk chocolate materialized and she started eating straight away, making herself feel better. After vaporizing the chocolate she immediately felt happier. She took another good look around everyone was still talking, smiling and laughing, so she waited for someone to come along and talk to her, wishing that luck was with her like it was in the Entrance Hall.

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

Ashlle walked into the Great Hall, wondering what was for lunch today. As she walked to the Gryffindor table she was disturbed to see a Ravenclaw Girl Eating candy for Lunch, and nothing else. This disturbed her -being the Temp Nurse made her more aware of these things- so she changed her direction and walked over to the girl instead.

"Excuse me" she said curiously " but is that all your having for lunch? You realize that it isn't very healthy at all right?"

Now that she was closer she noticed that the girls drink was Hot Chocolate as well, and this worried her even more. The poor thing was libel to get a tooth ache if she kept eating like this.

"What's your name anyway" she asked.

[Abia Halkyn]

The girl looked up and saw someone who looked friendly, for a moment she thought that she was lucky, until the person started saying about how unhealthy she was being. “Sorry, I was not thinking, I promise you I don’t always eat like this,” she timidly whispered, her mouth didn’t want to work like usual. Kaceda looked down at her hot chocolate feeling a little ashamed and the expression her face went down. “My name is Kaceda.”

Even though it was not the best thing to do in that situation she took another gulp of her hot chocolate and finished it quickly. “What is your name? If you don’t mind me asking that is,” Kaceda whispered again, she was starting to lose her voice. She wasn’t sure if the concerned stranger even heard her, but she didn’t want to try again so she kept quiet and waited for an answer, with her face gazing at the empty mug.

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

Ashlle could plainly see that she'd scared the girl. She hadn't ment to. Being the Temp Nnurse had simply made her more aware of such things than she usually would have been.

"It's alright" she said trying to be soothing. "I didn't mean to be at all mean about it. I'm glad this is just a one time thing. My name is Ashlle Rainier and I'm the Temp Nurse and A Secont Year Gryffindor." She left out the part about being the last of the Rainier Clan, because she thought if Miss Kaceda knew she was a Pureblood it might fighten her even more.

"May I eat my lunch with you? I know we;re not supposed to switch tables unless invited so . . ." She hoped she hadn't made the girl too uncomfortable, and wished to make it up to her if she had.

[Abia Halkyn]

Her stomach tightened to hear that she was a gryffindor and felt sad, the concern about her only made sense now because this girl, Ashlle, was the temp Nurse. Kaceda smiled, “Sure you can,” the rule about sitting at a certain table made no sense to her but that was life. The smile didn’t last long, she was happy being in Ravenclaw but her mother and father would be disappointed. “I’m in Ravenclaw,” she said, as her voice got better, “Why make up the rule about the tables, it seems quite silly to me.”

To her, Ashlle was the sort of person to care for others a lot, which was good; Kaceda had never liked people who just didn’t care about anyone. That just meant that if one person were in danger then the person didn’t care would not help. She remembered making a promise on her Grandpa’s grave that would never like the person who left him to die, uncaring and selfish. Kaceda’s Grandpa had died in a fire, a man was there with him but he only cared about hi own life, he found a way to escape and left her Grandpa to be burnt to death. That left her determined not to be like that man, the thought made her smile as she reflected upon it and it made her feel happy again.

[Ashlle G. Rainier]

Since she'd now been invited, Ashlle sat down at the Ravenclaw table next to Kaceda and folded her skirt neatly beneath her.
"Thank you" she said, and smiled. As she filled her plate with the lunch foods, she thought about Kaceda's question.

"I'm not sure who made up the rule actually. I think it's one of those unspoken rules. Your in such-and-such a house, you sit at your own house's table. Usually you wouldn't sit anywhere else unless someone asked you to. I- I suppose it's like a social rule." Ashlle took a bite of roast chicken and and thought as she chewed and swallowed.
"I never really thought anything of it actually. If you want you can ask your Prefect if I am right. Perhaps I'm mistaken."

Being a Pureblood Ashlle was big into social rules and attended Finishing School in the summer. There she learned all about the rules of decorum and manners, what is expected of a proper young lady and a proper young man. Though she had many friend who had no idea what was proper she didn't mind it much so long as they were decant to her rather nice over all.

"So, how do you like Magic Horizons School so far?" she asked Kaceda.