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Sugar Rush

Their battle through the crowd was uncomfortable, to say the least. Thanks to it being pretty cold outside, everyone was wearing chunky coats and big boots for her to trip over. She wasn't the most graceful creature, but she managed to not step on any toes. Something touched her hand as she carried on squeezing past people in the noisy pub, and she almost lashed out in surprise until she glanced down and realised it was Remus taking hold of her hand. It was a strange moment, and Echo smirked. She definitely wasn't the kind of girl to need someone to hold her hand so she wouldn't get trampled by beasts, so to speak, she could definitely tame a beast or two with ease, so it was funny to have a guy show some sort of protective urge towards her. Protective probably wasn't even the right word. Chivalrous? Maybe. Either way it was half insulting and half sweet, and she allowed it as they worked for that table, managing not to get separated. If anyone beat them to it, she'd be making a scene arguing with them.

Luckily they made it through in one piece, and quick enough to claim the table, and Echo released Remus' hand pretty quickly and shrugged off her jacket, hanging it over the back of one of the chairs and glancing at the crowd around the bar. "You are insane for coming here on a Hogsmeade weekend," she laughed, glad that someone would come over and take their order and they wouldn't have to queue up at the bar for ages. She sank into her seat with a sigh of relief. It was good to know she could just chill out for a bit. Plus, food. Where there was food, there was always a happy Echo nearby. She picked up one of the menus from the table and gave it a quick glance. She really already knew most of the things that they served here, since she'd been here, well, a lot over the years. They had so many nice things for just a pub, but she kind of already knew what she wanted without having to look. Still, Remus didn't need to know that she'd practically memorised the menu. That was just embarrassing. If that kind of information got back to James, she'd never live it down whenever she saw him. No, she could pretend to peruse the meals on offer for a bit.



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tag: @junebug
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outfit: Comfy and warm.

Sugar Rush

"Well obviously I'm made of rainbows and sparkles," she joked at his comment that she couldn't be that bad if she was a Hufflepuff. Honestly, Echo didn't see herself as bad at all, just fiery, and there was nothing wrong with that when it was used to stand up for yourself and your loved ones. She was no saint, but she might have had a tiny bit of rainbow about her. "Sounds like I should keep you around, then," she added, thinking that she really could use someone in her life with the ability to smooth situations over when her mouth got the better of her. It would be very handy indeed. Plus he was cute, looking at that face a bit more wouldn't hurt at all. Not in a pervy way, definitely not, but she could appreciate a pretty face when she saw one. She wouldn't be telling Remus that, there was honest, and then there was just unnecessarily awkward, which she was not. And now she was just getting way off track.

"Well thank ya very much," she grinned, taking the Quidditch compliment on the chin and trying not to feel uncomfortable about it. She was good, she should own that! She did duck her head after the grin, and busied herself with paying the witch at the counter. Finished with her purchase, she stepped to the side to wait for Remus to pay for his own stash of sweets as he chatted about being rubbish at potions. Was he the male version of Echo? She was beginning to wonder, minus the whole being able to control his mouth thing. She laughed and tried to disguise it as clearing her throat. "You know what, maybe we should get someone else to make the sweets, and we can just taste test them. I'm crap at potions, too." Though she could make a mean pizza, but that technically wasn't cooking, was it.

He held the door for her as they left the shop, and she ducked under his arm and out into the street, a spring in her step which was very much down to the happy morning she was accidentally having. "I'm not gonna lie, I'd usually have at least half a bar eaten by the time I get out of the shop," she told him, cringing. She was hungry for something other than junk food, though, and The Three Broomsticks always had pretty nice food for just a pub. The village was busy, but the pair dodged through the crowds until they reached the pub and headed inside. It was packed, but there were a few empty tables, and Echo nodded to the nearest one, which had a good few people blocking it from them. "Reckon we could fight our way through?" she joked, perfectly willing to go shoving through a crowd to get to the table, though she was only small, the taller people in their way might not even notice her until they felt her elbow in their ribs.



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outfit: Comfy and warm.

Sugar Rush

Echo narrowed her eyes skeptically when Remus insisted that James never cheated. Maybe that was true, but she was convinced he would have gone that step further had he been able to without getting caught. His stunts and tricks were bad enough, she wouldn't have been surprised if he'd taken it there. "Hmmm." She stopped herself from making any further comments on Potter's flying habits. She'd never get past Remus' 'defend a friend' mode, it seemed, so there was no point trying. She did admire his loyalty to his mate, though, especially since said mate was a bit of a rebel. It was nice to see others willing to stand by their friends no matter what. Echo was cut from the same cloth, but she knew not everyone was so loyal, some people would run screaming and leave you to your fate, even if they were doing it by just failing to stick up for you when someone was making false claims about you. Ah, well, Remus was a good'un, it seemed, and that brought a smile to Echo's face.

"Oh, I believe that," she told him with a nod of her head. "You come across as a genuinely decent guy. I'm sure you were the Jiminy Cricket of the gang." Would he know about the muggle cartoon movie Pinocchio? She had come across so many baffled people in her six and a half years at Hogwarts that she was surprised she still bothered to make muggle references, but they just slipped out. She couldn't erase her muggle father from her life that easily. He might have died four years ago, but he was still a huge part of who she was, and she didn't really want that to change. Whether he had any idea who Jiminy Cricket was or not, a bar of triple fudge mint choc toffee swirl praline was practically waving at her from the shelf, and that stole her attention enough for her to not really be too bothered about what Remus did or didn't know of the muggle world. Heck, he could have been a muggleborn himself for all she knew. It didn't really matter anyway. That bar of sin did, though.

She eyed Remus to see if he was watching her before trying to subtly take one of the praline bars off of the shelf, tucking it into her sweetie bag and sliding back into conversation like she hadn't just decided to buy a treat straight from hell itself. It had to be to be that yummy, right? Completely naughty. "The Canons are great," she agreed with a grin, enjoying talking about Quidditch immensely. "I'm an Arrows fan. Imagine if I could get myself a spot as an Arrow! They'd soon be top of the league," she added cheekily, imagining herself in the Appleby Arrows uniform, flying out there at the Quidditch World Cup, people screaming her name and waving banners declaring "We love Everwood!" That was the ultimate dream, and not for the fans and the banners, but for the sheer joy it would bring to be able to do what she was best at for years, and for her skill to be recognised. To finally not be the average Hufflepuff student who has to work her backside off just to get an A in certain classes. To just be Echo Everwood, the girl who is fierce on a broom and can almost take someone's head off with a Bludger. Well, that would just be perfect. Of course she'd settle for any team that would have her, really, it didn't have to be the Arrows, but she could hope.

"What do you do?" she asked, realising she knew nothing about Remus as an adult, as a guy who had been out in the world for a good eight months. "Or what do you want to do?" she amended, realising that it could take time to get yourself into something. There were probably far too many kids who graduated from school and had a job lined up for them, a house gifted to them by their outrageously rich parents, and not a care in the world, but for the little folk, the normal folk, it took time. Maybe Remus was one of those lucky people who had it all worked out, but she got the impression that he was as normal and down to earth as she was, which probably didn't mean he was rolling in money and servants. It was unfortunate, but it was rare to find a really nice super rich person. There were a few, she wasn't one to judge too harshly, but the majority were snobs and elitists. The majority wouldn't be seen dead buying stashes of chocolates in Honeydukes when they could have a house elf do it for them. Echo would never be like that. Even if she found herself rich one day, she would never take advantage of it, and she would always be found filling a bag full of treats in the middle of her favourite shop.



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tag: @junebug
notes: Oh my gawwwd, I'd LOVE to go there! And so perfect for posting muse! Haha <3
outfit: Comfy and warm.

Starlight New Year

"You can't just leave us to go and flirt with some random at the bar!" Aeon huffed at Nova as the middle sister gave eyes to some guy she'd spotted at the bar. He was about a foot taller than her - not an unusual thing, since Nova was tiny - and very handsome, Echo had to admit. Green eyes, dark golden hair, tanned, just lovely. In fact, with Nova's own green eyes and blonde hair, they'd make a pretty stunning couple. Not that Echo was marrying her sister off to a complete stranger in her head. She totally was. Aeon totally wasn't. She was annoyed that Nova wanted to break from the group already. It was still early, there was no need to go running off with the first guy you laid eyes on, according to the eldest Everwood, and Echo had to agree. She felt bad, though. Holding her sisters back wasn't something she liked to do, if they wanted to do something, then Echo believed that they should do just that. Unless either of them was planning on becoming a Death Eater. There were some things off limits. Hitting on a hot guy wasn't such a crime, though. Not in Echo's eyes.

"Aeon, let her go, we'll be fine," she piped up with a shrug. She was happy to spend the night just with Aeon if Nova wanted to go her own way. Her drink was half empty by now, and Echo was really getting into the swing of things, looking forward to getting on the dance floor and having more drinks and just being completely carefree for the night. She didn't expect to be crashed into from behind, not until much later when everyone was blind drunk and couldn't stand up straight. So she was surprised at the bump, and spun, mouth hanging open in protest, and then hanging open even more in shock at who it was who had bumped into her. Oliver Devereaux. Drop dead gorgeous older brother of her friend Roma. Drop dead gorgeous or not, it didn't stop Echo from being happy to see him, though she did give a rather bewildered look at the tall blonde girl apologising behind him. Had she knocked him into Echo? Possibly. Echo didn't really care, she was just happy to see Ollie, and she didn't hesitate to reach up and wrap him in a hug. "Careful who you're bumping into, Ollie-O," she greeted with a grin, feeling the eyes of her sisters on her as she hugged a hottie right in front of them. She released him and pretended her sisters weren't there, eyes locked on Ollie's face. Her sisters would not get the opportunity to embarrass her right now. She'd disown them before she'd give them the chance to even speak to Ollie.



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tag: @oli and everyone!
notes: Heeheeee! <3
outfit: Bombshell.

Sugar Rush

It took him a minute, but he finally clicked and asked if she was Everwood. "That's me!" She laughed, shaking her head at Remus' words. It was true, a lot of people liked to shout at James during matches, and during practices and tryouts and any other flying related incident. "It's a bit boring without anyone cheating and causing dramatics fifty feet in the air," she quipped, smiling up at Remus and wondering why he hadn't joined his friends on the Gryffindor team. Of course, it wasn't up to him, he would have had to try out like everyone else. Maybe he did try out and didn't get a spot on the team. It was probably best not to ask in case it was a sore point, but he seemed like he'd make the perfect spectator, so that worked out well for his friends who had him cheering them on in the stands. Echo had her own friends for that. Those super loyal people who liked to holler her name and make her nearly take someone's head off on the pitch because she was so distracted looking to see who was screaming for her. Fun stuff. She really did appreciate the support they gave, though, despite the dangers over enthusiasm could bring.

Her face broke into a grin when Remus told her that the castle needed some new troublemakers without them. She narrowed her eyes playfully at him, though she meant what she was saying. "I get the feeling you might have been the real naughty one in the group," she said, moving past him and heading in the direction of the chocolate bars and chocolate everything, her hand tapping his arm to encourage him to go with her. "The quiet mastermind in the background?" she guessed, picking up a bar of raspberry bubble chocolate and scanning the other kinds that were on offer. There were too many to count, but luckily she'd been in here often enough to know exactly what she did and didn't like. "The title will have to go to someone else," she sighed. "I'm hoping to go into Professional Quidditch, I've got to keep a squeaky clean record for the year." She had been doing well all year to not land herself in detention. When the scouts came closer to the summer, they'd be checking school records as well as looking for talent for tryouts for the big teams, she needed to keep herself on track if she wanted to stand a chance when the time came. Not that she was much of a trouble maker. Her honesty and willingness to stand up to idiots sometimes got her a detention here and there, but she was generally a pretty good student. Maybe some of the sixth years would step up and fill the fun and mischievous hole Remus and his friends had left behind them. Echo could think of plenty of adventurous people off the top of her head who would fit the bill perfectly.



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tag: @junebug
notes: These two have such an easy vibe, it's lovely! <3
outfit: Comfy and warm.

Hush Hush

Echo would happily go to the kitchens right then and bake biscuits, but she knew that if she didn't get through the book that sat closed on her lap, she'd probably miss something important and get a 'T' in Herbology. She'd never gotten a grade that low in Herbology, despite not being too great at it, and she didn't want to start now just because her stomach told her it was a far better idea to make biscuits than study. She wasn't the most naturally smart person in the world, but she was capable of working her little backside off like a trooper until she got passing grades. If she managed to get on top of her homework, she'd be happy to skip down to the kitchens for some fun through the week. "Maybe one day through the week if I can get through my homework," she said sensibly, knowing Kitty would understand how much Echo liked to put in the hard work to keep herself afloat in lessons. Her free time was often given away to school work, and in her final year that was more important than ever, though it was also important for her to enjoy herself this year, because it was the last chance she was going to get to just do the things she loved to do around the castle, and she wasn't eager to let the year pass her by without some fun.

Echo let out a breath of a laugh when Kitty told her that not falling asleep in the library was definitely a super power. "Don't let the librarian hear you saying that," she whispered, blue eyes glancing about for signs of any of the library staff. One of them, a young woman with dark hair and a very pretty face, was actually really lovely, and Echo wondered if the woman had ever kicked anyone out of the library since she'd worked there. She wasn't keen to test the woman now, so she kept her voice hushed and leaned her head back against the back of the couch, closing her eyes. "A nap would be so nice right now," she admitted, feeling the pull of the fire, taunting her, whispering to her that if she would just relax, the most amazing sleep would suck her in. A shiver ran down her spine, and she curled her knees up, wrapping her arms around them for more warmth, even though it was far from cold in the room. She needed to liven up a bit and get through her book, but it was so cosy. Maybe just a minute of resting her eyes. Or half a minute.



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notes: Outfit. <3

Sugar Rush

Her bag was full. It really was. She wouldd probably get the shock of her life when it was weighed at the counter and the scale broke and she was charged ten million Galleons for the sweets and the broken scale. If she had that amount of money to her name, she would have paid it, too, anything for the bag of yum she had in her hand. She folded the top of the bag over, telling herself firmly that she was done, and didn't need anything else from the pic 'n' mix. She especially didn't need those honey clusters. Nope, she did not. Blue eyes lingered on them, all golden and crunchy and shimmering in the light as though they were winking at her. No. No, no, no. Echo sighed. "Damnit," she muttered to herself, shoulders sagging as she knew she wouldn't be able to talk away without some. Just one. One cluster. One tiny cluster, because she still had those cauldron cakes to get, and maybe a bar of chocolate or three. She really needed to land herself a good job to fund this food obsession she had, it was ridiculous and probably really unhealthy.

Opening her paper bag back up, she reached for the scooper she had just put down, her hand closing over the handle, and another larger hand closing over hers. The strange hand retracted immediately, and Echo jolted with the surprise of having her hand grabbed, dropping the scooper in the process and cringing as it clattered loudly into its holder on the shelf. Better than it falling on the floor, she supposed. Her eyes shot up to the familiar face of Remus Lupin. James and Sirius' friend, the quiet one. He was a year older than her, and so already graduated, but she supposed it wasn't all that unusual to see a familiar graduated face around Hogsmeade, it was a popular place with adults as well as students. "It's fine, you were just warming my hand," she joked with a smile, reaching out her hand once more to steady the rattling scooper and keeping hold of it this time, because she'd be damned if she walked away without a few honey clusters. "You're Remus, right? James and Sirius' friend?" she asked, never having really talked to him at all. She was friends with James and Sirius through Quidditch, and so she knew who Remus was, but he had always been much quieter than the others, sort of in the background. She supposed that was why they'd never really known each other, but she had certainly noticed him over the years, he was so handsome, how could she not? "I'm finished with this, I just couldn't walk away from these bloody Honey Clusters," she said, scooping a few - what happened to just getting one!? - quickly into her bag and holding out the scooper to the blonde boy beside her.



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tag: @junebug
notes: Not at all, I'm excited to get to play with Remus! XD <3
outfit: Comfy and warm.