In The Crappy Dungeons...

Luke couldn’t concentrate in the dorms, he was trying to read his way through a potions book that he had been given by his father a couple of years ago, and still didn’t understand half of what was going on inside it. But when there were a couple of housemates playing exploding snap in the dorm, it made concentrating that much harder and after giving them glares and subtle comments he decided that it would be best to just move and find somewhere else to sit that was quieter and didn’t have as many distractions.

He thought he would try the common room; it was usually quite busy so he didn’t hold much hope, but as he made his way there the usual banter that made its way along the corridors couldn’t be heard. Opening the door onto the common room he smiled at the proud colours of silver and green covered the walls and furnishings. He made his way over to the group of comfy arm chairs that were usually taken by the older years and he thought he could take advantage of the fact that they were all empty. Well he had thought that they were all empty but as he sat in one he realised that another was taken by a girl he had yet to meet. He couldn’t be bothered to make eye contact or say hello, so instead just balanced the book in his lap and flipped it open to the page that he had saved.

He had hoped that she would have just sat there and ignored him, but when she greeted him, his manners that had been drilled into him over the years kicked in and he looked up to meet her eyes. Eye contact was always important; people thought that you were paying them more attention if you had eye contact.

“Hi,” he nodded and closed his book making a note of the page number, he would always remember the number rather than fold the page, he didn’t like to ruin the book, “Luke Elwood, and no I’m not daft thank you very much, I didn’t realised anyone else was over here, to be fair, otherwise I might have stayed in my dorm.” He looked at the magazine she was reading and smirked, “Nice to see you are reading something worthwhile, what have they got to tell you this week? That the new colour of robes to be wearing is blue? Or that the lead singer of Warrior Warlocks has cheated on his girlfriend?”