enjoying the view

Sapphire shook her head, and looked at Sabriel's hand on her shoulder. "I... I'm fine. Don't worry about it." she said with a faint tone of voice. "You didn't do anything." she told him, looking up at him with her now blank olive colored eyes. It was her mistake for mentioning the ball. She always did something to make the atmosphere uncomfortable for someone. Guess her father was right. She never did anything good, and she'll always be a disgrace to her family. Her father was always hard on her for some reason. Maybe it was because she was a girl, or because she had been sorted into Hufflepuff. He probably would have wanted a Slytherin boy, so that when he wed, her father could be proud of his son. But now when... if she ever wed, he won't care.

A tear began to sting Sapphire's eyes as she thought about her father's rejection. She usually didn't care what her father thought about her, and sometimes she just wanted to get away from her family. But she would always love them, unlike they would never really love her. Sabe had said she seemed sad about something and Sapphire couldn't help but grin. "Like I said you didn't do anything." she smiled at him for a moment.

When he asked her if she needed a date to the ball, she looked up, her eyes widened. "Um... y-yeah. I do need a date." she said, stuttering a little as she did. "I'd like that." she told him, managing a sweet smile, instead of her hyper grin. Things that Sapphire never expected always happened to her. It was weird, but she was getting used to it a little.

The tears had begun to blur her vision, and Sapphire didn't want to start crying there. She blinked back the tears, and threw her head back slightly to help dry the tears. At Sabriel's question of what song she was singing, her eyes widened a little bit. She couldn't remember, most times she could but right now her mind just blanked. The things her father made her forget. Singing gives her happiness and all her father did was bring her sadness.

She looked at Sabe, her eyes narrowing again, and her smile dropped a little. "Um... it was a song, by a band called Paramore I think." she said, tapping her finger on her chin as she looked upward as if the ceiling had the answer to the question. "But I can't remember the name..." she added quietly.

"Oh!" she snapped her fingers suddenly and jumped up. "I remember now!" she said smiling. "It's called Decode. It's from a few years ago. But it's still really cool." she continued to smile. A sudden thought entered her head and she let out a small giggle. "Wanna hear the song? I have it in an iPod that I kept safe after all muggle items got taken away." she sighed.

Sapphire smiled and nodded. "Yeah, Paramore is a really cool band. I love their music." she stated. The young Hufflepuff reached into her pocket and rummaged around for the iPod she had. "I have the iPod here... somewhere." she said. She stared at Sabriel when he asked what an iPod was. "You're not accustomed to muggle items?" she asked curiously. Everyone knew what an iPod was....

A small grin crossed Sapphire's lips at his thought of what an iPod was. "No Sabriel. Not Eye pod. iPod." she said. "As in i-p-o-d. It's a music player." She finally found the iPod in her pocket and she took it out, holding it out to him. "See? This is an iPod." she told him, her small grin turning into a wide smile. A small girly giggle escaped her lips when she noticed that he had blushed for what he said.

Sapphire blinked at what he said about the muggle items. "No I'm pretty sure they work within the walls of the school. Otherwise my iPod wouldn't work right now, and it does." she noted, as the music began to play in her ears. "Plus, I know that they are being taken away because the guard are literally taking them away. Any muggle item they saw when we got here, they confiscated it. Some students were even searched because they were know to have muggle items with them." she explained.

The red haired girl quickly shook her head, and smiled at him. "So do you wanna hear the song?" she asked him, holding an earphone out to him.

[OOC: I thought you would recognize it from there. Everyone usually does -.-]

The music coursing through her body and mind, and the urge to get up and dance and sing so present in her mind, Sapphire didn't know if she could resist much longer. But she didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of Sabriel. Her body remained still through her willpower, and all she did was smile at the boy when he took the earphone from her hand and began to listen to the song she so loved.

Music had always been a faithful companion to her. Blocking out her family when she most needed it, and even when she didn't know she needed it. It was most of her life, and it always kept her happy when nothing else could. You could say it was her prized possession, not the music player, but the actual music, it was the key to her happiness. With a soft gulp and a short breath, Sapphire's mouth opened and the words flowed out of it smoothly. She wasn't going to go crazy and dance as she so often did when she was alone, no, she was only going to sing softly to it.

At his question about the song, Sapphire stopped singing and she stared at him confused. "Spell?" she asked. "There is no spell. It's just music Sabriel." she suddenly giggled at the fact that he didn't get that it was only a song. She placed a hand gently on Sabriel's shoulder and stared at him intently. "Sabe." she said softly, sweetly. "She's not asking you anything. It just the lyrics to the song. Even if you answer her, she won't know." she explained, smiling as she did so.

[OOC: Well still. Everyone knows it from Twilight now. It actually urks me that they know it from there and now just because of the band.]

A soft accidental tap on the floor turned into louder, rhythmic taps. Her foot keeping her mind clear of everything but the song playing. Her head began to nod to the beat of the song and she even hummed it. Of course that was going to happen, Sapphire wasn't one to keep still, and that was for sure, and her natural attitude was taking over and her humming was getting louder.

The nickname he called her caught her by surprise and Sapphire blinked a couple of times before her mind registered that he was talking to her. "Huh?" she squeaked, before shaking her head after a moment of confusion. His request caught her even more by surprise but it created a smile on her face. "Uh..." she began. "S-sure Sabe." she smiled at him.

For a moment she was silent though. Listening to the song a little before she jumped into singing it. How did we get here? She closed her eyes and opened her mouth the lyrics flowing smoothly from it once again. "When I used to know you so well...?" she sang, her voice immediately rising to the pitch of the singer.