Making the perfect piece {open}

Vaughn walked around the edge and a few feet into the forest looking for bits of wood. He spotted a small but fat log that was dry and sitting next to a large tree. Going over to it he picked it up then spotted a really thick branch next to it. Picking that up as well he found a nice dry spot not much further into the forest that was the stump of an old tree. Sitting down on it he took out his tools to start making the items he needed for he said he was gonna make for Dakota. Picking up the branch his hands began to shape the snake with unique and beautiful scales that he would make shimmer when he was finished. The head was the easiest part for him, he had the snake's tongue look like it was flicking out. Finally finishing with the tail he grinned as he tapped his wand to the wood making it Slytherin green but with a shimmer. In certain light the shimmer would look purple designs were in the snake's scales. On the end of the tail was his initials that were worked in with the design he put on the scales.

Vaughn stopped working when he heard branches snapping as either a creature of the forest approached or someone was coming from further back in the forest. Not wanting to get caught with a creature of the forest he shrunk the snake and the log he was going to use and walked out of the forest. He began making his way towards the lake, he looked back but there was nothing there when he faced forward once more he nearly knocked over a student coming towards him. "I'm sorry are you ok?" Vaughn said steadying them with his hands on their shoulders.

"Not with you touching me!" Ariane squealed as she shook off Vaughn and darted back a couple of feet.

"Who knows what else you've been touching," she added. "Is she in there? I saw you come out of the forest, you know. I bet you've been doing... Ugh, I don't even want to think about it. Have your parents even taught you protection charms yet?"

Ariane was aware she was babbling but really, they were only in her year so that made it gross. She knew, because she had plans to be a Bad Girl and even she wouldn't lose her virginity before sixth year. There was a difference between being Bad and being a slut.

Maybe, if pressed, she would admit that Vaughn himself wasn't that bad. It was mostly the way Dakota hung off him that irked her. Literally. Whenever she saw the two of them together, the Slytherin girl was kind of draped over him as though she thought he might disapparate at any moment. It was weird.

Vaughn groaned at her first words and began walking away. "Just leave me alone, I'm here by myself looking for sticks or small logs. Go vanish and tell whoever it is that you hang with whatever you want about me. I haven't slept with anyone either just for your information." He walked off mumbling under his breath as he began kicking leaves aside. Finding another short log but this one was in better shape than his other one. He wiped the leaves that were still on it as he picked it up from the ground.

Vaughn could still feel that girl behind him as he walked over to a fallen log and sat down. He pulled out one of his tools to scrape some of the bark off the log. Looking at the bark underneath it and smiled, "Perfect and definitely in great shape." He said to himself as he ran the tool across it some more to reveal more of the wood on the inside. He looked over to where she was standing and sighed. "You plan on moving anytime soon? Or are you going to stand there like a statue?" He asked as he propped one foot on the fallen log while the other stayed on the ground. "Your making it hard for me to concentrate on what I'm doing."

"I'm gonna take that as a no," Ariane followed him through the tall grass by the water, finally standing so she could block his light because why not? Irritating people was fun.

"You know Dakota's pretty serious about you. You don't even have to be her friend to see it. How long do you think you can hold her off before she starts wondering whether..."

"...you know, whether you have other proclivities, perversions, that kind of thing?" Ariane asked.

"Of course, I could show you those spells, I suppose," she went on. "My parents are very ahead of the times. I learnt them in second year."

Vaughn sighed when she stood in his lighting and looked at her with irritation. Wanting nothing more than to make her disappear somewhere other than where he was. He leaned against the tree that was behind him and looked at her while she talked. "Yes I am aware that Dakota is serious about me. I'm serious about her as well but I'm not going to be doing anything other than what I am now. Why do you even care? You don't know me and I don't know if you know Dakota. Why are you so interested in my love life?" He asked his face serious and curious as to her questions.

Vaughn didn't know anything about her and was insanely curious as to why she was doing any of this. He didn't take her up on her offer to show him anything and he wasn't going to say anything more until she answered his questions.

"Oh Merlin," Ariane sighed.

She pulled up some stalks of sedge grass and began plaiting them into a crown.

"Don't you know anything? Dakota's all over you even in classes; she's not going to take no for an answer much longer."

"As for why I'm interested, I'd rather not have to worry about an entire student body infested with STDs when I decide to take my turn on the roundabout," she explained to him.

She didn't move, or look at him while she spoke, sure that if she did the stab of not-quite-embarrassment would manifest itself as a flush on her skin. Instead she concentrated on the stalks in her hands and keeping her tone indifferent, as though she talked about this sort of thing every day.