You Cant Play Hide-and-Seek With the Past

Naomi pulled her military coat around her body even tighter, her gloves slipping slightly on her edges of it. Her hair bounced slightly as she walked, her boots leaving tracks on the soft ground. Her skinny jeans kept her warm and her quick pace kept her pale face just slightly tinged pink.

Hogsmeade was a good place. She usually found herself able to abandon her Slytherin clique for some well needed alone time. While they all headed for the Three Broomsticks, or Zonkos, or Honeydukes, she could escape to the smaller, lesser-known shops and enjoy the serenity and the peaces that solitude brought.

She turned into a small shop she knew was notorious for selling random, quirky items. Her gloves had come from there. The one pair of long socks had derived from the shop as well. Stationary, books- it was a favorite haunt of hers. She could find art supplies there and not be pestered by prying peers.

Ah, alliteration. Have to love it.

She stepped in and a torrent of warm air, buffered her, her hair swishing back a bit. She lowered her eyelids and stepped inside, firmly closing the door behind her. She shook the cold from her bones and immediately began delving into the aisles, looking over shelves of items she had to convince herself not to buy.

Rory had been walking around hogsmeed and found a smaller store with some intresting things in the window and desided to go inside. he looked around slowly suntering up and down the rows of shelves that held everything the store sold among some of this things where paints, some clothes, and other odds and ends . He laughed to him self he normaly wouldn't spend much time in a place like this. infact when he was still in hogwarts you were sure to find him in places like Honeydukes or the Three Broomsticks.

(OOC: Sorry its rather short comapred to your post and sorry about any spelling mistakes there might be. im not on my computer and don't have spell check.)

Naomi was used to solitude in this particular store, mostly because the people she knew would not dare set foot into such a non-mainstream store or such an unconventional sort of location. And people who would dare enter the store would catch sight of her, realize she was a popular Slytherin, and decide she would be likely to make trouble, though this was not the case.

She did not hear someone enter but she had moved onto a center row, where tables separated two aisles. Her hands picked up a sterling silver hand mirror, turning it over when she heard a shockingly familiar voice. Her head raised and she saw a long-forgotten face on the opposite side of the table. She mouthed for a second before saying, "Rory?"

Rory hurd his name and looked up surching for the sorce. "Naomi?" He said surprized to see her here. "what are you doing here?" he asked though she could ask him the same question. he didn't even know why he was in Hogsmeed he just was. she was the one that was in still in hogwarts where he wasn't he had graduated three years ago and hand't seen most of his old class mates since then. "how are you?" he asked still surprized as ever.

She offered him a puzzled, yet somewhat pleasant expression, though her hands continued to turn the mirror over and over nervously. It was not that his presence made her nervous- she did not really get nervous- but for her position of social prestige, she did not strictly know how to abide by proper etiquette. How do you greet an ex-boyfriend? She did not know.

"I'm just browsing." She did not say this was on of her favorite haunts in case he thought he could find her here, something she did not want. Nothing against him, something against the rest of the world. She did not want to be easily tracked. It weirded her out. "I-I'm fine. Thank you. I've been doing well. How about you? Why are you here? How've you been?"

Rory chuckled again "I really don't know why im in hogsmeed at all." he said "and i've been fine spent alot of time with my brother later. You rember Cory right?" he said looking around then watched as Naomi as she turned the mirror over in her hand over and over again. "this isn't really a place most people like our selves would be." he wispred to him self "I wont tell any one you where here, if that is what you are worried about. that would mean telling them i was here."

Rory said that he was not sure why he was even here in Hogsmeade and she allowed her mouth to twitch a little bit with amusement, though she said nothing else. He continued on to say that he had found himself spending a lot of time with his brother Cory. Naomi had met Cory once or twice; she had dated Rory for a few months a few years ago...

"Yes, I remember Cory. I hope he is well." He muttered that this was not the sort of place people like themselves, popular loved people that is, would not usually be found in such an odd, non-mainstream sort of place. She thought over the statement, and added to herself Thus the basis of its appeal. No one who knew her to deal with... He said he would not tell anyone and she nodded. "Please? Thank you." She bit her lip as awkward silence washed over them. "Um... so are you working?"

"well kindof," Rorry said looking aound "I'm the new Caretaker." he wispred kindof embarroused of his job. No one would expect him to get a job at hogwarts no matter what but maybe he was changeing into a better person who isn't so stuck up to care what type of job he has as long as it pays enough. "how is school for you?" he asked glanceing back at her then looking away again. it was odd for him seing Naomi again after so long. he didn't really know what to say or waht to do.

Naomi opened her mouth and then slowly closed it, not exactly sure what to say about the fact that he was going to be working at Hogwarts. It would be okay but she did not know exactly where she stood with Rory and she was sure it would probably be more awkward than anything else. She finally said, "Oh... Well, then, I guess I'll be seeing more of you."

He asked her about school and she shrugged before replying, "Well, it is sort of like normal. People keep saying that it's worse because people keep saying all the professors are Death Eaters... It's not though. Classes still stink." She allowed a small little chuckle...

"I guess we will." he whispered. Rory had heard something form one of his younger siblings about alot of the other students believing that the professors were death Eaters. "I wouldn't doubt that." Rory said "there have been death eater teachers in the past. though some of them where also undercover Order of the Phoenix members." he had been to referring to one of the past Head Masters Severus Snape who had been one of Voldamorts followers and also part of the Order of the Phoenix.