Well This Is Embarrassing {Roxanna}

[peterpettigrew]

It was the first Hogsmeade visit of the new year and somehow or other, Peter had been separated from his friends. He'd been searching all over for a while now and no matter where he looked, whether in a shop or one of the pubs, he just couldn't seem to find them anywhere. If they weren't in Zonko's, Honeyduke's, or the Post Office, then were could they be? Maybe they'd gone up to that look out thing that looked over at the Shrieking Shack...

They'd been up there a few times just to listen to the whispers of other people up there, or just to look out over the place they hid out one night a month. It was great to be one of the only people who knew the secrets about a place, and for once, Peter didn't feel like a complete loser/no body.

Heading up the path, Peter's eyes caught on someone further up the cobbled path but all he could see was blond hair.

The person - the girl - tripped on the uneven cobble stones and landed hard on the ground. Without even thinking, Peter quickened to a run and dashed up the road, crouching down beside the fallen girl and resting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay?"

It was only when she moved that Peter realized who it was. Roxanna... the super hot hufflepuff girl who he often found himself staring at in lessons and stuff... He gulped and tried to take a deep breath. God he was awkward enough talking to girl as it was, but to this girl? He was prepared to make a complete fool out of himself.

[hzp5050]

It was not often that she forgot her cane but this month, it seemed to be the only thing she forgot every other day. That was stupid and asking for trouble but she couldn't help it. Between catching up on school work, patrolling the halls, and dealing with her visions on a day in and day out business her mind was clogged. As she walked, she fell and had stayed like that for a split second when she felt a hand on her.

She turned and gave Peter a big smile, she could not see him but she could have guessed it was him from a mile away. "Yes, perfectly...I just don't have a sighted guide nor my cane so I keep falling" she said using his hands and stood up gingerly. "Where were you headed?" she asked as she looked about not that she could see much. She had walked a little bit from the post office and had turned so that she had been headed to the three broomsticks.

"Where are we Peter?" she asked as she wanted to make sure that she was not headed unknowingly into the shrieking shack or somewhere else that she should not be.

[peterpettigrew]

Peter felt his stomach lurch when Roxanna smiled at him. He had to admit, even just to himself if not to his friends, he really did have the biggest of crushes on this girl. She was seriously hot, and she probably didn't even know it.

He helped her stand and butterflies erupted in his stomach when he realized her hands here holding his. Standing, Peter was so busy thinking about the fact that she was talking to him that he forgot to let go.

"Y-You know the path past the Hogs Head? It erm... It goes to the... the... thing..." What the hell was it called again? He knew it, but now he couldn't seem to remember it... "The viewing point! Yeah. Viewing point. It's along the path past the Hogs Head."

Peter mentally slapped himself. He'd just said that! Talk about sounding like a complete idiot. It was probably a good thing that she couldn't see his face...

Peter looked down and became aware than his still had hold of her hands and he let go quickly, dropping his to his sides while a flush of color flooded his face. What a creeper he must seem like to her!

[hzp5050]

She nodded. This was not far from the Hog's Head at all. She wondered where Alice was, the girl was not known for being late and by her guess either Peter's friends had left him behind on accident or they had done in purposefully. She shook her head as she said. "Would you like to come with me to the Hogs Head? we can get butterbeer, unless you like the hustle and bustle of the three broomsticks" she said as she looked at him.

"I mean, Alice knows where to find me if she ever was here, and I don't know where your friends are but knowing them they would probably find you sooner or later...if you got nothing else to do and no one else to see...we could kill time, I was just wandering, I'm not too busy when I come here...I like enjoying fresh air" she said as she smiled again. She couldn't stop smiling apparently, what the heck was wrong with her?

As she said this, a screech owl came over her head and dropped a newspaper and couple magazines on her head. "whoooo they need to learn to drop it on the floor, in my hands but not on my head...they keep going like this I could end up in St. Mungo's" she giggled.

[peterpettigrew]

"I...Okay." That he hadn't expected, but before he knew what he was saying, he was agreeing. He had been intending to go up to the viewing point that looked out over the Shrieking Shack, just too see if his friends were up there but... the Hogs Head with Roxanna? He wouldn't say no to that! Well... he'd already said yes.

"I er... I was looking for them. I saw Alice. The other Alice. Not the Alice you were looking for..." Peter was pretty caught up in just watching her smile that he was paying no attention to the idiotic babble spewing out of his mouth. He sounded like a bumbling idiot, but he didn't really care.

Then again, he wasn't about to say no to the chance to talk to this girl. If she could see him then she definitely wouldn't be talking to him in the way she was. She'd be doing what most other people did - ignoring him. James and Sirius were the ones who caught attention for their good looks and quick wit, and Remus had that quietly charming things going for him... but Peter? Not so much.

Just then, an owl flew by and dropped some papers on Roxanna, who said something about them dropping them on the floor instead. "At least you know they're there when they hit you..." Oh dang! How bad did that sound? He really needed to think about what he was saying rather than just saying it...

Okay Peter... think of something do or say to make you look like less of a prick... Ah ha! Peter stumbled to pick up the newpaper and magazine from the floor before Roxanna got to it. He held them out in front of her. "Here. And now he realized once again just how close he was to her...

[hzp5050]

She smiled. "of course, I hear em clear as day, I love owls so much" she said as she never took the smile off her face. She found a certain charm in Peter. She more or less liked the others he was with but mostly her attention was on either Remus on Peter. She turned to the way of Hogs Head and even then she knew where she was going, it just felt good to have the comfort of another after all she's been through.

As she shook her head she said. "I know you might not come there much but I go to keep peace, it's no use trying to go to the three broomsticks on a visit, that's normally saved for my sneak out days" she explained.

Then she got an idea, maybe she could practice Divination if he wanted. She pushed the door, went inside and told him. "order whatever you'd like it's all on me...I mean, I've earned money this week from reading" of course it was pocket change but still it was enough for whatever hog's head had to offer from butterbeer to firewhisky. She stuck to butterbeer of course.