Jackie Schmutz
Muggle
7th Year Slytherin
Strongly standing alone in a sea of sameness. . . .
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Post by Jackie Schmutz on Sept 8, 2005 18:43:51 GMT -5
It was 5:30 in the morning as Jackie ascended the stairs to the Astronomy tower. She layed down her mat in the room. Jackie normally did this out by the lake, but seeing as it was raining she came up here. She didn't mind the rain but all she had to work out in was her white tank top and her work out shorts. She layed down on her back on the mat and started doing sit-ups.
"1-2-3-4. . . ." she began to count aloud. Her abs were nice a built. You could see each muscle in her stomach move every time she rose. She loved to work out the muggle way. ". . . 27-28-29-30. . . " It helped to keep her fit, and she preffered hard work to just magicking up your results. ". . . 61-62-63-64. . . " She never did this in her common room or dormitory, the other girls just didn't understand and the guys never left her alone. 'It's much better alone' she always said to herself, but still, alone was very, well lonely. ". . . 97-98-99-100."
She rolled over and began her push ups. Each time her stuctured arms came to a perfect right angle and back up. One hundred of those too.
"Wingardium Leviosa," Said Jackie as she levitated a metal bar in between the bricks on the wall. It had taken her over an hour her first time up her to find this special spot on the wall.
Jackie jumped up and grabbed the bar, beginning to do pull up. She was now perspiring, a trickle of sweat dripping down her nude stomach in the slit between her abs. "1-2-3-4. . . "
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Post by Courtney Mal on Sept 8, 2005 19:23:54 GMT -5
Courtney had woke up at 5:30 and looked outside and groaned. She always hated when it rained. Well, not when it rained so much, more like when it rained in the morning. Morning was her time. As much as she loved her friends, having them around didn't give her enough time to think, and that she always needed. Everything that had happened betweened her family constantly weighed on her mind, and her morning runs were always the things that cleared it.
Except days like today. It had to rain, didn't it. She'd had a particularly horrible nightmare, so it topped off the night perfectly. The mornings she allowed herself to greive for everything she'd lost. And the rain...never helped. Especially on days like today, when she woke up drenched in sweat and breathing heavily. If she knew anything though, she knew she still had to do something to blow off the anger she always had pent up in the morning. Quidditch helped a little bit, but it never got her mind off things. She was an excellent Quidditch player, but it was so intense, and it often built up her anger and competitiveness rather than release it.
She quickly dressed in some athletic shorts and a tank top and put her sneakers on. She pulled her long curly hair up into a ponytail and snuck out of her room quietly. She left Gryffindor tower and started to run through the school, running up and down the many staircases that were within Hogwarts. Courtney stopped short of the last hallway and staircase she usually ran on rainy days like this. Fortunately she had seen Peeves before he had seen her, so she turned the opposite way and instead ran up the long steep stairways of the Astronomy tower. After the last few steps however, she realized she wasn't the only one there however. She stopped on the last step and said "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize there were other people up this early in the morning" Courtney said laughing slightly
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 10, 2005 1:31:06 GMT -5
Valida awoke the next morning. She looked at her clock and saw that it was almost six in the morning. She smiled. She didn't do any homework last night. All she did after lessons was quidditch practice, bathe, and come to bed after dinner. She slept peacefully for the whole night. She left the dormitory and went to stand in the shower. She left later and on her way back down to the Slytherin dormitory, she glanced into the Great Hall. The ceiling was clouded, rainy, and as gray as her eyes. Valida was upset. She had planned to do some homework and read and write a little outside beside the lake today. She went back to her room and got her things. She was going to go to her second favorite spot to be alone at. Because beside the lake, no one bothered you. She went to the Astronomy tower and heard voices. Valida entered the tower and she smiled. Courtney was dressed in work out clothes, talking to a Slytherin whom was dressed the same. Valida looked down at her attire. She wore her favorite jean shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals. Her curly jet black hair was loose and wet. Valida entered, slowly. "Good morning, girls," she said, smiling. "Inconviencing that it's raining right?"
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Post by Courtney Mal on Sept 10, 2005 9:29:04 GMT -5
Courtney looked between the girl working out and Valida. She vaugley recognized the girl working out as a Slytherin. She smiled ironicly. Her mother would be so proud. Alone with two Slytherins. She knew what her mother would do if she'd seen this...she'd lock the Astronomy tower and force her to stay with the Slytherins until either she finally acted like one...or they killed her....her mother probably wouldn't care which either. That was the sad thing.
Not that these two were like all Slytherins. She liked Valida, and the other girl didn't seem to hang around with the group of Slytherins that she considered 'Slytheriny'...the kind of people that she hated most. She looked between the two and smiled at Valida. "Hey Valida" Courtney said, then looked out at the grounds again. "I know, it really stinks. I hate the rain. I had to run inside" She said in a mad voice, then sat down on one of the steps.
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potterprincess2009
Teacher
6th Year Hufflepuff Quidditch Referee
A lot like Hermione
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Post by potterprincess2009 on Sept 10, 2005 15:42:22 GMT -5
Michelle got up she was tired of laying in bed thinking. She was sad and she needed to go work herself half to death. She pulled on a pair of black cheer shorts and a a black tank-top and pulled on her running shoes. Looking around she saw a rubber band and pulled her shiney brownish blonde hair up. Quietly she sliped out of the dorm and out of the common room. She walked downt to the frount hall and looked out the windows. It was raining and she couldn't go outside she swore to herself and desided that she would Run threw the castel if she really had to.
As she began running she thought about Alex, her dad, her uncle, the rain, her brother, and all that was happening at home without her. The more depressed she got the harder she ran. Soon she was running so hard and so fast that she found herself at the Astronomy tower. She desided to use the steps to do a work out with her legs. She joged in place on the steps going up and down up and down. Still caught up in her thoughts. Pictures of her father flashing threw her mind. Finally when she could no longer take it she stoped a for a 3 second rest during this rest she hurd people. She didn't care at the moment. And even though she was tired she started again knowing that if she kept this up she could serously hurt herself. But she felt that if she could only hurt herself some of her pain might go away.
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 10, 2005 16:48:02 GMT -5
Valida smiled and looked out to the sky. "I am sorry that you had to run inside," Valida murmured. "I came up here to catch up on some me time. I may go down to breakfast in a while. Did you come up here to work out some more, Courtney?"
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Post by Courtney Mal on Sept 11, 2005 14:59:46 GMT -5
Courtney looked up at Valida from where she was sitting. "No, I just run mostly. Peeves was blocking the last corridor and stairs that I usually run up, so I came here instead" She said. "It's a shame it's raining though. I could have used a good pick up game of Quidditch" She added as an afterthought. "Oh well, I guess I'll just work on some homework, or read or something" She finished
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 11, 2005 19:53:37 GMT -5
Valida nodded. "I have a book on astronomy if you would like to read it," she said, holding it out. "It is so very interesting for not being a school book." She turned to the other girl. "We won't get in your way if you want to continue working out. Though, if you want to join us and talk, we'll be over here beside the window. Mainly talking about quidditch." Valida turned back to Courtney. "Peeves and Filch kept me up all night with a lot of noise one night this week. I yelled at Peeves the next morning."
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Post by Courtney Mal on Sept 12, 2005 12:29:42 GMT -5
Courtney took the book and thanked Valida. "I've looked through this a few times, but I've never read it" She said, flipping through the first few pages. Then she got up and followed Valida toward the window, she sat down with her back against the wall. "So do you gusy think you're going to beat Ravenclaw this year?" she asked Valida, then looked back at the other girl still working out. "What are you doing?" She asked with curiosity. "I've never seen that before" She said in awe. "Is that like a muggle workout or something?"
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ginnypotter3
Teacher
5th Year Gryffindor
Cry Malfoy, Cry!
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Post by ginnypotter3 on Sept 14, 2005 20:05:13 GMT -5
Ginny was alone in her thoughts. Ever since her family had died and she'd been forced to live with her aunt and uncle nothing had ever been right. They were way to over protective. They always thought she'd be killed if she just looked out her window. It took two weeks to convince them to let her come to Hogwarts. She just wanted things back to the way they were before it all happened. She missed her mom most of all. She never got a chance to get to know her. Ginny barely remembered her. Ginny kept walking lost in her thoughts. She saw courtney and a couple of other girls she didn't know. "hey Courtney."
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 17, 2005 1:35:13 GMT -5
Valida smiled and went to her book. She was interested in learning where the girl had learned the unfamiliar excersises. She turned at the sound of a newcomer. She smiled and nodded at this Gryffindor member. But, Valida did think that there were going to beat Ravenclaw.
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potterprincess2009
Teacher
6th Year Hufflepuff Quidditch Referee
A lot like Hermione
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Post by potterprincess2009 on Sept 17, 2005 18:08:03 GMT -5
Michelle had barely noticed that a girl had gone up the stairs she wondered what they were doing up there. Her legs were aching and she has sweat running all down her body. She ran up the stairs and into the room to see four girls all standing around talking.
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 17, 2005 20:42:09 GMT -5
Valida turned and saw the Hufflepuff girl standing at the door. She smiled, slightly and nodded. The girl looked tired and sweaty. It seemed as if she had just had a great work out.
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potterprincess2009
Teacher
6th Year Hufflepuff Quidditch Referee
A lot like Hermione
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Post by potterprincess2009 on Sept 20, 2005 18:19:47 GMT -5
Michelle smiled nervously "er...Hi" she said
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Valida
First Year
7th Year Slytherin
Anakin!
Posts: 158
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Post by Valida on Sept 20, 2005 18:28:46 GMT -5
"Goodmorning," Valida said, smiling. "My name is Valida. Would you like to join us?"
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