Interesting Negotiations [Relina]

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

Matt had sent a few notes Relina's way since he had managed to get her to agree to a date. Granted he was still sort of thrown off by the kiss they briefly shared, but that had been relatively brief, though it had been major since he had mentioned to her that the closer she got to kissing him that way, the closer he was to getting a yes. Now though came a situation where he had to try and get a more definitive answer as to where the date would occur. The notes however, had gone relatively unanswered. That was relatively depressing as it meant that he had to hunt her down and talk to her after class or something since she didn't want to reply to her mail. He figured if nothing else than he'd try after Herbology since they were both going to be in the Greenhouses. Then again he wasn't all too sure she'd be there since she may very well opt to skip just to taunt him some. The whole run of their negotiations had been confusing, but there was still an end in sight that he could see, and that had him somewhat relieved.

Dressed for class, he worked his way slowly through the class schedule for the day, feeling a bit impatient with it all. Classes had no reason to be slow, boring, and a right pain in the arse. Unfortunately they were, especially for him, and that meant doing the best he could on relatively short patience and attention span as he tried sorting out just what all he would say to Relina. Really what it came down to was to just ask her where in Hogsmeade she wanted to go, or at least get her to give some suggestions. He may have been the one to ask her out, but he wasn't entirely sure where she might like to go on the date, since his only other dating experience had been less of him in control anyways and was thus dragged around. That alone made him feel relatively inexperienced to a degree despite the relationship going for two or three months. That girl had since moved on he had heard, which didn't bother him one bit. His only concern was any other girl that tried getting in the way of things. That would cause him a bit of frustration and grief.

Once Herbology had started and ended, Matt made sure to move quickly towards Relina was, hoping to catch her just before she could slip away from him. He was going to get an answer from her on this even if it killed him, though he was sure that neither he nor her would like it if that was the end result.

Word Count: 461
Tag: RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL
Notes: Short, sorry

[RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL]

“pssst. “ Relina tried to block it out.. “ pssssst.. Relina”

Merlin this is going to be a problem, she sighed and looked down at the French Tailed Cabactus fern that she was currently attempting to term so it would continue to bloom. Frankly she didn’t need distractions she was dealing with a very un-willing fern, whom seemed to be content in its rather messy appearance.

“Blair.. I’m rather busy. Do you see how this thing is acting.. “She said heatedly as she tried to very gently pull out a winding stray vine that was needed to be trimmed back because it was tightly wound around three of its core branches, sadly as that one stray branch held some of more lush colored leaves it was going to fight her before it would give her a chance to cut them away. She softly reshuffled more leaves and twigs, and fought back another bout of flailing branches that reached out to slap her face and take her wand.

“Easy now. Easy. “She persisted ignoring Blair who kept on intently hissing in her ear. Till finally she heard the words that made her given in and give Blair her full attention.

“He is looking at you again.”

Relina flushed a pink colored and hissed a frustrated cutting spell severing a branch, sadly it was the wrong one. It was a root branch and boy did the Fern let her know she had gotten the wrong one. If the thing was toilsome before it was down right out irate now. Quickly it took her wand and threw it at the first thing it could target on, which sadly was the back end of her Herbology instructor who handled nine inches of wood to their butt about was well as any other unsuspecting adult would handle it.

She had expected that perhaps she would get lucky and find Matthew Johanson sitting across the room casting at her looks that would set her soul on fire, which is why she had not been quick to reply to his messages she wanted to see just how intense Mr. Drop Dead Gorgeous, but calm as cucumber could be. She figured there was an intense passionate person beneath the depths of those mose green eyes that just pulled a person like her in. Sadly it was just Stephen again probably attempting to rekindle their short lived romance, trying to get her attention she gave a roll of her eyes and settled back into the pot in front of her.

"Ignore him, I do.. "

She was told that if she can’t handle her plant, and hold her wand at the same time she needed extra time to improve so Relina was ordered to care for the Fern around the clock and bring the plant back fully trimmed back tomorrow which was rather difficult as it meant having to calm it down first.. Then again she knew a rather quick and swift spell to make it still if not calm so the she could at least get it pruned. So with a pot with a fighting fern shoved under arm, and an annoyed look on her face she left, well more like tried to. She didn’t get far because Matthew was waiting back he looked well serious, she figured she knew why as she had a few parchment in her dorms that could be the reason why he was waiting back and looking annoyed..

Answers, he has come to collect his Answers.

Shuffling the pot from one had to the other she sighed and pushed the thing to her shoulder proceeding to hold it like a baby not aware of the fact that it had drawn up the back end of her skirt with his long un-pruned branches. She didn’t know till someone let loose a wolf whistle, and told her ‘nice knickers.’
Her eyes widen and she wrenched the back of her skirt down looking at Matthew. “ Give it a moment and I’m sure you will get a peek too.. Do me a favor if you see it going from a hem zap the hell out of it. I’d do it, but I’d incinerate the blasted thing, Well that and my wand is in my bag..“ Chancing a smile she offered a fox like smirk. “ You dealing with anything toilsome and un-predictable in your life little lion?”

MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON

 CREDIT SAM !? of A Changed Hogwarts. Don't remove the credit or I will find you. LYRICS save me - my darkest days NOTES: Please don't kill her WORD COUNT: You know I don't care about post size just reply...

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

"I'd say your bad luck was more from the distraction rather than anything of your own doing there, Relina," Matt observed with a chuckle. Her issues had definitely stemmed from the distraction, something he had watched unfold with various glances during class. It appeared as though the young man she was ignoring had no idea that she wanted to ignore him, which was humorous to say the least, but there wasn't a whole lot he could say or do there. That distraction did however, result in Relina now having to deal with a very angry plant for the next few days, and that wasn't good at all. It also jeopardized things to say the least, unless she brought the plant along. That wouldn't be too much of a problem, just that the plant might bother some people if they went in somewhere. Well that was unavoidable at this point, especially since the plant seemed content with lifting her clothes up and causing issues that way. As a result he was more than ready now to zap the little bugger as she had requested, though his wand was in his pocket rather than his hand at the moment. It was nothing short of a maddening situation.

“Outside of trying to get a response from you to my notes? Not at all. Been relatively boring on my end really. I swear the whole point is to make me bored to the point of madness,” he replied with a sigh and a shake of his head. He had some hope that he’d actually get a response from her by talking to her directly if nothing else. Really he guessed she’d be just as tough to get an answer from as she had been when he asked her out numerous times before, only to get a vague or non-answer before finding out directly the last time their paths crossed. It had been a war of attrition, and he had to wonder who had really won out there, as while he had gotten her to admit that she wanted to date him, it had been quite the cost on his part to really pull that part off before successfully asking her out. Well maybe if he was lucky she’d be much more straight-forward with her answer to this particular question. It was a question too that he figured he’d have to repeat to start this off.

“So onto the question that I've been asking by note, where exactly do you want to go on this date? I would really love your input on this,” he then said, an eyebrow raised. He was seriously hoping she wouldn't give him the runabout again on this. It was frustrating, but then his stubbornness was probably enough for people to just point out that he was dang near head over heels in attraction to her, and that wasn't too much of a surprise to him really.

Tag: RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL
Notes: Why would he kill her? He likes her too much XD

[RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL]

Matthew was so covert in how he approached her it was truly something that drew her to him, he was amusing as he never was obvious. He would never say anything to what she expected, or what was expected out of boys his age. Even though he didn’t offer the complementary reply she had expected she simply kept that sly fox like smile to her lips as if he had.
“Oh come one now you and I both know you’d eat your own arm and by this lovely little fern extra special potting soil if it meant a glance at my legs.. “ Her lips broke from the sly smirk as she openly chuckled. “ Honestly you are the worst at catching the offered opportunity to pay a lady a compliment.. Honestly I don’t know how you expect me to tease and flirt with that. “
She listened as he brought up the ignored note or notes she had forgotten how many where sent. Relina knew she should feel guilt, however seeing him standing before her demanding an answer was worth all the guilt in the world.
“Notes?” Her honey blonde eye brow lifted a fraction as she turned, and smoothly pulled the hem from her skirt away from the plant again. “ You wanted a reply to those? “ Relina chuckled softly. “ I don’t know Matthew they were so elegantly folded and constructed I assumed they were lovely little keepsakes to put in a box of memento to fuss over with our children to explain to them how very romantic and charming their father was?

Walking up to him she offered for him to hold her problematic plant. “Soo Did I get that wrong nooo keepsake for my box of mementos’ Very well when I’m done with class today I’ll take them out and unfold and read your little messages and issue a reply as to where we should meet up.. That defies odd labels because we are mature and above such things. Here I was thinking we could just meet up and see where the day takes us. Silly me, stinking feminine mind always complicating things.”

MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON

 CREDIT SAM !? of A Changed Hogwarts. Don't remove the credit or I will find you. LYRICS save me - my darkest days NOTES: Please don't kill her WORD COUNT: You know I don't care about post size just reply

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

"Relina I don't need to be handed opportunities to pay a beautiful girl like you a compliment. I just gotta sneak it in to what I say," he replied with a mischievous grin. It was rather unfair how he had pulled that off, but it was more or less to throw Relina off her game if at all possible. He did have to admit she had nice legs, but he wasn't necessarily drawn to that when he thought about it. It was more her personality, and probably her face, if nothing else that attracted him. Well, he could out and out say that, but giving her subtle compliments was more fun, especially if it left her guessing what he liked best about her. It was better than relying on a pain in the arse potted plant to spark opportunities to give a compliment. And it did give her far more frequent chances to flirt or tease as she apparently wanted to do.

"But if you hadn't read and replied to them, then there wouldn't ever be an opportunity for children now would there? Or at the very least it would be highly difficult. Besides, I really do want to have your input," he replied, an amused expression hovering across his face. If nothing else she greatly amused him with her witty words. It was really a fun thing to do, exchange witty words with Relina. Maybe that helped keep his interest in her, though he really couldn't say for sure. He hoped she would give her input, but it was really hard to say when she would if at all. She had after all left him guessing when he had first asked her out, so she could easily do the same thing in this case, and that would be slightly annoying to deal with.

"Well that at least is an answer. Just meeting up and seeing where the day takes us isn't a bad idea really. So now you don't have to actually worry about what I wrote to you because you just answered it," he replied, stopping just shy of laughing now. It was no shock to him that she possibly gave an answer without meaning to, though she could have intended to do so, which he didn't mind all that much either. He was just glad to actually have some sort of an answer to work off of now rather than just trying to figure out what they were going to do. He wasn't necessarily one to have everything planned out to the letter anyways, as spontaneity was much preferable to a planned out trip through Hogsmeade that even had the time they reached each place planned out to a t.

Tag: RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL
Word Count: 453
Notes: He won't. He fired back instead XD

[RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL]

“ So I do not need to worry if I appear fishing for complements or not.. Very well then I’ll expect them on the hour then Matthew as I am a very pretty girl.”

She shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, naturally she was good at flirting she excelled at it to the point that most thought her sincere. Perhaps that was the problem she faced with flirting with Matthew it started off as a bit of light jesting, and now she knew without a doubt she was playing with fire. Well with Matt there was actually intention behind those words. She actually wanted his attention, and affection she wanted him to think of her often to the point where he couldn’t get her out of his mind.

What had gone on as a few lingering glances a few well-placed words, had evolved into this where she was literally standing before a choice. One that would end with her own broken heart as she knew she liked him and where he was amusing and taken with her now she didn’t doubt it would end the way her parents relationship had ended, if not more of a disaster.

“So that is it. You’re going to just let me have it my way?” She took to sitting on the small rock formation that littered the path between the greenhouses and the school. “Very good I’ll go ahead and plan on a reservation at that dreadfully tacky teashop where we can both see how long it takes till the moment comes when one or both of us are so un-comfortable being around the randomly googley eyed couples who are in the midst of a snogging session that would leave both of us nauseas or with ideas of our own.. Look I’m not good with dates, so I don’t date. I mean for goodness sakes there is enough pressure on me to see if I would click with a person or not, without the worry if that person might feel that because he opted to pay for my cup of tea he now feels he should have the right to call me his girlfriend, or worse yet the worry that a guy I like one that Opted to kiss now finds I’m an utter bore, that isn’t rather good with expressing myself. Then it becomes that SORT of awkward.. “

Relina looked up at him holding her potted fern her lap, with a sigh she moved her hand up and raked curly blond hair from her head revealing a slight bruise in the middle of her forehead that she had gotten the night prior when her sleep walking had stumbled across the path of another Sleepwalker..

“See that is exactly why we should not label anything and just be content in hanging out and see if that leads to kissing. Plus we can actually be productive in it by buying supplies for next week so we won’t have to call it a total wash if we end up not liking one another.”

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

"I believe just calling yourself very pretty is accepting or settling for an understatement of massive proportions. You are far more than very pretty," he replied before grinning impishly and adding "enough so that you are too hot to handle as they say." That was far from the best line he had, but if she was going to merely settle on calling herself very pretty, well he was going to vastly up the ante and call her hot, which was still an understatement in his books. Well, sometimes one just had to remind the beautiful girls just how beautiful they really were, and Matt wasn't going to hesitate to do so with Relina. His only hope was that he had no competition for her. Then he'd have to go more than all out, or hopefully just be himself and succeed. He would prefer the later, as the former risked masking who he was just to impress the girl he really wanted to be with. Well, he just had to wait and see her response to that at least.

"Sounds like you're a little frightened that things won't work out the way you want them to. Let me say this, it will only hurt worse if you don't ever try. Cause the last thing I know I would want to do would be to have a huge interest in a girl, only for her to end up with another guy because I was too scared. Thing is though, if that's how you feel, you don't actually have to worry about me going anywhere, cause I can easily wait until you feel like you're ready. I'll just twiddle my thumbs or read a book or something," he said with a shrug and a chuckle. He hoped she'd find some humor in that, as it almost implied he felt she'd lose her fear relatively quickly or just end up watching him somewhat amused by his style of waiting for her. Well either way he was sure she'd get a laugh before realizing just how serious he was, because Matt was serious. He'd wait however long it took for Relina to see he wasn't going anywhere but wherever she was, except at times where he'd seem stalkerish.

"You're assuming though that there's one-sided feelings or just shallow feelings. You wound me with your words, my lady," he then said with mock sorrow. He was now eager to prove her wrong on her mindset even more at this point. He saw in her a version of the shell he had just gotten out of last year. That was more than enough reason for him to try and help her out. Granted, he was probably setting himself up to get hurt, but he was ready to do what it took to convince her that she was who he wanted to spend his time with whether she liked it or not.

RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL

[RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL]

He was so persistent honestly if it was anyone but him it would have been grating on her nerves as she often took that persistent nature as challenging. Relina liked challenges but when it was day and night non-stop it got old. Though with Matthew it spoke of something else it spoke that he honestly liked her. Well that is what her heart wanted her to believe.

Perhaps that is what made things dreadfully dangerous with him because so simply she could ruin things she could completely ruin it. Why did she think this way well it was simple it was what she had known. Her own mother strong beautiful intelligent took a man’s love and simply reduced it to the point that it was joke of what it meant to be.

He just looked so hopeful, and currently she needed that optimistic influence, she figured if she had a bit even if it was borrowed from him than it would help her. She wanted to kick herself as she wanted knew what a great friend he would be, and she knew had it not been for her own selfish issues than she could keep him at arm’s length which is what she thought would be better for both him and her.

She had her doubts if she had what it would take to keep him interested after all she had seen firsthand what sort of girl he went after, Leyshell seemed to take pride and pleasure in flaunting that relationship in front of her as if to extract a pound of flesh that Relina didn’t know she owed. Perhaps it was that startling fact that made Relina the weariest about Matthew.

Relina’s taste in men was set it was consistent there was no oddities she had a set standard for the guys she liked they were noble, smart, and known as genuine good guys. Leyshell was exotic, but had a cruel manipulative disposition that was widely known. Honestly there could not be any two different sort of personalities least in Relina’s mind and still Matthew was there suggesting that he found her amusing that he liked being around her and she all the while wondering how with what he seemed to have fancied. To her logical mind it simply didn’t make sense she heard his words and doubt sadly lingered but not that she would broadcast it after all he had not really flat out asked her why she felt his intentions were not correct..

“I’m sorry that you feel that way Matthew but surely you can understand reluctance. You I know you’re out a relationship. Look I know I’m known to flirt and I do I LOVE flirting but that is it.. It’s safe, it fun, and at the end of the day you don’t have a good cry over some trivial boy who ends back going back to his ex. “

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

Matt's immediate response to her was sadness as he felt she just didn't trust him or his feelings. What was it going to take for him to get through to her that he wasn't going to retreat back towards his ex and that his feelings were for real. He wasn't just taunting her with how he felt as he knew that doing so would be a fool's move, and he was not a fool. He had figured out without any personal experience that you never toyed with a girl's emotions, and he was going to make sure that he never toyed with Relina or her emotions. The concern was getting her to see that, and he had no idea how he was going to pull that off. He just knew he had to pull that off, and he was going to even if he put himself near death to succeed.

Her concern about him going back to Leyshell was unfounded. It came from an obviously hesitant heart, but it was unfounded to say the least. Leyshell had more or less manipulated him into a relationship, yet he knew he would not have been able to stay in a relationship with her. Any longer and he knew something would happen that would've either trapped him into the relationship or harmed him in ways that he'd have gone into a shell much tougher to break than the one she had manipulated him out of. He did not want to go through that again, and it went without saying that Leyshell was spoken for at this point. She had gotten into an arranged marriage was what he had heard, so there was no reason to think he could even go back to her without that little wall getting in the way of things.

"You seem to be under the impression that I'm masochistic enough to want to go back to my ex. I got out of that relationship because I couldn't take that she was quick to do things that put people in harms way. That and even if I was that dumb, I'm pretty sure my ex is spoken for to say the least. Well, that was what I had last heard anyways," he replied, shrugging. He wasn't sure if Relina knew about Leyshell's impending marriage, but at the very least he was certain it was near common knowledge if not universal. Granted it wasn't a guarantee that everyone knew every bit of news that went throughout the castle, but that bit of news was present, or at least recent enough in the past, for it to be known by most. Heck, he was actually grateful she wasn't an option any more.

RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL

[RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL]

Let’s go back to the beginning, back to when the earth, sun, and the stars were all align. …

Well he didn't seem the least bit tortured about the loss of his relationship with Leyshell. Perhaps he was bit more over that breakup than she had given him credit for. She was naturally a cynic and even more leery of men like Matthew after all they were good looking you couldn't’ be a good guy and look like that it went against natures law, heck it went against what her parents warned her off. How many times had she heard her mother’s warning about guys with dreamy looks wanting one thing and one thing only.

But still there he was telling her he wasn’t’ about to make her a rebound date. “Ahh an arrange marriage you know my father threaten me with the exact same thing when he caught me sneaking into my room last summer. I told him I’d marry the garden gnome before I’d be sold off. That is unfortunate for _______” Did she dare complete that sentence? Exactly whom should she pity in that little setup.

“Well that is unfortunate.” She corrected with a sly minx like little smile. “ Now now now, no one is calling you masochistic, the only one who has used such a word is yourself dearest. “ She arched a golden eyebrow giving him a very coy look she winked.. “ Something you’re trying to tell me about yourself there lov? “ She grinned wickedly and teased him. “ my my my.. Ohhh how the wheels get turning with that thought.. “ she gave a feigned sigh of annoyance. “ Now how am I to keep thoughts on studies with those images running through my mind.”

WORDS: 687 | TAG: MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON | NOTES: Pffffft we are fabulous

[MATTHEW SVEN JOHANSON]

"Yeah, never understood those, but at least in that particular case it saves me more than enough trouble," he replied with a shrug. Leyshell getting married off meant that he had no more worries of trouble, well at least from her directly. It almost seemed to him that she was still holding him back even now as it appeared as though Relina believed he was still pining for Leyshell. Well if he was right about who Relina was, that was going to be hard to prove wrong even if he was blunt and obvious with the fact that he wanted to be around Relina, and could care less what happened to Leyshell. Well, he figured he might as well push through that wall anyways. He'd end up being nothing more than a hermit if he couldn't or if he never tried. Besides, maybe fighting to prove his case would be what worked rather than the actual point itself, which would be funny in a way.

"Heh, hardly. I don't really get off on pain, my own pain or anyone else's pain. People like that are crazies who need to be locked into St Mungos. No I'd rather avoid pain, though some things you just can't help getting burned by," he replied with a sigh. Masochism wasn't something he liked, but his reference to burns was probably as good a start to what he really wanted to say as anything. Was he being gutsy by trying to confront what he saw as the issue? Well yeah, but needless to say if he knew that there was another guy going for Relina, safe to say he'd be even more pressed, lest he end up losing and end up on his own. The last thing he wanted was to spend life alone, which was a stark contrast from who he was the year before, not really caring about if he was alone or had someone. What he felt towards Relina involved no loneliness though, so now it was a matter of proving that as well as that he was definitely over his ex, and he would do that even if it killed him.

Needless to say Matt was definitely eager to get things sorted out without his death, but he knew he'd have to be stubborn to get it done or else what would Relina really see in him other than a guy who gave up because things were too difficult? How would she be able to trust him at that point? She'd see his sorrow yes, but it would be nothing more than a guilt trip if she agreed to date him as a result, and that wasn't a relationship he ever wanted to put her through much less be in himself.

RELINA HORTENSIA ROYAL