(Mackenzie Series 1 - Oliver Wood/OC) Emmie MacKenzie has always been everyone's idea of a stereotypical Hufflepuff - at least on the surface. Quiet. Timid. Yet friendly and always willing to help. At times she comes across as a bit of a pushover...
Kara watched Emmie as they neared the outskirts of the village, happy to see she was in a good mood. She had woken up with a nasty headache - they all had - but after they had all taken a nip of the hangover tonic from her brother, they were feeling much better.
Another small miracle - Emmie hadn't seemed the least bit embarrassed by whatever had happened last night. Kara worried that she wouldn't remember or that she would be mortified by openly flirting with Williams, but Emmie was more impressed with herself and commented that the lessons must be paying off. Kara was of the mind it had more to do with the firewhiskey than their lessons, but she wasn't about to burst her best friend's bubble. Not if it meant that she loosened up more in general.
In fact, Emmie seemed more relaxed than she had been all year, going as far as to greet Cedric with a smile and no stutter or blush as they went through the common room.
Granted, there was still the matter of what happened with Wood, but Emmie was being unusually coy about that.
Now the four of them were looking forward to an afternoon in the village, Melanie and Toni happily chatting about the blokes they had chatted up the night before behind them, while Kara rolled her eyes and Emmie chuckled.
"Where you want to go first?" Kara asked, looking over at Emmie.
"Figured ye'd want to go to Honeydukes," she replied.
"Sounds like a good start. Then suppose you're in need of a new novel?" Kara asked. Emmie nodded. "So, Honeydukes, then Tomes & Scrolls, it is. Before The Three Broomsticks."
"Oo! Could we stop by Gladrags?" Melanie asked. "I wanted to see if they've gotten in anything new since last time."
"Dinnae ye buy loads then?" Emmie asked, glancing over at her.
"Did not," Melanie replied. "Just a few things..."
"Think she is attempting to buy out the whole store this year," Toni said with a snort. Melanie just frowned and playfully hit her.
"Am not," she said before hopping up and looping her arm through hers. "The weather is beautiful. Let's just enjoy our afternoon of freedom, yea?"
"Aye, let's," Emmie said, grinning.
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Emmie's face was pinched in concentration as she poured over the shelf of books at the shop. Melanie, Kara and Toni were over perusing the various magazines on offer while Emmie made her selections. She supposed she could just borrow books from the library - which she did often - but there was something about the thrill of purchasing a new book. Opening it up and wafting in that new book smell thrilled her to no end. Though she was going to need to expand her trunk when she went home at the end of the year at this rate. She was sure to get loads more over Christmas even though she'd end up taking home a fair bit to make room for others in second term.
She stopped and reached for a book, opening it to scan through the first chapter a bit.
"That's a bit boring, if you ask me," a voice said from her right. Emmie looked over and her eyes widened in surprise as Flint walked up, his eyes on the shelf. He then pulled out a book from high up and handed it to her, finally looking at her. "Might like this one."
