Expectations(Open)

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam wasn't in Ravenclaw, but she might have been with how often she visited the library, though, it wasn't just to read. No, she simply liked to look at the books, the bindings, the words, this was her future after all. Publishing, and she loved to read, for a few moments in time she could be someone else, doing something else.

Not that she wasn't pleased with who she was, no she had far too much pride to admit to wanting an easier life, or some life at all that was worth living. It wasn't bad, now that her mother was gone she was free, though pain lingered in her heart, she wasn't sure how to be a whole person, and she was afraid of being anything vulnerable. So she closed her heart off to the world, and wondered if her calculating callousness turned her into a monster, that or her cruel tendencies upon occasion.

She often wondered if she could be a different person here, but then she didn't really know how to be anyone else. She was taking things slow, trying to summon smiles enough for friendships, but she didn't quite know where the real Sam was, and where the mask began. She hadn't hurt anyone, intentionally anyway, not yet, perhaps that was a plus, but she almost knew, as if she were fearing something coming, her peace would come to an end.

Dispelling such thoughts she walked through isles smiling at familiar titles and thumbing through a few new ones, fiction and non-fiction alike appealed to her. Then there were of course books on Magic, she didn't really feel like studying now, though she knew it would benefit her in the long run, she still had a lot to study, especially in the subjects she wasn't taking this year. She wondered if she could rack up some more tutors, then laughed at herself, she better make sure those tutors were unattatched.

Sighing she grabbed a book from the shelf and proceeded to a deserted corner of the library so she could read in peace, or at least she thought she could read in peace until a figure came over her blocking out her light.

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian saw her, and, Merlin help him, he couldn't resist the urge to start trouble.

Tht Arithmancy class had been too good to pass up. There was so much fodder there, he could have easily toyed with both girls... hell, and the professor, though he found it was xceptionally easy to push his buttons.

He walked over to Samantha, his shadow falling across her book. "So... Renneau's little sister, huh?"

[Amadora Macrae]

Amadora walked past the bookcases where the boy had disappeared to just to let her presence in the library be known that she was on duty and not about to let any snogging in the library go unpunished since Ryan wasn't a regular into the library unless under duress. She noticed Sam who had been frequenting the library lately, that girl had more men always hanging around her than was decent but she didn't see anything wrong at the time and strode on by to continue with her work.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam kept her eyes on the book and sighed to herself after hearing his voice, his news was a bit more unexpected but she didn't let on to that fact, instead she raised her eyes to his, " Can you keep a secret?" she asked in sultry tone.

She eyed the Librarian as she passed marking a spot in the book and smiling up at her. She was strict but Sam didn't mind her, especially since she usually left Sam to her own devices.

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian smiled and sank into the seat next to her. "I can keep your relationship to Renneau a secret," he said with a nod. It worked to his advantage for now to keep it a secret. There were more games he could play, more people he could toy with, and more rumors he could spread by keeping the secret than by telling it.

"Or was there another you planned on sharing?" He drawled, at length, still with that devil-may-care attitude.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"You're the last person I'd tell anything to Mr. Knight." she said with a small smile but a distant one, as if she didn't want him sitting there. "Or did you think your behavior the other day was acceptable? That I'd simply wave off being insulted?" she asked turning towards him then turning back to her book.

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian's smile was gone and he rolled his eyes. "It wasn't a bloody insult. I insinuated that you were a teacher's pet... an intimate pet. And that's hardly an insult. Unless it hits a little close to home?" He added, raising on eyebrow and giving her a look. "However you took it was not how it was meant."

There. She didn't expect an apology, did she? He had not called her a slag, no matter what she thought.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"I'm fifteen Dorian, I'm not intimite with anybody, and I don't intend to be until I'm properly of age." she said shortly, " Caleb is my stepbrother, he's protective of me but he won't treat me any differently in class, I just didn't want to be treated differently because I had a brother as a teacher. " She sighed a little sadly as if she didn't expect that to stay a secret very long.

No she didn't expect an apology in fact she'd probably laugh if he gave her one, it'd be horribly insinsere and he wouldn't have meant a word of it.

[Dorian Knight]

"Okay," Dorian said. "Point taken. But you're still accusing me of something I didn't do. To call you a slag or a whore or whatever vulgar name you were using for it, I would have had to imply that you were sleeping with every teacher. Not just one. Semantics, love. There was no insult there at all. Now you can keep arguing and we can be enemies for the rest of our time at Hogwarts, or you can believe me, we can move on, and things may run a little smoother for the both of us."

He was giving her an even stare. He did not feel bad about what he had said... she had misconstrued it, and how could that be his fault?

[Samantha Montgomery]

She smiled at him, slyly, " Or I could run the other direction whenever you came near me." she suggested, " To be quite honest Dorian I don't see the point." she shrugged, " You're handsome and charming...when you aren't insinuating I'm sleeping with my brother of course, but I know your endgame. We can be friends if that's what you want...but is that *all* you want?"

[Dorian Knight]

Ryan laughed softly. "I think you're confusing me with Lestrange sweetheart," he said. "But... I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. You think you've got me all figured out, do you? I'll prove you wrong. Just wait."

He waited a moment and then raised his eyebrows. "Well, you've chosen not to run for the hills, I see."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She shrugged, "Perhaps I'm giving *you* the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps I wouldn't mind having a few *friends*, if friendship is all you have in mind." she told him lowering her eyes, " Friendship is all you have in mind isn't it?" she asked him finally raising her questioning gaze to his own eyes.

[Dorian Knight]

He looked back at her, very intently, eyes narrowing, and he even leaned forward.

"No... I intend to ravage you senseless and then some, and when I'm done, I'll leave you, used and abused, for any number of other boys to try and pick up the pieces. Who do you take me for, seriously?"

He dropped the sarcasm and leaned back. "Aside from a comment *you* misinterpretted, what have I done to you?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

She sensed more truth in his sarcasm than his sarcasm and raised an eyebrow in his direction before shrugging, "Nothing I guess." she said sighing, " Perhaps I just don't trust guys that are as pretty as I am." she said teasing him finally bookmarking the novel on her lap and closing it so she could give him her full attention.

[Dorian Knight]

Well now, that was better. He almost... almost, but not quite, smiled.

"Just because pretty boys like Lestrange hit three to four beds a night should not make you lump us all into one catagory, thank you," he said. "And now that we've established that I have done nothing to you, let me say again that I am sorry I said something that was so easily misunderstood. Let's try again. Hi, I'm Ryan Knight."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She looked at him rather surprised, " Was that an apology?" she asked tentatively taking his hand, she was almost sure the man never apologized for anything, even if he had cast the blame on her.

[Dorian Knight]

"Not for what I said," he told her, eyebrows raised, "But how I said it."

He smiled. "Did you notice who else was angry about that very same comment?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

"My brother?" she asked considering he had been angry as hell, "By the way...how did that talk go after class?" she asked him almost amused, "I hope he wasn't harsh on you...well not too harsh anyway." she laughed slightly.

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian waved away her question. He didn't care about her brother.

"No, though yes, he was angry. That's not my point. My point is that Ravenclaw girl... Graham? Or did you not notice?" He asked, shrugging and leaning back. "I took you as the more observant type."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She shrugged, "I'm not that observant at all." she said carefully, she didn't like that he was observant about her, " In fact I hadn't noticed...was she angry?" she asked looking at her fingernails.

Yes the girl had been and Sam didn't know why but she had to wonder.