spark up like fireworks (Thane)

[Regina Curry]

Regina didn't realize their position either, until he stopped moving although his was still laughing. His face was extremely close to hers. She wasn't scared, just a little nervous. Her face was red as well, but she just told herself it was because of her laughing. Regina slowly evened out her breathing from not being able to breathe from his tickling as he let her go.

She figured that she wasn't going to say anything about what just happened seconds ago as he stopped tickling her. Regina set up and smiled. "That was fun," she replied. Gus appeared out of no where and jumped back on the bed. "Although I was getting to where I couldn't breathe." She sent him a teasing glance before laughing.

[Thane Scotts]

Thane was glad she hadn't noticed or if she did she didn't say anything. He'd hate to have any awkwardness between them. Regina really was a good person and a friend, and it wasn't her fault he liked her as a girl too. But he could keep that bit of information to himself just like he'd always done.

"It's all Gus's fault you know. He started it. You should kick him out of your room for getting you tickled." He gave a more lopsided grin now.

[Regina Curry]

Regina continued to smile. It was hard not to smile around Thane. Gus rubbed up against Thane's arm before moving back into Regina's lap. "I don't think he really wants to be kicked out," she said with amusingly. Gus was the reason why Thane and Regina met in the first place. She could never figure him out.

"He may have started it, but I still love him." She looked down at Gus and held his head up. "How can you not love this face," she said laughing.

[Thane Scotts]

"You have a point there.. he IS the the most handsome cat in the castle after all, not that I'm biased or anything of course." Thane laughed and leaned back on his bed again but this time he kept his eyes open for future poke attacks.

[Regina Curry]

"Oh, of course you're not biased. Who would ever say such a thing?" She laughed. Realizing the time, Regina frowned. "Unfortuntely I have some work I need to finish and I have a bit of studying to do in my room. So, I guess I should go ahead and go attempt to finish it." She sighed and looked down to Gus. "Stay here with Thane Mr. You'll serve nothing but a distraction for me, but you can come later." Regina petted him again before standing up and putting Gus on Thane's stomach.

"Thanks for everything today Thane. I had fun," she said with a smile. "I'll see you later." She give him one last glance and then started for the door. Regina didn't bother to remember that she left her bag on Thane's bed, she just continued to walk towards her room.

[Thane Scotts]

"I had fun too, and thank you for helping me with finding my brush, and books and.. well everything. See ya later." He watched her go, his eyes following her until she disappeared out of the room. He sighed as he sat back up in his bed. He wondered what her room was like, but unfortunately the guys weren't allowed in there.

He sat there and looked out his window for a long time just thinking, a past time he found relaxing. He wasn't sure how late it had gotten by the time he came out of his mental state. He walked over to the window so that he could open the window and get some fresh air, when he came back to his bed he saw Regina's bag laying there. now who's forgetting things he thought chuckling. He picked it up with the intention of taking it to the common room and having one of the girls down there return it to her if she wasn't there herself when a diary fell out and onto his bedspread.

A diary? Regina kept a diary? He'd never seen her writing in it and had never known she had one. Just like a cat his curiosity was itching to open it. It was only locked with a simple key lock and before he realized what he was doing he'd cast a spell with his wand to release the lock. It was book and like any book he couldn't resist the temptation to see what lay within it's pages. If he'd taken the time to think about it he would not have done it, but as it was.. he wasn't really thinking anymore, his curiosity had taken over.

He skimmed through a bunch of pages that didn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary about school work, classes, things she'd learned, things she found hard, her friendship with Hallie, her insecurity over tripping.. and that was when his eyes found something that stopped his cursory snooping dead in their tracks. There was his name, bold as day in her diary.

Blue eyes? She liked his blue eyes? Thane blushed reading the pages that had his name on it. Regina thought he was cute? adorable? He blinked at that those. Then he found an entry that was dated fairly recently that said how she thought she was starting to have feelings for him and was .... he read it again... was afraid to tell him how she felt? Thane scratched his head in wonder. Regina liked him? Like.. liked liked him? That was a revelation. His friend Regina the sweet and friendly and normally fairly shy Regina, secretly liked him?

He set the book on the bed beside him and a huge grin took over his face. She liked him! He blushed more. Now the question is... what should he do about it? He knew how he felt already and he pulled out the crumpled up paper from his pocket that he'd scribbled her name all over with hearts. First he needed to return her book and bag.. after that? He'd have to think about it and find some way to .. to make her dreams come true. He smiled and relocked her diary before putting it back in her bag and taking it down to the commons to return to her.