Jamie hoped that everything would work out long enough between them to make it through his Quidditch season. Then, possibly, they could settle into something more...normal. A real relationship like all the other kids on campus had. Jamie never figured he would have something like that. It was always his brother’s that girls when for. Or something with the last name Rowley that left a sour look on some people’s faces. He would always ask Andrew and Brandon just what all that was about but they gave him shallow answers. Jamie had a reputation made for him by the two other boys in his family. It was annoying but he hoped slowly through his career and schooling he could step out from under that shadow.

Seeing her face made him grin, and he could feel his heart beat starting to thud faster. He was more nervous than he had ever been for a game. There was an adrenaline that was famulare, the kind that came from taking pace in the and getting ready for the whistle to sound, but at the same time this was so very new. He didn’t have a playbook for how to impress Erza and make sure he didn’t stain his shirt.

He hugged her back when she stood. Her kiss was warm, and sweet. And he was sure that it would linger there for hours if he focused on the peck for long enough. Jamie then sat in the free seat at their little table, his grin never once faltering. How could he when somehow, someway he had managed to get a real date with Erza.

“M’ happy you like ‘em” His Aussie accent coming in thick as always. His cheeks turning a soft shade of pink at her compliment. There was a good chance he would never really get used to her flirting. “You don’t do to bad yerself. You look beautiful Erza.”

Jamie was getting comfortable at the table, astonished that they even got a spot in the packed place. “Oh erm, I think I’m gonna join ya there with a firewhiskey.” In general he kept drinking to a every so often thing. He couldn’t afford the hangovers. There were friends he had here and there at the school that seemed to party every night. He had not the slightest how they got through their days with their heads pounding . Today would be one of those every so often days, if only to calm his frantic nerves.

He almost didn’t catch that she had admitted being nervous. Nervous about what? Certainly not him. He was a klutz who often got tongue tied. She did well to bring out those qualities in spades. Still it made him smile more. This girl was bold and beautiful and somehow smitten, it seemed, and he he had not a clue how but he would take it for as long as he could.

Jamie nodded. “It has, and I’m sorry about that…” gently he bit at his bottom lip. “‘M glad to finally be sitting here with you though.” A small smile was back on his face, not able to be gon for long while the girl with Aqua hair was sitting across from him.
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