I get lost in my mind [Amina]

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how’s that bricklayin’ coming? 

how’s your engine running?

is that bridge getting built?

are your hands getting filled?

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Much to her dismay, Ridley returned back to Galaxia with a horrible hangover and splitting headache to last for days. When her and Sura got together for any of their shenanigans, they always knew how to keep themselves entertained. Throwing alcohol into the equation had only corrupted their not-so-innocent little minds that much more. And now, she suffered the consequences. Her first hangover. By calling out "ill" for most of her classes for the day,  many of her Gryffindor girl and guy friends alike approached her to see how she was doing. Some of her more innocent friends had genuine concern for her well being, while the ones who could smell a hangover from a mile away came to make fun and make enough noise to start a war. It was all in good fun, yes, but Ridley did wish she could just get back on her feet. So, when Amina finally came and paid her a visit, her friend was somewhere between mockery and sympathy. After--purposefully--talking a little bit too loud, opening up all the curtains in the girls' dormitory, and stomping around the floor like an elephant, Ridley nearly threw a bitchfit. Of course, Amina wasn't really doing anything out of the ordinary. Ridley was just extremely irrational and easily irritated.

But Amina did not berate her for her snappy attitude. Instead, she suggested the best possible cure for a hangover: a detox of sorts. Ridley would get back into her running routine, become fit as a fiddle, and lose the feeling of being entirely sore throughout every inch of her body. Ridley and Amina woke up in the morning together while it was still dark out. Ridley mumbled "good morning" to her housemate. Forgetting the apparent cold that came along with her morning runs, Ridley shivered while she changed into her running outfit. After a quiet, half-asleep granola bar shared between the girls, they jogged out of the castle and onto the grounds, following the trail to one of Ridley's favorite spots to run: The Waterfalls. It was such a peaceful, beautiful area, that Ridley could entirely forget about her sore muscles and half-asleep-state and just focus on running and the beautiful views around her. If that wasn't incentive enough, she had the company of her friend beside her. 

"I don't know how chatty I'll be while we're running," Ridley said, almost breathless, "I've been so off my game for a while. I just haven't had time to go running. Plus, my current condition is not very ideal..." Ridley tried to laugh, but the sounds she elicited came out more like choking sounds. Mental note: Running and laughing was not the best of combinations. It was particularly hard for Ridley to find time to go running at Galaxia. And not just because of the studies, but because nothing really motivated her. At home, in her small village in Ireland, the rolling hills and the beautiful little crops really called to her: to be explored, run through, to be loved. It was a sappy and eye-rolling idea, even to Ridley, but it was true. Running in her hometown was so perfect; it always felt like an adventure. In Galaxia, Ridley was constantly dodging other students who were either sitting, running, or walking. Then, if she ran into town near Alzubra, there was even larger crowd to worry about. Plus children. Pesky children getting in her way left and right. So, her incentive had to be a friend. Bonding time. 

"So, Amina," Ridley started, catching her breath again as they neared closer to the Waterfall. She was already starting to get warm, "It's been so long since we've had time to hang out. Those final exams nearly killed me," Ridley smiled and took a sip out of her water bottle between sentences, "How was your break? How are you doing?"

song/poem lyrics: "Lost In My Mind" by The Head and The Heart
outfit: This
tag: Amina
word count: 641
notes: Sorry this took so long, dear! Hope you can work well with what I gave you here. I'm going to assume that Ridley doesn't know about Amina's transformation, so that could possibly be a point of discussion. Or not. Up to you. Let me know if you need more!

[Amina Krane]

Even just coming off of break didn’t make Amina feel any better. In fact, her Christmas vacation had probably been the worst one she ever had. Not only had she been unable to enjoy it with her family since Christmas happened to fall right in the lunar cycle, Amina hadn’t even been able to see them. They had gone out of town, taking her brother with them. She hadn’t even been invited but she supposed that had something to do with her telling them before they left that she wouldn’t be able to leave the school due to prefect duties. It was a lie, and it hurt to lie to her family, but she couldn’t tell them about her unfortunate circumstances just yet. How would they take the news? She had always imagined her parents being kind, compassionate people who looked over things such as blood statuses. They had always said not to judge one based on happenings that weren’t their fault. It was the reason her family didn’t side with the Dark Lord despite it being the norm for purebloods. They didn’t see condemning someone because of their heritage. But they had always noted how they would not be ok with her marrying someone other than a pureblood, only because the pureblood line had to be continued. She had to provide her kids the best opportunity for survival and to have pureblood children meant they were sure to survive in the world to come. They were such hypocrites, but in the end she had agreed to their standard. What would they think now that their eldest child wasn’t a pureblood anymore? Would they still agree with their previous teachings or would they see that it wasn’t her fault? That even though she wasn’t pureblood any longer, that she was still their daughter and she had not chosen this new lifestyle. She would give it all back if she could, less the fact that there was one thing she wouldn’t give up to do it. The thing that scared her most was once she told them, would she lose the only other people in her life that loved her? She had already lost Gavin in the most horrid of ways, and even though they had a chance to speak again afterwards, she knew she still had no chance to recover his love for her. It had ripped her in two when he had found out, and even when she had given him his wand back that he had left behind in her dorm room. He had hardly given her any recognition. If only she could understand why.

Though her break had been terrible, she had at least gotten a chance to recover, to pull her head back together before people came back to the dorms and she had done just that. She had managed to put her face back on, get her peppy attitude back, and just in time for her roommates to pop back up. Most of them had begun the celebrations for return to school, for what reason she wasn’t sure, but she had chosen to keep out of the celebrations, mostly because she had plenty of prefects duties to take care of. Despite how much her lie had been that she had prefect work over the break, it was true now. And when she had figured out just how much everyone was going out, she had made the conscious decision to take on as many extra shifts as she could. At least it gave her an excuse not to put on a fake face after hours too. But when she came back into the room one day after a big night among her social circle, telling Ridley it was time she got up and got her day moving because they needed light in the room, throwing open the curtains at the same time, she had found that her friends had been partying a little too much. Maybe even enough for her false face not to be noticed. Then again, she didn’t want to take the chance. As Ridley stirred, she couldn’t help but chuckle as she realized just how hung-over her friend was, even though it wasn’t really that funny, more like amusing at how many times she had woken up in this state and yet could not learn her lesson. Once she had gotten her friend coherent enough to understand what she was saying, she had explained what they would be doing from now on to make sure she didn’t end up like this. If she had a goal in the mornings, she wouldn’t find herself so willing to be hung-over, nor would she find herself so easily wasted if she could reduce her body fat percentage back down again.

And that was how she found herself running in the middle of the morning, her blood pumping and body soaring as her feet kicked up the dirt behind her. Ridley was running beside her and had it been any other time, Amina wouldn’t be having to slow down for her, but everything had changed. Despite Ridley’s slightly out of shape body, Amina was overly in shape. She found herself able to keep up with nearly every student on campus. She only couldn’t say every student because she had no way of trying her speed out on all of them. "I don't know how chatty I'll be while we're running.” Amina looked over at her friend, once again amused by something so trivial as her being out of shape, but she kept it to herself this time, while also keeping her friend from noticing she wasn’t running at full speed. Fortunately with her short legs, Amina had no problem pretending to be slower. "I've been so off my game for a while. I just haven't had time to go running. Plus, my current condition is not very ideal..." Offering a smile, Amina did a half spin on her feet so she was running backwards next to Ridley, losing some of her speed but only intentionally. “If it helps you feel better, I can run like this the whole time,” she replied, hardly even warmed up yet. Her body had become so used to running lately, both in human and wolf form, that it took so much for her to get winded. Her smile turned into a grin as she flipped back around, about to pick up speed when she remembered that she wasn’t attempting to beat her. She didn’t need her finding out what had happened. Not after what had happened with Gavin. It was enough that Sura and Victoria knew as well. Oh, and Tobias. Couldn’t forget the genius who had picked her out of the crowd.

The sound of running water filled her senses as they rounded a bend and began running against the creek that ran through the school grounds. It started at the waterfalls and fed into the lake. Though one had to imagine if it was really so much of a creek. Amina would never understand exactly how one classified bodies of water. "So, Amina." At the sound of her name, Amina pushed out the sounds of rushing water, the coming waterfalls, and focused back on Ridley who seemed quite out of breath at this point. Amina wondered if she would ever experience what it was like to be out of shape ever again. Though that implied she had ever been out of shape to begin with. "It's been so long since we've had time to hang out. Those final exams nearly killed me." Chuckling, Amina began to take her speed down another pace as they came within distance of the waterfalls. She always enjoyed this spot. She wondered what it would be like in her werewolf form, able to hear every drop of water hit the surface of the creek-river-whatever. To be able to see every drop of mist floating through the air, more so than she could see now. “They were pretty killer this time. Not looking forward to the next round. O.W.L.s and everything you know?” she said, frowning at the thought of how much worse she was going to have ahead of her. Not only was she going to have to study, she was going to have to focus during the nights of the lunar cycle on staying sane, then during the days on working on the make-up work she was going to have, then somehow still finding time to hunt for a job. Merlin, this last half year was going to suck.

"How was your break? How are you doing?" Loaded questions. Both of them. And even though she hated to lie, she at least had to stretch the truth some. She couldn’t afford to have Ridley figuring out things beyond her means. “Break wasn’t bad. Just hung around here while my parents took my brother on an impromptu trip. Guess they owed him some belated birthday gift or something and his one stipulation had been to not have his sister along. Can’t quite say I blame him,” she joked, chuckling as she shook her head. “But it was nice and quiet for once, a lot of time to relax and catch up on sleep, reading, etcetera.” As they reached the waterfall, she decided they had done a pretty good warm up and before she risked the chance of ripping a muscle, or at least Ridley doing such a thing in her out of shape form, she decided it was good enough time for them to stop for a stretch. At least they were among good scenery. “Shall we take a break and stretch out now that we’re warmed up?” she asked, Slowing down to a slight jog before coming to a complete stop right next to the first waterfall, the smallest of all of them coming off of a ledge that was easily climbed on top of. It was funny how high the falls actually went, all the way up a mountainside that cut right through the back end of Galaxia’s grounds. But it really wasn’t that tall in hindsight. It was just tall enough to be daunting when you stood on top, something she had done plenty of times.

“What about you? Have a good break?” she asked, turning around so the mist that had already began to cover the front side of her was now spraying the backside. Bending down, she began her stretching routine, the same one she always tended to do when gymnastics season hit. How funny it was that she could easily fall back into her normal routine.

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