One Pebble, two pebble... PV Anastasia B Closed

Anastasia briskly entered the courtyard. The weather was warm enough to study outside, but not so warm that there were many students. That was just as well, since Ana wasn't in a particularly social mood at the moment. Sitting on her usual bench, she noticed that there was a younger girl spinning and dancing around. Ana rolled her eyes slightly and turned back to her studies. She glanced up again when she heard a shout of pain. The girl from before was on the ground. Ana contemplated going over and helping, but decided against it when she saw the girl get up.

A more judgmental side of her wondered how on Earth someone could be old enough to be at Hogwarts and still not know how to walk. Honestly, it felt as though first years were getting younger and younger. Still, Ana wasn't heartless(not completely anyway) and when the girl fell a second time, the Gryffindor sighed and rose from her seat to make sure she was alright.

Crossing her arms, she reached the other girl who still sat on the ground crying. Good Lord, what was wrong with her? It was a simple bump to the knee, not a fatal wound. "Are you quite alright?" she asked. As she asked it, it occurred to her that that wasn't the best question. "Scratch that, you clearly aren't. What's wrong?"

May could hear a voice. Since she didn't exacly know who it was, but it didn't sound like anyone familiar, she looked up. Oh, right. Her friend Ivy Bellamy was tricking her. She was there, standing, making a voice of total authority into her. Well, maybe not total authority, but her voice was really different than her usual sweet voice. But May didn't want to be fooled, so she just said, "Oh no. It's just a scratch, I bet it's going to get over soon. D-do you have a bandage? I'm scared it might get infected."

Then, she was convinced it was Ivy Bellamy. Exact figure, but the voice wasn't perfect. Was her friend with a cold? But May was wrong. Tho she still done t know it. It wasn't Ivy, and she was about to make a fool of herself. "So, Ivy. What are you doing now here?"

May hadn't ever experienced seeing people that were exacly identical but of course, not family or twins. Even tho she had only seen twins a few times, and she had never, ever experienced being wrong about somebody. But this time she was. And very. She was about to experience embarrassment to the top of her hat. Even tho she didn't have any on her head.

Ana arched an eyebrow wen the girl expressed her concerns of infection. Seeing as it was a fairly small scratch, Ana doubted that that was much of a risk, or that bandages were really necessary. Still, she opted not to voice those thoughts, since they might seem rather rude, and Ana was (for once) not in a mood to make some stranger cry.

Ana sighed slightly when the girl called her Ivy. Honestly, seeing as she was older, it stood to reason that Ivy was the one who resembled her as opposed to the other way around. Still, if someone knew Ivy and didn't know her, she supposed it made sense why she might be mistaken for her. Honestly though, she thought it rather silly. She was a few inches taller than Ivy, and her eyes were a dark brown rather than Ivy's grey. Sure, they were identical other than that, but surely those two big differences were more than enough to differentiate between the two. They had many similar mannerisms as well, but if you paid attention, Ana was generally more expressive and dramatic.

"Not Ivy, I'm Ana. And you are?" Ana said, rolling her large eyes so exaggeratedly that for a moment she expected to see the inside of her head.

@May Moonstar

May looked at the girl as she arched an eyebrow, and May knew somehow, that she was thinking of something that May didn't know (of course, May couldn't read her thoughts), but let the matter drop. Somehow, this girl didn't look like Ivy. She wasn't acting like her. Or maybe May wasn't acting normally and it was a projection.

She looked at Ivy [Ana] and blinked a few times, as she saw that she was taller. And her eyes- they weren't like her usual ones...
May decided that she had grown...she had grown so fast? Ivy wasn't normally that tall. And the girl she was looking at wasn't exacly very- how to say it- friendly. Well, she did help me out. That's Ivy like- but I haven't seen Ivy in a long while tho-
Next thing that happened is that May arched a eyebrow. Who was this girl? Was she- a doppelgänger?
But the answer came quickly. The girl rolled her eyes and told her she wasn't Ivy. She was- what, Ana? May felt a bit sad to see that it wasn't her friend. They hadn't been seeing each other for a long time, and when May received her letter from Hogwarts she expected them to be very good friends. Better than when they lived in Sussex, and they saw each other at least every day....

Coming back to her senses, she blinked a few times and mouthed a few words wordlessly. At last she recovered, "The names May. Hufflepuff house. First year- you looked incredibly like Ivy Bellamy...a friend of mine."

Im so sorry this took so long! Thank you very much for your patience

@May Moonstar

The girl seemed rather confused when Ana said that she wasn't Ivy. Honestly, this was already getting irritating. Ana had been the first! She was the, as muggles said, original gangster version. She was Anastasia Beckett and Ivy was lucky to resemble her. She wasn't sure why she was so annoyed, Ivy seemed perfectly lovely. Ana supposed she was just in an odd mood.

The brunette fiddled with her Gryffindor scarf as she watched the other girl. She smiled slightly at the mention of Ivy. "Ah, yes, I've heard that before," she said, laughing it off, since she still wasn't in the mood to make some random person cry, especially not someone who now knew her name. "Nice to meet you, May."

She bit her lip as she thought for a minute. If this girl was a friend of Ivy's, she couldn't be too bad, since Ivy seemed like she had fairly decent judgment, at least from what Ana had seen. After another few moments, Ana extended her hand to help the other girl up. The scrap didn't look too bad, and if May could put weight on it, it was probably going to be perfectly fine. Otherwise, Ana could send her to the hospital wing or something.