look at me

“Or worse: not alone, but still ignored.”

“I guess that depends on how you feel about it. Are you afraid of silence?”

"Isn’t everyone? Silence indicates that you are alone.”

“The best things happen by chance.”

“Oh, I almost forgot. You’re friends with Natalia, aren’t you?”

“Sometimes silence can seem so loud.”

Pippa found herself in an apathetic haze ( not one of her own design ) but the POP!! of a champagne cork whizzing close to another bystander finally sparked a reaction. “Did it hit you?? No?? Take a glass or take the portkey —- either way, it’s a party, not a funeral.”

Giggles bubbled to the surface like the freshly opened champagne. “Merlin, at least someone said it. I could really do without these grumpy buzzkills. Like, no one is forcing them to be here, right? They all could afford to live a little.”