MC Aesthetics - Jade Avery
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9.
Jade was 11 years old that day, and she was alone. She wandered around the mansion, trying to find someone, anyone, Jacob, but it was empty. She would hear her mother’s cry from behind her room, and she didn’t dare to open the door. She would hear clinking of glasses and drinks being poured from her father’s study, and she didn’t dare to open the door.
She walked to Jacob’s room and absolutely nothing could be heard from inside, and she didn’t dare to open the door.
She opened the door to her own room and closed it.
8.
“Slytherin!”
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You’ll make your real friends,
“I’m so glad we are in the same house!” said a bespectacled girl from beside her.
“Me too, Rowan,” she said, smiling at her new friend.
Jacob was in Slytherin, too. She wondered why he never talked about his friends.
7.
“I told my parents that I missed them and the farm, and they sent me twigs,” Rowan huffed.
Jade laughed. “I’m so sorry Rowan, but that’s hilarious.”
“Ugh, laugh all you want. By the way, is your parents’ reply here yet?”
“Yeah, they just told me to be careful and enjoy school,” said Jade in what she hoped was a convincing tone. She didn’t want to tell her that she didn’t send a letter to her parents. She didn’t want to tell her that the letter was addressed to Jacob, and that she couldn’t send it no matter how much she wanted to.
6.
“It’s way past curfew, Jade.”
“Just a few more minutes, Felix.”
Felix sighed, and sat beside her. “Why are you always here late at night?”
“I like it. The crackling of the fire, the singing of the merpeople, the gentle sound of the flowing water,” she closed her eyes, shutting out all the other sensory inputs. “It’s relaxing.”
She heard Felix move beside her, and she opened her eyes to see him reclining on the couch and staring at the windows. Merpeople swam past. He smiled softly. “I’ve never really thought about it, but I see what you mean.”
She smiled and closed her eyes again. “My brother was right. Slytherin does have the best common room.”
5.
Dear Jacob,
It’s nearing the end of the year. I don’t want to go home. I’m not even sure that place can still even be called a home. Mum and dad keep fighting. On the off chance that they aren’t, it feels like a calm before a storm because I don’t know when they are going to start again.
I wish you were here. I can’t talk about about this to anyone. I don’t want to. Everyone has amazing parents, and I don’t want their pity.
I don’t want to go home. Hogwarts feels more like a home now. I have friends here, and they make life bearable.
Jacob, I don’t want to go home. I don’t want to spend my birthday alone.
“Jade, hurry up! We need to put our luggage!”
“Coming!”
4.
“I’m telling you, Barnaby, books are from trees!” said Rowan agitatedly. They were studying in the common room, but the topic of the discussion quickly went astray.
“But that’s impossible!”
“How is that impossible? Look, I have a tree farm, so you should believe me when I said books are from trees!”
“No, I don’t believe you,” said Barnaby defiantly.
Rowan sighed in exasperation. “Jade, help me out here.”
“Um, Barnaby,” said Jade carefully. “Rowan is right. Books are from trees.”
Barnaby gasped. “I can’t believe you take her side.”
“Shut up! Shut up! Kids, go to your room! It’s way past curfew and you’re not getting anything done!” yelled Felix from the other side of the room. He was sitting on a chair near the windows, his own books in disarray on the desk. He rubbed his hand across his face, and looked really tired. “Merlin, I’m way too old for this.”
They collected their books and walked to their respective dorms, but not before Rowan sent a disbelieving look at Barnaby. Jade was walking past Felix when he stopped her.
“Oh yeah, Jade, well done for getting 10 points in potions today,” he said, smiling at her with pride. “I didn’t think it was possible. Maybe Snape is warming up to you. I’ll tell him my idea about making you a prefect soon.”
Jade beamed at the praise, and tried her hardest not to think that he’s graduating soon.
3.
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
Jacob choked on his water and coughed painfully. When he finally stopped coughing, he asked her with an incredulous look on his face, “What? Where did you get that idea?”
“I don’t know, just asking…”
“I’m busy. I don’t have time for romance.”
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She was sitting together with Charlie at the side of the Great Lake. None of them talked. No one needed to talk. Their presence was comforting enough. He had become such a constant presence in her life, and she honestly didn’t know how she would survive without him.
She was leaning on his shoulder, and he had his arm put around her. Once in a while, he would look down at her and smiled. With him, Jade felt like all was right with the world.
She knew what she was feeling for him, but she didn’t have time for romance, not now. She would tell him later, once she finally found Jacob.
2.
“Jade, what do you want for your birthday?”
“A pixie!”
Jacob remembered his time with those wretched creatures in class. He grimaced. “Um, how about an owl instead? And a cake?”
1.
“Your hair is so pretty!” said a red-haired little girl excitedly. From what Charlie and Bill have told her, she assumed this is Ginny.
“Thank you?”
“Let’s braid each other’s hair! I’m so happy that there’s a girl!”
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Dear Jacob,
I spend this year’s holiday in Charlie’s house. I had been trying to convince Dumbledore to let me stay in Hogwarts, but he wouldn’t let me. When I told Charlie, he invited me to his house instead.
I don’t know how my friends knew, but they surprised me on my birthday. They woke me up at midnight, and all of them are here to celebrate it! Charlie’s mum baked me a cake. It’s been so long since I had a cake for my birthday.
Someone knocked on her door. “Jade, we’re gonna play quidditch. Do you wanna join?” asked Charlie from behind the door.
“Coming!” Jade closed her notebook. She walked to the door and opened it.
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#mcaesthetics challenge by @yantarnii
People have been making moodboards of their MC and I want to join lol. I ended up writing a drabble for each picture because I’m extra.
None of the pictures are mine, I found them on pinterest.
Tagging people for this challenge even though I myself wasn’t tagged lmao: @sly-vixen-up2nogood @no53472 @batgirl-87 @weasleyismyking540 @xxrosebush-artsxx (if you want to)
Edit: I got tagged by @rvnclwrites 😭❤
