The Yule Ball

"No!" Elrohir said quickly. "It's just..not the nicest of places..and I know Maik would have a fit if she knew I was here."

"Then go!" SOnia said obviously hurt. "You don't think my father has a fit everytime I'm at the ministry or talk to an auroror?"

"Sonia I'm sorry! I didn't mean anything by it!" Elrohir said quickly, trying to get himself out of the hole he had gotten himself into. "I want to stay here with you."

Sonia sighed. She shook her head and turned to face him. "I shouldn't have jumped down your throat. It's not your fault we were raised two completely different ways."

Elrohir nodded. "I know. It's ok." He pointed to the books she had been looking at. "You going to buy those?"

"I'm not sure. If I do, then the ministry will probably investigate and take me away from my parents saying that they are a danger to me. I don't know. I might." Sonia sighed.

"If it's that hard of a decision, maybe you shouldn't." Elrohir suggested

Sonia nodded. "Not until I get my own place." She says.

"When you plan on doing that?" Elrohir asked

"I'm looking now as it were. No luck. I just kind of want a place that's kind of hidden where things aren't sonstantly happening."

"You could always move in with me." Elrohir suggested, half joking. "Nothing ever happens there so long as Maik and Aslan aren't there at the same time"

"Aslan seems nice." Sonia says. "But he also seems like a trickster of sorts.

"He is." Elrohir agreed. "And Maik treats him like another little brother, so they tend to wreak havoc whenever they're together."

Sonia laughed softly. "Must be fun." she says softly. "SO are you hungry?"

"I am." Elrohir nodded. He pointed to a returant next to a tattoo parlor on the other side of the street, just outside of Knockturn alley. "You like that one?"

SOnia nodded. "My favorite."

Elrohir smiled. "Good." he nodded towards the tattoo parlor. "Maik dragged me in there once."

Sonia laughed. "Really? Did she achieve her goal?"

"If you mean did she get a tattoo and make me get one too...yes." Elrohir replied, wrinkling his nose at the offending building.

"May I see?" Sonia asks. Her eyes twinkled brightly as she watched him with expectation.