we've followed our hearts ; toby

[soraya v. lupin]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; background-color: #343434; padding:20px; border-top: 10px #af9390 solid; border-bottom: 10px #af9390 solid;] we made it out alive ( WORDS ) 1168 ( TAGGED ) VICKY/TOBY ( OUTFIT ) HERE "oh, hi there. we're just looking at engagement rings, would you mind helping us?" the pretty blonde girl enquired as she stood next to her 'fiance' in the jewellery store in the muggle mall. although the shop assistant believed the two to be a little young to be getting married as they couldn't have been over twenty-five, the girls smile seemed genuine and her finace's face seemed stern enough for the scenario to be beliveable. "of course" the shop assistant smiled as she lead the excited looking girl and the clearly financially stressed boy to the rings she would soon, hopefully, be selling. she could do with the raise selling an engagement ring would bring in. after all, she was going on holdiday next week, and a little extra cash could never go astray. looking at the happy couple, she asked the customary question that was almost required in this situation. "so, how much do you think she's worth?" the shop assistant asked the red-haired boy as he walked sulkily next to his girlfriend, his expression clearly demonstrating his unhappiness. "i dunno, like, ten pounds?" the shop keeper wasn't oblivious to the hurt look in the girls eyes as she tried to laugh the insult off. "oh, he's just joking. he does that often, don't you honey?" she said touching his arm, although the boy hardly seemed phase. the shop assistant was starting to feel increasingly awkward as she felt the tension rising. this couple, so young and beautiful, were obviously rushing into this. the girl was probably pregnant. the poor thing. the smile plastered on her face, she directed the couples attention to the rings, where the girls face lit up with delight and his face remained awfully deadpan. the girls didn't seem to notice though, as her face filled with glee at the rings. "oh, toby, what do you think? any sticking out to you?" she enquired with delight, to recieve a simple shrug and a "i don't know, love. it's your party." well, this was getting awkward. after about five minutes, the girl had picked a ring. she tried it on, her eyes lighting up the room with happiness. "oh, please toby! look at it, isn't it gorgeous?" she asked, only to be met with a non-commital nod. after being told the price, the couple fell silent. "you're not worth that much!" the boy said, much to the girls embarrassment. "how often will you do this, toby? please?" after an argument ensued, much to the displeasure of everyone, eventually ending with the following two sentences, which caused the girl to leave and the boy to shrug before following her. "you're just not worth showing off!" "well, then i guess the weddings off!" as the couple stormed off, the bewildered workers of the store looked at each other, and then the engagement rings. it was funny that they were literally all thinking the same thing. oh yeah, she's pregnant. about half an hour later, tobias parker and soraya lupin were lying in front of the university lake, eating some hideous fast food they had picked up from the mall and laughing about their adventures of the day thus far. she wasn't even going to lie, she loved tobias in just about every way possible. as a brother, as a best friend, and perhaps even more. lately, she had begun to notice that he was a lot more than 'best friend' material. he was kind, caring, funny... someone she felt entirely comfortable with. and while she wasn't saying she didn't feel that way with elias, there's was always the questions and doubt when it came to her boyfriend. where had he been? who had he been with? which girl would be casting a smug look in her direction next? it was so confusing, and she wasn't sure how she felt about him romantically, to be honest. despite all this though, she knew that she just loved his company. being around him could make even the darkest and cloudiest seem that bit brighter, and she loved that he would usually bring out the best in her. it was hard to imagine her life without toby now, to be honest, since he'd always been there, making her feel better or just hanging out with her, making trouble for the establishment. and although she knew that she hardly told him as such, she really appreciated his friendship and time. after all, she knew she was far from an easy person to get along with. and yet he put up with her. it was one of those 'warm and fuzzy' thoughts that she usually didn't indulge him with, but hoped that he knew she appreciated it. and him. in more ways than she could possibly even describe. today had been one of those days that had made soraya appreciate toby even more. somehow, soraya managed to coax toby into coming to the shops with her, to buy this shirt she had been stalking for some time, but hadn't had any muggle money available. but today was the day! they had made their way to the falls, only to find that they didn't have the shirt in stock, and were in the process of reordering. despite feeling slightly disappointed, she had managed to convince toby that hanging around the mall would be a good idea. and that's when the genius of 'trolling the people at the jewellery store' became a good idea. as they walked past, the idea popped into soraya's mind, and all she had told toby was to 'keep a straight face and play along'. which he did exceedingly well, she hadn't been expecting a full fledged argument in front of everyone. as soon as they'd made it around the corner, soraya started laughing and high-fived her friend, before offering to buy him lunch. oh dear god, that had been simply amazing. now feeling satisfied for the day, her and spidey had their lunch and made their way back to the uni. the lake seemed to be the appropriate place to sit and each together, since the sun was shining and the sky was of the bluest blue. how could the pair of them say no to such inviting weather? so there they were. two friends lying on the side of the lake eating their lunch, and laughing about their conquests of the day. joking and kidding around, as they always did, talking about nothing in particular and doing nothing much. soraya, who was currently laying on her stomach and picking at her french fries, her hair hanging loosely over her shoulders and her legs flicked up behind her, cast her eyes on toby for a moment. "do you think you'll ever do that, spidey? like, for reals take a girl engagement ring shopping?"

[/color] she asked out of curiousity. personally, she'd dump any guy who couldn't pick out a ring she'd like, but she wondered if it was the same on the guys perspective. things were always different from a guys perspective.[/div]

this is probably the worst post i've ever done. i'm actually truly sorry.

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table by CALIFORNIA DREAMING of CAUTION 2.0, lyrics by every avenue

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[tobias p. parker]

today had been hilarious already. toby parker was hanging out with his friend soraya lupin, and the two had already caused havoc in the shopping centre. the two of them always cooked up plans to have fun - because well, toby never did anything where he didn't have a laugh. he was probably a terrible influence on the ravenclaw girl, but he did not care, she was going to have fun, and she was going to like it. the two of them had started off their day in the shopping centre, and well to be fair it had been a little dull to begin with since she'd wanted to buy clothes. toby had never been a big clothes shopper - he had his spiderman suit and he was pretty sure that was all he'd ever need to wear. after all drunk girls tended to think he was the actual spiderman when he wore it and he didn't even need to talk to pull them. it was that easy for spidey. anyway, at the shopping centre, they'd ended up bored, and doing nothing after soraya's shopping experience. but then she'd told him her plan and told him just to go with it - and well he had enough experience of pulling crap like this with the boys to know what to do. he and the other bandmates, along with aus, and harley had pranked and trolled just about everyone. he and harley and aus had been trolling since they'd met in kindergarten, they'd really pissed off the teachers then. so yeah, he and soraya had gone to the jewellery shop, and there had been a lot of hilarity as the two of them had looked around for engagement rings. he'd seriously debated patting the blonde girl on the stomach as if she were pregnant, and to make it obvious that they needed to marry quickly. he'd put on his most disinterested voice as he answered her questions, keeping his face as straight as possible. it had been hilarious when the two of them had had an argument and walked out. spidey had absolutely cracked up - she'd been brilliant, and the staff had clearly been completely bewildered as to what on earth was going on with the two.

back in front of the lake, toby picked up a chip and threw it at soraya, laughing at her reaction. he took another and ate it. toby leant back and crossed his legs, running one hand through his bright red hair, watching the blonde as she asked him a question. he jumped a little at the seriousness of it. pondering he replied, "for real? like genuinely take a girl out? i mean." he laughed a little. "i'm not sure i'll ever find a girl who'll marry me, i mean i'm up for fun and laughs and all of that, but commitment, forever, life, marriage etc, really probably not. i'm sure no girls gonna wait for me to grow up!" he grinned, laughing. "nah, maybe, you know? i could. but yeah, not in the near future i'm betting!" it made toby think actually. he'd never really been serious about any girl. he'd had girlfriends obviously, he was spidey. but never had any of those been more than a passing thing, just something fun with a girl that he liked to fool around with. and there'd been plenty of them. but thinking about it, someday he did want to fall in love, settle down and have kids - completely insane ones of course. not in the near future, but someday. and if he had kids, he wanted them to have a better childhood than he had. seriously, it had been pretty bad. he was going to make sure they had a lovely fun time. but with who, he had no idea.

he looked across at the blonde and grinned, "how about you darling? ever going to get married?" toby could totally imagine soraya married in the future with tons of little blonde kids hanging out around her and causing havoc. but he didnt see her with elias in the future. that kid was a dick, he had no idea how the two of them had ended up together. mavericks younger brother was nothing like toby's best friend at all, and toby had definitely spent a good few times pranking him, he deserved a lot of the shit he got. soraya needed someone fun, someone to let her enjoy her life and get perspective. she was a lovely person, and toby seriously loved spending time with her, plus she was clever, and he totally tried to bully her into doing his homework for him. "thanks for this morning, it was amazing." he grinned. "who knew a ravenclaw could have so much fun?" he was totally joking with the ravenclaw comment, after all his closest friend, his twin sister harley was in ravenclaw, and she was like insanely bright, as well as being completely mental half the time like him. he assumed soraya knew his sister quite well, after all she stood out just as much as toby did. "wanna do my homework for me ray ray?" toby put on a baby face pouting across at the blonde girl. he threw another chip at her laughing again.

word count: 935.
notes: sorry a bit short <3

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