Laying Under a Tree

[Zara O'Riley]

Strange, of course he would think it strange. The only way he wouldn't was if he knew more about her, and Zara would not let that happen. Fairytales for her were a way to get lost from reality. She hated her reality,Though she had stopped believing in, a little part of her thought that she would one day have her own fairytale.

Zara pulled out of her trance and looked at Wyatt. She gave a small smile, though her eyes showed sadness. "What authors do you like then?" she asked him, quietly.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

"One of my favorites, is Anthony Horowitz...I don't know if you've heard of him, but he's quite good I like his novels. Anither writer I like is Shakespeare, I love reading his plays. I mean sure the words may be tough to understand, but the message is clear. Romeo and Juliet is my favorie...I know it's probably the best known, but it's for good reason,. I love the whole 'love conquers all' theme," Wyatt said. He had probably explained alot more than he needed to but whenever he mentioned Shakespeare as one of his favorite authors people just assumed that was omly author he'd ever heard of.

[Zara O'Riley]

"I like reading Shakespeare." Zara said to him, with a smile. "I enjoyed reading MacBeth, it was really interesting. And I do like the way he's put a theme in a book, which gets stronger and stronger throughout." Zara said. The library back home had the works of Shakespeare, sitting on a bookshelf, she had finished them last year.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

"yea Shakspeare really was one of the greatest authors of all time," Wyatt said not sure of what else he could say, It was beautiful day and he didn't feel much like getting into a disscussion about the works of shakespeare.

Wyatt looked back out the open sky trying to think of something to say to change the subject, "So why do you like reading fairy tales?" he asked finally, this wasn't much of subject he had really wanted to get into either, but it was the only thing he could come up with.

[Zara O'Riley]

The sun shone brightly on the grounds as they spoke of Shakespeare. It was not the ideal topic for a bright day. She slid down from where she was standing and now sat at the base of the tree.

"Oh," Zara said as she heard Wyatt's question. "They take me off to a new world, my reality is somewhere I hate being." Zara told him quietly.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

"I guess that makes sense, I mean that's pretty much the reason I read most of novel I read, to just get lost in the words on the page and escape your real life, real flaws, and real problems," Wyatt said now understanding Zara a little better than he prevoiusly had

[Zara O'Riley]

Zara nodded, she was glad to see he understood her a little better. She looked at him and said, "So how's your school life been. With your house and everything." The day was beginning to get cloudy.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

"pretty good, I usually try to stay out the commonroom most of the time though because there's usually a group of younger kids having a study session. That's the one bad thing about my house, is that some of them take school work way too seriously, but there mostly really cool and most of them don't even have to study they just do it out of habit," Wyatt explained. He realized Zara probably didn't care much, but she had asked the question.

"So what about you, how's your house?" he asked somewhat regretting it as he realized just which house she was in.

[Zara O'Riley]

Zara listened as Wyatt explained about his house, and housemates. She should have guessed that his house would have always been studying.

"I try and stay out of the commons," Zara said. "Temeraus isn't the most friendly house. I only get along with a couple of people." she told him. It was true, she'd rather not be in the commons most of her time, most of the students shot icy glares at each other.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

"Really, I thought you guys all got along...because your all similar, which is why your in that house?" Wyatt said alittle confused. He knew he was just going on stereotypes, but stereo types did tend to be true. He figured what he had said now might upset Zara that he had judged her, but she had probably judged him as well.

[Zara O'Riley]

Zara listened to Wyatt and sighed. Yes, it was true, in most ways the housemates were same. At the moment Zara couldn't feel less than she belonged anywhere. Zara sighed again, "I guess so," was all she said to Wyatt.

[Wyatt O'Riley]

Wyatt was confused by her response. Zara had said she didn't really like spending time in her commonroom, but now she agreed with the fact that she was just like her housemates. Unable to think of anything that could salvage this conversation from the depths of awkwardness, Wyatt stood up picking up the book he had been reading earlier as he did so. "Well I have to get going to the library. It was nice talking to you though, maybe I'll see you around," He said to Zara before beginning to walk back towards the library.