<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ja4gab6.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/a/ae/Hogwartscrest.png/revision/latest?cb=20110806202805)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>NAME:</strong> <strong>Dyani Hawthorne</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=299655.msg14685893#msg14685893)<br/><strong>HOUSE | YEAR:</strong> Slytherin | 3rd<br/><strong>BLOOD STATUS:</strong> Pure<br/><strong>WAND:</strong> Ash | Rougarou | 9 ½ inches | Crooked and Firm<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Just a lil somethan' (https://i.imgur.com/mk4pGXl.jpg)<br/><strong>DATE | TIME:</strong> Saturday, October 26th, 2019 | Night<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> Darley Penthouse | Lost<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong> I'm just going to assume they're talking in German at this point. Asking the hard questions.<br/><strong>MOOD MUSIC:</strong> Like lovers do (https://youtu.be/s5rtxcogEsU)<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> Aaren, Open | <strong>Mentioning:</strong> Konstantin, Loveday</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/>Konstantin knew<i>exactly</i>what he was doing, and he had succeeded. The seed of doubt was planted, and Dyani's heart felt suddenly heavier. Even as Aaren led her away, her small hand tucked so snugly within his own, the butterflies had all but fluttered away and left her feeling nothing but queasy. A single sentence kept echoing in her head like an empty dome.<br/><br/><i>You must only think the reason to be nice to a woman is when you want to get into her skirt.</i><br/><br/>But wasn't that true? There were only a handful of reasons a man was friendly with a woman outside of his family, and most of those reasons either ended with her in his bed or her having access to something advantageous to him. Her father had confirmed as much for her when he took to his new woman barely before grass could grow over her mother's plot. Konstantin's own thoughts on it aside, her brothers were fine examples as well. Even Kevin had been protective with her where overly friendly males were involved, and went so far as to reprimanded her if she were too congenial in kind. As Konstantin's best friend, he took it upon himself to remind her of her duties as his friend's faithful girlfriend. It was 'unfair' for her to lead them on, apparently - something she had thought was laughable... Until her father showed his true colors. Until her friendship with Vasily Klusnick turned into an unwanted kiss and a love confession. Until countless men, young or old, made moves on her at stores, bars, on street sides, in classrooms. It didn't even matter if she was lip locked with Loveday at the time.<br/><br/>In short, it was hard to deny when so many arrows were pointing to one conclusion in bright flashing lights. So then... What about Aaren? Was he like that? Was he the same as all the rest or was he really somehow just as he claimed? Was he really immune to this quality every other man in her life convinced her existed by sheer biological programming they couldn't personally be faulted with?<br/><br/>"You have good instincts." She remarked, a meek smile tugging at her plush lips. It only hurt a little when he released her hand as if it had physically burned him, but somehow the way he scratched at the back of his head uncomfortably made the ache fade away. How was it possibly he could still be so completely adorable while her heart felt like it was cracking? "Do you love Nadia?" Dyani blurted, surprising even herself. It wasn't at all the conversation they had been engaging in before, but somehow, some way, Konstantin still managed to taint just about everything in her life.