first rule of chaos (molly, open)

"Look I'm a bit of a dick, you won't find it hard to push me."

He sighed.

"Wanna practice beforehand?" Baby steps were better for her. He led them out of the great hall for the time being.

Molly nodded her head there now. "Oh, maybe yeah. We will see," she said with a small smile on her face.

"Well sure we can practise," she did go with him out of the great hall. "About what we should even fight about? So it would make sense basically." Literally, they seemed to get along fine for now.

"Just shove me and, I dunno, say I'm really gross or somethin'."

He sniffed loudly, and wriggled his nose.

"Pretty sure people will buy it." He stood straight, and thudded his upper chest with his fist. "Right here. Just try shoving, right here. It's got to be convincing, right?" He didn't know what he enjoyed more, getting a sweet-little-innocent-cutesy girl to go against her character, or the fact that someone's bowel movements were going to be broadcast to hundreds of students. Hmm!

Molly took a deep breath and looked at Leo. She knew she can do that but it might not be perfect at first try.

"You're very gross," she literally said those words and did try to shove him away from her but it didn't seem to work at the first try, so she used more strength after that. She wasn't even sure why she enjoyed all this so much, she shouldn't.

"Ouch, the wind hurts." She wasn't trying. Then she shoved him a little bit more. Even he was taken aback a little, he almost staggered. Well, not quite, but his shoulder went back a bit. "Try 'so'. 'You're so gross!' like. Sound like a whiny little shit about it, c'mon."

He grinned at her. He could tell she was enjoying it.

Molly knew she can do this. She just needs to mean it and well make a sound like she means it.

"You're so gross," she said and she made even face what looked like she was disgusted about him and this smell. After that, she did push him away from her too and this time so much harder than before.

That time he was pretty convinced she wanted to push him. Maybe she was envisioning him as someone else, he didn't know, but she was definitely better that time. He staggered back to the point where he could pretend to fall into something. So, mission complete.

"Enjoyed that, didn't ya?" He asked teasingly.

Molly smiled proudly when it worked finally. She hadn't imagined much really. Just thought about times when she was pissed at her cousins or siblings. And used that a bit against all this, well the emotions.

"I might have yeah enjoyed it more than I should," she said back with giggles now. She had no clue why tho.

Leo shrugged. "If anyone pisses you off, just punch them. You might get detention for it, but it takes care of the problem."

He realised girls had different 'rules' when it came to getting at each other. They didn't like to 'solve problems' by throwing punches: they liked to bitch and moan and be fake and other shit like that. Sadie was definitely like that.

"Let's do this for real. Wait 'til I'm standing by the stage and... storm up to me and, yeah. You know the rest." He went and stood by the stage, checking out this blonde chick who was talking to Potter. Ranch? Rach? Blake? Blanche? Something like that.

Molly just laughed at that idea. She hasn't really punched someone into face because she wanted, once she did it by accident and she would not like to be reminded that. "Well we will see how it goes," she said with a small smile and she knew she might get some detention because of this.

Molly usually was good at holding in her emotions she barely used violence or even bad words. She usually just walked away but this time she knew what she had to do.

The girl took a deep breath and looked around her. She tried to act like nothing was gonna happen. Molly even noticed where Leo was looking at now from the corner of her eyes. She a soon walked over Leo and looked at him with disgust. "You are so gross," she said there and literally pushed him there now so strong as she could towards the stage.

He thought his 'what the fuck' face went down pretty well. The thing is, his 'what the fuck' face was similar to the expression he wore sixty percent of the time; which warned others to stay the heck away from him unless they wanted a black eye.

She did a good job, he fell back and clattered with the staging equipment; being able to grab the microphone stand as he went. The hullabaloo didn't go unnoticed. He just hoped Molly had already 'stormed' off by the time he'd got to his feet, and quickly tucked the mic in his sock. Then, staging rage, he made his own stomp towards the exit.

Making sure the microphone was 'off' for now, he made way towards the bathrooms. "Got it," He said triumphantly, smirking at Molly.

As soon as Molly had pushed him and had realised it had worked she just walked away from him. She figured it would best not to stick around after this. There was enough attention at her.

Once she was in the safe distance she waited for Leo, it was basically near the bathrooms. "Well done. Now go install it," she said with a smile. She still wasn't sure why in the first place she enjoyed all this. All this wasn't her at all or it was actually deep down.

"Alright, alright, just 'cause you showed a bit of muscle in front of dancing dweebs, doesn't mean you can order me around, right?" He smirked at her, only teasing. It was funny to hear her be a little more blunt. His coaching had some kind of effect, maybe?

"'Kay - going in--"

"Son? Is that you?"

Leo groaned. He turned around, begrudgingly.

"Son? Is that you?"

He spotted his son on the way to this 'dance' in the great hall. At least... he thought it was his son. He felt like he hadn't seen him all bloody summer. When Leonides turned, Bert took an ear-to-ear grin. He nodded at the young lady he was with.

"Surprise!" He threw out some jazz hands to complete the effect. "I'm the new Herbology Prof. Fooled ya, didn't I?" He seemed very pleased with himself, indeed.

Molly rolled her eyes there. "Don't get all smart with me. Just do it okay?" She said with giggles now. All this was just so funny for her and her giggles literally stopped when she heard this other guy speaking. Who said even son.

"Oh, hello, professor," the girl said with a small smile. "Is there any way we can help you out or you want to talk with your son?" she tried to seem so casual as she could.

"Yeah I really don't care. Pretty much guessed." But didn't want it to be true. Damn - fuck this. He didn't want his stupid, goofy Dad interfering with his last year at school. At least he didn't take herbology as a class... "I'm kinda busy. So...?" Piss off, basically.

At least Molly was doing well. He could be proud.

Alayna had been watching the two and walked over when a professor arrived "hey guys. What's going on?" She asked as she eyed Molly up and down a bit "looking good as always, Weasley" she said smiling

"Well something very interesting happened. I was just passing by the great hall and saw you two coming out of it. Then I'd heard that they were missing a piece of equipment, and there was some kind of commotion. It sounded like they were talking about a Weasley girl with long red hair, and Belvedere. I believe that's my name. And is therefore also your name. And is therefore, also, suspicious."

He smiled at the end of his long-winded explanation.

"Leonides, you wouldn't have anything to do with school property aforementioned, would you?" He asked pleasantly.

Molly knew she needs now keep acting like they have done nothing wrong to pull it off. "Oh yeah thanks Alyana. You don't look so bad yourself too," she said replied back to the girl. Then she heard what Leo said.

"Weasley with long hair and red. That's basically like how to describe so many weasley girls. Most of us have it. So how you can possible be sure it was me?" She knew that there was few other hair colour weasley. She smiled and looked at Alyana instead. "I just wanted to get some fresh air and get away from the crowd for a bit. It can get bit stuffy in there," she added. She tried to act as she knew nothing Leo stealing the mic.

"Wait, what some stole equipment? Why I should do that or help doing it. Give me good reason," she added. She had no clue where all this boldness came from.

"You know there was a fellow I met in Bangladesh who sold dry morsel. He said he had a legume that poisoned the guilty and spared the innocent, so I asked him how. He said chewing: a jaw moves and a tongue waggles more of a guilty subject, and that's what activates the poison of the legume. Now, I think he was probably insane; but your jaw is moving and your tongue is waggling and my suspicion has only festered..."

He could have just said something like 'you're being too defensive to be innocent' but Bert Belvedere had a very round-about way of saying things.

"Very well. If you happen to come across it, please return it. Happy UnHolidays."

And with that, he turned and left.

When the old man had left, Leo let out a growl of frustration. How were they related, again? He was embarrassing.

"Don't even say it." He warned Molly and the other chick, when Daddy Belvedere had wandered away. They didn't get to say anything about it. "Who're you?" He asked Alayna bluntly.

Molly just forced smile on her face when she heard the older Belvedere to speak now. She didn't like him that much. He seemed like someone who she would try to ignore now.

Just laughed when Leo said not to say anything at all. Seemed like good idea to not say anything. She knew how difficult things can be between kid and parent herself. She looked Alayna and decided to let herself introduce herself. Seemed like a good idea.

@Leonides Belvedere @Alayna Nott