Your last chance to walk away (Esperance, Australia)

[Bex Montague-James]

"I'd kind of like to do the same with my sisters sometimes," Bex said with a grin. "That sounds kind of cool though, in a crazy way," she added, referring to Loanne's description of her big family.
"My family isn't really that big, I pretty much know everyone I'm related to. I think. You never know, maybe we're related," she laughed.

[Loanne Parker]

Loanne laughed, finding this girl more interesting with the minutes passing. “Haha, yeah, we are probably related. What with Adam and Eve and all,” she spoke, referring to the Bible without even thinking about Bex maybe not knowing anything about these things. The German girl didn’t remember whether they’d spoken about their blood statuses, and if they had, she didn’t remember whether Bex was a pure blood and therefore likely to’ve never heard of the Bible or maybe a muggle born who knew it all. Well, it didn’t matter. Maybe she’d get it, maybe not. Loanne wasn’t a particularly believing Christian herself, so to her it was no big deal whether people knew the stories or not.

“You know what, I could use a milkshake,” the German girl suddenly said, looking down the street in an attempt to find something like a café or whatever. Some place where the might’ve sold milkshakes.

[Bex Montague-James]

"Who?" Bex asked, her eyebrows raising slightly. Being a Pureblood and knowing nothing about religion whatsoever, she wasn't sure who Adam and Eve were. She was quite sure she might've heard the names somewhere, but she couldn't place them. They must have been someone famous in the Muggle world, and Bex was slightly curious.

"Yeah, milkshake sounds good actually," she added. "I think I passed a café type thing down there." She gestured with her hand to the direction she'd come from.

[Loanne Parker]

“Never mind,” Loanne said, waved her hand and laughed. She really wasn’t the right person to try and convert some witch into Christianity.

At the mentioning of a café, Loanne grinned and waved her arm around like she was some soldier getting ready to march. Oh well. “That sounds amazing, I wanna go there, I suppose you will stay with me, let’s go!” She spoke rather fastly, full aware of the fact that most of what she said was pretty stupid but she didn’t care. Bex would get the message, probably.

[Bex Montague-James]

Bex chuckled, amused at Loanne's reply, and started to walk with her.
"So, do you know what you're going to do now?" she asked. "You know, because you've finished school and stuff..." She had had the odd conversation with friends and classmates about what they wanted to do with their lives, but it was different asking someone who was actually there already.

[Loanne Parker]

"Hmm," Loanne replied as they walked, and she was looking ahead to try and spot the café Bex had talked about. "No, I have no idea," she then said and shrugged her shoulders, flashing the other girl a quick grin. "I mean, I am busy for a year now, and who knows what will happen then." Really, she didn't have much of a plan.

[Bex Montague-James]

Loanne seemed like the kind of person who just went with the flow, and Bex liked that. She wasn't really like that at all; she didn't try to plan things- she simply she couldn't help already having ideas about what she wanted to do with her life. However, she realised that the meticulous, structured attitude she sometimes had could be a bit annoying- even to Bex herself, which was why she didn't really enjoy mixing with people similar to her. "That's cool," she said with a smile. "You've got plenty of time, I suppose. What are you busy doing?" She wondered if Loanne had some sort of temporary job lined up or something, or maybe if this visit to Australia was one of many.

[Loanne Parker]

Loanne nodded her head, an attempt to show appreciation of Bex thinking what she did was cool. "I do have plenty of time, indeed," she admitted, laughing. It wasn't like she hadn't thought about her future at all. She knew that she loved Quidditch and that she loved music, so maybe doing something that involved either of that would be clever. But then again the German girl was somewhat glad that she wouldn't have to decide on one of the two things, or maybe something else, for another year now. "I'm traveling the world," Loanne said, as if it was the most normal thing in the world. It wasn't, but she'd gotten pretty used to telling people about it by now, and with her being a totally 'random' person it didn't seem like a big decision of any sort.

[Bex Montague-James]

"I like how you say it like it's just an everyday thing," Bex noted, smiling slightly. "'Oh, I'm just travelling the world,'" she said mimicking Loanne, but not unkindly. "Don't you think you’ll get lonely, travelling alone?" Bex was one of those people who, although she enjoyed hanging out with her friends and family, really needed a lot of her own space. If she was going to go travelling she would've been fine alone, once she'd gotten over the initial shock. However, most people she knew weren’t like this, and it seemed unusual that someone so young- Loanne might have been older than Bex, but only by a couple of years- would be comfortable visiting unknown places with nobody to accompany her.

[Loanne Parker]

Loanne grinned at the words Bex said, thinking that probably it was at least a little weird to say such things like they were nothing special. She, even as a mudblood, had heard about it being some sort of tradition for graduated witches and wizards to travel the world. It hadn't been the reason why she'd decided on doing it, but oh well. Maybe it wasn't quite as uncommon as everyone thought. Or claimed to think. Never trust no one, yao.

Loanne shrugged as the girl asked whether she thought she'd get lonely. "Nah, I don't think so. I am not really traveling alone, you know. Or well, I am traveling alone, but I'm meeting loads of new people. like you," she said and winked at Bex with a wide grin on her lips.

[Bex Montague-James]

"Yeah, I suppose that's true," Bex replied, laughing slightly. "Which other countries are you planning on- ? Oh, here it is." They had reached the café they'd been heading for. Bex pushed the door open and stepped inside, holding the door open for Loanne behind her.

[Loanne Parker]

"Well, I definitely want to go to the States. Apart from that, no idea. I guess I'll just decide randomly," Loanne said in reply to the brunette's question, shrugging her shoulders.

"Yeehaa," was her comment as she stepped into the café after Bex, smirking somewhat. She was honestly looking forward to a milkshake. So the girl went and chose a table for them, waving at a waitress straight away.

[Bex Montague-James]

"That sounds good," Bex replied. She'd never been to America before and had no particularly interest in doing so, but since everyone seemed to think it was so great, she thought she might give it a go sometime in the future.

She followed Loanne to the table and sat down next to her. "Will you order for us?" she asked as the waitress made her way over to them. She always felt rather uncomfortable in Muggle establishments, like she was going to make a serious a mistake or make a fool of herself. "I'll have a strawberry milkshake," she added helpfully.

[Loanne Parker]

"Yao, I can do that," Loanne replied as Bex asked whether she was going to order. When the waitress arrived at their table, the German girl showed her trademark mischievous smirk (which was totally unnecessary in this moment) and ordered Bex's strawberry milkshake and some weird banana-cherry-kiwi thingy for herself. It had looked good on the poster in the window, so why the hell not?

"And you are still in school, I suppose?" Loanne wasn't sure whether they'd already talked about this. They probably had, but hell, now they'd do it again. Didn't matter too much, did it?

[Bex Montague-James]

Bex nodded. "Yep," she replied. "I've just finished my fifth year, so I've still got two years to go." She said it with a sigh, and it was unclear whether she felt pleased about still being a student or not. She wasn't so sure herself. "It goes quickly, doesn't it?" she said thoughtfully.

[Loanne Parker]

"Aha," Loanne said simply as Bex told her she had just finished her fifth year. Oh, that had been a while ago for Loanne. She was yet to grow old enough to actually miss school. Sure, having your friends around all day for several years was cool, but this girl did not mind making new friends and was happy to have some freedom. She enjoyed being able to go just wherever the hell she wanted, and not having to care about anything or anyone.

"I guess it does, yeah," Loanne replied to the brunette's question, with a shrug of her shoulders. The German girl was not so sure whether she believed her schooling had gone quickly. Fun times had been fun, hard times had been hard. And time had passed at a speed that time was passing like. Did that make sense? Probably not. Good thing she was not saying these words, or Bex might be confused. "Just try to enjoy it," she then said with another shrug, smiling.

[Bex Montague-James]

Bex nodded at Loanne's words. "Yeah, I will," she said. It wasn't like she hadn't heard the same thing hundreds of times before, but coming from Loanne, she felt more inclined to actually listen than she did when her parents and teachers went on about how she should enjoy her school years.

[Loanne Parker]

"Good," Loanne concluded with a smirk on her lips, then she pulled her milkshake close to her and drank. Milkshakes were cool, definitely. "What do you do when you don't enjoy your schooling?" the freaky-looking girl then asked, meaning to find out what Bex was doing for fun purposes. After all, they had just talked about 'enjoying school time', right? So the choice of words made sense to Loanne, and hopefully it would to Bex.

[Bex Montague-James]

"Um..." Bex shrugged. "Well, nothing particularly interesting. I mean, at school I just hang out in the common room or wherever." She paused to take a slurp of milkshake, before continuing. "I like horse riding though, I have a horse at home," she said. Since she had no hobbies that would be considered exciting and she didn't enjoy sport, this was the only vaguely interesting thing she could think of.

[Loanne Parker]

Wasn't horse riding a sport? Well, Loanne sure thought it was. She was skeptical about chess being a sport, while some people swore it was, but horse riding definitely sounded like some sort of sport to her.

"That's cool," she said, nodding her head. "I prefer brooms over horses, but everyone's different there, right?" she asked, raising an eyebrow very slightly and chuckling a little.

[Bex Montague-James]

Bex nodded and smiled. "Yeah, I suppose so. Personally, I'm rubbish on a broom, I haven't got any balance or anything," she said. "Do you play Quidditch?" She didn't play herself, obviously, but she usually watched the school matches, and would very occasionally go and watch it with her parents.

[Loanne Parker]

"Absolutely, yeah," Loanne said proudly, in response to the Quidditch question. "But hey, what? If you don't have balance, how do you stay on the back of a horse?" Loanne asked and grinned a little, wondering if this was even possible at all.

[Bex Montague-James]

"Well...I don't know, that's different," Bex replied, shrugging. "I mean, horses are on the ground, it doesn't really take much work. For me, anyway. But having to stay up in the air on a broom, whilst trying to catch and throw a ball back and forth..." Bex smiled slightly. "Not really something I'm good at."

[Loanne Parker]

Loanne laughed a little when Bex didn't really seem able to explain the issue. "Well, I'm a Beater. I don't throw stuff. Well, usually," she added and grinned evilly, remebering the one time she'd thrown her bat at someone. Had gained the person quite a beautiful black eye.

The German girl slurped her milkshake and looked at the other girl across the table, her head tilted a little. "Then horse riding's probably quite different," she concluded, shrugged her shoulders and kept grinning.

[Bex Montague-James]

"Sounds scary," Bex muttered with a slight laugh. Obviously Bex didn't know Loanne very well, but she seemed like she had it in her to be a Beater. It probably wasn't for Bex though. She had good aim but she was also prone to a bad temper, and if there was ever someone on the opposing team who had pissed her off, it would probably result in them ending up in the hospital wing.
"Different, yeah," she nodded. "I think it's more common in the Muggle world, but...I dunno, I like horses I suppose."