hit the lights (DANNI)

[Karina Bass]

Karina was absolutely positive that she'd been given permission to stay over at Danni's house this Saturday night. She didn't usually need to ask permission to go over, because her mom already knew Danni's (Karina wasn't entirely sure how, but she had long before gotten used to that fact that Bass family somehow knew everybody). Besides, Danni and Karina had been having slumber parties for years now. But when she'd so kindly informed her mother of her future absence on Thursday night, her mother had told her that she'd have to see because there was some sort of gala happening at one of her friend's cousin's manor and since Karina was of age now, she was obligated to tag along. Of course, upon finding out, Karina had promptly written to Danni, informing her that she'd be there at the earliest possible on Saturday evening, so that they'd have quite a bit of time to spend together. She'd assumed that she'd be allowed to go since she almost always got what she wanted. But then Saturday morning had rolled around and her mother had left a brilliant, emerald color dress robe on Karina's closet door as a reminder of what she had to wear that night and she'd been shocked. She wasn't going to cancel on Danni. That was so rude! So, after an entire day of begging and pleading, she found herself in her room. The clock said it was almost five thirty in the evening, and she'd told Danni she'd be there at five forty-five at the latest. Her bag for the night was already packed, her more comfortable ensemble put on. Of course, with her love for fashionable clothes, it only meant a pair of designer jeans and a classy shirt instead of a dress. She'd packed an emergency set of evening wear in case they came up with a crazy idea to go out somewhere (it marveled her how often people thought she was impromptu and random when clearly she was well prepared for this kind of stuff).

A knock sounded on her door and she jumped up to open it, finding her mother on the other side, ready to leave for her pre-ball cocktail party (or something), and a familiar expression on her face. Karina knew that expression all too well. It was an expression of giving up trying to make her stubborn daughter understand. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mum," she squealed, throwing her arms around her mother in a quick hug, pressing a kiss to her cheekbone and then grabbing her bag before running down the stairs. Shouting a quick goodbye to everybody who was there in the house, she walked out of the house, till the border where the protection enchantment ended and then Apparated to the Oberlin household.

Smiling up at the familiar home, she hurriedly went to the door and knocked on it. It wasn't Danni who opened it, which made Karina feel a wee bit bad about making her mother open the door instead. "Hullo," she smiled at the woman she'd come to know over the years, who obviously seemed to be expecting her and informed her, smiling, that Danni was in her room. Navigating her way to Danni's and hoping she wouldn't run into Devyn (she didn't mind a challenging conversation now and then, but she didn't think the Slytherin girl would be pleased to see her now), she made her way to Danni's room, knocked once and them threw the door open.

"Your queen has arrived," she announced regally, dropping her bag at the foot of the bed and taking her seat upon it.

((ooc: i hope this is ok omg?!))

[Danni Oberlin]

Danni had spent the vast majority of the day sprawled on a rug in the garden in a crop top and a pair of shorts, desperately trying to get a tan. It had been an impossibly lazy day, sipping lemonade and listening to a selection of songs that always helped to chill her out. She didn't feel pressed to do anything much, because her best mate Karina was arriving that evening for a girly night. Danni had all of the essentials; the cutest onesie in her repertoire, enough food to fill a small army, a whole host of romantic comedies and tear-jerkers, and a bottle or two of firewhiskey. Not that alcohol was her absolute favourite, but she quite liked a drink or two in a casual situation. Once she had decided that enough was enough on the sunbathing front, she'd hitched her sunglasses up on top of her head, ambled back into the house and made her way up to the shower, dedicating herself to smelling less disgusting and using up a quarter of a vat of mango-flavoured body butter.

When her best mate barreled into her room, Danni was lounging on her bed, already having changed into her onesie (although, due to the ridiculous heat of the summer, she knew she'd swap it for pajama shorts as soon as possible). Grinning at Karina's exceptional entrance, she threw her feet onto the blonde's lap once she had sat herself down on the bed, saying cheerily, "When did we decide you were Queen? I thought that was my title?"

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ooc. it was fab!! this is so shit i apologize!!