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[23 May 2013|03:23am] |
Walden was excited. Maybe his mother and gran hadn't come to visit him like Dudley's, but they had sent him a care package in the post. He knew some of what to expect -- vegan chocolate and some cat treats for Winky, maybe a few shirts and things -- but still. He'd never gotten post at his own flat before. He walked into the flat from picking his mail up. Walden was a morning person so nobody else was up yet, besides the cats. He let Loras pounce on him when he walked into the kitchen, getting out a couple treats to distract him with. "You really are a little princess of a kitten, aren't you?" he asked, grinning down at him and scratching him behind the ears. "Let me open my very first package."
Part of him wanted to wait until Pyxis and Dudley woke up so they could see too, but that would be a bit too much like showing off and also he wasn't sure he could wait that long. "Sometimes the simple things in life are the best," he informed Loras, who wasn't really paying any attention to him now that he had his treats. Walden was used to the fickle way of cats though. He fished a knife out of the drawer and slit the tape sealing the box. Another reason he didn't want to wait until Pyxis and Dudley woke up was that he didn't really want to know whether they'd slept together again the night before or not. He'd had music on when he fell asleep to try and block out any potential sounds. He should call Romy and try and get her to spend the night again. Maybe the weekend before the summer was over. Walden really, really wanted to just... be friends with Pyxis. Be good to her. Good for her. She deserved to have a friend who ddin't have ulterior motives.
And Dudley was his best friend. Dudley deserved a girlfriend like Pyxis and Pyxis deserved a boyfriend like Dudley. They were both good people with good hearts who Walden could hurt and he was a vegetarian becoming a vegan because he didn't want to hurt anybody. Especially not the people he cared about.
He put the knife away, going through the things his mother and gran had sent him. Shirts, some pants for wearing around the house, some cat treats and vegan treats. Plus, lots and lots of pictures of the cats, each with a report on how the cats were doing on the back of it. He had to teach his gran how to use the internet better so she didn't always have to go get her pictures developed. Walden was looking around for the letter he was sure they'd sent him along with everything else when he found another, different envelope.
Walden pulled two tickets out of the envelope, hands trembling as he looked down at them. A note fell out from between them, onto the counter, and he picked it up, looking down at his mother's handwriting.
Dear Wallie,
A present to let you know your gran and I are proud of you for getting in to school and we didn't listen to a word the Dursleys said about you and Pyxis. Have a lovely time.
Love, Mum
Walden looked between the note and the tickets again. Two tickets. To the NoWhere festival in Spain. In a week. His mother was sending him to Spain. To the NoWhere festival. Walden laughed, picking Loras up and giving the offended kitten a big kiss. He heard a sound in the doorway, looking up at Pyxis, sleepy and ruffled in an over-sized t-shirt. She looked so pretty and he was so happy and he just... "Do you want to come to Spain with me?" he asked her, holding the tickets up. "To the NoWhere festival?" He didn't think about it before hand. He just did what felt right. Damn the consequences.
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