Ben let his gaze wander along the nearest edge of the table as he answered. "Just after I turned eighteen. It was October of the year I graduated Hogwarts. They were visiting this construction site for a new house in Hogsmeade and the frame collapsed on top of them. That's why I quit Quidditch," he volunteered. "They, uh, didn't really approve of my playing professionally, so I guess I felt guilty about it after they were gone."
He wasn't sure if he should ask any sort of follow-up when she answered the question on the next card. On the one hand, he was curious, but he wasn't sure it was something Melody wanted to talk about — or something that he particularly wanted to know, moving forward. It would just make things awkward if he ran into that bloke afterwards, knowing Melody had fancied him before. If they were still on friendly terms, though, did that mean Ben would be expected to befriend him, too? Was this the sort of thing that married people talked about?
He decided not to ask. He took so long thinking about it and considering the next card to play, however, that he almost forgot he needed to answer it himself. "Oh, uh. Yeah, sure. When I was living in America, I worked on this farm with this family and one of the daughters was... I don't know how old, but the right sort of age, I guess. We kissed before I left. She spent some time in Britain later, so we've talked some. That's it."
On to his card, then. He had three in his hand, including the one that he'd just drawn in response to her last turn. He had two potential options, one of which was about sex (he hadn't remembered how prevalent those types of cards were, but it made sense given where he'd encountered the game — bawdy humor was the norm in most of these grungy bars), but the other seemed relatively tame.
What's the last thing you researched at a library? he played, a blue diamond. "Monsters. Jewell wanted to make a new line of liquors and we were looking for naming inspiration."
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He wasn't sure if he should ask any sort of follow-up when she answered the question on the next card. On the one hand, he was curious, but he wasn't sure it was something Melody wanted to talk about — or something that he particularly wanted to know, moving forward. It would just make things awkward if he ran into that bloke afterwards, knowing Melody had fancied him before. If they were still on friendly terms, though, did that mean Ben would be expected to befriend him, too? Was this the sort of thing that married people talked about?
He decided not to ask. He took so long thinking about it and considering the next card to play, however, that he almost forgot he needed to answer it himself. "Oh, uh. Yeah, sure. When I was living in America, I worked on this farm with this family and one of the daughters was... I don't know how old, but the right sort of age, I guess. We kissed before I left. She spent some time in Britain later, so we've talked some. That's it."
On to his card, then. He had three in his hand, including the one that he'd just drawn in response to her last turn. He had two potential options, one of which was about sex (he hadn't remembered how prevalent those types of cards were, but it made sense given where he'd encountered the game — bawdy humor was the norm in most of these grungy bars), but the other seemed relatively tame.
What's the last thing you researched at a library? he played, a blue diamond. "Monsters. Jewell wanted to make a new line of liquors and we were looking for naming inspiration."
MJ made this <3