Early Evening
Hericho Household
Devon

Akira squirmed over the couch, she had invited Tim over for a sleepover, she was enjoying it so far, despite her sisters attempts to ruin it, at first it was the awkwardness of meeting her family, then her sister tried to tease and make fun of her infront of Tim, it was annoying but at the very least it made sure the rest of the evening couldn't be that bad, after all her older sister had stopped the jokes and comments on Akira and her dating, as if her big sister was much better, atleast Akira had a boyfriend and wasn't just going to bars hoping to find someone to date.

However her mother had told her off, and now they'd both basically wandered off to give the two space, Akira was happy about it and was hoping it wasn't too strange for Tim to be in a house with basically no magic anywhere, her own magical stuff was up in her room that was surprisingly tidy, she'd packed away her clothing instead of leaving it on the floor, along with tidying the various books up and having them stacked, so it was cluttered but not messy.

Now it was the evening and pizzas had been prepared, Akira had placed them on the table infront of the couch before she sat down, her own was Ham and Pineapple as it was the best toppings, along with the sweetness of the pineapple. There was two bowls of Popcorn of mixed sweet and salted, the tv and DVD player had been set up so that she could show Tim some of the movies she enjoyed, she wasn't sure if he'd actually ever watched a movie, but if not she hoped he enjoyed it.

"I hope my sister hasn't freaked you out." She said softly as she kicked her feet up onto the couch cushion, by now she'd dressed up fully comfortable in pink pajama pants and a white t-shirt, she'd brought down blankets for them to keep warm, a soft smile on her face as she looked over at Tim.

"What movie do you want to try first? I've got a few good ones you may like, oooor we got Twilight! The final movie is out in November!" She hated that she wasn't going to be able to watch it in Cinemas...unless her mum could pick her up for a quick weekend excursion to watch it...

“I hope my sister hasn’t freaked you out.”
“I’m used to it, what with my cousins,” Tim had three close cousins - Theta, Zeta and Eta. Akira knew Zeta and Eta as they were still at school in Hufflepuff. They were both quite intense personalities, and much like sisters to him.

Tim was carefully creasing a slice of pepperoni pizza to enjoy. He was sat cross-legged beside her on the couch in t-shirt and shorts, barefoot. The Hericho house was homely, but very muggle. It wasn’t a world away from what Tim had grown up around, before they’d moved into his step mother’s place in Wiltshire. While they’d never really owned a television, Tim had seen plenty of television growing up and hanging out with Muggle friends from primary school in Biggleswade. They all just thought he went to boarding school.

“What’s Twilight?” He asked, having not been to the cinema in a while with the move. “Oh hang on, is that the one you were talking about the other day… with vampires?”

She was deeply relieved that her sister hadn't scared Tim off, although he made an excellent point with his cousins, Zeta seemed very...proactive in everything, she always had something to go and do, it almost made her wonder if the girl ever took a break, or atleast from the amount of SAWS stuff at school, thought she could be very wrong on the front, she liked to believe Tim was the mastermind being the Ravenclaw and all.

Then she nodded enthusiastically. "Yes! Its an amazing love story! Although..." She looked down briefly and gave an awkward cough. "I uh...hear boys don't tend to like it...but I have a big selection anyway! I hear boys like Top Gun or something?" She didn't want to scare him away from watching Twilight obviously, she'd love for him to love it, after all she couldn't figure out why anyone wouldn't like it? Edward was so passionate and caring, and Jacob was dreamy, but apparently some people just hated quality movie making and as such, they must just hate movies.

She wanted Tim to enjoy the time over, and as guest of course he had the honor of choosing the movie!

Gently Akira placed a fabric carrying case onto the couch and opened it, inside was her selections of movies, who needed the boxes really when you could carry them all in one of these?

“Top gun?” Tim echoed, wondering why someone would make a film about their selection of muggle weapon. “I mean, I’m happy watching what you love - I might like it too after all.”

He received the muggle carrying case, full of little flat circles which Muggles printed films onto. Passing Sucker Punch, he paused on Troll Hunter[1] and looked up to Akira quizzically.

“They haven’t filmed like, actual trolls have they?” He asked, confused.

1.	Released in Aug 2011 Troll Hunter (2010)

Akira shook her head at the question, she knew that they weren't real Trolls but it was a valid question, come to think of it, it was rather disturbing that they would have so many movies about hunting dragons and trolls, infact she was glad her mother and sister spoke to her about the movie Eragon and corrected her on the topic of dragons after she had watched it and kept begging for a dragon at her birthday. She was not happy at not receiving an egg, she understood however that many poor young Wix may not have the same experience.

"No, I don't think you can get magical creatures on camera anyway? They sadly don't have real vampires on Twilight, they can't be caught in mirrors though so on film makes sense also." She nodded gently as she went to put in the DVD to play.

Once it was in she jumped back onto the couch and leaned onto Tim, giving a gentle smile.

"I hope you do like the movie, but if you don't just tell me and we can change it." She said in a more caring tone, she wanted him to have a good time! Even if she might feel personally insulted at him not loving the best movie franchise of all time.