Emily

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Emily,

We did it.

This is just to inform you that dinner with Jack went well.

Love, Aislinn.

PS. We then proceeded to shag all night, and ate our pudding for breakfast.

[Emily Marsdon]

Aislinn, m'love,

Oh, I'm so glad, darling.

Love, Emily

PS - Excellent news! Now, I'm going to do it once and ONLY once - ABOUT FUCKING GODDAMN TIME. That's the end of my gloating. Promise. Now run off and have fun with your pet Head of Gryffindor.

PPS - How do you go about asking your boyfriend if he wants to set a date or leave it a bit longer, without making it look like you actually care what his answer is?

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Emily,

Ha. Will do... I'll spare you the details.

Aislinn xxx

PS.- Get very drunk, have sex, then say "What about this wedding lark then?" Or just ask him normally, it's Digger!

[Emily Marsdon]

Aislinn,

Well, I would demand details, but it's okay, I can fill them in in my head. And I don't think I really need to ask if it was good or bad. Pudding for breakfast kind of answers that, although pudding in bed between bouts would have been more my style. Or pudding on bodies, depending on what kind of pudding we're talking about. Licking apple crumble off someone seems weird and not really that sexy.

See, that would be a good idea, except that when I get drunk and have sex, I tend to forget all about the wedding lark until I'm sober again. And I know it's only Digger, but he gets hung up on weird things sometimes (he won't have sex with me if I'm drunk and he's sober, for example) and I don't want him to end up thinking that I mind what we do... Because, like, I really want to marry him, but I don't really care when. I just feel like there's not that much point in getting engaged and then just carrying on for ages as if you're not engaged...

Why am I overthinking this so much? I never overthink. I underthink. What's wrong with me?

Love, Emily xxx

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Emily,

Please don't - if you get them right, I shan't be able to look you in the eye at breakfast next term. We had all the pudding, not leftover pudding, because we didn't make it through dinner - I'll give you that much, so definitely good. I don't like crumbs in bed, so I'm glad we didn't. And it was lemon meringue, so maybe not the best for that. Although I've never actually tried licking food off of someone, so I can't actually say for sure.

Just ask him. Sit down and say what you've just told me. He's not going to freak out about it, it's not like it's a major thing! Just marriage. For the rest of your lives. I don't know, are you pregnant? (I'm joking!)

Are you going to change your name when you get married?

Love, Aislinn xx

[Emily Marsdon]

Aislinn,

But you'll never know, because I won't tell you. (It's okay, I'm not really spending my spare time imagining what it's like when you guys have sex - I have my own sex life to fantasise about, thanks.) Hm, well meringue is pretty messy at the best of times, so maybe better that you didn't bring it to bed, though I probably wouldn't have thought of that until afterwards to be quite honest. This is why you're the Ravenclaw. And really, never? You should, it's brilliant. I'm sure Jack would love it.

Okay, okay. Though you say it like it's easy just to DO something you want to do. I can tell you one thing, it's not going to take me two years to build my courage up to this. Also, it is kind of a major thing when you think about it, which I try not to. No, I'm not pregnant. At least, I don't think I am. I mean, I haven't checked, but I've sort of assumed not. My birth control generally works.

I don't know, I haven't thought about it. Probably? That's the usual thing to do, isn't it? Except that then there'll be two Professor Powells. That'll be confusing.

Love, Emily xxx

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Em,

I'm very glad to hear it! No never, it just seems like poor food hygiene. And I bet the sheets get terribly sticky. Although now that I'm going out with a Gryffndor shagging a Gryffindor I don't know what I'm actually doing with the Gryffindor maybe it's something to bear in mind.

We weren't building up our courage, we were just busy avoiding each other doing important teacher-y things. And his mother died, remember. It's very easy and you know it. You could write a note and just hold it up if you're nervous you wouldn't actually say it, although that would make you look stupid, you could probably carry it off as adorable.

Well, it's the usual thing, but you don't have to. You could hyphenate it, Professor Marsdon-Powell, or Professor Powell-Marsdon, even. Or keep your maiden name for work, that's what my mum did.

Love, Aislinn xx

[Emily Marsdon]

Aislinn (is there any way of shortening your name, or do you get offended if people call you Ais?),

Poor food hygiene? Are you serious? Come on, if you approach sex in that mindset, it all sounds gross. Do you refuse to put your mouth near his body in case you catch something? Definitely bear it in mind. If you want, I can tactfully find out what he'd think about it for you?

Don't be ridiculous.

Okay. I can do this. If we fix a date though, I'll actually have to plan a wedding and it'll all be real. Holy shit.

Too many options. Too complicated. And Marsdon-Powell sounds poncy. What on earth would we call the kids? I'll ask Digger what he thinks. I'll probably just be Powell though.

Love, Em xxx

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Aislinn's name is pronounced wrong - ie. not gaelic, so Ay/Eye-linn, not Ash-lin. I didn't like Ash-lin, but the name looked pretty, so....
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Urm, well, theoretically I guess it's shortenable. But Ais is a pretty weird one! Mum used to call me Linnie. But yeah, I don't mind.

It is all gross,when you think about it. He's a very clean person, so it's fine. DON'T YOU DARE. We can sort out how to fuck this up ourselves, thank-you very much! (I've had half a bottle of wine. My alcohol tolerance is decreasing I swear.)

You'll be fine. And I can help with planning if you're really that hopeless, but I think it'll be easier than you think. Come on, Emily - we've done day trips with second years, you can do anything!

Lots of love, Aislinn xx
(or Ais)

[Emily Marsdon]

((OOC - Aw, damn, Ellie told me you pronounced it Ace-linn, haha. Blame her. But it's whatever, Em can be suggesting calling her Eye, that's fine. ))

Okay, Ais it is. When I'm writing anyway. It doesn't look as odd as it sounds.

Well then, where's the issue? You're only putting the food on him, so if he's clean, not a problem. You're not licking things off the floor.

Please can I? I love making him awkward, it's hilarious - also revenge for all the times he's made fun of me. Drunk Aislinn? Why am I not there? Are you drinking by yourself, or?

I really am that hopeless. Part of me just wants to tell everyone the dress code is casual and the meal is pot-luck and the alcohol is bring-your-own. But then part of me (a very small part, but it's growing slightly and I haven't told Digger because he'll laugh at me) kind of wants a big white dress and a cake and lots of flowers. I don't know where this part of me came from because it wasn't there when he proposed.

Love, Emily xxx

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

I think the 's' sound is there, but it's very small. So Ace would work. I know this doesn't make sense, I'm crap at explaining pronunciations. But she's Glaswegian if that gives you a clue to the accent I'm pronouncing it in. kind of like AYsLINN. As in the s has no emphasis on it, so you kind of gloss over it? But it's not aySLinn. Am I making any sense? In the future, my characters are just all going to be called Margaret...
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Em,

That is a very good point. Your logic is wonderful, maybe you should have been in Ravenclaw after all...

No, no you cannot. I am his friend, so it is my duty to be nice and stick up for him. When's he made fun of you? Because that divides my loyalties somewhat, which might be a problem. I think I'm best to stay out of this one..

I'm not drunk, and my cat is here. I don't know why you're not here! Come, and you can sit on my sofa and we can panic about sex and marriage and everything and then you'll feel better about it all!

Lots of love, Aislinn xxx

[Emily Marsdon]

((OOC - No, I think I know what you mean, haha. Because I know the Glaswegian accent, so I can kind of hear it... Emily has a North London accent though, so she's probably saying it Ice lolol.))

Ais,

I'm not sensible enough to be a Ravenclaw. I never was. Ravenclaws don't do things like streak through the boys' Quidditch changing rooms.

"Friend"?

He always makes fun of me. Or he tries to - it doesn't work too well, because I have no shame. He thinks that things like referencing how often Digger and I sleep together is going to embarrass me or something, whereas actually, I'm quite proud of it.

Yes yes, you stay out of it and I'll talk to him. I just wrote to him actually.

You can panic about sex. I don't do that. But coming over sounds lovely, cat lady. Was that a serious invitation?

Love, Em xxx

[Aislinn MacElfrish]

Emily,

I wouldn't bet on that... Some of them are daft, they just tend to be better planners, and therefore hide it better than Gryffindors.

Oh nooooooo. What did you say?! No, actually. Don't tell me. I know nothing about anything.

Yes, definitely a serious invite! You know where I live, right?

Love, Aislinn xxx