Post by Franco Shackleford on Aug 2, 2012 22:33:04 GMT -8
December 25th, 2:01 pm
Name:
Age: 22
Blood: Half
Occasion:
Time and Place: Christmas Day
Tell Us About Yourself: Not much to tell, really.
Special Notes:
That was what he'd written on the card for Madame Scagliotti's Elite Escort Agency, the one he'd picked up from there only a few days before. He still couldn't believe he was doing this, but ever since he'd seen the ad in the Prophet a few months before, he'd been unable to keep the idea out of his head. The idea of just... talking, with a pretty girl no less, was something he couldn't even conceive of; usually, he was the one that listened, not the one that talked.
Still, after cutting out the ad and carrying it around with him all that time, Pip had finally gotten up the nerve to make an appointment. The young Irishman has struggled over the form they'd given him, trying to figure out what in the world to put on the bloody thing. "Tell Us About Yourself" for Merlin's sake! He couldn't very well go telling these ladies he didn't know about his job as a thief, now could he?
He'd sent the thing off the morning after he'd picked it up, heavily crossed out and written in the untidy scrawl of a nervous man. And now here he was, standing in Hyde Park, dressed to keep the cold out and staring down at the frozen water beneath the bridge. His nose felt frozen, but at least the top of his head was warm, under his ever-present hat.
He only hoped he wouldn't have to stand here alone long...