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[vavavati]

Every day it seems less and less like a mean joke. I really really don't want to move.

Happy birthday to me, I guess. Excuse me while I bury myself in a pint of ice cream.

Comments

[ginerate]

Wait, what? Where are you moving?

[vavavati]

India. Maybe. Probably.

[ginerate]

India! Really? Why?

Ginny/Parvati

[vavavati]

I guess Padma didn't put you on the previous filter.

Uncle's made a mess of our family business and Mum wants me and Padma to move down there with us. It's an absolutely horrid situation.

[misparked]

Happy birthday to poor ickle Parvati.

[vavavati]

I don't want you wishing me a happy birthday you little Why, thank you dear Pansy. It is so kind of you to wish me so. Now go jump off a cliff.

[misparked]

I know.

[east_ender]

Save the ice cream for later, Patil. Let me take you girls out for a drink.

[vavavati]

Yes please. That would be wonderful.

[east_ender]

Hope the Leaky's alright since I get them half price

[vavavati]

The Leaky is perfect.

[vavavati]

Right now I'm just hoping for tolerable.

[fetchingly]

This probably won't help much right now, but all the same, Happy Birthday to both you and Padma. I'm sorry everything else had to come at the same time.

PRIVATE TO PARVATI PATIL.
Have the two of you decided on any offers to stay here yet? Or is India still what's going to happen now?

[vavavati]

Well, thank you.

PRIVATE TO JUSTIN FNICH-FLETCHLEY
Padma's still saying she doesn'τ want to accept any charity.

[fetchingly]

You're quite welcome.

PRIVATE TO PARVATI PATIL.
Understandable. I wouldn't want any either myself, but -- You sure she can't be convinced to think of it as friends trying to help rather than treating her like a charity case? Is that really so much worse than having to go to India if you don't want to?