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Mad Eye Touz 
Neptune stroked the little golden ball and its wings fluttered at her touch. It hadn't been very lucky at all so she shoved it back into her pocket.
...Jake REALLY didn't want to show Neptune his injuries, right? She thought about asking AGAIN, but maybe he REALLY didn't want her to see. She had no idea why.
Nod. NodNod. "Yeah.... yeah, but it was ..." complicated, but she'd already said that. And it still WAS complicated. "... I wasn't very good at it. And he wasn't either. I told you I wasn't good at being a girlfriend." She HAD told him she wasn't a good girlfriend. Though she supposed she'd gotten better. "We broke up and now we're trying to be friends."
Friendship was ... also complicated.
Jake nodded at Neptune, not looking at the snitch. He'd seen plenty in his day, and they were his now. Even the solitary broken wing of the one from his first match. WHERE they were was another matter entirely.
"Do you miss him? As a boyfriend, I mean," Jake asked. It was just something he'd want to know, and that would be it. "That's my last question, I promise."
He gave her a little smile and looked down at his shirt, reaching down and raising the hem higher to take a look at his ribs, which were already bruising slightly on the right.
Great.
He dropped the hem of the shirt again, but he wasn't sure about letting Neptune see his head; it was quite tender.