Now directly looking down at the floor instead of the faces of his friends for some certain reasons, Josh only listened to their words though his mind was mostly focused on Evelyn and that she was no more. So while the two Gryffindors exchanged those words about him being banned from the match or probably from all Slytherin matches, the boy was thinking what he was going to do now. That how he was going to carry on his life, perhaps lonely forever he could all dedicate himself to the job he was going to do or maybe even classes so at least his mother would be happy about it.

Yet when he heard Carter explaining him that Evelyn was going to be fine, the lion boy looked up at him for one second with empty, emotionless dark brown eyes before staring down at the floor and Simon's feet again. That was a very weak attempt to relieve him or to calm him down. Yet, he tried and that was something good, was not it? He had punched him after all and he was still being good to him so Josh thought he had to appreciate that effort. Gah. Now he wanted to kick or/and break something. Not Carter though nor anyone else, just something.

And Simon was talking to him again...was he asking him to trust him? Why was Josh feeling like he had no one to trust now though he knew Simon? Maybe it was because Lafay had burned his gifts, then this had happened and then he heard that Si had thought of banning him. Or he just thought he himself did not deserve the captain's trustworthyness since he had failed to act for his. Yet on the other hand what he was saying sounded really reasonable. People would not have continued the game or would not have celebrated the win if she were dead...gone, would they? Then probably Carter was right with his words as well.

Feeling the relief of this some, this time he looked up at his teammates and blinked a couple of times in confusion. Emotions and thoughs were all mixed in him. He did not know what to believe or how to fell so he just stared at the other two boys rather blankly. This look turned into a little bit of a surprised one when Simon said he was going to free him. Now he trusted him again though he had proved his unpredictable status? It looked like he did.

When the captain freed him from the body-binding curse, Josh took a deep breath and nodded as a thanks to him right before staring at Carter.

*stare*

''Does it hurt?''