Originally Posted by Gryffindoll

Braeden raised his eyebrows slightly as Caroline shared with him that she'd been getting along with her mum. He wasn't completely, entirely familiar with that side of Caroline's personal life, of course, but he remembered the things she'd told him the last term about her relationship with her mother and it had sort of given the boy an idea of what that was like. He was glad to hear things between the girl and her mother were going well, though. He hoped they would continue to go well.

As Caroline mentioned something about a Carter character, Brae's dark eyebrows furrowed slightly. He was just about to ask the girl who she was talking about (assuming she'd been talking about a new pet or something), when the girl went on to clarify that this was the name of her boyfriend. Oh. Oohhhh! Braeden's eyebrows raised now in surprise. No wonder he'd barely seen Caroline through the last half of the term!

Braeden smiled and nodded his head slightly as Caroline explained how unusually accepting her mother had been of her daughter's new boyfriend. "I'm glad to see everything's been going good for you, Car," he said. She'd been a good friend to him, she deserved to be happy. "And congratulations on finding Mr. Right," he added a little more teasingly this time, nudging the girl playfully. "I can't believe I was so behind on news," he said, shaking his head slightly. Sheesh. Where had he been all this time, living under a rock?! He'd been so distracted with the sad news of Deus's graduation last term, that he'd kind of forgotten about the rest of the world.