 Lando <3 Fortress of Brilliance ღ Mommy Quad
Kneeling to pat Koala on the head, Katie glanced up at Orlando as she left one of the bottles slip from under her arm, glad that it was just the lanky Gryffindor lion and it hadn't honestly begun to slip; though she wouldn't have known how it could have. Not only was his response the same as it had been since the beginning of term when she had broken the news to him, but he was avoiding direct eye contact. That wasn't unusual lately either, it just wasn't.. good.
When he returned her question, Katie didn't say anything and pulled herself upright again, the other bottle still in hand. As Lando spoke up, her eyebrows raised a bit. His vague response had led her to believe he was going to make takling difficult, but here he was, finally opening up and really talking to her for the first time in months. All it took was for Legend's name to come up, and her dark eyes shifted onto the bottle she held, fixed on the itty bitty bubbles that swam inside the buttbeer, clinging to the sides of the clear surface.
Finally, when he had finished and silence had fallen for a moment, Katie looked back up to meet his gaze. "You know, since as far back as we all became friends, I always had a rule about no dating within our group because it would affect us all. If something were to happen, if two friends broke up, it would leave us all at odds." She explained in the same quiet tone as before, offering a weak smile at the end. It was obvious, she had broken her own rules and what was worse was she had been right all along. It had affected the others too. Orlando did have a reason to be upset, Katie understood why he was. It was the same reason she would have been, had it been the other way around. "I don't want things to be awkward between us either. It did happen," Katie agreed, looking down for a moment as she took a deep breath. Her eyes, however, did not return to his. "And I'm sorry you were left in the middle of it. I knew better.." Trailing off, she shook her head. It didn't even matter now.
Now she was the one subtly avoiding his eyes, her face turned to the side and gaze wandering toward the stables occupying baby abraxans, her hands spinning the bottle around slowly, absently. It was all she could do to keep a nuetral expression on her face, to keep trying to calm the battle raging within her mind and heart, and to fight the tears from forming; She couldn't drop her guard, couldn't allow it. Katie had to be strong, and simply let it go. If she kept this up, she would end up with another visit to a professors office, concerned about her education or her behavior, or both. Like last term. That wasn't an option.
He wanted them to figure stuff out. The seventh year gave a small nod of her curly-haired head. "We already have," she murmured, "Legend suggested we forget about everything that happened between us and go back to being friends.. and I agreed." Katie gave a slight, helpless shrug of her shoulders as her dark eyes finally looked to Lando, only for a moment, and then gazed down to find Koala. Or just avoid Lando's gaze again. If she didn't, it was very likely she was going to cry. "Want to.. feed an abraxan now?" She gestured vaguely toward the multiple stable doors.
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I love you all,
Class dismissed.
Last edited by D.A Forever; 06-06-2011 at 02:38 AM.
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