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LunaLovegood5 
Jack nodded, "losing people can do that too." He said resentfully, thinking of his father. Maybe she was right. Maybe when he went to Hogwarts there would be something magically miraculous happen to him and he would forevermore live a life of joy and ease.
As if.
His body was so tense at this point he flinched when Kurumi touched his shoulder. He hadn't meant to. "Sorry," He said apologetically, but didn't explain his tensity, so instead relaxed.
Just as he had gotten his heart to beat a little slower, his eyes to flash a little less, his mind to be a little less cautious, Kurumi's next words brought it all back again. "I'm fine." He said, but he didn't look at her. His head was firmly straight, his grey eyes firmly fixed on a cloud in the distance.
Kurumi wasn't sure if his comment had been said so that she could hear it, or if he was more talking to himself. Either way, Kurumi's ears had caught it and she looked down at the ground for a few moments. Had she said something wrong to upset him? "
The ones that leave us are never really gone you know," she said, not sure where the words were coming from. "
At least, the effect of knowing them doesn't." She turned her back to the flying brooms for a moment to give him her full attention. "
I don't know what all you have been through, and it is probably a lot," her eyes momentarily flicked towards the scars on his face. "
But, I've lost many people. Best friends, people who I thought I could trust. They left me because of who I am..." She frowned. "
But...if I have learned anything it is this: you can't let the pain of loss prevent you from seeing what is right in front of you."
Kurumi almost laughed at herself. It sounded like something you would find on the inside of a fortune cookie.