SPOILER!!: what? you want more? Kurumi breaking things and whatnot? :P
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Lockhartian 
At her question his eyes decided to stay on the girl with the violet eyes. The letter. The one Arya had read before he even had the chance to know it existed. It'd probably crush her if she found out that he'd left the box of cupcakes at the table and Arya had been the one to take them with her, so, he left that part out, it's not like Kurumi's question involved that tiny part.
Tiny, yet important part.
"I did." But at the time, he hadn't been too at ease with its contents. "I understand why you may not look up to me anymore, though," that was the last thing she wrote, that he was someone she could look up to, at least back then. "True friends don't react the way I did...that's what I'm apologizing for," he let her down, but she was a stronger Kurumi because of that, right? Like he was a stronger Treyen...that couldn't face his fears? That wasn't right. Er, any way...
He noticed. Her eyes. Yet he failed to act on the watery part because she started to speak again, and his brows got together in a frown. Wrong, Kurumi, you got it wrong. "I made it very clear that it's not because you don't meet my standards--you know what? That part doesn't even matter anymore because I've never said I kissed you." Which was oh-so-completely true....to an extent.
Treyen sighed and let his body fell on the chair he'd been seated before Kurumi arrived, eyes NOT on Kurumi.
Bold. He'll be.
"I thought it was you, though," he started to say, and laid eyes on the Gryffindor, "Yet I recently found out that it had been Sierra, instead," he had to say it all at once, "But for the few months that I actually thought it was you, I only told Arya. No one else, just her. I did tell Ellie I'd kissed someone else, but I never mentioned a name back then," not even to Neptune Bott, the nicest Ravenclaw girl he's met and one he was starting to miss oh-so-dearly.
A small smile tickled the corners of her lips. He HAD read the letter, at least that was something. It didn't really matter at what point in time he had read it, what was important was that he had. After all, it had taken a lot for the little Gryffindor to put all those thoughts into words and even more courage to actually hand it to him. She had chickened out several times.
"
No...I suppose they wouldn't," she said softly. Was he saying that he wasn't even her friend anymore? She was so confused now. He was apologizing, but was that just so that he could move on with a clean slate? Kurumi thought she had moved on, but it was clear to her now that she hadn't. If anything, she was feeling even worse.
Her eyes widened at his next comment. Maybe that bit didn't matter to him, but it did to her. At least, she thought that it mattered. All her life she hadn't lived up to people's standard. Why did everyone think she studied so hard? She felt like she had to prove herself.
But her thoughts were dismissed for the moment as he continued. "
You thought it was me?" she said, folding her arms. Did Treyen need glasses or something? But then she gasped. "
P-P-P-Polyjuice potion?" She suddenly felt sick to her stomach. So THAT was why Sierra had wanted to be her partner? To get close to Treyen? Kurumi's entire body hunched over and it looked as though she were going to collapse to the floor. She had been so kind to Sierra over the summer, welcomed her into her own home, kept her secret...had she know that she had been harboring such a person...she might have handled things differently.
Still...that didn't change one very BIG fact. Treyen had kissed her. Well, he had kissed Kurumi, even if he hadn't know that it wasn't really her. He had done it. Her heart pounded in her chest.
"
W-W-Why?" she finally managed to squeak out.