Why do women always do that? he wondered as he watched Hecate sit down. Why? He quickly averted his eyes by looking down at the floor and scratching the top of his head.

Focus.

"I want each of you to calmly tell me why you were making spectacles of yourselves in front of the entire student population," Max demanded as he took his position at the end of the coffee table (so that he was in between the two feuding ladies) and he folded his arms.