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Even though she tried to hide it from him, a tiny frown flickered on Stella's face as Matt's attention went back to his books. She'd said she understood his focus on studying, and that she was willing to help, but in the same respect she couldn't help but feel a little slighted by the moment. And at least he'd still replied to her about Runes, which appeased her for the time being. "Alright. But I still don't know if I'm going to get that much better at them. Anything would help though," she said, glancing at her own small stack of books. She'd already seemed to get past her failure in Potions, even if it had taken a lot of drama and fear of Professor Lafay to manage that. Runes was her last hurdle, and she actually had the fear that the subject wasn't going to be as easy to figure out as Matt seemed to still think. She'd definitely try, and she had a feeling his notes would help a lot.The subject had quickly changed again, however, to the much more neutral idea of the holidays, and she nodded at his words. "Hogwarts really seems to do that," she said with a smile. Make people not want to leave, although she had a feeling she wasn't going to have too much trouble wanting to graduate next term. It was going to depend on how things went, since he wouldn't be there. "You'll tell me when you find out, right?"
At least her talk of owls seemed to get his attention back from the books, even if it had only moved to the table. "Sickle for your thoughts?," she asked, before he'd broken his own silence to look over at her with another question, and she blinked again. That was odd. "Talia's good," she said slowly, "Mostly just still worried about her classes and everything." That and continually telling her about the trouble Bogie was getting into, left alone while her sister was at the university during the day. At least the puppy couldn't bother Lyra, or even get into her room at her sister's flat. She'd charmed the door shut just in case before she'd left to come here. "I suppose," she agreed, breaking free of her mental tangent as she realized she might have caused an awkward pause herself. Even if it seemed like he was lost in thought again as well. "Risa keeps asking me questions," she said randomly. Just to break the silence again.
It seemed like as soon as he went back to studying, Matt suddenly felt like there was something wrong; huh curious. As much as it seemed like the books were trying to win over his attention, he didn't want to just spend this time that he was supposed to be talking with Stella. So he just lifted his eyes from the textbook and closed it to show that he was finished reading for now, there was plenty of time to study later. "You will be. You just have to trust me, I tutored a few people back at Rygal and they ended up passing their exams without a problem." He was trying his hardest to convince her that she was going to be able to deal with Runes much better than she had been able to before, there wasn't a doubt in his mind that he was right about this either; no matter what he wasn't about to see her fail. But as soon as she went back to speaking about the holidays, he just nodded at what she had said. "Of course I'll tell you when I find out either way, I wouldn't be surprised if he just said that he wanted me to come back. Only because of the current situation." Honestly, he hoped he was going to stay. There was still plenty of things to do at Hogwarts over the holidays, which obviously included doing some investigations once again to see exactly what; if anything had still been hiding around the school.
"Oh um, I was just thinking about what I was going to do with the present that I have for Addison. Since I don't know what's happening yet. But it just might be better off if I owl it to him either way." He really wasn't looking to bring more things home with him that he needed to, only if he was going back to Los Angeles. At least it would have been better than spending the holidays with Raven since last year it was.. interesting, and that was just one way to put it. When she mentioned how her sister was, he nodded once more; well there wasn't much to say there. However, after a few moments of what seemed like awkward silence between the both of them; his eyebrow slightly rose at what she had said. Now this he couldn't help but ask about. "Oh? What kind of questions, if you don't mind me asking." There wasn't a need to ask about something that he possibly shouldn't have known about or something along those lines; that was exactly why he had tacked on that little bit at the end.