SPOILER!!: You're gonna make me cry again, aren't you?
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sweetpinkpixie 
Kurumi tried to smile back at Arya, but everything was just...a blurr. A right mess it what it was really. Switching around her happy memory? She could, only the problem was that she had very little happy things to hold on to right now. The memory she had used last term to produce a non-corporeal made her sad now. "Thanks, Arya," she nodded. "I'll...give that a try..."
Maybe she should work on some other charms right now? Something to take her mind off everything.
Kurumi's eyes widened as Arya picked up her calendar. Wait...it was MAY? When did that happen? Kurumi scratched her head, cocking it to the side as she searched her memory. There were a lot of...black spots. Moments in time that had seemed to have been taken from her. Why hadn't she noticed that it was May? Not only that...but the date. "Oh...I...um...well...um..." she stammered, checking on the inside of her cheek as she attempted to snatch back the calendar - not because she was embarrassed about the date, but to confirm that it really was in fact May 12th.
Why couldn't she even remember May 1st?
All of a sudden there was an owl in the annexe and Kurumi jumped back a bit to allow the bird to fly in front of her and land on the window sill. A package, for her? Was this one from Evelyn as well? Timidly, Kurumi reached out and took the package and letter from around the owl's foot and opened it up.
Her eyes immediately watered up when she saw who it was from. "Jonathan," she whispered, an obvious tone of joy in her voice. He had written her. He hadn't forgotten her. She suddenly felt foolish for ever doubting him and she bit down on her bottom lip as she forced herself to actually read the letter instead of staring at his signature and her name written in his handwriting. That was almost enough for her. Just those two things. Still, she read the rest of it, her eyes lingering on each word and her heart pounding in her chest.
I wished I was there to take snatch your time and keep you company.
Kurumi giggled and wiped her nose with the sleeve of her robes. He never needed to snatch her time. She always gave it to him willingly. Tears trickled down her face and the hand not holding the letter gripped her chest where the heart shaped pendant rested. Setting the letter down, she opened up the box, her hands trembling so much that she had a hard time doing so, and whimpered when she saw the keychain. Honestly, a letter was all that she needed for her birthday - which she thought was still a month away. She removed the key chain and held it in her hands.
This moment, right now, was the happiest she had felt since the holidays.
Yeah... something was up. Even Arya could see that. And even though she and Kurumi were friends, she still wasn't sure that she could pry but so much. Nothing like what she did with Treyen, or Ivy. That definitely wouldn't help out this situation. A faint smile graced her lips as she nodded her head in response, eyes going back to the calender in her hand.
She wasn't getting much a response out of Kurumi on this one, but that was to be expected she supposed. The girl seemed distracted. Miss Puff prefect looked at the calender again, and tried to figure the significance of such a number on such a day. Hmmmm.
"Your not.... celebrating anything, are you?" Not in here alone surely. The seventh year refused to believe the happy little baking lioness would spend a day, like a birthday or something, alone in the charms annex
no matter how nice it was.
Or at least she wasn't alone anymore, 'cause Arya wasn't leaving
now.
And now they were even less alone.
She looked at the small owl, and pulled out a cracker for rewards, then turned her attention back to Kurumi. Oh. Well at least she was happy crying, had the prefect a little more relaxed as she quietly picked up the owl and took it's place on the sill beside Kurumi. Giving him little belly strokes.
She'd just... let her have this moment. Seemed to need it.