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grangerfan8 
Not soon after she'd picked up the little owl and given him a treat, it'd flown off to do whatever it was owls did. At least he didn't try to bite her like Altair. That bird needed to learn some stuff from the school owls.
Oh. OH.
That explained so much now, and had the prefect grinning brightly. "That's really sweet of him." Her boyfriend, right? Kurumi was sometimes still a little first year who kept trying to feed everyone then strange cookies to Arya, so it was hard for her to remember that she was in fact... sixteen now. Wow. "Happy Birthday!"
Conjuring up a handkerchief, she passed it to the younger girl and then... well she wasn't really PREPARED for a birthday, so she just aimed her wand at a random spot above them, and conjured up rainbow colored confetti.
Kurumi didn't even notice that the little owl had left and she sort of forgot that he had been there at all. Not that it really mattered seeing as her vision was blurred by warm tears. Blinking them away, or down her cheek as the case was, she turned to look at Arya with a goofy smile tickling her lips.
"
I-I-It's the first time h-h-he has written me," she whimpered as she read over the letter again. "
I...I thought that..." But she didn't finish her thought. Everyone expected her to be confident and not doubt things, yet here she had been doubting something so important to her. It had been hard to, considering what had happened before and what was happening now. But now, she didn't need to doubt anymore. She could keep on hoping and looking forward to next term. It was nice, having that feeling back.
She came out of her daydreamy trance when the shower of rainbow confetti fell all over her dark hair and robes. "
T-Thank you," she replied, bowing her head. "
I-I don't usually celebrate my birthday." This would probably be the first and closest thing she had done to celebrating really.
Actually, she felt like she might be able to conjure a patronus now.