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Originally Posted by
SilverTiger 
Even more so than last term, Stella really wasn't entirely looking forward to this end-of-term feast. She'd promised herself it wasn't really goodbye, seeing as she figured they had the whole train ride back to London and then she'd be seeing him again in like a month, and that she wasn't going to cry in front of Matt. That had been a promise ever since Christmas and the discussion in the Room of Requirement, when she'd finally told him what had happened to her back at Beauxbatons that had really made her want to transfer. She wasn't about to break that promise now, but it was hard. Especially when everyone else in the Great Hall were saying their goodbyes and just generally sad about the term ending.
For once she wasn't about to sit and mope at the Ravenclaw Table until he showed up, either. She'd had difficulty getting Lyra into her basket to get taken to the station, to the point that she hadn't even bothered trying to get Nuage to join her cat. The pygmy puff was perched on her shoulder, snuggled up against her neck, and she'd veered toward the Slytherin table. Matt was supposed to be there already, and after a moment she picked out his head amongst the few other Slytherins who had already arrived. Walking over, she paused a moment as she saw Alyssa there too, prepared to let the younger Hufflepuff have a moment. Her eyes widened as the girl had burst into tears, though, and she stepped closer. Resting a hand on Matt's shoulder so he knew she was there, she turned to the crying girl. "Alyssa?," she asked, concerned both about how distressed she was and knowing it wasn't going to make things any easier on anyone. It honestly almost made her want to cry, but she really didn't want to. Quote:
Originally Posted by
FireboltAvis88
Alyssa was trying to hold back her tears as she approached the older Slytherin. She had only met him at the end of last term, but had grown to know him more this term. She was going to miss one of her "Older" brothers. She walked up to him, and tapped him on the shoulder. "Matt? I'm going to miss you." then she broke down and started to cry.
Before long it seemed like there were people joining him, unfortunately before he had had the chance to speak; Matt noticed that Alyssa was crying, merlin he didn't entirely like when girls cried in front of him and what was worse was the fact that he had been the cause of it because he was graduating. "I'll miss you too, but you know what? We'll keep in contact, I can owl you and we could hang out whenever I'm in Los Angeles." Shifting slightly from how he had been sitting, he gave the young Hufflepuff a hug; trying to make her stop crying. End of the term usually had meant a lot of tears for people but he was never expecting this.
As soon as he felt a hand on his shoulder though, he turned his head a bit and noticed Stella standing there; sure he loved spending time with his girlfriend even in the great hall but there was a feeling that he couldn't seem to shake the feeling that he was going to be dealing with more tears. "It seems as though there are more people sad about me leaving than I thought. Doesn't make it much easier to handle though." Of course, he knew already that the Ravenclaw was going to be sad but at least they were still seeing each other over the summer; what was going to be really difficult was when she had to go back to Hogwarts for her last term and he was going to be staying in France for the year. "I'm definitely going to miss this, getting to hang out with you and my friends here or really around the school. But graduation had to comes one of these days." Though he wouldn't have expected it be today.