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It was time to go back to school; had time really gone that fast? One moment she was getting off the train a fourth year and now she was getting onto the platform a fifth year- officially an upperclassman. Where had time gone? And yet, this summer was one that she would never forget. She had done wonderful things, like learn first had about Quidditch from her father at summer training, and she had seen awful things, like watching her beat friend fall apart; she had tried new things, like her experience over Elektra's house over the summer, and she had met new people who she was surprised she had never met, like Lewis and Taryn. But she could not say that she was unchanged because she was just not as much as she knew others had changed.
As she wandered around the platform she looked up and down for people she knew. This was the first year that she was alone on the platform. Her parents thought that it would be wise to start doing things on her own and she was not going to complain. It was nice to not have her parents breathing down her neck. It was not that she did not love her parents, quite the contrary, but some freedom was much obliged. After all she could not have a babysitter forever- she was growing up.
Once she set aside her baggage she leaned down to tie her unlaced
boot. Finally, with that all sorted out, she stood up and continued to survey the platform. It was then that she saw a figure that she had missed all summer. The two girls had seen each other briefly over the summer, but through an unfortunate series of events had made it difficult to see one another besides the week Selina spent in Japan.
Without a word she walked up to Kurumi and pulled her in a hug. She whispered in her beat friend's ear,
"Hey..." Squeezing her juice box to try and get the remaining apple juice out, and making sort of obnoxious noises in the process, Kurumi was just about to throw it away in a rubbish bin when she felt arms around her. It didn't take her long to figure out who they belonged to. If nothing else, the smell of fried chicken was still lingering on the other girl's fingers.
The hand holding her empty juice box reached up and rested on Selina's back as she returned the hug. "
Hey...Selina," she replied with a faint smile. Not that Selina could see it right now since they were hugging, but if she had looked out of the corner of her eye she might have. It was good to see Selina again, and she felt foolish that they hadn't seen each other immediately after she had arrived back in London. Then again, Kurumi hadn't exactly announced she had come back and her chance meetings with people had been just that, chance.
Funny how the only two people she had seen were Jonathan and Lewis.
Kurumi gave Selina another tight squeeze before pulling back a bit, surprisingly keeping herself together. Her conversation with Lewis had helped a lot. More than she had realized until now, and it was nice to not just cry the moment she had any sort of comforting touch from her friends.
Kurumi had something she wanted to show Selina, and that something was currently clutched in her other hand, but she couldn't just shift conversation to that right away. It would be awkward, right? Not that Selina and Kurumi were ever that awkward around each other. The most awkward they had been was when Selina had come to her home over the summer and they had talked...about stuff. Then, and only then, the two girls had felt a tension that you could cut with a knife in each other's presence. While Kurumi had hated it then, she was glad that the two of them were close enough that, even after all those words had been said, the two of them could go on being best friends. Just as it should be.
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You...ready for another term?"