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Kurumi almost found it ironic that Selina was the one clinging to her more than she was to the redhead. Not that Kurumi wasn't returning the hug just as fiercely, because she was, but the reason behind the fierceness was a little different. Of course, Kurumi couldn't be sure that this was what Selina was thinking, but she assumed that a major emotion behind the hug was directly connected to her mother's passing. While it still stung and made the Gryffindor's eyes water right now, she had also found peace with it. Well, as peaceful as she could get seeing as a month's time hadn't even passed yet.
Big year. No kidding. That seemed almost like an understatement. Despite her OWLs already being done, which meant that there were less things for Kurumi to worry about it was things outside her studies that had her uneasy. OWLs...speaking of which. "You'll let me know if you need help studying for your OWLs, right?" Truth was she had already had a few fifth years approach her and ask for study sessions. While Kurumi was more than willing to help, she also saw it as a basic foundation for her studying for her NEWTs. Always thinking ahead.
"As ready as I can be, I suppose," Kurumi sighed. She still had a lot of things on her mind. Even without OWLs weighing her down, Kurumi still had no intention of trying out for Quidditch again. Quidditch was Selina's thing, not Kurumi's. She did miss sharing in the sport with Selina though, but that was really all she missed about it. "I more nervous for the start of this term than I have been for any of the others..." Meaning that she was petrified of the conversations she had to have with Lewis and Jonathan.
"Actually, Selina, there is something I want to show you," she whispered as she handed her best friend the journal she had been holding. "I...I want you to see what my mother wrote in her journal..." She didn't have to right this instant if she didn't want to, but Kurumi hoped that Selina understood the implications of what this meant. Not everyone was getting to see these words.
It was so nice to hear Kurumi's voice. Hearing her speak returned a sense of normalcy to Selina's life, being without Kurumi this summer was a very odd experience. Besides, knowing the reason why Kurumi wasn't around obviously made things a million times worse. She felt like she might go crazy with all of the worrying she had done the past summer. The two had left one another on a weird note, true they had made up after their disagreement, but leaving Kurumi in the wake of loosing her mother was one of the hardest things she had ever done. But the Hollingberry's needed their last moments together as a family; she was not going to intrude.
Kurumi swiftly pulled Selina from her thoughts when she brought up OWLs. The thought made Selina shutter even though the redhead had brought it up. Originally it was just a thought in passing, but when the Gryffindor prefect offered to tutor her Selina felt as if the testing was a reality. Merlin, she was REALLY taking those tests this year and that was a scary thought. Oh bloody hell, she was going to fail them all. She was a Quiddith player... Not a scholar.
So when Kurumi offered Selina nodded vigorously,
"Please. There is no way I'm going to pass any of them, except maybe divination but only because I have an unfair advantage.". Unfair advantage was an understatement, but it was not like she was complaining. She didn't really love her ability, but she was fond of her grades in divination. THAT she could deal with.
Then the conversation transitioned into Kurumi talking about the upcoming term through her best friends eyes. She was not surprised when she expressed how she was nervous for the upcoming term. After what the girl had told Selina over the summer she had a feeling that this term was going to be interesting on the Kurumi front. Her friend had a lot to deal with and Selina would be there with a hug and a joke to help her the whole way,
"Yep... This term should be... Interesting."
A book. Kurumi pulled out a book. A small book that seemed weathered, written in, loved. As the girl started to explain the book's significant Selina could not even fathom what handing the book to Selina even meant to Kurumi. With shock in her eyes she looked up at Kurumi and took the book. Her hands. Felt the bound- there was something about this book. Her eyes found Kurumi's and she nodded in understanding. She was honored,
"...what do you want me to read?"