SPOILER!!: the best friend <333
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A personal guarantee? Oh Merlin, did Kurumi even know what she was getting herself into? There was no way that she was going to pass every exam, especially with bloody potions in the mix of the exams she was taking. At first, the fifth year contemplated not even taking potions, but then her mother forced her hand and made her reconsider. The conversation was not particularly long. All she remembered was that her mother expressed that no daughter of hers was not going to take potions. It was one of the major subjects at Hogwarts and there were a few classes that her mother defiantly wanted her to take, which unfortunately had potions on the list.
So when Kurumi verbalized that she chuckled and crossed her arms amused, "Miss Hollingberry, I don't doubt your brilliance, but that is not a guarantee you can make. I'm going to fail my potions exam- you and I both know that." It was not like she was ashamed of the truth. There was very little she could say to defend herself when it came to potions. She was just that terrible at it; Potions was to Selina like fish are to oxygen. They just did not mix in nature.
However, the tone of the conversation started to dip into a more serious setting when the little notebook was introduced. As Kurumi spoke about specifics Selina turned it over in her hand to get a better look at it. It was odd to think that one little book could hold so much significance. To Kurumi, this book was the thing that kept her mother alive in spirit. It had to the woman's thoughts and feelings and dreams. Oddly, it was like a small part of her still left alive through the twists and turns of her curvy handwriting.
Then Kurumi looked up at Kurumi because she did not hear her friend speaking anymore. The girl had fresh pain in her eyes. As much as the journal meant to her best friend, loosing her mother was a new wound... it had barely scabbed over. There was a long road ahead to recovery. So Seilna reached out with her free hand and grasped tightly onto Kurumi's hand. "Hey," she said grabbing her best friend's attention, "when you are ready to read this... if you want, I'll be there. I'll be here every step of the way. You're my best friend."
Kurumi blinked several times before responding. "
No no no, I do believe you misheard what I said, Miss Skylar," Kurumi said, shaking her head and
flailing waving her hand. "
I didn't say you would pass Potions, I just said that I would make sure you didn't get a T. As long as you do well on the practical you should be able to accomplish that. Just have to memorize facts and ingredients." Brewing...well...that was something Kurumi was just glad she wouldn't be around to witness. She was feeling bad for the Ministry employee who had to oversee Selina's OWL already, however. Poor bloke, or woman, had no idea what was coming and the prefect sure hoped that he would be receiving a rather large sum of something for compensation.
Maybe Kurumi should send Selina in with some cookies before the practical? Soften the blow a bit?
But Kurumi's thoughts did not linger on cookies for too long as conversation shifted back to her mother's journal. The strange thing about the entries was that Kurumi could only read the ones that were almost impossible to read due to her mother's shaky hand. The ones in the beginning, the ones that were written in her mother's perfect calligraphy. Yet, no matter now much control over her body's movements her mother had lost she always managed to write the names of her children and husband perfectly. It was as if in doing so she wanted them to know that she was fighting to stay with them. Fighting to let them know just how much she still cared.
Chewing on her bottom lip firmly, Kurumi swallowed first in a feeble attempt to compose herself. "
I'm not sure I will ever be...not the whole thing," she frowned, her brown eyes looking down at the ground. "
So...so much has changed...is still changing..." She tucked a strand of her dark hair behind her ear and ruffled her bangs nervously. "
I...I can't do it anymore...Selina...it...it switched off..." She looked back up at her best friend now, brown eyes meeting blue ones.
Kurumi Hollingberry had a normal appearance now. There was nothing unusual about her and she would just blend in with a crowd. It was everything she had ever wanted, but now she felt more lost than ever and even less like herself.