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sweetpinkpixie Kurumi's shoulders hunched a little as she felt the weight of the necklace she still wore around her neck. The necklace that she still did not intend on taking off unless the person who gave it to her commanded that she did. She shouldn't be out here...she wasn't ready yet. Having finally made her decision, Kurumi slowly turned around...
....and froze.
It wasn't the fact that it was Louisa standing there. Nor was it in the brief exchange they had just had that Kurumi knew that Louisa knew what had happened. Nor was it the accusing tone in her voice. No...it was the words themselves that brought the tears to her eyes. It was the reminder of how Jonathan had looked when she had told him what had happened. Told him that she had ruined things and he didn't deserve to be with someone like her... Someone who she still thought about every day even though he seemed to not even give her a second glance.
Her hand reached for her chest, clutching the pendant there for a moment as Louisa's words repeated over and over in her head, tearing her down further each time and reopening the heartache that she had managed to tuck away long enough to exit the common room.
Kurumi couldn't speak...instead all she did was stand there clutching her chest, the necklace, and crying. Jonathan wasn't the only one who had had their heart broken that day, not that Kurumi could compare her pain to his. But her heart was still shattered, never to be the same.
Louisa's eyes quickly averted from the
ghost-like face of the girl down to her neck where her hand clutched around something. A necklace probably. Huh. What a weird first reaction... Louisa opened her mouth to elaborate on her sentence that maybe Kurumi missed somehow that she wasn't pushing Louisa away or even speak. "
What I mea-" But Kurumi was crying now. Real tears... and her body might or might not have shrunk in size, if this was possible. "
Why are you crying?!" Louisa scoffed, "
Talk to me!" The Ravenclaw wanted to poke the girl and make sure she was paying attention but she didn't move her hands away from her book.
Maybe Jonathan didn't want Louisa poking around and discovering what exactly had happened, and maybe the sixteen years old had no business with either Lewis or Kurumi whether they snogged or not, but the fact that it was bad enough that a cocky Slytherin was broken over the matter - it just tugged on Louisa's hidden curious nosy Ravenclaw deep inside to know how could Kurumi, the cookie girl, end up betraying her boyfriend with Lewis, the awkward boy.
Leaning against the wall with a frown on her face, Louisa looked down at the crying Gryffindor, "
Honestly? I don't believe you get the right to express your sadness over losing a great person like him." She fished a hanky out of her breast pocket and stretched her hand, "
Wipe those unworthy feelings off your face and talk to me, Kurumi." She continue to cry like this, Louisa was going to wipe them herself.