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Lex couldn't help but notice that the girl was turning red. For a moment she tried thinking back to her previous sentences, wondering if she had said something embarrassing but when nothing in particular came to mind she shrugged it off as nothing but a thing older kids did from time to time...or in this girl's case, most of the time. "You're sooo lucky! I wish my mother could've taught me to bake...in fact I don't think I remember anything she taught me..." and so to change the subject very quickly she giggled at the fact that her father said she had been baking since she could stand. "Neat. My Daddy says I'm been giving trouble since before I could stand." BEAM.
She tilted her head slightly and stared over at Kurumi with curious eyes. It took a while for her to get what the girl was trying to do then set out to assure her. "Oh I really am happy about being sorted into Gryffindor you know; honest." She averted her gaze for a minute wondering if she should tell her but then...so many other people knew or saw it happening so she might as well give her a heads up; compensation for the train climbing."It's just that...I was so sure that I would have gotten into Ravenclaw then when that Lainey woman bet that I wouldn't we made a wager and I lost so now I have to eat the sorting hat." She had to mutter the last part, almost sure that Kurumi would start yelling again then draw Scary Bat-Girl's attention. "But I'm sure you could definitely have been a Ravenclaw!!"
She stared over at the girl in shock. "And what's with the smirk?! It's not funny! Now she has more chances to kill me!"
Kurumi tried to keep her smile genuine, not wanting to venture into such personal conversations with someone she barely knew nor ruin the lighthearted mood that the feast always provided, but it was hard. Lucky. Kurumi had never once considered her relationship with her mother to be anything of that sort...not until the very end. In those last moments...that was the first and only time Kurumi felt lucky to have her mother. That thought, while brilliant in its own right, stung and lingered like a poison in her mind and heart. "
It was the only thing my mother taught me," she said softly, the use of past tense stinging just a bit more.
Not to mention that Alexa's use of past tense not going unnoticed and Kurumi gave her a knowing smile. Nothing more needed to be said.
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I don't doubt that," she said with a wink. About the trouble making that is.
Kurumi was about to say something on the matter of Alexa's sorting, but the girl continued to explain more of her reasoning...which actually really had nothing to do with the Sorting itself but with...a bet? Okay, could Kurumi laugh? No, no she couldn't. Alexa looked somewhat ashamed and nervous about losing the bet - how very Gryffindor! - so Kurumi shouldn't look amused...but she did. Just a little. "
Well, we can't have you eating that old hat. What would we use to sort future students?!"
And NOW Kurumi giggled just a little because, well, it was sort of amusing.
She did manage to stop when the first year questioned her smirk. "
Well, you do have to admit that the whole thing is rather...amusing." What else COULD you do but laugh at how completely insane the day had been. "
And I promise, Selina won't kill you. I'll make sure of it." She couldn't have her best friend carted off to Azkaban after all.
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UnicornDragonPatronus Emilia sat down at the Gryffindor table, the proper one this time, with a sigh. Things had been such a whirlwind since she moved here from the states and it felt like she could finally take a breath. She did just that and then took a look around her. However it didn't help much, and she put her face in her hands. What was she doing here?
Seeing another unfamilar face appear at the table, Kurumi waved her wand at the display of dancing cookies in the air to hopefully catch the girl's attention. She did seem a little....depressed? Unsure? Nervous? All of the above? No matter, opening feasts were supposed to be a time of celebration and Kurumi wanted her lions in good spirits to jump start the term.
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Hello," Kurumi waved, also noting that Nessie had made an appearance at the table and she gave the Hufflepuff Quidditch captain a quick smile as well.