All Dylan could do was continue to stare in shock. So many feelings and emotions were racing through his body...just from seeing the necklace again....

He'd known she'd been curious about who'd gotten it for her...Dylan had heard her ask people...but no one knew. Therefore, no one could have told her. The reality was that she might have tossed it if she'd known if was from him...and the Slytherin Captain had really wanted her to have it. You know, since it represented her so well...with it's little horns.

At that time in their....friendship?, it had spoken of her deviousness and snark. Both things that he'd absolutely loved about the Ravenclaw...So much had changed in such a short time, though. Nothing about them could be lite and playful anymore. Not on his end...Not with how he felt about her...

Bee couldn't have known...still...that it was from him. The way she was clinging to it...Dylan was sure her reaction would have been a lot different had she known the truth.

In fact, she probably would have ripped it from her neck, then and there, and threw it in his face. For whatever it was worth, that tiny truth alone just....hurt. The truth did hurt, though. Dylan was proof of that.

Not being able to help himself, he moved forward again...getting some of the feeling back in his legs from his earlier shock. It was like he was in a daze, the way he reached up and fingered the charm almost lovingly...

It looked so good on her.