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Emmaleigh let out a little laugh when the girl said she couldn’t believe she was now a seventh year. “You’ll be sitting here graduation before you know it.” Nodding at the girl’s question, Em added. “Yep, though it seems like I was just sorted yesterday. The years just go by so fast.” Taking the girls hand, Em smiled, “Its nice to meet you Violet, I’m Emmaleigh. So, how’d the term go for you?”
“oh, hey Minerva.” Emmaleigh said, kind of surprised the younger Puff was talking to her. There had a sort of unspoken hostility between them since the Hufflepuff/Gryffindor game where the girl announced to everyone that her and Max were dating. Okay, well Em was the only one being hostile. The redhead forced herself to smile. It would have been a more sincere smile, but the questions she asked made it difficult. “Yeah, I’m alright, just, just gonna miss this place. And no, I don’t really have any plans. I might be starting Uni in the beginning of July, but I’m not quite sure yet.” At this point, the girl was so confused about the future that she didn’t know what would happen. Max had also mentioned something about visiting him, but she was even confused about that, but she wasn’t gonna tell the nosey girl that.
And then there was little Alec telling her she’d be missed. Feeling her lip wibble a bit, she smiled. She hadn’t gotten that much of a chance to get to know the younger Puff though they did have that little picnic once. Em reached out and patted the kid on the shoulder. “Thanks Alec, I’ll miss you guys too.” Even if she hadn’t spent a lot of him with her housemates this term, she really was going to miss being surrounded by her badgers. “You’ve gotta keep doing us proud out there on the Quidditch pitch. You were Brilliant out there this term.” Em nodded. And there it was, the summer question again. Emmaleigh took a deep breath and nodded. “Yeah, I guess. Though it might be kinda short.” Or it could be a much longer break if she waited for the “first semester” of Uni. “I’m probably gonna visit Max some and just stay around home. What about you, are you excited?”
When her Baby Badger came and sat beside her giving her a hug, Emmaleigh hugged her tight. All the emotions the seventh year had been holding in were suddenly brought to the surface by this little girl. Still hugging the girl tight, Em shook her head. No, she wasn’t okay. Squeezing her eyes shut, and took a couple of deep breaths, Em whispered through her tight throat. “I just don’t wanna leave.”
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