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grangerfan8 
Dora was tired.
She still hadn't taken a step into her common room since she had to PAY, and the fourth year was just refusing to do that. Combine that with having to cook her own meals, lessons, worrying about letters, and just not being at all happy about the situation at all... she was tired.
But not too tired for a walk out to the tree house. She wanted fresh air, and also to get away from all of everything that was wrong with the castle. She started the climb with no intentions of stopping until she heard crying. Normally that was cue for her to keep going, but this crying... sounded familiar. Like she knew that voice.
Dora really hoped she didn't know that voice, but she stopped anyway and searched until.... yep. She did. Her expression immediately became one of both worry and anxiousness. Why was HER boyfriend crying on the treehouse floor? Didn't he know this was not okay?
"Um..... Theo?" She slowly came to his side, took a seat, and stared at him for a looooong uncomfortable moment before finally taking his hand, and giving it a squeeze. She was trying to comfort him or something.
Really she just wanted him to stop crying.
This crying helped. It was a very small inner release, though, because Theo usually threw all the tours of the pram during his emotional breakdowns. This was just a mere sob against the wooden ground. He heard a few footsteps, so he GROANED. Like, he groaned SO LOUDLY as a warning to whoever was coming. Basically, back off.
But that didn't work, and they were still coming.
Theo stopped crying obviously, and raised his head a little to rub the tears from his eyes. He sat up after doing that, and sighed a sigh of relief when he saw his girlfriend. He squeezed her hand back and smiled.
Crying in front of his GIRLFRIEND? How embarrassing and totally not manly. "
Hi.. I think... some of these dirty...." SNIFF. "
... fumes got in my eyes." Perfectly legit reasoning for the red eyes. Yep. Back to the whole creepy smiling thing. "
How's your common room?"