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Once the hug ended, she plopped down on the dock again and gestured for him to sit next to her, giving him a grin too. It'd been too long and she'd been worried that in her absence someone had been picking on him. An idea that wasn't all that far fetched from what she'd heard that Sonea girl saying.
Whoa! Stop! Hiding? Lex raised a suspicious eyebrow at him. "Hiding? What for? Someone outside scaring you? You can tell me if that's the case." She would take care of it. She really would. Just...how she took care of it depended on who the offender was. "And how've you been with that Sonea girl? I know you know her because she was talking about you." In ways that gave her wand ideas.
But about her. "I've been busy blowing things up!" BEAM. " I mean, not the whole time, I was in detention last week but that was kinda fun and I got ice-cream so I didn't mind." She added a shrug to that. Mostly normal stuff.
Forrest tried his best casual shrug as he sat down cross-legged. He didn't want to tell about the agony he felt for being so away from his mother and Sonea to anyone. It was funny how the victims of bullying usually developed a 'silence' policy. He had always felt uncomfortable talking about being bullied in his previous schools, and he was going to keep his mouth shut this time too.
"I'm hiding from cold," he said. It was one of his reasons to never leave the castle, but it didn't explain the triangle of common room-classes-great hall. Should he tell he had very few friends--oh, she
knew about Sonea. He fidgeted with his friends, avoiding eye contact.
"Yeah, um... we're fine. She didn't do much harm, really..." He tried laughing, but it more sounded like he was in pain. He didn't want to know what she told about him. He didn't want to even hear her name. But he was curious, really.
"She just called me a 'mudblood'," he said, stealing a glance at her face before he looked away quickly. Why was HE embarrassed about HER insult, as if he was the guilty one? His forehead creased. Maybe he shouldn't have told Alexa. He really didn't want her to be in trouble too...
More confusion for his little head.
"Detention was good because you got ice-cream?" He looked at her incredibly.
"But what did you blow off?" He actually struggled between
awesome! and
dangerous! and eyed her worriedly.