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See! He knew that she wouldn't leave. Michael allowed himself a smug smile as he shoved his hand into his pocket once again and pulled a few sweets. "Oh nice come back Merivel." NOT!! It was the lamest come back he'd ever heard. He tossed her a couple of Ice Mice. For some reason he remembered that she liked them. And she could either eat them or not, he didn't care either way. "You're losing your touch." he said as he unwrapped a Pepper Imp.
He was just about to put it into his mouth when she spoke again and he lowered it a fraction and raised his eyebrows again. "Around? I haven't seen you since the beginning of term. I thought the Giant Squid must have eaten you." Or maybe he had been hoping.
Shrugging his shoulders, Michael popped the Pepper Imp into his mouth. "Just hung out mostly. Dad's working on some new potion so he was pretty busy." Smoke began to billow out of his ears and nose while he talked be he ignored it and just continued on. "Helped mum out a bit with her car. Spent time with my cousins and Zahra. The usual stuff." He tapped the side of his nose to make smoke rings.
"What did you do?"
So, she might have been just the tiniest bit rusty in the come back department. But, of course, just like everything else that had happened to her so far that day, it wasn't her fault. When was the last time she had even seen Michael? When was the last time she needed to come up with a really good come back!? The last time she saw Michael, that's when, and she had no idea when that even was. Rhodes once again rolled her eyes at him before moving over just a little bit as he.. threw a few Ice Mice in her direction. Sure, she'd take them, which is what she did. But she wasn't going to eat them. At least.. not in front of him she wasn't. So into her pocket they went. And there was no thank yous either.
"Just because you haven't seen me since the beginning of term, doesn't mean I wasn't around for the rest of it." And since it was quite obvious that she hadn't been eaten by the Giant Squid, like she would get anywhere near the thing for that to happen anyway, she simply ignored that comment altogether. Pfft.
At least they were having an almost normal conversation. Normal being that they were talking about things she was interested in. Even if it was just a little bit. And almost normal being the fact that Michael was eating Pepper Imps and the compartment was
not really filling up with smoke that was coming out of his ears. And nose. It was gross. Rhodes covered her mouth with her hands before sliding down even further on the bench, so she didn't accidentally inhale the fumes of Stinky Toussaint. She may have even coughed a little. But she wasn't leaving the compartment.
"That sounds fun, I guess." Cough, cough, coughcoughcough. "I went to Greece!" Her hands come off of her mouth and she sat up in her seat, no longer worried about the Stinky Toussaint fumes she was inhaling by doing so. This was important. She needed to be close.
"And while I was there, I heard this joke! Do you wanna hear it!?" He did. She knew he did!