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Hehe. She saw him eyeing the cake and couldn't blame him. He was lucky she resisted her urges and didn't eat some of it right when it was finished since it did look so good. And the smell of the kitchens while it was baking? Heavenly.
"Why d'you sound so surprised? Of course I have other presents for you. I mean, I know cake and my friendship are pretty good presents as it is, but s'not enough, no. You deserve more." Shrug. "You're my best friend."
Shoving her hands into her pockets a bit timidly once he took the cake from her, she gave him a calculating look, "Should we leave this with the house elves and come back and eat it after presents? M'sure they'll make sure no one touches it, and we'll have to come back down here to drop off your presents in your common room anyway." Pause. "So, if y'want, I can drop the cake back off in the kitchens while you go drop your... pogo stick off, and we'll meet back here? But on the way up, you'll have to tell me about your..." she already forgot what they had just called it, and she grinned as she continued along, "...bouncing toy thing. Never seen one of those before." How did he even get it here? It was quite the present for an owl to bring for him, even if it came packaged much smaller.
Tobes sure had a cool life.
So that's what they did. Tobes had gone with Soph back to the kitchens to drop the cake off, fully intending to come straight back as soon as possible to devour the thing. It was a shame to destroy it but cake was for eating, right? And eat it they would.
And now they were up at the seventh floor, and Toby had been trying to explain all about his pogo stick and how they worked and what was so fun about them. Mainly he'd just been so preoccupied with the fact that he loved to keep moving, and the pogo stick was perfect for a kid like him with boundless energy. Toby explained that you could do tricks, and that this pogo stick was one of the best you could get, and how you could jump super high with it. He even went on, in an weird and overly happy manner, and about all the times he'd fallen down the stairs while bouncing and gotten at least three concussions, because they weren't technically
made for use on stairs.
He let Sophie walk ever so slightly in front of him, because Tobias didn't have much of a clue of where they were headed. Had he been down this corridor before? It seemed familiar, but Toby couldn't say before.
"-So this morning, when the post came, an owl delivered that pogo stick, but there was no note so I don't know who got it. Whoever got it really did their research though; it's one of the best. I've wanted one for ages."
Toby glanced around him.
"Are we near your common room, then?" the Hufflepuff asked. He knew vaguely where the Claws lived, but only that it was in one of the upper levels. Every time he'd run into Soph up here it had always been way closer to the moving staircase. He'd never been down this particular corridor before; it was nice to know a specific place to go if he ever needed his best friend or something. Assuming they were in the right place, of course.
"I don't see any barrels."