A very believable excuse right there. Exams could have completely taken over her life last term if it weren't for the fact she was dying from something entirely different. "Don't go getting too Ravenclaw on me now. You sound like you could use a break, a real one. None of that procrastination stuff Charlie was talking about where she was stacking books in the library." Did nobody think to jump off things anymore? Her lips tugged into an amused smile. "You got punched for honesty? No kidding? Merlin, tell me you punched back. Sometimes the truth has to hurt." And if the idiot was willing to throw a punch for it, who were you to not return the favour?

"You've got a lot of faith in me and I'm not sure that's a good thing." She informed him, trying to keep her expression as solemn as possible despite the obvious humour. "The dough alone would send you running." Unless she had company to tell her the right quantities and such. Otherwise the Gryffindor was lost in the kitchen. "So yes, you're very welcome and I do my best." With being a good friend that is. Wasn't that hard and racing would be the pleasant alternative. Lex rolled her eyes playfully at the afterthought. "Feeding is one of the only ways I know to make people feel better when they're bed ridden." Unless they were stuck there because of some kind of nausea...then food wasn't...the best route to take.

Were they that bad? She didn't even need to think twice about that. "You don't know the half of it but I don't have the misfortune of spending excessive time with the idiots amongst your kind so it's fine." No harm no foul, yeah? Alexa did her best to avoid that lot when contact wasn't necessary. For a moment she didn't know what Benjy thought about her response. What? Was it that weird? Relationships ran their course all the time and by the sound of it so did Benjy's...that didn't sound like much of a relationship now that he was talking. "Sounds familiar..." She conceded absentmindedly, though as he went on it became less familiar. Lex had committment issues but that wasn't the same as making people feel like they were only worth a snog or three. "I suspect you'd be upset if I said it doesn't surprize me...huh?" He might still have been sensitive about it but it was true. Ves was alright but there was something about her.