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sweetpinkpixie 
Paige beamed a bit more as the giggles overtook her. Giggles that caused her curls to bounce about and catch the light from the wall fixtures. "And you have no idea how happy I am that I was," she replied, giving him one last squeeze before she finally let go. "I would have written you every day if you hadn't though. Just so you know. Well...almost every day. As often as I could at least." So it really wouldn't have been the end of the world. Just a little sad.
She gave him a firm nod. "I'm am! Especially now that you are for sure coming back." She almost gave him another hug, but resisted and instead finally remembered the owl treat in her hand that she then gave to her owl. "I'm going to see about signing up for the yearbook this term. Figure it will help me on my path to becoming a published author someday. Or Editor-in-Chief of the Prophet like daddy." Small goals as stepping stones to the bigger one!
"I would have written back. Every day that you wrote." Though it would have been terribly lonely to go back to being homeschooled after know what it was like to be surrounded by classmates all the time.
He watched as she fed the owl a treat. For this term, he'd been allowed to come back and had managed to be allowed to bring his own telescope, in no small part, he realized, to the help of many people. Maybe next term would be the term to ask about a pet...
"Yearbook sounds cool. This year's looked pretty good." He nodded, remembering when it had shown up. He had flipped through it and told Mairwen all about Hogwarts. And then Seren. And then Mother. But Father hadn't really had time, so Thornton had just left it on his desk, opened to the page with his superlative.
"So you know you want to do something with writing, then?" Thornton was impressed. He had no idea what his options were, let alone what he wanted.