 a short feast post, i said... Lovely™ | Captain Hurted | Ariana's Bane | Resident Antagonist | Unparalleled Delight
It had become second nature to Abey to gravitate towards the Slytherin table whenever they had feasts. This, of course, was all pretty much down to all the things that had happened in first year; not being Sorted into Hufflepuff had led to tears and rushing to Slytherin relatives to be consoled, and then being ALMOST EATEN BY A LITERAL ACTUAL MONSTER ACTUALLY later in the year just made Abey more clingy with his family in general.
Things had, very slowly, got a little better in that respect... uh... maybe? More than a year had passed which meant that it got easier on its own sort of, but there was something about coming BACK to school after having so much time in the comfort of his own not-potentially-monster-ridden home that made him a little extremely anxious. BUT at LEAST there were lots of people at the feasts, and, when it came to Hogwarts, being around lots of people made Abey feel a million times better than being on his own.
Anyway. Yes. So. Slytherin Table. Abey was still drawn here because that was where Junia was. Or... where she was supposed to be. There were a lot of people, and it was kind of difficult to filter out all the noise and crowds in order to find her, so instead Abey ended up finding a space on the table with a lot of extra seats around him, assuming that he must have just got here before Junebug had and that she'd be here soon and had absolutely not left him here to go sit somewhere else without telling him she was doing that because that would be stressful and sad and then but oh Merlin what if maybe he was actually annoying her and she didn't want him sitting by her for the feasts anymore and he was actually just getting in the way and and and...
Doing his best to take deep breaths but not make it OBVIOUS that he was TRYING to take deep breaths, Abey gripped the edge of the table so hard it made his knuckles go white, and stared in the general direction of the Sorting. Up there were two more cousins, little Aaron and Alanna, waiting to be put into their own houses. Abey was cheering them on - in his head, though, obviously, because he was not about to be yelling and calling attention to himself in the MIDDLE of the SORTING - but, you know...
... quietly supporting.
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