 be curious, not judgmental
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Originally Posted by Cassirin  Chloe shadowed her older brother, picking up the books that she needed from her own list and slipping them into his bag when she was tired of carrying them. Ostensibly, she was giving him space to be a big grown up boy person, but in reality, she missed him already and was mourning the loss of Charlotte at school and wanted to be with him. Every. Second.
The only book she refused to put in his bag was The Monster Book of Monsters, which had already bit her twice, in spite of her wrapping it in ribbons. She loved this book and she'd named it Filbert and she wondered if she could feed it worms. Or maybe chicken nuggets.
Herbology book. Check. She dropped it into Cal's bag. "That one looks boring, Callie." His hand smoothing over the cover of Muggle Space Exploration, he actually smiled at it as he went to slide it into his bag-- just at the same moment Chloe put her book in and INSULTED his book.
"You're boring," he teased in an overplayed baby-talk manner, grinning and nudging her arm with his elbow. "It's about SPACE, Chlo, it can't possibly be boring. You agree with me, too, I know..."
He was set to add more to the thought when his eyes fell upon the book she did not deposit into his bag. He laughed. "Ha! Good luck with that one. Someone in my year had to get stitched up after it sunk its teeth into 'em too deep. Left a nice gash. Bet they got a cool scar out of it, though, I'd imagine." He didn't see. Because it hadn't really happened.
What were big brothers for, if not to give their little sisters a hard time?
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