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debpetrisor "Ah," he hummed, agreeing with her point. "You're right, it must've been just as exciting back then." And once again Shera was right - he would soon lose count of the times she'd been right and he hadn't, but he was also surprised that he didn't mind it. She was only proving him the golden rule - that women were always right. He knew better than to argue with that.
"You're already halfway there," he said, referring to both her playing professionally and making it onto the House team. Wishing and determination were the first steps. "And now you've also got a great motivator." He was clearly talking about the sight of him with his face painted in blue and fluttering his pom-poms in the air, not the coolest broomstick in the history of broomsticks.
... he had broken Shera.
It was something quite natural to see a flustered, stuttering Daehyun, but he was internally crying when he'd heard Shera - always perfectly composed Shera - barely form a coherent sentence, and for some reason, he hadn't scared her away yet. Her words only made him turn redder, though his face was still hidden in his knees. "I'm really sorry," he said, his words muffled as his face was buried. "I would hide in this lake right now if I knew how to swim." Or maybe he could do it, anyway, if it meant escaping that horrifying situation.
At a loss for words when he'd felt a light and hesitant touch on his shoulder, he looked up to meet her face that was just as red as his. "Do you think we could exchange your flying lessons for human interactions for dummies?" It would surely benefit him more. "I-I'm really sorry-can we please forget what I said-I mean-" Oh, boy, what was he doing... "Not-not to forget it like it's not true, but-" He buried his face back in his knees. "I'll just shut up now."
... by far the best decision he'd made all day.
She giggled again at her official first supporter, and the beginnings of her 'fanbase'.
"Thank you for your support," and for the first time she felt completely confident that she did have the support and capacity to improve as a player while attending Hogwarts. That she didn't make a mistake in not going to the Luxembourg Quidditch Academy instead because she also wanted to have the back up of good academics.
"Do you know what you want to do when you finish school? Are you going to work with creatures?" because that was what he was passionate about and it would probably be good for him to do something he loved.
He was still curled up in a ball in front of her.
Shera didn't know how to fix this. Especially with his barely audible mumblings, she decided not to bring up him being unable to swim. That was going to be a topic for another day. And he briefly looked up before burying himself back in his legs.
...
She needed to fix this. She needed to fix this now because she wasn't going to leave him like this.
"No," she said as firmly as she could muster, hoping that it would shock him back into going to normal.
"You are my friend and you are not going to shut up. I like talking to you."
Shera was still blushing lightly, but she wasn't going to take him disagreeing. She was fine with him. And her was her friend. And he had to be ok with her. Because she was not going to stop a friendship because he liked her personality.
What kind of basis was that for ending a friendship?