 curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
If Nettie was REALLY feeling vicious, after she got a few tears out of the way, she would have turned up the charm on Eiji just to spite her. So Missa thought they were getting chummy, huh? Well, a few well placed arm brushes and hair flips and loud laughs could definitely irritate the fellow Ravenclaw. The best part would be that Eiji would likely be oblivious to what she was doing or would know exactly what she was doing and be just as furious as Missa. But no, Nettie had evolved past that. That was petty drama that third year Trinetta would have partaken in. That would do nothing but aggravate the situation. Besides, Nettie had no desire to do any of that. All she'd been doing was having fun with her friend in class - and now she was crying. She was angry, yes, but she was becoming aware that acting on her angry impulses did nothing to help the situation. It just made her feel worse. Especially if it made Eiji feel bad.
Although, she couldn't help but remember that she still had that portable rain cloud bundled up in the canister under her bed...a little water in her bed for a bit of payback wouldn't harm Missa if she kept pushing Nettie's buttons...
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Drew call out to Trent that there was a dark witch in their class. At first she thought that she'd missed the introduction to some role playing aspect of class - but instead, she turned to see him looking at Missa. Interesting turn of events...if her eyes weren't filled with tears right now, she would have shot him an appreciative look. Instead, the gesture just made her want to cry even more. Part of it was because it was nice of him to come to her rescue like that (at least, she assumed that was what he was trying to do?) but also because now...she was embarrassed. Because someone had seen the poster and it was very obvious WHO the poster was referring to.
Look out everyone, here comes Trinetta Gladin, psycho ex trying to steal back her man. That's what the poster was REALLY saying, and the insinuation that she would do such a thing hurt even more than Missa's sudden problem with her friendship with Eiji.
She heard Trent explain the next part of the lesson - her eyes still trained on the star doodle in the corner of her desk as she tried to swallow the lump in her throat - but she didn't quite register it until Eiji nudged her. They had to interview portraits and determine their innocence. Seemed simple enough, but that required TALKING and moving around, which meant she had to take care of this crying problem. She blinked and wiped her eyes quickly, hoping he wouldn't notice how wet her robes were as she pulled her arms away, and looked at him with red eyes.
"What?" she blinked as she played back what he had said in her brain. "OH, right," she cleared her throat a bit, pushing back the last of those tears and refocusing. Come on Trinetta. There'd be time to cry and feel sorry for yourself later. "I think we'll have good luck if we try to ask them questions they can't simply say yes or no to. Open ended," she explained. Slowly but surely, she was pushing her emotions to the back corner of her brain. "Like, instead of "what have you been accused of" we should say things like "what actions led you to be arrested" because then they can't argue their innocence as much, you know? Get them to state the simple facts of what they did. Then we can determine if they're guilty or not," she told him. "I get where you're going with the painter aspect of it, but we're supposed to determine their guilt, not whether or not the painter was biased against the subject," she pointed out with a small smile. Leave it to him to approach it from that angle.
WAIT WHAT. NO. NO NO NO. She did NOT want Missa joining their group. She was NOT welcome in this activity as far as Nettie was concerned. But was she going to say no? Tell Eiji he COULDN'T invite his girlfriend to work with them? Of course not. Instead, she just turned back to her poster and gathered her quill, ignoring Missa entirely. She wasn't going to make a scene if she joined their group. It was hopefully a subtle enough cold shoulder to let her know that she had seen the poster and she was NOT happy about it.
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