For heavens sake, why could he just not talk to Chloe alone? Could she not see that now was completely the wrong time to talk about something like this? The truth was, he had no idea what he wanted and maybe that was an answer in itself but he wanted to talk to her about it, preferably alone! Missa seemed to be the only one to understand because at least she was leaving but nooooo. Instead, more people seemed to be turning up to make things oh so much worse.
Before he could even get a word in, Chloe had made a move to go and Eiji had turned up to witness the whole rose fiasco happening in the doorway between Curtis and Missa. Despite his own situation, he was so happy not to be Curtis and to have to be in the middle of an Eiji and Missa Sandwich with a Rose for Missa!
Oh, what a joy the prefect’s compartment was today. Unsure exactly what was the right thing to do, the prefect simply chose to stand up and outstretch his hand, not quite fully, but towards the direction of the retreating figure of Chloe McCarthy in what one would assume was to stop her but in reality, it looked nothing more than involuntary twitch. How had it really come to this?
Taking a deep breath, he sat back down in his seat and simply shook his head, a little confused and generally discombobulated with life in general. What had Chloe expected really? For him to confess his love for her in front of everyone? That simply was not him and he was never going to do it. Choosing to ignore the first disturbance, the curly haired Ravenclaw forced a smile on his face and looked towards the steady stream of non-prefects gathering outside the compartment. “No one is making out with anyone” . How anyone got that idea was beyond him and as for Carsyn’s flatulence notion, he simply rolled his eyes and looked away. He had no idea what it was with her and always making the same old joke but it just never seemed funny to him. Maybe that’s why he’d never laughed at the reason she’d come up with for stalking following him through the corridors this year.
And then there was her sister (Carys) with the cat...he had no words at this point. Clearly the world wanted to be prefects or to be in the compartment.
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