Don’t ask her where any of her own energy came from because it certainly wasn’t from hours of uninterrupted sleep. It could’ve been the copious amount of sugar she and Anna had consumed on the train and in the days after. “Don’t let the Professors catch you napping in their lessons. Although I suppose that detention would be a great opportunity to catch up on a rest.” Dependent on who was running it of course, she couldn’t imagine some of them being lenient enough to allow that.

Ouch.

Aurora might’ve been putting a little distance between them but that was only because the revelation stung and she found it best to ignore her feelings than to dwell on them. Maybe it was more of a case of not knowing what to say, it was all quite foreign to the chatterbox who would usually be able to talk to a brick wall and who hated silence and alone time and ultimately it highlighted how alone and yet very not alone she was.

..and in a way it also felt like the special moment they had shared had been a lie.

“But the view is so pretty from up here” she lowered her heels, folding her arms across the railing in front of her and resting her chin atop. She knew what he really meant but would be disregarding any hostility.