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Kolyander Nice hot drink in hand, Dahlia followed Quinn back to their table, pulling out a chair and settling herself down onto it across from them. "It really has," she agreed, wrapping both hands around her drink and gently blowing on it before taking a small sip. Not a word was said from her as Quinn went ahead to explain what happened all those years earlier, why the hadn't returned to Hogwarts. Not once had she thought that Quinn simply, disappeared. At the time she couldn't make sense of it but now, hearing this, she understood. Did she agree with any of it? Absolutely not. From say one she had accepted Quinn for whom they were, so it was incredibly hard for her to hear that their parents hadn't been.
"At the time it didn't make sense to me or any of us for that matter," she started quietly, speaking for their friends at that time as well. "All any of us knew was that you didn't come back and no one knew why. It wasn't you're fault though, I was never upset with you.. only with not knowing where you were or how to get in touch with you again." Had she tried over the years, yes she did but it had been a lot more difficult than she had expected it to be. But now, here was her friend once again!
Quinn relaxed a bit as Dahlia talked. They were a bit relieved that she wasn't upset, but they knew that there was no way
everyone was alright with it. But even if only Lia would talk with them again, that was alright.
"Yeah...I'm still so sorry. I should have written. I was just scared, for a bit, of my parents finding out, taking some other extreme measure against me, and then it had been years and I thought that maybe you all would be better off if I didn't try to reach out to you. Writing after being gone for so long and you all had moved on with your lives felt...cruel, somehow. Especially with the fact that I wouldn't be able to return to Hogwarts anyway. And then once I thought that was a stupid idea, I had graduated. And I wasn't sure where everyone had gone off to or how to contact you all, either. And then I couldn't bear to come home, so I just...kept moving. I lived all over Europe, did odd jobs, stayed in hostels and sublets. And I never stayed in one place for too long. I only just came back to England in December."
Quinn sighed. That wasn't
everything that had gone on, but it was the general overview, and they couldn't talk about themself for the whole time, could they?
"Sorry for just blabbering on—I just felt like I needed to explain myself. And that you deserved some form of explanation. But how have you been? What are you up to?" Lia had an equal amount of things happen to her, for sure, and Quinn wanted to hear it all.