Lainey took in a sharp intake of air. Melita might has well had kicked Lainey square in the face for all the damage that her verbal blow had done. If she was mad before, she was livid now. Furious. "I .." Lainey squeezed her fists so hard that her fingernails were leaving little marks on her palms. She nodded once to the Prefect.

"I - " Lainey was very nearly ready fall apart. "I'm so sorry, girls. I'm so sorry that you had to see that and I'm sorry that our Ministry is so STUPID and you have to be within a hundred kilometers of this," Lainey shoved a thumb at the bleeding idiot on the ground in her door," thing and I'm sorry. I think we'll have to call class dismissed for today."


Lainey would just kill Melita after the girls were gone.