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Originally Posted by
Lissy Longbottom 
Cale shook his head again. "Anna, I don't want to hear it!" he cried, his arms flailing about as he got worked up. "You're leaving and I just...you can't! You just can't!" he exclaimed. Oh lordy, he was about to go off into a drama queen meltdown.
"I still don't get, after everything I've told you, everything we've been through, how you can just leave and forget that any of this ever happened. These last few months...up until start of term, of course...have been so important to me and I know they've been important to you, so don't even say they weren't cause that will be just downright lying to my face." he told her in one long rant. He began to pace...all of his feelings were coming out and he couldn't stop it. He was practically throwing a tantrum...thank goodness Shel wasn't anywhere to be found! How embarrassing would it be to have him see Cale like this?
"Anna, just...don't go," he told her, stopping finally and looking at her dead in the eye. "Don't go, please...don't leave. I don't know what I'll do without you! You'll just be making both of us miserable and I won't be able to stand it. You're my best friend--I can't lose my best friend! So please, please, don't leave!" he told her.
He was breaking down right in front of her, the tough fascade that he had been pulling for the last few months crumbling apart at his feet. He felt himself drop to his knees before he even realized he was doing it, looking up at her with pleading eyes. "Anna, don't go. You CAN'T go. I still care about you and I still need you here," he said softly, looking up at her from his spot on the ground.
"But what I have to tell you is something you will
want to hear!" Anna responded, panic coming through in the tone of her voice. She hoped he didn't turn and bolt down the hall and refuse to listen to the news she had to tell him. It was too important! Besides, she wasn't sure she was up for another sprint through Hogwarts again trying to keep up with him. "But, Cale, I'm---" It was no use, though. He had nearing meltdown status for a few minutes now, and there was no use in trying to get in another word until he had calmed down.
Anna simply shut her mouth and listened as Cale went on and on saying things that she
knew he was right about. Regardless of whether Cale and Anna were together as a couple or not, they still needed to be near one another. They'd been through too much together for one of them to make a move that would possibly separate them for a lifetime. Suddenly, without any warning, a flood of memories came rushing back to Anna, flashing before her eyes as if she were watching them on the big screen at some muggle movie theater. Regardless of whether or not they were ever a couple again, they would have to always be together. She couldn't leave him, and he couldn't leave her.
When Cale sank to the floor, Anna's eyes filled up with tears that came crashing down her face at rapid rates. Then, that force that always managed to draw the two of them together forced her to go crashing down to the floor with him, so that they were seated, facing one another, both on their knees. "You're
my best friend, Cale," she began. "I could never, ever leave you. That's what I followed you down here to say. I've owled my father and he's not coming to pick me up tomorrow...or ever, for that matter. I'm staying here at Hogwarts with....with
you. I'm so sorry," she said, right before leaning over and crashing into him with a hug. She pulled away briefly to kiss him on the forehead and then crashed right back into him with an even tighter hug.