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Anna Banana When Cale shrugged, Anna nodded once and then glanced away from him. She didn't figure he'd respond to her comment about the babies. Knowing Cale, he was probably ready to turn and run from the room and never think about the reflection in the mirror ever again. Or, well, at least not for a few more years or so. Anna glanced away from the mirror, as well, figuring she needed a break from the illusions it had been showing her.
"Leave?" Anna asked, looking up at Cale with a panic-stricken face. For a moment, she allowed herself to wonder why the thought of leaving the mirror scared her so. Perhaps it was the fact that Anna connected this mirror to her future with Cale...and apparently their two children. Or maybe it was the fact that for just a brief moment, the mirror allowed her to escape the school and wander far, far away, to a place where she was only accompanied by her heart's desires. "I'm not ready to leave yet. I don't need to look into the mirror or anything, but I'd just like to stay here a bit longer. Come sit with me," she said, walking to a piece of the wall near the mirror and sliding down it until she reached the floor. "I want to know what you saw when you looked into the mirror."
Just as Cale had suspected, Anna looked like the world was about to end when he suggested they leave. GAH, pulling her away from the two babies was gonna be a feat, he could tell. As much as he didn't want to leave either, he knew they had to or they could easily just sit there and let weeks of their lives pass by before even realizing it.
"What's the point of staying in here if we're not going to look at it?" he asked. It was true--why did they need to stay in the room if they were just gonna chill against the wall? The whole school was made up of walls, they could go there! "It's getting crowded in here. Let's go somewhere private, like the common room--please?" he added, making a pouty face and chuckling to himself. He hadn't chuckled like that since he had entered the room, but now that he wasn't looking at the mirror, his thoughts were starting to return to normal. "We can talk there," he told her with a head nod. He had every intention of telling her what he saw, of course, just not HERE, in front of all these people.