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Kayla gave Helios a fleeting glance before standing up and sitting down beside Raiden. "What are you sorry for? Because you didn't tell me about your condition?" She shrugged her shoulders and gave him a pat on the shoulder, "What business was it of mine? It was your right to tell whoever you wanted" Kayla looked over to the other students now taking on the boggart. "At least you managed to defeat your fear. As usual I let mine get the better of me."
He nodded silently, unable to meet her eye. How could he explain this? He didn't want her to think that he hadn't told her because he didn't trust her, or anything like that. He trusted his friends. But...
"You're my friend, Miss Kayla. And I didn't... I don't want any of my friends to always be worrying about me, or getting mad at me because I didn't tell them, or anything like that. That's why I didn't tell you." He blinked and looked back up at the students still battling the boggarts, and the closet thing they'd come out of... "In its own way... my fear overcame me. Because now... now it's out there. I beat a boggart by turning it all into a joke. I didn't beat what scares me the most." He looked at her, at her mouth, so he wouldn't meet her eyes. "We probably shouldn't talk about it too much in class, even if we've already finished with what we were supposed to be doing just now... Don't want to get in trouble."