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Celandine "It was? How come? What did you do?" Celandine slipped her shoes off and tucked her feet up under herself. Any stories about Lyra's summer were bound to be interesting and educational.
Wait. What? "Love life?" Celandine repeated and flushed, biting her lip a little. "What do you... I... I have a boyfriend." She did... right? She and Plymouth hadn't... he had told her to smile and gone home and he hadn't owled her for the rest of the summer and neither had Cope so... Celandine coiled a strand of hair around her finger and tried not to peek over at her house table to see if either boy had arrived yet. "After the party I went home. And... the rest of my summer I spent time with my brother and Kayla and I went shopping."
OH! Well that seemed to startle the poor Ravie! It was best to keep questions away for a while as Poor Cela didn't seem so positive at the moment. It was one thing if one had to remind everyone that she..."Oh yes! That Plymouth is quite a joker, isn't he," she giggled, trying to hide any emotions except for happy ones of course.
And nothing like a change of subject to talk about none other than HERSELF! She turned in her seat and faced Celandine as if it were such an important story. Well, to her it was but sharing everything was just not in Lyra's vocabulary. She liked to stay mysterious about certain things.
"I spent the entire summer with my boyfriend, Christian, and his mother," she said as her hand landed on Cela's arm. The smile that broadened Lyra's face was bright and shiny and...well, she was just thrilled beyond words to talk about her man.
"We went to the beach and went swimming and he showed me around the village and I got to play with his cat, Shadow and I read him books, which of course is my specialty." That deserved a wide grin of happiness. "It was just the best summer of my entire life. The happiest I've ever been." And those words were so true.
"And both of us went shopping over the summer so we are going to have to tell what each of us bought." She turned back towards the table and then back to Cela. "I have LOTS of new shoes. Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Hopefully Professor Bunbunz will be proud of me." That deserved another grin.