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Elizabeth turned her head again as she heard Lyra say both her and Robert's names, and grinned at the tall Huffie girl. It was funny watching her bug him. Still under his arm, she glanced up at him for a second to see how he was going to respond, before looking back at Lyra as the other girl addressed her again. "I'm relly good." Now. "Other than the usual stress over how I'm going to deal with NEWTs and everything. How have you been?"
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H_Grainger1322 Robert looked over his shoulder as he heard Lyra's voice and smiled, "Why if it isn't the resident trouble...seeker? Trouble just happens to find you though so that's not right." He smirked and saw the glance that Liz gave him, giving her shoulder a squeeze he shrugged in response to Lyra's question, 'I've been around? Where have you been? Giving more firsties problems?" He smiled and listened as Liz spoke to Lyra moving his hand from her shoulder to around her back as he looked around.
"And to answer your question Liz..I was thinking about how close that squid came to breaking my broom during finals last year so I couldn't understand why anyone would WANT to talk to him," he whispered in her ear and gave her cheek a kiss. "That's it," he said as he stood back up and looked back at Lyra and the group.. He really had been out of it hadn't he. He hadn't realized how long it had been since he saw Lyra until just now and that made him feel slightly uncomfortable. It wasn't good of him to have kept to himself like that now he knew how Liz felt during the summer when she came back.
Lyra closed her eyes as she shivered to the thought of NEWTs. "Oh please save me from the-" She opened her eyes. It was one thing for Rob to be sympathetic towards his female friends but...a kiss on the cheek? Her green eyes widened as her mouth fell WIDE OPEN!
And then the Groundskeeper spoke!
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Tailzinator Constantine looked away from the kids trying to calling Bartholomew to the surface to look at the girl who had been first to show up. Squidian? WAIT...did she honestly believe that he was able to talk to squids? Merlin, he was still learning how to understand wife-speak! "No, my dear," he said with a sigh, "I was kidding...I don't know how to speak to squids."
Looking back at the water for a couple seconds, he found that he had to look back at her. "You may not call him Bart...or Mew. You will refer to him as either Mr. Henry or Bartholomew. He is a highly respectable squid, therefore you will treat him with respect.
"Which reminds me," he turned to the group as a whole. "When Mr. Henry appears, you MUST compliment him. You compliment him, the better the chance we'll have of him agreeing to help us. You don't, I'll feed you to him," he smiled.
What was worse? Not being in the loop with your excellent guy friend or being told by a staff member they would feed you to a giant squid if you didn't call him by his proper name? Like he could understand!
And still she couldn't speak...
Nope, not yet....
Still not....OH WAIT
"I....err...."
Almost!
"Yeah!" She finally closed her mouth as she looked to the water. "Squid...Pet....Friends....OHMYGODICAN'TBELIEVEYOU TWO!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" She then covered her mouth. Maybe right now was not the time? "Squid...yes! I know!" She looked at Mr. Groundskeeper and smiled, then walked over to the water.