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"She's far from famous. At the moment at least. Soon she'll be on movie screens all around the muggle world." Reid said softly, trying not to disturb Neko who was slowly, very slowly falling asleep. Of course that was until she noticed Rachel. He knew Neko would be awake after that, she always was after meeting new people that thought she was simply adorable.
Turning around Reid surreptitiously moved a little closer to Rachel, he'd been looking for her for months but there was no trace of her to be found. "I've missed you," he admitted quietly, half hoping she wouldn't hear the statement and half hoping she would. "How have you been? I know you must have been stressed with O.W.Ls and that." he asked, giving her a charismatic smile that was meant to, well make her think he was cuter than Neko. He knew that people thought his kitty was adorable and so he couldn't help but compete with Neko's adorableness.
Neko blinked slightly at the voices and very carefully jumped from Reid's lap before cautiously pouncing on their companion. Looking the girl over she quickly began to but her head gently against her hand, asking for attention. She knew this human from seeing her with her master, they had appeared quite close and Reid had been fond of the girl.
Smiling, Rachel took a closer look at the kitten and giggled slightly, surprising herself. With Reid, the word 'famous' took on a WHOLE different meaning and it never ceased to amaze her. Sometimes, when she tried looking at them objectively (like when she lay at night and couldn't fall asleep) she was proud of herself for not letting it get to her head. A guy like Reid would be a catch for loads of girls - make their dreams come true in more ways than one yet she... She just sort of took his celebrity status as part of the package deal that was Reid.
"Neko the supercat," she murmured and was slightly surprised when the kitten which had looked like it was about to fall asleep, suddenly jumped up wide awake and jumped onto her lap.
"Yes, you are, aren't you? You adorable little thing," she continued with the flattery, know from Cloud that cats tended to like that while she rubbed it softly behind the ears and scratched it softly under the chin, comically cupping Neko's face in her hands.
Reid's next words had a strange effect on Rachel. Instead of smiling, nodding and saying truthfully that she missed him too, her breath stopped short and her heart began beating so loudly, she was surprised people weren't turning to see where the loud thumping was coming from. Keeping her eyes firrmly on the kitten, Rachel had to take a few moments to calm herself and even then wasn't quite successful.
"I... missed you too," she managed to say, her voice so quiet she wondered if he had even heard her at all.
She was officially pathetic.
Ahhh - OWLs is a good subject, a GREAT subject, in fact. Her breathing returned to normal and she allowed herself to look up at him, letting herself get lost in those unbelievably pretty eyes of his.
"Yeah I was pretty stressed - OWLs are NOT fun, trust me. It's a good thing you didn't see me in the Special Assemly. . . I looked like a living dementor, I kid you not," she said with a smile, ever so pleased that he had not seen her in that horrible state. He would never have looked at her the same way again. Ever.
"And you? How are you?" she asked gently, her voice a lot softer than before. She was now only minimally patting the kitten, so great was her obsession with the boy in front of her. She seriously was completely hopeless.