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unicornkeeper07 
"Um...urrrr," he said with a mouthful of food and quickly swallowed. "I'm sorry that was rude of me, I meant sure." Rafe laughed as he brought over his mountain of food and goblet of pumkin juice. "So, what's the topic of discussion? Quidditch? Classes? Our futures?" Rafe laughed as he took another bite of food.
"No, it wasn't rude of you, it was normal of you," Lucy said as she laughed at the pile of food on Rafe's plate. Well, a growing boy has to eat, she thought to herself.
"Right now, we were discussing an annoying Hufflepuff, who has annoyed Alexandra. And this is Happy--" she pointed to the boy sitting next to her--" who is a fourth year like me. Oh, and Alexandra here is a firstie, like you," Lucy explained, hoping she had got the introductions right.
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"Thanks," he said, pushing his plate away from him slightly with the tip of his index finger. He smiled at her from the corner of his mouth, then returned his gaze to the food on his plate, his eyes wistful and longing. What she had just said meant a lot to him deep down. It was like someone had lifted a huge weight off his shoulders. He didn't think his name would be a bother anymore; everyone he'd spoken to (all of three people, well, technically two) had not teased him about it and Lucy had actually just admitted that she liked unusual names, which his most certainly was. It made him feel all warm inside.
He turned to look at her at her next comment, both his eyebrows raised, before he could contain it no longer. An actual laugh escaped his lips, and even though it was small and short and more like a chuckle than anything, it felt good; he grinned. "Not bad, Lucy, not bad," he said, with a slight shake of his head. "But I think you're right; maybe I do need to wait a bit before they cool down. The whole burning my mouth thing isn't really working out," He moved his tongue about his mouth experimentally. It felt numb. He frowned, drawing his stare away from the chips before he took another sip of pumpkin juice.
He listened to the two girls curiously, occasionally taking glances at the food but hastily turning his focuus away from them and back towards the conversation. An irritable Hufflepuff? He thought they were supposed to be fluffy, jolly people. Well, that had certainly proved him wrong. And Alexandra was a lonely first year. Well, he was a lonely fourth year. He stifled a smirk. It was almost meant to be... And with that, he gulped down the last of his pumpkin juice.
Lucy smiled sheepishly as Happy told her that her joke wasn't bad.
"I'll work on it," she replied with a laugh.
She noticed he kept looking at his food with a kind of longing.
"You know, there are tons of other things you can eat while you wait for those to cool.
Or, better yet, does anyone know a spell that will cool down food?" She turned to
Rafe, the spell expert, hoping he knew of such a spell. Kind of embarrassed that though she was older than him, she had little knowledge of common household spells.
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Alexandra smiled, it seems like Lucy may very well be right. The younger kids she had met were awfully unfriendly, aside from Lorcan."It seems like most everyone around here is very helpful also." she said with a smile. "I think the Huffies name was Kay. I thought they were all supposed to be sweet people too, but she seemed to have a problem with me from the time I met her." Alexandra said with shrug."Well, yeah the Slytherin didn't surprise me too much." Alexandra added as an afterthought.
"Kay, huh? Well, I'll keep an eye out for ya, and scold her if I meet her," Lucy said with another laugh.
"Most everybody here is extremely nice, Though, you're bound to get anomalies every now and then."
She took a final bite of her cereal and grabbed the jug of pumpkin juice. Pouring herself a gobletful, she sipped it thoughfully.