She wasn't as restless as he was. This wasn't her last train ride home, and she wasn't in any sort of hurry to return to London. And so her eyes soon slid close once her head was on his chest as she slowly drifted off to sleep. It was his rubbing of her arm, an acknowledgment that he wasn't falling asleep like she was, that had her eyes fluttering slowly open, and her head soon following after, titling to catch a glimpse of him. "You okay?" Though her voice was relaxed, there was just a hint of worry in her eyes.

If he had known he had kept her from sleep, his return expression would have been very different than the faint smile he offered her now. "Yeah." His hand found purpose in rubbing her arm again as his cheek came to rest on the top of her head. "Just thinking."

Her eyes slid close again when his cheek rested on her, a soft smile crossing her expression. A part of her relaxed when he was just thinking, but another part of her knew that thinking could be dangerous depending on the thoughts. "Anything interesting."

"Not really." He stared across the compartment, trying not to focus on how sour the words tasted. On the one hand, it was the same old same old about Hogwarts and leaving, so there was truth there; it was old news and couldn't be interesting. On the other...well it depended on what Arya defined as interesting. He personally would call it 'better forgotten', and so he kept it quiet and to himself.

Levi wandered down the unsteady corridor of the train. Twice, he had crashed into the left wall and knocked his books out of his arms by accident. With a sigh, he picked them back up and wrapped his long fingers around them determinedly. Most of the compartments he had sauntered by were already taken. Not that he wouldn't have minded getting to know a few new people but there was no place for him to sit down. He had finally made it towards the back when he heard a couple of familiar voices. One of which was Fee's and she seemed particularly excited about something and the other voice belonged to the girl of his dre--er, Cass.

He was a foot away from the door when he heard about the "new guy" in her life. Immediately, the little smile that had formed on face vanished. His dark eyes widened with astonishment and confusion. They couldn't have been talking about him,they had already known each other for a quite a while now. So who was this new guy? He shook his head, trying to remain serene. He wouldn't ask them now. He tried to disguise his hurt look with a weak smile before he walked over and opened the door. "Hi guys..." he mumbled.

"You never know," She fingered his robes idly. "Could be very interesting." All depended on what he was thinking, and how she perceived it she supposed. But if he didn't want to tell her, she wouldn't push him to tell her.

As she began to fiddle with his robes, he began to fiddle with his sleeve. He could feel his teeth set to grind with the overwhelming resistance to the desire to tell her everything. But that would just open up a whole new can of worms he didn't particularly want to get into; that he wasn't ready to get into. "Could be."

Hm. "Well mine are interesting." Her thoughts that is. He didn't have to share his thoughts, but she could share a bit of hers. "They're interesting, and not all about this train ride. Some are about Perseus." And where exactly he had disappeared to amongst their luggage. Honestly, that kneazle could find the smallest of spaces to hind in. "...And you."

"What wrong with being named after a state? George Washington was, you know!" she said and nodded importantly







maize looked at both of them, they were both waiting, she decidedto make it dramatic. She turned her head to the side in "thought" and looked upward and rubbed her chin. After a while of the intensity she at both of them, "I do!" she said and smiled

Walking through the train, Kelley saw her friend--well, she guessed he was her friend--Rex. She approached him and quietly said, "Hi." She wanted to tell him goodbye before he left. He was, after all, graduating this year.

He couldn't help but smile at Arya's words. She knew how to make him feel safe, to make him feel accepted and secure. To ease his fears and worries. Unfortunately, none of that made him any more inclined to share his thoughts. Instead, her words gave him a distraction from his own, something he could focus on besides his own inner thoughts.

"Those do sound interesting. Good thoughts I hope." He gave a small kiss to her temple before resting his cheek against her head again.

Kiss, even small ones, were a good sign. They made her smile widen a bit and hopefully cheered him up as well. "Always good thoughts." Though she was a bit worried about him. Sighing softly, she went back to fiddling with his shirt. "Just thinking about this shirt of yours... and that pretty head of yours with all that messy hair, wondering..."

He could feel his heart skip a beat, when she waited for so long. He could feel his heart begin to sink lower than the time he heard that his friend Maddie had mysteriously disappeared. Then she said yes. He grinned widely, and withdrew from his pocket a silver clasp with the crimson insignia of the Danford/Corun household upon it. "Thank you for accepting." He grasped her hand and smiled. He turned to them all. "My uncles house I think is being constructed, if you all want a place to stay over the summer, you can stay at his and his girlfriends place. I will be there."

She was thinking about his shirt? A dumbfounded blink left him as he tilted his head a little to look down at her. Pretty head? Messy hair? Just as much as he could feel the blush start to creep up onto his cheeks, he fought hard to resist bringing his hand up to attempt to fix the offending hair. And wondering? What was she wondering?

Unsure if his dumbfounded silence would be any indication as to how lost he was, he licked his lips a little before forwarding his confusion. "Wondering what?"

Maisie squealed! "ohh Id love to!!" she said and squeezed his hand, "you'll be there the whole time?"

Timothy smiled, "Yeah I will, and I am sure there will be plenty of adult supervision, just in case parents protest!" He laughed heartily, and grinned at her. "I bet there are some great tanning places there too."

She continued to let her thoughts wonder while she fiddled with his shirt, only a bit obvious to his flummoxed silence. Really, she had the whole train ride, so there was no need to rush him. A small shrug rolled off her shoulders. "About your shirt, about you." She smiled softly. "Its a nice shirt."

He continued to blink at her. Was this an attempt at small talk to ease the awkward stillness of him not expressing his thoughts, or was it simply Arya being Arya; adorable and undeniably cute?

"Well...my shirt thanks you." To him it was just a shirt. But if she liked it, then perhaps he would have to wear it more often.

"Your shirt is welcome." She fiddled with it a bit more before turning her eyes up at him. "And what about you. Do you thank me?" Arya wasn't yet sure where she was leading to with this either, but she never did and there for wasn't bothered by the not knowing.

Sabel was fairly certain that the color he turned could make a tomato blush with jealousy. A few rapid blinks left him as his face heated up and his teeth caught his bottom lip. How could he have forgotten that personal thanks were the important ones. His shirt thanked her....his face flushed with more color.

"I do..." The tone of his response reflected his embarrassment. "All the time." Albeit rather silently and strangely apparently.

He was doing that cute blushing thing that she liked so much, and he was doing a lot of it. She smiled and gently poked his red cheek, then took to lightly tracing her fingers along his jaw. "I know." Her response was almost as absent as her finger moving along his jaw as she watched him look all cute and flustered. "Whatcha thinking about?"

Kurumi felt her entire body grow warm as if she were being wrapped up in a phoenix's wings and her cheeks flushed. Perhaps her hair was even doing so now, but she didn't really care.

Adam and finally swallowed his pride and apologized. Not only that, she had found her voice.

She gave his hand a gentle squeeze. She was afraid of what would come. Afraid to let go of him. But, she knew that the only way they would be able to grow would be in doing just that.

"I really will never forget you, Adam Burn," she said as tears filled her eyes.

Adam hugged Kurumi for maybe the last time at Hogwarts but not in their life.

He was going say 'this is goodbye' but caught himself,because he knew Kurumi would've thought he hadn't read the fortune cookie.

"I won't forget you either..You were my first love, first real friend...First everything..."He said his voice cracking here and there.

Kurumi bit her lower lip and her fingered gripped the fabric of his jacket as she buried her face in whatever part of him that she could.

She never expected it to be this way. Not just him leaving, but in finding someone that made her feel the way she did - the good and the bad. She was petrified of losing this. Losing something that she had held onto with everything she was for so long. It reminded her of losing Hitomi, but this time there was something that had been missing when she was 7-years-old.

This time, there was a mutual respect that was more than just skin deep.

This time, Kurumi knew that she wouldn't be forgotten the same way someone sweeps dust under a rug.

"Whoa...Don't cry."Adam said shocked that she would take him in striding arms..."I'll be back...Someday...And until then it's just a really really really long vacation we will both have to go through..I'm sure we'll open up that dragon school...And by the entrance we can have a cherry blossom tree...How does that sound?"He asked her as he petted her head like how Walnut liked.