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Originally Posted by
iluvtowrite 
She blushed at his question and said quickly, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just adrenalin, you know?" Then, realizing how ridiculous that statement was, she burst out in shaky laughter and said, "Okay fine, I'm trying to recover from a near heart attack! That was way beyond freaky."
She listened to Braeden explain he was alright -- though she was a bit skeptical when she stepped closer and saw his coloring wrist. Then when he complimented her, she couldn't stop a small smile. "It was no problem," she said passively. "I just wish I could've hit it with the first spell..." She laughed again, this time a bit steadier.
"No, I've got it," she assured him, then stood up with her bag only to hear the bottom rip open and all her books topple out onto the slimy floor. "Oh, that's great." She stood, foolishly staring down at her books lying in slime, and then looked up at Braeden. She was annoyed but nevertheless smiled -- it must be after-trauma giggles. "Maybe I should've looked closer," she said laughingly.
Braeden rose an eyebrow slightly at his new Hufflepuff friend as she explained it was only the adrenaline that had her like that. Riiiiight. He was just about to voice his doubts when she decided to confess, explaining she was just trying to recover from a heart attack. At this more honest response, the boy laughed aloud with amusement. "True, it was freaky, I'll admit… But it was also pretty fun, don't you think?" he asked. Okay, maybe fun wasn't the best word… "I mean…
adventurous," Braeden corrected himself. Yeah adventurous sounded more like the right word for it.
As the girl then went on to wish aloud she could've just hit the octopus/squid thing with her first spell, Braeden chuckled softly. "Hey, to be completely fair it's not like you had it very easy there. That…
thing kept moving around and I was in the way; if anything, I'm surprised you didn't hit me instead," he said with one of his lopsided grins. Ava Jade had just saved the day! He couldn't have her feeling
bad about it!
And then there was the sound of fabric ripping and books hitting the marble floors. Braeden was a bit startled at first, thinking that was probably the mutant swamp creature back out to get them. Luckily, that wasn't the case. "Ah, not to worry!" said superhero!Braeden (Braeden the Lionheart -snort-) as he quickly got to work on picking up the books that had fallen (which wasn't all that easy when he had his own books to carry. But Ava Jade had saved his life, the least he could do was help her with her books!). Two seconds later, the lanky boy was standing with a pile of books in his arms, a pile that came so high it touched his chin. Oh boy. His lanky arms were going to hate him for this when he wakes up totally sore the following morning.