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Mad Eye Touz 
Too much energy to stand up for herself? Neptune found that absurd. Entirely. "Standing up for yourself isn't an option... It's a must. Eat more bread or something and take up for you," she wisely counseled her younger... friend? Whatever Mia was.
"Not on purpose," Neptune slumped. "Broken hearts hurt. I don't wish that on anyone. Except maybe Josh Carter, because I think Evelyn should break up with him. But only him. Not anyone else. And you know, when you do break a heart, it hurts just as much as being broken. Sometimes more." She was, perhaps, over-sharing.
What was this? Neptune was giving her advice? How strange to have someone giving her advice instead of the other way around.
"So eating bread will make me tougher?" She didn't know about that but she did know that eating too much bread would make her fat. And that she did care about.
"I wouldn't know how to go about do that though. Standing up for myself that is."
Oh dear. That's not what she had meant. But before she could say anything, Neptune began rambling on and Mia simply sat there and listened. She almost told the older girl that she liked Josh and that she had been instrumental in getting he and Evelyn back together last term but very wisely she kept that piece of information to herself.
"I have never had a broken heart nor do I think I have broken someone's heart." Well she hoped that she hadn't.
"I rejected a couple of guys and that made me feel really bad. So I sort of know what you mean." They could so be knitting while talking at the same time.
"And I have seen quite a few of my friends with a broken heart. I take it you're speaking from experience?"