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This was it... the catalyst she needed. She was slamming her things into her trunk with great force, not caring who saw her crying or what she hurt in the process. Not even her pretty shoes. She had already lain all of the gifts that she had with her... from Salander... out on her bed and was trying her damndest not to let her eyes fall on them. She had fallen asleep nearly every night with that princess teddy bear, but now it made her want to cry. And puke. Then cry some more.
Rufus chattered away from the top of the canopy where he loved to perch most times, but Lexi ignored him and kept packing. Maybe she couldn't leave JUST yet, but she was going to. And when she did... it would take hell or high water to get her back. And then she might just drown instead of giving in.
Sitting down with her back to the trunk she just cried and cried and rested her face in her hands. She was lost... she didn't know what to do and had no one to turn to up here... She had really done it this time and she knew it was only going to get worse.
Kurumi had been sitting on her bed in her room reading a book with Walnut asleep on her lap when she had heard heavy footsteps going up the stairs. As if that hadn’t gotten her attention, the slamming of a door and then the only slightly muffled noise of things being thrown around and the chattering of a monkey certainly did.
Kurumi set her book on the end table and pushed Walnut off her lap with an apologetic look. In her canary yellow pajamas and her hair tied tightly in one braid on the side of her head, Kurumi slowly tip-toed her way towards the noise and become even more concerned when she saw where it was coming from. She hadn’t been in this room too often, maybe once or twice to share a cup of tea with a certain older lioness, but Kurumi could sense that there was a change – and not a good one.
Nervous hands grasped the door’s handle and she slowly pulled it open just in time to see Lexi seemingly collapse with her back to a trunk and then the girl crying into her hands. Kurumi had never seen Lexi look this vulnerable. Usually, it had always been the other way around and Kurumi was the one crying a river. This did not settle well with the young Gryffindor and she continued to make her way towards the girl.
“
L-L-Lexi?” she called in a soft voice.