His eyes kept on flickering from Penny to Simon and back to Penny. WHAT?! Hugging Lafay? Why would Simon want to do that? And why were talking about losing points again?! He cared not if Simon lost any more points, truth be told, because there was something bothering his friend for him to do so.

And no one was listening to him!

This is what it felt like to be ignored? No wonder it had taken him a great deal to make Ellie smiled again when he had ignored her at the feast. Not on purpose, of course.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" he said, "Both of you!" he hated the feeling of being ignored, mostly.

"What is going on?" yeah, he was upset now, and his face was crystal clear about how he was feeling right now.