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Seriously? Did she think she was going to dance with someone else when he was around? Well, maybe with Conan, and...FINE, she could dance with Dallin, but the rest? No.
That's why he was first this time around.
And, once she'd taken his hand, he didn't let go of it. His eyes were on her as she spoke and he chuckled, "I think I said something much simpler when I asked you to dance the first time," so, no real feeling of deja vu, not entirely. Maybe. Not. He didn't fully know, nor cared too much but he started to think about something...something he immediately said, "I wished I remembered more about the day I met you," because he remembered very little of Vindictus' lesson. Celandine was there. And so was Ellie, but he couldn't remember the first words he'd said to her. That kind of crushed him right now.
Was it too important? Not really, "I'm just glad I did." He was more than glad that he'd met her. And even more so that it was while learning how to dance. She'd taught him, and taught him well.
It was uncertain to her whether it was Treyen or the situation that was so amusing. But Ellie couldn't stop smiling and found him particularly comical at the moment.
"You were twelve. It probably was something much, MUCH simpler."
What he'd said next was purely ironic. She remembered most everything from that day quite well, and Ellie hardly remembered anything. Like she had no idea what she got for Christmas last year. But she shrugged.
"It doesn't matter. We were merely two kids in need of a dance partner back then." Which made her wonder the fate for all the little ones finding partners
now.
And there was that stupid rule about snogging in class, wasn't there? True, Ellie felt threatened of getting in trouble by neither Stryker, Bentley, Magnus nor that woman she didn't recognize, but still...classroom...Prefect...inappropriate. She went with a simple reply instead.
"'M glad you did, too."