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SwampThing 
Literally just having gotten her camera back in her bag, Stella froze as Matt seemed to look around like he'd actually heard something. Probably her taking the picture, but then, oddly, it seemed like he wasn't about to actually look around him entirely. Just at the Willow, and then he actually had lifted his keyboard to his ear like he'd thought it had clicked. That was interesting, only because she knew that she would have looked completely around herself if she'd been in his position. At which point he would have seen her standing there, probably looking stupid with her hand still inside her bag, but instead she got a reprieve. She'd had to stifle a giggle at the keyboard examination, though. She still wasn't sure if she wanted to let him know she was there, and that would have obviously given her away.
As he'd started to play, however, she found herself taking the camera out one more time and clicking another picture of him actually playing. It was way too tempting, but she slid the camera back in her bag afterward. She wasn't going to be able to stay quiet too much longer, but that didn't mean she wanted to deal with explaining that she was using him yet again for a Potions assignment. Even though she knew she was keeping the photos for herself afterward, whether Professor Lafay agreed or not. Stepping forward, she stopped herself a couple feet from where he was sitting before speaking. "That's beautiful." A compliment wouldn't sound too weird, she didn't think. At least, she hoped it wouldn't, or that it wouldn't immediately tell him that she'd been there for a while already. There was already enough to explain, if he asked about the clicking.
There was that clicking sound again, where was it coming from? Matt really wasn't looking to interrupt what he was doing in order to explore exactly where the sound had been coming from but nevertheless it still seemed to cause a vast amount of frustration on his part; he ended up returning to play the song as he heard Stella's voice. Huh, where did she come from? Not that he wasn't happy to see her since he was, it was just a bit surprising that she seemed to just appear out of thin air. "Oh thanks, the song's not finished since I can't seem to figure out exactly how to end it but that's not exactly important right now." A thought crossed his brain after he finished speaking, if she had been in the area then surely she had heard something; maybe she could somehow convince him that he wasn't going crazy here since he definitely seemed to think so. "So, did you hear some clicking sound around here? I'm only curious since for the past couple minutes I heard this random sound and I can't seem to place where it's coming from." Oh the prize there was that she hadn't heard anything and that it was all in his head.
Then you'd actually have to admit to Raven that she was right and I don't think you want that to happen since she'll never let that go.
When the conversation was finished for the moment, he went back to playing the song that he stopped playing while she was talking since that was completely rude and unnecessary. Seemed like the mere fact that she was around was influencing the music that he was playing which was rather interesting since that hadn't happened before.