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Braeden listened quietly as Caroline explained she didn't want to cause any trouble, that she had only wanted to get it off her chest. And then she announced she had to go. The boy, still rather shocked over everything that had just happened, stared at the blonde Slytherin blankly as she gave him a weak smile - which he saw right through - and left the table, running out of the Great Hall as if running away from something, from him.
The boy blinked, just staring at Caroline's figure in the distance, before he realized what had just happened.
Oh Merlin, he felt awful! This-- this wasn't how it was supposed to go at all! He hadn't meant to make Caroline cry - he couldn't live with himself if he seriously just let her run away feeling like that! She obviously wasn't going through the best of times, and he had a bad feeling he'd only made it all worse.
In a flash, the dorky lion boy had jumped up from his seat (stumbling and almost falling over in the process, as is typical of Mr. ClumsyFeet).
"CAROLINE!"
But she was out of the Great Hall by now.
"Caroline, wait!"
Luckily for Brae, he had the advantage of being much taller than Caroline, which made it easy for him to catch up with her. He was only a couple steps behind her, pleading in his mind that the girl would stop and turn around, give him a chance to fix things. He wasn't sure he could really do much, but… He needed her to at least know that, even if he couldn't return her more romantic feelings, he still wanted to be her friend; he still wanted to care for her and hear her out when she needed someone. Despite the fact that they had grown apart over the last couple terms, Caroline's friendship was one of the most valuable things in the cowardly lion's life. She was no less important to him than his own family, or even his own girlfriend. She was the first real friend he'd ever made.
He couldn't just let her go like that.
Caroline heard Braeden call out of the first time but didn't turn around she couldn't. Then she heard him again, this time she turned around, she couldn't believe how fast he had caught up to her.
She wiped her eyes.
"Braeden." She said when he caught up to her fully. A million things were going through her head. He had came after her that was a good thing right? If there was a chance that they could still be friends she'd take that. It was just the thought of her confession messing up their friendship, killed her, and she didn't even want to think about what this would do to her friendship with Emma, and plus the impact that it would have on that group of friends.
She wished that she hadn't told him at all. He had a girlfriend after all, her cousin and one of her best friends, and she had done this. She felt teribble about all of it. She couldn't help it, she had to tell him, before term was over, because who knew the next time that they would see each other after that, And maybe just maybe not telling him soon would have been better.
She looked down at the floor, it seem that she kept messing up everything that she had good, first with Carter, then with Jai and now with Brae. The one who was one of the best friends that she had. Yeah the girl had screwed them all up. It was like she she could have been in the trophy room again. Or the Owlery. But now the great hall how was she suppose to come everyday, with thinking this is the place where I screwed it up with Braeden.