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Stella could tell that her attempts at distracting Matt were working, which amused her even as she still felt a slight bit of disappointment that he'd stopped sketching. It was certainly a weird feeling, but as he complimented her again, she grinned. "You're pretty awesome yourself," she replied, giving him another semi-hug as he lapsed into silence again. Silence meant thoughts, and she'd rather avoid making herself sad again. Mostly about things that were a whole year away, especially when she had other things to worry about. Like Risa interrogating her about Matt once she got back to France, which she knew would be even harder to get out of than her own parents asking. She knew Talia had most likely told them what she hadn't mentioned herself in the few letters she'd sent over the term. She'd had other things to occupy her time over the term than sending owls home, and she knew her parents understood she'd been trying to focus on classes and studying. And spending time with Matt, but since most of that also involved studying she hadn't felt bad about leaving that out.
Besides, she knew they at least had heard she had a new boyfriend. Her sister wouldn't have not mentioned it, and considering Talia had told her that she wanted to meet him, odds were her parents knew about him too. She just hoped they could wait a while before bothering her about meeting him too. That would have to happen before he went to France after graduation, if she still wanted to make sure he had help while he was there. She definitely didn't want to depend on Risa for that, as that would be too scary. She leaned her head back to look at him again as he replied to her question about the Apparition testing, though, thoughts about France momentarily pushed back. "I hope that's actually different than OWL practicals. I'm not sure I did everything perfect, after all, and I don't want to fail just because of that," she replied, thinking about when she'd tripped in the Charms practical, and when she'd fallen during the DADA exam. She managed to give him another smile, however. "I'm sure you didn't fail, though." She didn't want him to think she didn't have faith in him. She might still not be certain she'd passed her own exams, but that didn't need to reflect onto him.
It still seemed like he had been curious as to what she meant about OWLs hurting, although Matt had quickly moved on since honestly what was the point in questioning something now? Especially with the fact that this was the last time that they were going to be seeing each other until the middle of July so any trivial points could wait until later on. "It is, OWL practicals run just like classes do. It only matters that you follow directions and do as well as you can, and for that matter; the waiting for the results is definitely the challenge but I would love to know how you did since I had helped you study when you weren't sure about things. Plus, I sorta could take a guess at how you did from observations of when we were studying and just reviewing things." He knew that Stella would have passed them with flying colors and that just wasn't because he was her boyfriend either, no it was because she showed him that she had known the material quite well and that was all that had mattered. "Well, we'll see soon enough. If you'd like, I can owl you as soon as I get my results; I'm sure Gidget would love to pay you another visit since she seems to like you now." Now that was quite amusing considering, at the start of term he was just dealing a rebellious owl who liked to cause a huge commotion and now she was just calm.
Just wait til she sees Raven though, Gidget still doesn't seem to like Belkin after all. Oh that was going to be interesting, the fact that he had lived in London now meant that his cousin could visit whenever she wasn't working in the Ministry; absolutely fantastic.