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Once the ducks realized that Stella had given them the last of the food they were going to get from her, the quacking had ceased. She still couldn't help but grin as the noise had seemed to distract Matt again momentarily, though. It was really like he was trying to commune with the creatures or something, even if he'd assured her he wasn't thinking about turning into a duck. Plus, his explanation actually made some sort of sense, even as she still smiled. "I'm sorry you didn't get to surf. I think the lake might be better than the duck pond, though, if you really wanted to consider getting wet," she commented, unable to not be the tiniest bit teasing. They'd never really explored going to the lake that much anyhow, but it had to be better than the little duck pond. Even if the lake was minus the ducks. "I'd think it might be better when it's not autumn though. Warmer." Kind of like he'd said.
She gave him a look as he'd spoken again, even hypothetically suggesting he'd thought she would have said she didn't like him. Especially as it brought back the point last term when she'd thought he didn't. That wasn't anything she even wanted to consider again. "I more than like you," she corrected, finally getting past the moment and letting a small smile creep across her face as she remembered the park. That was a much better memory than that Potions homework from last term. And then he'd distracted her even more by correcting her use of the term 'normal', and she giggled. "That's true. Although I was just talking about the fact that so far it's been mostly just lessons. Nothing odd's happened yet."
Her giggles calmed down as he'd picked up on her mention of OWLs, however, and an apologetic look crossed her face. "I think we got distracted by other things this summer, once we were in the same place. But I did really well. I got mostly Outstandings and Exceeds Expectations, but at least I managed to pass them all," she replied. She wasn't forced to drop any classes for failing the exams, at least. Even if she still felt like she was horrible at certain subjects. She was still hoping he'd help her with Runes.
Wait.. surf in the lake? Dude that wasn't a bad idea, except for the fact that he both didn't have his surfboard at the school and Matt hadn't been looking to get himself into trouble with the groundskeeper; he had gone through four terms without losing a single point and without getting detention so he was trying to keep that record up. Wasn't difficult either. "Well, that also would be a good idea but I think I can just wait until the holidays; I'd rather just hang out by the water and think." Well that was usually what he did since it was quite peaceful and he usually was off by himself so he could just focus on nothing else but his own thoughts which was always needed after the craziness that constantly went on around this school. "If I tried surfing in the middle of winter around here, I'd end up just sliding along ice and probably fall over loads of times in the process. It really wouldn't be much fun." It wasn't like he was used to the ice entirely either, it was way too hot in Cali for that when the winter came. Plus falling on ice didn't exactly sound like much fun to begin with.
As soon as she corrected him about the whole feelings thing, he couldn't help but replace the empty expression on his face with a slight grin since he knew exactly what she was saying without actually saying the exact words. After the summer, things definitely had changed between them but it was far from being a bad thing; no he just was happy that she was staying in his life.. hopefully for awhile. Quickly thinking about what had happened so far at the school, he realized that her analysis of the term so far was right. "Well you know that's bound to change any moment. Especially with the big celebration for the school." He was definitely curious at what the staff had planned for that since it wasn't everyday that Hogwarts celebrated the 1000th year since it's founding.
When she brought up her OWLs, he couldn't help but smile at her; honestly he was happy to hear that she did so well.. since he definitely had been proud of her since he knew that she could do it even if he ended up helping her study anyway. "Excellent. At least you did better than I did when I told OWLs, but that's not the point." He wasn't about to make a big thing out of exams, even though he was super stressed out over the NEWTs at the end of the term.