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Ella raised her eyebrows when Edric burst into laughter, not expecting it. So the boy could laugh! That was good sign! It meant that he wasn't secretly a robot or something. Which would have been quite scary! She joined in his laughter, feeling more at ease now.
The speed at which Edric's laughter died out wasn't lost on Ella but she was too caught up in her own thoughts at the moment to comment on it. She was quite relieved that he agreed about boys being weird. She couldn't imagine a school full of them. There was probably a lot of bravery dares and chest bumping going on, no? "Why are they so weird?" She asked, not really expecting Edric to have an answer. It would be nice to hear what he thought about the subject though.
The second year was focused on the gummy bears so when Edric suggested the topiary might like some she looked up at him, red faced. BUSTED. She giggled when he then opted to maybe share with a human. She was a human! Pick me, gummy bear king! "I choose door number two!" She said a little too excitedly, holding out her hands. "I'm sorry but I just LOVE gummys."
"Must be something in the DNA," muttered Edric with a shrug as Ella asked why boys were so weird. In all honesty, he had no idea, even though he was a boy himself. "But, based on my experience… it has come to my attention that boys are usually at their weirdest when there are girls around," he added, brows furrowed thoughtfully as he looked back on his years at Ashworth's All-Boys Academy. Since it was an all-boys school, the guys went kind of 'cuckoo' when there was a -
gasp! - female around. It was like a holiday.
As Ella decided she wanted the gummy bears shared with herself and not the topiary, the Gryffindor couldn't help but smile with amusement.
Honestly.
Who would've thought it would've been a little twelve-year-old who would've gotten Mr. Scrooge to show amusement?
"Well sit down," he said, gesturing toward the empty space beside him at the bench. Once Ella had joined him, he handed her the bag of gummy bears. "Take as many as you want. The bag refills itself three times before it officially runs out," he explained with excitement. Clearly he was a bit of a gummy bear lover himself, though he tried to seem as cool and uninterested about it as possible.