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Mad Eye Touz 
That just wasn't satisfying to Aspen Odessa. In fact, she pulled back from Cornelius entirely, her little goblin still clasped in her hand. For a change though, Aspen wore her hurt feelings right there, right for him to see, right in her eyes and the pull of her lips.
"If you don't want to miss me then simply don't. Why would you wish to stay mad? And for what?" She took another step away from him. Then another.
She couldn't stop shaking her head at him. Aspen didn't want to do this. No, no no. "I don't understand. I'm wishing for you stop being mad because I miss you and you're wishing to stay mad so won't miss me."
She took yet another step. The beginnings of a retreat.
Cornelius definitely hadn't expected this sort of response from Aspen. He didn't know what he had expected, but it wasn't this. He hadn't even been intending to tell her about how much he was missing her and now that he had, she wasn't taking it well at all. But he realized why as she began to ask her questions, backing away from him and shaking her head back and forth without pause.
"I..." he began, but in the next second he saw her expression in a way he never had before. She was looking at him with all of her hurt feelings prominently displayed on her face, her eyes looking at him as though he'd thrown some unforgiveable insult at her. And he didn't like it at all.
"No, Aspen, I didn't mean it like that," he immediately began to speak, his light brown eyes watching her helplessly as he took a couple steps towards her, trying to get her to stay. She didn't understand, and he realized how his words must have sounded to her.
"It's not that...It's not that missing you is bad..." He paused, trying to figure out how to explain it all to her.
"I just...I got really.." he searched for the proper word to describe his emotions for when he heard about her kiss with Joao.
"...hurt." He glanced over at her with his own set of hurt feelings prominently displayed on his expression, staring straight back at her.
"And I felt really stupid, because I thought..." He paused again, his light brown eyes falling to the snow beneath their feet, obviously feeling rather stupid once more.
"I thought that you liked me." He said it quietly, brows furrowing for a moment before he quickly moved on, trying not to linger on the statement.
"So, no, over the break, I did not think that missing you would be a good thing," Cornelius explained, looking back to her as he attempted to get her to understand.
"Because...Because I should still be mad at you." Shouldn't he? After what happened, shouldn't he have the right to be upset?
"And I was, but then..." He searched her expression, once more finding himself taking in every detail of her features.
"But then, but then I just kept thinking about you, and I just started missing you. And I only wished that I could stop missing you because I felt like...like I was being stupid again, and getting my hopes up."
Before he could stop himself, he had said something else without thinking,
"Please don't go yet."