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"What do you mean by used to? You're not in your Aunt's place anymore?" she heard Erin ask. RIGHT. For the months they were completely out of each other's reach, many things had took place and this was one she didn't have a chance to tell Erin. "Oh, yea. Remember? I told you my Aunt Bel got married and then they moved to Japan. That's why I'm at my Grandmother's." Beezus nodded. Technically, she still had right to return to their previous home but she didn't want to since no one lived there anymore, and her Grandmother wouldn't obviously permit her unless she had someone the woman can trust with her.
Beezus couldn't help but hug Erin again. She was so nice, gone was that brat who used to bully and bicker with other people. Clearly, she missed the part where her best friend had mentioned her Mum. "Elise is so lucky to have you. And so am I." VERY TRUE. Silently, she hoped Elise's family problems would be resolved soon.
With a head on her hand, Beezus positioned herself on the lane before answering Erin's next questions. Good thing she was wearing sneakers, bending the ankles for a better aim wasn't a problem. She eyed the pins on the far side of the lane for a while before releasing the head and BLAM! it went, moaning curses all the way through, and plowing down 4 pins. Not bad.
Why didn't she tell Indy beforehand? PFFT. She moved to give way to Erin, returning to the part she was standing before in front of the metal head holder. "Why didn't I tell her?" The brunette shook her head. "I didn't want her to get hurt Erin. I mean, was I supposed to say something like, 'hey Indy! Your boyfriend wants to break up with you, just thought you would want to know', huh? Should I have said something like that?" This was starting to darken her mood. She just didn't think it would help the situation if she actually did it. But in the end, she was the one who appeared bad. Then, there came the trickier cut. "Uhh..he...he....just told me...because we're also friends..and..." SIGH. "...Oh, I don't know, it's..it's complicated." Surely, Erin won't notice the stuttering right?
As their conversation went on, Beezus decided to get another Shrunken head. It had the most disgusting face she had ever laid eyes on. A very large forehead, large eyes that almost popped out of their sockets with streaks of blood in it, a nose that looked like its missing half of its whole, and a mouth sewn together by a gooey colored thread. "Eww." she muttered with severity and took the effort to return her attention to her best friend. "So...you're with your real biological family now? How did you know you were adopted anyway? How did they find you? Did your Dad..errr foster dad objected? How certain are you that they're your true family? " Questions surged in one after the other. She was concerned about Erin. If adjusting to Hogwarts during their first year was difficult enough, how else would be to learn you have a new family with new family members that you didn't even had knowledge of?
So, that explains it. It was like, whatever happened to Erin's life happened to Beezus' too. Both of their lives had drastically changed over the years they weren't talking to each other. Of course, she wanted to write to her but she's so upset, she couldn't even hold her quill steady. But now, they have each other's shoulders, for support and for friendship, for strong bond. Best friends forever.
"Oh, so that's why. I miss my Nana, but I can't imagine myself living with her." Of course, she was talking about her Grandmomma from her adoptive mother's side. She's the only grandmother she knew.
And then before Beezus roll the shrunken head on her hands, Erin got a hug from her. She 's so sweet. She eyed the Ravenclaw do her thing with the head and baaaaam! Four pins hit.
"Great job, Castell!" she side commented. And it's her turn now. Lowering her body a bit, slightly leaning on her right side, she held the shrunken head with difficulty. It's just too hard to keep it steady with all the talking coming from it. Doing her math, with all the angles of the path the head could possibly follow, she decided to roll it slightly from the right side. Erin watched the head hitting six pins, well only because others disappeared.
"That was so unfair!" Erin cried, she could have hit all the pins. Bummer!
After a slightly bad mood she felt with the pins disappearing, she averted her attention to Beezus who were now explaining her side about not telling Indy what she knew beforehand. Though, Erin on the other hand would most likely tell Beezus everything - since their bestfriends - even if it meant hurting her, she couldn't help the fact that Beezus had some good point in there.
"Okay, I just hope you two could figure things out and be besties again." Then came the thing about the boyfriend telling the bestfriend about it.
Complicated? What did she meant by complicated? She was a Ravenclaw, she couldn't miss the important words, of course but instead of dwelling with those kinds of things, she didn't want herself indulging too much into some things Beezus doesn't want to share yet. In time, she may just blurt it out.
Moving on to Erin's real family situation, came Beezus inquiring side. She asked everything she could ask.
"Woah! Easy Bee," she uttered to her bestfriend. She tried to keep steady, eyed the lane first but decided to keep it towards Beezus.
"Well, you know that my Dad isn't too fond of me when Mum died. And then somewhere in between those days, on the summer before second year, Tina loathes me so much. I used to tell you we're so close right?" And she missed that little sister of her.
" And then we had the biggest arguments ever, that I didn't want to tell anyone, even you... How about we just talk about these some other time? Since, I just wanted to be happy right now, okay?" Because if she told anyone, it would mean everything was true. And Erin didn't want it to be true. She didn't want to feel guilt. She didn't want to be happy because she felt so guilty. She smiled towards her bestfriend.