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Of course she looked distracted. How easy could it be to be part of this plan? Gwen just couldn’t believe how easily she had been dragged into this whole story. And she still couldn’t understand why Ari didn’t go talk to Jory herself. Her thoughts were then interrupted by something the Badger said. So Jory wasn’t giving up. Nice. ‘It’s nothing’, she said a bit too fast for it to be true.
Gwen failed to notice the fact that the Hufflepuff was staring at the textbook, and that he was looking a bit troubled. Why? Because she was not the kind of person to notice those things. Psh. Please. And leave it to Gwendolyn to talk about the sentimental stuff. Hmph. Come ooon. You can do it. Just ask, she tried to convince herself. It’s not the worst thing to do… well… it actually was…since she would probably feel even more sick than she already was. Oh well.
But then she heard Jory say something else. Not as close as she and Ari were. Well duuuh, the fifth year nearly said, but stopped herself. ‘Oh?’, she enquired. Please just say something.
Anything that would make things easier.
Anything will do.
Pretty please with cherry on top?
And back to Arithmancy. As she listened to Jory talk, the Ravenclaw just nodded. ‘Right’, she said simply, since she didn’t have anything to add for this part. ‘I think we should calculate the last two core numbers, and then we could start with Muggle Studies’ Hopefully Jory was better at teaching than her.
"Fine, don't tell me then,'' Jory said good naturedly. He was getting rather curious as to what Gwen couldn't bring her self to speak about. He had his own thoughts crowding up his head but he was willing to help his friend if something was bothering her.
"Ah well, if she doesn't wanna talk.'' "Alright,'' the Badger said and waited for the Claw to refresh his memory on the remaining Numbers, his quill poised to make more notes.
He looked back at his text. The boy desperately wanted to ask Gwen something but how could he say it without her putting two and two together? But he had to know since he had not seen Ari since weeks ago in Diagon Alley. And a lot could have changed in that time since he had asked her, couldn't it?
"Okay, I'll ask Gwen,'' Jory thought making up his min and trying to gather up as much courage as he could. Keeping his eyes on the text, he turned to the next page and pretended as if he were interested in reading a paragraph about the Life Path numbers.
"Er...,'' he began trying to sound casual.
"Does Ari have a boyfriend?'' He stared at the word "Life" printed on the page without realising it while waiting for an answer.
"Don't let her figure anything out,'' Jory prayed silently and his heart seemed to be hammering so hard in his chest he was sure his friend would hear it in the quiet library. What if she did and she told Ari? Worse yet, if she told Ari and Ari didn't share his feelings? He wasn't afraid of rejection but he was of the hurt that came with it.