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But just as she was about to give her friend a quick squeeze, her attention was drawn over to Alice who was being very demanding and pushy... she was so proud. What a good little girl. Demanding things from people. The sixth year always knew that Alice was good people. Little spitfire, that one was. And then, suddenly, Alice shoved something into Selina's hand. The redhead perched her eyebrow in surprise at the letter and was about to open it when Alice asked her not to... weird. But she would respect Alice's wishes. The little third year had earned that- her respect.
Was Selina giving her a look? Alice couldn't tell, but there seemed to be a glimpse of.. was that PRIDE on her face? The lioness gave up on trying to read her Captain's expressions and instead beamed at the older girl through her blurry, teary eyes. It was hard to imagine a Quidditch season without her.. and she could only hope for someone decent to take her place. What if they got someone lousy?! What THEN? The girl tried to push the thoughts out of her mind as she gave Selina one last tear-filled smile. The Harpies weren't gonna know what hit them.
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sweetpinkpixie ....but then Alice happened, drawing Kurumi's attention temporarily away from her best friend and towards the now fourth year Gryffindor. Her eyes widened when she was given a stuffed animal and a letter. Kurumi's entire focus had been on the stuffed animal, so she didn't hear Alice ask her not to read the letter until she was off the train. Kurumi could feel the tears already forming in her eyes - hadn't the card from everyone been more than enough? - she opened the letter with slightly trembling hands and began to read.
Kurumi felt both hot and cold as she read through the letter, her cheeks flushing and her vision blurring at the same time. Cold because she felt a little empty inside, all her emotions trickling down her cheeks in the form of tears, but hot because she was truly touched by Alice words. Kurumi couldn't even wait the few short seconds it took to fold up the paper and sort of let it just fall on her lap as she reached for Alice and pulled her in for a hug. Hopefully the gesture was able to convey everything that she couldn't say right now.
Okay.. yeah, Kurumi, go ahead and open it, that was cool, too. Alice couldn't keep the frown off her face when her Hogwarts mum started to cry.
"No. No, Cookie, don't be SAD." That was not the point of this. And then.. she was squished. She wrapped her arms around Kurumi and gave her a squeeze, but she pulled away before she could start crying, as well.
"I'm going to miss you. And I love you." She did. She did, a lot. Before the tears could start, Alice shot one more tearful glance at the girl, and then ran out of the compartment before the former Prefect could see her tears.