Originally Posted by Lexers

Lucas had spotted the girl, all bright hair and disobeying clear normality by stepping out into the water. Hadn't she read Hogwarts, A History? There was a SQUID in there. These crazy people had even named him. Henry. He snorted inwardly, still breathing in staggered intervals and red in the face. He, in his eternal absent-mindedness, hadn't noticed the girl walking towards him, concern plastered all over her face Lucas realised he must be acting weirder than usual. Weirder for him, anyway.

"Huh, oh, uh, yeah." He sucked in a breath and grimaced. "It was just there's a lot of classes and stuff, I got a bit, uh, panicked." Realising he'd basically just told her that he'd gotten freaked out about something as trivial as classes and she was a girl and was probably going to judge him. Hard. He backtracked and fast. "Not panicked, panicked. Just like.. " Oh man, this was just getting like too much information for a pretty stranger. "I'm Lucas," he interrupted his own rambling and got up to stick a hand out to her. "And I'm all good."