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Cassirin 
Oh, nooooooo oh no oh no. It seemed like even when Dot was trying her hardest not to do the wrong thing and get on people's wrong side, she was still sticking her nose in it. This was exactly why Dima had been so mad at her, and now Thornton...
Was he mad too? It was hard to say. Confused, and sometimes confusion led to anger. "I don't think I want to learn to play an instrument, but you could play me a song and I'll dance and it'll be like we're performing together."
She wished she could drop the snogging talk, but that was hard since she was the one who had brought it up. Dot tilted her head and smiled. Disarming, hopefully. "Maybe she wouldn't. I think she just said you were really nice, and I agreed. And that you read a funny quiz in the library together."
Thornton wasn't at all mad, just confused. Everyone had clearly continued being interested in snogging over the break, but it had never occurred to him that
Paige would be interested, so hearing it suggested by Dot was unsettling.
"We could do that, too. I sometimes play in that empty office, but Professor Flamsteed suggested another space that I want to try. We could do that."
He leaned on his cart, rolling it forward and back a little as he considered what she said.
"She's my best friend." He shrugged. So it made sense that she thought he was nice. He laughed, though, at the quiz.
"It was weird. I don't really even understand why that book was in the library. It was all quizzes and snogging tips and stuff." He remembered how Paige had grabbed his hand at that one question and how he had frozen. Hm.