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Pffft. PFFFFFFFFFFT. He was LAUGHING at her. Pffffffffffffffffffft.
"M'not a nerd," Soph mumbled as she kept her gaze on the piano keys, uncharacteristically embarrassed as Tobes helped wipe her tears. "I would've been fine, if you hadn't hugged me. Nerd. " She snuck a glance up at him and smiled softly, thoroughly understanding that he was quite touched and he was using light humor to cover up the emotions he was having. It was easy to let that go and not tease him this time, since she was still experiencing many feelings, and he had the keen ability to make her cry even more if he wanted. Once the tear barrier had broken, she was undoubtedly going to be super sensitive to anything too-nice he had to say.
"Thanks," she rested her hand atop his and gave it a squeeze, still smiling a bit bashfully. "When I heard the song, it just... felt... like... appropriate. Like it's us. It just..." Sophie paused, looking at him very seriously, then glanced at the sheet music on the piano and scanned the pages with her eyes before lifting a finger and pointing to a certain string of lyrics. "When I'm sad, you're a clown, and if I get scared - which doesn't happen too often, mind you, thus reducing your chances to fulfill this - you're always around." Her finger skipped the part about his hair - though there was a time when Tobes' hair was adorably shaggy - and she pointed, "With you I can't go wrong."
She smiled as he grew fidgety and began playing around with the piano, and she moved her wrapped present from hiding and set it in her lap. He could keep playing, if he wanted. "This isn't your only birthday present from me - not the piano, and not this present - but I wanted to give it to you now, since I just got to use it. It's... for both of us to share. Thought it'd help with... coping with stuff," she smiled, offering him the package and waiting for him to open it with anticipation. "Surely y'can guess who has the other."
"Really?" Toby replied, an amused grin spreading across his face.
"Well, I can stop hugging you if you really want?" He was, OF COURSE, totally absolutely joking there. Unless, like... she really did want him to stop. In that case he wasn't joking and totally would. So... y'know.
Those lyrics... yeah. Yeah, he COULD see how Soph would totally read that as applying to them, and Toby smiled a little more as he followed her finger pointing at the words. He didn't read them though, as Soph had that covered, and he knew them well enough to remember.
"Well, y'know. I'll always be your clown. And I'll always be there for you when you're scared, which, y'know, totally happens more often than you admit. Pretty sure you're still scared of Thompson. Which, by the way, is hilarious." Just so she knew, ehehe. But again, the humour was covering up the seriousness which was probably not wise during a touching moment like this, but he didn't want to start CRYING, okay? Soph had seen him cry more times than he cared to admit.
Toby instantly paused his piano tinkering as a present was offered to him, and his hands automatically moved to that instead. New things to fidget with? Yes pls. The sixth year took it from Soph's hands and sort of felt and weighed it for a moment, before he glanced at the Ravenclaw and back and carefully peeled off the wrapping, to seeeee...
... his face. No. A
mirror. A TWO WAY mirror judging by how Sophie was talking about it. Tobias looked into it, staring at the odd expression, a mixture of happy and hesitant and ???sad??? and all sorts, on the face staring back at him.
"Who?" was all he said. But he was pretty sure he already knew exactly who had the other.