Text Cut: Nina & Eiji :)
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Originally Posted by
ArianaBlack 
Nina shifted a little in her seat, adjusting her skirt before looking up at Eiji when he addressed her again. "You're not going to eat it?" She would normally turn down such an offer, but soup was her favorite and it wasn't like Eiji to offer something without meaning it. She paused for a moment before looking at the girl sat across from them. Jina meant well, but Nina wished they could have the compartment to themselves.
And though Jina was a little too cheerful and talkative for her liking, Nina knew that she would have to entertain the girl's questions so as to give Eiji a break. She felt bad for the Ravenclaw, there was no way for her to know that her cheery questions could potentially set him off.
And so despite herself, Nina sat up properly and took the lead in answering the question. "It was lovely. I spent some time with Calyx," she smiled. It was strange that they were all returning to school as seventh years this year. She didn't want to have to think about the way her relationships might change as a result of graduation. "And i spent some time in London for a summer program." She hated this, for the record. Not the summer program, but the small talk. "How was yours?"
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Originally Posted by
sweetpinkpixie
He shook his head at Nina's question. "I never do. Dad always insists on sending me off to school with some though." The first term he had actually eaten it and gladly so. Every other year had been...more creative methods because he couldn't just pour it OUT. That would be wasteful as well as disrespectful to his dad.
By this point he knew that he was simply being a jerk difficult towards Jina and he was TRYING to claw himself out of the mood but it was hard to remove oneself from a deep seeded melancholy you did not know had been growing inside you for close to seven years. He also knew that Nina was, quite literally, harmless and only trying to serve as a middle ground for conversation...but his salt was spilling over to the point that he would even spit a little fire at her.
And that came the moment she mentioned her boyfriend.
"That's her eager puppy," he explained with the most pleasant of smiles to Jina. Because that was what the Gryffindor was, an eager puppy on a Nina sized leash yipping and yapping all the praises for his master.
And did...he really need to talk about his summer?
"I spent most of the summer at Himitsumahou finishing out their term. Then turned of age."
She was trying to interpret the look Nina gave her … like she wanted her to leave the compartment. Jina was actually thinking of doing that, since it was quite awkward sitting opposite the two close Slytherin kids. Maybe she could find a seat with Jillian when she wasn’t patrolling the corridors. Anyway, she had asked about their summers and was genuinely interested to hear about them. It seemed like all the seventh years did something different during the break. It was a good time to relax, study and explore career options.
“That sounds great. What was your summer program on?” she replied to Nina … ignoring Eiji’s unnecessary comment. But he also received questions from her regarding his summer.
“Happy belated birthday. What was it like at Himitsumahou? How is the curriculum different from Hogwarts?”
Don’t worry, she was planning to leave after the followup Q&A session (which may take forever given her Ravenclaw curiosity). She realised that she forgot to talk about her own summer because of all the questions she had, but figured that the others were probably not too curious anyway, hehe.