Originally Posted by NiallNIP

Quinn relaxed a bit as Dahlia talked. They were a bit relieved that she wasn't upset, but they knew that there was no way everyone was alright with it. But even if only Lia would talk with them again, that was alright. "Yeah...I'm still so sorry. I should have written. I was just scared, for a bit, of my parents finding out, taking some other extreme measure against me, and then it had been years and I thought that maybe you all would be better off if I didn't try to reach out to you. Writing after being gone for so long and you all had moved on with your lives felt...cruel, somehow. Especially with the fact that I wouldn't be able to return to Hogwarts anyway. And then once I thought that was a stupid idea, I had graduated. And I wasn't sure where everyone had gone off to or how to contact you all, either. And then I couldn't bear to come home, so I just...kept moving. I lived all over Europe, did odd jobs, stayed in hostels and sublets. And I never stayed in one place for too long. I only just came back to England in December."

Quinn sighed. That wasn't everything that had gone on, but it was the general overview, and they couldn't talk about themself for the whole time, could they? "Sorry for just blabbering on—I just felt like I needed to explain myself. And that you deserved some form of explanation. But how have you been? What are you up to?" Lia had an equal amount of things happen to her, for sure, and Quinn wanted to hear it all.