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Hmm - the old friend was female. Rachel fought over keeping her face neutral as she listened to him talk, smiling politely as he talked about this girl. Wait - come back in her fourth year... ? So - that means she's a third year, or even a second year - which makes her too small! Grinning fully now the fifth year nodded as Reid explained why he had come back and smiled as he said that she was like a sister to him.
"I've always wanted a sibling... It must be nice, having another kid in the family, you know?" she commented absentmindedly, knowing that he would be able to relate since as far as she knew he didn't have any brothers or sisters. "So is this Ruby a troublemaker or something?" Rachel asked, wondering why Reid would enroll in a different school just to keep an eye on a girl. As far as she knew, Ruby wasn't in Ravenclaw which was a bit of a shame - they could have looked out for her together.
Slightly chuckling at the insanely slow pace they were walking at, she caught a glimpse of her bruised ankle and her fingers automatically went to the pocket of Reid's jacket, where she knew the bruise remover was. "What do you think?" she asked, holding out her leg and stopping for a moment. "Should I use the cream to remove it or let it heal naturally?" Rachel asked, weighing the options in her head.
She could remove it and not have to deal with Jake and his insufferable yet cute rants about how she should be more careful or she could keep it and have people stare at her funny when she walked. All in all, she preferred the staring, but she wanted to know Reid's opinion. It was nice to know that she could get someone's opinion since she had pretty much been alone again this year - what with Livvy and Jenn and Keltan all disappearing on her.
"Yea it is nice. With her I also got an older brother and sister out of her two siblings. It's good to have someone to talk to because between the three of them they filled the silence pretty well." When mentioning silence Reid's eyes turned dark and you could tell that he was referring to the silence left by the death of his twin Alex. A silence that would never fully be filled. "As far as I know she isn't a troublemaker. Not how Sakura described her and how I've seen her anyway." he said shrugging. "She's a second year Slytherin and I guess she has the potential to be dangerous. It's just her boyfriend was murdered by her uncle during the summer holidays it kind of pushed her over the edge. Sakura also dealt with the loss of her boyfriend. They were twins and Hufflepuff students I think. Either way Ruby changed afterwards and I figured coming here could be exciting and new. It's turned out to be better than I imagined."
Glancing down at Rachel Reid couldn't help but to smile in reaction to her laughter. They were going at an insanely slow pace but who cared? Reid certainly didn't. Reid paused for a moment while weighing up his answer to her question. "That depends. If you don't remove it people will probably stare and you'll have to explain it away. If you do use it no-one will know what happened, that anything happened at all. Personally I'd leave it and embellish the story of how I got the bruise." he told her before starting to walk again. It felt good having her ask his opinion.