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Mad Eye Touz 
"And my best friend knows all about you." Okay, maybe not everything. Maybe not every detail. But Kellen knew enough... Mostly... "I don't even KNOW who your best friend IS, Jim... Doesn't that say something? You don't... you only talk to me when no one is around."
She waved a hand around to the empty corridor, illustrating the point. Would he have stopped to talk to her if someone was here to witness? Probably NOT.
Neptune hopped down from her perch though, leaving her things behind in the window. She moved in front of him, crossed her arms, and jutted a hip out. "As ridiculous as ALL of that is," because it mostly was, "at least you were a special little secret, Jim Wilkes. I NEVER said ANYTHING bad about you ever to any of MY friends. I... well. I might have liked you a lot, before I got smart and moved well and truly on."
LIES.
It might have been about her all the time, but the thing was... Neptune had been all about HIM all the time. Tragically, still was, despite trying pretty hard not to be.
"It says that you don't LISTEN to me." James grounded out. "My best friend is, and always has been," Except for that brief moment where he'd kind of started considering it to be her, "Finlay Carmichael and you KNOW that, or you would if you paid any attention to
ME and who I am and not just what I can give to
you."
Gospel. GOSPEL, Neptune Bott.
He crossed his arms over his chest too when she moved to stand in front of him, his jaw set. It was weird. Noticing, after not having her nearby for long enough that it was obvious, she seemed shorter. Actually it was just that he'd found another inch since the last time they'd... talked.
"Its your
fault, everything I
said." Cam had been.... teasing him and... well obviously it wasn't like Neptune had ever given any indication that she wanted people to KNOW about stuff, and maybe a big part of his denial to Cam had been an attempt to deny things to himself because who in their right mind would want to acknowledge maybe liking someone a bit more than you'd prefer, when that person used you and didn't want others to know about you and generally made no indication that an unwanted feeling like that was gonna be returned?
He clamped his jaw shut again and blinked furiously.
Something. In. His. Eye.