#8 Lunch

Jamie hadn't really said anything at Lunch and he had just finished eating and gathered his things to head to Charms Class. It would be interesting to see the newest charm to learn and he was going to do his best, that was what he needed to do.

Jamie didn't hang around when the food disappeared, he headed off to class and was gone before anyone could say anything to him.

Matt focused on eating, not trusting himself to answer Jax or Kaspian.

He frowned as he reached for another piece of cheese only to notice lunch had ended, so his hand grabbed empty air. Well, that was just rude. He wasn't finished that. Cheese was amazing and his family always tried to limit how much he indulged in, especially since they made a lot of their own cheese at home so he had easy access. Or did, until his father put that annoying spell in place.

'We did,' he made an effort to answer Nyx at least since most of her conversation was directed to him or about him. And her progress, of course. 'Jax-en and I hung out in the Private Courtyard. It was fun.'

He reached for more cheese. Oh yeah. Damn it.

'The Owlery?' He glanced at Nyx, then shrugged. 'Sure. Why not?' He got a giddy grin on his face at the reminder they'd be spending the afternoon together. And in private - he shot Kaspian a neutral look though secretly hoped he wasn't about to intrude on their plans again.

Kaspian got to spend the morning with Nyx, so he could just buggar off now. He sighed. Unless Nyx wanted Kaspian to tag along, he supposed. He hoped not. Her words implied not, which was promising.

The Owlery didn't sound very romantic though. Sure, the views were good but like... wasn't that place just a tower of birds and their crap? He shuddered at the thought, having never rally visited it before. Well, he must have, but Matt was pretty good at finding an owl when he needed one that it was rare he had to venture there. He probably hadn't been there for a while, at least.

His cheeks felt red, and he stared at Nyx in awe, when she made it clear that hanging out with him came first - even above harvesting her plants for whatever uses those had. He couldn't hide his grin at that.

'Let's go.' Matt practically shot out of his seat. 'I'll see you guys later,' he added to Jax and Kaspian with a slightly pointed tone so it couldn't be confused for an invite to come along. He glanced at Nyx, and bowed in an "after you" sort of way.


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To say Reena felt disappointed when Jax said he thought it was not a good idea to write their grandparents would be accurate. She felt a bit disheartened by her brother's opinion, did he not want to know more?
She had thought about it and since she knew Jax would refuse to ask their mother about it in fear of upsetting her or plunging her into a hole of deep, dark despair (or whatever), she had expected him to be a little more ready to try and ask their grandparents and with that sparing mummy's feelings.

But he agreed to meet her and she smiled at him relieved, suddenly feeling bad for thinking such awful thoughts. Reena felt like she understood their mother a little better now after seeing howhappy they had all looked in that photograph and she did not actually want to cause her any pain.
She was just generally frustrated with everything and this more often than not lead to her antagonizing their mum.

The food disappeared from the tables and Reena groaned inwardly as she knew now she had to go to Herbology class, her least favourite subject. Plants just really were not her forté and magical plants had a bad habit of being nasty and difficult to deal with.

"See ya", she said as she started walking way more slowly than she had walked to Charms class this morning.
She just hoped Jax would come around on that letter during the afternoon.

[Exit]