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What a night it’d been. Just hours earlier, Maia couldn’t have imagined herself going to a Valentine’s Day party, and she’d actually enjoyed herself. For the most part, she’d stuck to the outskirts of the crowd, but she had fun, and kissed a few girls here and there. Although, she’d sort of hoped Zelda could be one of them, but knew it wouldn’t have happened. After returning to her dorm, she’d quickly fallen asleep due to exhaustion. But she woke up quite early, as she always did this time of the year (at least there weren’t any nightmares this time). As she moved to get dressed, she’d spotted Hestia Jones awake as well, and they’d agreed to go down to the Great Hall together. 

They soon reached the doors together, the first students to arrive for breakfast. What Maia hadn’t been expecting to see when they walked inside was the girl that’d entered her mind a few times the night before laying on the ground, blood spilling across the floor. A shocked scream escaped her throat, her heartbeat going a mile a minute. “Zelda?!” She whipped her head around towards Hestia. “Hestia, w-what do- what do we do?!” 

Flipping idly through a brand-new muggle history textbook, Ted winced at the sound of the spine cracking. It was going to be a long summer without the promise of returning to Hogwarts motivating his muggle studies. Perhaps the thought of University might prove enough motivation on its own? Ted shook his head at the thought. Even living away from home, he would still be trapped in the muggle world under the direction of the plan. His future had been determined since before his birth, and though he had escaped it for a little while, the future was looming ever closer. Still, the subjects for this summer weren’t horrible, history wasn’t his favorite, but biology and chemistry caught his interest, and english was always tolerable. He was decent in maths, and had gotten ahead of his curriculum last year, so it was one of the few textbooks his father had neglected to send him.

The minute the box arrived at breakfast in the Great Hall, Ted had shoved it under the Hufflepuff table and told his housemates to ignore it. Opening a box of muggle textbooks in such a public place this year would draw the wrong sort of attention, and truth be told, Ted had wanted to ignore them for as long as possible. They were a sign the year was coming to an end, that his mind should be focused on the future, but all Ted wanted to do was live in and enjoy the present while he still could. It was for that very reason Ted snapped the book shut and tossed it onto the coffee table the instant Addie sat down next to him on his favorite couch in the Hufflepuff Common Room. “Hey Addie.” He greeted with a smile. “Perfect timing, I was just about to ignore my responsibilities.”