HOME AND AWAY ╱ @entitlcd
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‘ I’M JUST GLAD YOU’RE ALL HOME, SAFE AND SOUND. ’ his mother patted him on the back and dropped a plate of food in front of his brother who jack now understood had been asleep for most of the ATTACK, which sounded. . . not exactly untrue, but he wasn’t sure he believed it either. josh could SLEEP, but that deeply? ‘ the cards told me i’d get an unexpected surprise, and here you three are, HOME way ahead of your half-term break! ’ she rambled on, shaking her head as she cooked and fretted about. not that jack was complaining about that, but he certainly wasn’t. . . IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
NOT BEING IN HIS RIGHT MIND IN FRONT OF HIS MOTHER? it always led to awkward questions, and he tried to hide it, but- ‘ i will be speaking to your father about this. look at you jackie, all rattled. maybe you can commute or study from home. muggle children did it just last year, and they’re. . . well, not fine, but ALIVE. ’ lizzie mclaggen’s hair flew all about the kitchen in her nervous ramblings, and so she missed him shaking his head. JOSH DIDN’T. ‘ alright nerd, chill. ’ he said between mouthfuls, ‘ let the rest of us miss school then. i can still see my friends though, right ma’? ’ MISSING SCHOOL would be highly inconvenient.
‘ OH NO, YOU’LL BE GOING. YOU NEED IT. but jackie, dear- ’ jack’s blue eyes met his mother’s green ones, as josh began to protest, and he knew he needed to look more composed. he wasn’t about to tell her the TRUTH, though he kissed grace. did he want to face her now that he’d done it? no. did he want to quit hogwarts due to it? . . .ALSO NO? ‘ i’m going back to hogwarts, mum. ’ she clicked her tongue and looked annoyed, but luckily his father called her from the other room. when she didn’t argue it further, he felt RELIEF. however, he also felt kind of confused. so, he turned to his brother. . . ‘ JOSH? ’
‘ IF I HAD KISSED NATALIE, WHAT. . . WOULD I DO NOW? ‘ A NOISE. JAMIE? ‘ -YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT. ‘