"You're right, okay? I just wanted you to be mine. But I didn't think about the long term. I was just focusing on being with you. I had almost forgotten that we would be going in two different directions at the end of summer. I should've been more conscious about the whole thing. I had no right to be that selfish. I shouldn't have asked you out. "

                "No! You think you'd be used to hearing it by now with how many times that sweet Lily girl has turned you down. . . " Sirius snickered into his eggs, choking on them a little.

"Mallory, 'ere is your book list. Go and get tzem while I take ta frere to get 'is robes. 'e's grown out of tze third set in two years. It makes me thankful tzat you are petite. I could not 'andle 'aving to go through tze fitting process with you two again," Mme. Blanc said as she shoved the book list into her daughter's hand. 

"It's nothing, Papa. Mamman and Brady are making more of it then it actually is. I was trying to get a book off the top shelf in the book store and couldn't reach it because of my height due to faulty genetics. He happened to be getting the same book, so he decided to be a gentleman and help me get it down. It was nothing more than that; just a guy being nice to me. Big deal, ladies," Mallory said, rolling her eyes at the end for emphasis.