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“I think it’s endearing” Ruby swiftly reassured Ryu that despite the Minister’s particular persistence with setting his son up with a date, she didn’t see it as a negative. “He obviously thinks very highly of you as a potential match. Do you not think that your relationship with your parents can paint a picture of how important family is to you?” Perhaps as important as it was to her? Ruby was incredibly close to her parents, to her siblings, to her wider familial unit in general, it saddened her to think that others weren’t so. She understood why some people lacked that connection with their family and in many cases a clean break could be warranted, she could just never be that person herself. “And being the Minister of Magic, I’d gather he was a particularly good judge of character.” He’d surely met enough people of all walks of life to know the difference. All that was to say that even with her initial reluctance, Ruby wasn’t taking this date as a charitable cause.
She was, after all, equally as shy and out-of-practice and self-deprecating and hadn’t considered herself enough of a catch to warrant gaining that type of attention. It hadn’t worked out for her before, why would it be any different now? “Thank you for taking pity on me” she laughed a little, stepping through the door, brushing off the flurry of snow that had landed on her shoulder and casting a hot air charm on them both to eliminate the dampness from their clothes. “You have your father’s charm.” Which might have been more to do with nurture rather than nature but it was still a beautifully positive thing to inherit nevertheless.
Stepping into the tea shop was like being struck by a sickeningly sweet sense of nostalgia. The smell of freshly baked goods wafting from the kitchen, the lacy decor reminiscent of an old-lady’s front room, the slightly alarming number of much younger couples.. She hadn’t been ‘lucky’ enough to frequent the establishment much as a student, let alone as an adult who was supposed to have her entire life procured by now. Her eyes glanced over at the thankfully more secluded table away from the centre of the room. Her stomach dropped a little at the sight of the gift however, it hadn’t even crossed her mind that she had appeared empty handed. “You didn’t have to buy me anything” she turned to her companion with a mildly sheepish expression. Unless that present wasn’t for her in which case she had just made an absolute fool of herself for assuming it was.
How were people so natural with this?!
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