"NO! Uh I mean I don't mind the company if you don't mind either" he scratched his head nervously
"I don't mind" she turned back to her table
He moved to the table across from her and started unpacking his tools, she tried not to look at him too much but Merlin he looked so lost
"I umm also wanted to apologize again, for earlier"
"Don't"
"Huh?"
"You already apologized, I said I'm fine, no hard feelings" she raised her gaze and smiled gently
"Sure sure, Thank you" he returned her smile "were you putting your name in the goblet of fire?"
"I was" she returned her gaze to the table and kept working on her plants
"Everyone seems to think you will be the champion"
"Seems like it"
"You don't look excited"
"I don't know..." for a second she forgot she was talking to a Sebastian who didn't remember her, as she was about to pour her mind out she scolded herself, She took a deep breath "You shouldn't concern yourself with that" she sighed
"I was just asking"
"Why?" Maybe if she acted rude he would keep a distance, that's what is better for him she thought, even if her heart wrenches at the thought of it
"I- I want to be friends"
"Why?" Please just go away she thought, it's better like this
"Well you are the only one who has ever bested me in a duel, the way I see it, I'd be wise to keep an eye on you" he jested, the confidence she knew was coming back to his face, and she remembered that's exactly what he told her in their visit to Hogsmeade 2 years ago, but of course, he didn't remember.
"I see" she eyed him carefully "is this one of those "keep your enemies closer" kind of thing?"
"I don't think you are an enemy"
"You don't know me" she raised her eyebrows
"True. But that's why I want to know you"
Maybe it wouldn't hurt? Maybe if she keeps a reasonable distance it would help her close the chapter and move on? Maybe it would be good for everyone? Act like friends and keep it like that, but no. she was poison, she will harm him again she thought. Oh how she actually wanted to just burst through the door and flee back to France, they can shove their tournament up their arse for all she cared about. She kept all her thoughts and emotions safely shielded from view, tucked behind the ice walls she had placed.