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[thenextbigdeal]

Sylvie really wasn't thinking about her birthday when Cade asked her to meet him outside. She thought this might be when they were going to sit down and discuss the "breakup". She wasn't looking forward to this. She knew the breakup was necessary but she kind of liked dating him, even if it was fake. She didn't have worry about Jax and Alfie and

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[snakehalf]

Bolly's ability to immediately obtain a stacked plate of sausage rolls at any gathering that offered them was unparalleled. His present for Sylvie, a large crocheted soft toy snake with button eyes, felt tongue, and a tickle-triggered animation charm that made it wriggle when you scratched its head, had taken him until basically the last second to finish, and he felt he deserved a reward.

[thenextbigdeal]

"I love the gift!" Sylvie hugs him. "This is so cute!"

[snakehalf]

"Happy birthday!" He hugs her back as best he can without dropping his plate. "I think I've gotten better at making the stitches evenly sized. The mouth was the hardest part."

[thenextbigdeal]

"It looks really good for a beginner. I hadn't tried anything like this," Sylvie told him.

[snakehalf]

"I started off trying something way more complicated," Bolly admitted, "but I gotta find out how to do joints and things because it looked so bad. So bad!" He giggled. "This one is basically just the wristband you showed me, but longer, and two of them sewn edge to edge so I could stuff the inside."

[thenextbigdeal]

"This was great. You can totally learn to do more complicated things later. I'll ask Madam Rowan."

[snakehalf]

Bolly nods enthusiastically. "And then you can show me. Do you think she practices by sewing students up when they get hurt?"

[thenextbigdeal]

Sylvie laughs, "I don't think so."

[snakehalf]

Bolly laughs too. "It's really cool of her to teach you."

[thenextbigdeal]

"She's just really cool. I like her a lot. Sometimes I just hang out in the hospital wing."

[snakehalf]

"I guess Madame Rowan doesn't have much company most of the time," Bolly says thoughtfully. "Like, kids come in and out, but only while injured. It's probably quite sad."

[thenextbigdeal]

"That does sound sad." Sylvie frowns, Madam Rowan is so nice. She hates the idea of her being lonely.

[snakehalf]

"We should all make an effort to go say hi when we're okay," Bolly decides, already pulling his work journal out to add it to the list. "Maybe I can put her on Auggie's socialisation schedule."

[thenextbigdeal]

Sylvie quirks an eyebrow, "Socialization schedule?"

[snakehalf]

Bolly nods. "Yeah, dad was worried that Auggie wasn't socialising enough, even though he totally was. So we made him a schedule of cousin check-ins. Madame Rowan's not a cousin, so far as I know, but she could still go on the list."

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"Yeah, I bet she'd apprecaiate it," Sylvie said. "I'm in there once a week usually, just to hang out. She doesn't kick me out."