Sumire hummed a pretty little tune she'd heard on the radio this morning while getting ready. She opted for a simplistic outfit; just a pale pink summer dress with a white denim jacket with the sleeves rolled up and light pink slip-on flats. On her wrists was a pink jade bracelet, a gift from Felix. Surprisingly, her fiancé and her's correspondences had gotten quite infrequent and dull. His replies were short, and full of the kind of voice that said he was avoiding her. It frightened her. Not just because it felt as if her future husband was slipping through her fingers, but because she was losing such a big part of her life. Her father was far too vague to be in the dark about Felix's reason for changing so quickly either. He told her that it had something to do with growth and distance.
But Sumire knew better.
She sighed as she pulled her hair into a high-ponytai; no use getting upset over it, she thought as she applied a pink lip tint over her lip balm adorning lips. She could only hope that someday Felix would come to his senses, and if anything else they could at least go back to their friendly state. She felt unnerved that things were changing, and a little anxious to be quite honest that in just a year - sooner or later at least - she was to undergo a transformation of her physical, mental, and magical self. It gave her shudders to think that the way she was now, wasn't to be the same as it would be. So was the way of life, her mother wrote to her, change was the world's greatest inevitability.
Well if one thing wasn't to change, Sumire thought as she waited by the Secret Entrance to Hogsmeade, it was her friendship. Upon spotting Finley she grinned brightly and waved without caution.
"Finley! Over here!" She exclaimed, ignoring the odd looks from the upper and lower classmen. If one thing wasn't to change about her crazy life, it was her friendship to none other than Finley Allen.
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