"Reading is pretty interesting, depending on what it was. Besides reading, I went on a trip with my family. We went to a zoo, a couple parks, and a family reunion. It was alright, but there were a lot of crowds and noise and everything in that world seems so dull now in comparison. I couldn't even say anything about it to anyone, especially my family. They asked a lot of questions, but I couldn't really answer." Eli said. He'd found himself missing her especially during that trip, since despite her family being made up entirely of wizards and witches she didn't seem to look down on him for his muggle family and he thought she'd have understood what he was saying. He also just generally liked being around her; she was not only his best friend, but also the prettiest girl he'd ever met, that being part of the reason he'd worked up the courage to talk to her during their first train ride to school, and he liked her a lot. He'd never said anything about it though, he barely had the social skills to have a best friend, he was fairly sure, so to date someone like her would probably be too much to ask. Besides that, she was bullied for even being friends with him and he assumed it'd be even worse if they were dating. He kept those thoughts secret, but as with any set of male and female best friends there were always rumors about them, and he was pretty sure the others in his house had noticed when he stopped denying them so much.