Kaede looked at Merlina as she talked about what she could do about it. Merlina seemed to know a lot, and it also seemed that she was good at dealing with things like that as well. She returned the smile Merlina had aimed at her. At times like this she was glad that she had a friend like Merlina to talk to. "Do you think that would work?" She hoped that it would be a good plan. Now that she had a plan, the only thing she had to do now was get the nerve to tell someone. She was kind of nervous, but she knew it would be worthwhile if she did.
Merlina started plucking at the petals of a daisy, and it made Kaede think of the old thing she used to do when she liked a boy. He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not... she thought to herself. Smiling, she had the urge. Her friend asked if there was a song to it, Kaede personally could not recall. "I'm not sure if there is, Is there?"
She listened as Merlina talked about a boy named Oscar who was a Ravenclaw. Kaede thought that she had seen him around before, but since she didn't know for sure, she didn't want to say anything. If the person she was thinking of wasn't him it would be utterly embarassing. When she started talking about some girl who had been rude, that enraged Kaede. Even if Merlina said she could be blunt, that didn't mean that girl had to be so rude. No one ever has a really good excuse to be rude, they just do it because they feel so bad about themselves that they feel the need to pick on others. "That girl was mean to you? Don't worry about her, even if your blunt, that doesn't give her a right to be rude. I don't think of you like that, and I also think being blunt is a good thing, at least for me." Kaede had been lied to a lot during her life, and she was glad that she finally had a friend who would tell her what she thought instead of making up something so Kaede could feel good about herself. That's the kind of friend that she wanted.