Closed That Triplet Feeling

[Ruben Right]

Ruben was in the student lounge just chilling, today had been a long day and honestly he just needed a moment to organise his thoughts. Surprisingly the dorms and common room were too crowded for something like that so Ruben decided to try the student lounge.
It was more quite than the other places but yet it still had people around but it would have to do. He hadn't been there alone yet, he didn't felt the need to go there mostly because the painful memory of his brother Valentin leaving was associated with that room. Now that the Slytherin boy was alone with his thoughts in that room he could not stop thinking about that event. Loneliness. All he felt was that. When the former Hufflepuff left was like a part of Ruben also left his body, he had never felt such thing before. Valentin was one third of Ruben and now that part was gone. That special bond that twins and triplets had was a real thing after all.
He started to wish he could be in a crowded place like the common room so he wouldn't feel so lonely. He knew that a crowded place wouldn't fix the problem, he needed his brother back. He had Veronica and his connection with her was probably the strongest from all the connections between the three of them, she was the best but he couldn't help but miss Valentin. His eyes was starting to get glassy, he knew he was about to start crying but he couldn't let himself do that, there were too many people around.

 

[James Woodlock II]

James hadn't been at his new school for very long but he was enjoying exploring the castle, which was a useful way to avoid his common room as much as possible as his sister never seemed all too pleased to see him so he did his best to keep out of her way. One of the best places to go was the student lounge because it had much of the comforts of the common room with the added benefit of having students from different houses he could interact with and he had been able to meet some interesting people there so far. After leaving a packed common room it was the student lounge where James chose to go and he found a familiar face in there already, another Slytherin first year, he recognized him from the sorting ceremony and some of their lessons together. "Hey, Ruben right?"

 

[Ruben Right]

Ruben was so deep in his thoughts that he almost jumped at the sound of his name being said, he tried to discreetly pass his hand through his eyes to clean the forming tears and compose himself. He looked at the person who was calling his name and was surprised to see a housemate from his year "That's my name, Ruben Right" he said taking advantage of the pun and chuckling a bit to cheer himself up from his previous mood. "You are James" he stated to the other boy. Ruben knew the name of every first year in his house, mostly because he also shared a room with every guy in his year so it was useful to know their names, hopefully the other boy wouldn't consider him a stalker or something similar.
Ruben moved to one side of the couch he was sitting on to allow room for the other boy to sit too "So what brings you here?" he said hoping that talking about the other boy would briefly distract him from his thoughts.

 

[James Woodlock II]

James wasn't surprised Ruben knew his name, they were roommates after all and while they weren't close they shared all their classes together so were certainly familiar with each other. "I am James yes," He agreed taking a seat near the boy. "Boredom mostly, can only spend so much time in the common room you know?" James said, he'd also done his fair share of exploring but it wasn't as fun to do so alone.