She sent the rose! Hudson couldn't believe it, maybe he hadn't been imagining the chemistry he felt with Mhairi after all. He was however interrupted by yet another person asking the same question he asked to the same person. He couldn't believe it, did she have two crushes, was pink rose symbolizing a crush to her? Was it just her favorite colour to send? Hudson felt himself floundering in his thoughts once again. "I'm sorry, but yes you're interrupting me asking that same question to her," Hudson said to his classmate. He hadn't ever talked to Hermione before, he was pretty certain most his classmates thought he couldn't speak from the bare minimum amount of times he had publicly talked in classes and such. "Really? You sent the rose? I couldn't imagine a better person to get a rose from, I wish I had been smart enough, well brave enough to ask you to the Valentine's dance. You should've added a note, I would have if I'd known at the time," he said quickly not able to really hide his excitement about her answer and hoping maybe she liked him a bit more than Hermione (if she had indeed sent a rose to Hermione as well). It was clear to him now that his initial thoughts seeing her here she actually might like girls but now he thought she might be a bit like him, not really having a preference between liking person of a certain gender. It made him happy he had a chance. But, Hermione coming up out of the blue now made him also feel a bit more nervous that he had taken too long and she might opt for this Slytherin woman instead. Even the way Hermione asked about her own rose was much nicer and more endearing than the way he had, he wished he lines like that coming out of his mouth. He decided to try out a line now, not that he had practiced it or anything, certainly hadn't been practicing it in his dorm about 35 times that morning already in case he saw the Queen of the Flowers. "Mhairi, I know this is late in term and it being our last term here but I've been hoping for awhile that we might be able to be more than just mates. I thought maybe you could be my girlfriend if you wanted?" Hudson asked giving a brief glance over to Hermione hoping to not upset her too much, but he had to do this now or he could loose this chance with Mhairi to Hermione for possibly forever. And with things having gone so badly with Vivian he hadn't had much hope for love until he started spending more time with Mhairi.