Cameron swallowed, and suddenly none of the past year's events—the fighting, the yelling, the ignoring each other and avoiding each other at the Gryffindor table—mattered. Cameron had spent the last year navigating his own academic struggles, but none of them involved an ultimatum like the one Alice was apparently going through.
"Wh-What?" he stammered, his brows furrowing and mouth dipping into a frown, "but you're—you're smart. You could get the full academic scholarship still, right? They told us about that last year. All Es and Os." Not that he was anywhere near earning that, but it didn't seem impossible for someone like Alice.
"Wh-What?" he stammered, his brows furrowing and mouth dipping into a frown, "but you're—you're smart. You could get the full academic scholarship still, right? They told us about that last year. All Es and Os." Not that he was anywhere near earning that, but it didn't seem impossible for someone like Alice.
