After the Flourish and Blotts clerk had packed the new term's textbooks for everyone who had come to buy books, Roy enthusiastically invited both the gentle and beautiful Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Dia, and Cho Chang, whom Cedric had fallen for at first sight, to have afternoon tea at the dessert shop across the street.
"I'll pass."
Cho briskly declined Roy's invitation. Her parents were waiting for her outside the bookstore so they could go buy a wand together, and she was not familiar with Roy and the others anyway. She had merely happened to run into the new term's professor and come over to exchange a few words. As for Cedric... well, she really did not know him. She did not even know the name of that handsome boy who had been secretly staring at her.
A flicker of hesitation passed through Dia's sky-blue eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses. She seemed undecided. Roy's earlier attitude had clearly made her uncomfortable, but after considering it repeatedly, she still agreed to his request. It was obvious that she wanted to earn Roy's trust as soon as possible.
"All right, then. I'm the teacher, so how about I treat you all?"
Dia smiled faintly, but Roy still declined her kind offer.
"It's fine, Professor. I'm not short on money, and besides, I was the one who behaved poorly earlier. Let me treat you."
Gentle and reserved by nature, Dia could not outargue Roy. In the end, she could only agree to the boy standing before her, who barely reached her chest.
"Great, let's go."
Hearing their exchange, Mia, who was holding an ice cream cone, hurriedly swallowed the remaining scoops of ice cream in a few bites. The cold, sickly sweet ice cream crowded down into her stomach, and the