"...it's all fine." It was weird that she was asking him. "Lucius says Edward and Oswald says Ed." Usually, anyway. For some reason bullies had a tendency to go with 'Eddie', he wasn't sure why, but he could deal with that too. Actual name-calling, that was what he couldn't stand.

He glanced at Lucius and Oswald, trying to ask for help with his eyes. What was happening? Why was she so insistent on sitting next to him? Maybe it was a trap.