Lavender nearly exhaled in relief when he stopped stroking her cheek, but only because she was getting a strange impulse to kiss her friend and that would go entirely against her man-diet.
"Like you even need to ask," Lavender smiled. She was so touched that Michael hadn't told anyone else and couldn't help but feel proud that he trusted her with something so massive. It was such a thing to share that she felt even closer to him now than she had before.
"So, there's no chance I'm doing any studying after that," Lavender laughed and waved her wand at the pile of books, letting them back into her bag. "Let's just go get something to eat. We deserve extra desert after that. Want to be an honorary Gryffindor for the day?"