Colin just shrugged, "She said it was things that I'd need to know. She even owl'd me a book about it." A book that Colin had taken every precaution of hiding it in his trunk under his school things so that his mother would never find it.
The next question had Colin pause slightly. "It wasn't a date, I mean, I don't think it was?" He said, his eyes growing a little wider as if it had just occured to him that it may have been her intent. "Was it? I mean, we just had ice cream, and talked, so thats not really a date."