At that he gave a decidedly confused frown. "I haven't heard anything that people are saying. I don't listen to gossip." Although, at the thought that everyone was talking about their kiss on the train, he did have to suppress a smile. This was why she was avoiding him? Because she was embarrassed? Well heck, that didn't make no difference at all!
"I'm waitin' for you." He answered, simply, honestly, with his bold truth that always made him disconcerting to anyone who wasn't used to being around him. "You've been avoidin' me, and it bothered me." Again, he paid no attention to the girls passing until Frankie turned and glared at them, at which point they promptly scampered. That amused him too, considering that she was a small Hufflepuff. Admittedly, a small Hufflepuff with a hell of a right hook, but that was beside the point.