Even though Gabriella hadn’t been waiting long, the silence around her was enough to lull her into an almost trance like state as her thoughts crept up on her. Thoughts of home, Stanford and what she was leaving behind. She hadn’t felt particularly homesick yet, not to the point where she would cry over it but that was mainly because she had prepared herself for a new adventure anyway, only the adventure she had been planning on tackling was college and not a strange place filled with even stranger revelations.
At the sound of his voice she jumped, snapping out of her thoughts instantly. Gabriella smiled sheepishly as she composed herself, shaking her head in answer to his question as she did so. “No, not long. I was early,” she took in a deep breath once the last of the thoughts concerning home cleared, her attention now fully focused on Draco. “It feels nice to be outside for once.”