But there will be changes this year. That, in itself, had John not prod her further. Truthfully, he wasn't terribly optimistic about things, but he knew that he would get what he wanted somehow. Though he had wanted to attend college in Australia, however, in that case, things didn't really work out to his favor. Still, he was going back to NYU and now got to go for free and not pull in any school debt if he stuck to his four years.
"Let's hope that sort of emergency doesn't happen," John said, letting Petra place her head on his shoulder. He barely felt it, but he knew it was there. He knew if Petra was doing that, it must mean something about their friendship. John didn't have many close friends, so it was also a sigh of his own caring for Petra has his friend that didn't have him shifting away from her.
Face somber, he added, "for your sake, really. Not because I care about people showing up randomly." Unless they were MRA officers, but that would never happen again, and he was grateful for that.