Clara and Tanek
Tanek shook his head: "Is okay." It was obviously not okay, but he did not know what else to make of it. He had been through Something, together with his brothers and sisters - though not entirely like his brothers and sisters, because each of them had been tormented in their own way - but talking about it would never solve that. The only way they had given it a place was by sharing it between them: a scar that belonged to them all.
But he appreciated Clara trying. A for effort. A+ for the way she looked in that dress. "Just summer things," he said, trying not to resent the rest for going back to the castle and saving everyone. "I think I'll go in cooking class." His crush on Mr. Kaden had never entirely disappeared and he was the one teaching that class. "And you?"