Chapter 1: The Shy Girl In Potions
Author's Note: So this is my second story. I recently had this idea and I got inspired. I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: As much as I wish I don't own Harry Potter
"It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy."
- Kristin Kreuk
"Please everybody take a seat!" Professor Slughorn says as he walks into the class.
"So this year I've decided that you're going to have permanent partners. Yes, this means you're going to seat with the person you're assigned till the rest of the year." Half the class groans.
Please Merlin, let him partner me with anyone but a boy.It's not that I have anything against boys is just that I'm really shy and it's difficult enough for me to talk to girls.
"Mr. Black and Mrs. Boyce," and those words pull me out of my own thoughts. I look up and see Sirius Black walking in my direction with that seductive and flirtatious smile. I start to hyperventilate and then everything around me suddenly disappears.
"I think she's waking up," I hear a masculine voice say.
"Don't overwhelm her," I hear a feminine voice say.
Slowly I open my eyes and blink a few times to make my sight less blurry.
"Hey Emma, you're in the hospital wing," Madam Pomfrey, the school's nurse says.
I look around and I'm definitely in the school's hospital wing. I don't know how many times I've been in here. I am unbelievably clumsy.
"W-what happened?" I ask.
"You passed out, I don't really know why though," she says gently.
I am comfortable enough around Madam Ponfrey so I don't stutter when I talk to her. She's being healing me since first year, for seven years now.
"My head hurts," I say touching the back of my head.
"Well you fell from your seat and hit your head," she explains.
"And how did I end up here?" I ask still confused.
"I carried you," a voice says and then I see the voice's owner, the infamous Sirius Black.
I just stay silent and start to blush. I have never been good at talking to people.
FLASHBACK
It was my second day at Hogwarts and I fell down the stairs on my way to the great hall. My ankle really hurt. My eyes watered and I started to silently cry. I lift myself up and walked to the hospital wing, for the first time. I knew where it was because I heard some older students talking about it. I dragged myself to the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey looked at me horrified.
"Sweetie, what happened? Why are you crying?" she asked me. At first I stayed quiet not knowing what to say, too embarrassed of how clumsy I was – still am but well – and not wanting to talk because of my shyness. "Sweetie, I need you to talk to me so I can help you," Madam Pomfrey said gently.
"I-I fell d-down t-the st-stairs," I stuttered between sobs.
"What hurts?" she asked.
"M-my ankle."
"Okay, lay here and I'll heal you in no time," she said. "What's your name sweetie?"
"E-Emma Boyce," I stuttered softly.
"Emma, nice name," she said.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Emma? Emma?" Madam Pomfrey's voice pulls me out of my thoughts.
"Sorry I wasn't listening," I say. I look around and notice that Sirius is not there anymore, oh well.
"I said that you can go to your to dorm," Madam Pomfrey says smiling. "I think you shouldn't go to class till tomorrow."
"Thanks Madam Pomfrey," I say and I leave the hospital wing.
My head doesn't hurt anymore, I feel a bit dizzy but besides that everything else is just fine.
"Emma," Sirius says. He's standing against the wall and he's looking at me, seizing me up. "That's your name right?" I nod. "You're in Gryffindor, aren't you?" I nod again. "You don't talk much," he says, more to himself than me.
We walk to the Gryffindor tower and I try to lose him on the way but he just keeps following me. We finally get to the fat lady's portrait and she let us in. I quickly walk up to the girls' dormitories and away from Sirius. Don't get me wrong, he's handsome and charming and everything but I don't want to – by any chance – be considered a thread by Sirius fan girls because they aren't really nice if you have any kind of relationship with Sirius.
"See you in potions Emma," he says but I don't even look back. I feel myself blush though. I always blush when guys talk to me.
I have charms and history of magic but I don't go because whenever Madam Pomfrey says: "I think you shouldn't..." it really means "you shouldn't..."
I stay up in my dorm. When it's time for history of magic I decide to go to the common room, seat on my favorite couch and read a book. There's probably no one down there. I walk down the girls' staircase and sit on my favorite couch with my book. I'm reading Romeo and Juliet, a book written by Shakespeare, a muggle writer. I am a half blood. My mom's a muggleborn and my dad's a pureblood, who was obviously disowned and everything because he married my mom. She really loves to read and so do I. I read every kind of books but I really like romantic muggle books.
"Hey Emma," I hear someone say. I turn around and find no other than Sirius Black. "Skipping classes are we?"
"No, Madam Pomfrey said I'd better rest, you are the one skipping classes," I say. Wow! Where did that come from? I've just made a complete sentence to someone I don't really know without stuttering. Suddenly I start to blush.
"No I'm surprisingly not skipping classes, I've got free period."
I try to ignore him so he goes away but, of course, he doesn't.
SIRIUS' POV
Emma Boyce's definitely a quiet girl. I like her. She doesn't throw herself at me like all the other girls. The only girl I know who doesn't throw herself at me is Lily but Lily's a weird kind of woman.
"What are reading?" I ask trying to make some conversation.
She just ignores me. I've heard she's shy – which is totally true – and that she doesn't socialize with people. I've never seen her talking to anyone about other than school work. She doesn't have any friends and definitely not a boyfriend but the fact that she made a full sentence to me without stuttering or blushing was good, she blushed later but she did talk to me, well kind of. I'm gonna make her open up to me.
"Emma?" I say. She ignores me, again. I groan and take the book out of her hands.
"Hey that's mine!" she says and then blushes when she realizes she shouted at me.
"I'll give it back if you talk to me," I say and smirk at myself. She looks at the floor. "Come on, I'll ask you 20 questions, you answer them truthfully and then I'll give you your book back, okay?"
"Okay," she says softly.
"Good." I think about my first question and then ask, "What's your full name?"
"Emma Alyssa Isabelle Boyce," she says quietly looking everywhere but me.
"How many siblings do you have?"
"Two older brothers and a younger sister." I thought she was only child.
"What are their names?" She isn't stuttering and isn't almost whispering anymore. I'm awesome!
"Alex, Matthew and Audrey."
"How old are they?"
"Alex's 25, Matthew's 22 and Audrey's 4."
"What's your favorite color?" She looked at me with a did-you-just-ask-me-that look. I know I'm being kinda dull bit I just want her to talk to me.
"Purple."
"When's your birthday?"
"April 7."
"What's your favorite food?"
"Ravioli."
"You Italian?"
"Yes
"You live in Italy?"
"Sometimes."
"Sometimes?" How do you live sometimes in a place?
"My mom's Italian but my dad's English and we have two houses, one in Italy and one in England. We live one year in England and other in Italy." She didn't give me a one-word answer!
"Where do you like it best?"
"Italy."
"Why?"
"I was born there and I don't know I like it more than England."
"Who was the first boy you liked?" I'm really curious about this one.
"Andrew," she says barely above a whisper.
"Who is he?"
"An Italian boy. Italians tend to charm anything on a skirt," she says smiling.
"So I'm like the Italian boys?"
"Kind of," she says shyly.
"Why kind of?" I ask truly interested in her answer.
"Don't get angry, okay?" she says softly. I just nod. "Italian boys charm girls but they don't play with them," she says quietly but I hear her and it kinda hurts.
"Why did you tell me that?" Couldn't she lie?
"Because I agreed to answer truthfully and my word's my law besides I don't know how to lie."
"How come you don't know how to lie?"
"I just don't. I-I start to laugh or I don't look at the person in the eyes," she says truthfully.
"Oh." I've never met someone who doesn't lie. "Do you like me?"
"I don't know you."
"Would you go out on a date with me?"
"I don't think so."
"Why not?"
"Your 20 question are up. Give me my book back please." Damn!
I give her the book back and she begins to read again. I just stare at her. Why doesn't she want to go on a date with me?
"What?" she asks when she notices me staring.
"Why won't you go out on a date with me?"
"Sirius I'm not that kind of girl."
"What kind of girl?" I frown.
"I'm not outgoing or loud and I don't have tons of boys behind me, I'm not the prettiest, the sexiest nor the cutest. I'm really shy and I don't really wanna have a one-night-stand." She really doesn't lie does she?
"Okay," I say.
"Hey Padfoot," I hear Prongs say.
"See you, Emma," I say before heading to my friends.
"Were you flirting with her?" Prongs asks.
"No," I say and for once I really wasn't.
"That's Emma Boyce right?" Moony asks.
"Emma Alyssa Isabelle Boyce," I correct. I was really listening.
"What happened over there?"
"Moony she's different," I say.
"Obviously, she's a loner," Prongs says.
"She's shy," I correct.
"She's you partner in potions, isn't she?" Wormtail asks.
"Yes," I say. "She's gonna go out with me."
"She rejected you, didn't she?" Agh! Moony's always right. "Sirius don't play with her."
"I'm just gonna turn on the charm."
"Sirius don't," he warns me.
Author's Note: I know I haven't updated for a while now, I'm gonna try to update a bit more, I hope you liked it. Review or leave a comment.
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