Just listening was all that seemed enough.
"The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf'd."
He felt like it was all to him, though it wasn't.
"Have to the port of Athens sent their ships."
She would come here everyday. She read everything imaginable. Who knows, maybe she was trying to read the whole library.
"Fraught with the ministers and instruments of cruel war:"
And so every day, he would sit behind the shelf and listen to her read. He didn't know why she read aloud, but she did.
"sixty and nine, that wore the crownets regal, from the Athenian bay,"
It would start out light, as if it were simply for pleasure. Although he often found no meaning in what she was reading, as most of it was in German. He was lucky today; it was English, even though old.
"put forth toward Phrygia: and their vow was made to ransack Troy."
But it was addictive. It got to the point where he was so impatient to get there to listen to her read, that he tried to speed the day up (which was, of course, impossible).
"Within those strong immures the ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen."
The talking stopped abruptly. Sirius twisted from where he was seated on the floor to peer through the crack between the books. She was packing up her books. For a moment it seemed that she was looking straight toward him, but then she went back to what she was doing.
Her name was Morella. To him, Morella was a goddess. To many others, she was a nuisance. Dark brown hair and eyes, fair skin. Sure, she was a little…… pretentious, but wasn't everybody, sometimes? However, what made his reverence of her so unusual, was that she was a Slytherin, and him a Gryffindor.
As of late, in his zealous need to get her to notice him, he had written panegyrizing letters to her, and left them for her to find. This only made her more contemptuous of him, and would write back to him, making sure that it was obvious that she only saw him with superciliousness. Her myriad of chastising wasn't taken as ominous, though, however much rancorous or virulent she made her letters. They only made him more ardent, for that meant that she noticed him, and that in turn only made him more recalcitrant in finding a way for her to show any kind of affection for him.
So he would keep up with his endeavor.
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Author's notes: So, what do you think? Should I keep going.
I started working on my grammar skills toward the end, using new vocabulary. As a prize for a school contest last year I got a book, "Hot Words for the SAT* I", and it's surprisingly useful. If you're into finding synonyms and their definitions, you should definitely check it out.
Disclaimer: Well, if I owned this, it wouldn't be on Fanfiction.net, now would it? I don't own what she was reading, either. See if you can figure out what it is.