A/N: First N2N fic! I had this strong urge to make Henry's last name Higgins (kudos if you know why) But I love N2N with passion. This takes place when Henry first saw our beloved Nat. I assume they are in Junior year... so six years before they were 10... which meant they were in the ummmm (attempts math) Third or fourth grade. Okay, I'll roll with that. Third grade sounds better. My age math is all out of whack, but you have to forgive it.
Nine year old Henry Clark thought girls were icky. He decided when he was seven (which was, in his eyes, a very good decision making age) that he would NEVER like a girl, as long as he lived. Then, on the first day of fourth grade, he met a girl. Well, he didn't exactly meet her, he saw her raise her hand when the teacher called role. But it wasn't just then. At recess, she yelled at a group of mean bully type boys. Henry decided that maybe all girls weren't so bad.
Twelve year old Henry Clark was not good at math. But the girl who sat next to him was. He remembered she was the same girl he knew from the fourth grade. And fifth grade, too. But, because she was a smart girl, he copied off of her. She didn't know it. Henry thought that maybe she didn't even notice him. But he sure did notice her.
Fourteen year old Henry Clark just started high school. And he picked up a few bad habits. And he started to show interest in the opposite sex. There were many changes that year. But there was alway one girl who caught his eye. She was the same girl that had sat in front of him since the third grade, and she was very smart. And now, Henry realized that she was pretty. So when he was in the ninth grade, he had his first real crush.
Fifteen year old Henry Clark was nearly the exact same as fourteen year old Henry Clark, just a few inches taller. Well, there was other thing. He decided that the next year he was going to talk to the pretty smart girl he had known since the fourth grade.
Sixteen year old Henry Clark finally worked up the nerve to talk to Natalie Goodman.
I skipped around a few ages, oh well. Oh by the way: I DON"T OWN NEXT TO NORMAL.
Okay, got that out of my system. When I write fic like this, no one is OOC. In N2N, is Henry sixteen or seventeen. In my magic world, he's sixteen.