Seamus tried to find her for a week but with no luck. Everyday after classes he would go to the lake to where he first found her, but she was never there. That Saturday afternoon Seamus hung around the lake, not to find her but to be alone, he had given up hope on her. He was throwing rocks into the lake when he heard something rustling in the trees above him. 'Its just a bird' he thought to himself and continued to throw rocks when he heard a cracking.
It sounded as if something was breaking a tree branch. Before he could think one more thing he heard the snap of the tree branch and it came crashing down. He felt something fall onto him and as he laid there it didn't feel like a branch it felt like a person. "Sorry" he heard. It sounded as if it was Luna but it was a lot quieter. "Its ok Luna" Seamus mumbled into the grass.
He felt the presser from off his back "im not Luna" they mumbled angrily. Seamus looked up to find Astrid and all motion left him. He watched as she started picking up the things that had fallen out of the tree. In his mind he was screaming at himself for not saying anything or not getting up to help her. She walked away and vanished before he could collect his thoughts.
He smacked himself on his forehead for his stupid move, or rather not move. 'I could have talked with her and missed the chance' he thought to himself as he got up to go toward the castle. From the corner of his eye he noticed a notebook that wasn't there when he first came. He went over and picked it up noticing it belonged to Astrid. A smile crossed his face, maybe his chance hadn't fully passed. 'she must have dropped it when she fell and missed it' he thought.
He couldn't find her the rest of the day, 'for someone who had just lost something she wasn't looking for it. Or maybe she was and I keep missing her' he said to himself. He brought it to dinner knowing she would be there, but he was wrong, she never showed up to dinner. Seamus began to worry, she always showed up for meals, she never missed them. Maybe she hurt herself more then he thought at first. Maybe she was in the hospital wing? 'no, no' he thought to himself shaking the thought from his mind. 'She's ok, she is, she can't be hurt' he tried telling himself over and over again, but he couldn't believe it.
He saw Luna at the table and walked over. "Have you seen Astrid?" he asked panicked then noticed and didn't want Luna to know he liked her. "I… I have her notebook." He stuttered out quickly after. "No I haven't seen her since before lunch. Why do you have her notebook?" Luna asked surprised that she would leave something behind. "Oh she fell out of a tree and mustn't have seen it when she was collecting her things" he said looking at the book.
Luna's eyes fell to the book and never left "Did you look in it?" she asked. "No.." Seamus said suspiciously. "Well I can give it to her for you, were in the same room together" she said stretching out her arm to take it. Seamus hesitated, he wanted to give it to her, to try and at least talk with her. He slowly handed it to her knowing he was giving away his only possible chance to talk with Astrid. His happiness and hope faded as the book was taken from him.