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Natalie's POV

"Did your Divination reading make any sense?" I ask Joey and Zoey.

"Not really, it just said that I'm going to be really lucky and happy." says Zoey. "Hasn't happened."

"Same," replies Joey. "Though I did find a sickle on the floor after it predicted that I would have 'unexpected riches'.

"My cup predicted surprises, a mysterious past and death." I say.

"Well we're not Seer's, we could be wrong." says Zoey. "But apparently Joey's the best Seer."

I laugh. "So what are we studying next?"

"Charms?" asks Joey.

We take a couple minutes studying as we always do; a couple Ravenclaws come in and out. That's when Zoey huffs out a breath. "Gosh. We seriously need a life..."

Joey laughs. "We? Why you do this all day?"

"You get what I mean." she says, rolling her eyes a bit. Then she points at me. "I mean look at Natalie. She has all the homework done for the past four months."

I just stare at her blankly. She laughs and holds her hands up in classic surrender. "Okay. Okay. I might have exaggerated a bit. Okay maybe a lot. But seriously." she shoves me lightly. "You need to take it easy. There's no rush."

"Actually there is." Joey says with a smirk in the corner of his mouth.

Zoey blinks. "Huh?"

"If I don't finish everything beforehand, Jennifer with seriously murder me." I say, rolling my eyes. "She takes her rice krispies really seriously."

"You should seriously stop feeding that girl...that's not healthy..."

Joey chuckles. "Maybe Jennifer should be murdering you rather than Nat." Zoey punches his arm. "Fine. Fine. I'll shut up."

Zoey turns back to me. "How much do you make her anyway?"

I sit there stunned for a bit. "If you're expecting me to count...oh gosh...it just hurts my head thinking about it..."

"Didn't Jennifer say that she will find you some hobbies, or something?" Zoey points out as Joey obediently continues revising from his book. "What did she find you?"

I stay silent. Zoey lets out a breath. "Okay. That didn't go anywhere..." Then her eyes suddenly brighten; she turns back to me and stares at me creepishly.

"Uh...what?" I say. Zoey just giggles. Why do I have a bad feeling about this...

Joey just looks at her for a moment, as if trying to figure out what she is thinking. He raises his eyes like Zoey had just sent him a mental message of her thoughts. Joey starts to gather his stuff. "I'm out." he says, casually leaving.

"What's going on?" I question hesitantly. Zoey looks to be having trouble keeping her laughs to a minimum. "Zoey, you're scaring me right now..."

"Okay. Okay." She exclaims between fits of laughter. I just sit there waiting patiently for her laughter to die down. Seriously, what can possibly be so funny? "I can't remember..did I tell you yet?"

I raise my brow at her. "Tell me what?"

Do I even want to know?

Zoey rests her chin in the palm of her hand. "How you noticed anything off this year?"

"Sure." I shrug. "A lot of things. With all the new rules and everything, Hogwarts as a whole has been different."

"That's it? Just the new rules?"

I think about it for a moment. I nod slowly. "Pretty much. Why?"

Zoey just shakes her head with a devilish grin on her face. From the few years I've known her, I can tell that whenever she smiles like that it's something that I'm not going to like.

"Actually I haven't seen Wilma around lately..." It then suddenly occurs to me that we kind of left her hanging on the edge last year. With everything happening, we just lost track of time.

I start to gather my things, maybe it's about time I talked to her. Plus, I don't really want to be sitting here with Zoey all...I don't even know. At the moment, anywhere is better than here with Zoey.

Well, maybe not anywhere...

"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa." Zoey says, latching onto my wrist. "Where do you think you're going. We were talking!"

"Talking?" I question. "I was just sitting here with you staring at me like..." I don't even know how to describe her expression. Kind of like a fangirl meeting her biggest inspiration? No. That's not it. I can't put my finger on it but I'm sure I've seen it before. When... When...

"I can't believe you're so clueless right now!" Zoey exclaims in mock offence. "Are you pretending to be or what?"

"No." I answer simply. "I seriously don't know what you're talking about. And if it causes Joey to suddenly get up and leave plus, you to be staring at me like that...I doubt it'll be good on my part."

Zoey looked shaken up for a moment there. "Wow. You're good. Are you a mind reader or something?"

"I wish." I mutter sarcastically. "If I were I would know what you were talking about, now would I?"

Zoey laughs again. "True that."

"Now. Are you going to tell me or am I going to go? I need to talk to Wilma." Or maybe I should just take this perfectly good opportunity to just bolt.

"Fine. I'll tell you." Well, too late now.

Zoey leans back and takes a moment to find her words. "Have you by any chance, lately been feeling like you're being watched?"

Now that's not something you hear very often. I just stare at her blinking. If only there was a Zoey translator. It would make my life so much easier. She should really start just getting to the point. I mean, what she's doing drives people mad.

"Uh. No?" I answer, more like a question than an answer.

She widens her eyes. "You seriously missed every single look Brian has been giving you?"

Shoot. She said it. I wish I just left when I had the chance...I knew I wasn't going to like it. Why is Zoey always up on the Brian thing anyway?

"Nope." I say, trying desperately to leave this conversation. If only it's just as easy as clicking the red 'X' on the MSN bar thing for Muggles. But no. "I'll see you later. I need to find Wilma."

"Wait." She says, stopping me in my tracks again. Dang it. Why did Joey have to leave? I could have at least had him distract her for me. "Did something like...happen?"

She widens her brown at me. "Oh my god...did...did you...?"

"No!" I immediately say. Whatever it is, it has to do with Brian. I quite frankly haven't really talked with him much this year. Maybe a simply 'Hey' or "Hi' in the halls, but that's it. Thank goodness for me anyway. "Can I go now?"

She bites the corner of her lip a bit. "Fine. We'll talk later."

Instead of finding Wilma, I end up bumping into Joey. He smiles when he sees me. "Did she tell you?"

"You knew about this?" I gape at him.

"Of course. You've just always had your head buried in a book or something to notice." He shrugs. "Plus you probably wouldn't like it so I didn't say anything. Not like you'll believe me anyway."

I roll my eyes. "Yeah, whatever. Have you seen Wilma around?"

"Why?"

"I need to talk to her." I say with a shrug. "It was also an excuse to get rid of Zoey."

Joey shakes his head. "Haven't seen her. Check the library or something."

"Okay. See you later."

Joey ruffles my hair a bit. "Bye Nat."

My head is still a fuzz the entire way to the library. If Wilma isn't there, I don't even know what I'll do next. Probably make some more rice krispies for Jennifer. Maybe Zoey is right. Maybe I really do need some hobbies.

I just don't have the time for hobbies. The only thing I have time for is pleasure reading, that's it. It's sad but, hey, what can I do? I have to keep my grades up. Then again, it's something everyone should do.

As for the Brian thing, god I don't even want to think about that. I'm sure Zoey is exaggerating; I mean she did say I finished all my homework with the next four months, which is not true.

I only finished homework for the past three months and three weeks.

Thanks to my never ending train of thought, I find myself bumping, this time literally, into someone's back.

"Oh sorry." I say shaking my head a bit. I'm seriously losing it today.

"It's fine. Don't worry about it" a familiar voice assures. Oh shoot. You're kidding me right? I look up to see none other than Brian. Out of everyone, I had to bump into him. Yay.

"You're looking for Wilma?" He asks.

I knit my brows together. "How'd you know..?"

"Zoey told me." He says simply. Oh great. Let's hope Zoey didn't tell him anything else. "She went to talk to Keith about something."

"Oh." I answer.

He just nods. "Yeah."

Fortunately for me, someone behind me calls his name, motioning him over. He nods their way and turns to me. "I'll see you later. I actually have to tell you something later." He says, stepping aside and placing a hand on my shoulder. "See you."

I hope later doesn't come anytime soon.

"What's wrong?" Tamara asks me suddenly.

"What do you mean?" I question.

She blinks at me. "You're acting odd. You're constantly looking behind your back."

"Are you looking for someone?" Michelle offers. I just shake my head, trying to focus on the words in front of me. I'm re-reading the same line for the fifth time; I just can't seem to find meaning in it.

"Or are you hiding from someone?" Jennifer says, between bits of her rice krispie.

I snap my book closed, clearly this is not distracting me as much as it should be. Suddenly Jennifer, Michelle and Tamara are being...Zoey-ish and I already have to worry about her.

"Oh yeah." Jennifer says like a lightbulb just popped above her head. "Here. I have a list of possible hobbies for you." she continues, digging in the pocket of her robes.

She pulls out a strip of spearmint gum, a marble, a paperclip, a hair tie, another rice krispie and a candy wrapper before pulling out a crinkled looking sheet of parchment. She takes a second and tries to smooth it out with her hands before handing it to me. "Here."

I take it curiously and start reading her neatly printed handwriting, as it gets farther down the list, the writing looks more sloppy and rushed, but still readable. I raise my eyebrows at her.

"What kind of hobbies are these?!"

"What?!" She exclaims, stuffing everything back in her pockets. "Hobbies are hobbies. It's just as long as you enjoy doing them."

Tamara takes the list from my hand and reads it herself. She raises her own brow at Jennifer. "Really? Ghost hunting?"

"Oh right..." Jennifer says putting the pieces together. "I don't think that will work in the wizard world..."

Michelle takes the piece of parchment and reads it herself. "Do you seriously think Natalie with consider collecting various types of frogs?"

"She can!" Jennifer pushes. "I mean who knows! She can have a love of frogs! Plus, haven't you ever heard of 'The Princess and the Frog'? Oh right...you're a pure-blood...Still. A princess once kissed a frog and it turned into her prince charming! It can happen to Natalie! She needs like a social life. No offence." She quickly adds.

"Why did the princess kiss the frog anyway?" Michelle asks, looking disgusted.

"It doesn't matter." Tamara says. "Natalie isn't collecting frogs."

"Why would I be desperate enough to kiss them anyway?" I say. "And I do have a social life. I'm talking to you aren't I?"

"Just try collecting frogs...I mean who knows...It could be fun..." Jennifer continues to urge. I quickly take the parchment from Michelle. What else is there besides ghost hunting and collecting frogs?!

"Seriously." Michelle says. "Why would a princess kiss a frog?! And for how long? Don't tell me they pretty much made out..."

Tamara rolls her eyes. "The princess kissed the frog to have an excuse to use up an entire bottle of mouthwash." she says sarcastically.

"Did they though? Did the princess like...make out with a frog?" Michelle wrinkles her nose in disgust. "Oh god. I bet the frog had bad breath...can frogs even use mouth wash?"

"Oh good question..." Jennifer points out. "I mean, I don't know...I think it would kill the frog so I don't suggest trying..."

"Moving on." Tamara finishes. She turns to me "Find anything you're maybe interested in?"

Michelle shakes her head. "Whatever you do I don't mind. Just don't tell me the story of the princess and the frog." she says, rubbing her temples gently.

"They actually tell that story to kids." Jennifer says with a laugh.

"They what?!" Michelle closes her eyes. "I'm not even going to ask."

"How about this?" I ask, pointing to the one at the very bottom.

"Natalie, this hobby is not working out for you..." Zoey observes.

Considering most of the hobbies on the her list were things I wouldn't ever do, I choose the most...normal one I guess.

Not going to lie though, it's not exactly the whole reason. Well you see, most of the hobbies she offered required a lot of moving. Not that I'm lazy or anything...though sometimes I am, but come on, everyone is at some point in their lives!

Though I don't think I'm the best at poetry, nor do I think I ever will be. I figured, why not give it a shot?

I can easily just sit in my dorm and just write away, and if Zoey asks me what I'm doing, I don't have to say homework like I do every other time. Which, in her eyes is progress, which is good.

It also gives me an excuse to not be out and about in Hogwarts, where Brian can find me. Yeah, I know, it just sounds utterly pathetic, I get it.

Try being in my shoes in this situation. I mean, ever since the beginning of the year, Brian has been giving me weird glances. Glances might not ever be the right word matter of factly. He's just been looking at me differently. Not in a 'there's something on her face' or the 'maybe I should ask her about next week's homework but I'm not sure' look.

What makes it worse is that whatever the look is, I can't for the life of me pinpoint what that guy is thinking. That's not saying a lot though, for the most part I don't know what guys are thinking. The closest I have is Joey, and it's something I'm not ashamed of. I mean, who needs to know how a guy's mind works all the time?

Apparently, I do at this moment.

I can't talk to Jennifer, Michelle or Tamara about it either. I will never admit this out loud, but I'm kind of scared how they will react. I don't think I can take it if they start telling me that he's just looking at me because he likes me. Like what Zoey keeps saying to me, and that's what makes me want to constantly bang my head on my desk.

I may not have much experience with guys but come one. He can't like me. That's completely...

"...you're thinking about Brian aren't you?" Zoey asks, with an amused expression on her face.

"What? No." I reply maybe a bit too quickly.

Zoey laughs. "Oh yeah. You totally were."

Did I tell you how annoying it is when people know you well enough to practically read your mind? I mean, sure, it can come in handy sometimes, but for the most part, it's just plain annoying.

First it was Joey, now it's Zoey. Who's next?

It better not be Brian...

Let's just hope only people I know that have 'oey' in their names can read my mind. Is there even a name other than Joey and Zoey? Wait is Toey a name?

Zoey nudges my side. "What were you thinking...? Did you finally come to the conclusion that Brian is head over heels for you?"

Why must my roommate be a hopeless romantic. Why...?

"Do you mind?" I ask, annoyance clearly in my voice. "I'm doing homework."

Zoey reaches over and snatches my Herbology from in front of me. "Hey!" I start to protest. "I was using that!"

She rolls her eyes at me. "Seriously, Natalie. You don't need to work on homework that is due months later. What are you trying to prove anyway? If you're trying to prove that you can work really hard, then congrats. Isn't this why Jennifer told you to start hobbies? What happened to writing Poetry? Yeah, leave it to you to choose the most boring hobby. No offence."

Wow. Is she seriously pissed at me for doing my homework? I reach over to take the book back from her, but she stirs it away from my grasp.

"I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just bored." I admit, leaning back against the headboard of my bed. "I might as well be doing homework, it's the best way to kill time."

Zoey throws the book to her bed and lands on the soft surface. She turns back to me. "Why, what happened to poetry? If you decided it too boring to consider it a hobby I totally understand..."

"No it's not that. I just don't have anything to write about. Well, not anything but, I can't think of something." I say, shrugging.

"How about you write a poem about Brian?" She offers casually.

I just gape at her.

She shrugs innocently. "What?! You said you don't have anything to write about. Write about Brian! I mean, he's clearly taking over your mind right now."

I would leave right now if it weren't for the fact that this morning Tamara had told me Brian was looking for me. So it's either I put up with Brian or Zoey...

Zoey all the way.

I just send her a silent glare. Causing her to just double over laughing. I wait patiently for her to contain herself.

"Now you can't deny it." She simply says.

Maybe I should reconsider the Zoey and Brian thing.

Nope still Zoey.

"Whatever." I mutter darkly.

"Oh!" She says making the bed bounce up and down slightly. "What did you guys talk about when you bumped into each other? Since it clearly wasn't just a 'sorry' and 'it's okay'."

My eyebrows meet. "How did you...you were there?!" she giggles and nods. "Why didn't you come talk to me?! It could have saved me from dying of awkwardness."

"Oooooooooooo an awkward conversation I see? What did he want? He looked like he was asking you something."

I shift uncomfortably. "That's...none of your business."

"Now that I think about...you always seem to be in a rush lately..." She widens her eyes. "Oh my gosh! He confessed his undying love for you didn't he! And you're too shy to admit that you like him back, so you started avoiding him! Oh my gosh! Why didn't you tell me?!"

Is she serious right now?!

"NO!" I exclaim. "He just said we should talk sometime. That's it." I tell her. Oh shoot. Maybe I should have thought twice before..

"He wanted to talk!" Zoey practically squeals. "Oh my god. Natalie this is big!"

"How is it big?! He just wants to talk!"

"Exactly!"

"So?! You and Joey talk. Does that mean you're going to start dating?!"

"Actually we are dating." She says in a quieter voice.

I blink, think I heard her wrong. "What?"

"Joey and I. We are dating." She says flatly.

When did this start happening?! "What?" I repeat self consciously.

"Joey. And. I. Are. Dating." Zoey tries to clarify, making every word into a sentence.

"And why didn't you tell me...?" I say, still somewhat stunned. I mean, I knew they were close but I never would have thought they started dating. Oh great, this is just going to make things awkward for me. I don't want to end up as some third wheel.

Zoey gives me a small smile and shrugs. "You didn't tell me you like Brian."

"I don't like Brian!" I object. Seriously, how many times do I have to tell her that? "Now we're going to stop talking about it." I say, not even asking for her permission.

"But - "

"Zoey." I say in a don't-you-dare-push-it voice.

"Natalie." she says in the same tone.

I can't seem to get this out of my mind. They are dating! How awkward is that for me?

"So do you?" Zoey asks.

I stir back to her, noticing she's at the door with a couple of books in her arms.

"Sorry. What did you say?"

"I'm meeting Joey at the library." She says. "You should come with. You've been locked up in here with every spare second you have."

I immediately shake my head. No way was I being a third wheel. Not happening. "No thanks. I'm just going to continue doing my homework here." I look over at her bed, only to see that my book is no longer sitting on her duvet. I turn to her to see that she is holding my book in her hand.

"Come on. Let's go."

I groan. "I don't want to."

"Since when did you start hating the library?" She questions, still standing by the frame of the door.

"I don't." I answer simply. The expression on Zoey's face is asking why. "You know...there are...other houses there...including Gryffindors...Including...you know."

She rolls her eyes. "We're going."

"You can't make me." I say, and immediately regretted it after seeing the evil glint in her eyes.

"When did you start getting all manipulative?"

Zoey shrugs, sliding into the seat next to Joey. "I don't know. I kind of like it though."

I don't. She basically owns me now. As long as she doesn't make me talk to Brian...Knowing her, she most likely will though. Just saying.

"So what do you think, Joey?" Zoey ask, nudging his arm with her elbow.

He looks up from his book. "For what? Oh. Ohh. That. Please. Don't include me in that...just ask Nat." he finishes, getting back to his book.

"What's this about?" I question, crossing my arms on the table.

"Natian or Brianie?"

"Wait what?"

"You know, in Muggle TV shows they combine two names to make a couple name." She says in a 'well duh' voice. "What do you prefer for you and Brian?"

I blink at her blankly, which is something I've been doing a lot today so I noticed. "Thats for couples only. We. aren't. dating." I say as slow as possible. Not like it will drill into her head or anything but...

Zoey wiggles her eyebrows teasingly. "Yet. Just wait."

Joey's head pops up from his books. "Should I be worried?"

I open my mouth to object, but Zoey answers for me. "Nah. When they get together, maybe we can go on double dates or something."

I turn to look at Joey for support, he just shifts in his seat uncomfortably and goes back to his book. I would bang my head on the table but then people would start staring.

"So what's it going to be? Natian or Brianie? I personally vote Brianie!" I shake my head stiffly, I'm not even going to bother. Zoey huffs. "Fine. I'll ask Michelle, Jennifer and Tamara. Their right there anyway."

They are?! I immediately get up, gather my stuff and head over. Plopping myself in an empty seat. "Oh, hey." Michelle greets brightly.

I open my mouth to greet back, when a voice behind me cuts me off. "Hey Natalie."

Shivers go down my back from hearing the voice I didn't want to hear anytime soon. I was willing to put up with Zoey to avoid him. Brian.


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