I have been told that I keep making mistakes with my tenses, I would just like to apologise now for any that you have found or any that you will find, thankyou and enjoy:)


A week went by extremely quickly without anything really exciting happening. Evelyn was trying to memorize her school timetable and had settled back into her comfort zone of the library. It seemed that Evelyn's requests had been taken into consideration for when Evelyn first came into the library she was pleased to discover that ten new books had been added to the muggle section. They were beautiful and all had that amazing new book smell. She spent the first ten minutes just sniffing them all.

Come Wednesday it was her first tutoring session. She had all of her books ready so she was going to be prepared. This older student would be the only person she would tutor this year. Because of how important it was that they passed, Evelyn was going to be taking them three times a week; Wednesdays, Fridays and Sunday Mornings.

Evelyn walked through the corridors happily with a broad smile on her face as she made her way for the first session. She was filled with excitement. Who would this new person be? What would they be like? However, all excitement and joy that Evelyn had previously been enjoying was washed away when she entered the History of Magic classroom. The room was empty apart from one boy. He had his back to her and all she could see was the spaghetti-like black hair.

Why did it have to be him? Why did life have to be so unfair?

Evelyn sat down in front of him not meeting his eyes. She dropped the books on the table and quickly began flicking through to find the right page that she needed. She quickly snuck a glance up to see what he was doing. He was staring at her. Not like he had in the hall though. This time he looked confused.

"Have I got the right room?" he asked pointing at the door

"Are you here for tutoring?" Evelyn asked him hoping he would say no and leave. Unfortunately for the little Ravenclaw, he nodded "Well then yes, you are regrettably in the right place"

Michael leant back in his chair so it was balancing on its back legs and placed his feet on the table. Why did he even come? It seemed quite obvious to Evelyn that he didn't want to be there and he didn't seem to care about passing at all. He was just here to waste the Ravenclaw valuable time that she could have spent helping baffled first years.

"It makes sense" he said more to himself than to Evelyn "That you would be my tutor. You're the only person I know with such an empty social life to do something like this. That and you're a complete and total swat"

After everything that he had done recently this was just the icing on the cake. He always got away with calling poor Evelyn names and hurting her. So she got her own back. It wasn't anything huge but it made her feel better. So gave the table leg a little kick. But it had a larger effect than Evelyn had planned. She had kicked the table harder than she had meant and caused Michaels feet to wobble and slip off, then his chair fell back and a second later Michael was lying awkwardly on the floor.

"Why did you do that?" he shouted as he pulled himself of the ground and picked his chair back up "You could have hurt me"

"It would have served you right" she whispered "Now which part of the subject are you struggling on?"

A few seconds passed whilst Evelyn waited for an answer. Perhaps he didn't understand any of it and was just too scared to admit it or perhaps he was giving her 'the silent treatment'. The silent treatment sounded ok. For a long time Evelyn had prayed that Michael would lose the ability of speech, this punishment of silence would be a dream come true.

"I don't understand why you hate me" he said finally "Can you explain that one to me?"

"Isn't it obvious? You bully and pick on me! You hurled insults at me just the other night" she said a little angry that he was even asking her this "I should be the one asking you that question?"

She wasn't expecting him to answer which is why it came as such as surprise when he started to speak again. What could he say to make the situation better? An apology would have been a nice place to start, and one that he actually meant.

"I'm sorry you feel that way but it was all just a joke" he said leaning forward in his seat "You shouldn't take things so seriously! I always thought you didn't mind, I mean you never seemed upset by any of it. You just shrugged it off and carried on. You should really get a sense of humour, one day you'll look back and laugh"

"I didn't find any of it funny! I found them cruel and harsh" she said leaning in to so she was about an inch away from his face "You think all of that was funny? You really need to grow up Michael! Because nobody else thinks your cool for what you did, you're just a moron and you always will be"

It wasn't true. It was only Evelyn who thought he was a moron. Most actually did think he was cool, some would even say clever. She was seething with anger. Anger that she had held in and kept to herself for four years. She had told anyone about how she felt about Michael, how much she despised him. She would even go as far as saying she hated him. Small tears had begun to form in Evelyn's eyes but she refused to cry in front of him.

"You really hate me don't you?" he sounded serious for once. He really hadn't realised until that point how much he had hurt Evelyn. He really did see it all as just a joke.

"I really don't want to talk to you Michael" she said deciding she had had enough of this and began packing her things away

"Where are you going?"

"As far away from you as I possibly can" Evelyn's voice was cold and filled with venom. She refused to look at him. "Just stay away from me"

Evelyn stood up and left the room only to find that he was following her "Oh come on! I've already said I was sorry! I didn't know, if you had said something I would have stopped years ago"

She didn't reply to him she just continued to walk. She pretended he wasn't there, that Michael Murcia didn't exist. He had stopped following her now and she just wanted to get to her common room and sit with Titan. She was at the end of the corridor when she heard Michael shout down the corridor at her.

"I promise you this though Evelyn Selwyn" this time she turned around. It was strange seeing Michael so serious. Every time she had seen him previously he had wore a stupid grin or smirk "By the end of this year, you're going to like me"

He then winked at her and walked off in the opposite direction. Evelyn had many mottos' for herself but one of them was that you shouldn't make promises you can't keep. Evelyn was never going to like Michael and he was not going to be able to change her mind. It would take a miracle for them two to become friends.

But miracles sometimes happened...