A/N: I hope that you are all enjoying this story, but I have a feeling that I will lose a few readers after this chapter.

Warning: Lesbian moment contained within this chapter. Don't like, don't read this chapter! Not detailed.

Chapter 4

When Luna turned to see if any of her other group mates had seen what had happened, she noticed that they were all still hiding their faces as if they expected the attack to still happen.

"It is alright now. She has stopped her attack, but please don't attack her again in anyway or she might repeat herself and they really don't like doing that. They are kind of like this one animal that I met one time. It was unfortunately invisible so I can't tell you what it looked like but it didn't like people being near it so it…" Luna was interrupted by one of the boys.

"Yes, we get it. You don't have to be so strange, you know. Why don't you just go over there and tell the wall about this animal. We don't want to hear it. We just want to get done with this stupid plant and get out of here." The first boy said with a shake of his head, after he had straightened up along with his friend, Mariette, and the other girl who was a Slytherin and who Luna didn't really know.

After that, the group quickly finished their project with the flower and left the greenhouse after class had been dismissed with no other problems.

The rest of that day went by as usual without anyone really caring what she was up to even after the plant incident. She loved being able to do whatever she wanted and needed to without anyone thinking that it was strange or too off from her normal personality. She really took advantage of this and roamed the castle searching for a secret place that she could tell Draco about where they could meet and get to know each other in, but even after that first week she hadn't found anywhere.

Monday of the next school week began as all other days had for her over the past 5 years. She could only hope that today was the day that something would change her life for the better.

She woke up to her classmates snoring, which was a normal occurrence as she liked to wake up first so that they wouldn't accidentally see what she really looked like if her glamour slipped while she was sleeping without her knowing. That had happened a few times, but only once when she wasn't the one to wake up first. Luckily for her, and for the other girl, the curtains to her bed had been closed and the noise from her moving around woke Luna up enough to realize what had happened and to fix the problem.

Luna slowly sat up and shook her head. She had a major headache. This was surprising to her as she had never had any pain in her body that didn't come from an outside source, such as Draco Malfoy pushing her down yesterday. She had been unlucky when it came to running into her new secret friend. Twice during the weekend alone and he hadn't seemed to care that he was doing it, either. She had never even been sick before, so this headache was extremely unusual. She didn't want to move, but she knew that she had to because she had classes that day.

Getting up, she quickly got dressed and then headed to the writing desk in the corner of the room to write her father a letter about this new problem to see if he had any idea about why this was happening. It didn't take her very long to write the letter and arrive in the owlry to send it to him, but she hadn't realized that it wasn't even dawn yet so when she walked out of her room, through the castle and into the owlry, she had to cast Lumos in order to see where she was going. Without any incident, she was able to attach the letter to a school owl and send it off to her father. She really hoped that he got back to her soon.

The day went by pretty quickly without much happening to her except the usual jokes and rejection. Her headache never went away or got any better. And before she knew it days had gone by with no word from her dad on the sudden illness and that frustrated her.

Today, Luna watched her fellow students rush past her in order to get to their classes on time while she leaned up against the wall to avoid being hit by the others. Several weeks had gone by without any word from Draco and she was beginning to worry that she had imagined the whole encounter, that is, except for the strange feeling that she had discovered during Care of Magical Creatures on her birthday, September 9th. She hadn't been exactly sure when the feeling started at first, but after a little time of thinking she had realized that she felt like she was missing something or in this case… someone was missing. She was beginning to suspect that Draco was her intended mate, but there was no way for her to know that for sure until she could spend a little time with him alone.

'This would be so much easier if I could just see my own aura. Then I could match the color with my mates, whether it was Draco or someone else that I had run into about that time.' She thought, just before she remembered what had happened on the day after her encounter with Draco.

FLASHBACK

She had just left her common room on September 2nd and she was on her way to breakfast before she had to get to class, when she saw a blur of black coming toward her too fast for her to stop it. It hit her and she flung back her hands in an attempt to save herself from falling too hard onto the unforgiving stone floor.

"OOMPH!" was the only sound that was heard from the two on landing with the person in red resting on top of Luna. She could tell that the person was a girl and that she seemed to be breathing very hard, as if the fall had knocked the wind out of her. After a minute the girl finally regained her breath and seemed to realize that she was laying on someone. She scrambled quickly off of Luna and reached down to help her up.

"I am so sorry. Are you okay? I was in such a hurry because of… well that doesn't matter, but I wasn't watching where I was going. I am still new here and I really need to ask someone to show me around until I get used to the area, but of course I can never ask for help when I need it. Oh, not that I am asking you to do it, but that would be cool if you did also. What…" She trailed off because Luna had finally gotten to her feet and was smiling at her in an unconcerned, dazed way.

"I am just fine but thank you for checking to make sure. I…" Luna wasn't able to finish her sentence because suddenly the girl was kissing her. Luna wasn't sure what she should do so she stood still, shocked that this person whom she didn't even know the name of was kissing her. Luna stepped back out of the kiss and had to take a few breaths before she asked, "Why did you kiss me? I think I remember you from the sorting ceremony. What is your name?"

"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry. I totally forgot to introduce myself. My name is Lilith and I am a transfer student from America's wizarding school. I am actually only here for the semester. To tell you the truth I don't know why I kissed you I just felt like I had to. When I feel like I have to do something I just do it. I hope I haven't just lost a potential friend, because I would love to be your friend." The new student rambled on and on. Luna finally interrupted her.

"You don't even know me, why would you want to be my friend? I do remember you from the sorting ceremony the other day, but I never got around to introducing myself to you. Do you know who I am?" She said trying to make the new student understand who she was talking to. Luna didn't want the new student to be ridiculed and rejected because she was associated with Luna. Luna knew what would happen if anyone knew that Lilith had been talking to her.

"Actually I have no idea who you are but I have never really cared how other people see me, so if you are the type of person that others reject and leave on the outside of all groups, I would still love to be your friend. That is if my kissing you didn't make you never want to come near me again, even only as a friend." The American explained. She shrugged her shoulders and shuffled her feet in a nervous manner and in the process almost ended up falling on her face again when she caught one foot with the other. After she had regained her balance, she just looked at Luna and smiled sheepishly obviously a little embarrassed about her clumsiness.

Luna stared at the mysterious new girl and wondered why this girl, this new student to the school and to the country, was attempting to become friends with the one person that she shouldn't even want to be near. Luna had never had this problem before and she really didn't know how to respond to it. Obviously Luna's emotions were written plainly on her face and Lilith looked away looking very sad.

"That's okay, I understand. Not many people wanted to be my friend at my old school either. Well, except for two people, Sammy and Megan, but then those two were just as strange as I am." Lilith finished, and began to turn in the direction she had come from. Luna couldn't just let her believe that she didn't want to be her friend, so she reached out and loosely grabbed the new girl's wrist. Lilith stopped her turn and swung back around to stare at the girl she had kissed not two minutes ago.

"I would love to be your friend, Lilith. Unfortunately, if we do become friends we can't be seen talking anywhere that other people can see us. I am not used to anyone wanting to be my friend, even the other crazy people in the school steer clear of me. And you still need to tell me why you kissed me. The excuse you gave me wasn't a complete answer." Luna finished with a shake of her head, letting go of her new friend's wrist.

"Well, actually, I usually don't tell anyone this, especially if I've just officially met them, except a few people on the train, but I am not fully human. The reason I am at this school in the first place is because I have finally become of age enough to know the location of my mate. Fortunately for me, I get to come to Hogwarts to find this person and complete our bond." Lilith grinned at Luna as if this new information wasn't really anything new.

"Wouldn't your mate be the gender that you prefer sexually? If that is the case, shouldn't you only be kissing guys?" Luna stated curiously, staring at her new friend.

"Normally, yes. Fortunately for me, I don't care what gender my partner is, whether they are male or female, they both suit me just fine." She shrugged and then appeared to wait for Luna's reaction, biting her lip softly. She seemed to expect a bad reaction to come from this news, but when Luna just stood there as if waiting for something else, her mouth bloomed into a grand smile.

"I apologize for kissing you. I was just following a feeling I had that my mate was in this direction. I should probably go see if I can find them. I now have a faint feeling of them being on the seventh floor, so that is where I will go." Lilith shrugged and pushed her hair away from her face before saying goodbye and walking to the closest staircase that went up. Luna turned and said goodbye while watching her new friend head in the direction of the Gryffindor common room. Luna turned back in the direction she had been going at first while she shook her head and smiled at the encounter, happy that she now had another new friend.

End FLASHBACK

After that encounter she had realized that her mate could be one of two people; Lilith or Draco. Her only problem was, how was she supposed to figure it out? She didn't know how she was supposed to be certain of who her mate was except by their aura matching with hers and since she couldn't see hers she had to go on other things instead. So for the time being until her father answered her letter, she would just have to deal with her headache and anything else that occurred as a result of her trying to find her mate. She hoped that this would be the worst thing that would happen in her search, but she had a feeling that something would end up changing the lives of many others as she found her happily ever after.

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