Luna was sitting with Olivia in the library. They had a charms essay that was due in the morning and were pouring over their books, trying to complete their research. Olivia rhythmically tapped her quill against the parchment in front of her before she dropped the quill on the table and sighed. She was unable to focus because of the surprise that Oli had thrown onto her at the worst possible time. Luna looked up from her essay and peered over at her best friend. She lightly smiled and reached her hand over, gently grasping Olivia's. Olivia looked up and had a small, confused smile on her face before she pushed her parchment away from her, signaling that she wanted to speak with Luna about it. The blonde girl shut her book and looked at Olivia telling her to start.

"I've never been so confused about anything Luna. I don't know how to respond to Oli and he's being more persistent than ever." Olivia spewed out and held her head in her hands. Luna stayed silent and looked as if she was in serious thought. She leaned in closer to Olivia and examined her for a split second. She then leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms in front of her.

"It seems that the wrackspurt's have made your brain especially fuzzy and floated from your brother to you. Here is what I suggest; think very positive thoughts and buy some spectrespecs. After doing these things, I suggest you really think about the situation. Oliver has known you for years and is one of your best friends. Would you be able to handle a split if it does happen?" Olivia was shocked by Luna's small piece of advice. Not the first part. Of course she saw all that confusing talk coming but as she really took Luna's words in account, she realized that she didn't really have those kinds of feelings for Oli and she might never will. She didn't want to lose his friendship and although Olivia loved him, she didn't think of the boy as anything but her best friend.

Smiling at the blonde in front of her, Olivia quickly finished up her essay that was now making perfect sense and closed her books. Bidding farewell to Luna, Olivia hurriedly walked up the spiral staircase and stood in front of the door with a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. She lifted the knocker and brought it back down on the door, waiting for the riddle to be said aloud.

"Tear off my skin and I will not cry, but you will. What am I?" The eagle knocker asked the question. All students from Ravenclaw had to be to answer the riddles from the eagle or else they weren't allowed inside the common room. It was what had to be done to prove your wit in Ravenclaw.

Olivia smiled at the question and thought fondly of how her family would sit around in the living room and question each other. Thinking back on her mum's cooking, she answered the question proudly. "An onion." Olivia smiled at the memory of her mum cutting up an onion and cursing under her breath as the tears flowed down her cheeks from the rancid vegetable.

The door swung open and Olivia walked inside looking around. The airiness of the room was always evident as there was so much space. Ravenclaw's element was air. By this logic, every student had enough space in the common room as well as the dorm rooms. The rooms weren't large but each one had only one bed, making it so that every Ravenclaw student had their own room. Olivia's room has a beautiful view of the lake and the quidditch pitch and the sound of the wind whistling around the windows made sleeping an extremely easy thing to do.

Plopping down on the couch near Oli, she looked at his writing. He was working on the same Charms essay that Olivia had just finished but after seeing her, had closed the book and smiled in his friend's direction.

"What's up V?" He asked hopefully, wishing that she had come to a hasty and excellent decision.

"Oli" she hastily grabbed his hand in between both of hers and looked him in the eye. "I'm sorry but I'm just not interested." He pulled his hand out of hers. She continued quickly before he could interrupt. "And it's not because you're not a great guy, you really are. But I love being your friend. You're like a brother to me and any girl would be lucky to have you."

Oliver stayed silent and Via was worried that she hurt his feelings too much. Finally, he opened his mouth to speak. "It's fine" he mumbled as he stood to leave.

"I understand if you need time..." Olivia stated but he simply walked away, brushing her off.

"I'll be fine" he snapped and went up to the boy's dorm rooms. Sighing loudly, Olivia stood and walked up to her own room, closing the door behind her and putting her books on her bed. Sitting on her quilt, she watched in frustration as one of her books toppled off of the large book stack and fell to the floor.

Standing to retrieve the book, Olivia saw a paper flutter out of it. She stooped down to collect the paper and scanned a few lines. She quickly realized it was the letter her father sent her and Peter. She sat down at her desk and read through it one more time, reading parts of it she failed to see the last time she read it. She scoffed as she remembered why she set the letter aside and suddenly felt enraged with Peter again.

Olivia breathed out and scanned the letter, finding where she had stopped last time and read the remaining bit.

"Olivia. You may be confused about this situation and I am slightly confused as to your lack of conversing with me. Nevertheless, I will try and help the best I can. Seeing as relationships are (hopefully) new to you at this time, I hope this letter bodes you well. Don't feel like you can't share with me. I love you very much and I want the best for you. Always. What is written next comes from the heart and is given with the best intentions. You may not like them and that's fine by me. I realize that what you're looking for now is what you want forever in the future. You want this relationship to last. You are still becoming the adult you will eventually be. With all this advice, I will now back off. I will try hard to let you experience your feelings for yourself because I love you. I will always listen to you and will give advice when you need it. I'll be here if you need to hug, cry or vent a little. I will always have your back V. ~With love, Dad"

Olivia smiled and tucked the letter under her mattress. Pulling the blue and silver blanket down, Olivia climbed into bed and snuggled into the warm sheets.

••••••••

Olivia hurriedly made her way down to breakfast and was greeted happily by Luna. Via sat down across the girl and told her about what had occurred the night before. Just then, Oli had walked in. Olivia smiled at him happily and waved slightly. He promptly looked away and made his way further down the Ravenclaw table, sitting next to Cho Chang.

"Oh dear." Luna broke the silence and looked over at her friend. Olivia's mouth was open in a small 'O' and her eyes were widened. Luna reached over and patted her friend's hand, trying to comfort the brown haired girl. Olivia's mouth suddenly turned into a thin line and she stood from the table. She walked over to where her best friend was seated, and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Can I speak to you alone, Oli?" The boy in question cocked one of his eyebrows, sniffed, and turned his head back to face the new people he sat next to. Olivia immediately looked disgusted. "You complete arse." She scoffed loudly before walking back to her seat and sat down with pride. She wouldn't look upset over someone who would just throw away a friendship because of a rejection.

"V! What was that?!" Ginny Weasley slid into the seat next to Olivia and Hermione Granger sat next to Luna.

"It was nothing" she grumbled quietly.

"You and Oliver have never had a row before. That certainly looked like something" Hermione pointed out with a serious yet gentle voice.

"Oliver asked her out and Via rejected" Luna blurted out intentionally in her sing-song voice.

"Luna!" Olivia shouted before burying her head in her hands and shaking her head. "It's not just that." She sighed as she lifted her head and looked at the three girls around her. "He's completely ignoring me! It's not like I murdered his mother!" Olivia had anger surging throughout her body. She was extremely pissed off at her petty best friend who could not handle rejection. Hermione gave Olivia a look of pity while Ginny looked frustrated.

"Oh hello Peter!" Hermione called out. Olivia wanted to groan. The last thing she needed was her little brother to be involved in this situation. She was aware that he had a deep hatred toward Oli and this was not going to help.

"Hello there ladies! Draco mentioned that he heard Olivia talking quite loudly" at this, Olivia looked over at the Slytherin table and saw Draco reading the Daily Prophet. He looked up and met her eyes. Olivia glared and Draco merely smiled and shrugged his shoulders before returning to the paper. "I also noticed a small gathering here. Everything okay?"

"Actually no. Your sister has rejected Oliver Rivers and he has taken it very harshly." Luna called out earning a sharp growl from Olivia.

"The proper terminology is that he's acting like a complete git. He's taken to ignoring your sister" Ginny corrected and watched as Peter Graves sat down next to his sister and look at her with very expressive eyes.

"Via. If a simple rejection like this ruins your friendship, surely you don't need him. And no, this isn't my hatred talking. This is my professional advice. In the end, he can't guilt you and if you lose your friendship over something so silly, was it really the best friendship to have?" Olivia looked at her brother with shock and admiration. She smiled at him and pinched his chubby cheek.

"Who knew you would ever be so wise, Petey?" Her brother rolled his eyes and scoffed.

"Anyways, I should get back. Since it's the weekend, Draco promised he'd show me some training techniques to get on the Slytherin quidditch team." He stood from the seat and stopped after hearing his sister's shrill voice behind him.

"And you didn't think to ask your own sister for advice?" She demanded.

"I would have but Draco is way more patient than you are" he said with a quick smirk and strolled away back to his table.

••••••••

After practice that day, Olivia quickly ate her dinner and made her way up to the Ravenclaw common room to catch Oliver before her nightly patrols started.

She spotted him on the couch next to Cho Chang and she yanked him up by his shirt sleeve. Olivia hauled Oli to the other side of the room so that no one could hear their important conversation.

"Listen Oli. I don't know what's wrong with you but you can't just go around acting like I don't exist. I was your first friend here and if a measly rejection is gonna end this long friendship then you are sadly not the person I've known all these years!" Olivia stated while poking him in the chest. She was substantially shorter than him and when he watched her reprimanding him, Oliver couldn't help but laugh.

Olivia was shocked and was pulled into a hug by Oli before she heard his laugh come to an end. He let her go and sheepishly glanced at his feet.

"I'm sorry. I guess I was just embarrassed by your rejection. I didn't mean to hurt you in anyway."

Olivia smiled and crossed her arms before replying. "Good. I just wanted you to be aware of the jerk you were. Now, I've got to go. I've got patrols with Malfoy" She turned and headed out the door.

Oliver frowned behind her and quickly gave an angry growl before covering it up by coughing.

Olivia met Draco down by the Great Hall. He realized that she was smiling and he quite liked the look on her face. All she ever did was worry.

"Ready for patrols, Graves?" He called out in his competitive voice but a small smile quickly followed.

Olivia grinned and began walking in front of him before shouting behind her back, "Only if you are, Malfoy." She laughed as she heard him scuffling to catch up to her.

Sorry it's so late but I have work to do for school and my exams are coming up! I'm almost on Winter break though so please stay tuned for many chapters to come!

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