Knowing
Pairing: Lisa Turpin & Michael Corner
Word Count: 518
Summary: All she can do is watch, and wait, and hope against hope that Michael will notice her.
Author's Note: The first sentence came into my head and I just wrote it, not at first knowing which pairing it was until I looked at the classlist for Harry's year and found Lisa Turpin & Michael Corner and decided it was perfect for them. I may write more things about these two in the future, but for now, it's an unclassified one-shot stuffed in Expelliarmus. Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
And she knows it is love, because it hurts (oh it hurts) and everything feels different now (from the sun on her back to the rain on her face, it is different). Because she has never liked anyone but Michael, not since third year when he threw her a sugar quill and said that he'd accidentally bought two (they both knew it was a lie). She'd liked him then, instantly, sharing something in their blushes as they sucked their sugar quills, and over the years it had developed into the state it was now. Love.
Unrequited love is the worst pain of all. She knows that, now, whereas in previous years she has scorned it (scorned it because she didn't believe that something as good as love could hurt so much). But it does hurt, so much, and what annoys her the most is there is nothing she can do about it. She is not a Gryffindor and is thus not brave enough to tell him. She is not a Slytherin and confident enough to steal him away. She is clever, yes, but what good is being clever in the face of unrequited love? Ginny Weasley is not clever, anyway, at least not in the way that Ravenclaws are. Maybe he doesn't want clever, (maybe he just doesn't want her).
She'd just always thought that he'd realise. She'd thought he'd realise that exactly what he needed was stood right in front of him, solidified in the form of Lisa Jennifer Turpin, the sparky tomboy, his female best friend. But he remained, remains oblivious. All he can see is Ginny Weasley with her scorching hair and exciting personality and her strong independence, which Lisa knows will eventually end their relationship. But she can't wait that long. Impatience is one of the traits that she and Ginny Weasley share.
Sometimes Michael will ask her silly questions like "are you alright?" and "how come I don't see you as often now?" and she just wants to punch him. Because the answers are obvious. No, she is not alright, because the person she is so very much in love with is infatuated with somebody else. And you don't see me as often now, Michael, because you are always glued to the face of Ginny Weasley. But saying these things wouldn't help, so she avoids replying at all. It is easier not to reply to something that has such a sad, self-pitying answer.
Mandy and Morag and Padma tell her over and over that it's alright, he'll come round eventually. All four Ravenclaw girls are especially close but Padma knows the most about Lisa's heartbreak so it's she that climbs into Lisa's bed when she's crying and takes her hand and whispers "he may not love you yet, but we do, darling." This would not and does not and will not stop it hurting.
All she can do is watch, and wait, and hope against hope that Michael will notice her.