Chapter 7:
"So Usagi who are you going to go to the Halloween dance with?" Parvati asked.
Parvati, Lavender, Usagi and Hermione were all sprawled across their beds doing homework. They had left the common room after deciding that the tension between Ron and Hermione would result in no homework getting down.
"Yeah, despite the fact that you spend every free moment with our gorgeous dark haired professor I don't think he is possible candidate." Lavender stated as Hermione's head popped up.
"Seiya?" Usagi asked startled and she shot a glance at Hermione, it had been obvious to Usagi from the start that her friend had a major crush on Seiya.
"Of course Seiya." Parvati giggled tossing a pillow at Usagi.
"Seiya and I aren't like that. We are just very good friends, he helped me through a very difficult time in my life." Usagi responded using Parvati's pillow to prop her elbows on.
"Riiiiiight." Lavender drawled, "So who are you going with then?"
"No one." Usagi replied, "I'll probably just hang out with my brother."
"Are you sure about that? I bet by the end of the week Harry will ask you." Parvati stated.
"No way." Lavender shook her head, "I give him until lunch tomorrow."
"You guys are kidding right?" Usagi asked surprised, "Harry and I are just-"
"Friends?" Hermione finished.
"Right." Usagi nodded.
"Girl YOU may be friends with these guys but I'm not entirely sure they see things the same way." Lavender stated.
"Yeah." Parvati nodded, "Harry is so into you."
"Me?" Usagi asked, "I thought he and Ginny Weasley had a thing."
"Uh huh." Parvati shook her head.
"Correction, Ginny has been in love with Harry forever. He only knows she exists because he is best friends with Ron." Lavender added.
"No way you guys." Usagi shook her head, "Come on Hermione you know Harry better than just about anyway. What's up with Harry and Ginny?"
"This summer Harry knew what he wanted. I don't think he does so much anymore." Hermione replied with a shrug, "Now will you all let me finish my homework?"
"Hermione!" Lavender cried throwing her pillow at Hermione this time, "Don't be so cryptic!"
"Listen Harry's my best-friend I can't talk to you guys about this." Hermione replied, "Now are you going to let me go back to my homework or what?"
Lavender and Parvati sighed sadly but also returned to their homework, Usagi on the other side was glad the conversation had been dropped because she had no idea how to respond. Pushing herself off her bed she walked over to sit at the window seat staring out the window. Using her thumb she twisted the ring around her right pointer finger and her left hand touched her crystal.
She was sure that after having been at Hogwarts for a month and not talking to the senshi for two she would get used to not running to them for advice. The last time Seiya had been on Earth she had refused her friends' offers to talk about her feelings for the idol. Now she would give anything to be able to talk to her friends about both Seiya and Harry and the confusing feelings both they had for her and she had for them.
What Lavender had said was true, Usagi did spend all her time with Seiya. It was just that Usagi was having a hard time figuring out if her feelings for Seiya were from the fact that he was familiar and they had been through a lot. If it there was actually the spark there that Seiya had wanted when he was last on Earth.
Harry and Usagi's relationship on the other hand was something like that of her and Seiya's before. With the exception that Harry didn't just assume that they were dating and that she was in love with him. Usagi found that she did like Harry's companionship he was honestly a nice guy and a good friend; Usagi just didn't think that he was someone she could ever actually date.
Draco was yet a third guy who confused Usagi. Of course there was no romantic interest like with Seiya and Harry but he was so damn confusing. One minute they would be as close as ever and then the very next he would turn into the cold hard person that he was around Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the school.
"Malfoy you are never going to get McGonagall's homework done if you keep reading that letter." One of Draco's roommates commented.
Draco wasn't really reading the letter; he had had it for a month. He had been correct in assuming that the instant he sent a letter to his father there would be a response on the way. The contents of the letter weren't surprising either, for the most part they said: "Turn her."
For whatever reason Lucius would never be happy until both of his children were on his side. It made Draco so mad, his father didn't even know Usagi and the sweet, pure, innocence surrounding her. Draco knew he was confusing his twin, every moment Draco spent with Usagi he found that her way of living was new but he liked it. While Draco saw the bad in everything, and everyone, Usagi saw only the best and she was happy and upbeat and he couldn't help letting her because she caused his mood to be the same when she was around. But in the split second it would take to remember the letter waiting in the top drawer in a secret compartment of his trunk his mood would change to a sour one.
Draco sighed, folded the letter back up and turned his attention to his homework.
"What's go you two so down?" Usagi asks as Ron and Harry slump into their seats a breakfast one morning.
"Didn't you hear?" Ron asks looking up from his hot cereal.
"Obviously not or she wouldn't be asking would she?" Hermione quipped.
Harry rolled his eyes at his friends before responding, "Jason Young has been taken off the team, he took a bludger to the head…no permanent damage but he won't be able to play our first game against Slytherin at the end of this week."
"No way!" Usagi and the rest of the girls exclaimed.
"How could you guys not have heard?" Seamus asks, "I thought everyone knew."
"We didn't leave our rooms last night, we were studying for McGonagall's test, you guys should have been too." Hermione states.
"I had quidditch practice." Harry's head drops into his hands, "I don't know what we are going to do we can't play with only one beater."
"Can you hold try-outs for someone to fill in?" Lavender asks.
The boys exchange glances, "We did think about it." Harry responds, "It's just it's against Slytherin, that's a lot of pressure for a new beater to stand up against in their first and possibly only game. I'm not sure if it would be a good idea."
"So what are you going to do forfeit?" Usagi asks jumping to her feet, "That's ridiculous! You have to at least hold tryouts if you can't find anyone then you forfeit if you have to. We are Gryffindors we do not quit!"
"Right!" Everyone around the table got caught up in the energy Usagi exerted.
"You are trying out for the team of course Usagi." Lavender states.
"What? No way. I am not a quidditch player!" Usagi states shaking her head quickly, "I can barely walk."
"Barely walk? What are you talking about Usagi?" Parvati asked, "You are one of the most graceful people in the whole school, almost like a princess."
"Me?" Usagi was taken aback by the news, "I don't think so."
"You have to try out for the team. Please Usagi, it's just a simple tryout it doesn't mean anything." Harry offers.
"I'll think about it." Usagi states, "I think I'm going to go for a walk.
Usagi walked out of the Great Hall and out of the castle towards the quidditch field, but instead of going the whole way she stopped on a hill overlooking the field.
"What are we looking at?" Seiya's voice causes Usagi to jump as he plops down beside her.
Usagi shrugs, "I don't know, I'm just thinking really. I assume you heard about Jason Young?"
"Yes." Seiya nodded.
"Harry decided that they are going to have tryouts for his position for the game a week from today."
"Against Slytherin."
"Right." Usagi nods, "Everyone wants me to try out."
"It might be fun." Seiya shrugs.
The couple sat in silence for along time, if it had been Friday instead of Saturday the bell for Usagi's first class would have rung. "Seiya?"
"Hmm?" Seiya asks offhandedly staring at the sky.
"Do you think I've changed a lot since I got here?" Usagi asks following Seiya's gaze.
"I think you are a lot more mature than the Usagi I left in Tokyo a year ago." Seiya states, "But your personality is the same."
"I didn't even pick up on the fact that I had changed at all." Usagi sighs. "I'm beginning to see why Setsuna sent me away."
"Sent you away?" Seiya asks arching an eyebrow.
"You know made me come here. Don't get me wrong I am having a great time but I didn't want to come at first." Usagi explains quickly.
"So then why do you think Setsuna sent you away?" Seiya asks turning to face Usagi.
"I'm sure there is more to it than just this but I think before I can be queen of anything I need to learn to be independent. Not rely on the senshi and Mamo-Chan at all times. Does that make any sense?" Usagi asks avoiding Seiya's eye contact so that he couldn't see the tears forming in her pale eyes.
"It makes a lot of sense. You miss them don't you?" Seiya asks sensing immediately that something was wrong with Usagi.
Usagi nods, "Yes. For four years the senshi have been my life whether it was senshi meetings or fights or just friendship. And all of a sudden as if it doesn't matter anymore I am immersed in all these great friendships that I can't even think about not having. I feel like I have known these people my whole lives. But you want to know the part that scares me the most?"
"What's that Usagi-Chan?"
"It's that while I am making new friends that may be replacing my friendship with the senshi, or it may not…I don't know. But the scariest part is that I am beginning to have feelings for someone other than Mamo-Chan and I am having a hard time remembering my feelings for him."
"So Usagi who are you going to go to the Halloween dance with?" Parvati asked.
Parvati, Lavender, Usagi and Hermione were all sprawled across their beds doing homework. They had left the common room after deciding that the tension between Ron and Hermione would result in no homework getting down.
"Yeah, despite the fact that you spend every free moment with our gorgeous dark haired professor I don't think he is possible candidate." Lavender stated as Hermione's head popped up.
"Seiya?" Usagi asked startled and she shot a glance at Hermione, it had been obvious to Usagi from the start that her friend had a major crush on Seiya.
"Of course Seiya." Parvati giggled tossing a pillow at Usagi.
"Seiya and I aren't like that. We are just very good friends, he helped me through a very difficult time in my life." Usagi responded using Parvati's pillow to prop her elbows on.
"Riiiiiight." Lavender drawled, "So who are you going with then?"
"No one." Usagi replied, "I'll probably just hang out with my brother."
"Are you sure about that? I bet by the end of the week Harry will ask you." Parvati stated.
"No way." Lavender shook her head, "I give him until lunch tomorrow."
"You guys are kidding right?" Usagi asked surprised, "Harry and I are just-"
"Friends?" Hermione finished.
"Right." Usagi nodded.
"Girl YOU may be friends with these guys but I'm not entirely sure they see things the same way." Lavender stated.
"Yeah." Parvati nodded, "Harry is so into you."
"Me?" Usagi asked, "I thought he and Ginny Weasley had a thing."
"Uh huh." Parvati shook her head.
"Correction, Ginny has been in love with Harry forever. He only knows she exists because he is best friends with Ron." Lavender added.
"No way you guys." Usagi shook her head, "Come on Hermione you know Harry better than just about anyway. What's up with Harry and Ginny?"
"This summer Harry knew what he wanted. I don't think he does so much anymore." Hermione replied with a shrug, "Now will you all let me finish my homework?"
"Hermione!" Lavender cried throwing her pillow at Hermione this time, "Don't be so cryptic!"
"Listen Harry's my best-friend I can't talk to you guys about this." Hermione replied, "Now are you going to let me go back to my homework or what?"
Lavender and Parvati sighed sadly but also returned to their homework, Usagi on the other side was glad the conversation had been dropped because she had no idea how to respond. Pushing herself off her bed she walked over to sit at the window seat staring out the window. Using her thumb she twisted the ring around her right pointer finger and her left hand touched her crystal.
She was sure that after having been at Hogwarts for a month and not talking to the senshi for two she would get used to not running to them for advice. The last time Seiya had been on Earth she had refused her friends' offers to talk about her feelings for the idol. Now she would give anything to be able to talk to her friends about both Seiya and Harry and the confusing feelings both they had for her and she had for them.
What Lavender had said was true, Usagi did spend all her time with Seiya. It was just that Usagi was having a hard time figuring out if her feelings for Seiya were from the fact that he was familiar and they had been through a lot. If it there was actually the spark there that Seiya had wanted when he was last on Earth.
Harry and Usagi's relationship on the other hand was something like that of her and Seiya's before. With the exception that Harry didn't just assume that they were dating and that she was in love with him. Usagi found that she did like Harry's companionship he was honestly a nice guy and a good friend; Usagi just didn't think that he was someone she could ever actually date.
Draco was yet a third guy who confused Usagi. Of course there was no romantic interest like with Seiya and Harry but he was so damn confusing. One minute they would be as close as ever and then the very next he would turn into the cold hard person that he was around Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the school.
"Malfoy you are never going to get McGonagall's homework done if you keep reading that letter." One of Draco's roommates commented.
Draco wasn't really reading the letter; he had had it for a month. He had been correct in assuming that the instant he sent a letter to his father there would be a response on the way. The contents of the letter weren't surprising either, for the most part they said: "Turn her."
For whatever reason Lucius would never be happy until both of his children were on his side. It made Draco so mad, his father didn't even know Usagi and the sweet, pure, innocence surrounding her. Draco knew he was confusing his twin, every moment Draco spent with Usagi he found that her way of living was new but he liked it. While Draco saw the bad in everything, and everyone, Usagi saw only the best and she was happy and upbeat and he couldn't help letting her because she caused his mood to be the same when she was around. But in the split second it would take to remember the letter waiting in the top drawer in a secret compartment of his trunk his mood would change to a sour one.
Draco sighed, folded the letter back up and turned his attention to his homework.
"What's go you two so down?" Usagi asks as Ron and Harry slump into their seats a breakfast one morning.
"Didn't you hear?" Ron asks looking up from his hot cereal.
"Obviously not or she wouldn't be asking would she?" Hermione quipped.
Harry rolled his eyes at his friends before responding, "Jason Young has been taken off the team, he took a bludger to the head…no permanent damage but he won't be able to play our first game against Slytherin at the end of this week."
"No way!" Usagi and the rest of the girls exclaimed.
"How could you guys not have heard?" Seamus asks, "I thought everyone knew."
"We didn't leave our rooms last night, we were studying for McGonagall's test, you guys should have been too." Hermione states.
"I had quidditch practice." Harry's head drops into his hands, "I don't know what we are going to do we can't play with only one beater."
"Can you hold try-outs for someone to fill in?" Lavender asks.
The boys exchange glances, "We did think about it." Harry responds, "It's just it's against Slytherin, that's a lot of pressure for a new beater to stand up against in their first and possibly only game. I'm not sure if it would be a good idea."
"So what are you going to do forfeit?" Usagi asks jumping to her feet, "That's ridiculous! You have to at least hold tryouts if you can't find anyone then you forfeit if you have to. We are Gryffindors we do not quit!"
"Right!" Everyone around the table got caught up in the energy Usagi exerted.
"You are trying out for the team of course Usagi." Lavender states.
"What? No way. I am not a quidditch player!" Usagi states shaking her head quickly, "I can barely walk."
"Barely walk? What are you talking about Usagi?" Parvati asked, "You are one of the most graceful people in the whole school, almost like a princess."
"Me?" Usagi was taken aback by the news, "I don't think so."
"You have to try out for the team. Please Usagi, it's just a simple tryout it doesn't mean anything." Harry offers.
"I'll think about it." Usagi states, "I think I'm going to go for a walk.
Usagi walked out of the Great Hall and out of the castle towards the quidditch field, but instead of going the whole way she stopped on a hill overlooking the field.
"What are we looking at?" Seiya's voice causes Usagi to jump as he plops down beside her.
Usagi shrugs, "I don't know, I'm just thinking really. I assume you heard about Jason Young?"
"Yes." Seiya nodded.
"Harry decided that they are going to have tryouts for his position for the game a week from today."
"Against Slytherin."
"Right." Usagi nods, "Everyone wants me to try out."
"It might be fun." Seiya shrugs.
The couple sat in silence for along time, if it had been Friday instead of Saturday the bell for Usagi's first class would have rung. "Seiya?"
"Hmm?" Seiya asks offhandedly staring at the sky.
"Do you think I've changed a lot since I got here?" Usagi asks following Seiya's gaze.
"I think you are a lot more mature than the Usagi I left in Tokyo a year ago." Seiya states, "But your personality is the same."
"I didn't even pick up on the fact that I had changed at all." Usagi sighs. "I'm beginning to see why Setsuna sent me away."
"Sent you away?" Seiya asks arching an eyebrow.
"You know made me come here. Don't get me wrong I am having a great time but I didn't want to come at first." Usagi explains quickly.
"So then why do you think Setsuna sent you away?" Seiya asks turning to face Usagi.
"I'm sure there is more to it than just this but I think before I can be queen of anything I need to learn to be independent. Not rely on the senshi and Mamo-Chan at all times. Does that make any sense?" Usagi asks avoiding Seiya's eye contact so that he couldn't see the tears forming in her pale eyes.
"It makes a lot of sense. You miss them don't you?" Seiya asks sensing immediately that something was wrong with Usagi.
Usagi nods, "Yes. For four years the senshi have been my life whether it was senshi meetings or fights or just friendship. And all of a sudden as if it doesn't matter anymore I am immersed in all these great friendships that I can't even think about not having. I feel like I have known these people my whole lives. But you want to know the part that scares me the most?"
"What's that Usagi-Chan?"
"It's that while I am making new friends that may be replacing my friendship with the senshi, or it may not…I don't know. But the scariest part is that I am beginning to have feelings for someone other than Mamo-Chan and I am having a hard time remembering my feelings for him."