"Zerea?"

                "Yes?" Zerea looked over to her friend Margie.

                "You know, for someone who pretends not to notice someone you sure look at him a lot to. Why don't you just go talk to him?"

                "Margie you know it's not that...simple." She said pay more attention to her food.

                "Really? Why is it difficult to go up to him and say, 'hey Albus, you want to meet me at in Hogsmeade next weekend?' What's so hard about that?" She said with a sly smile on her face. "You know he likes you. It's not like he's going to freak out and say no."

                "But what if he does?" She said quietly, looking her friend in the eyes.

                "Well you'll never know if you don't just go and ask him will you." They sat in silence for the rest of dinner and Zarea only looked up when she noticed Albus getting up to go to his common room. Margie poked Zarea in the ribs and whispered in her ear. "If you don't get up and follow him right now I'm going to do it myself."

                Zarea just stared at her with a shocked expression on her face people just didn't do that sort of thing. "No you won't!" Although she knew that Margie would, and was proved right as Margie darted up to go after Albus. She was to slow to grab her friend and to amazed that she actually wasn't kidding.