Well, this was perfect. I rushed back up to the castle, not looking where I was going. I ran head long into something rather solid. It turned out to be Snape.
"Why are you crying?" If he meant to be compassionate he failed miserably. He sounded just as cold as he always did. I hadn't realised I had been crying either. The realization I was made me cry more.
"He…he said I wasn't do…doing a good enough job!" I wailed, burying my nose into his robes.
"What are you talking about?" He demanded.
"you know! He said that if I didn't get a move on, he'd find someone to replace me, and we all know what that means." he started leading me up towards the castle, and I let him pull me along.
"Why do you let yourself get into these messes?" Snape growled.
"I don't mean to! It's just…I'm scared." I'd never admitted that to any one before, not even myself. It made me even more scared.
"You!" It took me a few second to realize Snape was talking to someone else. "You're in Gryffindor, deal with her!" I was pushed into someone else, and being pathetic turned and cried all over them. They were awkwardly patting my back while leading me up to the common room (or that's at least where I thought we were going). A few minutes later I had calmed down a considerable amount, and noticed that A. I wasn't in the common room, and B. my rescuer was Harry. I saw a glimmer of hope shining off somewhere far far away.
"Hey, you ok?" He asked quietly. I nodded slowly, wiping at my eye. We were silent after that, he just stayed with his arm over me, patting my back every now and then. This was nice. I liked this. No wonder Harry's friends liked him so much. He this aura about him, as though nothing could ever go wrong, and when it did, it would be ok any ways. I sighed.
"Life," I stated, "Is like a grapefruit." He looked own at me strangely, and I explained, "It was in a muggle book I read once, one character was asked what life was, really actually was. So this Guy says, 'Life is like a grapefruit. It's round, squishy, sort of an orange colour and some people have half of one for breakfast.'" Harry gave a small laugh. We sat in silence for a while again, and I started singing under my breath.
"How can I stand here with you, and not be moved by you?" I mumbled out. I don't where that came from, I'd never heard that particular song before. Oh well. "Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?"
"What was that?" Harry asked sleepily.
"Oh, some song. Now it's stuck in my head, but I swear I've never heard it before." I said, equally sleepily. It must have been getting late.
"Sing it for me." Harry demanded. I was about to explain that that was all I knew, when he kissed me.
That had been unexpected. I was so shocked that I almost didn't catch what a great opportunity this was. He had kissed me, maybe Tom's plan would work for once. But…he had kissed me. Did I want to do that?
"Sorry." I heard him mumble. I noticed then he was no longer kissing me. I felt as though he had got the raw end of the deal, seeing as I had been to shocked to kiss him back.
"No, it's just, wow. I didn't see that coming." That was true.
"I'm Sorry." Harry said again. I shook my head, then got up and left. I had no idea where we were, but if I was able to navigate my way through Tom's Lair, then I could probably find my way back.
That was a mistake, I shouldn't have left. Now it would be awkward, this could either work out really well, or turn out terrible. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I am Stupid. What am I? Stupid.**I sighed, then decided to just sleep there in the halls. Someone would find me eventually.
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**Everyone in Darbyshire's Honours class will get this, if not, which you probably aren't, haha.
Ok, I've forgotten this for a while now, so…
Disclaimer: I own nothing, the song she was singing was "Everything" by Lifehouse. All characters you may recognize belong to JK, and Amanda Smith belongs to herself, though I've stolen her name. Oh, and the song she was singing before was "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. Or at least that's what I think it's called, something like that.
I know this chappie was short, but maybe if you review (hinthint) I'll make them longer?
Suggestions are welcome!!
