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~Chapter Eight~
Kylee awoke the next morning at six, two hours before she needed to be up and about. She laid there in bed trying to force her self to sleep, but she just couldn't. After thirty minutes of sheer boredom, she gave a defeated sigh and sat up. She quietly got out of bed and tip-toed over to her trunk to get some clothes for the day. She pulled on a pair of jeans and a black tank-top before putting her robes on over top of them. She grabbed her wand, put it the inside pocket of her robes, and proceeded to grab her bag and creep out of the dormitory. She kept going until she was out of the common room and walking through the hallways.
*Hmmm..where should I go? Where is there to go this early in the morning?? Oh! I can go to the Room of Requirement! I think I remember where that is. I should have paid more attention when Harry took me there. Hmm...I think it was down near the Great Hall.*
She walked down her normal route to the Great Hall, but when she reached it she kept walking. She walked down the hall until she saw the familiar tapestry which hid the entrance to the room. She walked behind the tapestry thinking of the room and the door appeared in the wall. She twisted the knob and pulled the door open. When she looked up she gave a surprised gasp.
"Harry! What are you doing up this early...and down here," she asked regarding him with skepticism.
"I could ask you the same thing," he replied while smiling at her.
"Oh...I couldn't sleep. I woke up an hour ago and could not force my self to sleep anymore," she said, letting a sigh escape her lips as she sat in a chair directly across from Harry's.
"Same here...I was having the nightmare again..."
"Oh! I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do to help? If you want to be alone I can leave," she said while attempting to get out of the comfy chair.
"Oh no. I'd rather have company...and there's really nothing you can do except turn back time and keep Sirius from dying," Harry replied while looking down at the floor.
"I'm sorry Harry. We haven't been talking as much the last two weeks. It's my fault, I was kinda caught up in my own problems."
"Don't worry about it. We're talking now...that's what matters. I learned the hard way that you can't turn back time no matter how much you wish you could. It's how you handle the present that matters."
"Ah, well...I guess you're right. But don't let me do it again. I need to talk to you wether my conscious mind realizes it all the time or not. You're the only one I've told about what happened back home. What happened to Jess...," Kylee said as her eyes began to water.
Harry thought about it and the chair Kylee had been sitting on turned in to a couch. He went and sat beside her.
"It wasn't your fault, just like I realized with your help that Sirius' death wasn't my fault. They both died protecting someone they cared about, I don't know about Jess...but I know that's how Sirius would have wanted to die.
"I guess...I just wish that she was still around for me to talk to. But, when I mat you, you kinda took her place as the person that I could tell anything. You know that the real reason I moved was to escape the memories back home. You're the only one I have that I can talk to...my parents don't understand, Neville's great but I just can't talk to him, Draco's to busy being a jerk most of the time, and Meridith is too busy with her social life. Everyone's just too busy for me, everyone except you.."
Harry stared at her. She was so beautiful and she didn't even know it, she couldn't possibly know it. At that moment when he looked over at her a few strands of her honey colored hair were lying across her cheek, her brown eyes were glistening with partially dried tears. He just couldn't resist himself...he slowly leaned over to close the space between them and touched his lips to hers. At first she gave a little jump in shock but then she leaned into it, went with it. When she pulled back Harry looked into her eyes and blushed.
"O-Oh, I'm sorry...I shouldn't have done that, I can't believe I just did that," Harry stuttered while slowly backing towards the door.
"Harry, wait. Don't..," but it was too late, he had already left the room.
She sighed and picked her bag up off the floor. She looked at her watch and realized that it was time for breakfast. When she entered the Great Hall she quickly scanned it for any sight of Harry before plopping into a seat infront of Draco and Meridith. No Harry....
"Why are you looking so...dazed this morning," Meridith asked while glancing at her before turning to Draco.
"Oh, it's nothing. I just couldn't sleep last night," Kylee replied while looking over to see that Meridith was now engrossed in her own little world and didn't even hear her.
Since Harry wasn't there, Meridith was ignoring her, she wasn't talking to Draco, and she wasn't hungry, she figured she might as well make her way up to Defense...her first class of the day. When she entered the classroom she found it empty, which wasn't surprising seeing as they still had 20 minutes of breakfast left. She plopped down in her usual seat and set her bag on the ground beside her. She put her head in her hands and just sat there with her elbows propped on the desk...that was until someone walked in the classroom. She glanced up to see Professor Lupin enter the room and walk over to his desk. For a moment he was busy shuffling papers and didn't even notice she was there. He looked up after his desk was organized and that was when he saw her.
"Kylee? What are you doing here so early? Most of the students are still down in the Great Hall finishing their breakfasts," he said as he sat down on the edge of his desk.
"I know...it's just some stuff happened this morning, and there's still the thing from yesterday, and I just didn't have any reason to stay in the Hall."
"Ah, well..you know you can talk to me if you need someone to listen to you, but I trust you'll talk to someone if you need to. For the time being, you are always welcome to come to this class if you need somewhere to go in the mornings," he said as he resumed getting ready for class that day.
Kylee just sat there and after five more minutes the first few students began to filter into the class. After everyone was sitting in their seats, Harry in the back with Ron and Hermione and Neville in the far left corner with Seamus, Professor Lupin got up in front of the class to begin.
"Ok, now that everyone's here we can get started. We're going to put the curses we've been learning to use and practice dueling. I'm going to split you up in pairs, but, since there's an uneven number in this class, one of you will be paired with me."
He mostly paired Slytherins with Slytherins and Gryffindors with Gryffindors, but at the end only she was left.
"Alright, Kylee, I thought that you wouldn't mind if you were paired with me, and seeing as you've been getting extra Defense lessons, I thought you could help me do a demonstration for the class."
Kylee stood up and walked to the front of the classroom where Professor Lupin was standing. She turned to face him as he was telling the class to watch closely. He turned and they bowed to each other and right when she began to straighten she felt a curse whisk past her ear.
"STUPIFY," she yelled as she ducked to miss the spell he had sent at her.
The curse just barely missed him and they kept going, back and forth for nearly twenty minutes. By this time they were both getting quite tired and their motions were becoming a little sluggish. She noticed that Professor Lupin's motions weren't as quick as before, and took her chance when he sent the next spell at her. She stood in place to make it look as if it was going to hit her and ducked out of the way at the last second while sending a curse at the Professor. It just hit him and he fell to the floor shaking with laughter since the spell had been the tickling one. She quickly ended the spell and helped the professor up as the class burst into applause.
"Very well done. Now, would you mind telling the class how you won?"
"Oh, well, after fighting for that long, both of our movement were getting a little sluggish. I took the opportunity when to sent the last curse at me to stand there and act like the spell was going to hit me. That way, thinking you would have won and being tired, you stood there and that gave me the chance to send a curse at you and it hit you before you had the chance to properly move out of the way."
"Very good, now I want all of you to break up into the pairs that I assigned you. Kylee, you can walk around and help people if their having problems."
Kylee spent the rest of the lesson helping people perfect their dueling and get a few spells right. The rest of the day was fairly boring and she didn't really have anything to distract her from thinking about the mornings events. At dinner time she just grabbed somefood and went outside on the grounds, what she didn't know was that some one had followed her. She was just about to sit in her favorite spot by the lake to eat when she felt someone say her name. She quickly spun around to see who it was and discovered that it was....
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Sorry everyone!! I know, you probably hate me right now...but I had to make sure I would have something good to post next chapter!! And I wanted to try and leave a cliff hanger for once instead of the same boring ending...well maybe I'll get more reviews this way! Please read and review, after all...today is my birthday!!
~Chapter Eight~
Kylee awoke the next morning at six, two hours before she needed to be up and about. She laid there in bed trying to force her self to sleep, but she just couldn't. After thirty minutes of sheer boredom, she gave a defeated sigh and sat up. She quietly got out of bed and tip-toed over to her trunk to get some clothes for the day. She pulled on a pair of jeans and a black tank-top before putting her robes on over top of them. She grabbed her wand, put it the inside pocket of her robes, and proceeded to grab her bag and creep out of the dormitory. She kept going until she was out of the common room and walking through the hallways.
*Hmmm..where should I go? Where is there to go this early in the morning?? Oh! I can go to the Room of Requirement! I think I remember where that is. I should have paid more attention when Harry took me there. Hmm...I think it was down near the Great Hall.*
She walked down her normal route to the Great Hall, but when she reached it she kept walking. She walked down the hall until she saw the familiar tapestry which hid the entrance to the room. She walked behind the tapestry thinking of the room and the door appeared in the wall. She twisted the knob and pulled the door open. When she looked up she gave a surprised gasp.
"Harry! What are you doing up this early...and down here," she asked regarding him with skepticism.
"I could ask you the same thing," he replied while smiling at her.
"Oh...I couldn't sleep. I woke up an hour ago and could not force my self to sleep anymore," she said, letting a sigh escape her lips as she sat in a chair directly across from Harry's.
"Same here...I was having the nightmare again..."
"Oh! I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do to help? If you want to be alone I can leave," she said while attempting to get out of the comfy chair.
"Oh no. I'd rather have company...and there's really nothing you can do except turn back time and keep Sirius from dying," Harry replied while looking down at the floor.
"I'm sorry Harry. We haven't been talking as much the last two weeks. It's my fault, I was kinda caught up in my own problems."
"Don't worry about it. We're talking now...that's what matters. I learned the hard way that you can't turn back time no matter how much you wish you could. It's how you handle the present that matters."
"Ah, well...I guess you're right. But don't let me do it again. I need to talk to you wether my conscious mind realizes it all the time or not. You're the only one I've told about what happened back home. What happened to Jess...," Kylee said as her eyes began to water.
Harry thought about it and the chair Kylee had been sitting on turned in to a couch. He went and sat beside her.
"It wasn't your fault, just like I realized with your help that Sirius' death wasn't my fault. They both died protecting someone they cared about, I don't know about Jess...but I know that's how Sirius would have wanted to die.
"I guess...I just wish that she was still around for me to talk to. But, when I mat you, you kinda took her place as the person that I could tell anything. You know that the real reason I moved was to escape the memories back home. You're the only one I have that I can talk to...my parents don't understand, Neville's great but I just can't talk to him, Draco's to busy being a jerk most of the time, and Meridith is too busy with her social life. Everyone's just too busy for me, everyone except you.."
Harry stared at her. She was so beautiful and she didn't even know it, she couldn't possibly know it. At that moment when he looked over at her a few strands of her honey colored hair were lying across her cheek, her brown eyes were glistening with partially dried tears. He just couldn't resist himself...he slowly leaned over to close the space between them and touched his lips to hers. At first she gave a little jump in shock but then she leaned into it, went with it. When she pulled back Harry looked into her eyes and blushed.
"O-Oh, I'm sorry...I shouldn't have done that, I can't believe I just did that," Harry stuttered while slowly backing towards the door.
"Harry, wait. Don't..," but it was too late, he had already left the room.
She sighed and picked her bag up off the floor. She looked at her watch and realized that it was time for breakfast. When she entered the Great Hall she quickly scanned it for any sight of Harry before plopping into a seat infront of Draco and Meridith. No Harry....
"Why are you looking so...dazed this morning," Meridith asked while glancing at her before turning to Draco.
"Oh, it's nothing. I just couldn't sleep last night," Kylee replied while looking over to see that Meridith was now engrossed in her own little world and didn't even hear her.
Since Harry wasn't there, Meridith was ignoring her, she wasn't talking to Draco, and she wasn't hungry, she figured she might as well make her way up to Defense...her first class of the day. When she entered the classroom she found it empty, which wasn't surprising seeing as they still had 20 minutes of breakfast left. She plopped down in her usual seat and set her bag on the ground beside her. She put her head in her hands and just sat there with her elbows propped on the desk...that was until someone walked in the classroom. She glanced up to see Professor Lupin enter the room and walk over to his desk. For a moment he was busy shuffling papers and didn't even notice she was there. He looked up after his desk was organized and that was when he saw her.
"Kylee? What are you doing here so early? Most of the students are still down in the Great Hall finishing their breakfasts," he said as he sat down on the edge of his desk.
"I know...it's just some stuff happened this morning, and there's still the thing from yesterday, and I just didn't have any reason to stay in the Hall."
"Ah, well..you know you can talk to me if you need someone to listen to you, but I trust you'll talk to someone if you need to. For the time being, you are always welcome to come to this class if you need somewhere to go in the mornings," he said as he resumed getting ready for class that day.
Kylee just sat there and after five more minutes the first few students began to filter into the class. After everyone was sitting in their seats, Harry in the back with Ron and Hermione and Neville in the far left corner with Seamus, Professor Lupin got up in front of the class to begin.
"Ok, now that everyone's here we can get started. We're going to put the curses we've been learning to use and practice dueling. I'm going to split you up in pairs, but, since there's an uneven number in this class, one of you will be paired with me."
He mostly paired Slytherins with Slytherins and Gryffindors with Gryffindors, but at the end only she was left.
"Alright, Kylee, I thought that you wouldn't mind if you were paired with me, and seeing as you've been getting extra Defense lessons, I thought you could help me do a demonstration for the class."
Kylee stood up and walked to the front of the classroom where Professor Lupin was standing. She turned to face him as he was telling the class to watch closely. He turned and they bowed to each other and right when she began to straighten she felt a curse whisk past her ear.
"STUPIFY," she yelled as she ducked to miss the spell he had sent at her.
The curse just barely missed him and they kept going, back and forth for nearly twenty minutes. By this time they were both getting quite tired and their motions were becoming a little sluggish. She noticed that Professor Lupin's motions weren't as quick as before, and took her chance when he sent the next spell at her. She stood in place to make it look as if it was going to hit her and ducked out of the way at the last second while sending a curse at the Professor. It just hit him and he fell to the floor shaking with laughter since the spell had been the tickling one. She quickly ended the spell and helped the professor up as the class burst into applause.
"Very well done. Now, would you mind telling the class how you won?"
"Oh, well, after fighting for that long, both of our movement were getting a little sluggish. I took the opportunity when to sent the last curse at me to stand there and act like the spell was going to hit me. That way, thinking you would have won and being tired, you stood there and that gave me the chance to send a curse at you and it hit you before you had the chance to properly move out of the way."
"Very good, now I want all of you to break up into the pairs that I assigned you. Kylee, you can walk around and help people if their having problems."
Kylee spent the rest of the lesson helping people perfect their dueling and get a few spells right. The rest of the day was fairly boring and she didn't really have anything to distract her from thinking about the mornings events. At dinner time she just grabbed somefood and went outside on the grounds, what she didn't know was that some one had followed her. She was just about to sit in her favorite spot by the lake to eat when she felt someone say her name. She quickly spun around to see who it was and discovered that it was....
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Sorry everyone!! I know, you probably hate me right now...but I had to make sure I would have something good to post next chapter!! And I wanted to try and leave a cliff hanger for once instead of the same boring ending...well maybe I'll get more reviews this way! Please read and review, after all...today is my birthday!!