Chapter: Breaking the Habit
A/N: Another long exhausting week has passed and now it is time for the next installment. Yay! This chapter is dedicated to one of my best friends Jasmine. The song is Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park. Well I am tired so I better start the story now…
Natalie silently ate her breakfast nest to Van. She didn't want to reveal the fact they were going out to Nick but she also did not know how to react after yesterday. She slumped over a bit and listened to Nick and Van talk.
"Hey look, posts here!" Nick exclaimed as a parade of owls came in through the window.
An owl dropped a letter which barely missed Van's glass of milk. "This is addressed to me and my sisters." Van shrugged and opened it.
"Hey dad wrote back! It's about time too, I wrote to him a long time ago." Nick shouted
Natalie pulled the letter from his hands and opened it. "Finally!" She unfolded it quickly and read it to herself. "He said it is just a rumor and he probably wouldn't want to be headmaster until after Snape leaves."
"Let me read!"
"Bloody Hell!" Van stared blankly at his letter.
"What?" Natalie quickly turned to look at him.
"Get Star and Rose…please…"
"…Okay." Natalie quickly got away from the table and rushed to find the fellow Weasley's. "Star, Rose, Van needs you. Must be important, it has to do with a letter he just got." Star and Rose looked at each other.
"I wonder what the letter's about." Star questioned as she helped her little sister out of her seat.
Natalie shrugged. "Van looks pretty funny though."
Rose giggled.
"Van, they are here." Natalie said from behind.
Van spun around and handled the letter to his elder sister. "Read this."
Star's eyes darted back and forth. She quickly gasped and handed the letter to Rose. A scream erupted from her lips as she jumped up and down.
"What's going on?" Nick and Natalie both asked at the same time. People began to look at them.
"Raven is getting married!" Rose shrieked.
"Raven is getting married!" Natalie repeated.
Kristine rushed over. "Hurry up you two. Practice is in a half hour."
"Okay. Let's go Natalie!" Van looked at her.
"Okay." She smiled at the gleaming Weasley sisters. "See ya later Nick."
Nick sadly waved as he finished his breakfast alone.
"I can't believe she is getting married." Van watched to see if Nick was watching before grabbing Natalie's hand.
"Who is she marrying, her boyfriend from Hogwarts?"
"Yeah Jeremy. I liked Jeremy the best. I am glad they are getting married."
"Do you think it is good to marry young?"
"It might be. That is what our parents did."
"They had known each other for years though. Would you marry young?" Nat looked over at her boyfriend.
"Actually I was dreaming about us getting married after graduation."
Natalie blushed.
"Natalie, I really like you. I have never felt this way about anyone else. I really wish that someday we'd get married. We have known each other since we were babies. I always felt that you were the one."
"How did you know?"
"Because you were the only person I ever wanted to do this with." He stopped and pulled her into a passionate kiss.
Natalie blushed more.
"You were the one person I wanted to share my first kiss with!"
"Oh Van." She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.
He smiled.
"I really need to talk to you about something. Something really important."
"Oh..okay."
Natalie sat under the big tree in the courtyard. The same tree her parents and grandparents used to sit under.
"Yesterday I witnessed Jaden and Amanda in Hagrid's hut alone. He was cheating on Jae. He noticed me spying on him and pulled me into the hut where he kissed me. H-He forced me into it. He then told me he would tell everyone we kissed unless I forfeited the Quidditch game."
"What!"
She began to cry. "I didn't know what to do." He grabbed her hands.
"It's okay Natalie, don't listen to him. Go win today and show him."
"But I was afraid of what you would think of me after Jaden would spread the rumor."
"I wouldn't be mad at you, it wasn't like you asked him to kiss you. Anyway he is always pulling this type of thing."
"Really?" She held his hands.
"Really."
She kissed him quickly on the lips. "I feel a lot better now."
He smiled.
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Natalie tightened the grip on her broom.
"Where is the damn snitch?" She looked around where her fellow team mates where, but there was no snitch. Jaden stared at her. Stop looking at me! She knew exactly what he was thinking. The Slytherin chaser zipped right by her toward Van. Her search for the snitch was interrupted when she saw Van wink at her.
She smiled to herself. Screw Jaden, I am going to get that snitch.
Suddenly a flash of gold flew by her head. Natalie leaned forward and took off after the snitch.
Natalie: Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
Jaden noticed Natalie and was quickly on her tail.
Natalie: You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Jaden: unless I try to start again
Jaden pulled next to her. Natalie glared at him and leaned forward more pulling in front of him.
"You put on a good show Potter."
"Who said I was putting on a show?"
Jaden's smirk faded as Natalie sped up.
Natalie: I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the on confused
Jaden tried knocking her off her broom by hitting against her with his own body but Natalie held on tight. "Give up Potter!"
"Never!"
Natalie: I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
and say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm
Breaking the habit
Tonight
Jaden spun over her and ended up in front. Natalie shifted her weight to the side and began to turn. The snitch began to zip away from Jaden's clutches and Natalie leaned forward to gain the speed she needed.
Natalie: Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I had no options left again
Once again Natalie was in the lead. The snitch suddenly disappeared.
"Where did it go?" She looked around. She saw it lingering around Jae's head, she was the keeper. Natalie looked to see if Jaden had seen it before taking off.
Natalie: I'll paint it on the walls
Cause I'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends
Jaden was on her tail but she was closing in on the snitch. Jaden began to get angrier and turned to look for someone.
Natalie: I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
To show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm
Breaking the habit
Tonight
Natalie balanced her weight on her broom as she reached for the snitch. Suddenly something hit her in the back of the head sending her forward. She was knocked out and the Slytherin beater gleamed as he flew away.
"NATALIE!" Van yelled.