Chapter 3
"Ow!" Alexa shouted as she fell heavily onto the floor. She stood up, rubbing her head. As she looked around at the other beds in the dormtory, she saw that they were all empty, everyone else had left. She quickly dressed and pulled her blonde curls into a tight bun at the nape of her neck. Walking quickly down the stais and into the common room, she walked swiftly across the room. Just as she reached the portrait hole, she felt a jolt and realized she must've bumped into someone. Looking up she saw Remus and grinned apologetically.
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention." Remus smiled shyly in reply.
"Eh, no worries. You wouldn't happen to have seen James would you? He wasn't in the Great Hall and I assumed he was still asleep." Alexa shook her head.
"I haven't seen anyone, I only just woke up myself." Remus shrugged and headed toward the boys dorms, breathing a small sigh of relief that he had made it through talking to Alexa without saying anything stupid.
As Alexa walked down the confusing hallways in what she thought was the general direction of the Great Hall, she thought back to the incident from a moment ago. What was it about that Remus that filled her stomach with butterflies? She hadn't felt this way in a long time, and frankly it felt very good.
Alexa continued in the same direction, but began to notice that the corridors she was walking down were becoming less and less familiar. She turned back the direction she had come from, but it looked as strange as where she was now. Looking worriedly around she looked ahead, but it was of course foreign looking just like the rest.
She was lost. Alexa couldn't deny it, she was dead lost in the middle of a huge castle. There was nobody around, not a sound except for the frantic beating of her heart that was now thumping so loudly she was certain someone would hear it, but alas nobody did. Trying incredibly hard not to panic, Alexa stood and looked around. Maybe she could just backtrack, it wasn't as if she could be in any worse a situation and it didn't look like her present one was getting any better. She headed back in the direction she had come hoping to soon find someone to tell her where to go.
After hauling James out of bed, he and Remus headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast. He reached the Gryffindor table and sat down looking up the length of the table. When he didn't see Alexa, he thought simply that she must've found someone to talk to and was only delayed arriving.
When people started to empty out of the Great Hall to head for their first classes, Remus began to worry where was Alexa? Had she gotten lost? Or had she simply not bothered to come to the Hall. He walked slowly toward his first class, but soon his worry overcame his sense of duty and head turned on his heel heading toward the Gryffindor common room and hoping to find Alexa.