Luna absolutely refused to get up from bed. She couldn't eat and she couldn't sleep anymore. She was so hurt by what her father had done to her mother. She absolutely refused to speak or even look at him. She locked herself in her room and refused to leave it for anything. She lay in bed and stared up at the enchanted ceiling, which was bewitched to reflect her mood. When she was depressed it would look like a cloudy sky, like it was at the moment, when she was happy it would be a clear, sky blue.
She felt so confused and betrayed by her father, but she soon came to realize that was not the only thing that was bothering her. She felt lost by the fact that she had nobody to talk to and she was longing to speak to Professor Snape. She needed someone to talk to. It was than that she realized what day it was.
Luna got up from her bed and walked over to her closet. She pulled out pale silver dress robes and walked into the washroom. She took a quick shower and put on her dress robes. She straightened her hair and put make up on her face. She looked more alive than she had in the past day or two. She had not eaten or slept in the past day and she felt weak. However, the thought that she would soon be with people she missed dearly lifted her heart up.
Luna walked out of her room and thought about Hogsmead station. She turned around on the spot and soon found herself standing in the edge of Hogsmead station. "Luna, is that you?" Luna heard a familiar voice say. Luna slowly turned around and as she spotted the red head walking quickly towards her she found a large smile spreading across her face. Ginny Weasley was wearing lilac dress robes and her flaming red hair was tied in a fancy bun.
"Hello Ginny," Luna said as she felt her friend's arms thrown around her. She held Ginny close and could feel the large smile on her face. As they pulled apart, Luna found herself staring into her friend's dark eyes. A long way behind her, Luna could see the rest of the Weasley family making their way up towards them. "Where are your parents?"
Luna could see Fred and George walking along together, they were both wearing flaming red dress robes. Ron was walking behind them, but he was wearing black dress robes. She soon spotted Bill who was also wearing black dress robes and under his right arm was Fleur, his wife, wearing splendid, crystal blue dress robes. Percy Weasley, who was surprisingly with the Weasley clan, was wearing dark green dress robes. The last person that her eyes saw was Charlie Weasley, who looked very fine in his black dress robes.
"They came earlier than us, but you never mind that. You look splendid Luna. How was your summer Luna? Was Snape horrible?" Ginny asked as she looked at her friend's eyes. However, before Luna could answer any of her questions she couldn't say anything.
"Oy Lovegood, hardly recognized you," Fred and George said simultaneously.
"Hello Luna," Percy said as he came to stop next to the twins who were behind Ginny.
"Zat is Loony Love'ood? Zat broke 'is 'eart?" Fleur said as she pointed at Luna.
"Luna, dear," Bill corrected his wife as a sheepish smile came over his face. They were standing next to Percy.
"Hey Luna," Ron said as he made his way through with Charlie, each once standing on each side of Ginny. "You look great!"
"You do look lovely," Charlie said as he looked down at her.
"Thank you," Luna said as she looked at them.
"Excuse me but I was trying to have a conversation here!" Ginny said in an exasperated way. At that moment everyone walked past them, everyone except Charlie. Ginny turned her attention to look at her older brother. "Yes?" she asked as she looked over at him.
"You can talk to Luna later, I would like to talk to her right now," he said as he grabbed his sister by the shoulders and gently pushed her forward. She looked over at her shoulder at him and narrowed her eyes at him. When she was out of ear shot Charlie looked down at Luna. "You truly do look lovely Luna," he said as he looked down at her. She looked up into his eyes.
"Thank you so much. You look very handsome yourself," Luna said as she stared into his eyes. He smiled and looked down at his feet.
"Thank you. Shall we?" he asked as he extended his arm to her. Luna looked down at his arm and reluctantly took it. He than led her towards Hogwarts, they both walked in a very leisurely fashion. "So how has your summer been? I trust that staying with Professor Snape has not been too much of a traumatic horror," he said as he looked down at her with a weak smile gracing his face. Luna looked down at her feet.
"Actually he was not as hard to deal with as you might think him to be. I guess you can say that I got too used to the dark gloom of his manor and the many house elves. Actually I thought that it was amusing that his elves were so well spoken. I think that they have better English than Fred and George," Luna said as she looked up at his eyes. He chuckled lightly as he heard and smiled down at her. "But how are you doing?"
"Well that's nice to hear. Well I've gone back to working with the dragons. The dragons are great. They really are providing me with company ever since Ginny and Ron heave gone back home. They did provide me with some amusement after you left, they were simply trying too hard to cheer me up again," he said as he looked forward. Luna looked down at the floor. She blushed lightly at the thought of what happened not too long ago.
"I'm very sorry if I did break your heart like Fleur said. I truly never meant to hurt you," Luna said as she stared down at the floor. She looked up to find that Bill was staring at her with the same smile on his face and he merely shook his head.
"It's fine Luna, it's merely a small price to pay for falling in love, especially with someone so beautiful and lovely as you," he said as he looked at her. She merely smiled as she looked down at the floor. They continued to make their way towards Hogwarts, Luna looked ahead and found that they'd fallen behind so far back that she couldn't see any of the other Weasley's but she really didn't care. "Are you going to be okay with seeing Harry? I can see that there is something bothering you."
"Something's troubling me, but it's not what you think. To tell you the truth I have not thought about Harry in quite sometime. When I used to hear his name my heart would race and I would get butterflies in my stomach, but that doesn't happen anymore. I guess I feel very indifferent towards him now," she responded as she looked into his eyes. He stared at her and nodded in response.
"What is it that is bothering you than?" Charlie asked as he looked into her eyes.
"I guess it's simply the fact that I do not know the reason why I no longer think of Harry. It's slightly confusing and unnerving," she said as she looked up into his eyes.
"Could it possibly be that you have found someone to replace him in your heart?" he asked as he looked at her. She looked up and looked ahead to find that they were steadily nearing Hogwarts gates. She then turned her attention to Charlie who was still staring at her with his intense, dark brown gaze.
"Well if I have, I don't know who it is," she responded as she looked up at him. "Perhaps it is a mistake for me to try and fall in love with someone else."
"First of all Luna, you do not control the heart and who you fall in love with. That's a lesson that takes quite sometime to learn. Another thing Luna is that you are far too young to give up on love, after all, how can you consider a loveless life, living?" he said as he looked down at her with the same small smile on his face.
"It doesn't get any easier, does it?" she asked as she looked up at him. He smiled down at her as they started to approach were the ceremony was taking place.
"No it doesn't, but you learn to appreciate love and take the good with the bad. All you can do is hope that you're relationship will end up like Tonks and Remus'," he said as he looked down at her. She looked up at him and found that they were both standing in the middle of the long isle. There were two columns of seats, one on each side of the isle and all the way on the opposite end of the isle stood Dumbledore.
Luna looked around and found that the first row was filled with mostly Hogwarts teachers and the two behind that one was filled with the Weasley's. On the other side everyone in the Order of the Phoenix, there were so many that some of them took up the rows behind the Weasleys. Luna found herself staring at Charlie who was looking around. "How do you know so much about love Charlie Weasley?" she asked as she looked up into his eyes with a small smile. He looked down at her and smiled.
"You learn a lot when you grow up and have had as many pointless relationships as I have had," he said as he looked down at her. He placed a kiss on her forehead. "Don't give up hope Luna," he said as he turned around and walked away. He made his way to the row were his family was sitting and sat down next to Ginny. It was than that Luna noted that Harry and Hermione were both sitting with the Weasleys. Luna continued to look around and soon spotted a very familiar pair of penetrating black eyes staring at her. She than felt a large smile spread across her face as she made her way over to him and sat down.
"Hello Professor Snape. How are you?" she said as she looked at him. He stared at her for a moment before responding. Luna found that he actually looked handsome with his hair cleaned and neatly combed with his black dress robes.
"Fine. You look very lovely," he said as he looked at her. She blushed lightly and could feel her heart skip.
"Thank you very much. You look very nice yourself," she said as she looked over at him. She smiled broadly as she looked into his eyes. "I thought that you weren't going to come."
"Originally, but Professor Dumbledore insisted that I come," he said as he sighed in exasperation. She smiled as she looked at him. "How have you been Miss Lovegood, you were behaving strangely the night that you left," he said as he looked over at her.
"I've been away for two days and you go back to calling me Miss Lovegood?" she said as she looked away from him and sat back, staring down at her hands. There was a tint of sadness in her voice. He looked over at her and thought that she looked far too crestfallen.
"What's wrong Miss Love … I mean Luna," he said as he looked over at her. But at that moment Remus made his way through the isle and up to were Dumbledore stood were he stood in front of Dumbledore wearing brand new, black dress robes.
"I don't think that we should talk about this right now, we should be celebrating," Luna said as she looked into his eyes. It was then that she could hear the music. She turned away from Snape and looked towards the isle to find that Tonks was standing in all her white splendor at the top of the isle. She looked absolutely beautiful in her white dress. She had her hair a mousy brown color and it reached the small of her back. A white veil was over her face and she had a bouquet of white roses in her hands. Everyone stood up at the sight of the bride. "Doesn't she look lovely Professor?" Luna said as she looked at Tonks fondly.
"If you say so," he said as he looked at Luna. "Luna I need to talk to you about what you read in my journal." Luna slowly turned around to look at Snape. She looked down at her hands as she looked at him.
"Professor Snape, I had no right to flip through your personal life. I'm very sorry that I did what I did, but you don't have to worry about me telling anyone what I read," Luna said as she looked down at her hands and looked away from him. "I won't tell anyone and if you wish I will simply pretend like I did not spend any time in your manor," she said as she continued to watch Tonks. She soon felt a hand on her face lightly turning it. She looked up and found that she was staring into his black eyes.
"That's not at all what I was going to say. I find that I no longer care if anyone knows, but I know that to think that you would love me in return would be preposterous, but I would simply prefer it if we could treat each other as we have the past week," he said as he looked down at her. She smiled as she looked up at him and wrapped her arms around him.
"Of course," she said as she pulled away.
TBC…A/N: I'll try to post again soon. Please Review.