My Life Alone

Headache Cures

When I woke up the next morning two things struck me, a massive headache and an unfamiliar room. Trying to ignore the throbbing pains in my temple I looked around, this definitely wasn't the Dursley's; The room was painted a creamy colour and had many windows that made the room as bright as the sun, all of which isn't good for those with a hangover. Sitting up I examined the room more closely, There was a fire place, a bookshelf that had many photographs which I couldn't make out because of the removal of my glasses, squinting around I picked up my glasses and rammed them on, I realised I was sleeping on a fold out couch and I was still in the clothes I wore the night before, amidst the black fabric I saw a bit of dirt, wonder how that got there. I was about to get up when a voice behind me made me almost jump from my skin.

"Nice to see you're awake and looking confused which doesn't strike me as anything odd," Spinning around my eyes fell on Parvati for the second time in two days.

"Nasty habit you have there, sneaking up on me when I'm not exactly looking my best." I said sarcastically, she smiled and moved forward.

"Hows your head?" she asked, glaring at her I replied

"Fine…"

"Oh really?" she asked in a tone that I could tell she didn't believe me.

"Yes." I retorted stubbornly, she smiled and moved over to the bed, sliding up to where I was situated, she put a knee on either side of me and leant forward while drawing me up towards her, putting her mouth close to the top of my neck she said loudly

"Do you want some breakfast?" I jerked away from her my headache throbbing worse, she burst out laughing, "Seems like you do have quite a bit of a headache," I glared up at her and realised that she was all but sitting on my stomach, knowing I could use this to my advantage I sat back up and stared steadily at her then without warning I pounced at her causing her to topple backwards with me on top unfortunately with the force of the lunge and the smallness of the couch we ended up close to the edge and accidentally rolled off. Laughing; she got up and ran with me not so far behind, with all the years of having to run from Dudley it had made me quite a good runner so in no time I had caught her around the waist and pulled her to a stop. Because of laughing and running at the same time she was quite out of breath, she slumped against me in order to catch it again.

"Now…you know not to do that again, don't you?" I said in mock sternness, she nodded, taking deep breaths. She must be quite unfit or maybe she was laughing harder than I thought, I looked down at the top of her head never realising she was that much shorter than me; I guess I hadn't paid all that much attention at the Yule Ball. Parvati only came up to about my chin and her hair was quite smooth and a very dark brown like coffee was without the milk, I guess I never paid attention to that either.

"You should take up a sport, you know that, then you might be able to out run me." I advised her, she bent her head back as though to look at me.

"Well Lavender and I were thinking of starting up a Gryffindor cheerleading team." she said thoughtfully, my eyes widened

"You've got to be kidding!" I said horrified, she giggled

"Well I was, but I think Lavender was serious." I moaned slightly, I noticed her breathing had begun to settle down though I wasn't too keen on letting her go just in case she tried something else.

"So back to the question before you decided to chase me-" she began.

"Chase you, you yelled in my ear then ran," I shouted, instantly regretting it because of my thumping headache.

"No you tackled me right after I yelled, and yes I ran but you did chase me otherwise you wouldn't be holding me around the waist."

"True, so what was the question again?" I asked, still not letting go of her.

"Do you want some breakfast?" she asked, "And maybe a couple of headache pills?"

"Please," I said appreciatively, letting go of her waist, she turned around and looked at me with those dark eyes again.

"C'mon." she took my arm and headed me to the bathroom where I stood while she searched for the headache-curing pills, she reached up to the top-most shelf, she stretched up to get the boxes, her black singlet slipped up slightly to expose a flat slightly tanned stomach that had a belly button piercing. She turned around and I looked quickly away quickly so that she didn't catch me staring, smiling she held out the box.

"Take two, they work pretty fast." nodding I took the box from her. I followed her down the stairs to the kitchen where she got me a glass of water, taking the pills quickly I sat down at the table and watched as she bustled around the kitchen.

"So…" I asked slightly confused, "How did I get here I don't remember?"

"Well you drank the rest of the bourbon and passed out and fell off the swing, I had to partly drag you here, but it's lucky we live close to the park so it wasn't very far."

"So that explains the dirt." I mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Oh nothing." I gazed around for something else to talk about, my eyes fell on a picture of Parvati and Padma in bikinis by a beach.

"Where's Padma?"

"At Ron's of course." she said

"Ron's?" I asked perplexed, she turned to me with a slight frown on her face.

"So you haven't been reading the letters sent to you," she muttered, "she and Ron are going out now."

"Oh," Still a bit surprised, I sat in silence until she turned and put a plateful of scrambled eggs down in front of me.

"So why haven't you been reading your mail?" she asked curiously, I avoided her gaze, "Harry?" she persisted.

Sighing I murmured, "I didn't want to hear from people with happy lives while mine was in the dumps." She looked at me but didn't say anything, I ate my eggs in silence when I had finished I got up and washed both her and my plates. I cleared my throat and turned to her, "Um, I better be off the relatives from hell are most likely not worrying where I am but as you see I need a change of clothes," She nodded slightly and seemed to be thinking about something so I went back to where I slept and put my shoes back on, thanking her I walked out the door, I was half way across the lawn when I heard her call my name, turning I saw her running down to meet me.

"Well you know how we go back to Hogwarts tomorrow, well I was wondering if you'd want to stay here I mean the station is just on the other side of town and…I'd understand if you didn't want to and all, but I thought if you really didn't want to go back to your relatives and my parents wouldn't care because they left last week for their business trip but if you want?" she asked, I thought about it for a moment.

"Ok, but I'll have to go and get my stuff."

"I'll drive you."

"Ok it probably wouldn't fit on my motorbike anyway…oops its still at the park."

"I hope it hasn't been taken," She said worriedly

"Nah, it won't be it's got an automatic chaining system."

"Oh ok, Um I'll just go and change ok, I'll just be a second."

With that she went back into the house leaving me to ponder how on earth did Ron and Padma get together.

Hmmmm, I wonder what shall happen next in Harry's life, I'm serious I really don't know. His got some mood swings though, like myself. Well duh I'm writing the story. Please review, I also have another story up called Pondered Through Seasons, please read. Thanks to my very few reviewers, you guys rock!