A/N: Thanks to my reviewers. And to all of you who were commenting on Lily and David: "Lily doesn't know the difference between real love and puppy love" Do you remember me saying that? It's kind of important.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
Dedication: To everyone who has even clicked on my story.
The whole week, I thought about what had happened between Tyler and me. I liked kissing him a lot more then kissing David, but I don't really like Tyler like that. I think. The whole kissing thing now had me questioning. I don't think he likes me like that though.
I forgot about the whole thing when I was teaching my class. Ayla was so much more bearable to be around that I actually liked her being my assistant. She was very easy-going when you were her friend.
Ayla liked to stay inside during lunch and have me teach her some more advanced spells. I had gotten special permission from Professor Boot to teach her more stuff, and she was delighted. That Friday, I took up the subject of me being blind again before we started practicing.
"How am I blind?" I asked her, and she shook her head.
"You still don't know. You will see it in time. I think that you are just starting to…" Ayla said, trailing off in thought.
"Can't you give me a better description then that?' I begged her, and she shook her head.
"Maybe later on in the summer I will tell you, but not now." She told me.
I didn't want to beg a twelve year old to tell me something, and that was the only thing that restrained me from doing so.
"What house are you in, anyway?" I asked her when we started practicing, having given up getting her to spill the beans.
"Ravenclaw, just like my brother." She said proudly.
Since she had been hanging around me, she talked an awful lot about her brother.
"What's your brother like?" I asked her.
"He's tall and cute." She answered, and I laughed.
"Except he likes this girl, and she doesn't know it. He doesn't know if she likes him or not." She told me, and I looked at her.
"If he is so cute, then why doesn't she know it? Why doesn't she like him?" I asked her, and she pondered this.
"Because she's taken by someone else." She said back.
"Oh, that really sucks. Tell your brother to come by sometime. I want to meet him." I told Ayla, curious about somebody who knew enough about defense against the dark arts to teach someone so well.
"Alright, I will." Said Ayla, and we went on with our lessons.
When I was done teaching and the class filed out into the courtyard to watch the show, I went outside for a walk. Then I saw Tyler, once again, coming towards me. I hadn't seen him since the previous week, when the little… okay, big kissing episode happened.
"Hi." I said, smiling at him, wondering if he was going to mention what happened. He didn't.
"What's up?" he asked, and I shrugged.
We chatted about random things for a while, and then David showed up.
"Hey Lily Flower." David said, coming over and sitting down next to me (we were sitting on a bench). He put his arm around me, and Tyler stiffened. I did to, though not as obvious.
There were a few minutes of awkward chitchat, and Tyler got up and left. David frowned at his retreating back.
"Why do you hang out with him anyway?" David asked, and I replied, "I thought you liked him!"
"I did, until I found out you kissed him." David retorted.
My heart stopped beating for a second. How could he have found out that we made out?
"I can't believe you agreed to play spin the bottle with him!" David exclaimed, and I let out the breath I was holding. My heart started to beat again. So Matt had told David about spin the bottle. So what? The two other couple played it. I told David this, and he just frowned.
"Come on, let's go." He said, and I got up and followed him.
"Where are we going?" I asked curiously, and David just shook his head, beckoning for me to follow. I did, and he took me to a car.
"You got your drivers license?" I said, grinning. David nodded. He had been taking classes in the muggle world for a while, and now he had a license to drive anywhere.
"Let's go to a movie." David said, and I nodded. Muggle movies were something that both he and I are hooked on. We love them. So David drove to the movie theatre and we went and bought tickets to see some chick-flick.
About half way through the movie, David leaned over and kissed me. We kissed for a while, but I couldn't help noticing how much I liked kissing Tyler more. We kissed some more, and I remembered how much I loved- love- David.
When the movie ended, David walked me to my house. It was a long walk, but we talked a lot, and I told him that I felt we were growing farther apart. He pulled me in front of him and looked at me.
"Lily, I know you think that we are growing apart, but we hardly get to see each other. On weekends, we see each other, but it's not the same. I miss spending time with you." David said, and I looked at my hands.
"I wanted to spend time with you last weekend, but you didn't want to." I told him, and David looked at his hands to.
"I know, and I'm sorry. How we make a plan to spend at least three nights a week together?" David asked, and I nodded. It would be nice to spend time with him again. As much as I liked kissing Tyler, being with David gave me a sense of comfort.
We resumed our walk, and I felt better about kissing Tyler then I had. David would never know, and it would never happen again.
The time flew by, and before I knew it the end of the summer was approaching. I hated to see the summer end, because I loved my class. They had all gotten so good at everything, Ayla was especially good. I still hadn't been able to meet her brother, and I really wanted to.
David and I went back to our normalness, no distantness between us. I saw everybody else a lot, and it had become a routine for Tyler to come and see me on Fridays after work. We hadn't mentioned anything about the kissing episode, and I was starting to forget about it.
"Now, tell me how I'm blind again." I asked Ayla on the last Friday of our workshop. It was a week until school started, but this was the last week of the workshop.
"You can't see what is right in front of you, and you go chasing after something else." Ayla said, and she wouldn't say anything else.
"Please? You said that you would tell me towards the end of the summer." I asked, and she laughed.
"I said maybe, and I thought that things would turn out differently." She said, laughing again.
"Fine. Tell me more about your brother. Did he get that girl yet?" I asked, accepting defeat and moving onto a new topic.
"Nope. He is hopelessly in love with her, but she doesn't know it because she it with another guy. It's so sad." Ayla said, and I answered, "When am I going to meet him?" I asked, still wanting to.
"You haven't yet? I thought you had… Today, I will make sure of it." Ayla replied, and I smiled. I was curious about him, and about what girl he liked. I wanted to meet someone so good at defense against the dark arts too.
After lunch, at the show, I was impressed at how good everybody was. I remembered the first show I watched and how good they all were. I sat for most of the show, until I say Ayla motion for me to come over to her. I figured it was time for me to meet her brother.
"Come on, he is over here to pick me up." Ayla told me once I got to her, and I followed her out of the courtyard to a bench.
We approached him from him behind, and I could see that he had black hair, like Ayla's. He looked really tall. And really familiar…
When he turned around, my eyes widened.
"Tyler?" I exclaimed.
He was Ayla's big brother, the one who taught her all of the Defense Against the Dark Arts stuff, the one who-Omigosh! The one who was in love with a girl who was with another guy, who didn't know it… It was all coming together; I should have known that he was Ayla's big brother… The countless times that I had seen him do DADA.
"You do know each other! Ty, you told me you hadn't met Lily." Ayla said, and Tyler looked embarrassed.
I looked at him for a long time, stricken that he liked me. Suddenly I knew how he had known what Ayla meant. He had probably said it himself. I still didn't understand what I was chasing after, but I was betting it had something to do with him liking me.
"You like me Tyler?" I asked carefully, still not sure how I was going to handle this.
"Ayla! What the hell did you tell her? I asked you to keep that a secret!" Tyler exclaimed, rounding on his little sister.
"She didn't tell me that, you just proved my suspicions by saying that right there." I told Tyler, and his face flushed.
"Why didn't you tell me? And you just blabbed to everyone what you think I should and shouldn't be doing?" I asked him softly.
"I didn't want to ruin the friendship, and I didn't blab." Tyler said softly,
I stared at them for a few seconds. I gave Ayla a hugged, telling her I would see her at Hogwarts.
"I'll see you around Tyler." I snapped, and I just turned around and walked away; I knew that Tyler wasn't finished with his side of the argument, but I didn't care.
Who did Tyler think he was? He just blabbed to everyone what he thought I was doing, and what I should be doing? He had no idea, no idea at all.
I walked for a while before I realized that I was heading in the wrong direction. David was taking me to dinner, and I was supposed to meet him so he could pick me up. Scowling, I turned around and walked in the other direction. David was waiting when I got there.
"Hey Lils, what up? Why do you look so sad?" David asked, and I shrugged.
"Girl problems." I said, really not wanting to get into detail about Tyler and that whole drama.
"No, tell me. I want to know." David asked, sounding sincere.
"Well, you see, my period-" I began, but David cut me off.
"Never mind. You don't have to share if you don't want to. Actually, I would prefer that you didn't." David said, and I laughed, my heavy mood lifting.
"I love you." I told David, and he smiled.
"I love you too, Lily."
The next day, Tyler sent me about a zillion letters, but I didn't read any of them, I just chucked them into the fire. I invited Tess over, and she listened to me as I told her what Tyler did and what I thought of him.
"Lily? Do you think that maybe you should just open one of the letters?" Tess asked hesitantly as I tossed the thirteenth letter into the fire.
"No." I said stubbornly, and Tess rolled her eyes.
I decided to spend the night at Tess's house, to get away from the letters. I love her house, because she is muggle-born, she has all of this strange stuff, like and oven and she has a miniature theater screen. It is so cool.
The next morning, I had to go home early because Tess was going to a muggle thing called church.
"On Saturday?" I asked groggily, and Tess nodded.
When I got down to my room after letting myself in, I found twenty-two letters on my bed, I chucked every single one of them into the fire.
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