Beauty from the lake

Disclaimer: I really don't know how it is possible, but somehow, I still don't own anything from Harry Potter Universe. J.K. Rowling owns it all.

A/N: As usually, I apologise for letting you wait. Enjoy new chapter!

Chapter 7 – Adventure in the Forbidden Forrest

Mariana opened her eyes only to look into Ron's blue ones. He looked quite confused, this surely must have taken him by surprise. He blushed at the position they were in and Mariana realised that in addition to this, she was staring. She blushed too and looked away. As nothing happened (A/N:understand Ron didn't get off Mariana), she looked back at him. His face moved closer to hers, and she shut her eyes, expecting –

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!HEEEELP!" Suddenly a terrified voice sounded through the forrest. It was clearly some girl calling for help. Mariana open eyes again, Ron get off her, helped her up and both of them run in the direction the sound had came from. After a little while they reached a meadow on the other side of the forest.

They saw a girl lying on the green grass. She was crouched and trembling. "Oh my! We have to help her," Mariana called and run to the girl. She tried to stand up. Mariana and Ron helped her and when the girl looked at Mariana, she recognised her green eyes and blue hair.

"You are this new girl, Hanae, right?" Ron asked.

She nodded: "Yes, but call me Nami, please. That's my other name, everyone calls me that."

'Nami…what a nice name, I wonder what it means,' Ana thought. "Fine then, Nami. Was it you who screamed? What happened?" she questioned the girl.

"Yes, that was me. I saw someone, a person in a dark hooded cloak, but when I started to scream they pointed their wand at me and then just disappeared… I felt some force and then fell to the ground. And then you came…" Nami ended her speech.

"Could it be…could it be You-Know-Who?" Ron suggested. Mariana saw that Nami's eyes widened in fear and she shivered a little.

"Most likely not, he's been defeated by Harry, remember?" Ana said to Ron. Of course she knew about You-Know-Who, what he had done to Harry, his parents, and how Harry had defeated him in his 1st and 2nd year, too. He, Ron and Hermione had told her everything after she had become their friend.

"Yes, you're probably right," Ron saw that Nami was scared and decided to agree with Ana, no matter what he might have really think.

"Ok, I think we should go back now…we shouldn't have been here in the first place anyway," Mariana said and they agreed. They started to walk outside the forest but when Nami made the first step, she gasped with pain.

Ana turn around and saw Nami falling again, but luckily, she didn't hit the ground because Ron caught her.

"Ow…I think I sprained my ankle when I fell the first time," Nami said softly with tears of pain in her eyes.

Mariana checked her ankle. "It is swollen," she announced. "What now?"

"We must take her to the hospital wing," Ron answered.

"But…I can't walk," objected Nami.

"Don't worry, I will carry you," Ron offered (such a gentleman ).

"I'm sorry I'm that much of bother for you," Nami said guiltily as Mariana and Ron carrying her walked out of the forest to the hospital wing.

"Don't worry, that's okay," Ron said and Ana smiled and added: " We're glad to help." She meant it, though for some reason it made her feel a bit weird and uncomfortable when she saw Ron with some other girl in his arms.

They soon reached the hospital wing and walked inside. The room was empty, with exception of Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall talking to each other. Hearing the door open, they looked up. Madam Pomfrey rushed to them and told Ron to put Nami on the bed near the window.

"Sprained ankle, I see…maybe even broken. Good that you took her to me immediately, I think I will be able to heal this easily,"she said. "But you will have to stay here and rest few days, dear," she ordered Nami, who just nodded quietly.

Professor McGonagall looked at them strictly. "Mr Weasley, I see…well, how did you get in trouble this time? And you Miss Summers? I wouldn't expect you to cause this. Although I wonder that Mr Potter isn't around too." She said with a frown on her forehead.

"But Professor, that wasn't –" Ron started to defend himself, and Mariana, when Nami interrupted him. "That wasn't their fault Professor, just on the contrary, they were kind enough to help me, when I fell and hurt my ankle during a walk in the forest."

"Fine, Miss Sada, I believe you. But sadly, upon hearing that you were in the forest, and thus did an act that was against shool rules, I have to punish you," Professor McGonagall said determinedly. "And I mean all of you." She added.

"What? Professor, but we only helped!" Ron tried to change her decision, but did not succeed. "I know, Mr Weasley. But you still were in the Forbidden Forest, too. So you have broken the rules as well and have to bear the consequences." Professor McGonagall was unyielding. "Miss Sada, because you do not belong to my house, I will have to tell Professor Flitwick (A/N:I'm sorry but I kinda forgot who was head of Ravenclaw. So if it's not Flitwick tell me and I'll change it). After your ankle is healed again, he will find you a suitable punishment." She told Nami. "And as for you two," she continued, "your punishment will take place tomorrow night. You will report at Profesor Sinistra's. I think she needs some help cleaning the astronomy tower." With that Professor McGonagall turned and walked away.

Ana and Ron looked at each other and sighed. The prospect of spending whole night cleaning astronomy tower really didn't look that pleasant. Then Mariana looked out of the window and saw it was getting dark already. "It's dark outside, I think we should go," she said.

Ron nodded. "Okay then. Bye Nami."

"Bye, Nami, we will come to see you tomorrow." Nami smiled and waved as she watched them leave.

After a while Ron and Ana got to the Gryffindor common room and entered it. To their great surprise, no one was there. Suddenly Mariana felt tired so she sat down on the old sofa. Ron sat next to her and after a slight hesitation Ana put her head on his shoulder (A/N: aww how sweet :).

He shifted a little but didn't say anything. She closed her eyes and almost started falling asleep when she heard Ron say her name: "Mariana…" She opened her eyes and looked at him. His face was near hers and he again started to lean in. She closed herr eyes again and waited for a sweet kiss :)

"BANG!" the door to the common room opened loudly. Ana and Ron let go of each other quickly and saw Hermione and Harry coming in. "Where have you been? Why didn't you come to dinner? We were waiting for you, but when you didn't come, we went to look for you." Said Hermione strictly.

"What? A dinner? Oh my…I completely forgot!" Ron yelled.

'Oh well…maybe next time then…' Ana thought as she watched him running at his greatest speed to the Great Hall for a dinner, leaving them all standing there.

A/N: Done! So, this is end of 7th chapter. I hope you all liked it. But I dunno :) I mean, last time I left you hanging of a cliff :) and now I made the poor girl 2 times ALMOST kiss him, but, someone just HAD TO come always and ruin the moment…I have serious apprehension that my evil personality is taking over my good one. But I promise that I'll try and make next chapter sooner than this one. By the time, you can help me fight with my evil personality (so it won't spoil next chappie) and review Ok, now I really should go and write that essay about War of the roses, William the Conqueror, Magna Charta Libertatum, Richard Lionheart (reminds me of Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII) - who knows why ) and other stuff…

Evil personality: Do you know why the cherry blossoms are pink?

Readers: OO

Me: Oh no…

Well if you really managed to read it all you deserve something…here, have a cookie! hands reader a cookie Ok, now I'm really ending…bye, have a nice day :)