I relayed the events in the graveyard to and increasingly worried Professor Dumbledore
When I finished Professor Dumbledore stood
Thanked me
And left
I wasn't tired
Yet i had absolutely nothing to do
I tried to dawdle
I read the cards on the bedside,
I (attempted to) go over my homework,
But with nothing to do Morpheus eventually claimed me.
Some time later I woke up to familiar sounds
So familiar in fact that I moved to roll out of bed in order to get ready for class
Several hands hurriedly pushed me back into the bed
I groaned,
opening my eyes
I was quickly reminded that I was still in the hospital wing.
"Oi Mate"
"Catch him Catch him!"
"Would you shut up Pomfrey's gonna catch us."
I felt something bubble up in my chest
A familiar feeling that led to me bursting out in careless laughter.
My friends joined in
It felt so freeing
Like I was myself again
Instead of a specticle
Instead of glass
When we had
Finally
All calmed down,
James restarted it all by pulling out Cards Against Humanity.
Together we played for the better part of three hours
Talking about what had been going on in school
and the classes I had missed
before it turned to the latest gossip in Hufflepuff.
With no little amount of teasing on how much his "Fans" missed him
Never once did the tournament come up
Well,
Outside of talking about this stupid thing some Durmstrang student did or how hot that Beauxbatons girl is
But the conversation did eventually lead to him
My Harry
And the fact that he was MY Harry
Or more specifically the fact I hadn't told THEM he was mine
They were like a dog with a bone on that one.
But I didn't really complain
I liked finally being able to talk about my amazing boyfriend
So I bragged their ears off.
They promised to apologize for the mean shit they had done to him
I told them they better make it good
Which led to an unfortunate conversation about if He was "making it good" for Harry
Obviously I refused to comment.
Unfortunately, they did not.
It felt really good to mess around with my friends like this.
We weren't doing anything special
But that was good
That made me feel normal
Even though I'm still broken.
I liked that.
And even though we lost like two hundred points for Hufflepuff when Madam Pomfrey found us
I couldn't bring myself to regret it.