-Short chapter, sorry. I don't own HP still-

Chapter Ten: Fortnight of Feelings

The next couple of weeks were a blur to Jaye. She vaguely remembered wandering around between classes and hardly talking to anyone. She cancelled her Potions tutoring with Severus which didn't go down well. He'd yelled at her, saying how he thought they were more than friends, that they had something. Then Severus had pulled his wand on her but Jaye was far too quick for him, emotionally crippled as she was.

But days wore on, the ROR was her saviour, her home away from home. She slept there, unable to be in the same dorm as Tara. During class, they sat at opposite ends of the room and partnered with other people. Creative Magic and Charms were the hardest classes. Here both the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors had to work together and having Tara, Jaye, Sirius and Remus in one class put a huge strain on the working environment. The teachers hardly failed to notice that the seniors weren't the happy-go-lucky bunch they were used to.

Professor Bhoy embraced it, setting piles of homework and theory. Dumbledore tried to re-spark their interest by setting more exciting, visual lessons. Binns' was the only teacher that didn't change his approach. However, the rift between the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors did not close and it was rivalled only by the Gryffindor and Slytherin rift that had existed since Hogwarts had been opened.

Jaye was currently immersing herself in Charms theory, sitting by the fire in the ROR. She'd made herself become numb. She had pushed all her emotions deep inside her and had even considered performing a Cheering Charm on herself. But she knew from reading countless Muggle novels and WitchTrash that a broken heart would never fully mend. Whenever she saw Remus, or a couple skating on the lake her heart leapt and her stomach dropped. How was she going to pass her NEWT's when she couldn't remember who she really was?

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Remus too, was having a similar type of fortnight. He'd never been one to show emotion yet for the daftest reasons he was nearly bursting into tears. Ana had offered to take him ice skating but quickly backed down when she saw his face contorted in anger, regret and sadness. On Monday night, the elves had sent Vanilla Ice-Cream to the Hall for desert. It reminded him so much of Jaye's scent that he fled the Hall, unable to return.

There were times when he patrolled the corridors, hoping just to get a glance of Jaye. But she seemed to have disappeared. When he saw her in class, she never answered questions or gossipped like she used to. She was a mere shadow of her former self. But she didn't look upset. Jaye looked more like she'd Obliviated herself. Remus panicked for a moment, wondering if maybe she had deleted the memory of the past two weeks. But he soon realised that she remembered all her classes and Jaye was too smart a witch to take such risks. Yet she was not herself. It was as if some flame had extinguished, like the essence that was Jaye had disappeared the moment he'd told her that they couldn't be together.

I needed my friends there I just turned around
They were gone without a trace

I hate you but I love you, I can't stop thinking of you
And I still hold your hand in mine when I'm asleep.