Authors Note: Thank you so much to all the people who are giving me positive feed back. It makes me want to write more and more. Well, I hope you liked chapter 3.

Chapter 4

It was the first day of classes. The past few days of settling in had been fun. He, Ron, and Luna had eating contests. Hermione studied, as usual. Dean and Neville sometimes competed with them, but usually quit because they couldn't keep up. Ginny sat beside Luna, but didn't dare compete. Lavender sometimes sat beside Hermione and studied and occasionally chatted with Ginny.

"I like that necklace." Ginny complimented Lavender.

"Thanks." Lavender blushed. Then Ginny blushed. Harry looked at both of them. They were to busy starring at each other to notice Harry.

Harry almost walked into a wall.

"Watch out." Luna giggled.

Harry laughed.

"Come on! We are going to be late." Hermione snapped.

Luna giggled again. Hermione hooked her by the arm. "Come on Harry." Luna managed to grab Harry's spare hand. She jerked him so hard he almost spilled his books onto the floor.

They all ran to their first class arriving with ten minutes to spare.

"I like to be punctual." Hermione smiled.

The others shrugged. They were the first ones there. They found seat together. Out by the doorway Lavender and Ginny were heard saying their goodbyes.

"I have McGonagall's class first." Ginny smiled unhappily.

"That's alright. I'll see you right after class….right?" Lavender smiled.

"Yah." Ginny lit up. They hugged and she walked away.

Lavender took a seat next to Ron without even realizing it.

"Hi." Ron nervously said.

"Oh. Ron. Er. Hi." Lavender's eyebrows rose.

"How was your vacation?" he asked politely. Hermione listened in.

"Good. And yours?" she smiled.

"It was alright." He blushed.

She started to laugh, "You are blushing."

He turned an even darker shade of red, "I always do that."

"Listen, don't worry. There are no hard feelings about last year….right?"

"Yah…" he said happily.

Hermione then tapped Ron on the shoulder. "You should get out your book.

"Hermione, we have another 5 minutes."

"Ron-with that attitude-Er! You are just ridiculous!" She huffed.

"I am sorry. Bloody Hell. Women!" He pulled out his book.

Lavender giggled. Luna covered her ears.

"You are so sexist!" Hermione yelled.

Harry then joined Luna by covering his ears.

"I am no!" Ron yelled back.

"You probably don't even know what that means!" Hermione's ears burned red.

"I…do to." Ron tried to defend himself.

"Both of you, stop it!" Harry slammed his hands down onto his desk.

"He started it!" Hermione pointed at Ron's face.

Ron swatted her hand away from him.

"I started it? You-" Ron started, but was interrupted.

"That's enough with you two." Harry said exasperated.

Luna giggled and accidentally knocked off Harry's quill.

"Oh! Sorry." She scrambled to get it.

"That's okay." Harry said.

She handed him the quill. It was stained with black ink. Luna looked at her hands. They were pure black.

She started the laugh. Harry took her hands and wiped them off on his robe. It only smeared the ink on him.

They both laughed. "We should go to the bathroom."

"No!" Hermione snapped, "Professor Lupin will be here any minute."

"We will hurry. " Luna said getting up.

They walked toward the nearest bathroom. It was a boy's facility, but Luna didn't care.

She put her hands under the water. And then sharply pulled away.

"AAAA!!" She screamed.

"What!?" Harry asked worriedly.

"It was…..cold." she forced a smile.

"Here. You can share mine." She walked over and put her hands under the warm water. Her hands overlapped Harry's.

Harry looked down at her. She was very short. He had never realized how short she was. Or how blonde she was. Her hair was very pretty. Something was different about her this year. She looked older. Her eyes were even bigger. Luna looked up and Harry quickly realized he was starring at her and bolted his head the other direction pretending at if he were still looking at the water. She leaned up on her tip toes and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek.

It was not like the kiss Hermione would give him. She was more forceful. Luna was soft. If he would have had his eyes closed he would have thought a butterfly had landed on him for a split second.

Harry blushed. Luna wiped her hands on her robe. Harry did the same. He liked the way she was not like the other girls. Hermione, Cho, or Ginny, all girls he knew very well, would have found a towel to wipe their wet, inky mess onto. Luna was very low maintenance.

"Let's get back to class." Luna said. "we are going to be late." He smiled.