Courtney's POV

Truth? I even enjoyed the fact I was punished alone with Noah. And when I say alone, I mean it. That meanie-mean Filch took us to the Trophey Room and told us to clean up every single trophey there. He also said he would come every half an hour, and said so he closed the door and added poor us if we tried to escape.

So yeah, I was stuck with Noah and a cloth cleaning tropheys. What a romantic place.

We each grabbed a trophey and started cleaning them. It seemed sort of awkward, so I tried to cheer the thing up.

"So...you've been thinking about anything lately?" I asked casually.

"What do you mean by thinking?" he answered.

"Well, you know. Projects, friends, home, girls..."

Darn. Why had I just asked that?

I looked at him. I could see his tanned skin visibly blushed.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell me-" I started.

"No, no," he cut me "it's fine. Well...yeah, there's a girl."

I stared at him blankly. There was a girl...? Oh right. He was telling me because we were friends.

"Oh. Okay," I said "and may I know who is this girl you're talking of?" I couldn't help but have a bitter angriness in my words.

I saw him blushing deeper, "I can't tell you."

We stood in an awkward silence. Who could this girl be? I didn't have the faintest idea.

"W-what about you?" he stammered after a while.

Now it was my time to blush, "Um..." I doubted about telling him about...well, him. I mean, he'd told me about his crush, why shouldn't I? Even though he would probably not get it...

"Um, yeah," I said finally "there's a guy."

"I guess you're not telling me his name," Noah sighed. Could I feel a stitch of jealousy in his voice...? Nope, must've been me.

"Well, I've had a crush on him since the end of second grade," I explained.

"So have I. I- I- I mean..."

He seemed quite anxious.

"With the girl you're crushing on," I said for him.

He sighed in relief, "Yeah. She's like...so smart and kind and nice...I go out of my mind eve-every time I see her..."

"I do too. He's really smart and nice. I find his eyes pretty."

"I love her smile," Noah sighed dreamily.

Everything he said made me more and more jealous. Whoever it was, I was going to find her and kill that girl, like my name's Courtney Davis!

Noah's POV

I was pretty basically describing my feelings about her to the own Courtney, from trophey to trophey. I was a bit jealous, though: all she said about this boy she liked made him seem so cool. I wondered who that boy was.

Well, whoever he is, I thought anguishly, he's luckier than you, loser.

Time seemed to pass by slowly. Courtney and I kept on talking, but this time about different topics, until the Bellatrix LeStrange topic came up.

"I read on the papers she was coming to the North," Courtney told me.

"Devon Wern told me she was powerful enough to sneak into Hogwarts," I commented.

Courtney gasped, "she'd kill all us!"

"I'd fight against her," Noah retorted.

Courtney's eyes widened, giving her a bewildered expression, "Are you insane? She'd kill you! I don't want anything to happen to you!"

I blushed. At least she cared about me...

"I mean, because we're friends and all," she quickly added.

"Yeah," I agreed shyly.

We stood another while in silence.

"Well, that was it," Courtney concluded, placing the last trophey in its place "We've cleaned all tropheys here.

"Huh," I sighed.

"It took forever."

I smiled, "But now it's done."

Right after that, we went to Filch's office, where we reported we'd finished. After his little watch on the tropheys, he nodded, dismissing us to go to sleep.

Finally!