Chapter 7

My head is in a spin the next morning as I pull myself out of my restless sleep. I look to the clock and read 6:00 which is perfect time for a bath as everyone will still be asleep. I pad barefooted to the wardrobe grabbing my toiletries, clothes and a towel before silently leaving the dorm to make towards a nice relaxing bath.

Having a prefect sister like Carrie means she always confides the prefect bathroom passwords to me. The bath that I favor is more like a swimming pool and that is how I use it. Performing soft breast strokes to lap around it through golden froth I ponder my feeling for Finnick. I couldn't understand it and didn't know if I possibly could. I felt grown up and in love yet silly and immature for believing that. I had only known him a day and somehow I was thinking about him every second of my time. However parts of me were now running back through my life and taking a new perspective on all our interactions. What was once a simple comment I could now reinterpret as hints for his feeling towards me and now I even doubted my own past view of him. Just the fact that I seemed to remember every conversation we ever had made me believe that somehow I subconsciously was drawn to him. But he seemed to have that effect on everyone.

Specifically using the shampoo he favored generously I lift myself out of the bath toweling my hair and fumbling around for my clothes in the swirling sweetly scented steam. Realizing in horror that my clothes and pajamas seemed to have been moved I pull the towel tight around me and step back for a good view. My neat pile of clothes specifically placed under the bench to protect them from the bulk of the steam had certainly been taken. I pace in frustration back to the common room hoping for no one to see me in my embarrassment wondered why anyone would wish to steal my clothes and regretting not taking my wand to enable me to simply accio them right to me.

Whilst deep in my trail of thought I hurriedly walk into the common room and into a tall body. Looking up in shock to see his beautiful face staring somewhat quizzically down at me I stutter out a greeting. He cups my chin and kisses me on the lips for a fleeting second, "What a pleasure it is to see you as always, but may I inquire as to the attire?"

"Well, I, er, was taking a bath in the prefect bathroom – my sister tells me the passwords – when I realized that someone had taken my clothes. Luckily I still had a towel to conserve some dignity!"

"I see, as lovely as the sight is, it's horrible to think someone in the school wished to make you walk half naked through the hall on a winter morning. Ah, you must be cold," He removed his hoodie and wrapped it around my shoulders, his hand touching my bare skin, "I'll leave you to get changed then, I guess." He awkwardly stepped around my and led me to the dorm entrance and waited obediently in the next room whilst I pulled on alternative clothes and wondered where the items I intended to where were – specifically the underwear. Assuming it was some younger student prank I continued to wand dry my hair into rough order and swept back to Finnick arms. He encased me in them and whispered into my hair, "Finally, it seemed indecent to do this when you were in a towel! Now, shall we get some breakfast?"

"Yes, I'm pretty hungry after my swim, but after that if you don't mind I thought we could track down my clothes!"

"Yes indeed," And with that he linked my arm around my waist and we walked down for breakfast. I realized it was my first in a long time without my twin or Alex.

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