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I breathed in the outside air. I sat on the curb and pulled my knees to my chest and hide my head in between them. I heard the door open and swing closed. The person sounded like they hesitated from where they stood then the person sat down next to me. I didn't look up because whoever it was would see my tears.
"It's not cowardly to cry you know. " I recognized the voice as Harry's. I made a soundless, not actually laugh.
"So it makes you brave?" I accused. I didn't look up when I said it.
"No not really it reminds you you're still human and everyone cries sometimes in their life. Today is one of those days for you." He answered. I closed my eyes and it was silent for a few moments.
"I thought you'd be with Ron or at least defended him back there." I said. He sighed.
"I normally would but what he said was uncalled for. I don't know you father and neither does Ron. He shouldn't have said it." Harry replied. I sniffed.
"I'm glad you didn't slap me and hit him instead." He said. I looked at him and laid my head on my arms.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I mean it's usually us that fight and never, not once have slapped or even got close to hitting me." He explained. I smiled a little.
"I'll work on that." I said. He smiled a small smile back. We stared at each other for a minute then he asked, "Why aren't we friends?" I thought for a moment and scrunched up my eyebrows.
"I honestly don't know." I admitted, "But my guess is when you pushed me out of the boat first year." He laughed.
"I remember that you had seaweed in your hair and you had came up to me before the ceremony and swore I'd regret it and that you'd get me back." I glared at him but it wasn't as menacing as I hoped it would. He held up his hands in defense.
"It was totally an accident though and you still poured pumpkin juice all over my head after you got Willow to distract me." He defended. I smiled a little at the memory. His hair was soaked in it and pumpkin juice was dripping off his glasses.
"And ever since then we'd been fighting like cats and dogs." He reasoned.
"As long as I'm the dog. I don't much care for cats." I said scrunching up my nose. He laughed again.
"What about Hermione's new cat?" He asked.
"As long as he doesn't bother me I won't bother him." I replied. I smiled at him and he smiled back. Then the door opened and out walked a pissed off Willow, Violet and Dad (in dog form) and a grimacing Callie who was putting her cell phone in her pocket. Harry stood up quickly and I rubbed the wetness under my eyes away and stood up too. Willow and Violet looked from Harry to me and back to Harry and looked back at me and raised an eyebrow. Harry rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. Callie saved me from the unspoken thier question.
"Mum called and said to meet her at the Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor. Are we interrupting something?" she said and also raised an eyebrow.
"No, you guys gone on ahead. I'll meet you there." I said. Their eyebrows rose a little higher but Willow suddenly smiled brightly.
"Take your time, no rush." She said and grabbed Violet and my sister's arms and started to drag them she has that look in her eye that means trouble.
"Bye Harry." She yelled over her shoulder. Dad hesitated but then ran after the girls. I turned back to Harry who was still rubbing his neck.
"Um… I'll just go back in now…yeah." He replied. He turned to go but I grabbed his arm and he looked back at me.
"Thanks for you know." I said sincerely and waved a hand at the pavement.
"You're welcome." He said and smiled.
"Can we …try to be friends?" I asked biting my lip, "It's alright if you don't want to-"
"I'll give it a go if you want too." He replied interrupting me. I nodded.
"Friends?" He put his hand out for me to shake.
"Friends." I said and shook his hand in agreement. I let go of his hand and hugged him. He stiffed and then hugged me back. He gave me a look when I let go and said, "What? Friends can hug." He laughed at my reasoning.
"Oh, and before I forget." I said and punched him in the shoulder not very hard, "I did not have seaweed in my hair." He rubbed his shoulder and smiled at me.
"Yes you did and you looked kind of pretty with it in your hair." he joked. I stuck out my tongue and said, "Well you looked dashing with pumpkin juice dripping off your glasses." He laughed.
"Well until next time, pumpkin man." I said smiling.
"And to you, seaweed girl." He answered. I smiled bigger and hurried to the Ice Cream Parlor. I had just became friends with the person I swore to myself I won't ever be friends with. Oh, well some promises are made to be broken.
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