Nothings wrong with a little rain!

The grass was green, the trees were tall, the shade was dark, and the sky was cloudy. It had just turned noon on a Saturday afternoon. Sitting in the shade of the tree was a fifteen year old Hogwarts student by the name of Aalina Dullinger. She was wearing her school robes with her proud Hufflepuff sign on them, some black and pink sneaker and her hair up in a ponytail. In her hands laid a romance novel. Anyone who stood and watched her for a good few seconds would realize that she was reading at an amazingly fast speed. Every few seconds a tear or two would fall from her cheeks on to the notepad that laid on the ground beside. On the note pad were a few scribbles about what was in the book and how she could use it to help other people. As Aalina turned to the next page, a huge gust of wind blew and made her loose her page. So Aalina quickly turned back to the page before she lost her place.

It had been almost a year since his dorm mate, Zandell Dawlish, had passed away due to a coma caused by a flying accident that no one could really justify. It had taken a lot of people by surprise, everyone thought that he was going to be okay. He'd woken up for a few moments and had seemed normal, but then something had happened that he had been lunged back into the coma and this time he hadn't awakened from it. Nothing helped, no muggle help nor magical help did anything for him.

But his death had affected two people the most. Sarah Nesbitt and Dylan Davies. Sarah had been able to move on it seemed, but Dylan? Not so much. he seemed happy all the time, and always found a way to make people feel better when they had bad days, but it was clear that he was not completely okay from Zandell's death. Who would be? It wasn't easy to move on, no matter how simple the situation would be to move on from.

Because of this one Hufflepuff puppy by the name of Nathan Finch-Fletchley had taken it upon himself to make his Ravenclaw friend at least somewhat happy for a while. "Come on, you have to at least get out more. Walk around outside with Javy and make new songs like that." Nathan said, pulling Dylan's arm to get him down the corridor and into the courtyard. Dylan's toad, Javy, peeked out from the boy's pocket and quickly retracted his head back into the pocket.

"I don't see the point. I can make songs perfectly fine inside the castle." Dylan whined. "Yeah, but they're all about a lost friend. They're all about Zandell. Dyl it's been a year almost, you have to let him go." Dylan sighed and looked down. Okay, that might have been a little bit harsh on Nathan's part. He placed his arm around his friend's shoulder. "You know he's better off now. Now it's your turn to get better." Nathan told him. Dylan sighed again and nodded. "I guess.."

As they headed a bench in the courtyard, Nathan spotted one of his housemates, who was a year below him, not too far away. "Aalina!" he called out, waving his arms frantically. Dylan laughed softly at his sudden excitement to see another person and he thought Nathan looked like an over excited puppy. For some reason, Nate always reminded him of a puppy, but Dylan never quite understood why. Maybe it was because he was always so hyper, but there was also something else about the boy that made him think that.

Sarah wasn't really in the mood to do basically any but be left alone.  Sarah was depressed alot lately, she felt like she was missing something.  Although Sarah knew what it it was, it was amazing that she was still thinking about him. Yes, Sarah still thought about Zandell,  how could she not? he was her first love.  Alot of people thought she moved on, she did but there was always a place in her heart for Zandell.

Sarah missed him like crazy, and only person who knew her pain was Dylan. Of course she tried to be together with Nick, but he was never around so Sarah just ended it with him due to just being to lonely. Cursing as her friends basically pushed outside she rolled her eyes at Maura. "Oh come on Mars, I'm fine I don't need some fresh air it's more you then anything!"said Sarah honestly as aura shook her head. "It'll do you some good, besides I been outside and went to Hogsmeade yesterday which you haven't since god knows when!"said Maura. Sarah cursed and sighed there was no getting away from Maura no mattered how hard she tried.

Walking down the sloping lawns of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardly Sarah looked to see that Maura ran off towards the lake which made her sigh in relief. Not that she didn't love Maura, but she just wanted to be alone. Walking into the garden area of the courtyard she seen a couple of people were there but she didn't mind as long as they didn't bug her. Seeing Dylan there she smiled at him and waved. "Hey Dyl!"said Sarah Sarah softly looking to see that he looked worse then she did. But then again, after losing a best mate Sarah wouldn't be the same the either but Sarah wasn't the same she lost a loved one.

Aalina heard someone call out her name. She wiped the tears from her eyes before she looked up. When she did, she saw a fellow Hufflepuff house member. He was a year older but she had seen him a few times. She realized that he had called out her name like they were friends or something. She had talked to him a few times but he never acted like they were friends before. She also noticed that he was with someone else. She didn't really know this guy, but he wasn't to bad looking.

Aalina closed her book, putting the book marker into it before hand, then placed it on the ground with her notepad next to her. "Hey Nathan. What's up?" Aalina asked him as he came over. Then Aalina heard someone else call Nathan's name. She looked over to see a girl that didn't look to happy, but happy enough because of Nathan. Who knows maybe she's his girlfriend.