The Hook Brings You Back

Christian didn't understand what everyone was on about. Nothing, in his opinion, was really wrong with his relationship with Lucy. She could be a bit temperamental, but he had felt from the beginning that it was possible for her to get more out of life if she only let him try and help. That in itself, he had been informed, was a stupid way to think about it. But he couldn't exactly help the fact that he cared for her. Whether or not Lucy was rather rude to people who weren't Slytherins like she was, he felt it wasn't the only way she could act. Surely she just acted that way because she was not confident in herself?

Christian liked to think he knew her better than anyone else, despite the fact that he was so obviously wrong about her. Lucy, as a person, was pretty much terrible. She tended to act differently around Christian as compared to most everyone else, though nobody had been brave enough to say so. Kit Avery had nearly spoken up, but her newfound shyness had kept her from actually going through with it.

Typically, Christian would have spent his evening in his dormitory, or perhaps even with Lucy, but he had an essay due at the end of the week, so the Hufflepuff found himself in the library. He was sitting towards the front of the stacks, hoping to keep focused by remaining in the sight of the librarian, who of course was not a fan of people talking too loudly.

Clara didn't really care so much about essay actually. She have heard about it only. She herself didn't attend to last lesson. She was sick in that time. She had some kind of flu and now she felt already so much better. She had asked from few her housemates what they needed to do but they were too busy with other things. She was dissapointed in them. So she walked into library, maybe here she will find someone who can help her out maybe. Also she wanted to buy some book to read.

The girl looked around and saw there many people. She didn't know most of them. She saw one Zabini twins, she wasn't that sure which one it was. That might that one who dates with that girl named Lucy, who isn't that nice one for real. She didn't know that girl so well but she have heard many rumors about that girl. She took few random books from bookcase and walked over to him.

"Hey, is this okay if I sit to this table?" She tried to be polite but not sure how polite she was today. She was bit dissaponted in her housemates. They didn't help her when she needed it. She waited his answer now there. She didn't want to sit since there is chance he will say no. Then she has to find other table to sit.

Christian looked up, not entirely surprised to see another student carrying books around. It took a moment for him to recognize the girl, but when he realized it was the Gryffindor who had missed class last time. "Yeah, of course," he nodded, gesturing towards the chair next to him.

He tilted his head to the side and looked at her, trying to recall her name. "Clara, right?" Christian asked finally, furrowing his brow a bit to show that he was uncertain in his guess. "I didn't see you in Defense Against The Dark Arts yesterday. Were you unwell?"

As he spoke, Christian opened up the textbook to the section they were meant to write about and pushed the book towards her so she could see. "We're supposed to write an essay on how to handle Boggarts. It's a shorter one than usual, so that's nice."

Clara smiled and took then seat next to him, at first placed het books on table it would be uncomfortable to sit with them. "Thanks," she even said to him with a small smile.

"Yes I'm Clara," she said there now. "You are one of this Zabini twins, probably Christian right?" He asked there now back from him the name part. When she emotioned DADA lesson and missing she nodded her head. "Yeah I was sick. I wantes to come but I didn't wanna make others sick too. I had fever and sneezed much," she told there now with a weak smile.

She looked at that book and nodded. "Oh I see. I actually wanted ask what we had to do. I heard there was essay to write but none of my housematea never told me on what. Rude much," she said there now and sighed.

"The very same," he confirmed with a smile, referring to his name. The smile fell away, turning into a frown, when she explained how she had been feeling. "That's definitely not a good sign," he agreed. "It was probably better that you stayed in the dorms and got some rest."

A disappointed expression made itself known when Clara told him about her friends. "Yeah, that's pretty rotten of them," he replied, shaking his head. "I'm a little surprised that you lot aren't more closely knit. You would think they would want to help you..." Sighing, Christian added, "It's surprising how rude people can be. I've been noticing it more and more, lately."

It probably wasn't a fair statement to make, given that Christian was fairly oblivious to Lucy's own tendencies. She had a way of convincing the Hufflepuff that she was actually quite lovely, by treating him differently than those around him, but thus far, he had not caught on.

She smiled when she got it right. She most of times get faces and names right but there was times when she didn't do it. She looked at him and nodded. "Yes that was good thing to do. I did get plenty of rest and now I'm better. Even if I sometimes still neeze but I couldn't be anymore in my dorm room. I need to know what we had has homework," she said there with weak smile.

She nodded her once again. "Yes, people get rude more and more. I used to hang with most of them. They seem no so distance towards me. I really wonder sometimes what happened or what I'm done I need such cold attitude but I never found answer. They don't tell either," she said here now with a weak smile again. She couldn't be really haply right now but she tried.

"Wait, you are dating with Lucy, from Slytherin house, right?" She had to ask. She had heard about it. That Slytherin girl was always so rude and mean to everyone excepy Christian and he needed to know about it. To open eyes about her but first Clara wanted to be sure if it was right their dating.