Avoiding Me

Your POV

I was walking around the corner when I saw Neville coming from Umbrige's office with a cut on his cheek.

Did she really do that to him, that bitch is gonna get it one day I swear. I used my invisibility to go unseen by Neville. As we walked past each other I brushed my hand against his very lightly almost an unoticible touch. Since I've been by myself a lot, Zuko has been training me with my powers and I recently learnt how to heal a wound without touching it directly. That being said I still needed some form of contact with the wounded in order to kickstart the healing process.

Neville's POV

I saw a bright yellow energy travel quite fast from my hand, up my sleeve and a spark emit on my cheek then disappear. My cut was healed, how.

I knew exactly how, I turned around taking a guess and pulling out some dirt I had in my pockets from Herbology. I threw the dirt in front of me. I heard a sound like it was hitting clothing and saw patches floating.

"Y/n, why are you avoiding me?" I asked softly. She dusted herself off now visible to me.

"I'm not avoiding you" She lied

"Y/n- I see you use invisibility so I don't see when you walk past me, I see when you turn around and walked a different way to class to avoid interacting with me on the way. Y/n I-I just don't understand what I did, please tell me so I can fix this." I pleaded. She sighed.

"Neville..." She started. In a movie or a book this would be the time where she would confess her feelings for me, but this isn't a romance novel. Students start filling the hall moving to there next class.

Your POV

"-I have to get to class." I told him before leaving. Now that wasn't my best get away line especially since we have class together, but if we talk any longer or I look into those adorable puppy dog eyes anymore I might confess some very unreciprocated feelings. As I walked to class Harry was discretely telling everyone in the DA that lessons start at lunch after next period. I was quite excited about learning spells again as was everyone else. I sat at a desk as students piled in potions class. I felt someone sit next to me, I looked across to see Neville. I gave him an awkward 'Hello again' smile. Well my get away plan didn't work as well as I hoped it would.

Throughout the entire class I caught Neville glancing at me, but he never said anything. Which I understand because of Snape. Eventually I felt a tap on my arm and a note passed to me.

I really did not want to be answering questions that are hard to answer. Truthfully I don't know why I'm avoiding him, at least not completely. I guess I don't want to say things that could get us both hurt or ruin our friendship. But I guess I'm already ruining it. I looked at the message.

Why are you hiding things from me?

I sighed. I'm only hiding my feelings Nev.

I like my privacy and it never seems to benefit the noted only the notee's.

I wrote back hoping that would confuse him enough not to ask anything more. 

Neville's POV

I tapped her again and handed her the message. I honestly didn't know what to say, I just wanted to keep talking to her. Well writing to her.

C'est la vie. She gave a tiny smirk but I wasn't entirely sure why. She handed me back a message that said.

La vie. I smiled a little as I realized that my message is pronounced 'Say la vie' .

I missed her witty comments and sly humour. I missed her most of all.

Snape took the note out of my hands.

"Passing notes is not permitted in my class Y/l/n" Snape said in his classic monotone voice. He read the note.

"Writing in code are we Y/l/n, detention  this afternoon. Be thankful I'm not sending you to Umbridge." He finished.

I looked over to see Y/n wasn't even angry, I guess everyone would be thankful to have detention with Snape instead of Umbridge these days.

After class I spoke to Y/n on our way to the room of requirement.

"Code" She laughed.

"But he was right about one thing, I am thankful not to be sent to Umbridge. I almost kinda like Snape now" She informed me.

"I guess even Snape isn't that low" I commented. Fred and George jumped on both of us, ruffling our hair at the same time.

"Hey, we heard that you got detention for passing notes" Fred started.

"Not just any notes, coded ones" George finished. Y/n laughed.

"So what's your code then" Fred asked.

"It wasn't code so much as French. But more of a humorous take on the language of love" She said. I blushed slightly when I was slapped with the realization that it was indeed the language of love.

Fred's POV

"Oh how scandalous passing love notes in the middle of class." I teased.

"Well it wasn't l-" Neville's face was completely red.

"Love notes my my my you two are stirring up quite the romcom in Hogwarts" George continued. I saw that Neville was very confused by our tease fest but I was just glad that Y/n and him were hanging around each other again. They are both so oblivious as usual. They are good for each other and everyone except them can see it. I wondered whether we could get those two to practice together in the DA.

As we got closer to the room of requirement we were told to clear our mind and think only of the DA, so the room would appear. We all entered the room in two's or three's not to be suspicious or draw attention to ourselves. This was going to be great.

Harry stood at the front.

"Hey everyone, who's ready to learn some magic?" He said with a smug smile.