Hello, stranger. (Logan)

[spazzchild]

Lexi was sitting in the Common Room pretending to read her Charms book. It was so boring. The Common room was always filled with talkative students, but tonight there was only silence. Lexi loved silence, like most spacey people. She smiled to herself. Since she was all alone she tucked her freakishly large charms book back into her bag, leaned back in her chair and sighed contently. Things were looking up for her. Her moment of silence was interrupted by footsteps. The footsteps got closer and closer to Lexi until they materialized into a person. A boy person. The boy was called Logan, as Lexi recalled,( photographic memory!). He took the seat next to her.

Lexi was a girl of many contradictions, to put things in their simplest terms. She liked people, but she was content with being alone, friendly but shy a flirt but conservative. Her guard was up, because it came naturally to her. She would be nice to this guy, friendly, but she doubted the conversation would go past this moment. He was a seventh year, she a sixth; it depended upon his personality if that would matter to him, to her it didn’t.

People judge Lexi all the time. She’s shy which makes her any easy target for teasing, so she can be a bit on the defensive side. She doesn’t like to be reminded of her past, there’s a reason it’s called the past! People that know Lexi know these things; they know where to tread carefully and where to tease. Strangers on the other hand, they don’t know and she doesn’t blame them. First impressions often don’t go over well for this Ravenclaw, she’s guarded!

“Hello, I’m Lexi, and you are?” she said with a friendly smile. This conversation was either going somewhere or it wasn’t but either way she was going to do something she didn’t usually. She was going to try.
She may be guarded, but the only way to get to know her is to break down her walls. Breaking her walls? That’s easy. All you have to do is want to.

[logan]

“You’re doing it wrong” said Logan, the veteran dueling captain of the Hogwarts dueling club. “You need to feel what you are doing; else your spell is not going to work. Now do it again, this time let the flame come from within the deepest part of your soul.” The young dueler, a 3rd year with much interest in the sport, nodded at Logan and stared down his target once more. He took in a deep breath and then closed his eyes. He flicked his wand and quickly performed a fierce Incendio spell on the mannequin that stood before him. “Good Good, now then I believe that marks the end of today’s practice. Be sure to practice on your own times, you wouldn’t want to fall short on next week’s challenge.” With that, the dueling captain dismissed the club and began fixing up the room that they had been given for practice.

It was then that the boy left the room and made his way to the common room. Logan was one to enjoy the quiet evenings in the common room, and seeing as tonight many would be at the quidditch pitch enjoying the game, tonight was one of those quiet evenings. He made his way to the north tower, stopping once in a while to talk to the women that he found most attractive. Finally he reached the common room entrance. The portrait was quick to note the boy’s dueling garment and asked him what spell would make a locked door spring open. Logan though for a few moments, and then replied Annihilare. With that the portrait made way for the boy to enter.

As Logan entered his eyes scanned the area. Quiet, he thought, until his eyes fell upon a beautiful blonde that sat in one of the chairs inside the common room. Logan moved swiftly and quietly, taking a seat next to this girl, and beginning to think of what would be most appropriate to say to this golden haired delight. His thought process was then interrupted by none other than her gorgeous accent. “Pleasure to meet you Lexi, I’m Logan. Tell me, what is a beautiful girl, such as yourself, doing all alone in the ravenclaw common room?” Logan instantly turned on his charm. However, his intentions with this girl, or the moment, were simply to get to know her. He could tell by her demeanor that she was younger, how young? Only about a year he would say. As Logan awaited a response, his male instinct was quick to size her up. His eyes scanned her for only a second, but in that second he was able to make out her body through the robes, his mind fit the curves perfectly with her body. Logan’s eyes had returned to her’s, of course, he knew much better than to just stare and gawk.

[spazzchild]

“Pleasure to meet you Lexi, I’m Logan. Tell me what is a beautiful girl, such as yourself, doing all alone in the Ravenclaw common room?” He asked. A simple response, yet so difficult to answer. What was she doing there?
She blushed. Of course she did. Lexi didn’t consider herself to be beautiful at all though people often told her she was. She blushed at any compliment.
“Nice to meet you Logan. I am in fact pretending to study.” Lexi replied with a little laugh. That addressed both parts of his response correctly. Right? Yes, that’s what she was doing there. Pretending to study. And hiding from all the people who teased and gossiped about her. Alone. She didn’t mind people’s company, but was done being the center of ridicule.
“I’m perfectly awful at charms.” She said, explaining. She tried and tried Charms and she just couldn’t bloody do it. So she gave up trying so hard. She would study occasionally but honestly, when it came down to it, it didn’t matter, just like so many other things.
All her life she had never been good enough for anybody, no matter how hard she tried. She worked for people’s approval and they rejected her. Finally she figured out she wasn’t going to please anybody. The Ravenclaw became guarded, not wanting to be rejected any longer. It hurt her that she would never make people happy, but she considered giving up trying to be perfect the best thing she ever did.
So now she had answered his question and had one of her own. Why did he care that she was beautiful (or so he’d said!) and alone?