A kiss from the moon

Wondrous place

The morning after the full moon Sofia walked back to her dorm in a bad mood. She was overly tired and overall more grumpy then usual. She wasn't usually the person to be sour with people or act rude but right now she felt if somebody talked to her she would just snap back. Both Lupin and herself had been restless and anxious in their wolf forms this time and Sofia had for the first time felt an urge to hurt herself as wolf.

Professor Lupin had told her stories of how it had been for him when he was her age. How he would scratch himself raw, how he left huge bruises and bite marks on his body. Sofia had shuddered as he talked about it. She could never imagine wanting to hurt yourself so badly. Well not until last night. It had started as a scratch in her brain. A scratch that she so badly wanted to itch. It had taken all of Sofia's strength to keep herself from doing anything bad.

It scared her that she had been so close to loosing it. This morning Lupin had explained to her that some full moons were extra potent and that you could feel the effect of the full moon even more then usual. He told her that she needn't worry, the wolfsbane potion made it so she kept her human mind during the transition but Sofia couldn't help herself but doubt him a little. It had felt so close. Sofia had felt like she had been balancing on a very thin line between having her human consciousness and just becoming a wolf completely. The thoughts had felt close to intrusive and Sofia was afraid that these thoughts would stay even as she became a human again.

Sofia sighed as she walked. She was fortunately getting close to the Hufflepuff common room now and she was looking forward to spending the rest of the day curled up in her bed. She had no energy left to do anything else really. It was early morning right now and breakfast had probably just started getting served in the great hall. Sofia could feel her stomach rumble at the thought of it but she couldn't bring herself to sit in the hall today. She felt gross, her hair was unwashed, she worn the same clothes for two days now and she was completely drained from energy.

But as Sofia entered the last corridor between her and the Hufflepuff common room her plans of just staying in bed all day were disrupted. Ginny Weasley was sitting on the floor, her back leaning towards one of the barrels. Her eyes looked to be closed and she looked almost half asleep. Sofia stepped close to Ginny to see that she had a pice of toast and a banana in her lap which warmed Sofia's tired heart in a way that she hadn't experienced before.

"Uhh.. Ginny?" Said Sofia hesitantly not wanting to give the girl a rude awakening. "You awake?"

"Huh? Oh Sofia!" Said Ginny and smiled at Sofia with bleary eyes. "I've been waiting for you!"

"Why?" Said Sofia a little sourly. "It's Boxing Day I recon you'd want to be with your brothers?"

"Oh they all have other stuff to do today" Said Ginny. "And I did want to check up you, you weren't at the feast and then again you were absent at breakfast and Nicola wouldn't tell me where you were."

"That's because I didn't tell her." Said Sofia still in a crappy mood. "I get migraines sometimes so I spent the night in the hospital wing"

"I'm sorry.." said Ginny, sounding a little discouraged by Sofia's sour ways. "Well I brought you some breakfast if you want that?"

"Thank you!" Said Sofia and accepted the toast and the banana from Ginny.

They stood still for a little while after that. Neither of them seemed to know what to really say. Ginny looked a little awkward thought Sofia, she felt bad for being rude already.

"You wanna keep me company while I eat?" Asked Sofia. "I'm a little sick of being alone."

"Yeah sure" said Ginny with a nod. "Where do you wanna sit?"