☆°•*Stars*•°☆

☆Too many friends☆

Harry sat alone, the seat next to him vacant until she sat down in it.
   "Hii~ Did you miss me?" He shrugged, looking down. She frowned.
   "Hey, is something wrong?"
   "Nothing. You seem very close to Malfoy, is all.." he mumbled. She stared at him and sighed.
   "Harry.. you know I care about you a lot, right? I would never ditch you, I was just helping out." He looked down.
   "Do you have to be friends with everyone though?" He sighed, fiddling with his thumbs. She fell silent. Of course she hated making him feel this way, but she wasn't going to stop making friends and talking to people because he had a problem with it. He had acted the same when she first made friends with Seamus and Dean, and Luna, but now he was great friends with them. Yeah, this was Malfoy, but still. He seemed to get jealous really easily, and she always wondered why it bothered him so much. But either way, she resolved to give him a great surprise that day, so they could hangout and she could make him feel better.

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After Charms, she went to see Danny in the Hufflepuff common room. She walked in, saying hi to Hannah and Susan on the way. There, in the middle of the floor, was little Danny, surrounded by Ginny, Pansy and lots of hufflepuffs playing peekaboo with him and laughing. She smiled at the sight.
   "Hey everyonee" Danny looked up and beamed when he saw Lio, reaching up grabby hands.
   "Li-li!" She scooped him up in her arms and turned to everyone.
   "Thank you so much for looking after him everyone!"
They all smiled and cheered. "We'd be happy to do it again!" Ginny and Pansy added, the others nodding.
Lio walked out and made her way to the courtyard. She spent her break and free period feeding Daniel and sitting with him outside on the grass. After that, it was finally lunch. Draco took his food to study in the library, and Luna wasn't there, so she went to sit with the Hufflepuffs, at their request. They fawned over Danny as soon as she got to the table. Dumbledore came up to the pedestal, as he did sometimes, and cleared his throat.
   "I have been informed that-" he paused as he noticed one tie that, as usual, was not at the right table. "Miss Beau, must you always sit at the wrong table?" He looked at her pointedly but she just smiled.
   "You can't make me stay at one table! If I have friends I should be able to eat my lunch with them, right?" She grinned as he sighed, giving in for the 100th time in the five years she had gone to Hogwarts.
   "Regardless, I have been informed that Miss Umbridge has been put on sick leave, so we hope she will recover soon, but as of now, Miss Rakepick will be taking over for her. You may begin eating"
Lio paused with the fork in her mouth, and smiled awkwardly, shrugging her shoulders as he just shook his head and sat down. Danny chortled happily, munching slowly on a piece of lettuce as everyone ate.
Luna came in, walking over to Lio.
   "Hey Lia. Is that Daniel?" She observed him curiously, and Lia smiled.
   "Want to hold him?" Luna nodded and took him, sitting with the hufflepuffs, as Lia got up.
   "I'll be back in a minute, watch him, will you?" Luna nodded and she ran off to Harry's table. He looked up at her, and blushed as she took his hand and ran out of the Great Hall.
   "Where are we going?!" He laughed as she pulled him excitedly to her favourite spot by the lake.
   "C'mon!" She grinned, pulling him to the ground. They fell on the grass in a lump of laughter. They untangled and lay under the shade of the tree, cloud watching and talking.
   "Hey, Harry?" She mumbled, fiddling with a loose string on his jumper, her head on his arm.
   "Mm?" He hummed.
   "I just.. want you to know, y'know, that I like hanging out with you." He blushed and looked down at her. "Y'know.. I, well, I didn't meant to make you feel bad.. I know Draco's not your favourite person, but, I don't know, I really like talking to lots of different people, and, y'know, I had fun looking after Danny with him, and I... well, I don't want you to be mad at me because I really.. care about you, y'know? And I, I don't want to lose you.. but I can't just stop talking to other people.. and I, I don't know what to do, I just.." she started tearing up, and he sat up, wrapping his arms around her.
   "Hey, hey.. You don't need to be worried, I'm sorry, ok? I shouldn't have made you worry like that... I know I get jealous easily, it's because I don't want to lose you either, but I'll try to trust you more, ok? It's ok, I'm sorry Li" he stroked her hair and her back, kissing her head softly. She sniffled into his jumper. They eventually relaxed back into their position, before the bell rang, and they ran back to the Great Hall. Lio picked up Danny, and then looked around.
   "Anyone have a free period now???" She shouted. Adrian ran over.
   "Me! Me! Does that mean I finally get my turn with Danny?!" Lio laughed.
   "I suppose so. Who can you do it with though? I'm not sure I trust you alone with him. Blaise walked over.
   "I'll supervise them both, don't worry Tiny~" he swung an arm around her shoulder, kissing the side of her head, earning a glare from Harry. "What?? Don't look at me like that Harry!" Harry stared.
   "You just called me by my name??"
Blaise shrugged. "Yeah, this little lady here told me that if I kept calling you by your last name she'd ditch me. Ah, the betrayal!" He sighed melodramatically. Harry blushed, flattered that she'd make her friends do that for him. She rolled her eyes and handed Danny to Blaise, Adrian cooing at him.
   "Ok, be careful! And you, be good, ok Danny?" She kissed his little forehead. Blaise smirked. "What about me? I should get a kiss too~" Harry looked away, and Lio grinned, flicking Blaise on the forehead.
   "Byee~" she smirked, walking away as he rubbed his head.