Amelia Merlin

Part Eighty Five: nothing

"How do you not know that song?" Dean cried, outraged. "Simon and Garfunkel are revolutionary."

"Those names sound fake." Amelia rolled her eyes.

Dean shook his head. "Whatever, but your name totally fits with one of the songs."

"What ever you do, just don't sing-"

"Ameeeeelia, you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily! Oh Ameeeeeelia! I'm down on my knees! I'm begging you please, to come home!"

"And I'm begging you to shut up." She laughed and smacked his arm.

"You love me." Dean smirked and she just rolled her eyes.

"Only a little bit."

"I'll accept that." The group was sitting around the common room trying to do homework but really they were just hanging out with each other.

Amelia had been trying to think about anything other than Kalishterya or the Red Tree or Akkedis. Trying to distract herself from the loss of her dream. It was more difficult than anything she had felt before. She actually missed Akkedis. It was messed up, but she missed everything about it. The insane thrill, the chase and the game. Oh how she missed the game! The dark haired boy had been right, Amelia loved it. There was a certain mystery and epic quality that it brought to her life. She craved the adventure and now without it, she was so unbelievably average. It felt like the fuel of her life was being rapidly decreased and there wasn't a damn thing she could do about it.

Amelia needed something sensational to happen. Something extraordinarily incredible to give her a purpose. But now her only connection was gone.

The small part of her brain, the one she was most ashamed of, blamed Cedric. He was the one who had killed the boy and he had no right doing anything he did that day.

But it wasn't his fault.

That was what she kept telling herself. But it was getting harder the longer everything stayed away. It had been three weeks since the incident and it was like all the roads had been blocked. No dreams. No notes. Nothing.

She had read every inch of the Merlin history book but there was barely any valuable information. There was a lot about each great discovery someone had made or some epic adventure they had. There was only one chapter about Kalishterya and it just went into detail about the customs and religion. Which Amelia could hardly retain because it was too awful to hear all these amazing things just to know she would never find it.

"Amy?" A hand waved in front of her glaze eyes and she snapped back to reality.

"Only Fred calls me Amy." She muttered under her breath.

"Oh sorry." Seamus shrugged. "But you looked like you were dead or something."

"Sorry I was just zoned out." She mumbled.

Lavender stood up. "Can we go do something?" She sighed heavily. "I'm bored."

"Yeah let's go." Amelia and Parvati stood up too and the three girls wandered the halls of Hogwarts looking for some small adventure.

"Wanna know something cool?" Lavender said.

Parvati gave a small smile "What?"

"I think Terry Boot from Ravenclaw totally likes me."

Amelia chuckled. "What makes you think that?"

"He's always looking at me. And he smiles at me in the hall all the time. And he's got nice hair." They found their way to the grounds and walked along the fields by the greenhouses. There was a hint of spring in the air and Amelia found herself in a state of tranquil bliss.