When Malia Burke looks at people in the eyes, she hears the name of the person that means the most to them. She's gotten used to having to hear stranger's names everytime she meets someone new. What she didn't expect was looking into someone's eyes...
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"She's actually doing it!"
"She's shaking more than an exotic dancer though."
"Have I missed something?" Juno's arrival was announced by the sound of a book being slammed onto the Ravenclaw Table. "Why is Bailey walking over to the Slytherin Table? She gets scared to walk to her own house table on her own!" the boy pulled a face and adjusted his glasses to make sure what he was seeing was indeed real.
"She's decided to make friends with Regulus Black." Malia explained and passed him a banana like she did every morning.
"Why on earth is she doing that? That's rather uncharacteristic of our Bailey...making friends." he unpeeled his 'brain food' and put some peanut butter on it, making both Dia and Malia stick out their tongues in disgust.
"Tell us about it." Dia shook her head before popping a raspberry in her mouth, meeting eyes with a boy down the table and sucking her finger slightly with a wink. A smirk spread on the boys face and Malia rolled her eyes, knowing she'd have to come up with an excuse for why her best friend wasn't in Charms class.
"She's very passionate about it so I wouldn't make a big deal out of it." Malia advised but Juno still looked very confused, he kept looking between Malia beside him and Bailey cautiously approaching the Slytherin Prince.
"Is there a particular reason for this sudden need to befriend Regulus Black?" he asked quite loudly and his shout had gained the attention of the Marauders over on Gryffindor Table.
"Good going, Juno!" Dia smacked him on the back of the head so his hair fell into his eyes. "Now Sirius is going to get suspicious!"
"She wants to be his friend because I didn't hear a name when I looked into his eyes and she feels bad for him." Malia said boredly and Juno moved his hair out of his face, frowning heavily and pushing his glasses up his nose,
"I thought you always-"
"Yeah, well apparently not." Malia shook her head and Juno huffed confusedly.
"How odd."
"He doesn't even care about his parents...or Sirius apparently." Dia grimaced but Juno didn't looked surprised,
"Actually, almost twenty percent of children harbour negative feelings towards their parents. And just over ten percent don't care about them at all." Juno recited and Dia looked at him blankly before returning to her breakfast without another word.
"She's approaching him." Malia mumbled as she looked in the direction of the Slytherins and the three friends watched intently as Bailey visibly took a deep breath and walked over to him. The girl smiled sweetly and greeted the boy, causing him to raise an eyebrow at her appearance. Some of the people around him started to snicker and Dia dropped her head into her hands,
"Oh, I can't watch."
"We might have to go and save her." Malia warned and Juno nodded his head beside her,
