The observatory was one of Justine's favorite places. The telescopes, star charts, beautiful views of the starry night sky, and the ambient quiet of the place made it calming and offered the girl exactly the space she needed for moments when she needed to escape the busy confines of the Common Room. She sat her book bag down, and took a seat at the main telescope, the largest and most powerful one in the room, and began adjusting and switching the nobs to focus the lens. There, perfect. Justine grinned and peered through, searching over the January sky looking for nothing in particular, simply content to stargaze and avoid the treacherous thinking in her head.

Because lately her mind had been dangerously turning more and more to a boy who shouldn't mean anything to her. A boy she might have been avoiding for the last week, one with warm eyes and a cheeky smile, who looked very good in pink....

"Ugh." No, no! That sort of thinking was only going to get her in trouble, damn it all! She'd been such a girl lately, she needed to do something, something to regain her coldness, to empty herself of all these feeling that boy had brought on... But what? What could she do....