¼ of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pls Haddie didn't laugh.
On the contrary, she wiped her eyes. Until that moment, Katherine hadn't noticed, but her eyes were wet with tears too. She sniffed and wiped her tears as well. She didn't know that Haddie cared enough to cry. Katherine usually came off as cruel, but the one thing she never wanted to do was making someone else cry. Did Haddie understand? Why wasn't she talking? Katherine was dying with the urge to leave, but she stayed. Haddie was talking now. She wanted to laugh with Katherine... no one had ever told her such a thing before. It had always been loneliness for Katherine, but here Hadley Denaker was, telling her that she wanted to laugh with her. Katherine sniffed harder and hoped Haddie wouldn't comment on her crying. She didn't want to look desperate. And she didn't cry, no.
She ought to invest in Memory Charm.
She silently followed her to the table and sat down. Thankfully, the tears had stopped. She bit her lower lip. Why did she hate Haddie besides the obvious fact that she was more of a Gryffindor than a Ravenclaw? Haddie was a troublemaker, but she had never pushed Katherine into trouble. She was even sometimes funny... 'My clever girl, you'd do well to avoid her. She's not a good friend. You don't want to be distracted by her. She'll do her best to pull you down, and you should answer just as harshly. You focus on whatever you ought to do and do not get too friendly with her, or else, you'll end up as a good-for-nothing as well. The Blaise boy too. Avoid Blaise and Hadley.' But her mother had been wrong, at least about Hadley. Maybe she's also wrong about Blaise... he might be a little thick, but he's a good - "I... guess I thought that your... pranks would get to me somehow and... interfere with my studying. I still have to be at the top." To make the family Moss great again. "As long as I don't get in trouble, I'd - I'd love to laugh with you."
And drink a cup of butterbeer, because she didn't think she could make another sound with her dry throat. |