what are you doing here? | Kat

Lena looked up at the sky of the Great Hall, checking the weather for a moment. She raised an eyebrow and then smiled when she saw that it was sunny outside. That meant she could go out and be in the warm sun for a while, soaking up the last few drops of summer, before she had to worry about getting to classes later on. She was in a good bit of the advanced placement classes but not all of them, thankfully. That might just drive her insane if she had all of those to do every day with homework. That would just be too much for almost anyone to handle.

She finished off her two slices of toast that she had initially gotten when she sat down as well as her juice. With breakfast done, now she could go outside and laze about in the sun with the book she had tucked into her ever present bag. Lena stood up and, just for good measure on being satisfied with breakfast, stole another piece of toast and took a small bite from it as she started walking out of the hall, her bag making a soft thud against her hip as she walked. Her legs were short and she often compensated them by walking fairly quickly so she could get to places on time. Tardiness was just not an option with her. As she headed toward the double doors of the Great Hall she noticed someone at the Hufflepuff table that looked a bit like the guy she had met and became friends with over the summer. Kat. But it was impossible. He had been a muggle, right? She looked at the boy one more time before continuing toward the door, deciding she could figure it out later as breakfast was not the place for moments like that.

Lena heard stumbling behind her but she ignored it, thinking it was just some really tired student being clumsy with the benches. It was fairly possible considering she'd seen it happen with a few of the other students. Just because she woke up and was forever wide awake after that didn't mean others weren't. It generally was an amusing site to see but Lena wasn't really in the mood to watch someone fall on their face this morning unless it was one of her boys, the Marauders, and she knew it wasn't one of them stumbling because they weren't even in the Great Hall at the moment.

Then she heard running, toward her even, and she instinctively turned and shifted slightly, encase the person was running at her to hurt her. She blinked at the person who was coming at her, recognizing it as the one she had noticed looked like Katsurou but couldn't possibly be him because Kat didn't have magic. Did he? Her eyes were focused on him as he finally got to her, then started talking. Those chocolate eyes started to turn into saucers as she realized that this really was the boy she had spent most of her summer hanging out with, and she had had no idea he was a wizard. Her eyes started to slide into a glare as she reached forward and grabbed his tie. "Kat. You have some explaining to do." But she wasn't about to have this discussion in front of the dozens of Hogwarts students who were already watching them curiously.

Using his tie she attempted to drag him out of the Great Hall, though she knew he wouldn't be moving unless he chose to. Once outside and where no one would really pay attention to them she turned and left go of his tie, facing him again. "Why didn't you tell me! Two months of hanging out, even dancing together, and you never told me THIS was the school you were worried about getting in?" She felt a little hurt that he hadn't trusted her with his secret. Though it was a bit hypocritical as she hadn't done it either. Lena punched his shoulder slightly, shoulders sagging a little bit. "You could have told me."

Lena still wasn’t all that happy that he hadn’t told her. But she really couldn’t say anything because she hadn’t told him either and she felt a bit hypocritical about all of it and that just wasn’t a great feeling. She had originally rolled her eyes as he tried to make hurried excuses while she tugged him by his tie away from everyone else. But now she listened to him because she did like him as a good friend and she also couldn’t fault him for doing what every wizard was supposed to do when they met a stranger. Hiding all connections to magic. "I would've," was the first thing he said. "You think I would've kept it from you if I'd known you go here?" Her gaze focused on him. “I would hope you would have told me.” She puffed out a tiny air of sadness/annoyance. “I can’t tell you I’m happy about this, but I guess I can understand why you didn’t tell me. I didn’t tell you either, when you get right down to it.” Lena was so innocent and trusting of him, she couldn’t even tell he was lying to her about having not known she was there. She didn’t have the slightest hint that all of their friendship was a lie. If she had…..let’s just say it wouldn’t be very pretty.

She couldn’t help but smile slightly though as he seemed to almost be begging her for forgiveness with his eyes, along with just being happy to see her. It didn’t hurt her ego that he wanted to make everything right. “I guess it is. You still owe me though.” She emphasized her statement by poking him in the chest lightly with her index finger.

Lena studied him for a moment, lifting her hand to her lips to tap her index fingertip against them, making it look as if she was contemplating something for a long time. “Well, firstly….I was sugar quills. Lots of sugar quills.” She nodded her head, figuring that would be a good place to start considering her addiction to the sweet confections. Well that and the fact that she hadn’t been able to buy any to bring with her and they were a must have for her to study with. Yes, that would be the first demand. “I’ll think up more things later for you to do to make it up to me.” She tried to keep her gaze stern but it was losing out considering she really was happy her friend from home was actually in the school she was. It was unexpected and such, but now it was quite welcome. She wouldn’t have to hide herself from Katsurou anymore, and Lena really couldn’t be happier about that.

She had noticed the look of worry still in the backs of his eyes and rolled hers slightly, still smiling, before stepping forward and wrapping her arms around his waist gently, giving him a hug to let him know she actually had forgiven him, but she needed to pick on him a little longer to get over it completely. Lena tilted her head back to look up into his face to say, “Welcome to Hogwarts, Kat. I hope you’ll like it.” And with that she stepped back again, having only been giving him a hug anyway before looking him over. “Do you not have any classes things morning then?”

Lena couldn’t help but blink and raise an eyebrow. “You don’t know what sugar quills are? They’re only the most awesome candy ever. It’s sad, but I’m truly addicted to them. I wasn’t able to get any before coming to school so, you get to buy me some from Hogsmeade whenever we have a free weekend there.”

She rolled her eyes but smiled. “I don’t know about ‘lady’ but I’ll make sure to make a list of the things you can do for me, once I figure them out.” Flirting with Katsurou was just so easy. He would flirt with her and she’d be able to flirt back without worrying that he thought she was serious. They didn’t have that kind of relationship. Or, at least, that’s how Lena saw it.

She laughed and smiled, shaking her head at him. “Always the charmer, aren’t you? You’re going to be quite the heartbreaker around here. Just be careful. Some of the girls around this place are pretty vicious when they want to be.” She had certainly seen it first hand, watching the stupid girls who had thought to win Sirius’ heart. She still didn’t understand why they had thought they could change him. Lena cared about Siri and wanted to be with him, but she didn’t want to change who he was. Which, Lena thought, was part of the problem between them more than likely. Maybe they could solve that issue soon. She really hoped so.

Lena nodded. “Ah. I’m sure they’ll figure all that out soon. Though it’s unusual they made that mistake in the first place. And nope, no classes till this afternoon. I was actually heading outside when you ran over. Would you like to come with?”

“That you do. You better hope you have enough money to keep me satisfied in sugar quills for a long time.” His grin really was adorable. Lena definitely liked hanging out with Kat. Having spent the summer together for the most part had been really fun. And she actually was glad they were at the same school, even if she didn’t like how she’d found out. She grinned and put on a haughty look while saying, “You asked for it,” before laughing, finding it funny that they were making it into a ‘challenge’ of sorts.

Lena smiled slightly. “I’m sure you’ll make friends pretty quickly. But there is probably some basics you need to know. Slytherin are not good. They’re conniving, snobs, and basically just a huge bunch of jerks. The Ravenclaws are the really smart ones generally, thought that don’t always like to talk to other students. Hufflepuffs, your house, is generally the really nice ones. Maybe not always the smartest, no offence, but nice. And Gryffindors….well we’re supposed to be the bravest but we just seem to have the most parties.” She shrugged, still smiling. “So you’re pretty much guaranteed to make friends in at least three out of the four houses.”

“Ah. That explains it. They’ll get it all solved for you.” Lena smiled. “Alright. I don’t mind showing you around ‘more’ places.” She was teasing, reminding him of how she had to show him all over London so he wouldn’t get lost. There had been a few times that they had gotten lost, mostly because she got turned around, but not nearly as much as they would have if he had been the one leading. She walked away to the front doors and pushed one of them open before looking back at him. “Well? Are you coming?”