I'm Sorry, I Didn't See You (Open)

Matthew sat on a bench half way along the corridor. He was currently reading an assignment in his Defence Against the Dark Arts book, and had become comlepetely absorbed. This chapter was fascinating. In fact he was so engrossed, that someone could easily come up on him and steal his bag, and he probably wouldn't notice. Well, at least not right away.

Without looking, he reached into said bag and drew out a roll of parchment, quill and ink. He got the top off and set it on his other side, dipped the quill into it, and finally taking his eye from the page in the book, turned his attention to his parchment.

When he'd written the notes that he'd wanted, he looked back at the book for a few moments, then back to the parchment. He wrote another half roll's worth of notes before he finished reading his assignment. He looked over his notes when he was finished and smiled. This should be enough to write his report.

He stood up and put the book and other items in his bag once more, intending on going to the library to write the report. But when he turned around, he ran almost smack into another person that had just been passing him.

"I am so sorry!" the first year Gryffindor said. "I didn't know anyone else was in this corridor."

Raleigh was walking down the first floor corridor, reading a Muggle book called 'Wuthering Heights'. It was a book her father had bought her for her fourteenth birthday. It was awfully annoying. The book itself was interesting, but the characters were awful. They were stubborn and idiots. It made Raleigh sick. Why couldn't they just be together. Why do other peoples' opinion control them.

Raleigh, about to toss her book at a wall, was almost ran into by a blonde boy. The boy wore Gryffindor robes, so that was a good sign. He couldn't have been older than 12. Then, he went on to apologize to her profusely. Raleigh just smiled down at him reassuringly.

"Hey, hey, its fine." Raleigh stated, looking down at the boy. "I'm not dead or bleeding am I? No harm no foul." Raleigh stated, brushing her hair behind her ear and closing her book.

Matthew brushed his light brown hair from his eyes as he hoisted his bag onto his shoulder. Well, if he was going to run into anyone, he could have done much worse than a fellow Gryffindor. He smiled slightly, glad that he'd not bruised the girl or anything. He thought that he really needed to start paying attention to what he was doing and where he was going. He was slightly suprised that he wasn't all that nervous since when he met new people, Matthew fidgeted like nothing. It seemed that Willow had a calming effect even when they weren't together.

"I'm still sorry that I nearly ran you over. I have a habit of not looking where I'm going at times. I need to get out of it. You can ask my girlfriend." He grinned at saying Willow was his girlfriend. Ever since they had been found by her oldest brother, Gareth in the Group Commons while they were snogging, Matthew had taken to letting everyone that he had the chance to know that he was in a relationship with Willow Winter.

He shifted his bag to a more comfortable position as he looked at the book that the girl was carrying. Wuthering Heights. His mother had that in her collection. Said it was dead boring and that she wouldn't recomend reading it. Since Matthew was a wizard, having to read a Muggle book at Hogwarts didn't seem likely. There wasn't much chance of his future stepfather asking his Charms class to read something like The Invisible Man or The Scarlett Letter.

"I've seen that book at home. My mum has it. Said it's really boring. Is she right or wrong?"