I know, right?

Yes he was...of course, when HE tells the story, he'll have been totally calm the whole time

I can't wait for him to get there either

Thanks Hollie luff!

*****
The Sunrise

He hadn't thought about her in months. It was weird how easily he had just forgotten about Faye Simeon. But, for some reason, when he woke up in the morning, it suddenly dawned on him:

Faye Simeon, his ex-girlfriend, went to Hogwarts too.

He wasn't sure why he hadn't thought about that. He always knew that every witch and wizard in the United Kingdom went to Hogwarts to get their training, but he had never given thought to the fact that she was there. It was weird, seeing as how Hogwarts was the thing that had made him realize his feelings for her in the first place.

Faye and Cale had met when they were very little, when he had still been planning on going to Hogwarts. They had had the whole thing planned out; they would both be in the same house, play Quidditch together and be the best pair of Beaters that the school had seen since the legendary Fred and George Weasley, and then both of them would go on to work at the Ministry together.

Once Cale started getting home schooled, things began to change a little.

First of all, the time that he got to see Faye was very limited, since she, the lucky one, actually got to go to Hogwarts while he was stuck at home. Secondly, she was starting to get new friends at school, friends that she preferred over him. And he was not going to stand for that.

That was when he realized that maybe, just maybe, he liked her as more than a friend.

At first he tried to convince himself that it wasn't true...No, you're just jealous, he thought. You just like her as a friend! You're jealous that she has other friends now that she likes hanging out with too, and they get to see her everyday.

Of course, his brain argued back, Yeah, but how many times have you wanted to kiss one of your friends the way you want to kiss Faye?

Shut up, brain!

After a long period of thinking things through--with a considerable amount of headaches--Cale asked Faye to be his girlfriend.

They began dating during the summer after Faye's third year at Hogwarts and had dated all the way up into the middle of her fifth year. That was when, during the Christmas holidays, she told him that she didn't want to be his girlfriend anymore because she had found someone else.

Now, he wouldn't call what they had love exactly, but to him, it did feel like something special. She had no idea how hard it was for him to say goodbye to her at the beginning of each term, or how difficult it was to be stuck in his house all the time. Instead, she got to go have fun with her friends at jolly old Hogwarts, where she was meeting new guys behind his back and doing lord knows what with them. He had never doubted her for a second, but after they broke up he wondered for a while just how long she had been sneaking around like that.

Not that he would ever admit those feelings to anyone. He didn't want people thinking he was a wimp.

After a month or so, he finally got over her, seeing as how he had no choice. He honestly hadn't thought about her until that morning, when he had woken up after a slightly horrifying nightmare. We're not going to go into details here, but let's just say that the nightmare involved a lot of people laughing at him about the very small amount of clothes that he was wearing in class.

The sun was just rising right outside his window as he woke up. After a few minutes of hiding under the covers, trying to hide from sunlight so he could go back to sleep, he decided that he wasn't going to fall asleep anytime soon and abandoned his bed in favor of his armchair right by the window.

When he was looking outside at his yard, as the sunlight began to engulf his mother's flower arrangements, he tried to remember the last time he had seen a sunrise. Finally, after a considerable amount of thinking, he remembered that the last time he had seen a sunrise was the night that he and Faye had stayed up all night talking, and in the morning, right before she left, they had had their first kiss.

He could even see the spot where it happened, right under the tree near his window.

And that was what got him remembering her again.

Oh, and let's not forget the little detail that she is in Gryffindor, too.

Maybe Hogwarts was going to be filled with a bit of drama after all.