Lima noticed the look that Shana gave her, but didn't pay any attention to it. She had no idea how things would go over here yet. And she wasn't scared of a First Year anyway.

Besides, seeing Jake again made her suddenly worry about how he was doing now. "How are you, Jake?" she asked him trying not to show too much concern. If he was fine now, she didn't want to seem like she was babying him.

Shana smiled,she began to wonder why she hadn't seen him in like forver.She smiled at Whitney and looked down at her feet.She danced around a little bit,but continued to look at the floor.The last thing she wanted was for Jake to think she was a complete weirdo,although she was.So saving herself from doing anything embarresing she looked at her feet.

"I'm..." Jake looked up at Lima. "How are you?" he ended up asking, totally ducking the question. Lima was so motherly to him, and he thought that if he told her about how he was doing she might worry. Truth be told, he was totally despondant right now.

"What are you two up to, then?" Jake asked, his gaze going between Lima and Shana. What was up with Shana, she was acting all shy, like, and looking at her feet. Jake stared down at her feet too, trying to find the big attraction.

Lima noticed Shana looking at her feet and chose to ignore it. Jake was the center of her attention now. She furrowed her brows, but made no comment. Obviously he was still upset about what happened. But she had no idea if Shana knew. "I'm fine. And me and Shana were just having an interesting conversation." She cast a glance at the Slyterin who was still boring a hle into her shoes with her eyes.

Shana continued looking at her feet,wondering why Jake didn't want to tell Lima how he was feeling.Boys these days.They were all.Weird.She had no idea why she had a crush on jake.She looked up as he spoke.Not much.She looked back down to her feet and moved her feet around with the beat in her head.


She bent down and tied her shoe laces.Why are they looking at me weird ? I like looking at my shoes there interesting.She got back up and looked at Lima and smiled and looked at Jake and smiled.She looked back down at her feet for a fourth time and did the oppisite shoe lace.

Keeping his feet planted firmly in the same position, Jake swung his body and head to face the left, then the right, then the left... over and over again. It was a kind of rocking, swinging motion that never failed him when calming down in a situation where he couldn't sit and rock back and forth. "Anything I'd be interested in?" Jake asked them, curiously.

Wow, girls act sooooooo weirdly, Jake thought to himself. Why the secrecy? I wouldn't tell no-one...

Lima noticed that they both seemed so awkward. For crying out loud! "Shana's acting all weird 'cause she has a crush on you," she finally exclaimed. Oops. She did not mean to let that slip. Stupid annoyance over little things.

Shana's face dropped.WHIGALIMA WHIGGMEISTER YOUR DEAD! Shana was soo angry and soo embarresed,she turned to run into the common room but Cam was probably in there so that was a bad idea,she turned the complete oppisite way and ran down the corridor she hid behind a wall trying to catch her breath,she thought this was a good hiding place.She hoped 1They would either not come after her or 2 they wouldn't look behind the wall.She quickly popped her head round the wall to see if they were coming luckily they weren't

"Oh, erm-" Jake started, looking curiously up at Lima. He was about to say something when a totally negative reaction errupted from Shana, making Jake go wide-eyed. By the time she had gone, Jake was worried.

"What's that mean?" he asked Lima urgently. "A crush? Is it bad? She wants to crush me... hurt me? Lima, what is it?"

Breeeeeeeeeeathe... breeeeeeeeeeathe...

Jake looked around the corridor, half expecting some massive boulder to roll down and crush him to pieces. Absentmindedly, Jake stepped back and pressed himself to the wall.

EEEP!! Now she had done it. "Shana!! I'm sorry! Come back!" She had no idea where the girl had run off to. Siigh.

And it seemed that Jake had no idea what a crush was. Awww. How cute.

"See! He doesn't know that you have feelings for him," she yelled out in Shana's direction. Or what she hoped was her direction.

Shana heard what Lima said,she obviously didn't meant to but no way she was going back there.If he didn't know before he knew now.She didn't shout back.No way that would give away where she was.



Shana sort of heard Jake speak.She continued running.She wasn't getting up now she was to breath-less.She quickly popped her head around the corner again just to check they weren't coming.

"Lima? Lima!" Jake fretted. The girl had ducked his question, talking about feelings about him to Shana. Ohmygod... CODEWORDS! "What are you hiding! Am I going to get killed? Lima! Am I?!" Jake yelled. What had before probably seemed comical, now felt rather sinister.

People scare me, people scare me, people scare me...

UGH!! Shana was still not coming out of hiding. And Jake was panicking. "Calm down, Jake! She doesn't want to hurt you! She fancies you!" She had to keep control over herself. Take a deep breath. She remembered that he was still sensitive now.

What? Fancies?

"What the hell does that mean?!" he cried out, looking at Lima with a still scared gaze, but also curious again. "And... and if she doesn't want to hurt me, why did you say 'crush'?"

This whole thing was very suspicious to Jake, they were being really weird. He took a deep breath and continued. "Please... just explain to me, in like, English... what does it mean?"

Was that civilised?

She sighed and thought for a second. "She likes you.... Like girls like boys when they want boyfriends and stuff." Okay, if he didn't get that, the kid had been severely sheltered all his life.

"Oh..." Jake murmured. Boys and girls... there was no real difference. People were people and that was that. "Why-" Jake started, but cut himself off. He didn't want to keep asking questions.

Boring his toes of his right shoe into the ground, Jake kept thinking and thinking, but it was no good. He needed real answers.

"I just don't get whyyyyyyy..." Jake blurted out. "Why do girls like boys and have boyfriends and stuff..." He'd never liked anyone... only since coming to Hogwarts had he made real friends, but still... he never 'fancied' anyone. "It's just not normal..."

Then something else occured to Jake. "What's a boyfriend?"

Oh dear. This was worse than she thought. This felt like a chat that she would have to have with her son at one point. Wow. It was freaaaky! "It's natural, Jake. Boys and girls... They go together. And sometimes fall in love."

"And boyfriend are.. When a girl has a boyfriend they like cuddle and kiss and love each other." EWWW that sounded so mushy. "See, I have a boyfriend."

eep, he sounds so childish
 

"Love," Jake repeated back himself. Love wasn't real, Jake thought everyone knew that. It was like in fairy tales... muggle ones... they always had love, and they were always lies. So Jake was firm in his 'knowledge' that Love wasn't real.

"Ohh," Jake nodded. "Like... husband and wife? But I thought that things like that just happened. You get a letter or something telling you you're married to someone, like being paired up with people in school. Then you had to stay with them, unless they broke the law and left, like my dad... he broke the law that you have to stay with his partner."

Jake nodded once more. His own interpretation seemed much easier to understand, plus it was more logical, and darn it, it could probably be proved easier. He shrugged one shoulder. "I don't understand all that stuff."

She just blinked. Oh dear... Did he also believe that Storks delivered babies? "Jake... What did your parents teach you? About guys and girls, I mean..." This was the weirdest theory she heard in a while.

"Don't you believe in love, Jake?" Oh, please let him.

Jake stared up at Lima for a moment. Wow, she didn't know very much. "I don't know my dad," he stated. "Left when I was a few weeks old. My mum... at school... I told them what I thought, and they just nodded at me..." Jake thought back a little. "When I was almost nine, I stopped going to school... and I learnt from books. Maths and science and stuff..."

Thinking for a moment, Jake thought back. "I don't recall being taught anything else... just the basics and what I taught myself. It's hard to remember," Jake trailed off, not wishing to talk about things he wasn't knowledgeable about.

Shaking his head slowly, Jake explained. "Love is just stuff in fairy stories," he said. "I can't remember ever feeling it, or seeing it or something. It's something like..." Jake scrambled in his head for something that still wasn't real in the magical world. "... bringing the dead back to life. Not true, can't happen."

Shana could hear some of what they were talking about,Jake didn't seem to understand what Lima meant,which was kind of good but Lima seemed to be explaning which was definitely bad! She poked her head around once more.She was getting kind of hungry,mabye she could run past them and into the common room but if they caught her she'd be magerly embarresed.She was glad they didn't come after her.She could run from behind the wall to great hall but then if they happend to turn around they could run after her.So no! she would stay exactly where she was.

Lima listened to him with a frown on her face. Poor boy, he really had no idea. "Well, Jake... Love DOES exist. And generally girls have boyfriends if they feel love for them. And the boyfriends love the girls back. They are their girlfriends." OMG she felt so patronizing.

"See, it might seem like it at times, but that's how it really is, Jake. And you will feel it one day when you meet that special girl."

Okay, she was officially his mother now.

Closing his eyes and shaking his head, Jake covered his ears. "No, no, NO!" he raised his voice on the last word. "Not true! Liiiiieeeessssss... Love is not real!" Why couldn't she see that. Jake had spent so long working it out and his theory seemed most plausible. PeopleareweirdpeopleareweirdpeopleareWEIRD!

Finally fitting the pieces together, Jake looked up with dawning realisation. "But... no-one loves me."

She sighed. He was so stubborn. She would just let it go. He would see for himself one day. See that relationships weren't a contract. And that love was real.

"That's not true, Jake. I love you." Yeah, that sounded sappy, but it was true. She loved this boy. He was misguided about some things, but he was really a good kid.

Jake eyed Lima warily. She wasn't arguing? Good, I win. Bwahaha. He had been wondering when Lima would finally come to terms with the fact that Jake. Was. Right. It was inevitable.

"Mhmmmm..." Jake nodded, thoroughly disbelieving and mistrustful. He brought his hands down and began to step away cautiously, still keeping a look out for anything waiting to crush him. Backing away, Jake added, "I should be... going... ahem..."