The Hogwarts Library

WHO: Billy and Rapunzel
TONE: Mel-an-cholic. Also awkward.
RATING: PG-13
WHEN: 18/1/12; just before lunchtime
WHERE: just outside of the Hufflepuff common room
WHAT: Ever since they got back from break, things have been a little awkward between Billy and Rapunzel. The cutesy schmoopy honeymoon phase is over, apparently, and Billy's not sure what he did wrong. So he's taken up the completely awkward and socially unacceptable habit of stalking her. It started with just going to wait for her outside the Hufflepuff common room so they could talk, but then he lost his nerve. About twenty times later, he's stopped kidding himself that he's actually going to ever get up the nerve.

Until he gets B-U-S-T-E-D.
STATUS: ONGOING

Billy already had Rapunzel's schedule memorized before things got awkward between them. But now he was timetabling it down to the minutiae: for instance, she usually left the Hufflepuff dorm at 11:56 for lunch, and always in a hurry. So when he heard the passageway open up ten minutes ahead of time and heard her voice approaching, he froze for just a split second too long. He cursed himself and scrambled behind the barrels that weren't hiding the entrance, but it was too little, too late. It was also too noisy, too late, although Billy could hardly pay attention to that over the sound of his pounding heart.