Like the Ballerina on a Jewlrey Box (Open)

[Sara-May Josen]

She sat by the edge of the lake, in regular thrift store clothes, which she tweaked to make her own. Her robe, with the hufflepuff logo and her shoes were placed behind her. Her feet dangled in the water. Sara-May had been out here for the last fifteen/twenty minutes. First she was just walking, but then something triggered a memory. Her hands moved to behind her neck, as she took off the locket, she hardly took off. Looking down to it , her feet still moving in the water. She ehailed as she opened the locket. She ran a hand over the picture of Cedric and her, on the other side was an inscription. She smirked,no sign of sadness on her face. "I was just recalling that day..when we first hung out, remember. IT was windy" She said looking towards the picture a laugh came fro mher lips. "I was dancing.. and singing, and then you made a c omment about me being like a Ballernia on a Jewlrey Box." She knew Cedric was listening, and even the dead need to have a conversation, or hear someone talk to them once in a while. There was a pause as she ran her finger against the picture once more. " I Think Cho is recovering..Harry on the other hand.." A pause came to her as if she was listening. "I know.. , I know that too.. " She laughed at what seemed to be nothing, but it really wasn't nothing. "I'll tall to you later" She smiled and closed the locket. She kept it in her hand for a while, before placing it back around her neck.

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey sighed and walked by the lake. Her safe place, where she always went to think. It was her and Simon's special place as well. Where they had met. She had scared him by hanging upside down on a tree branch and scared him silly. They'd been close ever since. She saw a prefect girl talking... to no one. But talking about Cho and Harry Potter. It was quite strange. As if whatever she was talking to was talking back. "Are...you alright?" She asked.

[Sara-May Josen]

"I'm fine.." She said warmly and truthfuly. She was fine, it had been almost a year since cedrics death and she was fine. Sometimes the dead needed people to talk to them, though they couldn't talk back, usualy, she knew that Cedric would appreciate her for it. She looked to the locket in her hand. She couldn't bare to part from it and at the same time she wondered if she should.

" Your Joey.. right? I've seen you around with Simon.."She gave a warm smile towards the girl and then looked back towards the lake. She loved the lake, there was just so many memories connected to it and just something about it that made it her favorite spot on the Hogwarts grounds.

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey looked at her and then shrugged. She would often talk to herself too. Sometimes she'd visit her mother's grave and talk to it. "Okay...just checking." She said looking at her and then removing her shoes and hopping beside her, putting her feet in the water too. Last time she was here, Simon had thrown her in there and she tried to fake being eaten by the Giant Squid. It didn't work. "That's me," She said.

She knew that she and Simon were friends. The thought of Simon always made her smile, no matter how much she was going through. In the sunlight, her face probably looked way too pale, especially contrasting with her dark hair and eyes. The circles under her eyes from lack of sleep were getting deeper and deeper.

[Sara-May Josen]

"He worries about you. .like I worry about him.. though form of worry is different. He doesn't take a liking to people worrying about him, does he." She smiled as she looked towards the closed locket in her hand once more. " He has horrible dreams.. screams in his sleep. .don't think he realizes it.. " Her voice was that same soft calming sound as it was before even when her pitch might rise and fall for exageration or story telling purposes. "He's like a brother too me.. not that i don't already have 9 of those.. " She smiled once more turning her head to look towards the ravenclaw. "And I don't think.." Her words were sort of here and there and in her head made perfectly since. It was like she skipped things she had planned to say and only said bits of peices of a whole picture. "No i know.. he'd not be happy to find you in your condition.." Her eyes moved from the girls eyes back to her lap. She stayed silent as if listening to locket speak. "Your really telling me that now.." She smirked. "I guess so... but when I get up there.." She laughed slightly. "I know she thinks i'm a lunatic.. ok.. ok " She looked back up from the closed locket. "Cedric doesn't like seeing you like this either.." The either came out in sort of a southern way, after all his family was from and lived in Louisiana for a while. She opened the locket and handed it to the Ravenclaw. "He told me to tell you.. that " She paused. " your prettier when your confident.. and get some sleep." She then retaliated. "That was his words, not mine.."

She smiled watching her for a while. Taking back the locket, she placed it around her neck. "just can't seem to part with it.." She took a deep breath and looked calmly into the lake. " But I am curious to what you can't seem to part with.. that is causing you to seem a bit distant." It was the nice way of saying bad, she seemed sort of different from the girl she saw walking around Hogwarts or the girl Simon loved to talk about.

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey looked at the girl in shock. She could talk to Cedric?! She felt like her brain was spinning. Maybe she was some sort of seer. Maybe....she could help her. Joey needed help with these dreams. Since it had changed, they were even worse. The screams from her mother weren't about fear of her own life...they were pleading with the death eater to leave Joey alone.

She shook her head. Why would the death eaters want her though? She was just a baby. "Simon has dreams? He never told me that. He never talks to me anymore these days," She said with a frown. "He's always protective like that, though." She said knowingly. And he knew that she was protective of him. Thats how they had always been. She then started to cry. It was all just too much for her. Or maybe it was just the lack of sleep. Probably everything. "Sorry..." She said as she sniffled. "Its just these stupid dreams I've been having...."

[Sara-May Josen]

"Dreams are never stupid.. Simon's for instance..well they seem always negative.. but he's grown use to most of them... the ones he hasn't he probably should tell you himself when he's ready.. Reoccuring dreams.. can be a bit annoying.. like I for instance keep watching Cho dance with my... With Cedric and then Cedric laying on the field and Cho crying.. I told him it was ok to go with her.. and I realize after having it so much.. I wasn't ok with that decision and the fact I didn't get to dance with him, but I was glad that I did make that descision because if I hadn't then my family might have been worse off and I came to peace with it and it went away.. Dreams that happen with specific people can be a bit difficult. The person that is there may not be the person you need to be confronting in actuality." She continued with a smile on her face the entire time she talked. " Sorry.. I love dreams.. I find them fascinating.. disturbing at times but fascinating."

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey nodded, wiping tears off her face. "What...would you say about a dream where its like a memory.... of the night my mom was killed. But I was only a baby. I'm always hiding in the closet and I can just hear my mom screaming and then a flash of light...and a wretched laugh. Thats what its been like for years.

And suddenly, its changed. Now its showing me whoever the death eater was asking 'wheres the girl?'...." She looked at the Hufflepuff to see if she could figure that out. Kennie had already given her a book explanation about it. But Joey had a feeling that it was much more than just symbols. She wondered what Sara was talking about when she said that Simon needed to tell her his dreams when he was 'ready'. She sighed. Her head felt like it was about to explode.

[Sara-May Josen]

Her smile faded as she listened to the girl's words. "Why did they kill Harry's parents? " She brought up for a good reason. "they were powerful.. new stuff most likely.. or just general hate for them.. Your mom probably knew something or your father new something and they were trying to get to him. The reason for having the image so much.. could have been brought on by stress.. memories as a baby can reform later on in life.. can effect you even if you can't remember them.. It helps forms your personality." She loved psychology as well, a warm smile came back on her lips as she looked from the lake to the Ravenclaw. " It may be that you might have to figure out what triggered it, before it goes away... " In her mind that seemed like the best answer, yes she could be wanting to figure out why he mom was killed, but a memory coming back from when she was a baby really meant something had to provoke it. " Whatever provoked it,, is what you need to deal with."

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey shrugged. "But why did they want me? My dad is...well I don't know where he is. Either dead or he didn't want me. Not sure which one would be worse, to be honest," She said as she sighed. "And what can I do to figure all this stuff out? I don't know much about either of my parents. I was raised by my godmother." She explained, chewing her lip in concentration. "Nothing has happened to provoke anything like that. I've always had the dream but it would be every once in a while. But just recently its gotten more vivid and real..." She said looking at the girl. She didn't know why some people didn't like her. She was nice. Then something occured to her. "You dated Cedric?!"

[Sara-May Josen]

She placed a warm smile on her lips "That's as much as I can suggest. You could always try to talk to your godmother get more information. See who your mother was around during hogwarts most... there's always old pictures and such." She then heard her mention Cedric a warm smile came on her face. "Yes, he died two weeks before we would have been dating for two years " She smiled as she looked into the water. "No one really noticed... people tend to not see me.. when Cedric was around.. he just had that quality to him.. then again people try not to see me today."

[Josephine Raegan]

(haha its okay I mess up my posts all the time xD)

Joey sighed and looked up. "I'm sorry to hear," She said. She laughed a little.... why? She wasn't sure. She knew it was probably insensitive. Maybe it was a spark of insanity. "Sorry... again...just... I had the biggest crush on your boyfriend last year," She confessed, shaking her head. She was over it now. It took her a while but she had moved on...sort of... if you could call it that. She and Simon were extremely confusing. "I don't see why people wouldn't notice you. You're nice to talk to," She told the girl. Maybe she would ask her godmother about what happened. Or try to find out about her dad. She didn't want to sound ungrateful to her. But, she needed to know before something happened or she got sick from overexhaustion.

[Sara-May Josen]

" I know... " She smiled " I had a family emergency that took me home that week.. told him he should take you.. but Cho had already asked him.. and I said it was fine.. I trusted him.. Ithink everyone had a crush on him. It wa s nice I guess not to be noticed as a couple as a perso nwell that's just totaly different." She had failed to tell anyone even her brothers that she had seen it happen before it happened. The running, the grabbing the cup and then the graveyard. She just thought it was a horrible nightmare, she didn't realize she had a gift.

She laughed. "I'm mellow right now.. usualy I'm very bubbly. I think that with my soft voice sort of freaks people out... or so I've come to see. I also have the strangest thought process" She had also seen something else dealing with Dumbeldore, but she wasn't goin to say anything, couldn't. "Simon says i'd get along with Luna Lovegood, haven't met her yet, wouldn't know." She smiled as she took her feet out of the water. Her hand ran through her hair so she could pull it over one shoulder.

[Josephine Raegan]

Joey grumbled at the thought of Cho. "I almost forgot how much I dislike her," She said, scrunching her nose. It wasn't just the whole Cedric thing. Something about Cho just irked her. "It's good that you trusted him..." She said with a nod. "I would freak if Simon ever went to a dance with someone else. Which he might with this masquerade ball," She said, worrying a little. Not that she needed to. And not that they were dating or probably ever going to for that matter. "I can be bubbly too. Just not so much lately. A lot has been happening...kind of killing my energy and spirit," She said. "I know I shouldn't let it.... but I guess hearing my mom die every night is taking its toll."

[Sara-May Josen]

She smiled at the mention of Simon. "You two are too cute for your own good.. you both like each other and aren't doing a thing about it.." She looked towards the Ravenclaw girl. "I'm sure Simon would love to see some of that bubly back in you and soon.. he seems like he's trying to take on to much. Revenge though he'd be great at it.. after all he told me the hat almost put him in slytherin.. he just can't go over board.." She babbled on about .. well nothing really. " If I was able to help.. I'm glad.." She had almost forgotten about the dance, she did't expect to go.. then again if she did and wore a killer outfit maybe people would recgonize her for once.. maybe not as herself but as some mysterious new girl. She smirked at the thought.

"So you really going to that dance?"