ACROSS THE ROOM

i set my chin into the palm of my hand, making sure she was in eyesight. i watched her in a daze, noticing the way she wrote, the way she brushed her hair out of her eyes, the way she bit the inside of her cheek as she focused. harry's taunting words stuck in my head- 'you only take astronomy to watch the poor girl from across the room'. and bloody hell, he was right.

in which the admirer and the future astronomer get paired together for a school project