It was the night before the quidditch match, there was a thunderstorm outside, the lightning flashed as the thunder made loud crashing noises. Orion hated thunderstorms, they always gave him nightmares. His sister use to come comfort him during thunderstorms but he had no one, just him and his thoughts. He hated his thoughts, he wanted them to shut up, he needed them to shut up. But they won't, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't make the thoughts shut up. He always hated having nightmares, they haunt him even if he is awake, no matter what he is doing they haunt him. Just like tonight.

He tosses and turns in bed, his brain restless, the nightmare on repeat, his father treating him like shit, his sister leaving him to live with her boyfriend, his mother rarely there, his dad torturing him, his forced 'girlfriend', everything. He wanted this to be over, his forehead beaded with sweat, his breathing coming out like pants. He shot up out of bed as he sighs, looking around, the rain pattered hard on the window, his dorm-mates sleeping deeply. He carefully stands up as he puts his shoes on, throwing a hoodie on over his head. The rain slowly started to slow down as Orion grabs his wand, leaving his dorm, closing the door behind him. The cold air hit his face as he walks, he knew he was going to get caught but he didn't care. Well he did but he's always up after hours, the professors are use to it by now. 

Once Orion walked to the courtyard, he sat near the water fountain, the moonlight making the water glisten. The night was silent, the stars flickered like tiny light bulbs. Orion sighs as he hugs his knees, looking up at the sky, he always wondered what it was like to live in the stars, his name is Orion after all, a constellation, and a Greek myth, hes always loved Greek myths, and stars. He flinched, he heard footsteps, he didn't know who was there but he knew the footsteps. Professor Sprout, his head of house, walks over and sits down next to him, asking "Are you okay Mr Blackwood?" Orion nods as he explains quickly "Yeah, just a nightmare that's all nothing new." Professor Sprout looks at him, concerned as she answered "You always seem to come here when you get a nightmare" Then she asks "Why?" Orion shrugs as he looks at the stars again, tears welling in his eyes, he didn't want to tell Professor Sprout what was wrong, even if she did help his sister, but he can do it by himself, well not all the time, he did tell Remus a lot of stuff that happened at home when he was a teacher. But he was scared that Professor Sprout wouldn't understand. 

Professor Sprout notices the tears in his eyes as she shifts closer to him and mentioned "You can tell me whats going on, you know that." Orion nods as he explains, his voice shaking "I-I can't handle this anymore, I-I don't know whats w-wrong with me." Professor Sprout felt her heart break, she holds one arm out as Orion hugs her. She whispers "There's nothing wrong with you." Orion sniffles a little as he mumbled "There is, there is something wrong with me, I don't feel human, I'm a mess. I-i just... I don't know whats wrong with me" Professor Sprout smiles a little as she explains "Well we are all a mess sometimes, and that's completely fine, now why don't you go back to your dorm and get some rest, you will need it for tomorrow if you want to win against Slytherin." 

Orion nods as he stands up and wipes his eyes. He looks at Professor Sprout and asks "Will i get a detention?" She shakes her head and whispers "Just don't tell Professor McGonagall, alright?" Orion nods as he waves goodbye, going back to his dorm to try and get some sleep. 

The next morning rolls around as Orion gets out of bed and gets ready, throwing on a hoodie and some jeans and putting his Quidditch uniform in a bag. He put his glasses on and puts his wand in his hoodie pocket, grabbing some ibuprofen and puts it in bag, he knew Ace would need it if his head started hurting throughout the day. He slings the bag over his shoulder and heads to the great hall to get some food. He walks upto the great hall where his friend, Ace, was waiting. He looks up as he smiles, walking over to Orion and asks "You alright mate?" Orion nods at Ace as he replied "Yeah I'm fine, just nervous, it's gonna be hard, the Slytherin team has been training for weeks" Ace snorts as he exclaims "Yeah so have you, right i know I'm a Slytherin but im cheering for you today mate" He chuckles a little as he ruffles Ace's flaming red hair.

A few hours pass as Orion and the Hufflepuff Quidditch team was changing into their uniforms as Orion explains "Right! Listen up, we know the Slytherin team have been training hard but we have been training harder, you got me?" The other players nod as they carry on getting change. Once they got changed, Orion throws the beaters their clubs, and tells the others to go grab their brooms. They got everything prepared as they started to make their way to the pitch. Madam Hooch was the referee for the match. She announced each team as the commentator, Gregory a 6th year Ravenclaw, exclaims through the microphone "Welcome to the first game of the season Hufflepuff vs Slytherin!" The crowd erupts into cheers as Gregory adds on "Will the captains fly down to the center of the court to discuss with Madam Hooch please" Orion then flies down to the center of the court where the Slytherin captain, Urquhart flies down aswell, Madam Hooch smiles a little and explains "I want a clean game, alright?" as she looks at Orion a little, Orion smirks as he remembers in his first year that his sister punched the Slytherin captain in the nose because he cheated. Madam Hooch rolled her eyes as she adds on "Now, shake hands" Orion sighs as he holds his hand out for Urquhart to shake. 

Once they shook hands, Urquhart mentions to Orion "Good luck losing, Blackwood." Orion smirks as he points out "You will be the one needing luck." as he flies over to the hoops and shouts to the Hufflepuff team "Lets show these snakes what badgers are capable off, shall we!" The Hufflepuff team cheers as the match commences. Five minutes into the match as Slytherin was on thirty points while Hufflpuff was on sixty. Orion looks around as Gregory exclaims through the microphone "Blaise Zabini, Slytherins best chaser, has the Quaffle, he's heading for the goal and-" Orion then blocked the goal and smirks as Gregory adds on "Orion Blackwood the Hufflepuff captain, brother of the famous Aliénor Blackwood, blocks the goal!" Blaise looks at Orion as he smirks back. Orion knew about Blaise Zabini, but never met him before. 

Ten more minutes pass as Hufflepuffs seeker catches the snitch, Gregory exclaims through the microphone "Delilah-Alice Raven has caught the golden snitch earning Hufflepuff one hundered and fifty points, meaning that Hufflepuff has won this match!" All of Hufflepuff house cheers as Urquhart belted, his tone filled with fury and hate "THATS UNFAIR THEY CHEATED!" Orion looks at Urquhart and flies down to where he was standing, getting off his broom and walks over to him, asking "What the fuck did you just say?" Urquhart looks at Orion dead in the eyes as he says "You cheated, you used liquid luck" Orion smirks as he explains "How do you know, 7th years haven't even learnt how to brew liquid luck." Urquhart splutters as he exclaims "That Delilah bitch is a 6th year she learnt it, so she must of brewed it!" 

The Hufflepuff team turned around to the argument as Orion asks, his tone filled with frustration "What the fuck did you call her?" Urquhart smirks as he exclaims "You heard." Two loud cracks was heard, one from Urquhart's nose and one from Orion's hand, Orion punched Urquhart in the nose, hard. The Hufflepuff team gasps as Madam Hooch shouts "ORION BLACKWOOD DETENTION!" Orion shrugs as he mentions "Worth it" 

Blaise walks over and points out "Nice punch, he deserved it" Orion looks up as his grey eyes meet with Blaise's black eyes, his eyes widen a little, he felt something in his chest, butterflies. Orion smiles a little as he replies "Thanks, i guess, just no one gets to talk shit about my teammates, especially to Delilah." Blaise nods as he holds his hand out for Orion to shake "Blaise Zabini," he introduced himself. Orion holds out his non-broken hand as he shakes his hand, firmly, he spoke "Orion, Orion Blackwood" 

Blaise smiles as he stated, his tone bold "Good game" as he walks away. Orion was just left there, blushing. Shit, he has a crush, on a boy, a Slytherin boy.