Chapter 1
"Hurry up! You're going to be late!" My mother screamed at me as I got out of the car, I'm Skye Vickery, a muggle-born. I grabbed my trunk out of the boot and the cage of my trusty owl, Athena, and almost ran to the barrier after putting my stuff on a luggage trolley. As usual, my mum was lying. It was 10:55, I had a whole 5 minutes left! I went through the barrier and was greeted by the Potter/Weasley clan, just as I was every year. I'd struck it off with the Potters when James, Fred and Dominique met me on the platform in first year, their parents took pity on me because I had none to see me off so they were forced to sit in a carriage with me (they say they weren't but I know they were) and once they had discovered my love of pranks, we became the best of friends. Fred's dad owns Weasley Wizard Wheezes, the BEST joke shop in the world! Anyway, we meet up and split ourselves between 2 carriages, Al and Molly go to the Prefects carriage so it's usually James, Fred, Rose, Lily, Dom, Scorpius, Hugo, Louis, Lucy and I all squished into a carriage. Rose and Scorp and an item so they sit together, Dom sits the other side of Rose, Lucy sits in the corner, Louis sits between her and Scorp, then on the other side Lily sits by the window, then it's Hugo, James, Me then Fred, I always try to swap with Fred but you have to hand it to James, he is persistent! He's asked me out at least twice every week since we started 4th year, I feel for him I really do because I just keep turning him down after we went out in 3rd year. He made a right arse of himself... Never again, Aunt Ginny agrees with me, she does try to make him give me a break So far, he hasn't listened. After lots of random, meaningless chit-chat we all get changed into our robes (not in the compartment... 1 - It's too cramped, 2 - James would be a nightmare) and arrive at Hogsmead, We grab our stuff and I rush to get in a carriage with Rose, Scorp and Lily but James shoves his little sister out of the way and I find myself stuck in a carriage with none for company but him (Rose and Scorp seem to be taking a fact finding mission in each others gobs) so I sigh and stare out the window for our first glimpse of Hogwarts, the last time I'll ever see it.
After what seems like hours of traveling we finally arrive at the front gates and I virtually sprint out of the prison that was confining me and into the great hall for our start of term feast. I smiled to myself, being back in Hogwarts was worth smiling about. This would be my last term at Hogwarts, All the other 7th years and I would be doing out NEWTs very soon and then it would be onwards and upwards to better things, and I was sat at the Gryffindor table with the Potter/Weasley clan and Scorpius Malfoy, a surprisingly good friend and Gryffindor. Once McGonnagall had given us the notices for this term we launch ourselves into the feast. I notice that James doesn't eat much, that's uncharacteristic. "James, what's up?" I ask, turning away from my plate and putting my legs on either side of the bench so I was completely facing him.
He sighed and turned red and mumbled something that I couldn't hear. "What was that James?" I ask again, amusement playing smiles onto everyone's faces, including mine.
He sighed again "I said, will you go to this party with me, together?" he asked, his tone like Steel.
My face took on my expression of pretending to think about it, "Do you know what James, I think I will!" before turning and walking towards the Gryffindor tower, leaving the Wotter (Weasley/Potter) clan with looks of utter astonishment and shocks on their faces. Especially on James' though when I looked back, he had a grin the size of America on his face "Great Red! (Yes, my nickname is Red, after my vivid red natural hair color. It shows through any hair dye I put on it!) I'll talk to you about it tomorrow!" he yelled across the hall. A snort of laughter escaped me before it could be contained, "You do that!" my instincts told me to yell back before heading up to the common room. "Dumbledore" was the word my scrambled brain emitted when I arrived at the portrait of the fat lady, she swung open and my legs took me up to the dormitory I shared with Dom, Rose and Sarah Finnegan and collapsed on my bed, everything else could wait. Then the sounds of the girls I shared the dorm with running up the stairs appeared and a groan, I was NOT in the mood for gossiping. Dom burst in first "I don't believe you Skye Blythe Vickery! He asks you out almost everyday for THREE fricking years and you turn him down yet the LAST term you'll EVER see each other you FINALLY say yes! You two would have been the most PERFECT couple but you wait till the LAST TERM! You are so STUBBON sometimes!" Rose and Sarah snort in the background "Sometimes?" Rose questions, raising an eyebrow. "Yeah yeah, whatever!" Dom huffs, she'll forgive me... eventually. We all get changed into PJ's and climb into bed. Various mixes of "3 fricking years", "So STUBBON", "LAST term!" and "PERFECT couple" can be heard from Dom's bed, right up until Rose throws a pillow at her "For fucks sake Dom! We know already! Geez, shut up and gets some sleep!"
I sit in my beautiful four-poster bed thinking back to today's events. School stated the way it usually did, with Lily and Al Potter launching them on me telling me I need to visit more, I was at their house almost every day! Then Dom, Rose and Roxy filled me in on all the gossip, we all got pissed off at Molly, pitied Lucy for having such an annoying sister (I swear, Lucy's the only sane one in that family!), Fred, Scorpius, Louis and Hugo started an in-depth conversation about this years quiditch team with me (I'm the Gryffindor captain) and James asked me out again. Only this time... I said yes!