JAMES:

You know that moment where reality seems to catch up with you. When adulthood looks your childhood self in the eye and laughs at your stupidity? Well for me, that moment is now.

My whole school career (1st-4th year) I had wooed Beth Newtown to fall in love with me. She was my very own Lily Evans. And I mean as James Potter, it was obviously meant to be. So on September 1st of my 5th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when gorgeous, bodacious, red headed Beth Newtown snogged me on the train and agreed to be my girlfriend I as ecstatic.

But everything changed on the last day of school. Reality caught up with me. Adulthood laughed, because Chandler was right. I was an idiot. It was the end of my 5th year. I wasn't ready for OWLs I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and the only three things I had accomplished in 5 years at Hogwarts was 1) over 200 detentions 2) making the quidditch team and 3) getting Beth Newtown to be my girlfriend.

But what Chandler had said rang through my head as I sat down on the burrow steps. I was a kid, a stupid, stupid kid. My best friend had called me out on my shit. And looking back I had to agree with her. I really was arrogant, and ignorant, and a whole bunch of really mean words. I took a deep breath in as I readied myself for my mission.

Mission Detox was almost over, along with the 8 weeks that Chandler was at Quidditch training. I had promised myself that I would turn my life around by the time Chander got back from camp and this was the last thing I needed to do. Break up with Beth.

"Hey Jamie-poo." She greeted as she got off her bike in the dirt driveway. She gave me a hug and hung on to my arm as we sat down on the steps.

"Look Beth, theres something I need to tell you. In first year, when I saw you, I fell hard. I mean look at you, you're gorgeous." I pointed to her. And I wasn't lying, the girl is gorgeous. "So, this might come as a shock for you, it did for me. But its something that I need to say."

"James!" she cried "Are you saying that you love me?" she asked. I couldn't tell if she was excited or confused.

"Um. No. Kind of the opposite." I laughed awkwardly. I wasn't very good at this. "I am, um. I'm breaking up with you." it came out as a question. I inwardly slapped my self on the head. I am such an idiot.

"You can't do that." She told me.

"Excuse me?" I asked her. The seemingly sweet exterior of my girlfriend melted and I saw exactly why the girls referred to her as Beth the Bitch.

"You. Can. Not. Break. Up. With. Me." She told me. Her face was red with anger and she sounded like a five year old throwing a fit.

"I believe I just did." I told her.

"But I'm Beth Newtown. Guys just don't break up with me. I get tired of guys."

"Well, there's a first for everything." I told her.

I turned my back and walked through the backdoor into the kitchen. I exhaled the breath I didn't know I had been holding and slid down the kitchen door. I was free, I was done. My life was officially detoxified!

"Good going cuz!" I looked up to see Fred walking through the swinging door into the blue kitchen. From the outside the Burrow looked like a shabby old house, on the verge of falling down. But after the war all of the Weasleys pulled together their money and magic and renovated the Burrow, so it was a great mansion on the inside. But the house wasn't cold and heartless. It was home. It was where I spent summer vacation and holidays. True i had a house in Godric's Hollow where I lived as a kid, but the Burrow was home.

"Yeah dude. Finally free." I told Fred as he sat down on the floor besides me.

"And just in time. Finnus is coming today. The girls tomorrow and then Chandler the day after." He told me. I laughed, excited for the last 6 weeks of summer with my five best friends in the world.

Fred Weasley was my oldest friend, my cousin, my partner in crime. Together we had pulled some of the best pranks since the times of the Marauders. (they won for creativity, our technology is a lot better.) The kid was at least 6' 4" weighed 200 of pure muscle. If I didn't know he was a giant teddy bear, I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. He was dark skinned and haired like his mom, but he had his dad's blue eyes that made girls swoon. And he never let anyone forget it.

Finnus DeBertucci was my other guy friend. Finnus isn't his real name. It's actually something in Italian that's really hard to spell and prenounce so on the train ride to first year Chandler dubbed him Finnus after her favorite song. A Dude called Finnus. According to the girls he was the very definition of tall dark and handsome. He was 5' 11" tall, but not too tall. He had dark curly hair that he kept gelled into a fohawk and tan skin from I guess being Italian. He walked outside in the rain and got tan. Girls loved him. The only reason he didn't have as many 'fans' as Fred was because before we had even gotten in the boats first year he had asked out Mere and they had been dating ever since.

Meredith Archamere is one of my three girl friends. She is crazy hott. Her parents are both soccer studs in the muggle world. Her dad has two World Cup titles and her mom, 3 Olympic medals. She has 2 junior Olympic medals and a crazy work ethic. She and Chandler go on long runs at three o'clock every morning at school. (4 on weekends and 4:30 on holidays) She is tall, thin, has curly brown hair and grey eyes with one single freckle next to her right eye. When she and Finnus walk down the hall you honestly feel like your watching two models on the telly.

Lexie Kelly on the other hand is a different story. Lexie is tiny, fragile, and angelic looking. She reminds me of a muggle hippie. She doesn't eat meat and hates violence. She can't even go to my and Chandler's quidditch games because of the dirty playing. She doesn't eat meat and hates the government. ('not that there's anything wrong with it Just on principal' she tells Uncle Percy, Minister of Magic) Yet Lexie, like Fred isn't someone I would want to meet in a dark alley. When angry, the girl is ferocious.

Chandler Wood isn't like either of her two friends. Chandler was raised to work hard, that everyone is her team, and to always win. Her parents are both quidditch stars. Her dad is Oliver Wood, keeper and captain for Puddlemere United. And her mom is Katie Bell Wood, Chaser for the Holyhead Harpies. She grew up with 4 brothers, so she doesn't think of herself as pretty. Which is a bunch of bullshit if you ask me. There are plenty of guys that Fred, Finnus and I have had to beat up for inappropriate comments. Chandler has long strawberry blonde hair, bright green eyes, and like Finnus, always has a tan. She has a quidditch toned body, 100% muscle. She seems intense, but once you get her to calm down she is the coolest person on earth.

So that leaves me. I'm different from everyone else in the family. I had lighter brown hair thanks to accidental magic by Teddy when I was four that could never be undone. I had the Weasley blue eyes and my moms freckles. While Albus looked like dad and Lily looked like mom, I looked like neither. My life, it was changing. And I was excited. Who knew what stood a head all I knew is that I had cleansed my life and I was ready for what ever fate threw my way.

A/N: kind of an intro chapter. No, it is an intro chapter. It will get better I just wanted to introduce our characters. You will really meet them in the next chapter. Hope you guys like it, because I do! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!

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