"Okay Alice, it's your turn," Marlene announced.
Alice rolled her eyes at the room and stated calmly, "I do have a boyfriend."
"So?' the other girls squealed collectively.
Alice sighed, but answered the question with a grin, "Frank Longbottom,"
The girls in the room all giggled and turned their attention to the next girl in the circle.
"Okay Lily, who do you like?"
Lily looked at the all the girls' eager faces and dropped her face into her hands.
"What's wrong?" a girl across the circle asked urgently.
Lily spread her fingers so she could see her friends through them, "It's embarrassing!"
The girls looked around in shock. Lily wasn't one to squeal in girly embarrassment. "I bet I know who it is!" said Alice, "Is it Christopher?" she asked in an all knowing voice. Lily didn't respond.
"Oh, I know! I bet it's…. Will?"squealed another girl. Lily didn't move.
"Come on Lil, You have to tell us now!"
"I bet its James!" said Marlene, trying to provoke Lily into a rebellious state. Lily lay on the floor and moved her hands from her eyes, so she could cover her guilty smile as she nodded in embarrassment.
The girls in the circle gasped in unison and Lily squeezed her eyes shut.
"Why?"
"I have no idea," the redhead sighed as she rolled onto her stomach.
"But Lily, he's horrible!"
"I know."
"But Lily, he's rude and…"
Lily cut them off, "Yes I know, he's rude, immature, a pain in the butt, a complete jerk, a hypocrite, he doesn't know when to stop acting like a freaking idiot, and… and… he's cute, caring, talented, strong, tall, he has wonderful eyes and dimples, good at flying, nice, understanding, and he makes me so mad…"