Mina was so not ready for what this year had in store for her.

She had two potions essays, one for transfiguration, several pages of arithmancy homework, a project to finish up for astronomy, and most importantly several quidditch practices had already been scheduled. She was just about at her wits end, and she must've looked it, because when Anne stepped into the room after getting ready in the morning she pulled a face.

"Surely I don't look that bad?"

Anne's face morphed from disgust into a kinder look.

"Not bad but... maybe go take a shower... and clean up your mess."

Mina looked to the mess of various books and paper scattered across her bed. She saw one of her quills had made it's way under her pillow somehow, and she had enough parchment out to supply the entire fifth year. She reached a hand up to her hair, which had a knot in it. It was a little bit much she had to admit, but she had woken up early to tackle some of her homework, and having only knocked out the essays, she was still very much overwhelmed. She tugged at her curly hair before letting out a sigh.

"Alright, mom," She ignored the pillow Anne threw at her, and her way to the bathroom in their dorm.

By the time she was out of the bathroom, hair brushed through although still wet from her shower and a minimal amount of makeup applied, her other dormmates had finally woken up and dragged themselves down to the great hall, or elsewhere. Mina looked to Anne, raising an eyebrow.

"They're out on the prowl," Mina's eyebrows bunched together in confusion. Anne rolled her eyes, before continuing, "They're out there trying to get their flirt on with Aiden. We should probably hurry up and go save him."

Mina's eyes widened. She hurriedly got dressed, as Anne dawdled having already gotten ready, and shoved things in her back quickly before thy ran down the stairs to go save their friend.


Aiden was trapped. His back to the couch he had no other means of escaping the three Ravenclaw girls viscously trying to flirt with him. He considered vaulting over the couch, but thought against it when he saw their prefect sitting there reading a book. He guided his way out of the pack slowly flipping on them, before nervously starting to talk.

"Ladies, I'd love to chat, really I would, but I have to go upstairs and grab my bag," He said, backing up towards the stairs slowly.

"But Aiden, your bags right here! You dropped it, because you were so excited to talk to us, remember?" One of the girls chimed in, and there the little traitor was indeed, sitting five inches away from her foot. He cautiously looked at her for a moment, before quickly picking up his bag.

"Right you are, but actually I have to-"

"Oi," Aiden looked up panicked, but a look of relief spread onto his face. He had been stuck against a wall with no way out, having been trapped by the Ravenclaw girls.

"The showers open now to whichever of you wants it," Mina said, and before her sentence was over the three girls were pushing each other up the stairs, before a rattling slam of the door told them they were gone.

"Boy am I glad to see you two," Aiden said.

"You're lucky we came when we did, five more minutes and they would've been tearing your clothes off," Aiden's face paled at Anne's joke.

Mina elbowed Anne.

"Ouch. What was that for? Oh!" Anne said, finally taking the hint, "Oh Aiden, Of course they wouldn't have torn your clothes off here. Not in front of the prefect anyways."

Mina rolled her eyes at Anne's teasing, instead choosing to walk to the great hall while they were still serving breakfast. Anne caught up after her, and slowly Aiden did too. They walked in silence for a minute before Aiden talked again in a rattled breath.

"You guys were kidding, right? They wouldn't really jump me?"

Anne and Mina shared a look, before Mina smiled comfortingly at Aiden, knowing her next words would have the opposite effect.

"Aiden, they'd jump your bones in a second if you'd let them."

"Key words: If you'd let them. It ain't no fun without consent."

This time it was Aiden who pushed Anne, "Gross, we don't want to hear about your escapades."

Anne flipped her hair over her shoulder in a joking manner, and stood up tall with authority in he voice, despite being the shortest out of all of them.

"Listen, just because your jealous-" Mina snorted, and Anne glared at her, "just because both of you are so incredibly jealous that I've had mature relationships, doesn't mean you have to attack me like this."

Mina let out a laugh.

"Who said anything about being jealous, we just said we don't want to hear it. Especially when we're just about to eat. I don't need to lose my appetite and get hungry in the middle of potions."

"Snape would probably take points away from us, and it'd be your fault, Anne. Now, how can you live knowing you took points away from Ravenclaw," Aiden held a stern look, but he was fighting to keep a smile off his face at the joke.

Anne shoved both of them with a "sod off", as Aiden let out a boisterous laugh. Mina let out a giggle as their friend stormed off ahead of them, earning them some questioning looks when they walked into the great hall.


Mina really liked transfiguration. Maybe because Professor McGonagall was always kind to her, and offered her extra classes to get ahead when to was quidditch season, or maybe because she was able to sit near her friends.

Or maybe it was because as her and Anne were seated towards the back, they were possibly as far away from some certain red heads as they could be.

Who knew. (Mina knew: it was the last one.)

So when Professor McGonagall spoke up as they were quietly working, Mina thought maybe, just this once, the twins wouldn't have been causing any trouble. Maybe the professor had just remembered a helpful tip with the lesson. Mina was being hopeful and optimistic. Mina may have also been a little stupid.

"It's not even two weeks into the year and you two are already at it again." Professor McGonagall was trying to keep her voice down, but this didn't stop everyone from looking over. There were tons of paper birds flying around their desk, showing that instead of studying they had been writing notes about who knows what. Mina got excited for a second. Maybe they'd get detention, or extra homework, or both. But when Professor McGonagall spoke her face blanched.

"Honestly, am I going to have to separate you like children?" Professor McGonagall looked around the room and Mina hoped she was looking at the desk in front of them. Please be looking at the desk in front of us, she begged mentally.

"Ms. Moore, will you please come up and sit next to Mr. Weasley. And Mr. Weasley," she continued gesturing to the other twin, "you will go and sit back with Ms. Donnelly."

Mina sat eyes wide open. Maybe there was another Ms. Moore and Ms. Donnelly in the class that she didn't know about, but when Anne scooped up her stuff, she knew that this class just became her least favorite. Anne moved slowly to the front, trying to prolong the moment as long as possible.

"I want you two to know this is in no way a punishment for you," Professor McGonagall said to the two girls who were being separated, "I'm just hoping you will impose some sort of lesson onto them on how to properly behave in a class." She rounded her way back to her desk sitting down at the front of the classroom.

As one of the twins sat down next to her roughly placing his stuff at the desk, Mina met Anne's blue eyes desperately, sitting back in her seat trying to garner the patience of an angel.

The room was silent, everyone having lost interest by now, and whichever of the twins next to her had pulled out a book and pretended to read. Mina took a quiet breath, before turning her page, knowing she wasn't going to be able to read a word more of her textbook for the rest of class.


"Honestly, they aren't terrible, Mina." Aiden said at lunch.

Mina looked over at the Gryffindor table where the Weasley twins were currently throwing food back and forth with Lee Jordan. A look of disgust crossed her face. Her brown eyes met Aiden's as she tried to make him understand, that it truly was terrible.

"How can you even say that when you know what they did our first year?" Anne jumped in.

"I get that they pulled a prank on you two, but really holding a grudge about it for four years is not a good thing to do."

"No you know what is a good thing to do, Mina jumping in front of me to make sure I wouldn't get the brunt of it. Making sure I didn't have to go through that alone. What's not good is picking on the kid who's already getting picked on," Anne verbally fought back, not willingly to let the matter drop.

"It's a big school they probably didn't know you were getting picked on. I barely knew at the time and we're in the same house, Anne. Tell her she's being unreasonable Mina," Aiden looked to her, hoping for her to jump to his side, forgetting where she stood on the issue.

"I have to side with Anne here, Aiden. Those gits picked on a girl already being bullied, and didn't apologize for it. Whether they thought it was funny doesn't count for anything. I know you're friendly with them and that's fine, but we don't have to be friends with them either. Especially when they've just ruined my favorite class." Mina let out a groan. "How am I supposed to do anything now, honestly? I'll be lucky if I can do anything in class with how disruptive the both of them will be."

"And separating us, too," Anne put her hand to her forehead acting faint, "how will I ever survive that class without the tutelage of Miss Mina Mariella Donnelly."

Mina smacked Anne's arm.

"And I was actually gonna miss you, but you pull out my middle name, and admit you just wanted me for my smarts," Mina sniffed, making her eyes wide, "how are we ever going to work this out if you're just using me."

Aiden rolled his eyes at their theatrics, choosing to keep eating instead of join in.

"Honestly you two, it's not the end of the world. You've got other classes together, and you share a dorm. It's not like you're never going to see each other again. You'll live."

Anne shared a look with Mina, before looking him in the eyes, her face a dead pan before answering back, "Just barely."


So, I've got finals coming up in the next two weeks so I'll be cramming for the two tests I have to take, but I'm not sure how updating will be until finals are done. I'll figure it out but maybe I'll write another chapter after my one final? IDK, but frankly I'd rather not commit myself to an update time.

Hope you enjoyed and I'll write another chapter when I can.