Once again, I don't own Harry Potter, all of it belongs to JKR, lucky her…. Anyway, here's chapter 3!

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The next morning Seamus wakes me up, and we all quickly dress and head to the Great Hall for breakfast. I walk with them to the Gryffindor table and sit in an empty chair and start filling my plate with pancakes (chocolate chips, mind you), eggs, bacon, and sausage. Hermione takes the seat across from me and grabs the sliced strawberries in strawberry syrup for me.

"Thanks Hermione." I say.

"No problem, Hare-bear!" she states brightly, and I choke on my mouthful of food.

I swallow quickly and splutter "H-hare-bear?! That's an awful nickname!"

She simply laughs. "I know. And by the way, bring lots of money to Hogsmeade tomorrow, ok?"

My mouth is full of sausage, so I tilt my head to the side in a gesture of 'why?'

"Don't ask why Harry, it's a surprise." I shrug and we fall into the comfortable silence of eating. In a few minutes, after we've finished, and we're walking to our first lesson (History of Magic with the Hufflepuffs), a panting first-year hails us in the hall.

"Harry! Harry!" he calls.

"Yeah?" I ask, he pants a bit, and hands me a small roll of parchment.

"Erm, thanks?" I say. "Who's it from?" Hermione asks, scowling. The first year, who I now notice is a Slytherin, smirks, his ask-brown hair falling out of place into his strange minty-green eyes.

"Can't tell. It's not something that's going to hurt you though," he says, noticing the careful way I was holding the parchment.

"By the way, I'm Jace; you might be seeing a lot of me." He winks at Hermione flirtatiously, before walking off.

"Weird… C'mon, we'll test it for charms and hexes in class, kay?" Hermione says.

"Ok, let's go." I reply and we walk into class and sit down at an empty table with four chairs. A Hufflepuff comes up and asks Hermione if she can sit by her, and we both smile warmly at her.

"Of course, I'm Hermione, by the way, and this is Harry." Hermione introduces us, and I smile again and wave.

"Aubrey-Jane Winters." she says softly.

"Nice to meet you, Aubrey-Jane." Hermione replies cheerfully.

"Please, call me AJ." she says, and I try to really get a look at her. Her hair is almost exactly the color of pomegranate seeds, and is short, about the same length as mine. She has longer bangs though, and they slightly cover the tops of her eyes, bringing attention to the bright sky-blue eyes, seeing as they contrast so much. She's kinda tall, for a sixth-year girl, and under her robes you can see the bottoms of her jeans, which girls aren't supposed to wear, well, neither are boys, but the girls wear skirts and the boys wear slacks.

"So, um, AJ then, what're you're hobbies?" I ask, and she smiles.

"I'm an artist, I'm not great, but I enjoy it." Right after we reply with "Really? That's awesome, I bet you're great!", Ron runs in, huffing and puffing, almost late.

"Made it!" he smiles and sits next to me before noticing AJ, "Uhm, Harry, who's that?"

"AJ, she's nice." I whisper back, and Professor Binns starts his boring lesson.

"Harry, let me see the note." Hermione speaks to me softly while writing notes, seeming to be intent on the lesson. I hand it to her and she taps her wand on it and whispers a spell, after a second, the tip of her wand glows green, then works appear in smoke.

"Just a sealing charm. Open it up, Harry, it's safe." she whispers to me, and slips it into the palm of my hand. I quietly cast the counter spell for the sealing charm, and it unfurls. It says:

Harry,

I heard that you possibly play for the home team, so to speak, is it true? If so, I'd be here of you need to talk, I myself am a bisexual guy, so I know partly what you must be going through. Don't think bad of me just because I had this delivered to you by a first year of my House, he's a good kid, really. But anyway, if you would like a pen-pal of sorts, meet me in the owlry at eleven-thirty, sharp. You won't recognize me, but neither will anybody else, so disguise yourself, and remember, eleven-thirty!! So, I hope to see you, have a good afternoon.

With care,

B.

"How strange of a letter, he seemed to ramble abit, maybe he's nervous, oooh, or maybe he likes you!!" Hermione whispers in my ear, I blush and say "Shutup! He just wants to help me…" she shakes her head and continues writing in her notes while I work to copy Ron and fall asleep.

The day passes uneventfully, we had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs also that day, so we got to know AJ a bit better, but, other than that, it sicked. Truthfully, I was freaking out about tonight. What was going to happen? Was B. even attractive? So, I took a shower around seven, and got started on some homework.

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