A/N:: Hello everyone! I'm back! First of all I would like to thank all of you for reading and reviewing! You rock! Second I would like to apologize for not updating yesterday. I had a slight case of writer's block. And I might not be updating for a while, I'll try, but I've got to write a few more chapters before I can be safe. I don't like to rush to update, cuz then my writing suffers. Anyways. Here's chapter four, it's extra long (and probably pretty pointless) But it's an update.

Disclaimer:: I own Alex, Dani, Robin and Annette. Nothing else really.

Alexandria was too energized to do homework, so she sprinted off in the direction of the Owlery to find Dani. She nearly knocked her friend over halfway there, and immediately launched into her story.

"Are you sure?" asked Dani, her eyes wide in surprise.

"Well, I'm not positive that he would have kissed me, but we were really close," Said Alexandria excitedly.

"Where?"

"The fourth floor landing," she said, a grin still playing on her face.

"I always liked it there!" laughed Dani. They returned to the Ravenclaw common room still talking excitedly about what could have happened.

It was Dani who answered the question that allowed them into the circular room. Plopping themselves down onto a sofa, they extracted their books, and tried to do their homework.

"So," Dani began. She looked around the room to be sure no one would overhear then went on. "What does this mean?"

"Well, I'm pretty sure this will have something to do with our N.E.W.Ts next year, so we should probably get the hang of it," Alexandria said, looking over her Charms notes. Her best friend scoffed and tore the parchment from her hands.

"I mean," Dani said over the brunette's protest. "What does the whole you and Git-boy thing mean?"

"Git-boy?" Alexandria asked, amused.

"TOAST!" Dani cried, causing the books between them to topple to the floor. The people who shared the common room with them jumped and looked over at them, miffed at the disturbance.

"Dani!" Alexandria whispered, alarmed. She Summoned her books and notes with her wand, and put them back into her bag. "What do you mean? 'Toast'?" She got up, and headed to the door, beckoning Dani follow.

"Alex!" Dani did the same with her books, and followed her friend to the corridor. "He took your toast! He almost kissed you in the middle of the corridor! Not to mention he looks at you almost as much as you look at him!"

"Yeah, well, he also fed your little brother a candy to make him faint," Alexandria said, quickening her pace.

"I can overlook that," Dani said, waving it away with her hand. "But, Alex, this could be your chance. I mean, that's a good sign." Her friend turned around and looked at her, skeptically.

"Dani, I want think so too, but I'm not just going to go off and tackle him in the corridor! I just don't want to go at this too quickly. He got pretty nervous afterward, like he was caught naked or something."

"Ooooo. Nekked!" Dani began to laugh again, whilst Alexandria merely rolled her brown eyes toward the ceiling. She grabbed her friend by the arm, and dragged her off to the library to finish their homework, and whisper about the fourth floor landing and toast as often as they could.

George had not told anyone about what had happened on the fourth floor landing yesterday. Not even Fred. Especially not Fred. He could hear the brutal teasing already; "You couldn't snog her? Like, physically couldn't? Wow, mate, you've got to get some help! It's just a bloody girl! Have a backbone! What, did she turn into Umbridge in front of your eyes?" George shook this image out of his head, and sat down to eat lunch. He had Quidditch practice to worry about.

It wasn't until he saw Alexandria and her friends sit down at the Ravenclaw table that he noticed that he was facing it. His stomach did such a series of flips he was surprised he had not bounced out of his seat.

Don't look over here! Don't look over here! George thought frantically. Please! Don't look over here! Why isn't she looking?

In fact, it seemed George had suddenly mastered a rare form of Legilimency that allowed a person to control another just as if they had been put under the Imperious Curse. Alexandria sat at the Ravenclaw table, her back to him, as far away from his spot at the Gryffindor table as possible. That wasn't a good sign.

Okay, maybe just once. Come on, look over here! Just once, maybe twice.

"You alright, mate? You look like you took a dose of some sort of anti-laxative," Fred said, waving his hand in front of his twin brother's face.

"Er... Yeah," George said, tearing his gaze away from the Ravenclaws. He had to snap out of this. He had other things to concentrate on. George turned back to the table one last time, and swore he caught her and her four friends giggling in his direction. As soon as his eyes roamed over there, though, they all seemed to be very enthralled at whatever was in front of them. (Dani must have found it funny, because she had her hand stuffed into her mouth, and her shoulders were shaking furiously.)

Next to him, Fred was saying something about Quidditch, but George wasn't listening. Alexandria had just spun on the spot (At one of her friend's prompting) and looked strait at him. An electric shock ran through his spine, and he jumped violently. He turned away so fast he felt his neck crack, and tried to seem as if he had just been in conversation with Fred and Lee. However, both of them were staring at him as if he had just fallen out of the enchanted ceiling, and landed beside them.

"You getting sick, mate?" Lee asked him, a slight frown on his face. "You're getting pretty red in the face."

"I-I-I'm fine!" George whispered, frantically. "Quick, act like we were talking! Quick!"

"He's fallen off his rocker!" Fred said, his eyes wide and slightly confused. George immediately began to roar with laughter, as if he has just said something very funny. Fred and Lee glanced at each other, and began to laugh half-heartedly with him.

"Heh heh. Why are we laughing?"

"Just keep laughing!" George said through fake gasps of air. Fred and Lee began to roar with George, who kept stealing glances over at Alexandria. She had not moved from her position staring over at him, sitting with her elbows resting behind her on the table, and her legs crossed, the expression on her face completely unreadable. Every time he looked at her George was certain that she could see.

"Can we stop laughing yet? My side's starting to ache," Lee said, pounding his fist on the table.

"Yeah, I guess," said George. He glanced over, and she had vanished. Sitting up, and looking around he just managed to glimpse her walking out of the Great Hall, laughing with her friends.

He just couldn't figure it out. Part of him really wanted to talk to her, and then there was the other part of him that just wanted to run and hide in humiliation. George hated to be this confused. It was a part of life that he knew where he stood at all times, but now that he didn't, he couldn't seem to stop thinking about it. Yet, the more he thought about it, he became more confused.

What's the big deal? It's just a girl. He thought on his way down to Quidditch practice. Just one silly girl. I don't even know her! George's mental argument continued all through the first part of practice, and then picked up again later that night at dinner.

Once again, her back was firmly set against him, and her friends seemed to get exceptionally giggley whenever it was that he just so happened to glance over there. Her perceived slight of him only baffled him all the more. On the one hand, it was good that she didn't seem to be reading too much into it, which would give him time to sort things out. On the other hand, the way she was acting was too strange. It was as if she were deliberately trying to confuse him more.

He was sure that she liked him. Fred had noticed that she was almost always watching him, or going out of her way to see him. Once George swore she had been at one of the tryouts for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, sitting in the stands, but he had never said anything.

The truth was he liked the attention. Usually Fred had interjected himself before George could even really have a chance. While it caused no real resentment, he couldn't help but feel a little inadequate when this happened. And now, having that attention all to himself didn't feel too bad.

And now I had to go and mess all that up. He walked behind his brother, up to the first floor landing when someone grabbed his elbow. George could feel the cool sensation of her fingers through his robes, and the soft, melodic sounds of her voice caused him to turn around rather faster than she had anticipated. Their heads collided, and Alexandria staggered backward at the force.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" he said. She had slipped, and nearly fell down the stairs, but George caught her around the waist and pulled her further onto the landing. "Are you alright?"

"Er, yeah," Alexandria said, her fingers pressed to her forehead, while she looked at the ground. Looking up she smiled at him. "Yes, I'm fine. Thank you. That could have been quite a mess." She gestured toward the staircase, and chuckled softly.

"Yeah, it could have." George wasn't quite sure of what he was saying. All he cared about was the fact that she was looking at him, smiling at him. To tell the truth, he felt slightly groggy, as if a thick fog had settled in his head.

"George?" Her hands were resting on his forearms, and the pleasant tingle that shot into his skin rushed to his back.

"Yes?"

"You can let go now." He had been hanging onto her, one hand resting in the small of her back. Embarrassed, he stepped away from her, and gave a nervous laugh.

"Sorry," he muttered. He was ready to turn and rush back to the dormitory there and then. Or to have the floor swallow him completely.

"That's alright. Actually, I was wondering if I could have a word with you?"

George felt his stomach tear into two as one half thudded at his feet, and the other half began to fly around his insides.

"Sure," he said, and they began to walk.

"Erm, well, I think that what happened the other day was..." Alexandria started. "Well, unexpected." She looked at him, and smiled sheepishly. "Listen, I can't pretend to ignore that you're uncomfortable, and that's the last thing that I want. So, let's just clear all this up. Start over." She stopped and turned to him, extending a hand. "Deal?"

George smiled, and accepted her gesture. How were her fingers always so cold? "Deal." They began to walk again.

"So, now what?" she asked, her pace slowing.

"How about we just be friends. Get to know each other, and all that," He suggested. George felt an extra spring in his step. This could work.

"Sounds good. Alright, yeah, sure. Friends," Alexandria stopped suddenly, and rapped on a door with no handle.

"If someone were to go back in time, and interfere with their own life, does it happen in the future?"

Alexandria frowned slightly, considering the question. "Time is not a strait line, but a plane of being," she said at length. "So, it wouldn't 'happen' at one time, but many."

"Reasoned well," the door said, and it opened to the Ravenclaw common room.

As she began to walk inside, she turned around and leaned on the doorway. "Goodnight, George." Smiling, she disappeared inside the room, leaving the seventeen-year-old standing there, grinning like a madman.

The next day was one of the last truly beautiful days of the first semester, and Alexandria, Dani, Cho, Marietta, and Robin spent it sitting by the lake, enjoying themselves.

Robin, Cho, and Marietta were sitting under a tree, exchanging the latest gossip about the goings on inside the Ministry.

"Umbridge is about to get a major promotion. My mother sent me an owl yesterday. Personally, I'm glad that we finally have someone who seems to know what they're doing at Hogwarts," Marietta said, shooting Alexandria a dark look. A few moments before, they had had a small row over the way the Ministry was being run. Alexandria was ignoring Marietta's ignorance, and she and Dani stood very close to the lake shore, bewitching rocks to fly around for their own amusement.

"Git," Alexandria whispered. "Umbridge is a vile-evil-malevolent-sadistic-toad-faced-miscreant!" She punctuated each word with a jab of her wand at a different rock. "How can she think that she's good for this school? Have you heard what she did to that fourth year?"

"I was the one who told you, Alex," Dani said, watching as the bewitched rocks flew into the water. "Calm down!"

"I can't calm down. I can't sit for another day in the wretched woman's classes, copying notes from a book! I've even gone so far as to arrange that I stay with Annette during Christmas break so she could teach me to defend myself!"

"So...You really believe that You-Know-Who's back then?" Dani asked, apprehensive.

Alexandria sighed, and sat down with a huff. "Yes, I do. And the fact that the idiots in the Ministry are ignoring it is only going to make things worse! You see this?" She brandished her wand, and a jet of pink flame shot from the end. "Elder wood, 11 inches, Unicorn hair core. What use is it if I can't use it when I need it most?"

Dani sighed and sat down next to her. "Well, we always have the book your Aunt gave you. I mean, we could start to learn all of the things in there, even the Ancient Sorcery." Alexandria looked at her a little confused, yet intrigued. "It's worth a try," Dani said, excited at the prospect of teaching themselves the advanced magic.

"You're right. But just between us friends, no one else can know," Alexandria said.

"Speaking of friends." Dani gestured to the three figures making their way across the grounds, two of which were identical. "Can you tell them apart?" Dani asked, referring to the Weasley's

"Not really," Alexandria said truthfully. "Not until they get closer."

"Hello, ladies," Lee said, plopping down beside Dani, and stretching out his legs. "Lovely day, innit?"

"Very," Dani said, now back to bewitching rocks. She practiced transfiguring one into a bird, but only succeeded in a partial job. The rock sprouted wings and flew around their heads a few times before zooming off in the distance.

"What brings you to the lake?" Alexandria asked, looking up at the twin boys, unsure which one was George and which was Fred.

"Oh, you know, scenery," said one, who sat down in front of Dani. As he passed Alexandria, his hand scraped the back of her head, but the familiar jolt of excitement did not rush through her. The other twin sat next to her, and rested his shoulder against hers. A tingle resided within his warm skin, and the crookedness of his smile caused her stomach to erupt in butterflies.

"Hi," George said, low enough for only her to hear.

"Hey!" She, too, resumed fiddling with the rocks, and managed to make one spurt clouds of golden smoke when prodded. This amused them for a few minutes, and caused a large cloud of yellow haze to shroud them from the other Ravenclaw girls.

"So, you're on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, right?" Dani asked Fred.

"Yep, George and I are beaters. You don't play?" he asked.

"Naw, Alex and I aren't really into flying. Which one of us was the one that got sick during flying lessons, do you remember?" asked the short blonde.

"I think we both did." Alexandria turned to George. "Two of the boys in our year kept chasing us around the field in circles. We swore it off for good after that. That's actually when we met. In the hospital wing."

"That's right!" Dani said, she smiled remembering that fateful day. Her expression darkened, "We should really jinx the pants off of them."

"That was the better part of five years ago!" Lee said laughing at the vindictive girl.

"Eh? Well, we will be scarred for life! I mean, my future career as a Seeker, or Chaser has now been completely eliminated because of them. I like to keep my options open, thank you very much!" Dani flicked her wand, and the smokey haze drifted lazily over the lake. They watched as it took the shape of a large Dragon, and 'flew' in circles around the grounds. A group of first years shrieked, and ran for cover.

"Dani!" Alexandria scolded, and jabbed her wand at the cloud, which promptly took the shape of a large butterfly, and changed color.

George scoffed, and cast a skeptical look in her direction. "How lovely," he said, his tone patronizing.

"Then you change it, Mr. Critical!" the brunette said, gently shoving him.

"Alright I will. Fred, if you would be so kind as to assist me," George said, taking out his wand. A second later, two large, red trolls began to bludgeon each other in a fight to the death. By then the spectacle had attracted a crowd, and all three of the boys stood up, and bid them farewell.

"Enjoy the show!" Fred called, as he and the other two strode up toward the castle. Dani and Alexandria sat for awhile, talking, and watching the battle rage on. Suddenly, the trolls collided and the smoke changed color again, this time to a lime green, and rushed to the lake in a vortex. With a resounding crash, it vanished into the water, and all was still.

Then, a wave of green liquid rose, and made a beeline strait towards the two Ravenclaws. Before they could move, Dani and Alexandria were soaked to the skin.

George, Fred, and Lee, were standing inside the Entrance Hall, when Fred was tapped in the shoulder. There stood Dani and Alexandria, dripping water onto the marble floor.

"It's a bit chilly for a swim, isn't it?" Lee asked, barely hiding his laughter.

"Yeah, you could catch cold," Fred said, his tone motherly.

"You do realize that this means we hate you?" Alexandria said. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and her long hair was plastered to her face.

"It was a chance I was willing to take," George said, grinning.

"Just you wait," Dani vowed, as both of them strode off to dry. "You're in trouble."

"Us?" the twins said innocently. "Never!"

Yep... well... whatcha think? Let me know... Once again, I'll update as soon as I can, but there's no guarantee. Have a great weekend!