Chapter 4

Katie Rose Marlin:

The news that James Potter and I were dating had travelled round the school fast, even by Hogwarts standards. By breakfast the next morning I'd had at least six pupils come up to me and ask whether or not it was true, and I had received many death stares from some of the girls I passed. This didn't seem to bother me though, I knew the only reason they were doing it was because they were jealous, that in it's self was very flattering

"Hey!" said James on Tuesday morning as he sat down next to Albus and me at the Gryffindor table for breakfast

"Hey," replied Albus and I

"Where were you last night? I didn't see you coming into the common room?" I asked James

"Oh, yeah had detention, sorry" James replied with a smirk

"Honestly," I said shaking my head "I should've know" I smiled at him

He wrapped his arm round my waist and I rested my head on his shoulder,

"So, Hogsmeade weekend next week, how about we go together?" he asked me

I looked over at Albus; he looked up at me and tilted his head to the side

"After I practically nag you to go out with him, you don't think I'll be okay if you go to Hogsmeade with him?" he said with a cheeky grin

"In that case then," I looked back at James "I guess so,"

He looked down at me and smiled before kissing me and returning back to his breakfast, with his arm still round me. Suddenly I wasn't hungry anymore, the thought of going into Hogsmeade with James Potter gave me butterflies in my stomach, 'this is going to be a good day' I thought to myself.

James Sirius Potter:

I sat with my arm round Katie smiling to myself, 'Wow! I really like her!' 'Well tell her, not me!'

"Katie?"

"Hm..?" she answered

"You know I really like you, don't you?"She looked up at me

"Course I do and you know I really like you, right?"

"Yeah, course!" she smiled and continued eating

I glanced over at Albus; he was eating his breakfast, acting as if he hadn't noticed. 'Poor him, Katie and I are sitting here acting all loved up and he's there by himself.' I looked over at the Hufflepuff table; Erin was sitting with her friends, sneaking occasional glances over in this direction. I caught her eye; she looked startled and immediately returned her gaze to her food and didn't look up again. 'I must go and talk to her about Albus' I thought to myself making a mental note.

"Hey, Albus," Katie said

"Yeah?" he asked

"Come on, we need to go, we've got herbology first, and it'll take us a while to get down there,"

"Okay," smiled Albus "bye James, see you later, yeah?"

"Yeah," I answered as he got up from the table and started to walk towards the door. Katie got up to and leaned down to kiss me

"I'll see you too, and please don't get anymore detentions, I actually want to spend the night with my boyfriend." She smiled and kissed me again then ran to catch up with Albus. Seeing as I wasn't hungry, I got up and decided to go over to the Hufflepuff table where Erin was sitting.

"So, he said to me, 'go on please, I really want to go out with you!' and I was like 'no way! After what you did to Sam, there's no chance I'm going out with you, then he said..." she cut off as she saw me "Can we help you?" she said cheekily

"Yeah, I came over to talk to Erin," I turned to Erin "Can I have a word?"

"Erm, yeah sure," she turned to her friends "I'll meet you in Charms." She looked nervous, but she got up and walked out to the hallway with me.

"Listen," she stared "I wasn't looking at you before, I know..."

"Erin," I interrupted her "I know, you were looking at Albus,"

"How did you..?"

"Anyway, the point is, you like him and he likes you, but he's not going to ask you out, so I was kind of hoping you would ask him?"

"Oh, well, erm, yeah sure. I was thinking about asking him out anyway, I just didn't know how he felt about Katie, and then I heard that she was going out with you, so I was actually thinking about doing it this afternoon in Potions."

"Great!" I smiled "so were you going to ask him to the Hogsmeade weekend?"

"Yeah actually I was, though I wondered if he was going with Katie,"

"Nah, Katie's coming with me. Then you're hopefully going with Albus, so all's good."

"Yeah hopefully. Look there's my friends just going passed, I would stay and talk, but I have to get to my next class. See you around."

"Yeah, bye and thanks," I smiled as she left

"No problem."

I smiled to myself as I walked to my next class, Transfiguration, 'finally, I'm going out with Katie, and Albus will hopefully end up going out with Erin. Everything seems perfect. Not for long though, this is Hogwarts and everything happens at Hogwarts.'

Erin Louis Banks:

Did that really just happen? Did James Potter just ask me to ask out his little brother? Yes, I think it did. My friends had noticed I was running towards them and decided to wait on me,

"What did he want?" said Louise with a look of disgust on her face

"Just about what I was talking about earlier,"

"About you and Albus?" queried Mary looking puzzled

"Yeah, he wanted to ask me to ask him out, but I told him I was going to do it anyway." I didn't realise it, but I was blushing.

"Oh," said Louise "Well as I was saying before you left, Craig asked me again, but I said..."

Katie Marlin Rose:

I was sitting in Herbology watching Professor Longbottom explain how to handle a Fanged Geranium properly. I was trying to pay attention, I was, but one hundred thoughts were racing through my mind 'I was going out with James Potter...I was going to Hogsmeade with him...we were practically in love...Albus was happy for us. For the time being it felt like nothing could go wrong.'

"...so that is the correct way in which to handle to Fanged Geranium, any questions?"

A few students round the room put up there hands,

"So if you don't handle if properly, it will bite you?" asked Barby Johnston

"Yes, that's correct." The professor concluded with a smile, but seeing a collection of terrified faces he added, "But if you get bitten nothing will happen to you, it only stings for a minute."

Seeing the classes reactions relax the professor decided to start handing out pots of the plant and he told us to 'place them into a new clean one filled with warm soil.' I knew perfectly well what to do and finished the task within 5 minutes, so I helped Albus who was wrestling with his.

"Here, let me help,"

"Thanks," muttered Albus as he tipped soil into the pot "So, things between you and my brother seem to be going well,"

"Yeah actually, they are. I wouldn't have though it, but he's actually been really nice to me, and he hasn't shown me off like what he does with other girls,"

"That's because you mean more to him than the other girls, I think he really, really likes you," I started at him

"You think so?"

"Yeah, he's never acted like this with anybody else, and I think the fact that you were friends first really helped." He smiled up at me, I smiled back at him, "to be quite honest," he said "I think he's falling in love with you," he finished.

I was shocked.

"Really?" I asked

He nodded his head, "I got this now, thanks"

I couldn't move. I was amazed and shocked at the same time. My smile slowly started to turn into a grin. 'If this was a good day to start with, it was the best day ever now.'