A/N::Thanks for all of the lovely reviews, especially PadfootStripQuidditch and DMG5440 who have reviewed every one of my chapters since I began to post! You two are the greatest! But I won't forget anyone else either, thank you to everyone! YAY!!

Disclaimer:: I own nothing but all of the original characters that have been listed in this Disclaimer for the past three chapters, and the details of the plot-line. THIS story is mine, the universe belongs to J K Rowling.

Sorry for any mistakes, this is fresh from the press, and not really edited. I did have my sister read it, and she's usually really good at catching things, but even she misses stuff.

It was November 2, the day of the Quidditch Match between Slytherin and Gryffindor. Alexandria was dragging Dani down to the pitch to get good seats, Dani protesting the whole way.

"You know I hate sports! I could barely stand to watch that ridiculous Tri-wizard thingy! Please! Don't make me go! Alex!"

"Quiet down! You're making a scene. Dani, just this once, come and watch with me. I promise that I'll never take you to another one of these things again!" They settled near some of the other Gryffindors, and began to watch the game.

"It's bloody freezing out here!" Dani said grumpily. "Gah! And those trolls Crabbe and Goyle are on the team? Outrageous!"

Alexandria laughed at her friend, and was soon caught up on the speed of the game. Although neither of them understood a thing of what was happening, they cheered whenever there was a mention of a Gryffindor doing something good, and groaned when something happened against them. Once Dani swore that the Slytherin Beaters hit a bludger straight for her.

"I'm going to have to jinx, hex, and curse them until they resemble the apes that they are!" Dani exclaimed, and Alexandria had to hold her inside the stands. The feisty blonde sat down, defeated. "I hate them!"

"I know."

"They're foul!"

"I know."

"Gits! I hope they choke on their own vomit and DIE!"

"I agree."

"Piss ants! They make a Blast-Ended Skrewts look like cuddy bears!"

"Dani! I get it, we don't like them!" Alexandria said, trying to calm down her friend, and keep her from taking out her wand.

Twice during the match, a streak of red hair and scarlet robes flew very close to them, and Alexandria was certain that she saw the person wave. Dani, however was too busy now cheering wildly. She had taken it upon herself to scream as loud as she possibly could to drown out the Slytherin song.

"Slytherins are tiny Gits

Their heads all filled with shite!

All that house is whiny Twits

Their faces a grisly site!

HI HO Slytherins

The boys never wear pants!

HO HI Slytherins

They're all just big Piss ants!

Now Gryffindors, there's a bunch!

Ne'er a quidditch team better!

The skulls of Slytherins go Crunch

'Cause they are all bed-wetters!

HEY HEY Gryffindor!

Kick their sorry Arses!

Hurrah Hurrah for Gryffindor!

Make the Slytherins farces!"

Alexandria began to laugh at her friend's feeble attempt at a song. "Nice try, Dani, but you're going to scream yourself hoarse before they hear you!"

"I don't care!" Dani said, her voice already going. "I want to maim that whole team into a bloody pulp! And that Parkinson girl! OI!" Dani began to bellow in her direction. She even threw a Gryffindor Hat at her (which only went about three feet into the pitch and fell feebly to the ground.)

"OI! PARKINSON! Yeah! You cow! Keep your nose in the air like that and you'll drown when it rains! SNIVELING TWIT! What? You're girlfriend Malfoy can't win unless he has you to do his pathetic dirty work for him? Got to keep little Draccie happy? He's just as pathetic as his FATHER!" Although Pansy didn't hear Dani's taunting, someone had, because a bludger flew straight for Dani. Seconds before it collided with the blonde, one of the twins appeared out of thin air, and smacked it away.

"Dani!" Fred called, hastily. "Thanks, but you have to be careful! You could get kicked out!" Before she could answer, he flew off, and resumed the game. From then on Dani did not openly taunt the Slytherin's but muttered darkly under her breath.

At the end of the game, the students were about to start leaving when the fight happened. Alexandria gasped, and gripped the edge of the stands so that her knuckles were white. Dani, however, began to cheer Harry and George on, and shouted instructions at them.

"Get him in the stomach! Good one Harry! Duck! George! DUCK! What's wrong with you I told you to duck! Left-hook! Uppercut! Kill the little bastard! Pin his legs! Look out! LOOK OUT!"

"IMPEDIMENTA!" Madam Hooch bellowed, and Harry and George were flung off of the Slytherin boy. She scolded them, and then Harry and George stomped off of the Quidditch pitch.

"Should we go and talk to them?" Dani asked later on that night. "I mean..." she lowered her voice and leaned over, " I'm sure George could use a bit of your cheering up right about now." She winked and nudged Alexandria.

"No," said the brunette. "I'm going to give him time. This is a big blow, and he needs time to digest it."

Dani rolled her eyes, and sighed. "Alright. You can talk to him tomorrow I guess."

It was a snowy Sunday in November, and most of the students were outside, enjoying the weather. Alexandria and George had spoken only sparingly in the weeks since his ban from Quidditch. He and Fred had been working more and more on their Skiving Snackboxes, and that left little time for Alexandria.

Dani had noticed that her best friend had become quieter and quieter as the months wore on, but she wouldn't talk about it. They were out building snowmen when she finally asked, "Is everything okay, Alex? You're not yourself lately."

"Yeah," Said the girl, giving a great sniff, which Dani was sure was not from the cold. "I'm just a little sad lately."

Dani walked over to her, and began to help her smooth out the bottom of her snow-person. "It's not because of George is it?" she whispered. Alexandria stood back, and then nodded slowly.

"He still won't tell Fred about us. The last time I brought it up, he snapped at me. I've tried to give him space, I've tried to ignore it, but," her voice cracked slightly.

"There he is." Dani pointed. "Go and talk to him now. This is ridiculous, Alex. Go, lay down the law." She gave her a push, and then went back to smoothing the snowman.

George heard someone coming up behind him in the snow and turned around. There was Alexandria, her blue and bronze scarf wrapped around her neck, and a navy colored hat on her head.

"Can I talk to you?" She asked, smiling at Fred and Lee, who had greeted her.

He hesitated. "Erm, yeah, sure. Be right back," George said to his friends as he followed her, away from everyone.

"Is everything okay?" He asked her.

"No." Said the girl at length. "Everything is not okay. George, I want to know why." He gazed at her, confused. "Why are you...Are you ashamed of me?" she asked. Tears welled up in her brown eyes, and George could tell that she was trying hard not to cry.

"I.. No! Why would you think that?"

"Because!" Something inside the Ravenclaw burst, and her voice was shrill. The words seemed to spill out of their own accord. "We've been together for almost a month, and you still haven't told your twin brother! You haven't told anyone! So it must be that you're ashamed of me! Am I not good enough for you? I'm so embarrassing to you that you have to hide us from everyone!? Is that it?"

"Andrie! Calm down! You know that's not it!" The red-headed boy tried to comfort his girlfriend, but she was beyond comfort.

"It has to be!" Alexandria was openly weeping now. "Do you have any idea how much it hurts to know that you can't muster up the courage to tell your own brother about me? That it kills me to have to pretend that we're not together? I've waited long enough, George Weasley! I'm not waiting anymore. You have to make a choice! Tell him, or...or..." She struggled with the words. "Or we're over."

"Andrie! Please, just wait. I..I'm going to tell him! Didn't I promise I was going to tell him?" He wrapped his arms around her, as she sobbed into his chest.

"I'm not waiting another second!" She wrenched herself free of him, and pushed him away as if he were something repulsive. "I'm tired of your broken promises! I'm not doing this anymore. If we're going to make this work, you have to be willing to grow up! I'm sorry!" Before he could say another word, she ran away, and into the castle.

George stood there, dazed. What had just happened?

She dumped you, idiot! She left you because you're the world's biggest prat and you hurt her. She thinks you're ashamed of her. How could you let her think that? Why couldn't you let her know you think she's perfect?

His eyes began to get hot and sting with tears, and his insides felt hollow. It was as if she had taken everything with her when she walked away. Everything he held dear was gone, and nothing mattered anymore. The worst kind of dementor. Sadness was the only thing he could feel, and only because of the tears freezing to his face.

"Oi! George!" His twin came galloping toward him, and rugby tackled him into the snow. George was thankful that Fred had not seen him weeping there in the snow, and took care to pretend to wipe snow from his cheeks. That didn't stop the lump in his throat from welling up whenever he looked at the castle.

"You alright mate?" Lee asked him.

"You look like you've been having a cry!" laughed Fred, he punched him in the arm. "What's that matter? Alex break up with you?"

George looked at him so suddenly his neck cracked. How had he known?

"Only joking, mate!" Fred said, seeing the look in his brother's face and mistaking it for something other than the heart attack he had just had. "You couldn't keep something like that a secret from me."

"Oh? And how would you know? Hmm?" George demanded. He just realized he could feel something else; anger.

"I would just know," Fred said simply. "I'm your twin, mate, you couldn't hide something like that from me."

"I could if I didn't want you to know!" George was on his feet again, and yelling. "I don't have to tell you anything! ANYTHING! Not if I don't want to! No one can make me!" He was painfully aware of how immature he sounded.

"Alright, George!" Fred stood opposite him, his arms up as if to shield himself. "I didn't mean anything by it. Besides, it's not like you've been sneaking around behind my back. I mean, you're not with her." Fred hesitated a second and asked the question he had been dying to ask for the past month. "Are you?"

George looked over at the castle. A group of third years were having a snowball fight, and some first years were sledding down a hill they had made with their wands. He knew that the Ravenclaw girls who had just been building snowmen would not be there.

"No," he said, after swallowing the lump in his throat. "We're not together."

Dani had watched as Alexandria had spoken to George. She knew from the second she had walked away it was trouble. She spent the whole of that time scolding herself.

Okay, Dani, you big-headed, self-centered, git! Why did you tell her to do that? Oh no, she's running this way. Act supportive.

But Alexandria didn't run over to her, she ran right into Hogwarts, and didn't look back. Following her best friend, she glanced back at the Gryffindor boy. Even from this distance, the hurt and confusion on his face was obvious.

Dani found the brunette in the common room, sobbing in one of the corners. Luna Lovegood was sitting next to her, patting her shaking shoulders dreamily. The other blonde spotted the new arrival, and drifted over.

"When I got in here she was crying. I thought it was the Chang girl, but it was her. Did she and the Weasley boy break up?"

Dani looked at her, shocked. "How did you..?"

"I heard them talking at one of the Dumbledor's Army meetings. It seemed like they were in love," Luna's dreamy eyes glazed over as she remembered it, then they snapped back to Dani. "Have you ever been in love?" The girl stammered that she hadn't and went over to her sobbing friend.

"Alex?" She asked, as soon as she was within arms reach. Slowly, she sat next to her on the floor, and pulled her hair away from her face. Her navy blue hat sat, and her scarf sat abandoned in the middle of the room, but she was hugging her cloak to her like a security blanket. She turned and looked at Dani, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"I-Broke-up-with-him!" Alexandria screamed, the pain and sadness seemed to be cutting into her like a knife. As soon as the words escaped her mouth she began to cry even harder. Dani wrapped her best friend in a motherly hug, and tried to comfort her, but she was beyond all help. For a fleeting second she remembered Cho when she had found out Cedric had died, and something inside her said that this was different. Not less, or more, but different.

Half an hour later, Alexandria slept, her head on a pillow in Dani's lap. She had cried until she could barely breathe, and then finally drifted off. Dani stroked her hair, and watched the door to the common room, ready to rouse her if it were necessary. But for now, it was best to just let her sleep.

In the following couple of weeks, George only saw Alexandria during Dumbledor's Army meetings. Each time he tried to talk to her, she would walk away, or begin to talk to another one of her friends. After lunch one day he cornered Dani.

"Hey! Get off of me! Let go! Don't think I won't hurt you! Let go!" He thrust her into an empty classroom, and lit the end of this wand. She continued to protest. "What the hell are you doing? Listen, I'm not the best of hostages, one I still have my wand." Dani tried to jinx him, but George disarmed her first.

"Dani! Listen to me! I need your help," he said, hastily glancing at the door, praying that no one would interrupt them. "I need you to talk to Alexandria for me."

Dani scoffed. "Yeah, right! Why should I do anything for you after you hurt her?"

"Hey!" Protested the Gryffindor. "She broke up with me!"

"And why did she do that? Hmm, let's wonder on that shall we? Could it be because you strung her along, and made her think you cared about her, yet the whole while you refused to tell ANYONE! Not even your twin brother! Can you blame her? You hurt her so badly, George! She believed that she wasn't good enough for you, that there was something wrong with her! It took me a WEEK to convince her otherwise. I don't know if she could take that again," she looked him right in the eye. "And I don't know if I'm willing to let it happen again. I should have said something earlier." Dani walked over to the door and opened it. "If you really care about her, like you say, then you'll just stay away from her. You've done enough damage." With that she left George alone, stunned, and feeling more alone than he ever had in his life.

Dani found Alexandria waiting for her at the door of their next class.

"Where were you?" She asked, smiling for what seemed like the first time in days.

"I had to run to the bathroom. You know, have a pee." The blonde smiled back at her best friend, deciding it better to not tell her where she really had been. Not to cause her more anxiety and pain. "Ready?"

"Yep!" Her best friend went into the classroom, and before Dani followed, she glanced behind her, down the stairs. There at the bottom stood George, watching as Alexandria went to class, and Dani was sure he would be there, a part of the crowd, when it ended.

A/n:: Okay, please don't hate me, but this has to be done. Not to worry, everything will pan out... with a lot of trouble in between, and a lot more crying...some of it happy tears... okay? LATER!! I've got to go to work!!