A/N: I am so sorry it took so long to post this chapter, I was oh so preoccupied with other challenges, school and talking to both my teacher who left and my best friend who's in France over emails :D Anyways, I really hope you guys like this, I wrote it extra long for you guys, my readers, I love you guys :) I don't own Harry Potter, enjoy and please please please Review.

The following morning, we all awoke very excited for the first Hogsmeade visit of this school year. All the nervous third years trembling with excitement about what fantasies awaited them there. All the beautiful rows of chocolates and other sweets lined up in Honeydukes, and also a lot of couples were planning on a first date today at Madam Puddifoot's. The second and first years weren't allowed to go, so they weren't rehearsing their dates. I clutched my permission slip tightly in my left hand, I couldn't miss out on Hogsmeade, I needed to stock up on sweets to bring home for Cissa.

I saw Lucius Malfoy a third year standing with Cissa holding hands, she couldn't go to Hogsmeade, she was a second year. Andy however was excited for it was the first year that she could attend. I was smiling at the thought of Lucius and Cissy, however my smile soon became a scowl when I turned around again. They had begun snogging very passionately and Malfoy started to lift up my little sisters skirt while she giggled. I marched right over there and pulled Malfoy off her and pushed him up against the wall my one hand grabbing his throat, the other hand shaking violently while holding my wand.

"What the hell Lucius! Don't you dare do that to my baby sister ever again, or I swear I'll-"I growled at him. I was taller by a lot, so I already had him cowering in fear without my threats.

"Don't hurt him Bella!" Cissy yelled over to me. I instantly let go of Lucius and he fell to the ground rubbing his neck. If it had of been anyone else talking to me like that, I would've hexed them into Oblivion, but because it was Cissy my approach was different.

"Ok, fine Narcissa, I won't hurt him." I muttered and quietly added "Yet..." while looking over my shoulder. It seems Malfoy caught my death glare because he flinched and ran away.

"But Bella, I've seen you do that with boys before." Cissy said innocently with a smug look on her face. She had said it loud enough for a lot of people to hear, even professor McGonagall. And everyone was sniggering silently about the fact that my sister had just pretty much called me a whore.

"Cissy" I whispered mortified, my entire face turning scarlet "That's different..." I was so embarrassed. It seemed that had been her plan so that she could go back to Malfoy. "Fine, you win. I'll go find Andromeda and her mudblood" I said before stalking off like and cougar in search of my prey.


Hogsmeade looked beautiful with all the store windows decorated for Christmas. Icicles framed every window and Madam Puddifoot's looked like the perfect place for couples to get cozy. I felt stupid for forgetting right until that moment that Sapphire, Despina, and several others of us were due to go dress shopping now, they started to beckon me over but Rodolphus came out of nowhere.

"Hey Bell" he whispered softly in my ear and kissed me lightly on the cheek.

"Speaking of stupid, here he is now!" I announced dramatically.

"What?" he asked looking slightly hurt.

"Nothing." I admitted although it was too late to take back what I had said. He blinked slowly looking very stupid, but the sadness in his eyes was impossible to miss. I could tell that we both kept on thinking back to the kiss in the Summer.

"Bell, do you want to go out with me, like right now? We can rehearse our date so neither of us screw up at the Yule Ball." He asked me. Wait, did he just ask me out? My mind began to wander and my heart jumped a little. I moved my arm to reach for his hand and he flinched.

"What now?" I screeched at him impatiently.

"I thought you were going to hit me, or curse me or something..." he muttered. We both realize how more often than not that would happen, and we started to laugh.

"Sorry Roddy, dress shopping you know, for the Yule Ball. But I'll see you there." I said, I turned to all his friends and batted my eyelashes at them sweetly, once I was sure they all wanted me, I kissed Roddy on the cheek and sauntered away. As I was leaving, I glimpsed Rod touching tenderly the spot where I kissed him and I heard murmurs of 'What a slut.' 'She's so hot' and then from Rodolphus 'Don't even think about it, she's mine.'


I met up with Sapphire, Despina, Lily and some girls from my house including my dorm mates Elena and Madysen. It didn't go over too well. The girls in my house were bitching about the fact that we were with Gryffindors. Despina wouldn't even talk to me she just kept on giving me loathsome looks the whole time. And the Marauders came to get Lily so it ended up just being Sapphire, Despina and I. Sapphire went on and on about Remus.

"He is so hot, and really really sweet too. " she said while coming out of the change room with a light pink dress on. I came out too with a dark green dress on and Despina came out in a dark blue one. We all started to comment on each others.

" Ew, sorry but you can't do pink dresses with your hair Saph, maybe blue or black" I suggested, it was one of the first times I had been nice to her. We had started to become very good friends. I turned to Despina.

"Desa you look like a Ravenclaw." I complained dramatically. She shrugged and muttered 'Bitch.' Under her breath before storming back into her stall. Sapphire and I both exchanged confused glances before she spoke again.

"Bella, maybe you should try something, I don't know, lighter and happier." She suggested. I flashed a sickly sweet smile in her direction before we both said 'Nope' simultaneously and headed back into the stalls. "So anyways, Remus' eyes are so gorgeous, they're dark brown, I just want to melt in them, they're like pools of chocolate." She squealed excitedly from the stall beside me.

"Yea, his are deep forest green, they just captivate me." I muttered dreamily. We both came out at the same time and looked at each other.

"Who are you talking about?" she asked very confused. I smiled at her dress, it was very pretty and dark blue.

"Wait, who are you talking about?" I asked carefully.

"Remus." She said as though it was blatantly obvious enough.

"Right..." I trailed off, I was in a trance realizing something that I never had even considered before.

"Oh my gosh!" she squealed "You like Rodolphus Lestrange don't you? His eyes are forest green!" I turned a bright red and muttered 'no' very awkwardly before turning to look at Desa. "You do, you do!" I could hear Saph shrieking behind me. Desa was in a beautiful white dress and she looked amazing, that was until I saw the tears in her eyes, threatening to spill all over.

We quickly purchased our dresses at the front of the store, mine being a short black one, Saph's was blue and Desa's was white. We went out into the cold wintery weather and Sapphire thanked us before hurrying off to find her 'RemRem' and save Lily from the other Marauders, namely James and Sirius.


Desa turned on me, her hair falling in her eyes, a tear tracing it's way down her tanned skin that seemed to be glowing with anger. She placed her hands on her hips.

"You don't get it do you?" she asked me. Her voice was dangerously quiet, like she was trying not to burst. She was very skilled at magic, and I was scared she was going to start cursing or hexing me right at that very moment. But I cautioned an answer anyways.

"Get what?" I asked. She looked like she was about to hit me. The bag on her arm containing her dress was shaking violently as though she was trying to hold in the anger.

"You don't love him! I do! But, you the little Slytherin Slut, you go and you try to take all the boys for yourself. And you left me with Nathan, I hate Nathan! I love him, but he had to go and love you, and you just like stealing other people's boys don't you? You never want to share! You think you're so perfect so god damn perfect! Well I have news for you Bella, you're not the best at everything, you're not as drop dead gorgeous as you fucking think, and you better back off now because you've already ruined my life and lost yourself a friend. " She screamed at me.

As she turned to walk away I started up again. "But-"

"And I'm not the only one who thinks you're a whore, everyone does, even McGonagall!" she said quietly. Then, she broke into a run and hurried away, her tears tangling with her brown locks. A little voice in my head was trying not to cry and said Am I really that bad? Do they really think that of me? My lower lip trembled, but the me I had been training to be, the one who would be in the Dark Lord's ranks soon enough spoke instead.

"She's just jealous of me." I muttered and my face broke into a smirk before I hurried off to join up with all the guys and talk about hexing mud bloods and the meeting with the dark lord that was coming up soon.

A/N: I made Bella very in-character, don't you agree? Review please, I'll give you virtual cookies :D