Authors Note: I am so, so sorry that this is so late. It won't happen again… promise.

Chapter Seven

Roxanne's POV

Freddie hadn't spoken to me. Scorpius hadn't spoken to me. Alex hadn't spoken to me. Louis hadn't spoken to me. I had officially become a loner from the moment I got back from Hogsmead. Nobody had even told me about the article in the daily prophet. The first I had heard of it was some girl who had been crying on her friend's shoulder the afternoon it had happened.

'He can't be gay,' she had choked out. 'Why are all the good ones always gay?'

I had wondered who she was talking about until I saw the article declaring that James had outed Albus on the counter.

Are people stupid? Al may act a little… camp at times but in reality he is very straight.

And Al isn't a 'good one'. You can be around him for one minute without him criticising your appearance. Although… he hasn't stooped as low as to call Alex fat yet.

However the fact that Al's sexuality was under question at that point in time was hardly my biggest problem.

My second biggest problem was the fact that I had said the unforgivable to my best friend and blondest cousin severing most ties that I had with my family. My third biggest problem was that I had broken up with one of the most gorgeous boys in school officially casting me out from my family and circle of friends possibly forever.

Neither of those problems however was as big as my first biggest problem. The fact that I had never really found my 'gorgeous' ex-boyfriend that gorgeous.

I mean sure, I had known that he was gorgeous and I knew why but I hadn't particularly cared.

I had of course made excuses for this. Maybe it was the lack of confidence. Girls love confidence and he just didn't have enough. That had to be it. Or maybe it was the fact that his parents had given him a god awful name. That could be a contributing factor.

But who was I kidding.

Even as I formed those excuse in my head my eyes were being drawn to someone else.

Funny that article had been about Albus this morning.

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James' POV

'So what exactly did you say?' Albus asked again leaning a little too close from across the table.

'No ma'am, that's my brother,' I repeated for about the seventh time backing away slightly and moving my piece of parchment away from the centre of the table.

Albus looked doubtfully at Sam who was nodding beside me.

'It says here you added in sweetheart,' he said in a strained voice looking down at the paper.

'You know better than to believe anything my mother says,' Sam said. 'She's a liar. All she wants is a good story.'

Albus smirked. 'So you and James aren't dating then. You do look cosy in that loving embrace though.'

I got ready to stand up. 'Don't make me come over there,' I growled.

'Albus, will you put down that paper,' Lily snapped grabbing it of him. 'And James, don't rise to his bate. I've had enough of it. I've had about sixty girls come up to me asking whether it was true. It's getting ridiculous.'

'What did you say to them,' Albus demanded making the table shake and splattering ink everywhere.

'I told them to ask you themselves,' Lily snapped capping her ink bottle before Al could do anymore damage.

'What?' Albus nearly shrieked. 'Why did you say that? That makes it sound like I am actually gay.'

'Calm down,' Sam said. 'Merlin, Al.'

'Don't tell me to calm down,' Al said shrilly. 'It was your bloody mother that wrote all this. Why? Why can't reporters just keep their noses out of other people's business?'

'This is my mother we're talking about,' Sam said leaning back in her chair looking glum. 'Everything is her business.'

'It'll get worse before it gets better,' Lily added. 'The Hogwartian Weekly's coming out tomorrow morning. Some of the articles in that are going to be embarrassing.'

She said the word 'embarrassing' in a singsong voice.

'Lily, you're in the Quidditch team too,' I snapped.

'Not the point,' she said putting a final full stop onto her essay. 'Let's face it. It's been a bad week for the Wotter family.'

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Alice's POV

I was jolted awake by the sound of my bloody alarm clock. I had owned it for five years and I still hadn't gotten used to that incessant ringing noise. Every time it rung was a shock to my system.

I got up trying to be silent; Alex could get really cranky in the morning if she got woken up early. I tiptoed down the hall with my towel and orange scented shampoo to the bathroom and was about to start brushing my teeth when-

'ARGH,' came a shriek from the girl stepping out of the shower.

'What!' I cried brandishing my tooth brush and spinning around.

'Oh,' said the girl, well Roxanne to be precise, said. 'You're really quiet.'

She blushed obviously embarrassed by her scream.

'Yeah,' I said. 'I'm being silent. Alex is still asleep.'

I saw Roxanne flinch. 'I meant to apologise to her yesterday but she wasn't in the common room all evening.'

'She was with James, Sam and Louis, they were in the library,' I said.

Roxanne's draw dropped. 'Huh? James and Sam?'

'I know. Apparently they were even doing homework,' I said before gargling water.

Roxanne nodded slightly looking bemused and I smiled at her. She blushed when our eyes connected for a second.

What can you expect? Her whole families blanking her.

Plus she's in a towel.

Actually this is kind of awkward.

'I'm going to-' we said at the same time.

'Oh, you first-' we said at the same time.

'Sorry-' we said at the same time.

Roxanne bit her lip. It was kind of cute.

MERLIN.

Where the hell did that come from?

'Shower,' I muttered and practically ran into the frosted glass.

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Tamika's POV

So I had been walking down the corridor to an early breakfast totally minding my own business, thinking about bacon and how great it would be to not be pregnant when BAM.

Bitch attack.

'Stay away from my man you whore,' shrieked the monster that is Gwen.

'Oh hello there,' I said. 'You should probably scream that a little louder. Freddie's dad probably didn't here that down in Hogsmead.'

'Well you heard me you slut,' she said venomously.

'You're wearing that word out missy,' I said looking at my nails. 'It's funny how you can take perfectly good insults and just rape them.'

'Excuse me,' she said standing in front of me. 'Can you shut your mouth for a moment?'

'Nope.'

'Well I guess it's a little like your legs then,' she smirked.

'Look,' I said. 'Say what you want to say and say it now.'

'Stay away from Freddie,' she said. 'Because if you don't, things are going to get serious.'

'Is that a threat?' I asked.

'Yes.'

'What do you think Freddie would think of that?' I questioned.

'I doubt he'd care,' she said folding her arms across her chest. 'He's a nice boy so he'll act concerned for a bit but he doesn't actually care about you.'

She laughed. 'You're pregnant. You're damaged goods. You always will be.'

And then she walked of down the corridor with peals of laughter following her.

She was right. Who was I kidding? And I actually thought I had a chance with Freddie.

Then I snorted. He was worth a shot anyway.

Challenge accepted bitch.

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Alex's POV

I was had just finished breakfast when I bumped into Louis.

'Woops,' he breathed holding my waist to unnecessarily steady me looking me directly in the eye.

'Don't do that,' I snapped slapping his hands away. He frowned. 'This is me, Alex. Not someone you want to flirt with. Is flirting wired into your brain or something?'

He smirked. 'Someone got up from the wrong side of bed.'

'There was shrieking coming from the bathroom,' I muttered angrily.

He grinned. 'That's what she said.'

I looked at him unimpressed. 'It was Roxanne and Alice.'

'Even more so,' he replied grinning widely.

'Huh?'

He laughed. 'Ask Lysander.'

Lysander? Why would he be sharing a joke with Lysander?

'You've been speaking with Lysander,' I said. 'I didn't think you were on speaking terms.'

'No,' he said shaking his head as though he found something very funny. 'I mean we're both in a position where were more likely to notice something than you straight people. Antonio too I guess.'

'Right,' I said nodding. 'Is this some LGBT community joke.'

'What's an LGBT community,' he asked.

'Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community,' I said. 'Muggle thing.'

'They have that?'

'They have many things in the muggle world,' I said. 'Bent people included.'

'Bent people?' he asked.

'Oh,' I gasped. 'I didn't mean that offensively. You can call me a mudblood if you want.'

'Why would I do that,' he smirked and then turned towards the stacks of newspapers.

Louis stopped to grab a Hogwartian Weekly of one of the stacks and turned to page three immediately.

'James is going to flip out,' he smirked.

I took the paper.

Quidditch Try-out Disaster for Griffindor

By Rose Weasley

Last Friday Griffindor suffered what was most likely the biggest embarrassment they've had since Albus Potter's birthday celebration last year when the whole tower overslept after a night of partying until twelve o'clock in the afternoon earning them all a week's detention for missing there first three lessons.

Griffindor successfully botched there Quidditch try-outs due to an argument between the captain James Potter and his two chasers Louis Weasley and Samantha White. It is said all the team were said to have threatened to quit and that White actually stormed of the pitch when Potter declared that he was replacing both her and Louis Weasley with first years.

Slytherin captain Logan Flint says 'Our spies tell us that it was pandemonium. We reckon Griffindor are going to be no problem to beat.'

James Potter however says 'It was a momentary lapse of judgement on all our parts. It will not happen again.'

Professor McGonagall has denied the rumours that she is looking to sack James Potter in preference to first year Hufflepuff Hortence Pinkleberry.

Underneath the article there was a picture of James in a fit chucking his broomstick away.

I laughed and turned smiling to Louis.

He was looking at me with an odd expression on his face like he was in a daze.

'What?' My hand went to my hair. 'Is there something in my hair?'

'No,' he said in a strange voice that I had never heard him use. 'You just look really pretty when you laugh.'

I froze. 'What?'

He seemed to snap out of his daze. 'No sorry,' he said quickly. 'I didn't mean- I didn't mean that-'

'I know,' I said quickly.

'Right… well,' he trailed of.

'I have charms,' I said turning to get out of the extremely awkward situation that had just arisen. 'See you.'

'So do I,' he said. 'I mean I have charms too.'

'Oh,' I nodded. Of course he did. 'Of course, we're in the same class.'

'Right,' he said and looked at me before brushing a strand of his fringe out of his eyes.

Did I ever mention how beautiful his eyes were? And his tan and his hair and his muscles.

'Right,' he said again.

'Yeah,' I muttered.

He stayed silent for a second. 'Well I'm just going to go this way,' he said motioning to the corridor to our left.

'Okay,' I said. 'Well see you then.'

Then we headed off the same charms classroom in different directions.

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Authors Note: Sorry that this chapter was so boring. Something big is happening next chapter as you can probably guess.