I flung the door open to the common room and stepped in. Violet shoved her shoulder into me as her and a crying Lisa walked past me to leave. They did not look at Lily and I, nor did they say anything. I gave Lily a questioning look and then walked into the common room, where no one was sitting.

Noticing the Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook I picked it up and flipped through it. "It's gone," I whispered to Lily.

"I'm so sorry," she whispered as I walked over to James' door and put my ear on it.

Through the door I could hear Sirius questioning James about what had happened, "I don't know man. Violet was asking you all that stuff about Charlie and saying that you shouldn't be friends with her. Then I defended you and she wanted to talk in my room. So we came in here and she started saying she couldn't believe that I thought that. I just kept telling her that you and Charlie had been friends forever. Then she said that me and Lily shouldn't be friends and I was like we live right next to each other and have to work together… plus why wouldn't I be friends with her? I have tried to be her friend for years. Then she started crying and said it was her or Lily. So I told her that I don't put up with ultimatums. She wouldn't budge on it so we broke up."

"Sorry to hear that man," Sirius said sighing.

"To be honest, I don't think we were going to work out anyways," James admitted. "She was nice and fun. But I think I need someone who is a bit more mentally stimulating. I bit more…"

"Like Lily?" Sirius suggested.

"Hey man don't start that," James said sighing. "If you want to play that game we can start talking about you and Charlie."

"Honestly I don't know what to do," I could hear the stress in Sirius' voice. "There is nothing wrong with Violet. I enjoy her company. There is no reason for us to break up but my head just isn't in it. Now she's obsessed with ruining my friendship with Charlie and I don't know what to do. I can handle not being with Charlie but I can't handle not being her friend."

I rushed over to Lily and pulled her into her room. "Violet didn't tell them about the pros and cons list," I told her.

"Maybe it fell out somewhere else," Lily said beginning to search her room.

"Wait Lily, there's more," I said pulling her to sit on the bed. Then I began to tell her about the conversation I had just overheard.


Hope you are enjoying. There are some big exciting chapters where quite a few things happen.

In the next chapter you can look forward to:

- the much awaited Christmas Social

- next chapter sets the stage for the Christmas Social but it's the one after that where the excitement happens

- two finally decide to got to the social together