It was Sunday, and although Al thought he'd have the WWW products by now apparently his Uncle hadn't replied so he thought he was probably 'busy' since he was 'opening a new store' and apparently this 'requires a lot of hard work' so he 'doesn't have a lot of spare time to reply.'

Pfft, excuses, excuses.

So I was yet again reduced to studying in the library with Rose, on a Sunday! Merlin, I need a life.

"Rose, can we please take a break, we've been studying for hours and I feel as if my brain is fried! If I die from a fried brain I expect you to be at my funeral!"

"We've been studying for half an hour."

Really? I swear we've been here for the whole day, or week, or month."That's twenty five minutes too long! I hate studying, it sucks."

"Merlin, you are going to fail your OWLs."

"Shut up, we can't all be geniuses like you."

"I'm not a genius, I just put in the work! Your really smart and you'd get far better marks if you just put more effort in! You have so much potential and I know-"

"Rose?"

"Yes?"

"Have you ever considered a career in teaching?"

"No..."

"You should."

"Ha ha, very funny."

"It amused me."

"Of course it did."

"What do you mean 'of course it did'? What would be the point of making jokes if you don't find the funny?"

"For other people's amusement?"

"Why would I care about that?"

"You are so selfish sometimes."

"Sometimes? Try all the time."

"How is it that you don't care that you can be a horrible person."

"Correction, I AM a horrible person."

"That's noting to be proud of, and you're not a horrible person. Yes I admit you can be selfish and stubborn, and loud, and mean and cruel and violent..."

"I am not fucking violent."

"And you're in denial about being violent, and you swear too much but-"

"Is this the part where you tell me that deep down I'm really a nice person who's just pretending to be a bitch or some shit like that?"

"No, what I'm saying is that even though you ARE all those things you're also funny, you CAN be nice-"

"Since when? When have I ever been nice to anyone?"

"Oh Merlin, I give up! If you're so bloody determined to be thought of as a bitch them fine, you are a bitch. Happy?"

"I would be if I wasn't in a library, libraries freak me out."

Rose looked at me as though I've gone insane. Sorry Rose, but that happened quite some time ago, around the time I started making cakes out of shredded books. My mum cried when she found out, they were her books after all...

"How can libraries freak you out?"

"They're too silent, it's like I'm in a graveyard. I feel as if I should be crying and wearing a black dress."

"You have to be the weirdest person I have ever met."

"And proud of it."

"God, why am I friends with you again?"

"Cause I'm so fucking hilarious?"

"No, that can't be it."

"Cause everyone else is boring?"

"Nah, Al's good company."

"Because of my beautiful face?"

"Nah, I don't really like people with faces. I only put up with Al cause he's family."

"And you call me weird."

"I never said I was normal."

"Touché."

Rose smiled and went back to her essay, shouldn't be surprised since she has to be the nerdyest person I have ever met. I hummed quietly under my breath and looked around, trying to find something mildly interesting to do in here.

Nope, just a bunch of nerds who have no lives, and Michael McLaggen.

Shit.

He was sitting at one of the tables in the corner, staring at me as though I'm some complicated puzzle he can't figure out, and it's bugging him.

Fucking dickhead.

"What're you staring at?"

"Nothing." I said, still glaring at the asshole across the room.

"No, you... ARE YOU STARING AT THAT FUCKING TOSSER MCLAGGEN?"

"Glaring would be a better word."

"Oh, good."

"Good?"

"Mclaggen's a foul excuse for a human being, should go die in a whole."

"He should."

"No, a whole not bad enough, he should go die in a rat infested, snake filled, whole filled with spiders."

"Very descriptive."

"Thank you."

"So, what did he do to you to deserve such a fate?"

"Don't tell Al."

"Why?"

"He's over protective."

"I think your mistaking him with James."

"He's worse than James."

"Is that possible?"

"Yeah, James just yells at them and tells them to back off. Al on the other hand, Al never gets caught. He does little things over time, little things that scare the shit out of people."

"Such as?"

"You know that guy who cheated on Lily in fourth year?"

"Yeah, James hung him from the roof in the entrance hall."

"Yeah, remember how he went crazy, kept saying someone was following him, that someone was poking him and stuff when there was no one there?"

"Oh yeah, that was funny."

"Yeah, he wasn't imagining it."

"Wait, that was Al?"

"Yep."

"How?"

"Doesn't matter, anyway just don't tell him yeah?"

"Sure, so what happened with Sir dickhead over there?"

"We were friends he was really nice, we went to Hogsmeade together, and all he wanted to do was snog behind one of the shops. I said I wanted to get food and he said he'd wait there while I went to get some food. He regretted being a dick."

"Oh my god, are you the one who gave him a black eye?"

"Maybe."

"Wicked!"

"You can't tell anyone."

"Fine, but I think you should, no one would mess with you if they knew you've given a guy a black eye before."

"I don't want people to be scared of me."

"Why not, they leave you alone then."

"But don't you ever get lonely?"

"Sometimes, but it's not so bad."

"How do you not care about the rumours?"

"They can't hurt me if I don't care what they think of me, right?"

"That's horrible."

"Life's horrible."

"You're such a pessimist."

"A realist."

"You keep thinking that."

"I will."

"You-"

"ROSE, ROSE, ROSE, ROSE, ROSE!" I looked up to see Al bolting through the library, looking a mess; his hair was even more wild than usual, his blue checked shirt was ripped, showing the white tank top he was wearing underneath and he looked terrified.

"Albus, what happened?"

"Man, you look like shit."

"Shut the fuck up Hailee!"

I raised my eyebrows in surprise but before I could even come up with some witty remark he dived under the table, shouting, "Hide me!"

"Al, what in god's name is going-"

"ALBIE? SWEETIE WHERE ARE YOU?"

Albie? I think I might be sick.

So, Hailee is being a true Gryffindor again and Albus has been attacked.. :P

This story may not be updated as quickly because I started another Al/Oc story which will be posted tomorrow, probably. I will try and update this as soon as i can, I promise! :)

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