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The sound of chatter and Lucy singing woke me up early the next morning. Lucy loved anything to do with music and could play almost every instrument, she had the best voice I've ever heard but she only played when she wanted too, but she sang all the time. She was a Weasley so she was naturally loud but at the same time she was still shy, she was the quietest one out of us four.
"Lucy! Shut up!" I groaned into my pillow.
"Look who's finally awake!" Roxy grinned as she applied her make up.
"What do you mean? What time is it?" I yawned, sitting up.
"Seven forty five. You slept through the rest of the afternoon and evening. Worry wrackspurt here wanted to call for Madam Pomfrey but we calmed her down. Frankie had people to check on you every hour." Dominique said as Lucy came out of the bathroom, sticking her tounge out at me, Dom added that last bit so only I could hear.
"Well, Marcus calmed her down." Roxy giggled quietly. Dominique had to cover her mouth so she didn't let her shriek of a laugh escape and wake the entire Gryffindor Tower up, not that anybody would mind, she'd just turn the Veela charm on them and they'd forgive her like usual. Lucy never said anything, she just looked smug.
"That's lovely, first thought of the day; Lucy snogging Marcus." I snapped, snatching my spare uniform and marching into the bathroom with it.
"I take it she failed her exam then." Roxy guessed, before I slammed the bathroom door on them three, Merlin knows how much I love those three but they give me a headache! Always moaning on and on about boys! Can't they just leave well alone? What happened yesterday is partly Dominique's fault anyway, couldn't she keep her mouth shut? I grumbled to myself as I got washed my face and got dressed. After discarding my wrinkled school uniform and only clean robe, I really need to sort my clothes out, I walked out to the dormitory where the other three were sat on Roxy's bed waiting for me.
"I'll have you know I passed my exam. Outstanding." I grinned at Roxy, laughing with them when they rolled their eyes.
"There's a surprise. Come on Lily, I'm starving!" Lucy grinned, leading the way out of the dormitory, Roxy soon followed, maybe the Weasley women did have stronger apetites than the men, I sighed waiting for Dominique to leave the room. She stood up but shut the door gently, so the others wouldn't hear.
"Why are you and Scorpius arguing?" She asked me quietly, her eyes alert so she could spot if I was lying or not.
"Because you can't keep your mouth shut!" I snapped at her, narrowing my eyes.
"Don't blame me! Your the one who now has two boyfriends!" She snapped back.
"Yeah, well -" I growled, aiming a kick at Lucy's bed in frustration.
"He found out I agreed to go on a date with Frankie and now he hates me. Said I'm not worth his time." I scowled after taking a deep breath.
"Oh Lillu." She gasped, using the nickname she gave me when we were four years old.
"I only said yes to Frankie to shut him up and so Albus wouldn't suspect anything!" I quickly explained so she wouldn't jump down my throat like Scorpius did.
"I know, of course I know! I just didn't think it was like you to lead him on that's all." Dominique told me reassuringly.
"Lead who on?" Lucy's voice came quietly from the dormitory door which obviously wasn't shut properly. Dom's eyes widened as I gasped.
"Frankie, she doesn't want to date him." Dominique said slowly, I could practically hear cogs turning in her head.
"But I thought you said you liked him at his party? You did kiss after all." She shrugged.
"I do like him, just not like I used too. And he kissed me." I said, not technically lying to her. She narrowed her eyes for a second before shrugging and urging us to hurry up, Roxanne has already left them to go get breakfast. Once she was sure her cousins were following her this time, Lucy started singing a song under her breathe and led the was downstairs.
"So what are you going to do?" Dominique whispered to me, low enough so that only I could hear, Lucy had gotten a notebook from somewhere and was jotting notes down as she sang.
"Well, I'm going to avoid Frankie at breakfast." I whispered back. Dom sighed but nodded for me to carry on.
"And then, well I've got Defence with him this afternoon I think, so I'll try and slip a note to him then." I shrugged.
"You're going to freeze today you know, it's baltic in the Astronomy tower." Lucy said randomly as we walked around the bend which took us straight down the marble staircase.
"Yeah, I know." I sighed, nobody heard me though, because Lucy let out a very un-Lucy like girlish squeel and ran towards a group of boys stood outside the Great Hall doors.
"Marcus!" She shouted, running straight into his arms, causing his friends to chuckle.
"Yeah alright Jordan, put her down." James scoffed, shaking his head at the two of them kissing. Seeing James made it obvious it wasn't just Marcus' fourth year friends, actually Marcus and Hugo were the only fourth years there. James, Fred and some of their seventh year friends were, one of whom was obviously giving Dominique the once over, Frankie was there too talking to Albus who was stood infront of three Slytherins. Taylor Zabini, Ashley Pucey, and Scorpius who was looking at Frankie like he wanted to kill him.
"Shut it Potter! Your just jealous because Selena's mad at you!" Marcus called over to him, making everyone laugh. Everyone but Scorpius, who'd spotted me and Dominque stood on the stairs, noticing that he wasn't giving him death stares anymore had obviously attracted Frankie's attention because he turned and grinned at me.
"There's the witch of the week!" He laughed, not making quite as many people laugh this time though he certainly didn't make me laugh.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him, raising an eyebrow.
"Your the witch everyones talking about. Come on then, put us out of our misery; what did you get yesterday?" He asked with a confident grin. I scowled at him in response, I really am a terrible terrible person, I sighed inwardly before I answered him.
"Pissed off." I snarled, everyone looked at me with wide eyes, except my family who looked amused.
"What? Why, what happened? I meant your exam, how did it go?" He asked me quickly, rushing up to me and reaching for my hand.
"Oh that went fine, I wasn't feeling well so I went to bed for the rest of the day." I shrugged, glancing at Scorpius over Frankie's shoulder for a brief second.
"But wait! You know that, because you had people checking up on me every hour! You can be a pillock sometimes you know that Longbottom?" I sneered at him.
"I was just worried about you -" He began to explain before I snatched my hand back and silenced him.
"Why? I had a stomach bug, none of my other friends were worried that much!" I hated saying that bit so loud, Scorpius needs to hear me say it though!
"But I'm not just your friend though am I?" He asked weakly, turning pale. Lily Potter, the worst girl in the entire wizarding world, I swallowed heavily before answering, focusing on a patch of wall just over his shoulder, which also happened to be several inches away from Scorpius' head.
"No. No your not, your like family which should have meant you wouldn't be as worried because you should have known it'd annoy me to be mollycoddled!" I snapped before grabbing Dominique's hand and pushing past the group of boys and marching into the Great Hall.
"Whoa, what happened to ignoring him during breakfast?" Dom laughed as we sat down.
"Well I could hardly ignore him when he came right up infront of me could I? Were you -?" I trailed of, knowing she'd understand.
"I was yes. Scorpius looked a little bit too happy when you practically dumped Frankie. Of course, he never showed his emotions for too long. Al looked confused and James looked like he was going to burst out laughing. The others looked uncomfortable." Dominque told me in a hushed tone.
"Well, that's sort of why I did it infront of everybody. Hopefully people will be talking about that all day so Scorpius will realise that he was wrong." I said hopefully, helping myself to some breakfast. Dominique chuckled but never said anything.
"So, since you passed I take it you're not going to be in our Defence class after break?" Dom asked me after she finished her toast.
"I don't know, Thomas said that I'll be in the sixth year class. Albus or Rose never really said when they had it, except I know it's first thing on a Friday." I shrugged.
"Well we have Herbology first thing on a Friday so maybe your getting took out of that class?" Dominique suggested.
"Oh I hope not. That means I'll be in the same class as Prissy Polly and her friends." I groaned, making Dominique choke on her pumpkin juice.
"Professor! Professor! I got dirt on my robe!" Dominique imitated Polly perfectly, making me snort with laughter.
"Daddy! Daddy! The other girls are picking on me! Put them in detention Daddy!" I added in a rubbish attempt of her voice, nevertheless it made Dominique release her shriek of a laugh which had heads from all five tables jump and look our way.
"It's called having a laugh! You all might wanna try it sometime!" I snapped to the group of haughty looking Ravenclaw's who were looking me up and down.
Dominique just laughed again and stuck her tounge out at people who were still staring. Since Dominique and I were the closest of the family, and extended family, Polly and Dominique never really got along either. Every time they both came to my house at the same time, or the Burrow, the three of us would end up fighting. Roxy and Lucy however got on very well with Polly, and so did Hugo a little too well in fact, how our parents treat Frankie and I growing up was much the same as they treated Polly and Hugo.
"Lily, Professor Longbottom's trying to get your attention." Dominique nudged me and nodded to the staff table where Professor Longbottom was sat waving his hand at me.
"I'll just be a minute Dom." I sighed and hurried over to him, Don't put me in Polly's class. Don't put me in Polly's class, I repeated in my head over again.
"Congratulations again Lily, we'll make this quick I have to be back in the Greenhouse. You've been moved from fourth year DADA to sixth year DADA, now it's simple Professor Thomas teaches the sixth year Gryffindor's the same time I teach the fourth year Gryffindor's so your just going to be moved from the Gryffindor-Slytherin class to my Hufflepuff-Ravenclaw class. Here's your new timetable and I'll see you after break." He smiled at me before draining his goblet and hurrying away. I snatched my timetable of the table and stormed over to where Lucy and Roxy had joined Dominique.
"I'm in Polly's Herbology class! Perfect, she's going to make that class hell!" I growled, grabbing my bag from the bench.
"Ignore her." Lucy sighed.
"She's not that bad." Roxy shrugged.
"So? Make it hell for her." Dominique grinned, making me grin back.
"And you two wonder why she's my favourite." I winked and teased Roxy and Lucy who just scowled at me before laughing.
"She won't do anything -" Lucy started but she stopped when Dominique nudged her and nodded behind me.
"Lily, do you want me to give you a lesson tonight? I don't have to patrol." Scorpius asked me, keeping his expression even and not giving anything away. Does this mean I'm forgiven? Are we back on? I quickly asked myself before nodding quickly.
"Right, same time same place?" He nodded to me before walking off. I looked after him for a full minute before Roxy clicked her fingers in my face.
"Don't do it again Lily. Molly told me last night that Rose hardly stopped crying and even though their friends now she still likes him. She's determined they'll get back together." Lucy whispered to me.
"I'm not stupid! I need his help in Potions, that's all!" I lied, not looking at Dominique who was looking anywhere but at me.
"Good, Rosie just thinks that his heads messed up over his Grandfather. Al said he died over Christmas break." Roxy shrugged.
"Yeah he did. Come on, if we hurry we can steal the Ravenclaw's table at the front of the class. No way am I sitting at the back without a robe to wear." I laughed, changing the subject brilliantly because Roxy and Lucy began lecturing me on keeping my laundry managed. Dominique just winked and bit back a grin when I finally caught her eye.
If I was happy, Scorpius was happy and we were both single we weren't doing anything wrong. Right? I tried telling myself that but when I saw Polly Longbottom walking away from Frankie, throwing me a look that would scare even seventh year Slytherins, I seriously doubted it.