HEATHER POV

I woke up in the middle of the night, much to my surprise, but it turned out Roxy was also awake.

"Roxy, what are you doing? Its 4:30am?" I said, yawning.

"I couldn't sleep" She moaned, sitting up. Her hair was beyond curly and was now a ball of frizz. I struggled to hold in my laughter.

I groaned as well, it was freezing, and I got up to shut the window. Who even opened it?

I turned back to say something to Roxy, who I noticed was already snoring. I rolled my eyes, and settled back down in my comfy bed, and felt sleep creeping onto me.

I woke up, again, but this time it was actually 7:30, and I ran over to shake Roxy, our other friends had already left for breakfast.

"ROXY!" I shrieked into her ear.

She shot up, and we nearly banged heads. "What?" She groaned, scratching her head.

"Its 7:30!" I cried, pulling on my uniform, and ended up putting my jumper on backwards. It was a speedy process getting dressed, but Roxy insisted that she could never go down to breakfast with her hair in such a state, so we were held back another 10 minutes as she charmed her hair to fall in loose curls. It took 10 minutes instead of 2 because she couldn't remember the charm. Typical.

When at last we paraded down to breakfast, my blonde hair also in curls because Roxy wasn't satisfied with only using the charm once, it was 30 minutes until potions.

We walked over to the Ravenclaw table, as usual, to see Rose and Manon, and I noticed Lorcan was sitting over at the Slytherin table with Al and Scorpious.

"GUYS GUESS WHAT!" Rose shouted at us, and receiving a glare from Manon, she lowered her voice to a harsh whisper. "Lorcan still hasn't asked Manon!" I could see Manon was acting like she wasn't listening, but her face turned a slight shade of pink.

"What's that about me?" Lorcan smirked; they had come over from the Slytherin table. I absentmindedly made space next to me, and Albus walked round and sat there. I mentally kicked myself over what I had just done. Friends, I reminded myself, friends. Lorcan sat opposite Manon, the latter refusing to make eye contact with him. This frustrated Lorcan a great deal, I could tell. I snorted, attracting an odd look from Scorpious.

"SO!" Rose squealed "Tomorrow is Saturday, and that means?" She clapped her hands together.

"Yule ball shopping?" I guessed sarcastically.

"YES!" Rose squeaked, Scorpious shaking his head at her, smiling.

"We're going first thing in the morning, Ladies!"

"What's the point of me going, I don't even have a date?" Manon said looking genuinely upset.

This made Lorcan look highly uncomfortable, and he received a glare from everyone but Manon, who was fiddling with her uneaten toast. He sheepishly ran a hand through his hair, and glance at Manon, looking extremely pained.

"You're coming, and you will get a date"- Roxy shot Lorcan a glare- "so you are going to get the perfect dress"

Manon shrugged. I did feel sorry for her, even though my date didn't exactly like me, in that way.

I got up, poking Roxy, as it was time for potions, and the others traipsed off to charms. As we were walking down the hallway we just happened to bump into the one and only Josh Abbott, whom I didn't have a problem with, but it just meant I didn't have anyone to talk to.

I slowly drifted off, and started thinking about the first thing that popped into my head, Albus. I shook my head, physically trying to clear him from my mind. I tried to think about Quidditch, but my thoughts were constantly interrupted by dark black hair and sparkly green eyes. Eugh. I decided to give up on thinking as we walked into potions, and we were in time to bag seats at the back.

I was twiddling my wand around as Slughorn came in, and began babbling about Essence of Dittany. It wasn't a practical today, just note taking for the upcoming test. I scribbled down a few things, which were accompanied by doodles, including the snitch, Lucian, and Roxy leaning over a potion which proceeded to blow up in her face. I smiled at the last one, making me feel particularly evil, especially when Roxy leaned over to get some ink and saw it, and then began to hit me profusely with her textbook. Josh just sat there laughing. Well thanks Josh.

I was in the middle of a detailed drawing of Scorpious and Rose's wedding, when Slughorn announced it was time to go. Time for Arithmancy. Woohoo.

Arithmancy wasn't so bad, Professor Vector was alright. We were also just making notes on complex number charts. It took me ages to get up here, though, it being on the seventh floor and all. I was sat next to Albus, not by choice, it was actually a seating plan based on ability, which meant we were at the back.

Albus was being extremely annoying without intending to; bouncing his knee at a terrific speed under the table we were on.

"Albus, stop it. You'll start an earthquake!" I whispered harshly. He rolled his eyes, but stopped. I smirked. He went back to add to his long list of notes. I gaped at his lengthy notes and then compared it to my small paragraph, accompanied by the famous doodles.

Albus saw me struggling to add notes, and passed me his notes. I smiled thankfully at him, and opened my mouth to say something when Professor Vector spoke.

"Miss McAffrey, could you save your relationship with Mr Potter for after class, thank you" receiving a few giggles from various students. Albus smirked and swung back in his chair. I glared at him, forgetting the fact he had given me his notes. I glanced at the clock and noticed there was only a few minutes left of the lesson, and began packing up my belongings.

I had a free lesson now, so I had arranged to meet Rose and Manon in the Ravenclaw common room. I think Roxy had a library 'date' or something.

I made my way down the seven flights of stairs, beginning to lose my will to live on the 4th one. I finally made it to the Ravenclaw tower; feeling exhausted, and then remembered that I had to answer the riddle. As I reached the door, it spoke;

"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?" It said. My tired brain had had enough. I pondered for a good five minutes, before I heard a voice say,

"A circle has no beginning" I span round to see Manon, holding a divination text book, and she grinned at me as the door flew open, to reveal Rose sitting cross legged on one of the blue sofas, flicking through Witch Weekly. Manon stepped in, and I followed, and we plonked our stuff down next to Rose, who sat up straight in surprise.

Manon made herself comfortable on the floor in front of her, and I sat down next to her. Manon began to play her cd which Lorcan made for her. I still couldn't get over how sweet that was. As music filled the otherwise empty common room, Rose insisted she tried out her new hair charms on Manon and I, to which we both reluctantly gave in.

Manon volunteered to go first, and let out her long fishtail braid, her blue ends still there.

"Comam Cirrus!" Rose muttered, and Manon's once slightly wavy hair slowly rippled into beautiful curls, making me want to have a go. Whilst Manon admired her new locks, I positioned myself in front of Rose on the floor, and Rose brandished her wand, smirking.

"Comam Longus" Rose said, and suddenly my hair grew down to my waist, curling slightly at the end. Manon gasped, still pulling at her brown/aqua curls, and my mouth fell open. I stood up and swished my head around, delighting in my newfound hair.

"It lasts as long as you want it to, and you just have to say 'Reditio' and it will go back to how it was" Rose shrugged, and brandished her wand, pointing at her own curls, and muttered,

"Comam Rectas" and her hair suddenly went dead straight and shiny, and she then said 'Parva Clavi' and a small braid appeared and wrapped itself around the top of her head. Manon and I had our mouths hanging open by the end.

"Rose, where did you learn this?" I muttered, touching my long blonde hair. "Aunt Fleur" She shrugged.

It was lunchtime, and unlike the others I had Reditio-ed my hair, so it was back to its normal length. Manon was too in love with her new curls, and Rose defended herself, saying she thought it suited her, which I couldn't argue with.

We walked in to lunch, already smelling the fresh bread, and seated ourselves on the Ravenclaw table. The guys were over on the Slytherin table again, Scorpious looking like he wanted to join us, but Albus in the middle of what looked like a very stern chat with Lorcan.

I helped myself to a ham sandwich, and some pasta salad. Lunch passed in a blur, and so did the next 2 lessons.

It was around 8:30 at night, and I was brushing my teeth, about to get changed for bed, when Leo tapped his beak at the window, so I walked over and let him in. I opened the piece of scrap paper stuck wedged in his beak, and I opened it.

Meet us at 8:30 in the Ravenclaw Common room

-R&R&M xoxox

I sighed, and put my jumper back on and hurried out of the Gryffindor common room, and checked the surroundings for prefects, and then I ran pretty fast in my converses, to the Ravenclaw tower. The door was open, thank god, and I slowed down and walked in.

I could see Rose was already trying out her hair spells on Roxy, who was looking just as excited as I did earlier, and Manon was lazily re-braiding her hair.

"Heather! Ok now we can begin" Rose said, completing a braiding charm on Roxy.

"What was so urgent?" I said, accepting a peppermint cream from Manon, sitting cross legged on the floor.

"We need to discuss what our Yule Ball outfits are! We can't just turn up at Hogsmeade having no idea of what we're going to wear" Rose said, like I was stupid.

Roxy tossed me a copy of Witches Wardrobe, whom had a small shop near the end of Hogsmeade. I gingerly opened it; I was not one for wearing dresses normally.

5 minutes in, we were all gathered round the catalogue, Roxy having already chosen a gorgeous long Red dress and a Rose flower crown. Rose had chosen a beautiful long green/blue dress, which would complement her eyes nicely. It was only me and Manon who hadn't decided. Manon insisted that she would decide when we got there, and went back to doing her braid. I knew I wanted something of a Jade-y type colour, like a deep green. I shut the catalogue, after flicking through the whole thing and not finding anything. Rose insisted that we would find something, feeling sorry for me.

"I think Scorpious, Albus and Lorcan are in the kitchens talking, so we have ages" Roxy said, and I noticed Manon wince at the mention of Lorcan. Poor thing.

"So, are you and Scorpious still going strong?" Manon said, changing the subject.

"Yes! Oh why didn't I realise he liked me before? You guys should've told me!" Rose grumbled, crossing her arms.

"Sorry, Rosie, but when someone likes you, other people will try to let you figure it out yourself" Roxy said, and I could have sworn she looked directly at me as she said it.