"It's not going to be so bad, y'know," Emmett said, smoothing back Kayla's hair as they stood together outside in the garden of her home, her parents had gone out to work, and she had taken advantage of that fact.

"Maybe, maybe not," Kayla said quietly, wondering what she was doing right now, it seemed strange, she knew Hogwarts for only a year, but it seemed so awfully wrong for her to return without Emmett, true she'd have her friends, but… Something seemed off.

"Don't be like that," Emmett said softly, stroking a single finger down her face, until reaching her chin and tipping her head to look at him. "You'll be fine, and we'll see each other on Hogsmeade days, and Christmas."

"Yeah." She smiled. It was fake.

"Are you alright Kay?" Liam asked as they sat together on the side of the indoor pool in the 'Cool room'. They were in their bathing suits, and simply hanging there feet in the water.

"Not really…" Kayla replied, not quite meeting her best friend's eye. "Can we invite the guys over? I think I need a laugh, and lord knows they are easy to laugh at."

Liam grinned at her, before nodding his head and getting to his feet and leaving the pool room for a minute or so, before coming back with a grin.

"I also invited Emily and Eliza."

When finally they had arrived Kayla finally smiled, a proper smile, she was happy to see her friends. It was not long before they were all in the pool, laughing and joking. But it seemed an even smaller space of time before Kayla's smile was removed.

"So Kayla, you sticking with your guy?" Simon asked her, smirking in a way that she knew meant he thought that was a stupid idea.

"Er, yeah," Kayla murmured, Simon raised a blonde eyebrow at his friend. He opened his mouth to say more, but Emily cut over him.

"I think you should dump him," Kayla looked at Emily, her short blonde hair, her slim figure, she was flirty, and she was sorted for her love life. Owen wasn't about to leave her, he would never make the mistake that Emmett did, but then again, it was ijust a mistake… /i

But this one tiny mistake caused Kayla a lot of doubt, it was painful to know, and it was making her think things that she wouldn't have before…

"Not now Emily," Eliza said, seeing the sadness pass over Kayla's face. "Let's just have some fun before we go back to school."

"I think now is a perfect time, she's got her friends who won't lie to her, won't do some of the things that Emmett had… I mean, I like him a lot, he's a good friends, but not to Kayla… I know he's had his reasons, but sometimes when you need him, he isn't there, and it's not been just once or twice," Emily pointed out, this caused Kayla to recoil, she knew this already.

"He's had really good reasons," Kayla said, her voice quiet almost a whisper.

"So what, you come behind everything else? For someone who says he loves you Kay, he doesn't really treat you that great," Simon said.

"I think you should break up with him," Brett said, it was the first time he'd spoken all day, and it surprised Kayla… he opened his mouth and then closed it, not saying what he wanted to.

"Please, Brett, talk to me, because I need my friends to tell me what they think now more then ever," Kayla said quietly, moving towards Brett, she trusted his opinion more then the others, probably because they were much more biased then Brett would be.

Liam liked her, and that would affect what he said to her, as well as Simon. Emily was feeling overprotective and she'd blow it out of proportion, and Eliza wouldn't want to say anything at all because she was so close to both Kayla and Emmett.

"Because you're better then him Kayla," His words sounded as if they were meant to mean something, and yet all meaning was lost on Kayla, because she could not understand this, she could not see it because she loved Emmett, because no matter how much he'd hurt her, or forgotten her, she loved him, and to her there was nothing better then him.