"Oh. My. God"

There was a downside to keeping this a secret. And that was that no matter how much I would deny it, there was always evidence that I was pregnant.

For example, a pregnant belly would not work in my favour.

"Can you all see that?" I was currently standing in front of the mirror, with my top lifted up to expose my stomach. "That is a bump."

All the girls came rushing over to get a look. Dom raised one of her eyebrows in confusion, Holly was squinting and Rose said "Are we meant to be looking at something?"

"Yes!" I said exasperated. "My jeans wouldn't do up today. And this is the reason. My stomach is growing."

"I really can't see anything." Rose walked back over to her bed, picking up a book. "Call me when there is actually something there." How dare she? This is a big deal.

"You may be blind as bat, but Holly and Dom can see it." I looked over to them, who were still looking at me in confusion. "Right?"

Dom sighed. "She does have a point. You don't look any different." She then proceeded to go back to her wardrobe, and sort through clothes. I looked to Holly, the last of my hope clinging on. She shook her head, and I slumped. Was I imagining things?

I examined my stomach again. Standing in the jeans I had mentioned earlier, I tried to pull the zip up. It still wouldn't budge. The only thing different I could see was a slight curve to my stomach, that hadn't been there before. But was it really there?

"I know!" I ran to my trunk and started searching through it. Holly was sat on my bed stroking LBP. I couldn't control her if she wanted to ruin the life of her own cat, but if she even brought a cat sized bonnet near to mine, she'd regret it.

Wading through the clothes, I finally found what I was looking for. "Found it." Picking up the packet with the invisibump pants in, I walked to the bathroom to put them on.

After slipping them on, I decided they were really comfy. Looking at the packet I'd realised I'd picked up the packet which halved the size of any bump, and could be worn for twelve hours. I went back out into the dorm and pulled the jeans on.

Moment of truth. I reached for the zip, and pulled.

Straight up. No problems. Dom looked over impressed. "How'd you get the jeans to do up?"

"I put on a pair of the Invisibump pants. So there must be something there." I turned in the mirror, and noticed the slight curve had disappeared.

Rose glanced up from her book. "Nothing that we can actually see though. How long can you wear them for?"

"Twelve hours until" I picked up the packet and read the back. "aching, aggravation and irritation sets in."

"You can wear it today then. It's the weekend, so I need to go to the library, and you're coming with me." Holly stood up from my bed went to get something form hers.

I groaned. "Do I have to?" Rose smirked and nodded. "If you want me to do some of your homework, you have to at least come to the library and revise. I can't sit your tests in class for you."

"Alright." As I stood up, I saw Holly approach my cat. "Put the cat clothes down, and step away from the kitten."

She froze when she realised I'd seen her. "But he'll look sweet."

I stood, picked up LBP and walked towards the door. "Let's go to the library now, before I change my mind." As Rose put her book down, and grabbed her schoolbag, I turned to Holly and said "You are mad if you think I'm leaving you and LBP alone together. He'll be scarred for life."


Sat in the corner of the library, Rose was quizzing me on all things magical.

"What potion gives off a faint blue smoke, and adding sugar renders it useless?"

I knew this one. "Wolfsbane potion." Rose nodded, before looking for another question. "Another name for Wolfsbane?"

"Aconite."

She smiled. "Correct." I yawned, revision had this affect on me.

"Do we really have to learn this? This was all mentioned in first year, I don't think they're going to bring it up again." If I had to revise, I'd rather revise something useful.

"You never know, it's best to be prepared." She must've been a boy scout in a past life. Rose stood and made to move off the table.

"Where you going? Can we leave?"

Rose snorted. "I'm just going to get more books." She then disappeared around the edge of one of the bookcases. So I was left sitting at the table, looking out of my depth. Great.

I could see all across the library from where I was sitting, but my table was hidden in the shadows of a particularly high bookshelf. So I was one of the first to see James walk into the room. And the reactions of the girls.

I knew that he was popular with the ladies, but this was weird. They actually stopped what they were doing to gawp at him. One girl fainted as he walked past her. A bit overdramatic but I can't exactly judge.

Rose made me jump as she dropped the pile of books she'd collected onto the table. "That's a lot of books Rose."

"No it's not. This was all I could carry. Now shush." She then buried herself into the first book that was called 'Could it be magic?'.

"Hey." James had decided to come sit at our table. And everyone was looking.

"James? What are you doing here?" His appearance had grabbed Rose's attention too. To her disgust, he ruffled her hair.

"Aren't I allowed to come visit my favourite cousin?" He followed this with another ruffle of the hair.

"Do that one more time, and you will lose that hand!" Obviously Rose was very protective of her hair, but her reaction was funny enough.

I turned to James. "Aren't we meant to be a secret?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Anyone looking will just think I've come to see Rose. She is family, so she has uses." Rose did not look happy with this, and looked affronted.

"If you are just going to insult me, I'm going back to my book." All the faces in the room had started to turn away.

James started to pull out parchment and ink out of his bag. "I just thought you should know, that your attractiveness has gone down since I now know you come in the library." I said.

"Really?" James looked like he was trying to hold in laughter. "And there was me thinking that girls liked looks, personality and intelligence." He concentrated on writing the title of his assignment. Once he had finished, he looked back up at me. "Anyway, you're in here."

Touché Mr Potter.

"I'll forget you were in here, if you forget I was."

He smirked. "You've got yourself a deal. So either of you got any new drama in your lives?"

Besides Rose fancying the family enemy, and me getting fat?

"Now that you mention it, this" I held up my little Black kitten, "is LBP. He came to Hogwarts. I guess my cousin Elena dropped him off." I gave him a pointed look, to which he had an innocent expression on his face.

"You've got a really nice cousin. I think you should reward this cousin of yours." Two can play at this game.

"But my cousin did it out of the kindness of their heart." Rose just huffed angrily. She did not look pleased.

"Will you both just shut up! This is a library. And you can both stop acting like this cat came from a cousin. I found the note you bloody signed James." Rose went back to reading, leaving me and James just to stare at her.

Well we got told.

"Hey James. What are you doing sitting here?"

Turning around, all three of us saw Jack standing behind us, with a look of disbelief on his face. James, however, managed to keep his cool, and replied "Needed to get work done. It was either sitting with my cousin, sitting on my own, or sitting with a bunch of fan girls. You wouldn't wish that fate on me right?"

Jack let out a loud laugh. "I wouldn't wish that on my enemy." He then moved to sit opposite James, next to me.

Standing up, I said "Right, I'm off." Rose seemed surprising co-operative, and stood to come with me.

Jack frowned. "Where you going, Ames?" I looked at him in incredulity. "Have you talked to Aiden yet?"

Jack instantly looked guilty. "Not yet, no." I carried on gathering my stuff together. After I'd finished, I turned back to him "Then I'm still not talking to you."

"But you talked to me yesterday?"

I sighed, picking up LBP. "That wasn't a conversation. That was an interrogation." Walking away, I didn't once look back, but I could feel Rose following me out the room.

"Why are you so happy to be leaving the library Rose?"

"Are you kidding? I'm not going to get any work done with them there."


Waiting on your date is normally a boring chore. However, waiting for your date in the room of requirement, not so much.

"I'd like a slide please."

Popping up in the corner of my eye, I turned to see a bright red slide appear on the left of the door. Giggling, like the child I am inside, I ran up the steps and squealed as I slid down. After a couple of minutes of it, I got bored.

"What shall I have now?" I asked myself out loud.

"How about a fireplace?"

Jumping due to the voice that appeared out of nowhere, I span around to see a fireplace appear to the right of James, who seemed to find my childish antics hilarious.

"I hope you're not laughing at me." I scolded. "I don't exactly have much time to be irresponsible."

The smile on his face instantly disappeared. "I'm sorry." He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards a sofa that popped out of nowhere. "So I wanted to meet you for a reason."

"And I though you just liked to spend quality time with me." I snuggled closer, when he put an arm around my shoulders.

He chuckled nervously. "Yeah."

I looked up, when I heard the hesitation in his face. "Oh god, you're no breaking up with me are you?" His face showed the surprise he felt when I said this, and quite literally yelled "NO!" in my face. Sweet.

"It's nothing like that. I was just thinking…." Trying to phrase his next sentence, he paused slightly. "Maybe we could tell Jack."

"WHAT!" James winced as I screamed in his ear. "You want to tell Jack that you got me pregnant, and then continued to see me behind his back?"

"We don't have to tell him we're having a baby just yet. I was wondering maybe we could say that we were going out. Not behind his back, but that we'd just started."

I scoffed. "Good luck with that."

"Well, why not?"

"Because.." I reasoned. "When he finds out that you like me and that you're my boyfriend he'll beat you up. Then, when he realises that it's been going on longer than he thought, he'll kill you. Finally, when I tell him I'm pregnant, he'll resurrect you just to murder you in a more painful way. Comprende?"

"I can handle him if he doesn't like the idea of his sister being with his mate."

"Do you remember Jonathan Andrews last year? Ended up in the hospital wing, because Jack made every one of the school broomsticks attack him. I hear he still has nightmares about it." He just shrugged.

"Like I said, I can handle it."

I stared in confusion. "And when he realises I'm up the duff? How are you going to handle that?"

He turned, sat forward and stared into the fire. It was a while before he answered back. "I'll take what I deserve."

"You are mental. Most guys would be running away from this problem." He shook his head, and smiled. Leaning back once more, he said "You are not a problem. I mean, it hasn't exactly been easy, but it's worth it. You, are worth fighting for."

Uncontrollable heart beat. Check.

Internal sighing. Check.

Falling just a little bit. Check.

"Will you accept if I consider it?" James kissed my cheek, before resting his chin on my head. I could feel the atmosphere take a chill pill.

Looking down at me, he answered "That's all I ask."

A/N: So this was slightly filler, as well as involving some progress in the pregnancy. My sister spent a couple of weeks talking about the bump she had that we weren't actually able to see. But I hear it's normal for the mum to be to see it first.

I decided to be nice and give you a small sneak peek at the next chapter.

"What?"

"I said I'm pre….."

"I heard what you said, I was just wondering WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE DOING?"

I was shaking hard. I didn't expect this reaction from him. How did I respond? "I…"

"You can't have a baby! You're bloody sixteen years old. You wouldn't be able to handle it, you'd be a terrible mum!"

The last five words brought up all the insecurities I'd ever had about whether I'd be able to do it. But nothing stung more than hearing the words I feared coming out of his mouth.

Duh duh duh. Somebody finds out and they don't like it. Apart from a glare from the welcome witch at St Mungo's, she hasn't had any bad reactions. Yet.

Thank you for reading,

nmegirl