"I'm looking for a place
I'm searching for a face
Is anybody here I know
'Cause nothing's going right
And everything's a mess
And no one likes to be alone
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?"

-Avril Lavigne

Flashback

Dom was massively frustrated with this entire movie night deal, and could not wait for it to be over. It had taken an enormous toll on her social life, and the day was finally here. The event started in less than an hour, and her co-chair, Rose, was nowhere to be found. At first, Dom had been a little pissed that Lex chose Rose -who wasn't even a prefect yet- to help Dom with the project. On second thought she realized that the little brat would probably be a huge help and help expedite the whole planning process. It had worked, but now Rose felt she could just take a break, and if Dom didn't get a break no one else did either. She marched into the Gryffindor common room, surprised to see that Rose was not there.

"Have you seen Rose?" Dom asked no particular person in the Weasley Section.

"No, check Scorpius and Al's room." Hugo answered rather calmly. Dominique seemed to be one of few people that found Rose's affinity to be found in Scorpius' room a little more than odd.

"She spends way too much time in there." James said with a grimace on his face. "Send her down here if you find her." He said, sounding rather bossy. She raised an eyebrow curiously, certain that he hadn't been talking to her that way. "Please."

"Fine. You all better be at the movie night, I worked my arse off to get it together. As a matter of fact, go now. I'm sure there's something you could do."

"Are you serious?" Fred whined.

"Yes, I'm serious. Get up, all of you. Go!" she instructed, not moving until they were all out of their seats. Once the last Weasley had walked out of the door, she went to go find Rose. Dom had had a growing suspicion that something was going on between Rose and Scorpius. Granted, the suspicions had been growing for about 5 years, so some development on that front was way past due. She didn't even bother knocking as she opened the boys' door, though she was more than shocked at what she saw inside. She let them continue for a few seconds, but cleared her throat loudly, causing Scorpius to stop tickling Lily, and Lily to stop laughing like a psychotic hyena.

"Ok, this is so gross on so many levels, I cannot even begin to explain." She said to the unlikely pair. "James sent me up here to get Rose, but I'm going to assume and pray that she's not up here. Was she not invited to your little party?"

"We were just joking around, Dom." Lily said, her words laced with guilt and probably embarrassment. "Seriously, I only came to-"

"Spare me the details Lily, my lips are sealed. But just to feed my dramatic soul, does Rose know about what's going on here?"

"There's nothing going on here." Scopius answered, while Lily's cheeks continued to grow red.

"Lily, you should probably go downstairs. If James was peeved about Rose being in here…"

"I'm leaving." She said, as she squeezed by Dom and out of the door. Dom could only stare at her fellow blonde, disappointed in how he was behaving, but mostly intrigued by the juiciness of this situation. Of course he would go for his best friend's sister instead of the girl everyone had expected him to end up with; classic.

"You're a sick, sick little boy, Scorpius Malfoy. Rose is practically in love with you, and Lily's only like 11. Ew."

"She's 13, actually." He said, sounding rather defensive. Dom couldn't help but laugh at how uncomfortable he seemed.

"Oh, is she 13? That makes this so much better. What do you think that sweet, understanding Grandfather of yours would say? I'm sure he'd be delighted about this new… well, I'm torn between whether this is a development or a time bomb."

"No one asked for your opinion; it isn't any of your business." Dom was surprised by how much all of this pissed her off. She certainly wasn't the most affectionate toward her family, but in this moment she felt oddly protective of both of the younger girls. She made fun of them often, but it was ok for her to do it. When other people hurt them it tugged on her heart strings. A little.

"You're leading on two of my rather sensitive and naive cousins, who are practically sisters, and one of them is going to end up hurt. Not to mention the guilt that the one you choose will feel for upsetting the other, but I'm sure you haven't thought of that. And you think that's none of my business?"

"No."

"Well, be very happy that I'm the one that found you up here because I'm feeling oddly generous today and I'm going to help you with your little predicament. Now I'm only going to say this once: choose Rose. Lily will get over it, it's probably just a little crush." He looked like he was weighing his options and she hoped he saw it the way she did. "Seriously. Choose Rose and get a "firm talking to" from Hugo, or choose Lily and get your arse beaten to a bloody pulp by Hugo, James, Al, Fred, Teddy, Louis, and Rose. Seems like a simple choice to me."

"I'll definitely consider your advice." He said, as his signature smirk creeped back on his face. "But if you're still looking for Rose, you can try Zack Longbottom's room."

"I will do just that." She said, trying to hide her surprise at the idea that Rose would be with Zack. There was no way Rose was the cute little fourth year he gushed about and had dumped her for. She walked down one flight of stairs, reaching the 5th year boys' dorms and invited herself in. Much to her surprise, Rose was in there, but luckily she wasn't in some compromising position like her younger cousin. If anything she looked rather uncomfortable. "Hey you two, what's going on?"

"Rose was tutoring me, then we kind of got side tracked. Now I'm tutoring her on how to approach Scorpius Malfoy." This just kept getting better and better. Zack liked Rose, Rose liked Scorpius, Scorpius liked both Lily and Rose, and Lily liked Scorpius; and Dom was the only person that knew all of this. Rose hit Zack on the arm, looking embarrassed that he'd told Dom about their little secret.

"You're going to ask Scorpius out? How ironic."

"What's ironic?" Rose asked.

"You don't know what ironic means?" Dom asked.

"Of course I know what it means, I don't get what's ironic about the situation."

"Yeah. We don't have time to talk about this, movie night starts in an hour and you, the co-chair, were supposed to be down there ages ago. Let's get moving."

The two of them walked quietly to the Great Hall to finish getting everything set up. Dom could admit that Rose wasn't her favorite person in the world, but it sucked that she had no idea that she was being played. She was going to keep on thinking she and Scorpius were meant to be, and then eventually she'd be blindsided by the fact that he was totally into Lily. And for some reason, all of that was making Dom feel really terrible for what she was about to do. Carter would be completely blindsided by her little stunt if she let it go on. All of the students had filed in and the lights dimmed, signaling the start of the movie.

As soon as the music began to play, Dominique started to get nervous. She felt worse and worse about her idea. She could see Carter and Hollis sitting together from where she was, and they looked perfectly content. Neither of them had the slightest clue that Dominique was about to ruin them in front of the entire school. Then again, no one ever had to know it was her. It was just the principle of the whole thing that was tripping her up, and she didn't want this to ruin her conscience. She decided she couldn't go through with it, and made her way to the screen to unplug the cord, or smash thee player, or something. She was almost there when Lex stopped her.

"What are you doing?"

"I just need to make sure something is set up correctly, you know, just quadruple check."

"Everything is fine, you've done a good job. Just sit back and enjoy it."

"But-"

"This is not a request, it's an order. Go enjoy the movie." He grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her around before giving her a nudge back towards her seat. Great. Just as the crowd was really getting into the movie, the screen went blank, forcing groans from all of the students watching. The picture came back a short while later, showing Hollis sitting with Carter, Linden, James and Fred like they usually did. Nothing bad, but Dom had made the film, and she knew that things were going to get a lot worse.

The next shot cut to Hollis and Carter walking hand in hand through a hallway, before fading into the same hallway that was now seemingly empty. After a few seconds, you could hear someone snogging in nearby closet. Any regular student would just assume it was Carter and Hollis, but judging by the look on his face, he knew that wasn't him in the shot. Before anything was revealed, a shot of Hollis and Linden, who were engrossed in conversation until Nate Creswell walked by, waving shyly at Hollis.

"Why is Nate waving at you like a little school girl with a crush? Are you into him or smething?" Linden asked.

"God no, he's a good for nothing, brainless idiot and I wouldn't be caught dead fawning over him."

"No need to get so defensive, I'm just making an observation. He looks completely smitten by you, it's weird."

"Well, don't think anything of it. I'm happily committed to Carter." Hollis completely contradicted herself in the next shot, where she was seen walking out of the same broom closet from before hand in hand with Nate, who said he would see her next time. At this, the audience gasped loudly. Some were laughing, some were shaking their heads, but none of it was good. In the next shot, Hollis walked into the prefect's bathroom while Dom was putting on her make-up. She had to stop this

"Hey butch! Putting your face on so everyone doesn't see how hideous you really are?"

"Fancy seeing you here, considering you aren't a prefect."

"Bryce Weston, a Ravenclaw prefect gave me a key."

"I can only imagine what you had to do to get that from him."

"I don't kiss and tell Cinderella."

"Was that supposed to be an insult? You are aware that Cinderella got Prince Charming in the end, right?"

"Whatever. I've got your Prince Charming now. I stole him from you then and I'll keep him from you until I'm done with him or feel that you've been punished long enough for causing me such emotional stress with your existence. Nobody wants you butch. Not your family, not Zack, and especially not Carter. You're and insufferable bitch and I hope you-" Dominique wished that she could have gotten to the screen sooner. She couldn't have turned it off fast enough, and even though the movie was no longer playing, there was no mistaking the damage it had caused. Carter ran out of the room, and Hollis followed as the students pointed, laughed, and called her names.

"Everybody get out!" Dom screamed in a gust of panic and regret. "Movie's over!"

The Weasley/Potter clan was up at the crack of dawn cleaning, since the whole movie fiasco had pretty much ruined the night. Dom felt like shit about the whole thing. In the aftermath of the night's events, she couldn't even remember why she'd done it in the first place. She had no clue what would possess her to do something so awful to another person, no matter how badly they deserved it. She wished she hadn't done it, but no matter what guilt she may be feeling over it, what's done was done and there was nothing that could be changed about it now. She had kind of hoped Carter would seem a little more enthused about not having to deal with the wench again, but that had definitely not been the case.

"Who wants to break down the screen and all that stuff?" Lex asked.

"I'll do it!" Rose chimed. Of course she would. Dom was going to let the little goody goody do it until she realized how stupid that was.

"No!" she screamed, causing everyone to look at her like she'd lost it. "Um, I just meant I'll do it, Rose. You know, since you did so many others things to help plan."

"Uh, whatever." Dom tried to look as inconspicuous as possible as she sauntered behind the movie screen. She knew that the original copy was Rose's, because they used to watch it at her house all of the time. If she saw the version Dom had tampered with, she would know something was up. "Actually Dom, I'll just get the movie. You know how my mom is about her-" Dom barely had time to shove the movie behind her back before Rose was standing right in front of her. Rose looked at her like she'd grown a second head, but ignored it and rummaged through the bag. If Dom could she would just mutter a charm and transfigure a movie to look like hers, but she couldn't reach her wand without looking suspicious or dropping the movie.

"It's not in here."

"Oh? Maybe a student stole it."

"No students were back here. What are you holding behind your back?" Good grief, this girl was relentless.

"It's none of your god damned business, that's what." Rose moved her feet really fast, as if she was trying to trick Dom into going the wrong way. "What are you doing? Stop it!" Rose lunged around Dominique, but she was quicker than her cousin. She backed up and thought she had won, until Rose whipped out her wand and muttered a summoning charm so fast that Dom wouldn't have known what happened if she hadn't seen the movie fly from behind her back.

"Why would you try to steal my movie? Wait, this isn't mine."

"Exactly, now give it back."

"Movie night version two? Is this…Did you do this?"

"I've never seen that in my life-"

"It has your name on it. It says Movie night version two, by Dominique."

"Fine, it's mine. Now give it back and shut your little mouth before I hex it shut."

"I can't believe you, Dominique! You did this! What. Is. Wrong with you, you sick, twisted, evil girl?"

"I was just trying to help a friend! You would have done the same-"

"I would never publicly embarrass my classmates all for some sick twisted revenge. Is this all because he didn't choose you over her 4 years ago? Pathetic." Clearly, the video had shown nothing if Rose could honestly say Dom was the pathetic one.

"Rose, you don't even know the whole story, so just leave it."

"I won't!" she said indignantly as she marched out towards the family. Dom was seriously going to have to murder her own cousin right now.

"Get back here Rose! I swear you better stop walking or I'll make you."

"Make me? How are you going to make me?" she said fiercely, "I'm telling your mum."

"Oh no, I'm shaking in my school robes because Rose is going to tell on me to my mum!" she mocked, "What are we, 5? Grow up."

"I need to grow up?"

"Yes!"

"Woah woah, what's going on here?" James asked, causing the rest of the family to stop what they were doing and watch the fight unfold. It looked like Rose was going to answer, but another person interrupted. Carter stumbled into the Great Hall obviously sensing the discomfort lingering in the air. He looked like shit. Dom felt really bad that she was the reason he looked so torn up.

"Is this bad timing?" he asked hoarsely, "I forgot my jacket in here last night, so…"

"Here you go man." James said, tossing him the jacket. He made for the door, until he was stopped by Dom's least favorite Weasley of the freaking day.

"Carter, wait!" Rose screamed. Dom couldn't resist punching the girl in the arm. He looked back at her expectantly and Dom was praying that Rose had ever heard of the term bros before hoes. "I uh, just wanted to say sorry about last night. You just can't expect much from people these days." she said as she kicked Dom subtly.

"Yeh, how was I to know the girl I was dating was a complete mental case." Dom snorted loudly, earning another kick from Rose which she gladly returned. She knew he was in a bad place, but Dom had spent years trying to get him to see that very thing.

"Wh- what happened was terrible," Rose continued, "I h-hope whoever did it is punished. Dom, is there anything you'd like to add?"

"No, not really."

"You know nothing about what happened last night? As a prefect, I would expect you to say something if you knew-"

"Wait, Rose, do you know who did it?" Roxy asked. Of course, because her bark is much worse than her bite, Rose went red with embarrassment. She was such a coward. "Rose, if you know something and don't say anything you're being a hypocrite."

"I didn't do it-"

"Well obviously, but you know who did. Tell us, Rose."

"I- well, umm...I-" Everyone was looking at Rose who looked like she was going to have an aneurism.

"Bloody fucking-" Dom said before she sighed deeply. She'd come clean; it didn't matter what anyone thought about her for it either. "I did it."

"What?" Everyone said in unison, except for Rose, who had the audacity to say she was sorry.

"You heard me; I switched the tape, I exposed Hollis, I destroyed Rome, and I'm sure before my time is up I'll do a lot more fucked up shit. There!" Carter simply hung his head sadly before walking out of the door. Great.

"You're despicable," Rose said. Dom was literally going to scream if Rose spoke to her again. "How could you tell him like that?"

"Are you kidding me? You practically shoved your hand in my back and made me say the words."

"Well, I expected you to have at least one ounce of remorse when you said it!"

"Yeah, that's not likely."

"Ugh, I can't even stand to look at you right now. You're so disappointing."

"yeah yeah, if I had a dime for every time I heard that I could buy my diploma from this wretched place and be on my own already. I don't care if you think I'm some huge disappointment and you saying it won't make me change, so save your breath."

"You would think you would just have a little more respect for yourself-"

"You are not my mother Rose Weasley; you don't own me nor do I take orders from you. God, you're so freaking annoying. You want to know why Scorpius doesn't want you? This is why. It's because you've got your wand stuck so far up your arse that even Scorpius, who spends most of his time up there, couldn't find it. Although, I'm pretty sure he's more interested in Lily's arse now, but you knew that."

"You're such a liar! Why would you even make up something like that?"

"Oh, so you didn't know? Seems to me I'm the only one that isn't lying to you, then. You're welcome for that."

"Shut up! You're the biggest bitch in this school. I'm sorry that your life is perpetually shitty but maybe you wouldn't be having such a hard time if you were-"

"If I was what? If I was as prim and perfect as you?"

"I didn't say that."

"You didn't have to!"

"And neither did you! You walk around this school as if you know everything about everybody but you hardly know yourself. Nobody likes you Dominique, nobody."

"Rosie." Louis said calmly sensing this was getting a little too out of hand.

"No Louis, I'm done tip toeing around her feelings like the rest of you do. I'm not afraid to call her out on what a horrible person she is."

"Is that so? Go ahead, say what you have to say Rose. I want to know just what you think you know about me."

"Well, I um..uh-"

"Jesus Rose, spit it out; I haven't got all day."

"That, right there! You're way too full of yourself. I don't know if you were aware but there are other people on the planet, we aren't all just here to entertain you and run on your time. You think you're so special because the half-wits in this school fall on their knees in front of you and worship the ground you walk on. So what if millions of boys like you? Have you ever stopped to wonder if they actually like you or if they just want a quick go with you?"

"Rosie, watch it." Louis tried again, but Rose wasn't stopping

"It's disgusting the way you use guys to make yourself feel better. It's part of the reason you don't have any friends-" Dom was going to protest but clearly Rose was not allowing it. "Oh, please don't tell me you thought your little minions were your friends. They just do what you say so you won't turn on them; but you will anyway because you can never let anyone get too close, otherwise they might find out the person you truly are. We're your family Dominique. The only people practically forced to like you, and even we can't stand you! We are all you have and you treat us like shit. Any of us would be glad to be shot of you once and for all if we could, but unfortunately, unlike the boys that have all made speedy get away's, we're stuck with you." Rose wasn't able to get any other insults out because Dominique slapped her so hard they probably heard it all the way in the dungeons. She felt kind of bad for hitting her, but she was saying really awful things; she deserved it!

Rose held her hand to her cheek in disbelief, still breathing heavily from her high-spirited rant. "Sorry." she said weakly before turning and walking out of the common room with Hugo hot on her heels. Dom looked at the faces of her family surrounding her and was shocked to see disappointment etched on the familiar faces.

"Why are you all looking at me like that? You heard what she said to me!" Dom said defending herself, because if she didn't, who would?

"That's enough Dom, you're completely out of line!" James shouted.

"I'm out of line? You've got to be shitting me, J! She was calling me every name she's ever read in those ruddy books of hers."

"Like you don't deserve it."

"What was that, Al? You want to start with me? Finally got the balls?"

"Whatever." Albus huffed before making his way to the door, clearly going after Rose.

"Oh right, go run after the big baby like you always do." She called to him. "When are you going to grow a pair and stop babying her? Maybe if you paid her less attention and gave your girlfriend a minute of your time-"

"Stop, Dominique. Just stop." He said as he continued out of the room.

"You're such a bloody pushover-"

"Hey! He's only being nice, why don't you try it!" a squeaky voice added from the corner.

"Oh look, it speaks! "Be nice." That's great advice Lils!" she answered sarcastically. "So how about since I am so awful, maybe you and Scorpius could teach me how to be nice, seeing as the pair of you have been so nice to Rose lately. I'd be honored to learn from you guys." Lily turned bright red before turning on her heels and leaving.

"Roxy, aren't you holier than thou; the almighty righter of wrongs? Shouldn't you be following her?" Roxy held up her fingers in a very derogatory gesture and made her way out of the Great Hall. "Right back at you, babe." Dom was in no mood to be messed with right now and she would throw as many insults as were necessary until the whole room was empty.

"Calm down, let's just talk about this." Fred said, sounding annoyed.

"Oh, I'm sorry, am I visible to you now?" she asked with a hollow laugh. "Someone please alert the media, Fred remembers that his poor old slag of a cousin still exists. You all of a sudden want to talk to me? I don't think so. Screw you." She said, mentally checking him off of her list as he walked out of the door. There were only two of them left.

"I don't know what we did to make you hate us so much-"

"Not now, James. I'm seriously not in the mood for you trying to fix everything. Just forget about me and leave me alone, it's what you're best at. It's what all of you are best at." He balled his fists up in anger, but didn't argue. He simply walked out like the rest of them. This is what her life had come to. No one even wanted to fight for her anymore. Now she really couldn't wait to be off the map, magicless, and living a normal life.

"Dom, why are you doing this?" Louis asked.

"You know, I really expected at least one of you to take my side for once. Just once. Everybody just coddled Rose like she hadn't just gone psycho on me. It may seem like I'm a mean, heartless, bitch, but I tell you all the truth; the things people don't say because of who our parents are, but you all are so used to being everyone's favorite that you can't handle it. I know I can take it too far sometimes and despite what everyone thinks I'm not being rude, I'm being honest,-but of course I'm out of line and everyone is pissed at me. Just as always."

"We're family, there aren't supposed to be sides. Don't you get that?" he asked. Even her brother didn't understand her.

"Just leave me alone Louis."

"Fine, I'll leave you alone, but just think a little harder before you keep burning bridges with family. You never know when you may need to cross back." he said softly before exiting the common room.

Getting rid of 8 Weasley's in less than 15 minutes? She'd possibly just set a new record. They were all being absolutely ridiculous. The whole thing started because she was trying to get back at Hollis. He wasn't supposed to find out that she did it, and Dom would never have guessed that it would have given Rose such a complex. She hadn't meant to slap her, but she had honestly been saying horrible things. She knew they all thought she was a little too friendly, but a slag? They couldn't honestly believe that she had slept with every guy they saw her with, could they? Surely they knew she was better than that.

She'd been seen with tons of guys but she hadn't been with any of them. The number of girls Fred had been with far surpassed the few relationships she'd had. She wasn't some wanton slag; she was still a virgin, not that anyone would ever believe her. Did her family really hate her? Sure, she'd said and done some things she'd regretted, but never had she wished to not be a family with them anymore. When it came down to it, all she had was her family. Apparently not anymore. She was finally completely alone, something she had begged for for so many years. She had lost so many years of her life being upset, disappointed and looked over, and she was tired. Tired of all of it. Too tired to apologize to Carter, or her family, or to care at all. But of course, that was a lie. Of course she cared. Everyone wanted to be wanted, right? It just seemed crazy to her that not one single person she knew thought she was worth fighting for.