I woke up in the morning by the pecking of my owl on my hand. "What are you doing?" I asked my owl who was named Polaris after the North Star because of my obsession with Astronomy.

I noticed that there was a letter attached to Polaris' leg. I unattached the letter and opened it. It was from my mom which I was confused because I was going to see her in a matter of hours.

Dear Addy,

I'm so sorry, but I have work over the holidays and you won't be able to come home. This devastates me and just know I miss you immensely. Oliver and Penelope are going away this Christmas on vacation, and don't tell him I told you this, but he's going to propose. Sorry I couldn't hold it in for much longer.

I have some inquiries at work that I must attended to so I think it would be best if you stayed at the school. I will owl you over the holidays and owl your gift.

I love you and I'm sorry, Mom

I sat on my bed, reading the letter. I wasn't sure what to feel. I was sad because I wouldn't be able to see my mom, obviously, but she was busy so I understood. I had been looking forward to going home and seeing Oliver again since he's been so busy being Puddlemore United's keeper.

And then it finally clicked in my brain.

OLIVER WAS PROPOSING!!

I was going to have a sister and more importantly I hope I'd be an aunt soon. Penelope didn't have any siblings so I would be taking the title as 'Coolest Aunt'. Penelope who was Oliver's girlfriend and I guess, soon to be fiancé, was a sweet woman. Her full name is Penelope Clearwater, but I mean it's probably going to be Penelope Wood. I'm not going to lie, Clearwater has a better ring to it.

"Well I've packed all for nothing" I said to myself. I checked the clock and it was 7:30 am. I'd let Athena sleep for another 30 minutes or so before I would wake her up.

Some more exciting news was that Athena was meeting Luna's father. I've met Luna's father, obviously, and he is a very interesting person. I see where Luna gets her personality from because they are positively alike in many ways. Then Athena was going to introduce Luna to her parents. It was a whole meet and greet.

Ginny was going home to see Harry. And Ron, lowkey forgot about Ron. Hermione was staying with the Weasleys while the Ministry helped locate her parents in Australia.

I'm not entirely sure what Neville was doing but I'm sure it was along the lines of "fucking Blaise in every-". I'm joking, I'm joking. No I'm fucking not. I think Neville is introducing Blaise to his spunky grandmother. Blaise was going to stay, but then Athena and Ginny forced Neville to ask Blaise to come home with him on Christmas. Blaise said yes in a heartbeat.

See, this leaves me in a dilemma.

I have absolutely no friends except for Theo, I think. Hannah is going home for the holidays and I don't think Theo is going with her. I mean, they're not a thing. I'm rooting for them. But they're not a thing. Yet.

I'm not sure what Malfoy's doing either. I know that his fathers in Azkaban and his mothers just sitting in their Manor so I'm don't know if he's going home or not. Do I want him to stay? I'm not entirely sure of that either. I mean it would be nice since I like when he's around, but then again I'm a very awkward person.

It was now 8:00 am so I sauntered over to Athena's bed to wake her up. "Wake up Thena. Wake up" I shook her lightly, but the girl continued snoring in her bed. I shook her body harder. "Wake up fat ass. You're going to miss the train!"

Athena's head snapped up as she rubbed her eyes. "What do you want?" she croaked groggily, not yet used to the bright sunlight.

"Wake up, you're meeting Luna's dad today. Don't want you to be late" I quietly said.

"Just let me sleep" Athena groaned, letting her head fall back onto the pillow.

I rolled my eyes at Athena. I didn't want to have to do this, but the woman gave me no choice. It was a little something I picked up from Fred when he was waking me up. I walked to the bathroom and accioed a bucket. I filled it with ice cold water to the brim.

"Wake up fatass!" I yelled, pouring the bucket of ice cold water on Athena.

"What the fuck!" Athena yelled, immediately snapping awake. "You fucking poured water on me" she jumped out of bed. "You asshat!" she yelled, now chasing me around the room.

"Was just trying to wake you up" I yelled in response. "And clearly it worked!"

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After I explained why I wasn't going home to Athena, Ginny, Neville, Blaise, Luna, and Hannah I walked to the Great Hall for some breakfast. I had said my goodbyes and I'm not going to lie, I was slightly envious that they all got to go home, but there was nothing I could to about it anyways.

I saw Theo and Draco sitting at the Slytherin able, eating their breakfast. Wow the Great Hall was mostly empty, except for the few Slytherins sitting at their table. It seemed that everyone in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw went home to their families. There were only two fifth year Hufflepuffs that appeared to be twins that were sitting at the Hufflepuff table.

"Theo" I called out, waving.

All eyes were on me at the Great Hall, but it was only about 10 people looking at me. "What? Addy?" Theo asked with furrowed brows. I hadn't yet told him I was staying because I couldn't find him at the moment.

"Yessiry" I chirped, strolling causally to the Slytherin table. One or two Slytherins gave me a glare, both of them being girls and both of them being apart of the Draco Malfoy fan club.

"What are you doing here?" Theo asked as I sat down next to him.

"Well I was supposed to go home, but then my mother owled me saying that I couldn't come home. Apparently she has work or some shit like that. So anyways I'm staying here over the holidays" I shrugged excitedly.

"Well that's fantastic, right mate" Theo looked to Draco who was staring down at his food.

"Uh yeah, right" he said, nodding his head not so convincingly.

I didn't take offense to it, seeing as I was also not sure what to say to him. I didn't want to pretend like nothing happened, but then again it seemed like he was trying to pretend nothing happened between us.

Okay, maybe I took a little offense to it.

"Um so how are you?" I asked Theo, trying to clear the growing tension in the air.

"I'm good" he replied shrugging his shoulders. "Oh that's right. I didn't get to thank you."

I furrowed my brows confused. "Thank me? Thank me for what?"

"For making me dance with Hannah. It was really fun and we're gonna owl each other over the break" Theo said, with a small smile on his face and a blush staining his cheeks.

"Well that's amazing!" I said excitedly. "And no need to thank me. I was only trying to help. I mean you do tend to stare a lot."

"I do not!" Theo protested.

"You really do mate" Draco chimed in, agreeing with me.

"It's not like you don't" Theo glared at Draco. "I mean your eyes will literally pop out of their eye sockets if you keep staring at Addy like that" Theo said, immediately covering his mouth afterwards. "I mean... uh so what were we talking about? Uh, so you were saying something about your favorite ice cream flavor."

Draco gave the deadliest of glares to Theo making Theo gulp. I turned to Theo giving him a look, but it really is a confidence booster when the guy you fancy is apparently staring at you. Well, that or he's a fucking stalker, but I'm going to go on a latter and say that Malfoy might possibly reciprocate these feelings.

"Well, I should go" I gave an awkward laugh. "Gotta get the break homework done early, you know."

"Okay um bye" Theo said, stealing glances at Malfoy because he knew the minute I was gone Draco was going to kill him.

"Yeah bye" I awkwardly waved, giving a forced smile.

I walked out of the Great Hall, stopping in the middle of a deserted hallway, giving a loud sigh. "God why am I so bad at this? Why can't I take my own fucking advice?"

"Bad at what?" asked a voice behind me that I knew all to well.

"Oh hi" I waved awkwardly. "Hey Malfoy."

"Hey Wood" he said back. "I just wanted to talk to you about the thing that Nott said. I don't want you to think I'm weird or some shit like that. He wasn't meaning it in some stalkerish way, you know? It was just... You know, yeah. Erm..." Draco rambled, trying to come up with the best answer.

I laughed, slightly amused by Draco's stuttering. I've never in my life seen Draco Malfoy at a loss for words. "I guess what I'm trying to say is the same thing I told you the day Neville asked out Blaise. I fancy you, quite a lot actually. It's okay if you don't feel the same you know. If you don't then you can just forget that I even said this, we can continue being friends..."

"Can I talk now?" I asked, interrupting him and he nodded. "Well that was a large paragraph of words, but how about we compromise and you take me out on a date. How does that sound?"

Wow, where did that sudden confidence come from. I'm lowkey proud of myself, but dude where the hell did that come from. I mean I guess I've always wanted to say it, but I never really had the courage to do so.

"Brilliant" he immediately replied and I stifled a laugh.

"Who are you, Harry Potter?"