I took a deep breath as I checked myself in the mirror.

Wow, I didn't realize how much I've changed over the summer.

Ok, maybe I had but, whoa, did I look good.

I know what you are thinking, 'She is so conceded,' or 'What a spoiled brat!' But I assure you that is not the case.

I am anything but spoiled and I am definitely not conceded, I just changed over the summer. That is an understatement, I actually transformed. Last year I was regular Katie Elizabeth Brown, nothing special, but now I am good looking Katie Elizabeth Brown.

I grew four inches; I am now 5'7". I got my braces off, realized I actually don't need glasses after six years, and discovered make-up! I also started working out and started eating way healthier. I died my hair from a boring dirty-blonde to a rich chestnut brown; my boobs also grew two cup sizes which didn't hurt. Any acne that I once had was now gone and never came back.

Like I said, I transformed. I had a right to bask in my gorgeousness, don't you think?

This was my seventh and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, my home away from home. This year was going to be different. I wasn't shy exactly, but I didn't like to cause a commotion. Being friends with the Marauders did not help.

They were always pulling pranks and Sirius Black was the biggest man-whore in the history of Hogwarts. I wasn't hidden in the shadows, I happened to have a great sense of humor. (At least that's what Lily, my best friend, always told me).

Sufficed to say, I was a good friend and nothing more. Well I used to be, until this summer, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Unlike most of the students at Hogwarts, I am from America and they never let me live it down. This summer though, I spent my time on the beaches of Greece.

It was a gift from my grandparents for my seventeenth birthday. Turning seventeen is an important occasion in the wizarding world and my grandparents decided since I never really got anything too special for my birthday, they would treat me.

The sun did wonders for my complexion and I always loved the water.

I had already said goodbye to my new friends and was ready to go back to Hogwarts.

I think.

Don't get me wrong, I love it there. I love my friends and even the teachers, but I was afraid to face them. What would they think?

I finished sizing myself up by making sure my turquoise dress that fell mid-thigh and synched just below the bust by a gold belt and matching gold heels looked okay.

No one had ever seen me dressed in anything besides jeans, a t-shirt, and our robes. I barely ever styled my hair before this summer, let alone die it. I might as well be a whole different person.

I did one last lip gloss check and appariated to platform 9¾.

I forgot about the ciaos that is platform 9¾. There were parents and kids crying, some couldn't wait to get away from their parents, others were trying to find their friends (me), and the rest were trying to get through without getting killed (also me).

I finally spotted the red hair of my best friend in the whole wide world, Lily Evens, "Lily!" she turned around at the sound of my voice but seemed to not be able to find me. She turned around and continued to head to the train.

"LILY EVENS!" I yelled so loud a few people stopped to stare and kept staring when they looked at me. I still wasn't used to the attention, well at least people liking what they saw.

She was so shocked she looked like she was about to faint, thankfully James Potter snapped her out of it.

"Oi, Evens!" James Potter came barreling through the crowd to Lily. Her look of shock soon turned into annoyance.

"What do you want Potter?" she knew exactly what he wanted.

"Go out with me," it was more of a statement rather than a question.

"For the billionth time, NO!" He looked a bit hurt, but it soon turned into the same shocked look Lily had.

They both stared at me completely bewildered. I hadn't changed that much! Ok, maybe I had.

"Hi," I smiled a little embarrassed to show the lack of braces on perfectly, straight and white teeth.

They didn't respond for a second, but Lily soon ran up and gave me a huge hug, "Wow, Katie, you look amazing!" She was beaming; her green eyes were looking into mine. I also had green eyes, but they looked very different.

Her red hair made her eyes pop and they were bigger than mine. Hers were bigger and a little more rounded. Mine were almond shaped and used to be barely noticeable. My dark hair brought them out considerably and I could tell Lily had noticed.

"So do you! I have so much to tell you! How was your summer? I'm sorry I didn't write, things were so crazy!" I rambled on as her eyes darted all over my body (in a non-creepy way).

Her eyes got big when they reached my chest, (again in a non-creepy way), "Merlin, what happened?"

I let out a laugh and she smiled. She seemed to finally recognize me, thank god!

"Whoa, w-w-what h-happened?" Oh, James and his broad vocabulary. I forgot he was still there.

"What do I look different?" I said completely clueless.

"I would say so, you look… hot!" He seemed to be telling himself this more than either of us.

"Why thank you James, you don't look too bad yourself," he happened to look devastatingly handsome with his brown hair tousled just a bit and a smug grin plastered on his face.

How does Lily say no to him?

Don't get me wrong, I am not in love with James Potter. I am just stating the obvious. We are way too good of friends to be anything more.

"But seriously, what happened?" Lily obviously wanted to know.

"Come on, I will explain everything on the train," I gestured to the huge train that was beside us.

…

I got a few confused stares; well actually everyone was looking at me as I walked through.

Look away! It's creepy!

I finally found an empty compartment and practically threw them both into it. I closed the curtains to hide myself from the peeping eyes that followed me.

"They are crazy out there! Is this what it's like to be hot?" I didn't realize how stupid I sounded.

James and Lily obviously did, because the burst into laughter. Lily soon stopped when she realized who she was laughing with and that I was completely serious.

"Oh come on Katie, you weren't ugly," she tried to sound believable, but I had come to terms with my lack of beauty a long time ago and this was staring to freak me out.

"Look, you don't have to pretend, I was the farthest thing from hot, but I am still getting used to not flying under the radar." I was so not flying under the radar anymore.

Then the compartment door swung open and my old crush stood in the door way looking older and hotter.

I was no longer the ugly girl who secretly had a crush on the hottest guy in school. Sirius Black, 'nough said. I was also no longer a virgin. He didn't have the same effect on me he used to.

His gorgeous silver eyes sparkled when they landed on me.

Oh my god, he's looking at me. Okay play it cool, don't let him know you like him. Wait you don't like him, do you? Snap out of it, he's staring at you.

"Why don't you take a picture, it will last longer," I smirked and tuned back to Lily and James.

It wasn't unusual for me to make a snarky comment to Sirius Black, but it was unusual for him not to retort.

"What?" I looked at them confused then, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Arianna Adams.

They, like all the others, stopped and stared, "Peter didn't think it was true," Arianna said, her voice somewhat shaking.

"What… Oh yeah, I transformed. It's rather boring really, you know nature and it's tricks," I said it all nonchalantly. I would fill Lily and Arianna in later, but I wasn't about to tell the Marauders.

"So, how was everyone's summer?" I tried to evade telling them about my summer, again not wanting to share the dirty details.

"Well it was rather boring, especially compared to yours apparently," Arianna looked at me like she knew exactly what I did this summer.

How did she do that?

Arianna always knew when someone had been kissed or anything more intimate.

"Well I wouldn't know since you never sent me a bloody letter," Lily looked mad, I didn't mean to not write, I just never had time.

"Look I meant to write but I was… well… occupied," She looked angrier, "I know what it sounds mean and bitchy, but Greece is a very busy place and my grandparents always had me doing something. You'd be surprised how persistent Greek guys are," said the last part softly but everyone heard me.

Shit.

"You were in Greece?" Remus spoke up.

"Yeah, my grandparents took me for my birthday. They had some friends who retired there and we stayed with them."

"I am so jealous!" Arianna pouted, "You got hot Greek guys and all I got was boring old British guys."

Sirius snorted, she and Sirius had been on and off since fourth year. It was rather annoying really. This isn't the somewhat jealous side of me talking, everyone thought it was annoying.

When they were dating, you couldn't pry them off of each other with a crow bar, but when they broke up, all hell broke loose.

Arianna was kind of a slut. Hence the knowing when you got kissed.

She is very beautiful; she has long gorgeous golden hair that goes a few inches past her shoulders. She had big blue eyes and a perfect figure; little did anyone know how hard she worked to keep it.

I used to be a bit jealous, every girl in the school resented her a little bit, but I didn't realize how hard it was to have everyone staring at you all of the time.

"I'm sure you did alright. It was beautiful though. The beaches were gorgeous, the food was amazing, and I don't know what it is about beaches but they seem to attract the hottest guys," I stared off dreamily for a second, reminiscing about my first kiss and then… Well you get the idea.

Lily and Arianna seemed to be day dreaming too, much to the boys' dismay.

"Well I guess I must forgive you. We all deserve our fairy tale summer." Lily said, still day dreaming.

"Speaking of fairy tales, how about you and me go out, Evans?" James, will he ever learn? Lily obviously liked him, but she was never going to admit it. Well not without a little help.

Before I knew it Lily was screaming at him, Oh, it's good to be back.

"I am so happy I don't have to share the same common room with you!" Lily was furious, but James had a smug look on his face and then pulled something out of his pocket.

"No way, you are not Head boy. This is Insane," I was shocked. Dumbledore had officially lost it.

"Well it wouldn't be such a shock if you told me where you were going to be this summer. I kept sending letters to your house, but you weren't there," James and I had become really close, he was like a brother. I felt bad for not telling him where I was going, but in my defense it was rather abrupt.

"I said I was sorry, god, get over it already!" I paused a moment, "Anyways, I am proud of you James," I turned to Lily, "I hate to burst your bubble Lily but you will be sharing a common room with James after all."

She huffed and sank far into her seat. It was rather funny to see her pout. Her usual mature composure was completely ruined by her immature pouting.

"Oh come on Evens, it will be fun. You get to see James every day for the rest of the year. You should be excited," Sirius was lounging on the side of the compartment.

What a git. What an incredibly handsome git.

"Well we better be off, we have a prefects meeting," Remus stood up at once. That's Remus always the studious one.

"Fine," Lily grumbled, "but, I am so not sitting next to him," she pointed her glare straight towards James, who just kept smiling.

"Finally," Arianna sighed dramatically, "I thought they would never leave; now, Katie tell us all about your summer!"

"Um, it was rather boring really. I didn't have you to keep me company," Arianna could see right through me. How does she do that?

"Come on, don't give that. I know you had fun," she was so not going to let me get away without telling her.

"Look I'll tell you later, with Lily. I don't feel like explaining it twice," She looked somewhat content.

"What, can you not tell me? I am hurt, thought we were the best of friends," Sirius was making his voice sound like a girl and was pouting in a very girlish way.

I glared at him, "I don't kiss and tell,"

Shit.

"YOU WERE KISSED?" I heard the squeal of Lily's voice from outside the compartment. She had forgotten her bag; just my luck.

"Uh, yeah. Like I said, Greek guys are very persistent." I blushed.

"Guys, as in plural? You have to tell us everything, what were they like? Were they gentle or rough? How many?" Arianna paused for a moment, "Did you, um, you know," she started to whisper, but everyone could hear, "Did you do the deed?"

Thank god Peter had walked out of the compartment to find the Trolley and Sirius probably went off to snog a girl. I was still going to avoid the subject at all costs "Lily don't you have to get back to the meeting? You don't want the first meeting as head girl to happen without you do you?"

"They can wait, this can't," well she was definitely not going.

"Arianna, I think Amos Diggory was looking for you," I looked at her encouragingly and she seemed to be contemplating it, but soon snapped out of it.

"You are not getting off that easy, tell us!"

"Fine, but if I do I am not explaining any details, okay?"

They both reluctantly nodded their heads in agreement.

"Okay, yes I slept with someone," They were completely silent for a moment, then Arianna burst.

"OMG! Was he hot? Was he good? Was it magical? Tell me!"

"I thought if I told you, I didn't have to go into detail," I looked at her grudgingly.

"These are necessities!" Lily sat there and pleaded with Arianna.

"FINE! He was incredibly hot. He was very, very good. Yes it was magical. Anything else?"

"Where did you meet him?" Arianna was day dreaming again.

"At a marina, he was doing boat tours around the coast and we sort of clicked."

"Aww, what was your first date?" Lily looked like she was watching a sappy Muggle movie.

"We had a moonlight picnic on the beach. He cooked," Yes, he was the most perfect guy ever.

"Awww," Arianna and Lily spoke in unison.

"We often went to this club that was the hang out for people our age. He was nineteen, but I fit in pretty well. When I told him I had to come back, he told me that I needed something to remember him by and that's when it happened."

"So are you two still together?" Arianna seemed to be imagining being in my place.

"No, well we were going to stay together, but then I remembered one little detail," I paused to see if they would catch on, "I am engaged to Lucius Malfoy,"

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Hello everyone!

I know Katie seems a bit conceded, but you will soon see that is not her at all.

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XOXO Miranda