Lea was eating her lunch at the Gryffindor table.. just not as fast as she usually does. She heard a familiar giggle behind her. She glanced to see her sister Alex and Draco Malfoy whispering to each other as usual. She sighed sadly.. it just seemed to make her even more depressed the longer she watched them. She caught her sister's eye who just smiled at her and waved, Lea faked a smile and waved back. Alex gave her look as if she didn't believe that her smile was real but couldn't go into it because Lea had turned back around.

    Nothing was exactly the same since Christmas. Alex and Malfoy have been joined up at the hip. You'd never go by without seeing those two.. either holding hands, whispering at the table, better yet in an empty room making out  (They were usually the weird ones leaving the door slightly open).. Something about it seemed to depress Lea.

"Hey Lea.." Harry snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Hmm??" SHe noticed the Semi concerned looks on everyone's faces.

"Ready for the Trip to Hogsmeade today??" Fred asked.

"You know candy, butterbeer, candy, pranks and did i mention CANDY!!!" George said.

"Yeah.. sure.. I'm ready.." She said.

"Something wrong??" Hermione asked.

"No.. no why??" She asked.

"Your food is still on your plate." Parvati pointed out.

"I guess I'm just not really hungry." She said. "You know what i think I forgot to grab one of our assignments.. I'll see you all later." She got up and left.. but not before one final glance at the Slytherin table.

"Something is not right.." Neville pointed out.. everyone rolled their eyes at him.

"We could've told you that.." Lavender said.

"But Why did she look over at the Slytherin table??" Ginny asked.

"That's what i want to know.. "  Ron mumbled. "There's nothing interesting there.."

"Except for Alex and Malfoy..." George said. "It's still odd seeing those two.."

"Do you think she.. likes Malfoy??" Hermione nearly choked on her own words.

"What makes you say that..." Harry frowned.

"Well they say opposites attract and they basically are opposites... and she has been acting sort of 'funny' since Christmas... you know after they made it known that they were you know.. together." Hemione frowned.

"No.. Valentine's day is just around the corner.. Maybe's she's depressed that uhm..." Ron trailed off. Everyone looked at him with pity in their eyes... Everyone in the house knew he liked Lea.. well everyone but Lea herself.

"Face it Ron.. She might not return the same feelings you do.." Lavender said quietly hating those words herself.. Ron just stared off into his own plate of food.. praying for dear life that it wasn't true.

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      Later that night Ron stayed awake staring up at the ceiling... He couldn't sleep. He just couldn't believe that the one he actually had a crush on didn't return those same feelings. the more he thought about it.. the more it seemed to have made sense.. The immediately reaction Malfoy had gotten out of her.. the way she really never minded what he said or did to her cause she was always her cheerful self. Maybe that love potion that was given to her just amplified the god awful truth. It just stirred up more and more jealousy inside of him. He hated Malfoy.. He had been the one to capture her interest first and he didn't know.. to top it off she was suffering because of his ignorance.. suffering because she wanted her sister to be happy. Aggravated he turned onto his side and he saw something glimmer in the moon light. Then it clicked into his mind and he sat up Screaming at the top of his lungs

"What's going on??" Seamus Finnigan asked just as the dormitory door slammed shut. Dean Thomas was the first one in his right state of mind to turn on his lamp. Ron was huddled on one side of his bed with the hanging on his bed slashed up.

"SIRIUS BLACK WAS HERE!! WITH A KNIFE!!!!" he said in hysterics..  Everyone in the dormitory herded outside where Professor McGonagall had tried to tell him that it was all a nightmare.  Ron denied that one he was awake alright.. awake and angry.. but now he was scared. it turns out that Sir Cadogen, the fat lady's  replacement, had let him inside because he had Neville's list of passwords. Everyone was put back into the Great hall.. Mainly for the Princesses protection.. they wanted to make sure that they didn't try to find each other or something and get caught by Black.

"Ron!!!!!!" A purple blur glomped him and he fell on the ground hard. it took everyone a couple of seconds to recognize the crying princess. "Are you ok?? I was so worried.. did he hurt you???" She asked in a panic hiding her face into his shoulder.

"He didn't hurt me.. but i think you did." He groaned... under any other circumstance he wouldn't mind being glomped but now that he was partly shaken up over the whole thing, having a frantic Princess glomp you can be a bit much.." She leaned back sitting on the floor wiping away her tears smiling sheepishly.

"I'm sorry.." she said still trying to hold back her tears.. "i was just so worried.. you know." She smiled faintly at him wiping her red nose with a tissue previously handed to her from Professor Snape... another one was handed to her from Professor Lupin as he strolled by.

"he's fine.. a bit shaken up though right??" Alex said with Malfoy ever so present.

"Yeah." he said noticing her tears were for him and his safety.. that just erased any anger he had for Malfoy.. he just wanted her to stop crying.

"That's good!!!" Lea leaned forward and hugged him tightly around his waist. All Ron could do was stroke her soft hair.. it was then he realized that her purple hair was free and just gathering on the floor a good distance behind her... if possible he thought her hair was much longer than her mother's. He didn't know it but his eyes betrayed him for that moment showing that he truly did care.

               Everyone in the Great Hall (Which is EVERYONE) was watching her hold onto him like nothing. "As long as your fine..."  She added softly with a happy sigh. Everyone in the Gryffindor house looked on and smiled... maybe she did care on some level. Dumbledore came back as everyone was still staring at the two who seemed to be in the middle of this attention.. a slight twinkle in his eye told him not to send everyone back just yet.. so once again the tables were pushed to the wall and the sleeping bags were rolled out. The Head Boys/Girls immediately took command once more.

"To bed everyone.. we still will have classes tomorrow... So sleep..now!!!" Percy said. Making sure his house was to be heading to sleep now. "Ron..." He said. Lea Temporarily let him go so they could take the two remaining Sleeping bags in the area. (Even though Ron had a certain suspicion that the others put it that way purposely)

"Goodnight Ron.." Leas sat up when Percy was far away enough to not notice her. She then leaned over and pecked him on the lips.. much to her dismay though.. he was already half asleep and barely acknowledged the kiss.

"Goodnight Lea.." he murmured grabbing a lock of her long purple hair that invaded his sleeping space.