A/n: hello all!!!!! Long time no see^_^ Anywhoo, here's the next chapter; sorry for the wait, and I know it's a bit short, but oh well. I also know the fight does seem kinda melodramatic, but it goes along with the plot so just deal. Um…well, let's see…I think that's all…oh wait, have I mentioned that I will be taking this all the way to seventh year? Well I will, a knew story every year, I've already got the names for them and everything!!!!! Oh, and I will also try to add some more insanely stupid things here and there, but they are growing up, so I can't have them acting too childish, now on with the story~
Disclaimer: of course I don't any of J.K.'s characters or places or whatever else of her's I'm using…
By the time Jennifer got to the Owlery, Alicia was sitting in the window looking slightly calmed down.
"Hey," she said as she sat down beside her friend.
"Oh, hey," Alicia said quietly, like she had been thinking.
"So…wanna tell me what happened?" Jennifer asked casually. Alicia sighed.
"I guess," she said, "Lori somehow got the theory that I cheated off her, I mean really. Me, who has a one hundred average in that class, can you believe that? That's rhetorical by the way." Jennifer nodded.
"So…then you denied it, and it carried on until you both got fed up with the other and started yelling, right?" Jennifer asked. This time Alicia nodded.
"And then, Lori had to include Megan in our fight, and then Morgan, so now, we're all mad at each other," Alicia said becoming slightly angry just thinking about it.
"How mad?" Jennifer asked.
"What?"
"How mad? As in how mad are you at the other three?" Jennifer repeated.
"Oh, I guess I'm not on speaking terms with any of them, I think that's something we all screamed at each other at some point," Alicia said.
"I see," Jennifer said pensively.
"Are you going to try to fix it or something?" Alicia asked jokingly.
"Well duh, I'm obviously the only one who cares if we remain friends," Jennifer said accenting the 'obviously'.
"I dunno, Jenn, it might be pretty hard, I'm thinking we might never be friends again."
~*!*~
"Alright, Lori," Jennifer said in her best therapist way, "Tell me what happened to cause all this anger." Lori gave her a look, and then answered her in her best therapy patient way.
"Well I guess it all started when I got a note a few days ago," Lori said when she was interrupted by Jennifer.
"A note? Can I see it?" she asked.
"Yeah, hold on," Lori said as she hurried up to their dormitories. A few minutes later she returned with the small note. She handed it to Jennifer, who looked at it for awhile, then turned back to Lori.
"So, you get this note, and you start to actually believe what it says?"
"It does make sense," Lori pointed out.
"But was it really worth losing three friends?" Jennifer asked. Lori shrugged.
"They all believe I cheated," Lori said, "Maybe it's better that I lost them."
~*!*~
"Alright, let me get this straight," Jennifer said after listening to Megan's side of the story, "You're mad at Morgan because she told your crush's girlfriend, and a lot of other people, you like him; you're mad at Lori because she called you a name that is way above a PG rating and therefore I cannot repeat it, plus the fact that you two didn't get along to well anyway; and you're mad at Alicia for some unexplained reason."
"Yep, that pretty much sums it up," Megan said.
"Anything else?" Jennifer asked. Megan thought awhile.
"Oh yeah, I got this," pulls a note out from under her cloak, "I found it on my bed a few days ago." Jennifer looked at the note carefully, and then pulled out the one Lori had given her. The notes were definitely from the same person, who that person was, was the question that was at hand.
"Doesn't it seem rather odd that you get this note a few days before Morgan tells about your crush? Who would send it? Nobody else knew Morgan was going to tell," Jennifer reasoned.
"I guess it is kind of strange, I didn't really think about it," Megan said.
"Very strange indeed."
~*!*~
"I can't believe Megan thinks I told everybody who her crush is! It's ridiculous, I mean I never had time to tell anybody," Morgan complained quietly to Jennifer as they sat in a far corner of the library.
"Right, right, and then the reason you're mad at Lori and Alicia is…?" Jennifer asked.
"I don't know, I just am," Morgan said.
"You didn't get any notes, did you?" Jennifer asked.
"What?" asked a confused Morgan.
"Evidently not," Jennifer said.
"Anyway, I'm not speaking to any of them ever again," Morgan stated.
"Not even a little?" Jennifer asked.
"Not even a little," Morgan said.
"So you four have just given up without even trying to make-up?" Jennifer asked.
"I guess so. It's not like it's the end of the world," Morgan said.
"You're right, it's not, but this is just one more thing that makes it harder for the world to go round."
~*!*~
All through the holidays it went on, they didn't even give each other Christmas presents, or, for that matter, see each other on Christmas.
Jennifer tried to spend time with each of them, but not too much with one person, which was rather hard. It made her appreciate the times when she could sit and laugh with all her friends.
Joseph must have known what was going on, but for the most part, he left it alone, that was getting on Jennifer's nerves. She couldn't believe he was ok with their friends hardly being able to be in each other's presence.
The day everyone returned to Hogwarts was the day Jennifer decided that it was up to her to find out how this all happened.
~*!*~
"Alright Karrots, let's review, shall we?" Jennifer said in more of a statement than a question. She was sitting on her bed with Karrots sitting in front of her, seeming to listen to her every word. She wasn't sure where Morgan, Megan, Lori, and Alicia were, but most likely they were around the Gryffindor common room as the boys had just gotten back.
"Now, Lori and Alicia are mad at each other because of a test, Megan and Morgan are mad at each other because of a guy, let's say we try to figure out the former.
"McGonagall's test is the one Lori supposedly 'cheated' on, so who do we take Transfiguration with? Ravenclaws! It must have been somebody in Ravenclaw, who else would know where Lori and Alicia sit?" Jennifer said examining Lori's note. "But how would they have done it?" she thought a minute, "the person must have gone back to the class during lunch, changed some of Lori's wrong answers to Alicia's write ones, and then left.
"Now the only questions are who did it, and why," Jennifer said. She sat on her bed in intense thought. Then she picked up the two notes and looked at them.
"I just remembered something," Jennifer said looking back up at Karrots, "These notes were written by the same person, but how would that person know who Megan liked? And if they know who Megan likes, they would surely know who Morga-" There she was cut off as the door slammed and a very angry Morgan entered the room.
"I can't believe her!" she said very loudly.
"You can't believe who?" Jennifer asked. Morgan looked over at her rather startled.
"Oh, I didn't know you were up here Jennifer," Morgan said coming over and sitting across from her, Karrots moving aside as she did so.
"What's the matter Morgan? You seem rather…upset," Jennifer said.
"Megan told James I liked him!" Morgan said.
"What? You like James?" Jennifer asked.
"Well, yes, but that's not the point, she's the only one who really knew I admitted to liking him, and then she told him," Morgan said.
"You have proof of this?" Jennifer asked suspiciously.
"Well, not exactly, but she's the only one I told," Morgan said.
"I see," Jennifer said. They sat in silence for a minute.
"Well, tell you what," Jennifer said, standing up, "I'm going to go find Megan, and see her side of the story, and you can vent your feelings to Karrots, she's a wonderful listener." With that she left Morgan sitting on her bed with Karrots who looked expectantly up at her.
"Is she insane?" Morgan asked. Karrots just purred and continued to look at her. "I suppose it won't hurt…"
Meanwhile…
"Megan! There you are," Jennifer said as she finally found Megan in the library.
"What?" she asked.
"Morgan just told me that-" but Jennifer didn't get to finish as Megan interrupted her.
"I did not tell James that she likes him! I swear, even if she did tell my crush, I wouldn't do that, you know I wouldn't, right?" Megan asked.
"Well duh, if I had completely believed Morgan I wouldn't be here, however, she is completely convinced that you told, and it is the most plausible answer as you're the only one she told," Jennifer explained.
"I wouldn't have had a chance to tell James if I had wanted to anyway, him and the other boys have been together non-stop," Megan said.
"Where have they been?" Jennifer asked.
"I think they're in their dorm, why?" Megan asked. Jennifer didn't answer her; she just sat in thought for a few minutes.
"It's been wonderful talking with you, Megan," she said suddenly, "Um, I wouldn't go back to the dorms for awhile, Morgan's there." Then she got up and hurried out of the library.
"I wonder what's up with her," she said to herself, "Oh well," then she continued reading.
Meanwhile…
"So do you think it could work out, I mean I really like him and all…" Karrots continued to listen to Morgan ramble on.
"Jennifer's right, you are a good listener."
Meanwhile…
Knock, knock, knock.
The door to the boys' dormitory opened.
"Yes?" asked Michael.
"Is James in there?" Jennifer asked impatiently.
"Why?" he asked.
"Is it any of your business?" Jennifer asked even more impatiently.
"Yes," Michael said.
"Get out of the way," she said while pushing him aside.
"You're not supposed to be here," Kevin said as the rest of the boys saw her.
"Nice deduction Sherlock, but I need to speak with James," Jennifer said.
"Yes?" James asked.
"Have you received anything…unusually today by an anonymous person?" she asked. He gave her a weird look.
"Actually, I have," he said.
"Can I see it please?" she asked.
"Sure, here it is," he said handing her a very familiar little note. It said 'My sources tell me that Morgan Cherry likes you, isn't that cute?' It wasn't signed. It had the same handwriting as the other two as well.
"I knew it!" Jennifer said turning to leave.
"Wait," James said.
"What," she asked turning around as she got to the door.
"Is it true?" he asked.
"That depends," she said.
"On what?" he asked.
"If you like her, but right now I don't have time to set you two up, I'm too busy trying to get the rest of my friends to make-up."
~*!*~
Jennifer tried to tell Morgan that Megan couldn't have told James, because he had received a note that was obviously not in Megan's handwriting. She still didn't believe it. Morgan could be very stubborn at times.
So the days turned into weeks, and the weeks to months, and the months to years, and the years to…ok, so let's stop that at months, but as I was saying… and the weeks to months.
By February they were still showing no signs of becoming friends again. Jennifer was getting fed up with it all, her mystery solving wasn't going very well. She still couldn't find out how somebody could have found out about Morgan and Megan's crushes.
"Can you believe it Karrots? All those friendships gone, because of a few notes and some well timed accusations!" she cried one day during dinner, which she had skipped to think over the issue at hand. Karrots shook her head sadly. Jennifer sighed and lay down to think, calmly stroking her owl/cat.
"You know what," she said suddenly sitting up, slightly ruffling Karrots's feathers, "I'm going to find all of them right now and settle it all." With that she hopped up off her bed and headed out of the dormitory.
She hurried out of the Gryffindor common room and down to the Great Hall. She was so caught up in what she was about to do she didn't notice somebody following her; she also didn't notice she was no longer headed for the Great Hall. In fact it was sometime before she realized she was completely lost.
"Oh great! Now I don't even know where I am!" she cried looking around her. She was in a dark corridor, probably some place she wasn't supposed to be. There were suits of armor lining the hallways.
"Ok, now I'm a little freaked out," she said softly to herself as she continued down the armored hall. Then she heard a noise behind her.
"Who's there?" she asked. 'Like the person's going to answer anyway' she thought. Much to her surprise a cloaked figure stepped out of the shadows.
"Catasra's looking for you and all your little friends too. If I were you, I'd watch my back," the shadow figure said.
"What?" Jennifer asked.
The next thing she knew whoever it was had pushed a piece of armor at her, and her vision clouded.
A/n: What will happen? Tune in next time to find out, which maybe some time, as I'm going through a slight writers block, which is another reason this story took so long to get out. Well, please review, I luv reviews, it might make me type faster if you review…lol~
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