Oh yeah, chapter 12! Sweet! J/K. LOLz. Well, here you are, chapter 12! I'm so happy! Aren't you? Jeez, my opening welcomes aka THIS is getting shorter and shorter! Okay, here goes everything! Hope you like this chapter! Ta-Da!
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Kitty, Harry, Ron, and Hermione journeyed to the Great Hall, early in the morning. It was just about time for breakfast, and they had all woken up quite early. They all thought it was best top go down now, since there was nothing else to do at the moment.

They sat down at the Gryffyndor table. There were very few people in the Hall at the time, because it was so early. Not even Dumbledore! But the food was there, so they sat and ate. Neville was there, probably getting up early to prevent any harm to his food, before the twins came down.

When Kitty was halfway done with her breakfast, Draco came down to eat. He sat at his usual table, in his usual spot with his usual friends, gathered beside him. Kitty figured, NOW was the time for everyone to come down to breakfast.

After a while, hundreds of owls flew into the air. All were delivering mail to its owner, of course. Hermione had gotten The Daily Prophet, the wizard newspaper. Ron had received some money, from his mum for the next Hogsmeade trip. And Harry got a copy of Quidditch Monthly. That was a quidditch magazine. It was for the month of November.

Draco, all the way at the other end of the Great Hall, had received a letter from someone, as Kitty had noticed. She didn't, however, notice that she, herself, had gotten a letter from someone also.

The owl, becoming annoyed, hooted around Kitty's face and started to peck at her hair. As soon as Kitty noticed, she realized the owl immediately.

"Taffy? Oh, it's so good to see you? How's Piper and them? You were always so much like her. Everything's about you, isn't it?" Kitty said to the light brown barn owl. She petted it, and gave it permission to help itself to her breakfast as she read the letter, which was attached to Taffy's leg. It was in different handwriting every paragraph, it read:

Kitty,
Don't be so upset. We didn't forget about you. Trust us. It's just that; well… sorry, I actually can't tell you. But don't worry. Please don't get upset! Honestly, don't! I hate to see you upset. We've planned the greatest b-day present for you. You'll see! Can't tell you anymore, or else Tom'll kill me!
-Piper

Dear Kitty,
Hi. It's Amethyst (duh) How've you been? Chill, girl! It's only been like a day! Give us time to write to ya, why don't you? Just kidding. Well, I'm writing to you! Really wish that you were here. But, that'll change. You'll see! Can't say any more!
Luv,
Perfect

Kit-
What's up? I know I know, the sky. But for once, can you be normal and answer what you're actually doing? You're weird, sometimes! Okay, I wrote to you! Don't get so depressed! I swear, you're such a drama queen!
-Hyper

Kitty,
Hi! How are you? I am so bored, though I can't tell you why. I suppose you're now wondering why everything's a secret between you, and us now. Well, I can't tell you, but trust me you'll love it!
-Cherry

Hi!
I dunno what I'm supposed to write, but they told me to write something, so now, I'm writing something to you! Total duh! LOL. Find me a boyfriend yet? HeHe! Miss ya!
-Diana

Hey Kit-Kat,
How's my baby? You know I love you. Don't get mad at me for not writing to you any sooner! Please don't! I hate to see you all upset and I don't my sweetie to be mad at me! Again, I love you! Please be happy! You'll see, thing's will change! Can't say any more!
Love,
Tom

Kitty finished reading the letter and gave Taffy one last pat. She wrote a reply back to her friends and tied it onto Taffy's leg. Taffy left, obviously heading towards Terra Witch and Wizardry, obviously, or was she?
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Taffy flew past many clouds and past many cities and towns. She crossed the ocean and took a short break on a fishing boat, which kindly did not bother her. After, she took off again. She reached all the way to the United States, but when she landed it was not in the magical academy of Terra. She landed in an AIRPORT. There, standing at the entrance, were none other than Piper, Cherry, Amethyst, Diana, Tom, and Meredith.

"See, look, Taffy came right back in a jiffy! And look, she's got a letter from Kitty!" exclaimed Piper, as she started to put Taffy in her cage.

"We've no time for that. According to the headmaster, an airplane is supposed to be a form of air transportation invented by muggles. And according to what else he said, it's going to be leaving in about half an hour, and we still have to find it!" shouted Tom.

They started at a run into the airport. But, no sooner had they entered, they heard voices calling their names, behind them.

"Wait! Wait up! Tom! Amethyst!"

"Hold on! Wait for us! Meredith, Cherry, one of you! Wait!!!"

"Dude!"

Everyone heard the last call and turned around. Jay-Jay, Jake and T.J. had been chasing after them. They finally caught up to were the gang were now standing, and were panting for breath.

"What are you guys doing here?" asked Tom.

"Professor Diaz let us come, too! We asked him this morning, and he told us to hurry so we could catch up with you. He gave us some tickets also," said Jay-Jay.

"Yeah, I couldn't just let my baby go all the way to England all alone!" said Jake, speaking, of course, to Amethyst.

"Whatever, let's go and find this gate, so we don't miss the flight, now!" exclaimed Tom, a bit loudly.

They started walking around the airport, asking a muggle now and then were the gate was. Tom was in the lead of the group, and Jake and T.J. were in the back, strolling the luggage behind them.

"Bit overexcited about seeing Kitty, isn't he?" snickered Jake.

Amethyst, however, overheard that, and turned around to face Jake and T.J., who were in back of her.

"It's not funny at all. I think it's sweet that he care so much about her, now the both of you, please don't make any more comments about Tom. It's bad enough his girlfriend's all the way in England, but NOW he's holding a BIG surprise for her, which includes all of us! So I really don't think it's nice for you to say that about him! He's pressured!"

"Yeah, whatever you say, babe," replied Jake to his girlfriend.

Amethyst just gave him an evil glare for calling her "babe" because of the reference of an animal. It was just idiotic, really. Jake knew it bothered her, but didn't think much of it.

"Please go through the metal detector," said a woman, in a uniform.

"The what? Perfect, get over here!" called Tom.

"Now, what?! Oh. Just follow me, okay?" said Amethyst as she headed toward the front of the group. She placed her luggage on the x-ray machine beside the metal detector, and stepped right through the metal detector.

"Is this going to be in the back of the plane, or will you take it as carry on?" asked the woman.

"Back, please, same with the rest of our luggage," Perfect replied.

One by one, the group of young witches and wizards stepped through the metal detector. Everything went smoothly until Jay-Jay.

When Jay-Jay stepped through, the thing started to beep. Not knowing what to do, Jay-Jay just stood there, with a look of amusement on his face, to the fact that he was the only one of them to beep. He found it funny.

"Please, step back and empty your pockets, then come through again," ordered the lady. When Jay-Jay did what he was told, it was not a pretty sight.

Out of his pocket came his wand, some potions ingredients, a textbook about Quidditch, and keys. This would be hard to explain to the airport worker, staring at the objects wildly.

"I collect the dead lizard tails, from my pet lizard," said Jay-Jay, referring to the ingredients. The lady stood, and raised an eyebrow, and then she changed her expression so that it just screamed her thoughts, "What a FREAK!"

"Oh, and this is mine, it's a toy present for my cousin," said Piper, taking the wand from the table, where the objects had been placed.

"And this is just a non-sense fiction book. For on flight reading, you know, in case it gets, um, boring!" said Amethyst, quickly.

"Okay, you are free to go on the plane, just show that lady over there, your tickets," said the woman, believing their fake, and non-sensical stories.

They headed towards the entrance to the plane and gave the tickets to the woman standing there. They got on the plane and found some seats in the first-class section. Professor Diaz was very kind to give them first-class.

Piper sat with Diana. Amethyst sat behind them with Jake. Behind Amethyst and Jake, sat Meredith and Jay-Jay. Behind those two, were Cherry and T.J. Tom sat by himself, all the way in front of Piper and Diana.

Everyone was having a conversation with each other, except for Tom. Tom seemed to be conversating with himself. He mumbled things like, "Hi, Kitty," and "No, no, no!" or "Surprise, Kitty!" in different tones.

"He HAS gone ballistic, hasn't he?" asked Piper to Diana, whispering, in case Tom overheard her saying so.

"I think he has," was Diana's reply.

Behind Piper and Diana, Jake and Perfect were happily conversating about what it would be like to live at Hogwarts for the rest of the school year.

"So, why'd you decide to come?"

"Well, I had to watch over my sweet heart!"

"Aww, you're so sweet! And yet, you don't trust me, do you?"

"It's not that, I just don't want to lose you to some British guy!"

Behind them, sat Meredith and Jay-Jay. It was ten minutes into the flight, and Meredith and Jay-Jay were already having a full-blown make-out session. Little squeals and grunts could be heard from the both of them, but not once did they come back to earth for some air!

"Why will you NEVER go out with me?" said T.J.

"Because," replied Cherry.

"No! I need an actual reason, Cherry!"

"I don't know! Okay, it's just, oh, I really don't know why not."

While all these conversations were going on, Piper's owl, Taffy, hooted in her cage, above Piper.

"What is it girl? Oh, yeah I almost forgot! The letter Kitty sent back! Come here, girl," Piper said, reaching for Taffy's leg, which still had Kitty's letter on it.

Dear Everyone,
Thank you for the letter. Sorry I overreacted. And I am NOT a drama queen, Hype! Also, I'm DYING to know what my present is! You guys have got to tell me! My birthday's too far away for me to hold all this excitement in! Please tell me!
I really miss you guys, too. Of course I do! Breakfast is almost over, and I'll be late for class, sorry! I have to go! I'll write to you, later! I'll be sure of it! Love you all! And I love you, Tom!
Xoxo,
Kitty

"Hey, Tom! Kitty says she loves you. Here, read!" said Piper, handing the letter to Tom, in front. Tom skimmed through the letter, and handed it back to Piper.

Well, at least she still loves me. Please, don't let her have a new boyfriend. God, what if she does? What if I'm too late? Merlin, I hope I'm not too late. Tom thought. I really do.

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     "Remind me again, why History of Magic is a class that we just HAVE to take?!" Kitty gave a sigh. History of Magic was definitely one of her most hated classes. Well, it wasn't that she just hated it, it was that it was waaaay too boring!

     Hermione gave a snort and then giggled and said in a sarcastic tone, "Cheer up! We have Potions, next!"

     Kitty, apparently had not noticed the sarcasm so she replied, "Finally! An interesting class that won't bore me out of my mind! Great!"

     That got her a sideways glance from Hermione, a raised eyebrow from Harry, and Ron saying, "You're kidding me, right?"

     "Oh, wait. So you were being sarcastic?"

     Hermione nodded her head slowly. Harry then asked, "How can you like Potions? I mean, you have Malfoy for a partner!"

     "He's not all the bad, actually. He's really nice!"

     "Yeah, right, whatever!" the trio said in unison.

     The four of them walked together, down the dungeons to their most hated class, and Kitty's favorite class, Potions. On the way there, however they had bumped into none other than Draco Malfoy, Blaze Zabini, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle.

     "Hello there-," started Draco.

     "Pothead," said Blaze.

     "Weasel," added Crabbe.

     "And mudblood," ended Goyle.

     "Ferret!" Harry, Ron, and Hermione had all said in unison, much to Draco's amusement.

     "Oh, very good. Finally came up with an insult!" he laughed.

     "Shut your trap, Malfoy, or I'll-,"started Hermione, furiously.

     "Or you'll WHAT?! Lay your filthy little mudblood hands on us? Oh, I am just terrified of the little witch, help me! Someone save me from Granger! Please!" Blaze started to run around in a circle, throwing his hands up into the air, and talking with a very sarcastic tone.

     Crabbe and Goyle laughed at Blaze's imitation of being scared of Hermione. Draco however, just muttered, "My God, Blaze you are so embarrassing!" Then started to laugh, also.    

     The whole time, Kitty just stood back and watch as the two groups feuded with their stupid comments and remarks. Watching Blaze run around fretfully, she took the chance and stuck her foot out. Immediately, Blaze tripped and fell down.

     "Um-Ow!"

     "My bad! Here let me help you back up!" Kitty kneeled down and offered a hand. She flashed a smile at Blaze and put on her most innocent face. Harry, Hermione and Ron tried their hardest to suppress their laughter.

     Blaze reluctantly accepted Kitty's hand and got back up to his feet. He sneered at Kitty, while she acted as if nothing were wrong and kept smiling innocently.

     "Now, if you'll excuse me from your bickering, lady (referring to Hermione) and gentlemen, I have a class to get to, and I don't have any intention of being late." With that, she gave one last small smile, and left headed towards the Potions Dungeon.

     As she passed by Draco, she leaned in and whispered, "I'll see you there, right?" She winked and left. This left everyone stunned. As she walked away, they all snapped back and headed after her to the dungeons.

***Later on***

     "Okay, class, today we will learn about the shrinking and enlargement potions. Work with your partner and refer to Potions and other Concoctions for helpful advice and the sort. How well you do will depend on how strong the potion turns out. Turn to Page 89 and begin," ordered Snape.

     Kitty and Draco got to work immediately. Now and then, they would whisper to each other, having a little conversation.

     "What was that all about, in the hallway?"

     "What? Put in half a lizard's tail."

     "Tripping Blaze! What type of lizard tail?"

     "A spotted one. Didn't you find it funny?"

     "Um, yeah! It was hilarious! Ok, now we have to stir it twice."

     "Your friend was just really embarrassing! You say his name is Blaze?" Kitty started to stir the potion.

     "Yeah, why? Are you interested in him?" he raised an eyebrow. "You're not stirring it hard enough!" He placed his hands on top of her's on the spoon-mixing-thingy. (A/N: LMAO. Well, I dunno what it's called so bear with me, ok?)

     Kitty now blushed furiously, but she still acted as if everything were normal. "No! But my friend would, probably. I don't know. Hey, do you have a picture of him that I would be able to duplicate for her?"

     Draco removed his hands away from Kitty's and took out his wallet from his back pocket. He took a small wallet sized photo of him and his best friends laughing in the backyard of some mansion. He handed it to Kitty. "How are you going to duplicate it? We don't learn about those types of charms until next year!"

     "I'm a quick learner!" She placed the picture on top of the table, face-up. She whispered so that Snape wouldn't over hear, "Duplicas Photo!"

      "Miss Salem, if you don't mind me saying so, this is a Potions Dungeon and not Charms class. If you feel, however, that you must practice Charms now, and your Potions later, that can be arranged." Said Snape eerily and in a flat tone from behind Draco and Kitty's backs.

     "Sorry, Professor. Perhaps you would like to check up on our potion, maybe? It's finished by now," Kitty replied, while moving aside so that Snape would be able to examine the Potion.

     "Yes, yes, it's perfect. Full marks for Miss Salem and Mr. Malfoy for the day," he announced to the whole class, loudly, then lowered his voice to speak with Draco and Kitty again, "There are still fifteen minutes left of this class, excellent time, clean up all your ingredients and start on your homework assignment. It's a partner assignment, meaning the both of you will have to work together on it." And with that, he left to go and check up on Neville and Hermione's potion.

     "Well, let's clean up and then we can start the assignment-," started Draco.

     "And whatever we don't finish I'll meet you in the Library on Saturday-,"

     "After dinner, how's that?"

     "Great!"

     But, no later had they finished cleaning up, Potions was over and it was 1:30, afternoon break. They hadn't even started anything. So, Kitty headed to the Gryffindor Common Room and Draco to the Slytherin Common Room.

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     "Holy shit, Draco, that Potions partner of yours? She wouldn't be the girl you went on a date with yesterday…would she?" asked Blaze.

     "What would give you an idea like that?" Draco replied, as he continued walking down the halls.

     "You were awfully cozy around her in the halls and in Potions!"

     "No, I wasn't!"

     "Dude, yeah you were!"

     "Whatever."

     "No, it's not whatever! She's a Gryffindor! You can't be dating a Gryffindor! The one and only Draco Andrew Thomas Lucius Malfoy is not going to pursue a relationship with a Gryffindor!" Blaze shouted. Everyone in the hall heard. Everyone stood by to watch to see if a fight breaks out.

     "Chill, Blaze, chill. I'm not going out with her! That's absurd and unseemly! Never would I, of all people go with a Gryffindor! Never!" Draco answered, much to everyone's displeasure. They really were looking forward to a fight.

     "Are you sure?" Blaze regained his usual relaxed self.

     "Come on, Blaze, do I look like the type to date that type?"

     "Yeah, okay, then, let's head to the Slytherin Common Room before Defense Against the Dark Arts. Or, we can walk around and hit on some girls." He said it as if it were a casual thing. And it was, for him and Draco at least.

     There was DEFINITELY no doubt about it. Draco Andrew Thomas Lucius Malfoy and Blaze Joseph Chris Zabini were the hottest guys at Hogwarts. Although all the girls hated to admit it, due to the fact that they were cruel and mean Slytherins, there was not one girl in the whole school that didn't find at least one of the both a BIT attractive deep down. And whomever didn't find them attractive, well, they were… probably not so attractive themselves or something. You'd have to be crazy, not to envy Draco or Blaze's girl for the week. Everyone did, even though they all knew that she was going to be dumped at the end of the week. Usually, the girls were all dumped on a Friday or Saturday morning. That way, they would have all of Saturday to search for more flirtish and stupid girls.

     "I vote for choice number two, but I don't know about you, Blaze. You're starting to lose your spark." Draco smirked.

     "Yeah, we'll see about that!" Blaze smirked back at Draco.

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     "I really don't know what you were talking about! Potions was a bit fun today…for what it was, I guess," Kitty stated, walking down the hallway backwards, facing Hermione, Harry and Ron. Since she was walking in front of them, but was walking backwards so she was facing them…I can't say whether they were walking behind of in front of her. (LOLz)

     "Whatever you say, oh twisted one!" joked Ron. Harry laughed along with him.

     "I am not mental, okay?"

     "Whatever," whispered Harry to Ron.

     "Just, look out, Kitty. I really don't think that walking backwards is at ALL safe. Be careful you don't trip and fall!" warned Hermione.

     "Oh, Hermione! I've been walking backwards from class to class forever! And the only time I've ever tripped was once on this really bad luck day of mine! Kitty Salem NEVER trips while acting crazy and walking backwards!" Kitty giggled.

     Just as she finished, she tripped over something and fell to the ground. Something landed on top of her. It was a guy from his hard stare at her. His eyes were a cloudy steel gray-blue. And his breath against her cheek was very warm.

     Oh my God! Who is this? This is SO embarrassing! Please, get off of me soon, wait a minute…… I mean, this is kinda comfy! Wait, what am I thinking? And who on EARTH is on top of me?!

     As if answering her, Hermione shouted, "Malfoy, you jerk! Get off of her! NOW! Or else I'll-,"

     "Or else you'll WHAT, mudblood??" Draco replied, getting to his feet with the help of Crabbe.

     "Take that back, Malfoy!" Ron and Harry shouted in fury.

     "Calm down, Potter, Weasel, (Ron growled)" then, returning his attention back to his friends, Draco added, "Come on guys, let's go."

     And as he left, Kitty could've SWORN that Draco Malfoy had actually winked at her. She could feel her cheeks warm up from a semi-blush.

     "What was THAT all about?!" Hermione thought aloud. Kitty just shrugged, her cheeks a slight rosy color.

***Later In the Gryffindor Common Room***

     Kitty, Hermione, Ron and Harry walked into the Gryffindor Common to find it empty. Well, at least it seemed empty because the common room is always so crowded, but a few first years and some fifth years were there, taking a rest for a minute or two.

     "Well, Hermione and I are going to get our books, and then, maybe hang out, you?" questioned Kitty.

     "I don't know, Ron and I will probably do the same." Harry and Ron headed up to the boy's dormitory, and Kitty to the girl's Dormitory.

     "You go ahead, Kitty. I have my books already in my backpack. I'll see you at the Great Hall." Hermione called after her.

     Hermione left Gryffindor Tower and Kitty entered the fifth year's girl's dormitory. Soon after, a scream followed, but it was only for a second.

     "Oh my God! How did you guys- Where did you guys- you guys! God, I've missed you all!" Kitty ran over to give all her friends a humongous hug because all sitting on her bed, on some on Hermione's bed, were Amethyst Drasilin, Meredith Rox, Piper, Diana Hither, Cherry Drasilin, T.J. Trence, Jay-Jay Aren, Jake Trence and her (ahem ::cough cough::) boyfriend…………………………………..Tom Felton

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 Cliffie! Yay! I've always wanted to have a cliffhanger! Really REALLY REALLY terrifyingly sorry that it took so long to update this chapter, ::starts to cry:: you don't how hard it's been to write this chapter ::starts to cheer up!:: But now it's done! YAY!!!!!

Much Luv To Ya All!

-Kitty