~*~ I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter, I had to fall, to lose it all, but in the end it doesn't even matter. Linkin Park – In the end.

Disclaimer – all belongs to her majesty the brilliant J.K.R!

"We won! We won!" the twins sang dancing around the outside of the broom shed.  "Only because I had no idea where to go!" I said indigently, sulking. I flung open the door and it revealed a huge shed, full of cupboards and racks of brooms, it didn't look at all the size it seemed from the outside.

"Nothing is ever how it seems," I reminded myself, stepping in to admire the many brooms, spread throughout the shed.

The twins went immediately to the end of the shed, and picked two brooms off a rack, I noticed a huge sign, hanging above the part of the shed we were in. It read "Gryffindor" in big, scarlet and gold letters with a big picture of a griffin next to it.

"can you guys pick me a broom?" I asked the twins. A evil grin crept over their faces, "one that preferably won't throw me off!" I added. Their faces fell, and they glared at me, grumbling about me 'ruining their fun' I smiled satisfied, as they walked to a nearby cupboard labelled, 'Flying-stars' they pulled out a new looking broom.

 I sighed, as they handed it over to me, it was gorgeous! "Wow!" I breathed, "That's a new type of broom just out this summer," said Fred, "it's not the fastest out, but it's pretty good; easy to learn on, and pretty sturdy while maintaining a good speed." George added, sounding like he was on a commercial on T.V. "Let's go," I told the boys, "breakfast won't start for another hour and a half or so."

I walked out of the shed and towards what I assumed was the Quidditch pitch. I heard a whoosh behind me and Fred appeared flying quickly in circles above my head while George did loops crazily off to my left. 

Then they both took off speeding towards the pitch. "hey no fair!!" I yelled, running after them, "I don't know how to fly!" they grinned back at me, then started doing a lap of the pitch. I groaned. They were going to just leave me here! 'What am I gonna do!?' I thought furiously, suddenly an idea hit me.

I placed the broom on the ground, stood on the left side; held my hand over it and said, "UP!" to my amazement the broom flew straight up into my hand, "WHOA!" I cried, shocked, I sat on the broom gripping it tightly with my hands.

'Ok,' I told myself, 'you can do this,' and with that reassurance, I kicked off the ground, and hovered in the air for a moment before pointing the broom up a bit. I yelled with delight as the broom soared up into the air.  "WOOHOO!!" I cried, flying in a circle.

When I had got the hang of it, I looked for the twins, Fred was at the end furthest away from me, so I headed towards George, I looped around him, and started flying level to him, but upside down.

I laughed at his reaction.  Obviously he and Fred hadn't thought that I would be game enough to try the broom by myself. George had almost fallen off his broom in complete shock of seeing me there. He gripped his broom tightly, and his mouth fell open.  "Huh?" was all he could say. 

"God, you think a girls gonna stay on the ground and wait for you?" I asked him cheekily. "Well… yeah," he said, nodding.

"Guys!" I huffed, and flew ahead of him.

I caught up to Fred, and received pretty much the same reaction from him. 

"Honestly," I complained an hour and a bit later, when all three of us were standing on the ground, "you guys are all the same, think us girls need you to teach us anything, athletic, or 'boyish' what happened to girl's independence?" I was really annoyed now. I had gone my whole life being treated like a… girl. I always prided myself on not being the girly type; always dressed-up, never being able to do anything because, ' I might break a nail'. I didn't need to be treated like it now as well.

Fred glanced at his watch, "we better go to breakfast." He said, hopping on his broom. "Don't want to miss the show, do we?" I grinned, temper forgotten, and jumped on to my broom. We flew back to the shed, put the brooms away, and started walking back to school, laughing and joking the whole way.

I slid into a seat across from the twins, piled some food on my plate, and looked over at the Slytherin table.  The few of them who were up, were eating and looked perfectly normal, Eyebrows rising, I glanced at the twins, "put a timing charm on it, wouldn't want everybody to miss out would we? It's set to go off at 8:15. Only 30 minutes to wait" The wicked gleam in their eyes was back. "Cool!" I exclaimed happily, and turned to my food. "What's so cool?" asked a voice sliding into the seat next to me. It was Ron. "Nothing Ron, its nothing." He looked sceptical, but didn't say anything as a tall, pretty girl came up with a bunch of class schedules.

"Hey Alicia," George greeted her, I noticed a faint blush on his cheeks, "hey," she replied, I noticed a slight blush grew on her cheeks as well. 'Alicia…. Alicia Spinnet. 7th year, chaser on the Quiddich team, Georgie's girl obviously, if she's not then she soon will be. He so likes her." after acknowledging who she was I held out my hand, "hey Alicia, I'm Melanie" I smiled at her, she shook my hand, also smiling.

"Hey, nice to meet you, Melanie… Melanie Robinson… Ahh 5th year, here you are." She passed me my schedule. I glanced at it. "Cool! Double potions with the Slytherins!" I said, grinning. Ron looked horrified. "Mel, please tell me you're being sarcastic!" he exclaimed.  "Now Ron." Fred interrupted.

"Melanie just wants to see Malfoy, she's got a thing for him."

I laughed at Ron's face. It had turned from horrified to disgust, he turned to me, "are you serious?!" he exploded. "No," I answered angelically, but before I continued Fred interrupted. "It's almost quarter past! Oy George! Quarter past buddy!"

George was out of it, staring down the table, at Alicia, obviously. I reached over the table and whacked him round the head. "Melanie! Why do you always have to do that?" he yelped, rubbing his head. I shrugged. "It works, anyway stop staring at her George, it's almost quarter past." He shot a dirty look at me, probably for noticing him staring at Alicia; no one else seemed to have noticed.

"What's happening at quarter past? And who was George staring at?"

Harry asked, he and Hermione had just come up and sat in the seats next to Ron. "You'll see and no one in particular," I answered, smiling at him.

I whizzed around in my chair, and looked towards the Slytherin table. Fred and George started the count-down  "5…4…3…2…1"  "'BANG!!!'" it the place of all the Slytherins were "Monkeys!" I screamed.

(I LOVE MONKEYS!!!!!!)

Then I burst into uncontrollable laughter; I fell off my chair and started rolling around on the floor. The rest of the Hall was laughing too and the monkeys were screeching.

"FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY! MELANIE ROBINSON! GET HERE NOW!!"

I stopped laughing, got up off the floor, and looked for Minnie. She was standing at the front of the Hall, and boy did she look pissed. "How did she know I was there to!" I whined to the boys as we walked slowly to her. "You three! Detention tonight! Meet Filch in the Entrance Hall at 8:00" I groaned. Minnie glared at me, "what did you say Miss Robinson?"

I glared back at her, I hate being called Miss Robinson, "I said, *groan* Minnie," I replied. She threw her hands up in annoyance and stalked off, we had just turned to leave when she yelled, "And put those Slytherins back the way they were!" The monkeys screeched again. "That is the way they were before" George said innocently, Fred nodded vigoursly, "BOYS!" Minnie screamed in annoyance. They hung their heads in mock shame, "turn them back!" she demanded. "We… can't" said Fred. "Nope" agreed George, "no can do," I added.

Minnie got a dangerous glint in her eye. The twins obviously recognised it because they said hastily, "they'll change back by themselves in 5 minutes," Minnie looked triumphant. "Good. Now go, all of you! And Miss Robinson, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you Mr Potter Mr Weasley and Miss Granger in his office after breakfast" she turned and walked to the head table.

"How did she know I was there!" I whined, "I've only been here a day and she's picking on me! Humph!" we walked back to the Gryffindor table to where Harry, Hermione and Ron were waiting, "honestly!" began Hermione, its only the second day of school and all of you have a detention!"

I hadn't realised that. "Cool!" I exclaimed. It was my favourite word today. Everything around me was so cool!

Hermione looked at me disbelievingly, "oh come on it Hermione, it was fun! Besides if I'm only gonna be here a month or so, I want to experience everything. That includes detention!" I explained to the bushy haired girl.

"You're only staying a month?" asked Ron, "yeah," I replied, he looked disappointed, dunno why. "Oh by the way, Professor D wants to see us straight after breakfast." I took a bite of my toast. "I'm done!" I jumped up and waited for the others,

WE started walking to the headmaster's office, when we reached the gargoyle, we realised we still didn't know the password so Harry and Ron sat down to wait. I didn't want to sit, I had too much energy.

So instead I asked Hermione to teach me some colouring charms. "you point you wand at the thing you want to colour, and say, for example 'Colourio blue'" her robes had turned blue. "cool!" I said pulling out my wand. "where did you get that?" Hermione asked suspiciously, "off Professor D" I replied off handily, 

I pointed the wand at the gargoyle, and said "Colourio Pink" and it worked, it actually worked! "cool!" I said sticking my tongue out at the Gargoyle, which stuck his pink tongue out back at me, I kicked it, and danced out of its reach before it could retaliate.

Just then Professor D walked around the corner of the corridor, "Ahh, you are already here, good, now what has happened to my Gargoyle?" he inquired looking around at us, I smiled guiltily.

"Hermione was teaching me a colouring charm, it worked Professor D! see!" I said pointing at the Gargoyle, which leaned forward and bit my finger. "ow!" I yelped, and kicked it again. "I can see it worked Melanie, now let us go in and I can discuss why you are here."

I stepped back from the Gargoyle, glad Dumbledore remembered not to call me 'Miss Robinson' "Mintie" he said to the Gargoyle, it sprang aside and we walked through, I had to dodge past the Gargoyle when it tried to kick me again.

"What's a mintie?" asked Ron as we went up the stairs, "muggle sweet" I answered, "it's really yummy! I have some in my pocket if you want one?"

I pulled them out and handed one to Ron, Harry and Hermione, she however declined, "parents don't like me eating minties" she explained, "that's dentist's for you,' I said handing a Mintie to the Headmaster as we entered his office.

"Why thank you Melanie" he said, taking a seat at his desk, I bounced over, patted Fawkes before sitting in one of the armchairs.

"Well," Dumbledore began, "I guess you are all wondering why you are here?"

~*~ just imagine the DERM DERM DARM!!!!!! Here!!!!!!!!

Ill write more tomorrow, i'm getting yelled at for not studying, AHHHHHH!!!!! I got a c on my maths test! Hehe oops!!!!

Ohh well, they'll get over it!!!!