After they made their way to the common room, Lacey went straight up to her dorm to check them out.

Hermione stormed up to Harry,"What do you think you're doing?!" She wispered.

"When I was putting the books away I tripped, and she fell with me," Harry said startled. Ron came up behind the two of them with a panic-y look,"You TALKED to her?!" Just then Ron ran out of the common room, and Hermoine and Harry followed.

For the rest of the day they tried to avoid Lacey, it worked pretty well. But it was a little more work for Hermione since she had a dorm room near hers. That night Ron and Harry lied awake for a long time. Each of them thinking the same of "What if Lacey...". Eventually they both fell asleep and Sunday was like a blur, they saw Lacey a few times but she didn't see them.

Classes were going to be much harder to avoid her, but they'd find a way to manage. The first few days they didn't have any classes with Lacey to their relief, but just when they thought they were safe she came in with Lavender and Parvati in their Divanation class. "Oh no, please don't sit by us, please don't sit by us!" Ron chanted quietly to himself. But of course, they sat up front next to Professor Trelawney. "Today children, we're going to review things we've done in our first year, and of course we need partners," Ron and Harry nodded at each other,"But you won't be picking them this time,"She pulled out her wand and conjured a spell and little strips of white paper appeared above all the students heads and landed in front of them,"You have a number on this paper, and someone else has that same number, you will work together," Shot a look at Lavender and Parvati,"No whining you two!"

"What number do you have Harry?" Ron asked quietly as Professor Trelawny continued,"I have 17."

"Number 9." Harry said flattly. Everyone got up and started walking around looking for other people with their number. Harry had Neville, but Ron wasn't so lucky, he got Lacey. A look of terror came over Ron's face as he sat down far away from Harry.

"I feel sorry for Ron," Neville said looking where Harry was.

Harry couldn't believe what he had just said, then wondered if Neville knew what was going on, then he asked,"Why do you say that?"

"I don't know, there's just 'something' about her that bothers me, but I don't know what it is," Neville replied and opened the tea leaves book. The rest of the class went by so slowly Harry thought it was going to be days or weeks before they'd get out. When the bell rang, Harry said bye to Neville and ran to the trap door and climbed down, Ron was the next one down and they left quickly to find Hermione.

"Oh Ron, are you going to be ok? Did she say anything suspiseous," but it seemed that Ron's mind was elsewhere, and that clearly showed when Lacey said hi to them all and Ron waved back at her with a love-sick smile!

"RON!" Hermione yelled and he came back to reality.

"What are you doing?!"Harry said.

Then Ron lost his smile, started to blush, then explained, "You know when we had to work together, we talked about everything! She helped me understand the tea thingy, and she's really really nice, and funny! And her hair smells like-" ::SMACK!:: Hermione slapped Ron back to his sencses. "Sorry,"Ron said,"But I do, have to say one last thing...I think like her, I like Lacey Larson..." Harry's jaw dropped and Hermione covered her face with her hand.