.....................................THE SIXTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS....................................................

Jessica was in the library again, but not for the purpose you would think based on the past weeks occurrences. She had, in fact, completely given up on the Hermione method of thinking. It just wasn't her style. She was in the library today for the sole purpose of Potions.

Understandably, she had completely forgotten about the school work she had been assigned over the holidays. She'd even forgotten about Hermione mentioning it to her. Snape had been in an even fouler mood than usual when he had assigned them the essay. Being the resident grinch, he wanted to make everyone's holidays as sour as his would undoubtedly be.

Just because you don't have any fun doesn't mean you have to ruin everyone else's holidays. Jessica thought, cursing Snape thoroughly in her head.

Despite her outward foul mood, inside she was dancing with joy. Even Snape couldn't bring down her high spirits today. She had put on her best robes, and was tastefully adorned with the snowflakes jewels her 'Secret Santa' had given her. Having worn expensive stuff before, having this on didn't phase her but her heart seemed to flutter when she remembered the romantic thoughtfulness of this person, whoever 'he' was.

In fact, sitting in the library for an hour had only accomplished two lines of writing. Her mind was too distracted to focus on deadly sleeping potions, similar to the Draught of the Living Dead.

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Oliver had looked at her interestedly when she had come down into the common room this morning, but he hadn't asked any questions. He probably thought they were presents given to her for one of her birthdays or for Christmas by family or friends.

Looking around the library (just in case she spotted someone likely, hanging around with today's gift), showed her nothing but Madame Pince, glaring at her warningly. She was obviously still remembering the incident from the other day.

Jessica smiled and waved, making her narrow her eyes to slits, her scowl deepen.

Thinking it would be best to at least pretend to work; Jessica picked up her quill and started doodling on a spare bit of parchment.

After about fifteen more minutes, she declared trying to work was completely useless and headed back up to the Common Room.

Ron and Harry were playing a game of chess and looked up when she entered. She smiled at them and walked over.

"Are you winning again Ron?" she asked, slightly teasing Harry.

"Not this time Jess." Ron replied a little disappointed.

She patted him on the shoulder and climbed up the spiral staircase to her dorm.

Her eyes widened when she saw something was waiting for her. Another envelope, slightly thicker this time, was lying on her bed.

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Jessica's mind started to race…how could he get it into her dorm if it wasn't a Gryffindor? The window wasn't open, so Starlight hadn't brought it up…

A picture of Harry's face flashed before her eyes, and so did a picture of Ron. Her heart started beating painfully in her chest.

Could it really be one if them? She thought desperately. If they were from another house they would have had quite a time breaking into the Gryffindor common room, which seemed a very unlikely possibility now.

She couldn't think of anyone but Harry, Ron, and her brother who resided in Gryffindor who stayed the holidays.

Except for…oh no, not Neville. Jessica thought, her heart sinking. What was she supposed to tell him, if it is him?

"I love all the gifts, really, but I don't think we can be any more than friends…"

She didn't want to hurt him…he was a decent person, if not really annoying.

She crossed the room quickly, grabbing for the envelope. Inside read:

On the sixth day of Christmas,

Your true love gave to you,

A chance to ice skate with six fairies.

Jessica felt a burst of emotions at once, excitement, surprise, and anticipation. There was another piece of parchment in the envelope. She pulled it out and it read:

Go down to the lake right after you get this and bring your skates, of course. There six fairies will be waiting for you. Have fun.

Jessica had always watched people ice-skate with such envy. She could rollerblade pretty good but when she put on her ice-skates, she turned into a total klutz. She'd always wanted to be good just so she could enjoy it more. This could be her chance.

She jumped up off of her bed, grabbed her white skates, and ran all the way down to the lake. She waited only for a second when six fairies appeared. They were all girls of course. Each one was glowing a different color, one was red, another was icy blue, another was pink, the fourth one was emerald green, the fifth one was lavender, and the last one was yellow, almost gold. She sat down on the snow and quickly pulled on her skates, lacing them up tightly. The fairies all nodded to each other and flew around her, circling her entire body. They were dropping fairy dust, each the same color as the fairy who sprinkled it, all over her. They hovered over the ice covering the lake, beckoning her to follow.

She carefully stepped on the ice and glided towards them slowly. They got behind her and pushed her as she skated. As she gradually got faster, she tried doing tricks and surprisingly, she got every single one of them right. She was amazed. She grinned and started going faster and faster and doing more difficult tricks. Little did she know that after a little while, the fairies had stopped helping her. She was doing all this on her own!

She got tired though and skated towards the fairies , still not realizing that she'd been doing all that on her own. The icy blue fairy flew right in front of her and said in a high pitched voice: "The young man who set all of this up had asked us to give you this."

All of them handed her a snowglobe that had the fairies helping her skate showing on the inside of it and like all snowglobes, the snow inside it swirled when she shook it. She smiled.

"Can you tell me who it is?" Jessica asked the icy blue fairy.

The fairy smiled mysteriously. "We have been sworn to secrecy but I'll say this much, he really cares for you so be happy in the fact that someone loves and cares for you in the manner so deeply."

Jessica's heart fluttered and she smiled. "Thank you."

She started to walk back towards the castle when the icy blue fairy called out to her, "We didn't help you the whole time you were skating. We stopped after a while so know that most of the things you did near the end, you did on your own."

Jessica was shocked, but she waved to fairies and kept on going back to the castle. She need to tell Nick about this. He'd flip!