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A/N-I decieded to keep this story as it is. I am incredibly sorry to those who read it before I took it down. I will be uploading nine chapters today, and the final one tommorow.

"James huh. Well James, by the end of the night, me and you, we're gonna be tight." She sighed as she sat down on the bar stool. You could hear music playing. There was a party going on, the main cause for celebration being the recent engagement of a Miss Pansy and a Mister Draco." May I please have a regular coke, no ice, no straw, no glass, unopened." She let her black hair cascade down her face, shielding her view of the people around her.

"Here you go." He said as he handed her a can of coke.

"Thanks."

"Care to vent?"

She sighed before speaking. "You see that woman there is the yellow dress." She said as she pointed to a person. "She was one of my best friends. And you see that guy there in the tux with his arm around her waist." She said as she pointed to the other person." He is my ex-fiancé of one hour ago, and she is his secretary who is three weeks pregnant with his baby. The wedding is in two days. And on the morning of the wedding, he will take my company away from me, and there is nothing that I can do about it because he played by the rules. That and the fact that most people in politics, business and news hate me. And he told me here because even if I cause a scene, the news will be against me, and my life will be even more screwed."

"Can't you just fire him or something?" James asked

"No, because if I was to do that, then he would bring a lawsuit against me. And I can't make him look how he is for marrying Pansy because our relationship was a secret. Thus, I am screwed." She said as she sighed and started to tear up. "However, I can't even cry about it because one must always have their appearance, and I can't leave this party yet, because that would put me in an even more ridiculing eye of the public."

"I'm sorry; I shouldn't bother you with my problems." She said as she wiped away unfallen tears.

"It's okay. Are you sure that you don't want something else to drink?" James asked.

"No, coke is the only thing that could possibly fix this." She sighed.

She then looked up at James for the first time. He had amazingly blue eyes. Pure blue with a hint of sapphire. He had a very handsome face, and sandy blond hair that made him look even more attractive. He looked kind of sad though. "You look like you could use a coke yourself." She laughed.

"A friend of mine just got a letter from one of her friends that said that she was engaged."

"There's got to be more to it than that. You liked her, didn't you?" It was a statement, not a question.

"Yeah."

"You listened to me vent; it is only fair that I repay the favor. Tell me the story."

"Well, it was about two weeks ago, and-" James started.

"No, tell me the story from the beginning. I can't offer you any advice if I don't know the whole thing."

"Okay, but first you have to tell me your name. I at least want to know who I'm telling my feelings to."

"Rachel Brooks." She said.

"Okay, well, we went to Hogwarts together. She was in Slitherin, and I was in Gryffindor, so, I didn't pay any attention to her. What made her come to my attention was that she was friends with some of my girl friends in Gryffindor. I found her and another friend of mine studying together in the library one time, actually speaking nicely to each other. After that, I started to notice her more. She was different. She could be a bitch, and she was very Slitherin, but she was off." James said doing hand motions at the word 'off'" She hung around the people who gave Slitherin a bad name, but she would never start a fight with anybody. If you got her ticked though, you had to sneak from class to class for weeks in large groups unless you wanted to be hexed to the point where breathing hurt. She would hardly do anything physical, but she could make people loose their minds for days because she knew exactly how to make people scared.

"She hardly ever went overboard with it, and she'd often apologize if she thought that she was being too harsh, but one time, this kid went too far. I wasn't there when it happened. That kid ended up having to be in St. Mungos for two weeks because he had gone temporarily insane. She didn't even say she was sorry.

"After that, she became more popular in Slitherin, and less popular with everybody else. The friends that she had managed to make in the other houses had broken it off because they said that they didn't even know her. She wouldn't tell anybody why she had done it either. Only she knows know because that kid had to have that memory obliviated. The only people from the other houses that even spoke to her were some of us Griffindors. Our house called us traitors, but we still kept in contact.

"After about three months after the incident, only me and three other people would talk to her that weren't in Slitherin. She was nice to everybody, offering to help them with their studies if she noticed that they were falling behind, even if they weren't in Slitherin, but they just ridiculed her even more.

"Four months after the incident, people in her house started being scared of her. By that time, even some of the teachers wouldn't be in the same room with her if there was less than five other people.

"After five months, she had only seven people that would talk to her, and not make fun of her or cower in fear if she entered the same room. She became really lonely and sad around then. During Spring Break, everybody was gone except for her and the few people in Gryffindor who still talked to her, so we decided that she could just stay in our tower until Spring Break was over, and we wouldn't tell our other house mates.

"She was rooming with the friend that I told you about earlier, the one who got the letter and was in the library, and when I walked into that room, she was changing, and had just taken off her shirt when she saw me come in, she tried to cover her self up, but I started walking towards her, wondering what it would be like to kiss her. She asked me what I was doing, and then I backed her up against the wall, and kissed her. After that kiss, she told me she hated me. She asked me to go away and not bring up what had happened.

"I was so angry at her after that, that I didn't talk to her as much, only a 'hi' every now and then. After we graduated, my friends and I fell apart from her. About two weeks ago, my friend that had brought her to my attention got a letter from her asking her to be her bridesmaid." He sighed as he finished up his story.

"Do you want to go out and get some drinks, and just continue talking? The party's almost over, so I think that it would be okay for us to leave. Besides, just ask somebody to cover you." Rachel said with a shrug.

"Sure. Hey David, can you cover me? I'm going to be leaving early tonight." James asked.

"Sure. Whatever." Came a distracted reply as David was busy hitting on a pretty girl.

A/N-Thank you all who reviewed for this story the last time. I never got to thank msqt91092 for reviewing to the other story. Thank you.

bye, MK