Okay, well I wrote this chapter. And as you probably know I don't own anything from harry potter or anything thusly contained.

Chapter 3

"Ali?" Becca asked surprised.

"Uh, yeah?" Ali said, not as surprised, but irritated at Ron and Harry. "Who are you?" She asked them, looking at each in turn.

"I'm Harry, Harry Potter" said Harry, preparing for a glance at his scar, which never actually came.

"And, uh, Ron Weasley." Ron told her, his ears turning red.

"Nice to meet you" She said looking at Ron, then turned to Harry "Now get off me!" She said, shaking her upper body vigorously, an icy tone to her voice.

"What are you doing here?" Becca asked surprised.

"Well, you see, it all started when I decided that I wanted to go to a summer camp..." She trailed off, eyebrows raised.

"No, I mean, well why didn't you tell me?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I dunno."

"Neither do I." Ali shrugged. "And uh, who are you?" She asked, looking at Hermione, who'd been in the background this whole time, arms crossed.

"Hermione Granger." Ali suppressed a snort, but just barely. The look on her face must have made it apparent however because Hermione gave a disgusted look at her then briskly turned and walked away.

"Hey Hermione, where're ya' going?" Ron called out, quickly running off to follow her.

"Whatever..." Ali said looking where they'd both gone. "I guess I'll go back to my cabin and leave you with your new friends." She said bitterly to Becca.

"C'mon Ali, you're not that mad that I didn't tell you are you. Cause you didn't tell me either. I'm sure you've made some new friends too."

"Yeah well FYI I haven't!" She said loudly, her voice sounding forced. Then she turned and ran away, fists against her eyes, not even bothering to hold the tears back. She hoped Becca would follow her, a part of her was very uneasy about these new kids though.

She heard crashing behind her. "Hey! Stop!" Came the girl, Hermione's, voice behind her. This shocked her so much that she did. She turned and looked at her, knowing what she must be thinking of her.

"Ugh!" She said frustrated, falling over frustrated. "Why?" She sighed, blushing bright red and putting her face in her hands to hide it.

"What was that about?" She asked, looking pissed.

"I always do it." Ali said, into her palms.

"Why?"

"I don't know..." She mumbled.

"What?"

"I DON'T KNOW!"

"Well, that's stupid."

"Maybe I am stupid!" Ali turned and dashed away, shouting with frustration, and running into another person.

"God Dammit!" She muttered, tears pouring out harder. All she wanted was to be alone.

"What's wrong?" The boy asked, she noticed that his voice was coming from below her.

"Ohmygod! I'm so sorry!" She crawled back off of him, wiping her eyes.

"Hey, do I know you?" he asked. She looked down at him. It was the red- haired boy from earlier. He was even cuter up close.

"Oh, you're Becca's new friend-"

"Ron." Her only response was to sniff and wipe her eyes.

"And, I'm..." She sniffed again "Ali."

"Uh, are you ok?" He asked awkwardly, sitting up and patting her on the back as she cried again.

"No..." she muttered when she could speak.

"What happened?"

"Well I thought that I'd come here and make friends, but I never do, and I should have known. And then I saw Becca and I thought that I'd have friends this time, but then she had all these other friends, who are you and the other two, and so I had to leave. And then I ran into that girl, and she asked why I made such a big deal over it, and I said I didn't know, and she said I was stupid, which only made me feel worse, and I just wanted to be alone and... and have friends..." And with that she broke down into a fresh set of tears.

Ron looked at her, more than a little confused, and patted her awkwardly on the back. "Oh... is that all?" He asked semi-sarcastically. "What about in your cabin?"

"They're all evil!" She grabbed the front of his shirt and shook him "EVIL!"

"Oh, so you're in Slytherin, eh?"

"Yeah."

"Well, you don't seem too bad to me."

"Really?"

"Uh, sure..." He said with a weak smile. He wasn't sure if he was telling the truth, but it had gotten her to stop crying.

She looked up into the trees and suddenly stopped her sniffling and tearing. "Oh...my...god!" She whispered, crawling backward with wide eyes.

He looked at her confused, "What? What is it?!"

"Sp- sp- Spider! "

"What?!" His voice cracked and he stood getting ready to run.

She pointed up into a tree where a three-foot tall spider was lurking. Ron reached down to give her a hand up. "Oh my god..." She kept saying. As they backed away the spider jumped out and charged at them. Both started screaming and ran into the forest. Ali looked ahead where a relatively large bird was perched. "Ron!" she shouted, jumping at him and knocking him down.

"W-"Ron started to ask her what she was thinking, but she leaned forward and shoved a hand onto his mouth.

"Trust me." She whispered directly into his ear. He clearly didn't as he was looking at her with extremely large eyes.

The spider scurried by them quickly, off after its new prey. Both Ali and Ron let out their held breath and Ali sat up, legs around Ron's waist. Both turned furiously red. "Sorry."

"Sorry?!" He shouted. "You saved my life, from a SPIDER!" He grabbed her arms and looked her directly in the eyes. "Why I... I could kiss you!"

"Oh, you don't have to." She turned bright red, redder than he'd ever turned. "I was... just..." She looked at him, face getting redder as she saw his adorable freckles and soft hazel eyes. She bit her lip, turned, and ran away.

She finally got back to the cabins and ran into her room, and coming face to face with the pug-like leader of the girls in her cabin. "Ew, it's the muggle." She said in a haughty over-bearing tone.

"Okay, I don't know what you just called me, and frankly I don't give a flying rat's ass. Get out of my face..." She commented in an irritatingly calm, level tone. Beside the girl was that same boy that she'd run into early; irritatingly cute, and snotty at the same time. She sighed and climbed up on her bunk.

"Where do you think you're going?" The girl asked her, hands on hips again.

"Uh... to my bunk," Ali said raising her eyebrows.

"Too bad you can't go hang out with your friends..." The boy said condescendingly.

"Yeah, but she'd need to have 'em first!" The girl said snickering. The boy put his arm around her shoulders and they walked out of the cabin laughing.

Ali tried to ignore them, and made a futile attempt to busy herself by spending some quality time with her diary. She wrote about Becca's abandoning her, about the bitchy girls in her cabin, about Becca's new friends, especially the adventure with the cute redhead one. But then she came back to the irritating encounter with the head of the demon bitches and hott but jerk boy. "Ugh!" Ali threw her diary at a wall, and then jumped down to pick it up. Just as her hand touched it she heard a voice outside her window.

"Hey, you coming to dinner?" Becca leaned in through the window and grinned at her.

Ali sighed, unable to hold back her smile. "Sure, gimmie a sec." She climbed up on her bunk and shoved her diary under her pillow. "Okay, here I come." She looked through the window at Becca smliling.

"You know me way too well." Ali laughed, reaching though the window and hugging Becca. Ali hopped out grinning at her best friend.

"Well, I figured you just needed time to calm down." Becca laughed.

"Kinda'." Ali blushed remembering her encounter with Ron. She heard a snort, and there he was! She laughed, and locked eyes with him, and they shared a smile.

"C'mon you two!" Becca said, she was walking ahead with Harry and Hermione. Ali and Ron ran to catch up with them. Ali whistled and pulled Becca back a few paces behind Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who looked at them funny, but didn't comment.

"Becca, how come the boys from YOUR cabin are so hott?" She chuckled. "I mean, first of all, Ron is so adorable! Oh my gosh." She fanned herself and lowered her voice, "And Harry, well he's just got a cute ass!" Becca looked at her slack-jawed. "What?" Ali asked looking at her and blushing "Oh come on, like you didn't notice!"

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