Meredith walked to her History of Magic classroom. She had this class and Defense Against the Dark Arts with the Slytherins. She had been looking forward to seeing Tina all day. She felt a tap on her shoulder. Meredith turned expecting Tina and her crazy smile but instead turned to see Goyle looking extremely red in the face. Mere felt her face tinge pink.

"Oh! Goyle…umm...good to see you again," mumbled Mere.

"Hey Mere, I wasn't sure if Tina was sitting here. Do you think I could?" Goyle was looking hopeful as Tina entered the classroom with Draco.

Meredith sighed as she realized Tina wouldn't be sitting with her today. "Sure you could sit here," she heard herself saying.

"Did you catch that program on the WWN yesterday?" Goyle asked.

"Musta missed it, what was it again?" Meredith sideways glanced around the room looking at everyone but Goyle. She wished she had more to say.

"Oh it was this gobstones championship! Emily Mulpeter won! It's actually a lot of fun once you get into it," Goyle said enthusiastically.

"Yeah…sounds like it…" Mere tried to keep the sarcasm in her voice to a bare minimum. She looked across the table at Tina to see how she was doing with Malfoy.

"You're kidding right? I soooo did not know that. You're so funny Draco," Tina said as she playfully pushed Draco.

"No I'm serious they actually invented a vomit flavored every flavour condom," Draco teased as he tried to keep a smile from coming onto his face.

Mere's jaw dropped. How could everyone have better luck at romance than her? Tina had barely been talking to Malfoy for one minute and they were already talking about stuff like that. What is wrong with her?

"So Meredith……." Meredith realized she was staring at Tina.

"Yeah Tina?" she looked hopefully at Tina that she would get her out of this mess with Goyle.

"Tell Goyle about last night with the crazy broomstick!" Meredith cast Tina a quizzical look.

"What?" she whispered to Tina. Tina kicked her "accidentally".

"Um…Oh yeah! The crazy broomstick…it was really funny! Hehe." Meredith cast Tina a thank you glance as Tina mouthed "you owe me" to her. Meredith turned towards Goyle.

"Tina and I were out late last night trying to sneak to the kitchens to get food when we heard footsteps behind us. We turned to see Miss Norris behind us so we ran into the nearest door we could find. It turned out it was the closet where most of the broomsticks are held before they get polished before games. I uh accidentally er set one off. We almost got caught by Filch the broom was making so much noise as it kept banging through the hallways when we opened the door. It was so funny when we saw Filch this morning with all these bumps and bruises when he had to go catch it," Mere crossed her fingers under the table hoping that Goyle believed every word that she had been saying.

Goyle guffawed while Tina snickered to herself quietly. She remembered the many times her and Mere had actually done that without getting caught. Mere smiled to herself thanking god that he believed her.

"Good, I was hoping you'd remember to save me a seat. Today must be my lucky day," Sirius said smoothly as he sat down next to Maya. He gave Maya a small smile.

"What's up? I missed you at breakfast this morning," Maya said returning his smile, "Where were you?"

"Oh, I er I had to talk to McGonagall about some past essay that she thought I hadn't turned in," he said hesitantly.

"Oh, ok. So have you heard about the news in the Daily Prophet this morning?" Maya asked him hoping to strike up a nice conversation leading to him asking her out.

"No I didn't what happened nothing too serious I hope?" Sirius started looking worried like something had happened.

"Oh no nothing terrible like what you're thinking. It was just that someone robbed or rather tried robbing some pureblood wizarding family last night," Maya said intently.

"Class stop talking now! We shall start with werewolves today….."

"Mere wait up what's wrong?" Tina ran towards Mere who had rushed out of class as soon as Professor Binns had dismissed them. She was worried that Mere was mad at her for sitting with Draco and not her.

"Tina we only share two classes together maybe I wanted you to sit next to me!" Mere turned and yelled to Tina.

"But it was only one class Mere it's not the end of the world. I mean come on Mere you were doing just fine sitting next to Goyle. I saw you're eyes light up once you two finally started talking," Tina smirked at Mere.

"Yeah well it was fun talking to him….once we had to make up that story about the crazy broomstick! Seriously Tina, where do you come up with these things?" Mere asked trying to hold back her laugh.

"Well you looked like you needed help in the conversation a teeny lie wouldn't do so much damage. I mean it did help out the conversation. So what are ya doing tonight? I figured we go out cause a little damage in the kitchens? You know like old times," Tina asked trying to get Mere to smile.

"Sure! Let's meet at the usual place down in the 5th corridor, near the four headed gargoyle," Mere finally broke out into a smile. "I need to go back to the common and put away my books before lunch," Mere turned around and walked away…..only to crash into Roger Davies.

Tina smiled and continued walking to her common room where she saw Adam not to far ahead.

"Hey, Adam wait up!" She yelled to him as he stopped to wait for her.

"Miss Parke! Five points from Gryffindor for being late to class. Maybe you should buy yourself a watch so as not to be late to class again," Professor Flitwick chuckled as Liz walked into class. She looked around to find Tina, who was supposed to be saving her a seat. Liz spotted Tina but there was no empty seat near her. She was surrounded by her Slytherin friends including, Malfoy.

"Gee thanks a lot Tina," Liz mumbled to her as she walked by Tina. She took the empty seat next to Harry and Ron.

"Where's Hermione?" Liz asked as she sat down noticing that Hermione wasn't sitting with them.

"Oh. She's sitting over there with Adam," Harry replied coldly while pointing over at Hermione and Adam who were whispering quietly. Hermione giggled at something Adam had just said. Liz looked over at Ron and watched his eyes narrow.

"Now today we will be learning the Silencing Charm. It is very simple spell. All you need to do is say Silencio. You must also swish and flick. Repeat after me Silencio," Professor Flitwick started the class. Everyone in the class repeated after him except Liz who was staring angrily at Tina.

Tina felt someone staring at her. She looked around the room and her eyes landed on Liz. Why was Liz staring angrily at her? Uh-oh she was supposed to have saved Liz a seat in this class. Tina had gotten so caught up talking to all her Slytherin friends. Pansy, Millicent, Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle that she had forgotten to save Liz a seat. Tina hoped that Liz wasn't too angry at her for forgetting. She tried to mouth an "I'm sorry" over to Liz but she turned away from her.

"Don't you agree Tina?" Draco asked her and everyone was looking at her. She forgot what they were they talking about before she had spaced out.

"Um…yeah sure," Tina tried to cover that she really was listening the whole time. "I'll just have to talk to Liz after class" Tina thought to herself.

The bell rang.

"Liz, wait up!" Tina called after Liz, but Liz had raced out of the classroom as soon as the bell had rung. Tina walked out of the classroom with Adam looking around for Maya, who had promised to meet them after class. Tina spotted Maya and Liz walking off without them.

"Maya, what the hell! Why are you guys leaving without us?" Adam called after them. Liz and Maya turned around.