Chapter 23

The next day Heather met with Neville in the library.

Heather said, "Yo Nev Nev!"

"Hey Heather." said Neville

"What's up?"

"Nothing much."

Heather then started to sing, "The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round-oh!"

"Shh!" hissed Madame Prince

Heather turned to Neville. "So Neville, guess what's coming up in a week?"

"Er…school?" guessed Neville

"No. Try again. I'll give you a hint! Nov. 8!"

"Nothing. It's 8 days after Halloween."

Heather saw Tommy walk by.

Tommy noticed that Heather and Neville were talking closely together. Tommy hid behind a bookshelf and listened to their conversation.

"No Nev Nev my birthday!"

"Oh yeah your birthday…sorry I forgot about that. I also forgot about the potions homework that we have to do."

Heather smiled, "It's okay, don't worry about it."

Tommy thought to himself, "Hmm…her birthday is coming up and knowing Neville he will probably forgot again so…this will be my chance to win her over."

Meanwhile, Jackie lay on her bed. It was 3:00 pm. (It's a Saturday) Jackie's eyes were blood-shot and she didn't remember much about what happened last night. Nehal was sitting beside her on her bed while Danielle was finishing up her transfiguration homework.

"Urmiha!" groaned Jackie

"You awake?" asked Nehal

Jackie looked around the room, "So what am I doing here?"

"Jackie, that's two days in a row you don't remember what happened the night before." stated Nehal

"It feels like three."

Danielle said, "Daryl found you and brought you back here."

"Oh please don't tell me I didn't make a fool of myself."

"No that would be me." said Nehal

"With Ron?" asked Danielle

Nehal nodded her head.

"Wait. You two were totally hot for each other."

"Were. Until about halfway through ripping each other's clothes off I bailed."

Danielle scoffed, "Because?"

"Because he got all serious. He was talking about this intense commitment and it was weird." answered Nehal

"Uh. I don't want to live in a world where girls like ourselves can have such a lame Friday night." Danielle paused. "I gotta change my karma. Maybe you guys should make some changes too."

Nehal said, "I didn't wake up with a foggy memory."

Jackie looked at Nehal, "Well, you didn't wake up with Ron, either."

Nehal punched Jackie in the arm.

"Ow!"

Danielle laughed.

Nehal said, "Let's go downstairs and find Heather."

Jackie clutched her stomach. "Ooo I don't feel so good."

"You sick?" asked Danielle

"Yeah…I think…I um…oh gosh I'm gonna throw up." Jackie ran to the bathroom. "You guys go on ahead."

Danielle looked at Nehal, "What's wrong with Jackie?"

"I don't know, but did you see her eyes?"

"Yeah, they're all bloodshot. Do you think she's drinking?"

"No she wouldn't do that. But I haven't seen a lot of her lately." Nehal said sadly.

"Maybe we should ask Heather and see what she thinks." suggested Danielle

Neville and Heather were walking down the corridors.

"Wait, what's on Nov. 8 again?" asked Neville

"My birthday!" yelled Heather.

"Hey guys, wass up?" said Nehal

"Nothing much. My birthday's coming up!"

"It is?" said Neville excitedly

Heather sighed and wrote Heather's b-day Nov 8 on his arm.

"Right…" replied Danielle. "We need to talk to you Heather."

"Okay." said Heather and looked patiently at them.

"No…about stuff." added Nehal

"Well then shall we begin?" said Heather

"We need to speak to you in private!" Nehal said glaring at Neville.

Heather said, "So do all who come to see such times, but all you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you." (LOTR)

Nehal and Danielle looked at each other puzzled.

Neville walked into the great hall while the girls went into an empty classroom.

Heather said, "So what did you guys want to tell me?"

Danielle said, "It's about Jackie, we're worried about her."

"Oh…Jackie…what about her?"

"Well first of all she just woke up a couple of minutes ago and she's usually not that much of a late sleeper. And the when she did wake up she looked like she got drunk last night or something…"

Heather shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe she's just really tired from detention last night."

"But she's been acting weirdly around me all the time!" exclaimed Nehal

"Okay…" said Heather thinking that she shouldn't tell them, but she would have to make something up. "Well I shouldn't really say anything…"

"We are Jackie's friends too!" said Danielle

"Okay, okay I'll tell. Over the summer…Jackie got pregnant!"

"WHAT?" cried Danielle

Nehal gasped, "Omg you're kidding!"

"Nope."

"Well that still doesn't explain why she is being weird around me."

"Well…" said Heather thinking fast. "Some things went down at the Wesley's house that you don't know about!"

Danielle rolled her eyes, "Obviously."

"Well, Ron's the father."

"Omg, Omg!" said Nehal

"No wait. You can't tell her or anybody else. Just be extra nice to her okay? She can't know that you know…Jackie knows you like Ron and…"

"Don't worry Hey Hey, our lips our sealed." said Danielle

"We gotta go." said Nehal.

Heather smiled for a job well done. (LOL) She then thought. "I hope my white lie isn't too big."

Draco and Ian saw Danielle and Nehal walking towards the great hall so they went to go chat with them.

"Hello ladies." said Draco. "How you doin'?" (Like Joey from friends)

Ian kissed Danielle on the lips, "Hey baby."

Danielle smiled, "Hey sexy."

Nehal rolled her eyes.

Draco said, "So what are you girls talking about?"

Danielle and Nehal looked at each other. "Nothing."

"Okay I have to go. Pradhan walk me to potions."

"I can walk myself." replied Nehal

"Great then you can walk me too." Draco and Nehal walked off to potions class.

Danielle looked at Ian, "So how was Quidditch practice in the rain?"

Ian groaned, "Oh it was brutal. Malfoy's pretty tough."

Danielle laughed.

"So what did you do beautiful?"

"Played truth or dare."

Ian's eyes widened

"Don't worry I didn't snog anyone!"

"Good."

There was silence.

"I'm changing my karma Ian."

"What? What are you talking about?"

"All we ever do is make-out. I mean it's nice but it can only go so far. We need to connect more."

"Uh okay…"

"Well let me know when you think of something for us to do. Bye Ian!" Danielle kissed his cheek and walked away, leaving a puzzled Ian.

As Draco and Nehal were walking to potions, Draco randomly said, "Hey what do you think Jackie's three favorite clothing brands are? Is she into Versace, Gucci, Ralph Lauren?"

Nehal said, "She can't afford any of those clothes."

"What? But there so cheap!"

"Could we just like not talk about Jackie for five minutes, we talk about her all the time!"

"No we don't, we don't. We talk about all sorts of things all the time, we talk about dark arts, and we talk about Quidditch and…"

"Right about how you wanted to name your Quidditch broom after her and how you wanted to put her under a spell to make her fall in love with you."

"Wow, okay I was under the impression that we were friends who, I don't know talk about our-our thoughts and stuff."

"We are, so I guess... you're finally hearing some of mine...I'm gonna go find Danielle. Later!"

Meanwhile Heather and Neville were in the room of requirements making out. That room was now officially the girl's favorite place to make out with their boyfriends.

Neville was on top of Heather kissing her neck.

Heather laughed, "Hey that tickles!"

"Sorry."

"Mm…keep going."

"Okay."

"Hey what time is it?"

"3:30, why?"

"I have a ton of homework that I should probably get started on."

"Me too but not now okay?"

"No Neville I really should go…"

Neville sighed, "Alright, I'll walk with you."

In the Slytherin common room, Draco is talking to Crabble and Goyle.

"The fact is yes I admit it I occasionally talk about Jackie, maybe I even talk about her to much but it's not really the point is it."

Crabble and Goyle just stare blankly at Draco.

Ian then entered the common room.

Draco said, "Hey. So get this uh Pradhan thinks all I ever do is talk about Jackie...I mean that's crazy right?"

Ian looked at Draco. "You want me to lie."

"I'm that guy."

"What do you mean you're that guy?"

"Dude how can I be that guy, I hate that guy. Well then no wonder Jackie doesn't have any interest in me because apparently all I do is I talk about Jackie, although you'd think she'd like that." (Oh this from the O.C. by the way, hmm mmm yeah)

"You're doing it again."

"Right."

Jackie saw Colt in the library reading a book. "Hi Colt."

Colt looked up from his book. "Hi."

"Yeah…so um…I'm um…really sorry for what happened the other day. I had no idea that my friends were gonna do that to you and Rocky. I'm so sorry."

"It's okay, I'm over it."

"Okay that's good."

Colt laughed.

"So we're still friends?"

"Friends?"

"Yeah you know…friends?"

"Right yeah, but we are friends, aren't we?"

"Of course, I was just wondering after what happened…"

Colt laughed again.

"But no benefits!"

"Deal." Colt put out his right hand and Jackie shook it. She smiled and laughed.

A/N: Aww how cute, not really LOL. Anyways I'll be posting up the next chapter soon! Lates! Thanks for the reviews. 50 is amazing, my friends and I didn't think that this story would actually do well. But guess we were wrong.