A/N: Ok, I know it's been long . . .ages actually but here I am, back with the story!

Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling owns it all. . .except for my characters, that is!

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'New at Hogwarts'

Chapter 5

'What the hell! Time travelling'

Telling her best friends she was leaving had not been an easy thing. But now, Alex found herself with a new problem.

'Joseph' she thought 'what shall I do with you? I can't tell you how I feel about you but I can't leave and not tell you either. Oh, what a problem!' she groaned. (hmm, seems like someone is love sick . . .hehe) 'Oh, not you again! Why won't you go away?' (But I just did dummy! And now I came back!)

'Well, go away again' (nah . . .that'd be too boring. I'd rather stay and annoy you) 'Ok, stay, but now you'll have to help me decide what to do about Joseph.' (Ooooh!) the voice in her head exclaimed (but that's obvious, isn't it?) to Alex, however, it wasn't 'Well, waht should I do?' (hehe, if you don't know I'm not telling!) Alex was about to ask again when she heard her name being called.

Coming out of the trance in which discussing with herself had put her in she looked around. There was Samy, Joana too . . . oh, and Eliza! Her eyes travelled a bit to the left and . . . "Hi guys, Hi Joseph!" she greeted cheerfully. They didn't answer and just stared at her. "Um, guys? Care to tell me what's wrong?" This time she got an answer "Alexandra, why are you wearing your pjs to school?" "What are you tal-" Alex looked down at herself and her pink pj greeted her. "Ahhh! Guys, don't just stand there" she hissed. Next moment, all her three friends were shielding her from curious onlookers but the sneer on Joseph's face was to much for her. Luckily however, Alex had her gym outfit in her locker so when the school's corridors where deserted she grabbed her uniform and went into the changing rooms. Despite the fact that she was already properly dressed . . .well as properly as you can be in a gym outfit anyways, by lunch time, half the school knew about Alex's little uh, 'incident' "Alex how could you go out of your house with only your pjs, walk ten blocks to school and not even notice?" Samy was outraged that someone could be so clueless and have such a lack of fashion sense.

"I don't know Samy! One minute I'm in my room, lying in bed and the next I'm at the school's door with mr. Pink pjs!"

It was just too much "How do you think I feel? Did you see Joseph's face? I bet he was the one that told everyone about it!"

"Well" Joanna said "if I were you, I wouldn't bet against it!"

The girls finished their lunch and went to Miss. Renty class.

"Cheer up A! We've got literature now. I know you love it." Eli exclaimed.

"Yeah, she's right" Samy agreed. "It'll help you take your mind of things"

"I hope you're right!" and with that, they went inside.

After greeting the children, Miss Renty gave them that day's assignment.

"Ok, everyone quite down please! Today you're going to write a story. I don't care if it's long or not or if is based on real facts or pure fantasy. You just have to use the resources we learned so far. Ok? Well, get to work then"

Silence filled the room as everyone was busy with the task at hand. When the our was about to end, Miss Renty asked for finished stories. Alex had finished hers as had Joanna, Joseph and a bunch of other people.

"So, volunteers?" the teacher asked. Alex was about to raise her hand but someone was faster "I would". Joseph's deep

voice started to read.

'Dawson high was just another normal school. Every day was just the same: classes, classes and more classes,

with an ocassional prank. But one day, something happened. One of the students arrived at Dawson high to find the most horrible and spookiest show ever. Who would have imagined something so disgusting would be seen at that exact place? No, no one had prepared him for what he was seeing: The ugliest Pink pjs he had ever seen in his whole life!'

Alex was frozen to the spot. The whole class was roaring with laughter. She felt her eyes get wet and couldn't take it anymore. Rushing past her friends and the one that had hurt her soo deep, she left the class. 'Where to go? Where to go?'

She wondered desperately. She kept running trough corridors until she came to the school's front door. Looking to her left, she saw the school's clock telling her it was three in the afternoon. A little sign below the metallic black clock told her it was September the twenty first. She reached for the brass door knob of her escape route when she felt a great force tug at her sleeve and she became dizzy. Letting go of the school's dor knob, she fell to the ground.

Her watch told her she'd been out for five minutes. "What happened?", she wondered out loud ' I was about to open the door when I became very dizzy'. She looked up to the sign with the date again. It simply read 'September twenty nine'. Alex reached once more for the brass knob when she realized 'wait a min- September twenty nine?' She was about to look again at the sign when her reflection caught her atention. 'Hold on, why am I wearing my school uniform?'

Ok, this was a bit freaky and everything but there was surely an explanation for it. But the biggest surprise came when the bell rang and instead of hearing "hi Pinky" or "How are your pjs?" from fleeding students, she was greeted with "Hi Alex" and "How r you doin'?".

'Ok, wath's going on here?' Alex thought desperate. 'What to do?' she asked herself

(well, if I were you,I'd look for those friends of yours) the pesky little voice answered.

'You know,' she told the voice ' you're proving to be quite useful'.

Alex headed in the direction of her friends lockers and was happy to see them there.

"Oh, there you are Alex!" it was Eli speaking. "It sure took you long to go to the toilette" the three girls laughed at this.

Alex, however, was clueless. "What are you talking about? You know I left the class because of Joseph's story"

Now it was the girl's turn to look puzzled "Joseph's story? What story A? The only time that dumb guy read one was last week's literature class"

"yeah,"Samy chimed in "and you said you loved it!"

"Wha- love it? Are you out of your minds?"Alex understood less and less as she spoke to her friends.

"Alex, are you sure you're allright?" Joanna's worried face finally convinced her to drop it. It'd be safer if she solved things herself.

"Yeah . . . I'm fine. Don't worry about me guys, It's just the fact that I'm leaving today that's got me upset."

She said good bye to her friends and went back home only to find her stuff packed at the hall.

"Mom?" she called

"Alex! You're back, finally! Sit down and have some cake." Anna was certainly happy that their departure date had finally arrived. Of course, Alex would be sharing her enthusiasm if it wasn't for the fact that she had somehow skipped from

Thursday to Friday of the following week. She felt like it was all a dream, like she could open a window and fly away.

The doorbell rang.

"Alex, could you get that for me?", her mother shouted from the living room

"sure mom", she replied. "Who is it?"

"Alex?" The male voice behind the door enquired. "It's me, Joseph"

'Joseph?' Alex didn't know what to do (for a change . . .) Shut up pesky voice!

So, as I was saying, Alex didn't know what to do. A moment ago, he had read an awful story about her, just that now, no one seemed to remember the pjs incident or the story of Joseph's. It was as if it had never happened! There was also her amazing time jump. Not wanting to be rude, she opened the door and invited Joseph in.

"Hi", he said

"Hi Joseph! What are you doing here?"

(Yeah, that's a good one . . .what the hell is he doing here?) ignoring the nagging voice in her mind she waited for Joseph's answer.

"I, uh . . ." 'Does he seem nervous?', Alex thought to herself but the warm feeling growing in her stomach turned ice cold when the voice spoke again (you do remember what he did to you, don't you?) Suddenly, Alex didn't care any more why he was here. "Well?" She demanded

Taken aback, Joseph answered "I was wondering if you'dliketogowithmetoamovie?" (Hmm, try harder boy she didn't get a single word)

'Shut up already!' but she merely said out loud "Uh, what?"

Joseph took a deep breath and asked again "Would you like to go with me to the movies?"

"I um, I'm leaving today . . ."

"Oh, don't worry, you don't have to come, I mean, I thought it would be allright since I called your mother to ask at what time you were leaving and as she said you had time I just thought . . .well, never mind" He said, ending his babling.

"No, wait! I'd love to go to a movie with you" Alex said, blushing a bit.

"Great! Uh, I'll pick you up at seven?"

She glanced at her watch "Seven's fine"

"Great see you then!" and with that, he left, leaving behind a very, very confused Alex.

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Ok, that's the end of chapter 5 . . .Review please? . . . .Pretty please?

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