Chapter 18

It was now December. White snow covered the Hogwarts grounds.

The four girls were eating in the great hall.

"So who are you guys going to Hogsmeade with?" asked Jackie

Nehal answered, "I'm going with Jamie."

"And I'm going with my wonderful boyfriend Diego!" exclaimed Danielle.

"Hey we can double date!"

"Yeah! I'm sure Diego won't mind."

"Well it's settled then."

"Actually it's not." said Jackie. "What about Heather and me?"

"Your going with Malfoy." said Danielle.

"Yeah I am, but like what about Heather?"

Heather said, "Sorry to break your heart Jackie but I'm not going to Hogsmeade."

"What?" Nehal and Danielle said surprised.

"I'm helping Mr. Von Gooshy mark papers."

"Why?" asked Nehal.

Jackie smiled. "Well in the case gurlio can you hook me up with an A?"

"I'll try." replied Heather. "Hey look Ron and Hermione are all over each other today."

"But Heather!" protested Nehal, not caring that Ron and Hermione were making out at the moment. "For once you're not in detention and you could be out in Hogsmeade eating tons and tons of candy but instead you would rather help Mr. Von Gooshy out?"

"I guess." muttered Heather daring not to meet her friend's eyes.

There was silence.

"What's wrong with you?" asked Danielle breaking the silence.

"Yeah!" added Jackie. "What happened to you Heather Reid? What happened to the girl we used to know? The one who used to say Mah and D'arn tootin?"

"I still say those things, just not as much anymore." said Heather. "Anyways, I really should get going; bye guys have fun with your dates!" Heather took one last bite out of her muffin and departed from the great hall.

Later Danielle and Jackie were getting ready in the girls' dorm.

Danielle looked in the mirror putting on her Maybelline eye shadow. She glared at Jackie incase she took some more. (LOL)

"What's up with Heather?" asked Jackie

"I don't know…I can't believe she'd rather mark stuff than go to Hogsmeade."

"Maybe Mr. Von Gooshy is blackmailing her to do his work or he'll fail her."

"Come on, we should get down there. I can't wait to see Diego!"

Danielle and Diego met up with Nehal and Jamie and the four of them walked down the snowy streets of Hogsmeade.

"So where should we go first?" asked Danielle.

"Let's go to Zonko's." suggested Diego.

"Oh yeah, you've never been here before." exclaimed Nehal

Danielle looked at Nehal. "You just realized that now!"

Nehal looked at Diego. "Yeah sorry, I think I'm having an off day today."

"That's alright." said Diego. "I have a few of those off days myself."

Jamie and Nehal looked at each other and sniggered.

Meanwhile Jackie and Draco were in the three broomsticks drinking butter beer.

"Do you like my new winter jacket?" asked Jackie

"Uh yeah, it's very er…pink." answered Draco. "And puffy and…"

"On sale. I got this on sale. Well actually my mom bought it but that's beside the point." Jackie then saw Colt walk by. Colt gave Jackie a really dirty look.

"Do you want me to bust him for you?" Draco cracked his knuckles.

"No…it doesn't bother me!" Jackie said quickly, but she was really quiet after that.

"Come on! Only a broken nose!" protested Draco

"I wanted us to be friends!" Jackie looked down at her hands.

"He's not worth it!" Draco dismissed the subject.

Jackie shrugged her shoulders and sipped her butter beer feeling Colt's eyes on her, or was he staring at her pink jacket…

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"So…Mr. Von Gooshy, what do you want me to do today?" asked Heather politely

Mr. Von Gooshy sighed. "Heather, I mean Miss Reid you don't have to do this. You could be Christmas shopping with your friends!"

Heather put her hands on her hips. "Are you saying that you don't want me here?"

"No I do but you don't have to be- my personal assistant!"

"But I want to be Mr. Von Gooshy."

"Well…alright then…can you do me a favor?"

"Yes of course Professor."

"Can you ask the house elves if they can ban garlic bread?"

"Er…okay I can do that."

"F…F…F…" muttered Mr. Von Gooshy as he marked papers.

"Hey! Don't give her an F! That's Jackie's!" Heather wrote A on her paper.

"No!" Mr. Von Gooshy crossed it out and wrote an F.

"HEY!" Heather wrote A.

They both started scribbling random crap on the paper.

"F!"

"A!"

"F!"

"A!"

"Oh now look what you've done! Her paper is covered with scribbles."

"But I'm sure she'll understand." Heather said smiling at her teacher and wrote a big A.

"NO!"

"YES!"

Mr. Von Gooshy squeezed her cheeks and said, "Is this your best hand writing?"

"Ow!" Heather said because Mr. Von Gooshy had super human strength and really hurt her face.

"Sorry…"

"How are you that strong? It's not possible."

"I'm sorry." Mr. Von Gooshy looked appalled at what he had done.

"Fine, but Jackie gets an A!" Heather wrote a big A that took up most of the parchment and ran away. Heather looked back at Mr. Von Gooshy and saw him standing in the other end of the room and then appear right in front of her. Heather screamed in fright.

"Shut up!" whispered Mr. Von Gooshy.

"Ow! I've got a paper cut…and how'd you do that?"

Mr. Von Gooshy looked at her paper cut and smiled.

"What's going on…" asked Heather timidly.

Mr. Von Gooshy absently picked her arm with the paper cut and licked it.

Heather backed up and stared at him freaked out. He was still staring at her paper cut. So she ran out of the room as fast as she could. She ran to the dorm and hid under her bed.

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Nehal, Jamie, Diego and Danielle went to the three broomsticks.

"I like Hogsmeade. I am enjoying it very much." said Diego.

Danielle hugged Diego. "I'm glad you do."

"So what are you guys doing for the Christmas holidays?" asked Jamie

"I'm staying at Hogwarts." said Danielle

Nehal looked at Danielle. "Hey! I thought you were going to come to my Christmas party that my family is throwing this year."

"Oh yeah…sorry I've been so busy lately that your party completely slipped my mind."

"Oh jee thanks."

"Sorry Nehal."

"It's alright." Nehal looked at Jamie and Diego. "You guys are invited too!"

"Alright!" replied Diego. "Bring on the dancing!"

Danielle laughed.

Jamie squeezed Nehal's hand. "You can count me in."

Nehal smiled at him and squeezed his hand back.

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Jackie and Draco walked into Honeydukes. Jackie looked around the store and spotted Rocky and Colt who looked like they were waiting for someone by outside the store since they got banned from the store. (Remember the incident with the candy)

Jackie said, "I think there stalking us."

Draco looked back. "Man I told Crabble and Goyle that I couldn't take them for a walk today." (LOL, Ahaha)

Jackie looked at Draco. "No, I meant Rocky and Colt."

"Oh…what the fuck?"

"Draco I think there mad at me because I betrayed them…or something…"

"Huh?" Draco looked confused.

"Colt is upset because I chose him over you." Jackie stood up on her tipy-toes and kissed Draco on the cheek. "But trust me it was worth it."

Draco smirked. "Of course it was. I mean who wouldn't choose me."

Jackie rolled her eyes. "We're going to have to work on that big ego of yours…wait scratch that. Giant ego."

Draco smirked and then saw his buddy Sean. "Yo Cameron! What did you get?"

Sean said, "Oh you know the usual."

"Wicked."

"We're going to have a blast with the 1st and 2nd years tonight!" Sean bumped his fist with Draco's. Sean then saw Jackie standing beside Draco. "Hey Jackie."

"Hey." answered Jackie.

"Well I'll leave you two alone now." And with that Sean walked off.

Jackie looked at her boyfriend. "What are you going to do to the 1st and 2nd years?"

"Er…tutoring them…"

"You're tutoring them?"

"Uh huh."

"Aww that's so cute." Jackie gave Draco a hug and Draco breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll go wait for you outside."

Draco nodded his head and went to pay for the candy.

Jackie walked out of the shop. Hey eyes met Colt's. "Um…hey Colt."

Colt said, "Wait did I just hear a former friend talking to me?"

Jackie gave him a weird look. "Yeah anyways, Rocky do you have mind if we have a minute."

"Yeah sure." Rocky put his arm around Jackie's shoulders and started to walk away with her.

"Um Rocky what are you doing?"

"You said you wanted to talk to me."

"No…I said I wanted to talk to Colt!"

"Oh well he's over there, why are you talking to me then?"

"I guess I wasn't thinking."

"Yeah I have those days." Rocky then walked off and Jackie walked back to Colt.

"Sup Coltness?" (New nickname for Colt)

Colt just stared at Jackie.

"Okay what's with the evil looks?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do! Colt, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Jackie made a fist and pounded it into her palm. "Ow."

Colt still looked at her.

"Are you mad at me?"

"No."

"Well then how come I feel some tension between us."

Colt still stared at her.

"I thought we were friends."

"You really want to be my friend Jackie?"

"Yes. Yes. Yes I do."

"Quit the Quidditch team."

"Say what?"

"Quit the Quidditch team then we can be friends again." Colt then walked away to leave Jackie thinking things through.

"Hey!" Draco walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her from behind.

Jackie smiled at him. "Hey."

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Heather was shaking under her bed. "Lumos!" Her wand instantly lit up by her command. She quickly ran to get her baseball bat incase someone tried to attack her. She then slid back under her bed.

Hermione then walked into the dorm. "Heather Reid! What are you doing under the bed?"

Heather whispered, "I see dead people." (Like in the movie)

"You're a freak."

Heather's eyes widened. "Oh my gosh! Am I turning into one? Did he bite me?"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly. Well could you be quiet because I have to study."

Heather sighed, "Okay."

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"I had a really great time with Danielle and Diego." said Nehal. "Thanks for tagging along."

"No problem." replied Jamie. "It was fun."

"Well I'm going to go to bed now. I'll see you in the morning…oh and don't forget about Quidditch practice tomorrow!"

"Of course, how can you forget about Quidditch practice when your girlfriend is the captain!"

Nehal laughed. "Good point. Goodnight Jamie, sweet dreams."

"Yeah you too hun." Jamie then looked startled. "Did I just call her hun?" He muttered to himself.

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Jackie, Danielle, Parvarti and Lavender walked into the girls' dorm and saw Hermione studying and Heather under her bed saying various incantations.

Heather's grip tightened on her wand. "I call upon the spirits of the night sky to help rid of these evil sins!"

"Hey Heather!" said Danielle. "Whatcha doing under the bed?"

Heather looked at her friends. "Die, slowly."

"Alright then." answered Jackie

"Appox on the walkers of earth! A THOUSAND CURSES!"

"I'm TRYING to study!" said Hermione

Danielle looked from Hermione to Heather. "I take it you won't be marking with Mr. Von Gooshy anytime soon?"

Heather hissed and crawled under the bed again.

"Meow." said Timmy.

"Timmy!" whispered Heather

"MEOW!"

"Er…we'll just go now!" Danielle turned Jackie around and both of them went into the common room.

Parvarti and Lavender decided to stay. (LOL)

The next day….

The Quidditch team was gathered and practicing. Jackie was unusually quiet.

Nehal said, "Alright team go run some laps!"

They all groaned in return.

"Come on, get to it!"

"We're supposed to be flying, not running!" protested Trey.

"RUN!"

They all obeyed, scared of Nehal's temper.

Jackie ran for a bit but then stopped.

"Jackie? What's going on?" asked Nehal.

"I don't want to run." whined Jackie.

"Why not?"

"They believe in nothing and now they are nothing!"

"Right then…"

"Um…Nehal…I um…need to tell you something…."

"Can it wait till after practice?"

"No it can't!" yelled Jackie.

"Whoa, okay let's sit." Nehal and Jackie both sat down on the bleachers.

"I don't really know how to say this." Jackie looked at her hands.

"Just say it!"

Jackie took a breath. "I'm quitting the team."

Nehal laughed out loud. "Omg! That's so funny!" She slapped her knee. "I could have sworn that you just said that you were quitting! Ha, ha, ha."

"I am quitting."

Nehal stopped laughing. "You are?"

Jackie bit her lip and nodded.

"But why?"

"Why not?"

"Did I do anything…?" asked Nehal positively startled.

"It's not you, it's me." (LOL)

"But you can't just desert me! Come on were friends you can tell me why."

"Well I have other responsibilities too. You can't just expect me to do what you want all the time."

"You're supposed to like being on the team because I don't know…maybe you ENJOY my company!" said Nehal, dripping with sarcasm.

"Well I wouldn't know about it lately!"

"Right, because you'd rather spend all your time with Malfoy!"

"That's not true." Jackie looked away from Nehal. "Besides you'll have Daryl to keep you company."

"So this is all just because I made Daryl assistant captain!" roared Nehal.

"Yepp." answered Jackie.

Nehal glared at Jackie and looked like she was about to go away. But then she slapped her. THEN she went away. "Practice is over!"

Jackie rubbed her cheek. "Guess I deserved that."

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It was now nighttime.

Ian was polishing his broomstick by the Quidditch bleachers.

Footsteps made their way to Ian, knowing he'd be there.

Ian looked up confused and surprised upon hearing the footsteps coming closer to him.

"I need to talk to you."

"Okay." replied Ian

"I've spent so many days trying to avoid this or ignore it, but I can't so I've just got to say it."

"Danielle what's up?"

"I think I'm pregnant."

A/N: Ooh cliffhanger. Ha, ha, ha. Oh by the way I'm not the only one working on this series. Special shout outs go to Gap Girl, Marguerite Moonpie and Jim Morrison lover!

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