The whole of the Holidays all Marie could thin about was how much she missed Alec, she missed his smile, his laugh, how his eyes would gleam with joy, how his hair was always so messed up but it still looked perfect, how he made her laugh during the most stressful of times, she didn't just miss him as the guy she had a crush on, she missed him as a friend. But sometimes because of Ann-Marie now having a boyfriend she would feel awful about the fact that she liked another guy so much more, sometimes even she would accidentally think in her head 'I love Alec so much' and then spend about half an hour convincing herself she wasn't in love, Crystal wasn't so convinced, in one of her letter's after Ann-Marie had talked about Alec for two pieces of parchment she wrote back

Ann-Marie

I just asked if your parent's had said anything about Alicia and I staying there over the holidays, but you know, if you want to waste all your parchment talking about Alec then fine, you are totally in love with him, you miss him way to much for it to be a crush, honestly Ann, get over him, you have the fittest boyfriend on the planet…

"No, Olivia White has the fittest boyfriend on the planet, I have the second fittest!" she said to her self while reading

…So look, just get over Alec, but if things don't work out with you and Mike or Alec and Olivia, then I hope you get him, but you and Mike are a good couple, don't loose that, okay?

Hope to see you soon

Crystal

Ann-Marie wrote a letter back

Crystal

Shut up, I am NOT in love with Alec, I have a boyfriend now! Its just infatuation! And my parent's say both you and Alicia can stay over the holidays, I already sent the letter to Alicia,

See you tomorrow at midday

Ann-Marie

Crystal didn't know what she was talking about, Ann-Marie wasn't in love, it was infatuation. She wasn't even going out with him! How could it be love?

The next morning Ann-Marie woke up at eleven (after having a troubled night's sleep were she kept dreaming that she was kissing Alec and then Olivia and Mike walked in, then neither of the three spoke to her again) to her mum yelling

"Ann! Wake up! Your friends will be here in an hour!"

"OK! I'm just getting ready, she looked at the calendar, it was her 13th birthday, she looked over too the window and Zarana flew in with two letter's and a parcel. One was a letter from Hogwarts and the other was from Mike

Ann

Happy Birthday! Congratulation's you're finally a teenager! Your now old enough to argue with parents, flirt with guys (by guys I mean me) and basically be a raging bag of hormones! Enjoy this and the present I enclosed.

Mike

Ann rolled her eyes and opened the parcel. It was a heart shaped locket; to be honest it actually made Ann-Marie feel sort of sick, it was just so cutesy. She put it in her drawer and got dressed, she ran downstairs and looked at the table, she saw her uncles Fred and George, her Aunt Hermione (who was now five months pregnant) and her uncle Ron, her uncle Remus (who wasn't actually her uncle but just an old family friend she called her uncle), her mum and dad, and her two best friends Crystal and Alicia.

"SURPRISE!" they all yelled giving Ann-Marie a heart attack. She looked at her mum and she was holding a huge chocolate birthday cake, and her dad had a bottle of butterbeer, on the floor in front of them was a huge pile of birthday presents, there was about a thousand different things and Ann-Marie forgot what was given to her by who, she remembered her uncles Fred and George gave her some sickness tablets that made you Ill for a short while until you bit the other end. Her mum saw and rolled her eyes. From Alicia she got Hogwarts: a history and from Crystal a necklace with an emerald crystal stone with 'Ann-Marie' carved into it,

"I loved those so much, and I thought it would remind you of me, I got one for my self in Dark blue, see" said Crystal indicating to the dark blue crystal round her neck with her name carved in it.

"It's great Crystal, can you help me get mine on?" asked Ann-Marie, crystal stood behind Ann-Marie and did up the necklace, the very last present she got was from her parents, she opened it and it was a shiny cloak,

"it's err… great" said Ann-Marie not liking her gift very much, her parents looked at each other before her dad said

"well when you look at it like this it's rubbish, but when you put it on it's great," said her dad, Ann-Marie looked at him oddly and put it on, with that her body disappeared

"Bloody hell!" said her Uncle Ron

"Ann where's your body gone!" asked Alicia

"It's an invisibility cloak!" said her uncle Ron "Blimey Harry, remember all the trouble you me and Hermione got to under that"

"How could I forget Ron? Just before 6th year when we followed Malfoy in that we had all grown so much you could see our feet!" said her dad, uncle Ron, aunt Hermione and her dad all laughed.

"I remember one time, Ann your father and I were on a date and then the leaky cauldron was attacked by death eaters so we just hid under there" said her mum

"Oh yeah! Your sure it wasn't just the fact you and Harry wanted somewhere privet to snog!" said uncle Ron, everyone laughed except for her mum who had turned red but was still smiling nonetheless.

"Well still Ann, it was my dad's, he gave it to me, and now, I'm giving it to you" said her dad giving Ann a hug.

"thanks dad" replied Ann