*** Flashback

Jade ran towards the carriage not really trying to understand where she was going. All she needed was an empty carriage to get into and get back to Hogwarts. She crashed into someone and apologized when she saw Harry standing there with Ginny in front of him.

"What's gotten into you? Are you all right?" Harry asked seeing Jade nod, still shaking. "Jade, you're trembling." He said touching her shoulders.

"I'm cold." Jade lied.

"Jade-"

"Stop asking me questions! I'm fine! Just leave me alone for a while please." Jade insisted.

"All right, everyone into your carriages!" McGonagall ordered.

Jade was the first one to enter the carriage. She sat facing away from everyone else, looking out of the window, not wanting to talk to anyone at all. She was shaken by Draco's sudden reaction and she cursed herself. She was such an idiot.

They were finally back at Hogwarts and it didn't take Jade seconds to fly out of the carriage, leaving everyone behind.

"Jade!" Hermione yelled, running behind her.

Jade turned around to see Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny, stare at her puzzled by her actions.

"Where are you going so quickly?" Ron asked.

Jade hated to be grilled with so many questions. Why couldn't someone escape without having to be asking where? When? What? Why? How?

"I'm sleepy. I'm going back to the common room to go to sleep. It's been a long day for me. Goodnight." Jade said leaving.

"You won't eat dinner?" Hermione asked.

"No." Jade answered while walking away.

"But-"

"For the love of all things holy." Jade said making a dash into the castle.

Jade woke up in the morning after a deep night's sleep and saw that Hermione was getting ready for classes. Ginny was in the shower so Jade stepped out of bed, grabbing her uniform. She was reminded of yesterday's incident and would have been in a really bad mood if she hadn't gotten a good night's sleep, but she did and she wasn't all that angry.

"Some sleep you had last night." Hermione said as Jade nodded, running her fingers through her hair.

"Sleeping is one of my many specialties." Jade said seeing Hermione giggle and pull on her socks.

"We're running a bit late this morning. Everyone slept in so late." Hermione said.

Ginny opened the bathroom door and stepped out with a towel wrapped around her. "Good morning sunshine." Ginny said seeing Jade walk past her.

"What's up?" Jade said shutting the door behind her to take a shower. After 5 minutes, Jade hurried out with her uniform on and didn't bother to dry her hair. They were very late as it was and if they didn't have breakfast, well Jade would at least have a fit. They hurried to the Great Hall to see that the boys were already there, finishing up their breakfast. It seemed like mail was arriving as well.

Jade sat down as owls dropped the mail. She sat down, helping herself to some breakfast as Pigwidgeon dropped a packet of letters, obviously from their parents.

"I swear; Pig is the cutest thing I've ever gotten. Here you go sweetheart." Jade said when Pig perched himself on Jade's shoulder, nibbling on a biscuit. Ron snorted and made a joke about Jade's love for Pigwidgeon.

"That's the most action she's ever gotten in her romantic life." Ron cracked.

Jade glared at Ron and kept feeding Pig until an extremely large and heavy stack was dropped in front of her, hitting the handle of the large metal spoon of the porridge. The porridge splattered across everyone that sat near it and the spoon flew right into Ron's face. Jade knew it was a painful blow because she heard the metal thunk hitting the corner of Ron's forehead.

"FUCK!" Ron swore.

Ginny, Hermione and Jade gave a short scream and Jade got on her feet as Pig fluttered his wings in irritation, trying to get the porridge out of his wings. Jade watched the eagle owl fly away and she cursed at it and the owner of it. That owl was probably as arrogant and rude as its owner was.

"My robes!" Ginny shouted.

"Ron are you all right?" Hermione asked helping Ron wipe the porridge from his face.

"Mate, you okay?" Harry asked leaning over as Ron nodded.

"Stupid fucking dumb birds!" Ron said.

Jade grabbed a handful of tissues and let out a snort of laughter. Harry quickly looked at her and smiled instantly. Ginny soon followed and turned red from giggling. Hermione covered her mouth from laughing and soon their whole table started to laugh as hard as they could.

"I've never seen something as comical as that. That spoon just flew right at your head. You have to admit…it was funny." Hermione said as Harry recreated the scene. Ron sat there, trying to glare but he also couldn't help but chortle as they told him how it had happened.

"So what is that anyways?" Ron asked nodding towards the big packet.

"I don't know, it belongs to…oh…me." Jade said furrowing her eyebrows. The packet was paper wrapped and tied in a red ribbon with a large bow on top.

"Valentine's Day is right around the corner…have you got a secret admirer?" Ginny teased as Jade pulled the ribbon tie. The ribbon fell like silk and Ginny helped Jade rip the wrapping paper.

"Would you look at that? Jade's got a librarian for a boyfriend." Ron said as Hermione gasped.

"Books! How romantic! Jade how could you not tell me?" Hermione asked appearing by Jade's side.

Jade looked over all the books she had received. They were all the ones she had picked out yesterday in Flourish in Blotts. She never purchased them because she was too distraught to. Right after Draco had pushed her; she got up and ran away, never once coming back for her books. She knew who gave them to her. Jade placed her book back into the pile and blushed, not wanting to look for him. He was watching, she knew but she wasn't going to look at him. Harry and Ron sniggered, punching her lightly, teasing her about the mystery man.

"And there's a note." Ginny said plucking it from the pile.

"No!" Jade yelled. She launched herself on Ginny and grabbed the note from her, feeling herself grow warmer.

"So you are dating someone we don't know about. Jade, I thought we were like sisters." Hermione said a little let down. Jade gave her a horrified look and went to say something to defend herself with but Ginny cut in.

"I'm her real sister and she didn't even tell me! Got caught red handed today didn't you?" Ginny asked knocking Jade's shoulder with hers.

"Ginny shut up and stop being ridiculous. You two stop being annoying" Jade told Ron and Harry who grinned mischievously at her.

"And Hermione, you'd be the first person to know I had a boyfriend…if I had one but I don't. This is just someone being nice." Jade said scooping the books up.

"Let me help. Oh! My goodness! This person has incredibly good taste in books!" Hermione said excitedly. She ran off with the titles of the books as Ron felt sick at the sight of the books.

"Actually Mione, I'm the one who picked these books out." Jade told Hermione who looked confused.

"The bookshop in Hogsmeade offers delivery? I didn't know that." She said looking thoughtful.

"No…they don't. I'm going to have to explain to you some other time. It's rather complicated." Jade said.

"So you do-" Ginny said slyly.

"Ginny." Jade warned. As they walked, Hermione spoke about the books and Jade took a quick peek at the note that Draco gave to her.

'I'm sorry.'

She sighed and looked up, wondering what to do. She couldn't accept these books from him. When they reached Potions, Jade took her place and sat down.

"Did you get to find 'The Pillars of the Earth' By Ken Follet?" Hermione asked and Jade nodded.

"I found it but I couldn't get it. I was too short for the shelves." Jade said and Hermione smiled.

"Out of all the things that could forbid someone to read a book…your height." Hermione said shaking her head.

Jade laughed and turned her head to see Draco watching her. She instantly looked away and started to concentrate on Snape's lecture.