A/N; everything except the characters of sicily and brooke are J.K. Rowling's work. She created all in her series Harry Potter

Days had passed and Brooke didn't know what to do. She barely saw Sicily but whenever she did to her disappointment Sicily was not talking to Draco. However, Brooke was still determined to hook Sicily up with Ron. Ron though was beyond the most oblivious person ever, no matter what kind of hints Brooke would drop Ron would not just catch on. Brooke decided she needed professional help. Brooke walked into the Gryffindor dormitory with excitement.

"What are you so perky about?" Hermione asked from the couch by the fireplace.

"I know someone who likes Ron!" Brooke giggled. Instantly to this Hermione perked up.

"What? No, no one likes Ron," Ron had always been a very sensitive issue to Hermione; they were the best friends who were SUPPOSE to be together. Hermione was not going to allow anyone to threaten this.

"Yes SOMEBODY does! I'm totally going to hook them up but I need your help since you basically have a glossary all about Ron in the back of your head, under all that hair," Brooke joked.

"O haha, yeah sure… um I'll help. So who is the girl?"

"Ok, you can't tell anybody YET, but it's Sicily. Can you imagine my best friend dating one of my NEW best guy friends? Can you say match made in HEAVEN!"

"SICILY AUBER LIKES RON WEASELY?" Hermione shouted across the common room. Instantly everybody looked up and to Brooke's bad luck, Ginny too.

"Hermione!" Brooke shrieked. Horrid murmuring echoed in the room. 'A Slytherin liking a Gryffindor?' 'That's why Sicily wanted to sit there!' 'So was that contact the other morning not just coincidental?'

It seemed as if the word got around the entire school within the hour. The rumor however had escalated. Talk went around about Sicily being obsessed with Ron that the only reason she transferred to Hogwarts was because she was completely infatuated with him. The one person whose ears this rumor didn't reach was Sicily's. She had been in the castle's towers all day avoiding people, or to say a certain person. Draco was everywhere. Sicily had tried to talking to him the night after Defense Against the Dark Arts but before long she realized she was doing some heavy flirting. A boy like Draco Sicily couldn't keep her wits around so she decided to go for the next alternative.

Around 8, Sicily decided to finally go down and get some dinner. It's not as if she was going to play Rapunzel up in the tower, she needed to get on with her life and year.

Opening the Great Hall's doors, Sicily encountered for the second time in one week, a completely silent school all starring at her. Sicily walked over to the Slytherin table, but whenever she tried to take a seat, a Slytherin would slide over, blocking any remaining area.

Finally, she reached were Draco was sitting.

"It makes sense?" Draco sneered.

"What?" Sicily asked.

"Why you have been avoiding me, your only ally so far this year. You traded your dignity and house for one of them,"

"One of whom?"

"A GRYFFINDOR!" Draco practically screamed. If it was possible for the whole school to get quieter than it happened.

"Oh come on. So what! Yes I like a Gryffindor, we are chill. I've liked this Gryffindor my whole life, what is the BIG deal!" Sicily was so frustrated with this whole house business. She and Brooke had been friends for ever, Brooke was her most trusted best friend, why the hell was everyone getting on her case?

This whole school began whispering, Sicily caught an awkward eye contact with Ron which for some reason made the whispering multiply. Finally she saw Brooke, whose head was in her hands. 'I am so sick of this house business,' Sicily thought and went over to Brooke.

Brooke immediately got up and was about to escort Sicily to their "talking corner" when Sicily pulled away.

"What the hell! No, I am not going to let you hush me again; I am getting so sick of not being around who I want to be around. I came to the school for a reason, this is freaking B.S," again Sicily caught the awkward eye contact with that Ron kid. 'I guess he just likes me or something,' Sicily thought.

"Sicily, this isn't about that," Brooke whispered. "Accidentally I let it slip,"

"NO BROOKE!" Sicily said out loud then quietly "Dumbledore demanded we let nobody know,"

"No Sicily, not that," Brooke continued. "About your thing for Ron."

"Huh…" Sicily thought for a few seconds then burst out "YOU TOLD PEOPLE THAT I LIKE RON!" Suddenly the Great Hall again was silent, everyone was eager to find out more gossip. Sicily looked around furious. "Why the f would you tell people that!"

"I didn't mean to," Brooke defended. "It sort of just came out by accident, see I was telling.." Brooke began but then Sicily caught her off.

"Woah, woah, woah I do NOT like Ron," she looked around to make sure everyone was listening. "I DO NOT like RON!" Sicily again made eye contact with Ron, "Sorry but no, I just don't see that happening,"

"Like Ron would go out with you anyways," the suck up girl who Sicily had heard the dirt from Draco about, Hermione yelled.

"Then why did you tell me you liked him" Brooke whispered to Sicily. Sicily tried to think on the spot of something to say and then suddenly got really mad.

"You want to know why Brooke Marie Rogers! You want to know why! Let's see, maybe because I was trying to be a good friend. I was trying to keep our friendship going, a relationship that ever since we got here, you seem to like to frown down upon and pretend it isn't there. Well I've tried to be a good friend, I kept YOUR secret, you on the other hand used mine as some gossip to get you attention, which by the way is pathetic, there are other ways to make friends," Brooke by this point looked completely and utterly confused. "Yea see, the only reason I told you I liked Ron was because I didn't want to crush your hopes by telling you I like the same boy you do," Brooke's eyes suddenly lit up.

"We had a friendship contract, claiming gets dibs," Brooke sneered.

"Yea, well I kept my side of it but then it is also goes to say friends don't tell each other's secrets,"

"I told you it was an ACCIDENT! It only got out because I was going to try and have Hermione help me hook you two up,"

"Why would you tell HER! She wouldn't hook us up; she's in love with Ron herself,"

At this Hermione angrily there her plate down and started yelling at Sicily. Sicily yelled back, Brooke yelled at Sicily, Gryffindors yelled at Sicily, Slytherins began to yell at Gryffindors, until the doors slammed up.

"SILENCE!" boomed across the room. Professor Dumbledore stood at the entrance. The room became silent and everyone took their seats except for Sicily and Brooke who remained directly in the middle of the room.

Dumbledore rushed over too them, "Girls, I went on a limb for you and this is what you do? I will not show such mercy to you two again. You are on a very thin line, one more disruption like this and I will not testify in your favor," to this both Sicily and Brooke became completely petrified.

"You are here because of my good grace, do not make me regret my decision," with that Dumbledore went up to the front and took his seat. Sicily and Brooke gave one last glare to each other before Brooke took her seat and Sicily left the Great Hall.

The rest of dinner was quite awkward for Brooke. She could feel eyes upon eyes on her, everyone was whispering to figure out who this "mystery boy" was, the one within in 5 days had managed to break up the newly so claimed best friends. Brooke also couldn't get her mind off of what had happened. Her and Sicily always argued and fought but never a public display of backstabbing. How could Sicily do this to her? Brooke had always let Sicily have a guy she claimed, why now was Sicily acting so immature on this whole issue?

"Don't worry about it, gossip always dies down," Hermione said to Brooke.

"Trust me, I should know I'm always the one of public humiliation," Ron laughed. "I mean this time I didn't do anything and once again I'm the boy they are all laughing at. I can hear the talk now, 'silly Ron to think a real life girl would b going after him,'"

"Not a real life girl," Harry commented. "A slytherin,"

Brooke sat there not responding. Was this what Sicily meant? Had Brooke turned her back to Sicily, after all they had been through, had Brooke ditched her merely to fit in? "No, I sat with her in Defense Against the Dark Arts," Brooke reminded herself.

"I guess who were right," Brooke looked at Hermione. "Houses do change people,"

Sicily sat in the common room waiting for people to come in. Originally she was going to go to the tower and once again waste her night alone but not after tonight. She had held out from growing to like other Slytherins merely because she would still be able to cling onto Brooke. However, after how things had turned out during dinner that clearly was not going to work and the last thing Sicily wanted was to be alone all year.

Finally Slytherins began to file in and to Sicily's thankfulness they gave nods of approval. Each one passed giving thumbs up or even a quick 'nice job' comment.

One girl came over and sat down across Sicily.

"I was hoping you'd eventually accept us,"

"Yea, I guess I was just in denial to how things were done around here,"

"Don't worry, you'll like it. I'm Pansy by the way,"

"I'm Sicily, but I'm guessing by my ability to get complete school attention, you already know that,"

"No, I know your name from Draco," Pansy winked as she got up. "He's hot, smart and a complete bad ass, just don't get too connected,"

With that said Pansy walked out of the common room as Draco entered as always with his two side kicks. Upon seeing Sicily he dismissed them and walked over.

"So I'm thinking we had a bit of a misunderstanding at the dinner table," Draco muttered to the ground. Sicily loved seeing guys apologize, they were always so pathetic.

"Yea, thanks for being mature and talking to me first about it," Sicily teased.

Draco looked up, "Well I'm glad to see you don't hold a grudge,"

There was an awkward silence. They both knew what they were hoping the other one would bring up. Finally Draco dragged up the courage and let it out. "So I'm guessing besides the whole liking a certain Gryffindor, I was also wrong as to why you were avoiding me,"

"Yea…."

Once again silence fell.

"So you do realize that I am just not a guy you think I am. I am not going to now jump to your convenience and become your boyfriend now,"

"Nothing with you is ever going to be easy… is it?" Sicily laughed.

It was around midnight when Sicily woke up and realized that she had left her homework up in the tower. She tried to just tell herself that she would get it tomorrow but continued to toss and turn, not being able to get it off her mind. Finally, she got up and decided to go to the tower. Clinging to the wall, she made it there without even awakening a picture.

"There you are," Sicily stumbled grabbing the parchment. As she was getting up, a dark figure grabbed her around the back, putting his hand to her mouth and began whispering a familiar voice in her ear, "Don't think your safe long. Dumbledore can only protect you so long and you no longer have your one ally. We have the school wired, we know your every move, the dark lord misses nothing,"

Suddenly Sicily woke up in her bed. She sat straight up and felt sweat going down her face. She looked at clock and saw it was one o'clock. What caught her eye was her homework lying right next to it.

It wasn't a dream…..

A/N: hope its not turning out too stupid, theres a plot im just setting it all up!