A few weeks after I left Albus in Hogsmeade, we were all studying in the library- mostly because Rose was freaked about N.E.W.T.'s. Scorpius wanted to appease her to we agreed to spend an hour in the library that Friday reviewing.

"Al, it's not that complicated-"

"Rose, you wanted me to study and you're punishing me because I don't know something?" He groaned. "Isn't that the point of studying? To learn what you don't know."

"Yes, but it only works if you're paying attention." She snapped back. "We've gone over this three times and you still don't know a shrieking snoffulus from a miliplant."

"Who needs Herbology anyways?"

"Aurors."

"Healers."

"Researchers-"

"Alright, I get it." Al snapped cutting of Rose and Scorpius. I smirked.

"Don't be cross." I chuckled. "Just because-"

"Atria, don't start." Amanda rolled her eyes. I huffed and Albus smirked.

"Hey!" I turned around and Freddie was walking towards us.

"What are you doing?" He gasped.

"Uh studying?" Rose looked confused. Freddie sighed.

"I can't believe I'm related to you lot."

"You're not." Scorpius said dryly.

"I am in spirit." He said. "James is looking for you."

I sighed. "He's so dependent." I looked at Rose who was daring me to get up and leave with her eyes. "Besides I have to study."

Freddie laughed, "You need to study? Like you don't already know everything." He scoffed.

"Just go," Amanda nudged me. "See what he wants then come back." She shrugged.

"Yea, what the cute brunette said."

We looked at Freddie. "What? I know her name's Amanda." He defended himself.

"I think the study session is over." Albus stood up.

"But-"

"Rose, it's dead. Mourn and let it go." Scorpius said comically. She smacked his hand away when he put it on top of her's.

"I'll be back." I got up and Freddie followed me. "What does James want?"

"To talk to you."

"Thank you, I got that part." I said dryly. "About what, though?"

"Just to talk I think." He scratched his head. "He's barely seen you the past few weeks." Freddie pointed out and I shoved him.

"That's because I have my own friends in my year. He has his friends in his year, so why does he need me to babysit him?" I muttered that last part.

"He just wants to spend time with you."

"It's amazing, he runs from commitment with every other girl, but I can't ditch him. What's he going to do next year when he can't come see me every other hour?"

That stumped Freddie.

"I don't know. He'll come visit on Hogsmeade weekends."

I palmed my forehead. "And if I have a boy that I wanted to go to Hogsmeade with?" Freddie blanched.

"As a date?" I nodded. "As is a boyfriend?"

"Yes, Freddie." I said, exasperated.

"Why would you want a boyfriend?"

I'm not proud of this, but I sort of lost my temper at that point. "Why would I- maybe because it's nice to be close with someone! And have someone to talk to and to snog!"

Freddie was quiet. "That's what James wants." He said finally, as if it was the best idea in the world. I palmed my forehead again.

"Bloody James needs to get over it!"

"Atria-"

"What?" I screamed. Justin had approached us and I realized it was him who called out for me and not one of my annoying friends. "Oh sorry, I didn't realize it was you." I smoothed out my hair, which was now purple.

"Who are you?" Freddie asked bluntly.

"Justin."

"He's the Head Boy." I muttered to Freddie while still smiling at Justin.

"You know who the Head Boy is?" Freddie gasped in horror. "Who are you?"

I shoved Freddie. "Can you leave?"

"Fine." He said grudgingly. "I'll tell James you'll be along in a second."

"Tell him that I'll come when I come." I glared at him as he started to leave.

"James Potter?" Justin looked at me.

"Yea, they're dating." Freddie called.

"We are not!" I shouted and turned to Justin, "We're not."

"He just wants to date you?"

"No! He just doesn't want me to date anyone else."

Justin raised his eyebrows. "Not that I listen to him," I said hastily. "Or any of the rest of my family." I muttered.

"I didn't think you were related to them." Justin looked confused. Merlin, I'm a blabbering idiot.

"I'm not actually related but they're practically family."

"So basically James… your almost brother, wants to date you?"

"Um… no. I mean, he thinks he does he just doesn't want to lose me. He thinks if we date or snog or something that I'll fall in love with him and marry him."

I should have stopped talking.

"You must be pretty amazing to have all these blokes after you." Justin said, not seeming to care that I should probably be in the insanity ward at St. Mungo's.

"It's just James." I promised him.

"Didn't you date Ravenclaw's Quidditch captain a few years ago?"

"Uh yea. In fourth year and then we broke up at the end of the year." I told him.

"How long did you date for?"

"About 6 months."

"Did you love him?"

"I was fourteen." I scoffed.

"When's your birthday?"

"Next weekend. On the twenty-first."

"So I'll have just enough time to get you a present." He winked. Merlin, that hot. "Good thing there's a Hogsmeade weekend. Maybe you should come with me to make sure I get you the right thing."

"No, it's not fun if it's not a surprise." I laughed and then realized what he was asking, "That's not to say that I still wouldn't like to go with you though." He grinned.

"Excellent. I'll meet you at the front entrance tomorrow at…"

"How's nine o'clock?" I said.

"Excellent. That's-"

"Excellent?" I guessed and he chuckled. Then he took my hand and raised it to his lips which were slightly parted.

I shivered and sighed. He smiled at my obvious reaction.

"Oh, Justin," I caught his arm as he started to walk away, "There might be some backlash. Like all of the Wotter clan might suddenly hate your guts but don't let them scare you away."

"Never." He leaned down and kissed my cheek.

After that I did not want to go find James and Freddie, so I went out by the lake and walked around. A little while later I noticed Scorpius walking with some girl.

Who in the bloody hell? I thought.

She wasn't in Slytherin and I was pretty sure she wasn't in our year. Were they holding hands?

Holy bat-boogie, did Scorpius have a girlfriend that none of us knew about? How could he not tell me? I get why he wouldn't tell Rose or Albus, but I was his Slytherin confidant. Did Amanda know? He probably wanted his privacy.

"Hey Scor!" I called, waving my hands like a maniac. His eyes widened and he dropped the girl's hand. Now that I was closer I realized it was a seventh year prefect that I had seen on patrol when I was sneaking back to the dorms.

"Attie, I didn't see you there." He laughed nervously.

"Clearly." I smirked. "Who's the bird you've been hiding?" I asked bluntly.

"I'm Jenny." She smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. "You must be Atria Williams."

"Yep."

She gave me a one-over. "I've a lot of… things about you." Did Scorpius seriously like this bint.

"Yea, being top of our class and probably top of the school as well as a Quidditch star and a metamorphmagus, I would expect you to have heard about me." I spat but smiled falsely. Scorpius nudged me. Jenny smiled tightly.

"Yes, well-"

"But Scor hasn't mentioned anything about you." I looked at him and Jenny grimaced again in Scorpius's direction. "Are you dating? Why are you hiding it? Is he ashamed of you?"

"Atria!" Scorpius finally shouted. "See you back in the common room." His tone left little to be said. I skipped out and went back to the common room to wait for him. Then I realized he knew I would be waiting for him and decided to go to library instead.

I found Amanda there and recounted all the dirty details to her.

"Does Rose know?" Was the first thing she asked.

"I don't think anyone knows." I told her. "He's probably ashamed of her. I would be."

"Attie, don't be mean."

"Not mean if it's true."

"We don't know here and it's not as if you were particularly nice to her either." Amanda pointed out.

"I was testing her. If she can't get along with us, she can't stay in Scorpius's life."

Amanda looked at me. I shifted under her hard stare.

"Are you jealous?" She finally asked.

"Of what?"

"You know, Jenny?"

"Why would I be jealous of her?"

"Do you like Scorpius?" She asked slowly.

I scoffed. "Ew, no. He's like my cousin." I shuddered at the thought. "She's just a horrible person. She's a seventh year prefect."

"So?"

"That means that she sort of good but not good enough to be Head Girl." I told her and Amanda rolled her eyes.

"What? I'll probably be a seventh year prefect."

"How do you figure?"

"Rose and Scorpius will by the Heads."

"You never know." I said. She looked at me. "Fine, but she was so condescending." I was so worked up my hair was probably red.

"Hey Albus!" Amanda called which earned a mean look from the crazy librarian.

Great. Albus bloody Potter.

"Hi Manda." He smiled at her. "Atria." He muttered to me. I rolled my eyes.

"Did you know that Scor has a girlfriend?"

"What?"

"I'll take that as a no."

"Why didn't he tell any of us?"

"I don't know. But it's Jenny that Hufflepuff prefect."

"Oh great, she's a whiner." Albus muttered.

"I saw them walking along the lake together." I interrupted. "So I confronted him and she was a total bitch. She was looking down on me."

"Or looking down at you." Albus smirked as he bent his head down to stare at me. His eyes were the color of gillyweed and I think his hair got even darker and shaggier. He had certainly grown from the scrawny fourth year I had met.

Unlike James or Justin, Albus had extremely visible muscle. He wasn't tall and lean like the other two boys, he was bulkier but probably just as tall as James.

"Wow, a joke about how short I am. So original, never heard that before." I rolled my eyes.

Albus sneered at me.

"Just because you're a giant-"

"And I'm that big everywhere."

"Wow. Only took you thirty seconds to make an inappropriate joke."

"I wasn't joking."

"You are such a prat."

"Better than being an uptight squid."

"I have a date to Hogsmeade."

Ok, not my best comeback but it seemed to shut him up. "Who would ever ask you on a date?" He barked.

"Justin, who happens to be Head Boy and is extremely attractive." I folded my arms and stuck my nose up. Albus scoffed and Amanda scooted back in her chair.

"Attractive? Sure if you like the mummy's boy look."

I shot up.

"As opposed to the wannabe bad boy?" I spat back. He flipped his black hair and I rolled my eyes. I was starting to get a headache from so much eye rolling.

"Ok, children, calm down." Amanda yanked me down after I started to stand. Albus was not going to get the best of me. "We're talking about Scorpius, remember?"

"He knows what he's doing." Albus shrugged. "Besides he might not care that she's a bitch to the highest degree."

"Of course he would care." Amanda said.

"He might not be interested in her personality is all I'm saying." Albus replied.

"So he just wants to shag her?" I said in disbelief. "Maybe that's all you want from girls, but Scor has a bit more class than you." Albus laughed loudly, earning him a mean look from Madam Pince, the librarian.

"He's a teenage boy and Jenna-"

"Jenny."

"Whatever, she's hot."

"You said she was whiny a second ago." I argued.

"It was more like a minute ago."

"Oh for the love of… it doesn't matter. What happened to she's whiny?" I whisper-shouted.

"If he's just looking to shag her, he's not actually going to spend time with her and bring her to meet us." Albus rolled his eyes. "Look Rose has left so why are we still in the library?"

"Oh, Attie what did James want?" Amanda asked.

"Dunno, never actually got to speak with him."

"Where'd you go?"

"You know Justin?"

"The Head Boy, yes I may have heard of him." She teased. Albus rolled his eyes.

"He asked me to Hogsmeade." I grinned.

"A bit late isn't it?" Albus smirked. "I mean, the day before? Sounds like you're a backup date." I leaned to smack his arm but he dodged and left laughing.

"Where did Rose go anyways?" I asked. "She's the one who made us study on a Friday night."

"It's five o'clock, hardly night." She told me. "And don't think I've forgotten about Justin, I want to know everything." She grabbed my arm in excitement.

"Who asks someone the day before Hogsmeade to go to Hogsmeade?" I blurted out.

"No, don't do that. You know Al was just messing with you." Amanda insisted. I banged my head on the table and buried my head in my arms. "He's just taking the micky out of you."

"I know." I mumbled.

"What was that?"

I lifted my head, "I know." And then put my head back down.

"I'm going with Eric."

My head shot up. "Oh? How's that going."

She shrugged. "It's going." She bit her lip.

"What's wrong?"

"Just thinking about what Albus said."

"I thought we agreed that everything Albus said was rubbish."

"No, we agreed that what he said was just to annoy you. But before that he talking about how boys are only interested in one thing." She said. "And I think Eric is only interested in that one thing."

"We are talking about sex right?"

"Shh." She looked around to make sure no one was looking. "Yes. I mean he's still charming but now I think it's just to get me in bed."

"So break up with him." I said simply.

She sighed. "Do I just tell him we're done?"

"Pretty much."

"Should I do it tomorrow at Hogsmeade?"

"No!" I said a bit louder than I meant to. "Do it tonight so you can enjoy Hogsmeade with friends. And it'll tell you if he actually liked you or not."

"How?"

"If he has another date…" I trailed off not needing to say anything more.

"Right. I'll just go do that."

"I can't believe she broke up with him." Rose told me.

"She really needed to break up with him. He was a loser and Amanda deserves better."

"And I can't believe Justin asked you to Hogsmeade." She continued as we made our way down to dinner.

"Why is that so unbelievable?"

"Because he's the Head Boy and you're…. you."

"Thank you, that clears up so much." I said sarcastically.

"And Scorpius got a girlfriend?" She made a face. "I can't believe he would like Jenny." We waited for a staircase to move to us.

"That's what I said. Albus thinks he just wants a shagging partner." I told her.

"That's not Scorpius." She said forcefully. "He wouldn't just use some girl like that."

"I know, but I can't think of any other reason he would be with her." I muttered. "I'm just happy Justin asked me out."

"How did you meet, anyways?"

"We just bumped into each other and he thought it was funny I didn't know he was the Head Boy." I shrugged. Rose rolled her eyes.

"How could you not know who the Head Boy is?"

"How could you expect me to know who the Head Boy is?" I countered.

"I guess I'll just hang out with Amanda tomorrow." She sighed.

"And Albus."

"Al has a date."

"What?" I shrieked. "Why would anyone want to spend their day with him?"

"Look, I know you guys have your rivalry thing going on, but a lot of other girls find him to be quite a catch." She said and I gagged. "You know, he says the same the about you."

"What?"

"He doesn't get why anyone would ask you out but lots of blokes find you fit."

"That's because I am fit."

"Don't hold back." She said sarcastically. "And speaking as an impartial person, he's fit."

"But his personality is so unattractive." I argued.

"Only around you." She laughed.

"Lucky me."

"You are so horrible to each other." She giggled.

"He started it." I growled.

"I'm not sure how we've all maintained our friendship with you two hating each other." Rose commented.

"Because you hold us together. You and Scor are like are parents, only now you're divorcing because daddy is cheating with the sexy, yet dumb mistress."

"You are ridiculous." She shook her head while laughing. "And she is not dumb, she's too manipulative to be a complete idiot."

"Who's Albus taking to Hogsmeade anyways?" Who would want to take him?

"Adriana."

"What?" I gasped. "Your roommate? She's way too good for him." I scoffed. Why hadn't she mentioned anything?

"Yea, they have muggle studies together."

"The one class I didn't take."

"You already know everything about Muggles." Rose giggled. "Why would you continue with it?"

"Well, I already know everything about history and potions and transfiguration and-"

"Alright, I get it." She snapped. "I can't wait to hear how your date goes." She muttered.