HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!! yaaaaay it's the New Year and we're all getting older...except for Benjamin Button of course =]

Jade stumbled back to the Gryffindor common room and saw Hermione studying on her bed.

"Hello sweetheart." Jade slurred making a beeline for her bed.

Hermione dropped her books and ran to Jade. "Are you all right?! Jade! What did you do?" Hermione asked seeing Jade chuckle and roll her head around.

"I'm so in love." Jade said with a weak laugh.

"What?" Hermione asked. She wasn't expecting that.

"I need to get him away from her." Jade moaned.

"Who? Who are you talking about Jade?" Hermione asked.

Jade refused to tell. There would be no amount of alcohol in the world that can get her to say it. "I'm a nope." Jade said, her eyes rolling back.

Jade woke up, her head pounding. Her stomach bubbled and Jade turned around to throw up into a trash bin. "Ew." Jade said, her head still hanging.

"I keep asking you to stop and you wouldn't! You would have seriously been poisoned! I was worried sick the whole night, trying to debate whether or not to take you to the Hospital Wing or save you from expulsion!" Hermione said as Jade gagged into the trash bin again.

"My life, or my expulsion, gee, I would have had a tough time with that as well." Jade said sarcastically.

"Jade. You never came back this intoxicated before. You looked like you were about to die yesterday, I was so scared!" Hermione said, pouring a bright orange hangover potion into a cup. She walked over to Jade and handed her the cup. "Drink up." Hermione said. Jade took the cup from Hermione and sipped it. "Now, who were you talking about last night? You were muttering something like you needed to get him away from her. Who is 'her'?" Hermione asked questioningly.

"What else did I say?" Jade asked as the hammering in her head began to calm.

Hermione shrugged and waved her hand around. "That's all you said, who is she?" Hermione repeated.

Jade went to ask Hermione to kindly mind her own business, but she saw Ginny sitting up from her bed. Her eyes were glued to her. She didn't want Ginny to be a part of this conversation. It seemed as if Hermione heard Jade's thoughts and turned around to Ginny.

"Ginny! Good morning." Hermione said.

"Hello. Jade, are you all right? Hermione told me you were sick last night." Ginny said scratching the mass of beautiful red hair on her head.

"Just a little too much to drink last night, that's all." Jade answered. Jade's eyes turned to Hermione who gave her a reassuring look that everything was under wraps.

"Oh…yeah drinking is really bad. It's a good thing I made Draco stop." Ginny yawned hopping off her bed and walking into the bathroom. When the door was closed, Hermione snapped back to Jade.

"I didn't tell her anything." Hermione said.

"Hermione I swear to Merlin, if you utter a single word about this, I will hurt you in the worst way possible. I swear I will. You don't know how capable I am of ripping your books apart and burning them page by page in front of you." Jade warned.

Hermione nodded and took Jade's hands. "I won't tell Ginny, but Jade, we need to talk about this. It's very serious." Hermione said and Jade rolled her eyes.

"Can we talk about this later? I'm still a little drunk." Jade said, falling back to bed.

It was a Saturday. Ginny had left but Hermione and Jade stood in, speaking to each other. "When did you realize this?" Hermione asked. Jade stared at the ceiling, she wasn't sure.

"I don't know honestly. I don't know when I actually started falling for him. It was I guess, after I saw Ginny as a threat that I got so overprotected. I had never seen Draco act that way before, like he was so interested in her. Then yesterday it just hit me." Jade said, colliding her fist with her palm.

"It just hit you? Just like that?" Hermione asked.

"Oh God woman, it's not like fucking Cupid came and shot me in my arse to make me 'realize' how much fucking in love I was with him! We were talking to each other and I asked him to smoke with me but he passed on it. Obviously, when the person you've been smoking and drinking with for the past 4 years suddenly passes on you, you can't help but get suspicious! So I asked him what that was about and he said it was Ginny who tried to change him." Jade told Hermione.

"And naturally you argued over that, with a heavy use of vulgarity." Hermione said.

"Naturally. And then he fucks off about how special Ginny is to him. He called her, his stand, his support, so what the fuck was I to you? I was nothing? He made it seem like Ginny was the only thing he had. I was there before Ginny Weasley! I was with him for four years and he lets her be his everything when he's only been with her for 2 weeks…pussy." Jade growled.

"Please, please, please, keep that language to yourself! It makes me uncomfortable to hear that!" Hermione said covering her ears.

"So I don't know what to do. Before I got drunk and high, I was actually thinking to-forget it, it's stupid." Jade said shaking her head.

"You're not planning to kill her or disable her are you?" Hermione asked with a note of caution in her voice.

"Do you honestly think I am capable of murdering Ginny Weasley?" Jade asked.

"Yes." Hermione responded.

Jade smirked. "I am capable of it, but I'm too good for that Mione. I might smoke, drink, do drugs, say whatever's on my mind and beat people up, but I do have a heart. I won't kill someone for my personal gain; it's not fair and right. Other than that, yes I am the world's biggest bastard." Jade said cheekily.

Hermione giggled and hugged Jade tightly. "You know the ball is tomorrow?" Hermione asked and Jade grunted.

"So?" Jade asked, trying to make smoke circles.

"So, that means you get to dress up and look-"

"No, no, no. Not going to happen." Jade said shaking her head.

"Then how else are you going to get him back?" Hermione asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Hermione, I'm sure there are a lot of ways to get him back. Dressing up and standing like a bimbo is not the only option." Jade said, going back to her cigarette.

"Tomorrow is your chance to look beautiful Jade! You can show him what he has been overlooking! This will be easy! I just have to owl the Patil twins and-"

"I'm not going! Do you understand?! I am not letting anyone touch me! No one is going to put makeup on my fucking face!" Jade shouted. Hermione quieted and frowned at Jade's refusal.

"Fine, don't." Hermione said, before going back to her studies.