"Hi," Aly grinned as she walked into the common room. It was around noon and the majority of students were back and heading down for lunch.
Amanda looked up and smiled. "Hey. How's your mum?"
"Peachy."
Aly set down her bags in front of the chair that Amanda and Hayden were sitting at. She sat in the chair across from them.
"What'd she want?" Hayden asked.
"Do you really want to know? This is the truth, believe me."
"Ok," Amanda asked, amused. "Let's have it."
"She was spying on us the whole time."
Amanda's jaw dropped. "What?! You mean, she heard us? How?"
"Floo. She poked her head through the fire and listened to our whole conversation."
"So that's what it was!" Hayden exclaimed. "I saw something out of the corner of my eye, but I thought it was a log."
"Too bad you didn't tell us," Amanda said sarcastically. "So, she knew?"
"That's why she wanted me back. To sabotage our plan," Aly said, smiling weakly.
"Wow. Your Mum's sneaky," Amanda said, leaning back in chair. "So you didn't see Adam."
"Well..." Aly said, a twinkle in her eye.
"You saw him?!" Amanda exclaimed, sitting up. "You visited him?"
"Mum was a bit more understanding than I thought," she grinned. And then she continued to explain the whole story of how they talked in the kitchen.
"What d'you mean, she experienced it before?" Hayden asked, after Aly finished talking.
Aly's face clouded. "Well, she told me about my dad. When they were young, during the summers they'd sneak out of their houses to be together."
"Why? Did theor parents not like each other?"
"Well, sort of," Aly shrugged. "I mean, my dad's a pureblood and Mum's a muggle, so..."
"Oh," Amanda said, understanding. "I get it. They didn't want him interacting with Muggle borns. Sounds like Malfoy's family."
Hayden nodded in agreement.
"So, she had to sneak out to see him sometimes," Aly explained. "Like during the summers when she'd visit her friends, she'd sneak to visit him and sometimes they'd get mad."
"You are a splitting replica of your mum," Hayden grinned.
"I know, right?" Aly smiled. "Well, Adam's doing fine, anyway."
"What happened while you were there?" Amanda asked eagerly.
"A lot," Aly grinned. And she proceeded to tell them about her adventure.