Disclaimer: I really hate these damn things! I don't own it, wish I did, gonna cry 'cause I could be filthy rich instead of dirt poor!!!

The first day of classes, how wonderful. Jessica awoke and she noticed that Alyssa was already up and ready. "Why is it that I am the one that is always last to wake up?" Jessica asked, not really expecting an answer back. She sat up, rubbed her eyes, then stretched a bit.

"Well, I think it's because you're always the last to go to bed, seeing as you always have twice and sometimes triple the amount of homework to do." Alyssa answered her while finishing the laces on her shoes. Jessica got out of bed and started to grab her uniform.

"Don't you mean quadruple the amount? Me, James, Sirius AND sometimes you?!" Jessica smirked, she never had the heart to tell any of them that she couldn't take it. But then again, she was also the only one out of all of them that got consistent perfect marks on tests. Jessica got changed and pulled her hair back into a tight ponytail and headed out of their dorm room into the common room where she saw James and Sirius laughing in the corner while hiding something. Alyssa walked over and peered over her brothers shoulder and what she saw was a strange map.

"What's that?" Alyssa asked, setting back down on flat feet from her tip-toes. The boys jumped in surprise and Sirius turned around.

"What do you want sis?" he asked

"Well, it looked more than suspicious to see you two in the corner together giggling like little girls."

"Little girls? We were not?!"

"What's that in your hand, James?" Jessica stepped forward, moving her head around to get a better look. James hid it behind his back.

"None of your damn business!" he answered then shoving past her, Sirius did the same thing, but not to his sister, but to Jessica. She watched them walk into their dormitory. Alyssa walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Ignore them. Lets just go get something to eat." and with that, the girls walked from Gryffindor Tower to the Great Hall. They took their usual seats, except today they were accompanied by someone else.

"Can I sit here?" she asked. Jessica didn't even look up from her bowl of cold cereal. Alyssa looked up at her though and she smiled,

"Sure!" The girl smiled and sat next to Jessica. Her and Alyssa chatted and Jessica caught a glimpse of important information from her.

"My name's Lily, Lily Evans." Jessica thought it might be nice to know her name if she decided to barge in on her little anti-social spot more than just now. They continued to eat and chat, well, Jessica did all the listening and none of the chatting. Suddenly, a small piece of parchment in the shape of an airplane fell right in front of Lily.

She opened it and her rosy cheeks went pale, she looked more than repulsed. Jessica looked over at the note and what she saw made her eyes widen, her spoon to drop and her stomach to churn.

"What is it?" Alyssa asked, placing down her fork onto the rim of the plate. Jessica was in such awe of how cruel some people could be.

"It says mudblood on it." Jessica said. She could hear laughing coming from behind them. She turned to see that Lucius Malfoy was laughing with his friends. Severus seemed to be sitting next to him, his head down in shame. Jessica was so pissed off, Lily was in tears and Alyssa was calming her down.

"Some people could be so mean!" Lily said. Jessica suddenly snatched the piece of parchment from Lily, crumpled it up and threw it. It hit Lucius in the head, which made him stop laughing immediately. Many people were watching now, from all different houses, people stopped eating to watch what might go down. Lucius stood up and started walking towards them. Jessica just merely sat back down, eyes widened in disbelief. Alyssa and Lily shared the same expression but with their mouths gaped open.

Lucius walked over accompanied by 2 of his largest friends and Severus. He taped Jessica rudely on the shoulder. She looked up at him and said,

"Can I help you?" she tried to sound as polite as possible. Lucius basically grabbed her collar and hoisted her out of her seat. She could see Severus looking more nervous than she had ever seen him before. He started to shrink back away from them. "You never answered my question Lucius. You only started acting very violent without giving me a purpose."

"Oh I'll give you a purpose!" he started drawing his fist backwards. She actually showed that she was scared of getting hit.

"OI! Back off!!" Some one pushed Lucius away from her. Jessica hit the ground with a thud and Lily immediately rushed over a helped her up. The three girls watched as James and Sirius not only told off Lucius and his crew, but made sure that she was okay.

"Why do you always have to pick a fight with people?" Sirius asked, placing a hand on her head.

"I don't! They're the ones picking the fights. They insulted Lily!" Jessica was trying to get out from under Sirius' hand. Sirius was much taller than her now and she wasn't really used to that. She didn't want him to feel how warm she was getting because he was touching her. Over the summer she had come to a realization that Sirius wasn't a bad looking person. Now that she sees him, she can agree with a lot of girls, Sirius Black is a very handsome person.

James and Sirius soon left, but not until Sirius had shot Jessica a wink. Jessica felt as if her heart had just flown out of her throat. Alyssa's eyes widened and she smiled wildly.

"You like Sirius!" she said a little louder than she expected. Jessica was suddenly ripped into reality again and she turned to her friend and gave her look pleading for her to keep quiet. Little did Jessica know, Severus was watching her with a look of longing, longing to be with her, a longing to talk to her.

After breakfast, Severus watched as Jessica and Alyssa walked to Potions. Severus made sure he was close behind but not too close. Sirius and James ended up pushing him down the rest of the stairs and into Jess.

"Oww!!" Jess exclaimed. "What the hell?" she turned around, rubbing the back of her head. She looked more confused that Severus did that than mad at him. "Why did you do that, Severus?"

"I…I…I..."

"You what?" she was getting frustrated, James and Sirius were laughing. Lucius was standing on Severus' left and just sneered. Alyssa grabbed Jessica's arm and started pulling her to the dungeons. Severus looked hurt that he could not only not tell her what really happened but also that she would not really give him a chance.

When they all arrived into the classroom, Lily sat in Jessica's usual seat and Alyssa sat in her normal seat. That left Jessica with no one to sit with. Lucius came in and sat with Narcissa Black and two of his friends sat together, not that she cared. James and Sirius sat together, as usual and Remus sat with Peter. Everyone rushed in to get into a seat and when everyone was seated, she noticed that the only seat left was next to Severus. Still feeling a small sting at the back of her head, she agreed to sit there, so she wouldn't disturb the class.

She didn't see it, but his cheeks started to turn a light shade of red as she sat next to him. When Professor Slughorn gave the assignment, which happened to be a partner's activity, the class started to chat amongst each other. Severus took this moment to try to explain to her what had happened,

"Jess?"

"Yes Severus?" Jessica was mincing up some roots for the potion.

"I……I….." he couldn't get it out. There were so many things about her racing threw his mind. She looked up at him,

"You what?" she was getting a little annoyed with his stammering.

"I…I…" Lucius was sitting right in front of them. He turned around and gave Severus a stare implying that he better not be nice to her.

"Spit it out, Severus. It's okay." Jessica was being as nice as possible. Severus caught Lucius' drift and what he said next made everyone in the room stop what they were doing and watch the two.

"I hate you." Jessica's casual, easy going smile faded. People were whispering like crazy, some people snickered. Jessica got up and was about to walk away when she leaned down and whispered in his ear,

"I thought you were different." She stood up and was walking away. Professor Slughorn tried to rush after her, but was unable to catch her before she got halfway up the stairs to lead back to the main hallway. Severus stared at Lucius with disgust.

"What? You said it, not me!" Lucius smirked and turned back around.

Later, Jessica could be found in the Gryffindor common room writing an essay for Slughorn on why you shouldn't leave in the middle of his class. Suddenly, a note popped out of thin air and landed in front of her. She read it to herself,

"Dear Jessica,

I'm sorry for the way I've acted. Please meet me in the Astronomy tower later tonight.

-HBP "

"I wonder…." Jessica finished all her homework and rushed up to her dormitory. She couldn't wait to see who HBP was!

END

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