Disclaimer: For the millionth time! I don't own Harry Potter. I still want to though! pout

Weeks had gone by since her break up with Sirius, but Jessica seemed to be happier now than when she was stopped seeing Sirius. Sirius has been quoted to say that it had been 2 months, 3 weeks, and 4 days since they broke up, but who was keeping track? It was, once again, becoming that time of the month for the gang to go help out their friend Remus in his desperation period.

The group of people that consisted of Sirius, James, Peter, Remus and even Alyssa, didn't want her to come along. Since her explosion on the train, Jessica and Alyssa hadn't talked, even though Jessica tried frantically to do so. Lily was also now known for giving her a frequent cold shoulder as well.

On sunny days like the day of the full moon, Jessica was seen inside, hiding away behind the curtains of her bed, trying to stifle any sounds she might be making from crying. She heard Alyssa gossiping joyfully about her new relationship with Remus.

"I can't believe it!" Alyssa said happily.

"What is it?" Jessica recognized the voice as Lily's.

"Remus and I are finally dating!!" Lily squealed with Alyssa in joy. Jessica sniffled a little louder than she figured she should have and the next thing she heard was Alyssa saying, "Let's go somewhere more private! I don't feel that some people can be trusted anymore." And so they left, leaving Jessica to pull her knees into her chest and sob uncontrollably. After almost 45 minutes of sobbing, she dried her eyes and regained composure.

She stood up and straightened her clothes and grabbed her Divinations book and went down the stairs. Girls started whispering when she was passing, and boys snickered behind her back. She tried to keep her head held up high and show no emotions. She left the common room and got to the tower and sat down in a seat. She saw that no one else was there. She just waited there and Severus joined her and he knew that she had been crying.

"Why were you crying?" He asked.

"I hate everyone." He looked so confused.

"Why EVERYONE?"

"Well, not EVERYONE. I don't hate you!" She sniffled and wiped her nose.

"Good, 'cause I don't hate you either." He put his arm around her shoulder and made her smile. When people started filing into the classroom, he removed his arm. The class went about normally but Professor Trelawney had to leave for a few minutes. When she did, people practically gathered around Alyssa and Remus. Alyssa smiled when people asked her how she and Remus got together.

"Well," she started, "We were both walking around outside one day and it started to rain. I had tried to rush inside when my foot got caught in a big muddle puddle. So Remus stopped trying to get inside and came over. He helped me out of the thick mud and instead of going inside; we stayed outside for a while, talking. Eventually, the talking turned into kissing and we've been together ever since!" Jessica felt absolutely sick because it was awfully close to the same story of Jessica and Sirius' relationship.

When class was over, she gathered her books and headed out of the room. She had reached the top of the very long spiral staircase and was about to descend it when someone slammed her into the stone wall making her gasp and cough. She heard people laughing obnoxiously at her and when she could finally see who did it she felt more than betrayed; Remus and Alyssa were walking hand in hand and Sirius and James were walking behind them.

She felt it was wise to wait for everyone else to leave before she attempted to go back down the stairs. When the coast was clear, she went down the stairs and carefully because she knew that she wasn't yet able to breathe as well as before she hit the wall.

She wandered off to the back of the library where it was poorly lit and had dusty tables and chairs. She hid back there so no one could mock further seeing as she has endured what she thought was her fair share of it today. She did all her homework because she knew that she had more than enough free time. When she finished, she skipped dinner, like she always did. Now if she ever decided to eat, she would grab something small and hide away to eat it as if she were a common rat.

She hid away in her bed behind the curtains again. Alyssa ran in with Lily laughing like she usually does. Lily started off with the questions,

"So how did you and Remus REALLY start going out?" Jessica heard bed springs creak as both of them sat down on her bed.

"Well," once more she started telling her story, "It was the night of the full moon last month. We were all watching Remus run around in our animagus forms and he had disappeared. Me being the phoenix I flew after him. After a while I found him when the clouds hid the moon and swooped down next to him. He was in his human form again and I must say, he has a VERY nice body!" Jessica tried not to gag at this while Lily giggled. "Anyway, I ended up giving him a long trench coat and we sat together and I knew that the other boys were far away from us. So we talked and I promised him I'd never leave him in a time of need and vice versa. He then asked me if I would be his girlfriend and I said yes, but I had to transform right away and fly off before we could do anything else because the moon popped back out." Jessica could tell that she was smiling but she just rolled her eyes.

"Awww! That's so wonderful! I wish I could have a guy that would be as sweet as Remus."

"Oh my god! Did you see what I did to Jessica after Divinations today?" Alyssa laughed and so did Lily.

"She's so dumb sometimes, honestly! How could she really think that Severus would ever like her back! Please, he's apparently just using her to get to me! Pathetic isn't it?"

"Totally! How could she ever think someone would love her? She's just a reject and my brother told me that he didn't even care about her that much anyway!" Jessica put a hand over her mouth trying to suppress any sounds of crying. How is it that someone she ever trusted could act this way to her? She heard the springs creak again as if they were getting up. "Well, it's almost totally dark out and I gotta get ready for tonight."

"Okay! Good luck!" and Lily left. After about five minutes, Alyssa left and Jessica tried not to sob as hard as before. She got a grip on herself and changed into her muggle clothes once again. She crept out of the school undetected and out into the typical field, but only on the outskirts behind trees.

She watched as everyone tried to control Remus while he was transforming. Remus than ran off into the forest and she watched as everyone else transformed into their animals and ran away. She then ran after them undetected to make sure that nothing would go wrong. When she got to the next field, she heard a dog yelp and a rat squeal. She saw that her brother was knocked out on his side, Alyssa was about one hundred yards away from them, Wormtail was being dangled from Remus' claw and Sirius was now being slashed away. Jessica's eyes then widened in terror.

She watched as Remus flung the rat away and raised his claw to slash Sirius once more. In a moment of rash thinking, she transformed into her animagus form and lunged at Remus. All of them turned back into their human forms and watched as a great white tiger fought with a grown werewolf. She bit him on his leg and he slashed her away, but she got back up but this time with a bleeding side. She growled at him and him at her until she was about to lunge at him again then he ran away. She turned back to them and they just stared at her, panting. Alyssa looked at her with fury and just lunged at her screaming,

"GO AWAY!!! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!" Jessica's side was killing her because of the large slashes. She looked really physically and emotionally hurt, but no one came to her defense, "GET OUT OF HERE!" She screamed again, and without thinking, Jessica took off towards the school. She ran right up to the side of the building and raided their personal magical first aid kit and bandaged her side up along with her cheek that had cuts on it from falling down.

By the time she went to go back in, it was thundering and lightening out with massive amounts of rain. She then went inside and hid in her bed once again, trying not to get upset again. She couldn't wait for a new day and hopefully that new day would bring a friendlier Alyssa.

In the morning, Jessica hid her face from everyone to hide the slash marks. Severus sat across from her as she gazed down at the table at the group of people she used to think where her only friends. None of them had cuts or marks on them, not even Remus! Severus took one look at her and said,

"What happened?!"

"Nothing, leave me alone please." She picked at her food not wanting to really eat. She went threw most of her classes basically floating along like she wasn't all there.

When the afternoon break came, she was found wandering around aimlessly. She was deep in thought when she looked up and noticed that she was less than 6 feet away from the birch tree where Remus, James, Lily, Sirius, Peter, and Alyssa were all sitting, staring at her. Jessica gulped a little and was about to turn around when someone called to her,

"BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK!" She knew it was Sirius' voice. She took one step back and fell into a big mud puddle that wasn't there a minute ago. Everyone in the surrounding area was laughing, but not Jessica. There was this strange pulling force at her feet. She started to claw at the dirt and uprooting grass to pull herself out, Alyssa was the only person realizing something was wrong. She stopped laughing because she realized it wasn't right. Jessica somehow got out of the mud hole and it disappeared. Threw laughter Sirius said,

"You look filthy! Better wash up!" And he pointed his wand at her and a very large wisp of water shot out at her. It was so forcefully that it knocked her off her feet and made everyone stop laughing when people actually heard her choking on the water. Alyssa rushed over and tried to help her up, but Jessica pulled her arm away forcefully.

"Don't touch me!! I don't need a traitors help!!" And she eased herself up, while everyone started whispering after seeing that blood was staining the side of her shirt, the side that Remus had slashed. Remus stood and asked out of no where,

"Did I do that to you?" Jessica turned, teary eyed and nodded, then he turned to Alyssa, "You told me no one got hurt!"

"Okay, maybe I stretched the truth a little –"

"A LITTLE?!? SHE'S REALLY HURT!!!" Jessica was gone by this point, she had stowed away in her bed again after stripping off her sopping wet clothes and into relaxing clothes. After about an hour of lying around in too much pain to move, she heard footsteps coming up the dormitory stairs. She was disturbed to see that Alyssa had pulled the curtain to her bed away and was staring at her.

"Can I help you?" Jessica asked, while reading her Potions textbook.

"I wanted to say I…I…."

"Hurry up! I'm busy!" Alyssa chuckled a little, looking down. She sat on the edge of her bed and pushed her book out of her hands.

"You nerd!"

"Well at least I wanna pass my classes!" The two of them looked really serious for a moment, then broke out into laughter.

"I'm sorry! I was PMSing REAL bad last night." Alyssa spilled.

"I could tell but I forgive you anyway…for now. Just don't do it again! I can't take it when people just randomly turn on me!"

"I didn't do it randomly; you broke my brother's heart!"

"And he broke mine. It was a mutual hurting thing." They hugged and were later seen together at dinner and they were laughing once again. James came over to her and hugged her, apologized and offered to take her to Honeydukes on Saturday, which she obviously didn't disagree with! She agreed to go with him only after promising to buy Alyssa 10 pounds of chocolate.

As the days wore on, she started to feel more and more heartbroken when she saw that Lily was getting closer and closer to Severus. She felt sick to her stomach as she watched them walk off hand-in-hand. She didn't have much time to worry because the O.W.L.'s were fast approaching.

Jessica ended up spending most of her time testing and being tested by Remus while the others basically didn't care. The day of their Defense Against the Dark Arts test had come sooner than she expected, as if she wasn't ready for it.

When the hours of the test finally were over, she went outside with the boys and Alyssa. They sat around and Jessica sat next to Sirius under the tree while James played with the golden snitch and Peter watched and Alyssa sat next to a studying Remus.

"So bored!" James said pocketing the snitch.

"Liven up Prongs! Look whose coming now!" Everyone looked up and saw Severus looking down into his examination paper. James and Sirius stood up and started mocking him and picking on him by lifting him up by his ankles upside down. Jessica saw that Lily tried to stop them, but Severus just insulted her by calling her a mudblood, and she basically told them to continue, after calling him Snivellus.

Jessica then leapt to her feet when James asked the crowd if they wanted to see him take off his pants. Jessica shoved James a little and Severus fell into a crumbled heap on the floor.

"Just stop James, it's not even funny." She helped up Severus and James asked,

"Why? Do you like him or something?" And Jessica turned to him in fury,

"As a matter of fact, I do! I actually love him!" People started to whisper and laugh while she stormed off with him. James was left in confusion with Sirius.

When Jessica escorted him downstairs she quickly started to apologize for her brothers actions when Severus kissed her fully on the lips.

"Don't worry, I like you too. I mean, I've been so foolish to think someone I thought I cared about liked me back, when you, the picture of perfection, loved me all along right under my nose!" They basked in each others presence for a little while, "Will you do me an honor to be my girlfriend?" she nodded and he kissed her once more but then he had to rush away when he saw James running towards them. Jessica was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day and Alyssa was the only one who actually knew why:

Severus and Jessica were going out! She finally felt like nothing was wrong in her life. She knew that it was going to be all good for her. As the school year ended, she vowed to keep in touch with Severus. They sat together on the train ride home, sharing a book on the proper uses for dragon's blood that was written in response to their headmaster's discoveries. James had finally started warming up to Severus and excepting that someone in the world could actually "like a creature as grotesque as Snivvy", but Sirius was still jealous because of how close the two of them were.

When she got into the car to go home for Kings Cross after giving Severus a goodbye kiss, she stayed quiet until James decided to be a jerk and say,

"Mom?"

"Yes honey?" She turned in her seat.

"You do realize that this is your daughter right?" Jessica's eyes widened.

"Well of course!" She turned back around and when they got home Jessica, her mother and father ended up chatting for a very long time and they all came to an understanding about how she felt.

She felt this great joy in her life and was now more than happy to wake up each morning. The letters would fly so fast too and from her house, to and from Severus. They talked so much and about everything from school, to schoolmates, to potions, and to the war in the school woods that might be going on now that no kids were around.

But the best part of this whole summer was that she finally felt like she was welcome in the world!

She couldn't wait for the next year to come.

END!!!!

That's really the end of the series!!!

Just want to say a few things before we depart for a little while.

1) Sorry for jumping around a lot.

2) Thank you for the support and ideas

3) I am going to leave a message as the next chapter, READ IT!!! 'TIS IMPORTANT TO THE SERIES!!!

-Forever Grateful to the Readers…..Jessi