A/N: Sorry i'm so slow with these! I know there are a couple of you who are waiting, because you put my story on alert (I love you! and i'm glad you like it, and I hope you like this chapter as well) On with the show!

Chapter 3

The day was finally here, the day she had waited for with anxious anticipation all week. Rose double checked her lipstick and hair on her reflection in the window before she went into the pub. She wanted to make sure she looked her best for her date with Mr. Smith... Satisfied that her appearance was acceptable she pulled open the door and walked inside.

He was already sitting there at one of the tables, looking just as gorgeous as ever. Rose smiled to herself, she still could almost not believe she was actually going on a date with him. This must be a dream. It just couldn't be real.

But then someone bumped into her and she stumbled, it was real all right. Straighting her shirt, she walked towards Mr Smiths table and smiled very wide at him as she came up to him.

"Rose!" he exclaimed, startled and he stood up from his chair in order to be polite toward her.

"Hello Mr Smith" she greeted him with a big smile.

"Oh please you can call me John," he told her, sitting down. She sat down at the table as well.

"John," she said trying it out. She liked it, it was much better than calling him Mr. Smith all the time. He smiled at hearing his name from her lips. He thought it was something he could get used to.

"So," he said "would you like something to eat? They make pretty good food here, the pasta is really good."

"Yes," she answered him. "I am sort of hungry, actually." She picked up the menu that was laying on the table and began to look at it. However, she could only look at it for a minute before she was stealing a peak over the top staring at John. She still couldn't believe her good luck. Out of all the girls in the whole school, he picked her. She didn't know why, because she didn't think she was anything very special or anything, but still. He did.

John was looking at Rose from across the table as she perused in her menu. Beautiful, smart and wonderful Rose Tyler... Her hair was such a lovely shade of golden yellow, and it reminded him of fields of barley that were waving in the west wind, like fields of gold. (A/N: if you know what song that's from you get extra points!) He looked down again as he saw her begin to look up. He didn't want her to know he was staring at her in case she thought he was being creepy or something. He really didn't want to mess this up, because he liked her more than he'd liked anyone in years. He felt so much for the woman sitting before him that in fact it almost scared him. "Well, what shall we have?" he said brightly, trying to interrupt his thoughts.

Martha was going upstairs to Seamus' room, she didn't tell him she was coming but she wanted to surprise him.

Right before she went in the door though, she stopped. She thought she could hear a girl's voice in his room. She pushed open the door to find an awful sight. Seamus was on his bed, but he wasn't alone. He was with a girl, some pretty blonde girl from Hufflepuff house.

"Martha!" he shouted in surprise as he looked up to find her standing there. "It's not... It isn't what it looks like!"

"Oh really Seamus," she yelled back at him. "Because it looks like you were just shagging somebody else!" She turned and began to storm down the stairs.

Seamus pulled up his pants and ran after her. "Martha! Come on, your overreacting! That was nothing, she doesn't mean anything to me!"

"Well maybe it doesn't mean anything to you, but it sure as hell means something to me!" Martha yelled, trying to fight back the tears that were threatening to flow from her eyes. "It means we're through, you scumbag!" She stomped down a few more stairs before Seamus said, "I didn't think you really loved me with your whole heart because we've been dating for over a year now and you still don't want to...you know."

"What, you thought it was okay to cheat on me just because I wasn't putting out?" yelled Martha angrily. Suddenly she didn't want to hear anymore of his excuses, she just wanted to leave and be alone. Turning away from him in rage, she ran down the rest of the stairs and ran across to her own dormitory, not caring if he was following her. She got to her room and slammed the door behind her, throwing herself on the bed. There was nobody else in the room, they were probably at dinner, where she should be. If she was at dinner she never would have seen...what she just saw. She didn't feel much like eating anymore.

She was better off without him anyway, she told herself. She didn't need a loser like that. But the harder she tried not to cry the more she wanted to. Eventually she gave into the tears and let them come, sobbing into her pillow and releasing all the hurt she felt inside. It made her feel a bit better, but she felt like a part of her was ripped out and would never really be whole again.

After a month, Martha was starting to feel a bit better. It still hurt when she thought about how Seamus had betrayed her, but that was to be expected, they dated for over a year. And she used to love him, she really did. At one point she thought they were going to spend the rest of their lives together. But now, obviously that was not going to happen. And it stung to think of him, well, stung was not a strong enough word. More like it almost ripped her heart out.

But Rose and Donna were always there for her when she needed to talk or cry on someone's shoulder, and even Harry and Draco were extra nice and sympathetic. She was glad she had such good friends.

She still saw Seamus in class everyday, but she ignored him and eventually he got the hint.

So her life went on like that for a couple more months, and she spent more time and effort on her classes and homework so that she had less time to think about stupid Seamus and what he did to her.

But little did Martha know that she was about to get another BIG surprise in her life.