Oh, my God. I am soooo sorry I haven't updated this in forever! So much has been going on in the past two months, seriously! I really am going to try to update this more regularly, I promise! :)

Thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday; it was a great one, actually. :D Fall Out Boy came to our school (although I didn't get to meet them) on the 15th of May, shortly after my birthday, and then I went to the Fall Out Boy/All Time Low/Hey Monday/Cobra Starship/Metro Station concert! It was pretty great. ;) Then I had summer school, and, for the past week, almost, I've been depressed because one of my favorite bands ever is parting ways: Panic at the Disco shall be no more. Well, not the same, anyway. It's only Brendon and Spencer now. :(

Well, here's the actual update. I'm leaving on vacation this week, so I don't know when I'll be back, but hopefully I'll be able to get another update in soon! I apologize, but this one isn't very long.

Soundtrack for this chapter:
"Misery Business" - Paramore; "Self Inflicted" - Katy Perry; "Uh Huh" - Forever the Sickest Kids; "Love Today" - Mika; "Stay Awake (Dreams Only Last For a Night)" - All Time Low; "The Missing Piece" - Forgive Durden ft. Lizzie Huffman; "I Do Not Hook Up" - Kelly Clarkson; "Pas de Cheval" - Panic at the Disco; "Set Off" - Hey Monday.

Misery Business.

Chapter Ten: Even Though I'm Not Always Right, I Can Count on the Sun to Shine.

By the time we walked into Charms three hours later, all of Hogwarts seemed to know that Fred and I were, indeed, a couple. And, for the first time, I found myself the center of the gossip that usual centered around Fred and his girlfriends, instead of wanting to stab myself in the face because of it. I have to admit, it was a nice change.

"There she is!" Alicia squealed, scooting closer to me as Fred and I sat down. "You do realize that everyone is talking about you, right?"

I rolled my eyes, smiling anyway. "I have been aware of that, yeah."

"And just look at Miss Priss now!" Alicia whispered triumphantly, gesturing across the room to where Chloe Walker sat, slouching, and looking very un-Chloe-Walker-ish. Her eyes were puffy, red, and swollen; her hair was a disheveled mess; and it appeared that she hadn't bothered to put makeup on that morning, either.

"Whoa," Fred whispered, voicing my thoughts. (It was amazing how we could do that. Do you see why we were meant for each other?) "I actually was seen in public with that?!"

"Fred!" I whisper-yelled, since Professor Flitwick had just ambled into the room. "Be nice!"

He raised his eyebrows. "I thought you didn't like her?"

"I don't," I said carefully, digging my quill out of my bag. "But, still, it's not nice to bring down a girl's appearance. Obviously, she's just having a bad day."

"And it's all your fault, I'll have you know," he whispered in my ear, his warm breath tickling my skin and sending chills down my spine.

"Oh, really?" I murmured. "And how's that?"

He sighed, leaning away as Professor Flitwick passed by to check our homework. (Mine was done neatly and precisely, receiving full marks; Fred's was nonexistent.) When Flitwick was gone, he leaned back over and whispered, "Because you're so damn irresistible." Before I could reply, he raised his hand.

"Weasley?" Professor Flitwick asked exasperatedly.

"May I use the loo?"

Flitwick nodded, and then Fred was gone. Was I really that irresistible? I tuned back into what Flitwick was saying with a bit of a grin on my face.

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"Ange, I think you should be careful," Alicia declared as I sat down for lunch, sans Fred. He had some business to attend to with George and Lee before lunch, and it's not like we were attached at the hip or anything. We could still do our own separate things.

"What do you mean?" I asked, talking around my mouthful of chicken.

Alicia glared at me. "Just because you have a boyfriend now doesn't mean you can eat unattractively and… well, caveman-like, Ange. Can we chew, then ask questions?"

I rolled my eyes. "What do you mean?" I asked again once I had swallowed my food.

"I mean I think Chloe's up to something."

I scoffed. "I doubt it, Leesh. She didn't really care about Fred that much, you know."

"But that's not the point, is it?" Alicia persisted.

"It's not?"

"NO!" she practically screamed at me, turning the heads of almost everyone at our table. I turned beat red. "The point," she continued in a lower voice, thankfully, "is that you pretty much stole him from her. She lost, Ange. And girls like her don't take losing lightly. She's going to try and get you back, for what you did."

I laughed. "Oh, please, Leesh. You expect me to believe that I just entered some sort of … sick, twisted, game? Hahaha. Don't make me laugh."

"I'm warning you," she said, stabbing her own piece of chicken less-than-daintily with her fork, "so consider yourself warned."

"Warned for what?" Fred asked as he and George scooted in between us. Lee was sitting further down with Katie; at the moment, they were feeding each other strawberries. It was almost sickening to watch.

"Oh, Leesh just has this silly conspiracy theory that—"

"That this chicken is severely undercooked!" Alicia interrupted loudly, giving me a look, one that said, Shut your mouth, I'll tell you why later.

George laughed. "Then why are you still eating it? Do you really wanna get sick, hun?"

Alicia flinched when he said 'hun.' She hated pet names, and if it wasn't George, she would've slapped him across the face. "I just wanted to prove… my point," she said distractedly, staring at something behind me.

I turned around to see Chloe Walker walking through the doors of the Great Hall. She had fixed herself up now, and she was looking nothing short of murderous. Oh, and, by the way, she was glaring right at me.

If looks could kill, I would have died several times as Chloe made her way to the Ravenclaw table. Maybe Alicia was right. Maybe I should be careful.

DUNDUNDUNNN!

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