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"Where'd you go last night?" Melanie asked Maddie the next morning. Maddie was nervously getting ready for her first day of classes. She even left her hair down for the first time in years.

"I couldn't sleep and I wanted to read, but I didn't want to wake you, so I went downstairs," Maddie said trying to sound convincing. She was currently trying to smooth all of the wrinkles out of her robes.

"I went downstairs to see where you went. I couldn't sleep either, and you weren't down there," Melanie said. She obviously suspected something.

For a moment Maddie was going to tell her everything, about going down to the kitchens with James. But then a voice floated in her head…

'And you can't tell anyone that I took you down there. Especially your roommates.'

Melanie definitely counted as a roommate.

"I, went for a walk," Maddie finally decided on.

"You better watch doing that, we're not allowed out of bed after hours," Melanie said and didn't push the matter further.

"Come on let's go down to breakfast, Lily you coming?" Melanie said as she was halfway out of the door.

"Yea I'm coming." Lily said grabbing her bag and following them out of room.

The three of them sat down at the long Gryffindor table.

"Where'd you go last night Prongs? I woke up and you were gone! Gone!" Maddie heard as a group of people walked behind her. She noticed James was one of them, and he half smiled at her.

"Hello, who are you?"

Maddie turned once again as the group of boys sat down near her.

"This is Maddie," Lily said for her.

"Hey Madison," James said and began shoveling food into his mouth.

"Hey James."

Melanie (as well as everyone else) gave her a bit of a weird look at this point.

"This is my best friend Sirius," James added as he gestured to the boy sitting next to him.

Sirius, that name clicked somewhere in Maddie's head.

"You're Emilee's boyfriend right?" Maddie said as she remembered.

"Yep, speaking of the devil, here she comes," Sirius trailed off as Emilee, closely followed by Danni joined the group.

"hey…" Maddie heard as Danni sat down next to James, and gave him a kiss.

She wasn't entirely sure why, but Maddie felt a pang in her stomach. That's not exactly what she was expecting.

"Oh, Maddie, this is my boyfriend, James. James, this is Maddie, she's new," Danni said. She wasn't being rude, or snobbish, just stating the facts.

"Yea, we've already met," James said. Maddie avoided his gaze.

"Here comes McGonagal," Lily pointed out.

A somewhat elderly woman approached them.

"Ms. Carter I presume?"

"Yes," Maddie replied. It was her first day was she in trouble already?

"Here is your schedule. And Miss Evans? Would you be so kind as to escort Ms. Carter to her classes for today," McGonagal said, and then made her way back to the Staff Table.

"You ready Maddie?" Lily asked gathering her things.

"Yea," Maddie said and got up from the table, "bye everyone."

Maddie and Lily walked in silence for quite sometime.

"So you've met "Potter,"" Lily said breaking the silence. Maddie noticed the bitterness in her voice. James had to be the one you should never mention in front of her.

"Yea," Maddie said not really sure what else to say.

"Ugghhhhh I can't stand him! All he does is prance around messing up his hair thinking it looks cool, and playing with that snitch and torturing people just because he can," Lily went on and on. Maddie watched as Lily's face got red. It was pretty amusing in the sense that it seemed an awful lot like she liked him.

'Is she talking about the same James I met last night?' Maddie thought.

"Just be warned, he's a prat. And all he does is pick on people," Lily added. Maddie concluded that Melanie shared her suspicions with her.

"Ok," Maddie said once again not sure what to say.

"So, how do you like Hogwarts so far?" Lily said out of nowhere. She was obviously done with her outburst on James.

"It's amazing! Just nothing like home," Maddie said trying not to end up lost in memories again.

"Well here we are," Lily said and directed her into a classroom.

--&--&--

Once again Maddie found herself fighting sleep. And once again decided to go downstairs.

She really wasn't sure why she wanted to go back down there. She didn't really want to see James, but she didn't want to stay up here.

Almost as if planned, she heard something weird from her bag, and knew that it was Delia.

"Hey, hold on," Maddie whispered as she tiptoed out of the dorm.

"Oh my god things are so crazy here!" Maddie said once she was safely downstairs.

"Aww I'm so sorry Madds! Things aren't so great here either," Delia said. Once again, she seemed distant.

"Del, have you talked to Mark lately? I miss him so much!" Maddie burst out.

"Well actually, no, I've been kind of busy," Delia said.

"Oh," Maddie said disappointedly, "I've made quite a few friends already."

She plopped down onto the couch, which James had been sitting the night before.

"Really? What are they like? Are they anything like me?" Delia said talking a million miles a minute again.

"They're ok, and no none of them are anything like you," Maddie explained. She doubted she could ever find a friend like Delia.

"So who is he?" Delia said with an all-knowing look.

"What are you talking about?" Maddie responded putting on her most innocent look.

"Come on, I know you better than that. There's a guy!" Delia said laughing.

"Ok, fine. There's kind of a guy," Maddie said trying not to admit anything.

"Spill it!" Delia said.

"Well, I hung out with him once, he's got a girlfriend, and my roommates hate him," Maddie explained making sure she didn't miss anything.

"Haha I'm sure Mark would love to hear this," Delia said.

"No! you cant' say anything, I, there's nothing to tell!" Maddie practically yelled.

"Hey Madison."

Maddie slowly turned around and saw her fear confirmed.

"James."

"Maddie you still there?" Maddie heard Delia saying.

"Yea I'm here. Listen I'm gonna go. I'll talk to you tomorrow, bye," Maddie said to Delia and went to put the mirror away.

"That's pretty cool!" James said examining the mirror.

"Thanks," Maddie said. They last thing she wanted to do was talk to him right now.

"So you hungry again?" James said with a smirk.

"Nahh, I think I'm gonna go back to bed. I'm kind of tired. Goodnight," Maddie said and began walking back upstairs.

"Goodnight Madison."