I woke up and stretched all my limbs according to Zac and Cameron I look like a cat when I do this. I looked at Cedrics bunk to find it empty as usual he was too impatient to wait for me to wake up for today was a Sunday and I had a tendency to sleep in on Sundays. So I got up got dressed in skinnies, Mayday Parade band shirt, my signature cap and of course a Hufflepuff hoodie and left the dormitory to find Tay waiting in the common room listening to her iPod, she paused her song upon seeing me and got out of her seat and we walked to breakfast. Tay was complaining about the rumours going round in the rumour mill I chuckled at her rants. She was upset that she was just known as the guy girl around school you know a girl who's treated like one of the guys. I sighed there she goes again believing that the truth is what she's hearing.

"Ignore them Tay wait for them to talk some shit I haven't heard before" I told her "If you've got something to say to Fr-"

"Don't wanna talk about it." She snapped

"This is my fault so if you need someone to blame-"

"I'm not gonna cry about"

"Alright!" I said holding up my hands in defeat

"Sorry Ry I didn't mean to have a go at you" She apologised looking down.

"Hey it's cool. Just don't believe what they say you're fine as you" I remembered something my mom used to say about when people would talk about dad. "By believing a lie you're just feeding the fire"

"That's good. Sounds like a lyric to a song you make that up?"

"No mom used to say it when I got mad about what people were saying about dad"

"I wish I could've met your mom she sounds nice" She sounded wistful "I'll shut up now I know you hate to talk about her"

"I don't hate it, it's just painful. I hate Evie I swear I'll kill her if I ever see her again"

"I'll help"

I laughed and gave her a side hug. "I know you will. That would then be the what? Millionth thing we've done together? You know you're my best friend? I know there are Mike, Zac and Cam but for some things I can't talk to them about it, yet I can always talk to you about anything and vice versa"

"I know what you mean"

"Of course you do you ALWAYS know what I mean it's like you can read my mind!"

We laughed and entered the great hall and made our way to the Gryffindor table and sat next to Harry which reminded me Buckbeak was back he didn't have a reply but he was back I should probably write to dad and tell him about Harry I borrowed a quill and parchment off Hermione as neither me or Tay bought our bags with us to breakfast and wrote a letter to dad which said:

Padfoot

HARRYS BEEN PICKED AS A CHAMPION FOR THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT! He didn't enter his name in the Goblet of Fire I know he didn't someone must've done it hoping he'd be killed or something I can't imagine anyone doing this as a prank and I know he didn't ask someone to do it for him. Plus Cedric my dorm mate has been chosen as well. But try not to worry too much me and Tay will help Harry as much as we can. Cam, Zac and Mike will help him as well. Hey have you heard anything about Evie? Hope you're okay and stay safe for me okay both me and Warren don't want to see you being thrown back in that place again.

Ryan

"Hey can I borrow Buckbeak?" Harry asked

"Sure thing Harry. I was just gonna send him off with my letter to Padfoot he can take yours as well" I told him

We trudged up to the owlery called down Buckbeak and he flew off with the letters. Lessons went by as boring as ever except Moody's lessons you could never be bored with them with Moody shouting constant vigilance in your face. I also had a guitar rift stuck in my head and by the end of the day I'd written a song but it needed lyrics and that was Tay's department she was the lyricist. I help with the guy's point of view as we switch between the male and female lead. Unfortunately Tay wasn't in the mood for song writing today as the mutterings involving her grew worse some suggesting that she'd slept with Fred which wasn't true they'd just became friends this year I think that bloke that fancied her from Drumstrang started that one. One or two following that one also said that she was pregnant which was just as stupid as the last she was beyond annoyed all the people looking at her stomach every day to see if it was getting bigger was annoying me never mind her! You could tell just how annoyed and upset she was because she left dinner WITHOUT ME! Leaving me to walk to the common room by myself as Cedric keeps being followed by admirers everywhere he went. She wasn't even waiting in the common room for me when I got there I thought she might have already gone to bed and asked Renesmee to tell her I wanted to talk to her but she said Tay wasn't there now I was worried where had she gone?!

Tay's POV

I was sitting in the music room alone. For once in my life I was away from Ryan and he didn't even know where I was which was a first. I was sat at the piano playing one of the songs we'd written in fourth year with Zac, Cam and Mike when we first started the band it was called Never be what you want:

I remember the night we shared under city lights this feeling got the best of me we were floating along to the sound of a dead end town but now that's just a memory

I can't figure you out you've got more fight in you then anybody else and here's the part where I started to make my own damn decisions and make a name for myself

I'll never be what you want I wouldn't change any part of me just to make you stay you had a piece of my heart but not enough to just runaway coz I know what's best for me

Take all your big plans and throw them away I've got something in mind before we go separate ways

We ask the questions baby

Who provides the answers?

I'm scared of death and it shows

The flame burnt out but it glows

And the looks in your eyes are things I don't wanna know

It's time to go

Come closer and I can't say anything everything comes out the wrong way

Never be what you want I wouldn't change any part of me just to make you stay you had a piece of my heart but not enough to just run away coz I know what's best for me

Just try just try a little harder

I'll do my best explaining all the things I'm going through

Just try just try a little harder

This is what I can't adjust for you

Can't adjust for you

Can't adjust for

... You

You can't stay

The look in your eyes is things I don't wanna know

You, you can't stay

I wanna be with you and no one else I need you to feel the way that you felt that summer night when you found that puzzle piece missing for eight straight weeks

You're not the perfect fit!

I'll never be what you want I wouldn't change any part of me just to make you stay you had a piece of my heart but not enough to just runaway coz I know what's best for me.

When I finished I started thinking about mine and Ryan's conversation earlier and started playing again.

"There you go again, believing that the truth is what your reading talk some shit I haven't heard before if you've got something to say - don't wanna talk about it. If you need someone to blame - don't wanna cry about it." I sang but then I was stuck. I jumped as someone clapped behind me.

"That was good Tay did you just come up with that?" Fred asked as I recovered from my heart attack

"You know it's rude to sneak up on people and the little snippet just? Yes the whole song before no me and the guys wrote that in fourth year" I explained "Why are you here?"

"Pranking Filch. You?"

"Alone time"

"Oh then sorry-" he started to leave

"No! It's fine I think I got what I wanted to out of me"

"Oh well in that case you should find Ryan he's been looking all over for you"

"Yeah I bet he's going nuts well nuttier. He already was nuts"

"You okay?" he asked suddenly

"Am now, for a little while. Why?"

"Ryan told me what people were saying"

"Oh that"

"Don't listen to what they say you're really pretty Tay and you have an amazing voice"

"I kno- say what?!"

Okay I must be dreaming is there is no way hose ay that Fred Weasley just said I was pretty! Did he drown a shot of fire whiskey before coming here?! Because I am not pretty I have the mutterings to prove it! And I dunno about the amazing voice I have an average voice.

"Your pretty and you have an incredible voice and I'm lucky to call you my fake-girlfriend even though I'd prefer to be more" He said

"Hold the phone! Am I dreaming?! I'm dreaming aren't I because I know that there is no way-"

I never did get to finish that sentence on account that Fred's lips had crashed onto my own and I kissed back my arms wrapping round his neck whilst his went round my waist pulling me closer to him. He bit my lip asking for entrance and I let him in letting his tongue trace my mouth we broke apart as air is essential to living but stayed close our foreheads touching.

"Believe me now" He asked

"Maybe" I allowed he chuckled and pecked my lips. I sighed. "C'mon let's go find that whack job we call Ryan before he gets in a worse mental state then he already is"

Ryan's POV

I was just about to check the Gryffindor common room for the fifth time trying to find Tay who seemed to have been abducted by aliens. I checked the Gryffindor common room to find it Tayless and walked out again and who should I bump into but the devil herself and Fred holding hands. I gave her my best 'you're in trouble' glare she opened her mouth to explain but I beat her to it.

"TAYLOR HAYLEY WEST! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I'VE BEEN?" I screamed at the top of my lungs

"Well I have a guess" She said timidly "and THATS NOT MY NAME! Its Tay just Tay not Taylor"

"C'mon" I started dragging her to the Hufflepuff common room she called goodbye to Fred over her shoulder "As of now you are officially grounded"

"You can't ground me you're not my mom"

"Well I can write to her and have you grounded unless you can provide me with a good reason not to"

"I started writing a new song and me and Fred are a real couple now"

"Depending on how good the song is I'll let you off the hook and congrats"

I flung the door to the common room open immediately cutting off all chatter as I walked past with Tay the whisperings begun half about Tay the other about me and how much I am like my "murderous" father because I act like every days my last they think I'm expecting a Demeter or an Auror to come after me to put me in my dad's old jail cell which not even its just coz life's too short and I plan to have as much fun as possible with mine. I measure life in minutes and these critics think they've got me figured out. She told me the lyrics and they were pretty good took me a while to figure out it was basically our conversation from earlier - hey I'm not the Ravenclaw that's Cameron! I played her what I came up with today and we thought of the rest of the lyrics by midnight we had ourselves a new song which we decided to call Rumour Mill.