I meant to upload this yesterday but I got distracted. Here it is, I hope you like it :) There's a link to Aslinn's closet on my profile so go check it out.

Aslinn's Point of View:

Jinx was like the clichéd perfect guy; he was sweet, smart, and he was really funny. We say by the lake for about two hours and it seemed to completely fly by. We talked about everything from books to what we wanted to be when we grew up but my heart already belonged to another.

I glanced down at my watch and saw that it was almost eleven. "It's getting pretty late; I think we should go on back to our Common Rooms. It was nice talking to you though."

He gave me a carefree smile before standing up and offering me his hand. "It was nice being out here with you. I thought I was going to come here and be some sort of leper or something, I never imagined that I would meet the most perfect girl in the world."

I felt my cheeks heat up as I dropped his hand. I watched him walk towards the castle and tried to straighten out my jumbled thoughts. I'd dated boys before, I mean I was sixteen it was sort of part of the territory, but things were different when I was around Jinx. It was like he made me forget about James for a while.

I was walking past the Womping Willow to go up to the castle when someone grabbed my wrist. I whipped out my wand and whirled around, holding it up to the person's throat. I relaxed when I saw that it was just James.

"What are you doing out here this late? I thought you'd be inside at the party, King of Gryffindor," I said, falling into step with him.

He threw an arm around my shoulders, pulling me closer to him. "I was but then I looked around for you and didn't see you. I figured you came out here and lost track of time so I came out to check on you."

"Aw, you're such a sweetheart. You're so protective of me, even more so than Scorpius is and he's my brother," I said, tucking my hand into his back pocket.

By now we were at the portrait hole and the fat lady was snoozing away. James cleared his throat and she crankily woke up but her face transformed into a smile when she saw who it was. "Mr. Potter, why are you out so late? Its past curfew but I guess I can let it slide this one time."

If it would have been me in this situation I would've ended up sleeping out in the corridor tonight but she had a soft spot for the Potters for obvious reasons. James gave her a blinding smile and said, "Pig's snout."

The door swung open on an empty Common Room. We walked inside and waited for the door to shut behind us before I spoke, "You just flirted with a painting. That's the funniest thing that I've seen all day, Merlin's beard."

He gave me a snarky look and said, "Haha, you're so funny. Now go upstairs and put on some pajamas because we're going to spend the rest of the night talking about what happened this summer. I need to know about France and all of those French girls."

I giggled before running up the stairs and into the girls' dorm room. I saw Poppy, Heidi, Roxi, and Kelsey sitting there waiting for me to come back in. When they caught sight of me they pounced.

"Where were you? We looked for you at the party but you weren't there," Roxi said, watching me pull out pajamas. Then a knowing smile sprouted on her lips, "You're having one of your talks with James tonight, aren't you?"

I pulled off my uniform before spelling it onto a hanger in the wardrobe. Then I pulled on some plaid shorts and a long sleeve white top before turned over to the other girls. "You act like these talks never happen. Roxi, come take my hair down for me please."

She pulled me over to her before undoing the delicate braid that I had done earlier in the day. After it was down I piled it all onto my head and pulled it into a messy bun and spelled off my makeup. I slid on my slippers before sticking my tongue out at them and running down to my waiting best friend.

James' Point of View:

I was wearing a pair of plaid pajama bottoms and a plain black shirt sitting on the couch waiting for Aslinn. When I looked up I saw that she'd taken off all of her makeup and put on some loose pajamas. She was the only girl I knew that looked even better with no makeup and her hair up then when she was all dolled up.

"You're staring at me. Didn't your mother ever teach you that staring was impolite, Mr. Potter?" Aslinn asked, sitting down cross-legged next to me.

"No, but she did teach me a mean bat-bogey charm that I'm not afraid to use," I said, flicking her knee. Then I figured that I should start our conversation, "What's up with you and the new kid?"

I saw her pretty little cheeks turn pink before she stuttered, "I d-d-don't know w-w-what you're talking a-a-about. He's just a guy that I met and had an intelligent conversation with."

I tried to ignore the stabbing feeling that that caused in my chest. "It didn't seem like that when he was making you laugh like a giddy little school girl. Tell me why you're stuttering, that's only something you do when you're nervous or lying to me about something."

"His name's Jinx and he's a transfer from Australia. He has an owl named Aurox that likes to bite him so he has scars all over his hands but he loves her too much to get a new one," Aslinn said, smiling into the distance. Then she focused back in on me, "What about you, did you hook up with any of those drunken Gryffindor slags from the party earlier?"

I ran a hand through my messy hair before fixing her with a solid gaze. "I'm not going to be like that this year; I'm going to turn over a new leaf. No more drunken hookups that I'm not going to remember in the morning. I actually have my eye on a certain girl this year…"

I saw something flash in her eyes before she quickly covered it up with an easygoing smile. "Who's this lucky lady that you're so in love with? She must be something special for you to drop your bad boy ways like that."

It felt weird to talk to her about how much I loved her. Then I figured she thought it was some other girl so I kept on talking, gushing really, "Yeah, she's the most beautiful girl that I've ever seen. She has this laugh that's so infectious and she has absolutely no clue how beautiful she is. I think that may be the thing I love the most about her."

Aslinn's Point of View:

I felt my heart completely shatter in my chest. He was into some other girl and by the sound of things he was completely in love with her. Watching the way his eyes lit up when he talked about her made tears burn the back of my eyes.

I decided to change the subject by taking his hands in mine. "I'm about to tell you something that I've kept a secret our entire friendship. It's huge and I need you to promise me that you're not going to judge or anything like that."

His face pulled into a confused smile before he said, "You know that I'm never going to judge you over anything that you do. I love you unconditionally, no matter what you're always going to be my best friend."

I took a deep breath before saying, "My entire family completely hates me. I'm an outsider inside the manor walls; I don't belong to the Slytherin royalty line. My father hasn't said more than three words to me for six years now and my mother and brother are too scared of him to do anything about it. Basically my home life is complete and utter hell."

I looked up into his beautiful green eyes and saw that they were swimming in emotion. "You went with them to France this summer. That isn't something that you do with a family that doesn't want you, maybe you're just overthinking it."

I stood up and started to pace the Common Room floor. "I stayed home this summer; they left for France before I even woke up. Scorpius left a note saying where they were, I was alone the entire summer."

James' eyebrows hit his hairline before he jumped up and said, "Why didn't you come over to my house? You know that my family adores you more than anything; you didn't have to be alone. You never do."

I nodded and my vision blurred with tears. "I was so scared that you were going to stop talking to me because I kept this from you so long. I was embarrassed to talk about it; I mean who wants to talk about how their own family doesn't even want them? I'm like a disease, Jamie."

James pulled me into his warm embrace and I sobbed into his neck. He placed his hands under my thighs and lifted me up onto his hips before walking back over to the couch. He held me close to him while I cried out all of the emotions that I'd kept inside for so long. I cried for the loss of my family, I cried for James' kindness, but mostly I cried because he would never love me like I loved him.

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