March 3, 1994

I had missed three days worth of lessons during my … err… shock inflicted depression so naturally, with Julia being the Ravenclaw that she was, I had spent my weekend catching up with my studies. Fun right? Not. Can you focus on a Charms essay while your whole entire mind seems to revolve around your backstabbing boyfriend? I didn't think so.

Thankfully Julia was there to help me write a reasonable essay on the use of the fidelius charm during the first wizarding war; I swear without her I would be a mess. Anyways today was the day that I would be finally returning to my classes, and Julia would be with me for the whole day. Apparently she had gotten her schedule switched to my own so that she would be able to keep an eye on me. Pff! I didn't need a babysitter, but that didn't mean I wasn't glad to have her with me. Although there was thing that I couldn't understand: why didn't my aunt switch my schedule if I was trying to avoid … well …Fred?

I bit my lip and looked at myself in the mirror; a black lifeless mess of hair framed my face, and it couldn't change color. This was a catastrophe. How was I supposed to complete part one of my revenge plot if I couldn't even look halfway decent? I was about to consider not going down to classes for another day until Julia called through the bathroom door, "Allison, are you alright? You've been in there for ten minutes breakfast has already stated you don't want to be late!"

Her voice was as faint as ever but at least she was talking to me again right?

"I'm fine!" I lied back, how in the bloody world could I be fine? I was anything but fine I was a horrid mess! I looked like a muggle zombie! Not to mention the fact that I had lost of couple of pounds during my brief anti-food period…

"No you're not…" Julia sighed, she sounded worried," Other than the obvious reason that brought you here, what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong!," I replied with false cheerfulness, "everything's just dandy, I could almost break into song!"

Okay that came off a bit more sarcastically then I had initially intended….

Apparently Julia wasn't in the mood for question dodging because she replied in an annoyed tone of voice, "Stop with the humor Allison, I know something's up…"

That Ravenclaw just wouldn't give up would she? With a sigh I swished my wand and my hair straightened itself out, I wasn't going to accomplish anything if I kept going at this rate, I had to get to class… where I would have to face Fred….

"It's nothing," I sighed as I re-entered the still deserted dorm room, "My hair was just a bit snarled that's all and I forgot the spell to fix it…."

Julia stared at me through her spectacles and I couldn't help but shudder, her green eyes were really quite frightening and rarely held any hint of what she was thinking. After another moment's pause she shot me a worried look, "If you say so then."

With that she turned around and headed towards the door. I followed her obediently down the stairs, extremely conscious of my appearance, my hair did not have its usual lively bounce which only resulted in making me look, and feel, worse then I actually felt. It was only a few minutes later that we reached the double doors that led into the great hall, at the sight of them I came to a halt.

"I know you have to face Fred, Allison, but you can't avoid him forever." Julia sighed with a worried look in her eyes.

I just glared at the door; she was right- obviously- I couldn't stay up in the Ravenclaw common room forever that would only result in nasty rumors and failing grades, and from what I heard from Julia I would definitely prefer to avoid the earlier.

"Let's just get this over with…" I mumbled nonchalantly as the great doors swung open to reveal the familiar room, no one noticed me at first as I turned my head to find my former boyfriend and best friend seated at the Gryffindor table leaning and discussing quite heatedly over a piece of paper, 'More than likely a last minute potion essay….' I thought to myself, 'Now where was Angelina?'

To my great surprise she was seated at the opposite end of the table closest to the door, she was talking fervently to Katie and Alicia, and judging by their looks of growing disgust it was not a pretty subject….

Other then Angelina's new seating choice nothing seemed to be different…. Before I could think to look for Lee however the room grew silent.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes turned to face me.

"Err…" I mumbled awkwardly as I scanned the room, a group of Ravenclaw girls were sitting in a cluster whispering and pointing at me. "Well… uh…." I stumbled over my unnecessary words as my eyes landed on Fred, he was looking at me intently with those… brown eyes of his…. I felt my stomach turn over and my heat come to a complete stop, how dare he! Tears sparked in my eyes before I narrowed them and marched over to the Ravenclaw table, taking a seat across from a rather odd girl whose nose was buried in an upside down magazine.

"The Quibbler…" I hummed to myself as Julia took her seat beside me, "that's an interesting name for a magazine."

"Yes," the girl sighed dreamily as she pulled her nose out of the magazine to look at me, I couldn't help but jump back in surprise, "My father's the publisher you know."

"How interesting…." I replied my tone of surprise fading as I adjusted to the odd swirly glasses on the girls face and took a bite of my eggs.

"Yes…." She sighed again as she put her magazine down to look at me, not bothering to take the odd accessory off her face. After a moment of looking me over she asked in her dazed voice, "I thought you jumped off of the astronomy tower and died."

I spit the eggs out of my mouth in shock, "Excuse me?"

"You jumped off the astronomy tower…." She mused staring at me as if to check that I was translucent.

My mouth just hung open in surprise; I was yet again at a loss for words. What kind of rumor was that? I may have been in a pathetic state over the past few days, but I was hardly one to commit suicide. Oh the rumors that circulate around this school disgust me….

During my brief return to a state of shock Julia spoke- or whispered- up for me, "Well Luna, she doesn't look dead does she?"

"No… she's much too solid to be dead, I suppose…." Luna sighed as she went back to reading the quibbler, "I was just hoping that a ghost would join me for breakfast that would be interesting."

I exchanged an odd look with Julia; despite being in the same house as the girl she too had never fully observed the level of Luna's… well… oddness. I had known that there had been rumors about my disappearance, but Julia had never mentioned that they had reached this level. She just shrugged at my bewildered look and went back to her breakfast, I did likewise.

I groaned as I left the great hall, my stomach must have shrunk to the size of a galleon over the past few days because I could hardly hold my breakfast down.

"Great… a stomach ache on the first day back to classes, a strange girl wanted me to be a ghost at breakfast, and I have to sit next to Fred in potions! Could my day get any better?" I snipped sarcastically as we enter the shampoo deprived's dreary classroom.

"Yes, it could." Julia answered as I went to sit down at my constraining device, I mean seat.

I groaned and let my head slam down onto the graffiti covered table, slogans such as 'Snape stinks' and 'Slimy git's are sexy!' were mere inches from my face, but the one closest to my face made me want to hurl up my breakfast. It was a horrid drawing of Snape, his hair was literally dripping of grease and he had an exaggerated look of his constant disgust was drawn across his face.

Underneath the drawing words in Fred's hand writing mocked me, 'Snape: a git with enough grease to fry a hippogriff.'

I bit down hard on my tongue, no matter how much I wanted to blow up the desk I couldn't. A detention with the parrot would be the cherry on top of the whole pile of shit that I had gained over the past hour.

I felt someone shake my arm and I turned to come face to face with Fred, great.

"Hey Allie," he smiled innocently at me, "haven't seen you in a while. Did you decide to cheat on me and get cozy with Julia?"

My surprised expression at his casual introduction turned into a glare, "What the bloody hell do you mean by that Fredrick?" I asked coldly.

He raised an eyebrow in surprise, "What's wrong with you?" he asked confused, "I was only joking… and since when do you call me Fredrick?"

I turned away from him, 'He didn't even mention what happened with Angelina in the courtyard!' I screamed to myself, 'THE BLOODY GIT!'

"Allison?" he asked, his voice was filled with worry, "What's wrong…? Is it Lee?"

"What do you mean 'what's wrong'? You know very well what's wrong!" I snapped causing George who was now seated next to Julia to turn and stare at me.

"No, I don't know what's wrong!" Fred replied his face was growing into a steadier shade of red; apparently he wasn't used to my snapping and didn't want to cause a scene. Well then, if that's what he didn't like I was about to make a huge scene, right in front of the whole entire class!

" I shouldn-" I began, my voice growing louder with each passing moment before Snape entered the classroom and shot me a glare.

"Well, well, well… Miss. McGonagall is yelling at her boyfriend in my classroom, what did I say about keeping quiet and focused during OWL preparations?" his voice was deadly slow and toneless as he looked me over with those dark eyes of his, "I sincerely hope you two the best," he muttered sarcastically before adding on a snide 'please sit down Allison' at the end.

I sat down in my seat, my face burning a bright red, what just happened in the classroom would be the talk of the school for the next week I was sure of it….

In fact it wasn't until Julia and I were on our way to charms that I even remembered to think of Lee….

A/N

So…. What have we achieved in this chapter hmm? What new incites has been uncovered in this chapter that goes along with my master plan? Primarily lee, what happened to him? OH COME ON! I've given you guys so many subtle hints it's not even funny! I'm losing hope with you guys…. I offered a free virtual butterbeer to D: Anyways :D I'm proud that this chapter's up, if I don't get a close guess on what really happened before I post the next chapter I'm going to start dropping hints! Anyways sorry for the delay, life happens….

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