Alex's pov

I didn't deserve a friend like Edward. I really don't know how I suddenly became lucky. I kept explaining him many things about the wizarding world to him and he was always so interested. I hadn't talked so much in the last couple of months as I had in this past week. I forgot all my worries and all my pains. He was my personal sanctuary, and I would find myself dreading going back home after school was over, because then it was when I had time to let my mind wander. There was no friend like Edward Cullen.

And yet I never dared to speak anything about my past or myself. I was afraid that if I did he would press for more information. He would ask questions, questions I wouldn't answer.

Still I only ever saw him in school I was always busy during the week and during the weekends, so that whatever little happiness I had when I was at school quickly evaporated when I got home.

It was now February 25 and I was stuck in snapes office in another occlumency lesson.

"Very well alex" said snape not sounding pleased at all.

"After all this time you finally managed to block your thoughts from me. Unlike your good for nothing brother" he sneered. I heard harry crack his knuckles angrily.

Not much had happened during the month. I found out that harry had gone out with Cho on a date on Valentines Day. He said it was a disaster seeing as how Cho began crying and got mad at him because he was meeting Hermione for this interview he had given. Yeah I was shocked when they said interview, he gave an interview to Rita skeeter, of all people, and it got published in the quibbler. At least that had been a success. It was so good that umbridge banned the magazine from school. Can that thing get any more demented? Ron hadn't been doing so well in quidditch though. Gryffindor lost the match against hufflepuff. On a brighter side Seamus had finally decided to believe us. On an interesting side both harry and I had, had a dream where we were voldemort and we talked to one of his death eaters. He was mad, apparently someone had informed him wrongly about bode being able to get 'it'. And then apparently another death eater Rookwood had given him the right information and put voldemort on track again. And if I thought about this dream again it still didn't make any sense. We still didn't know what exactly he was looking for to begin with. what was 'it' anyways?

"Potter" snape barked at harry. "Your turn" I took a step back as harry took a step forward.

Snape pointed his wand at harry and I prayed that he would be able to block his mind now.

Over the time we discovered that if harry couldn't block his mind then it would also affect me as it affected him. And vice versa, I guess it made sense, I mean there has always been this weird connection between him and I. if one of us is in trouble the other one can feel it. And if one of us is in pain the other one can also feel it. Funny how that works.

"legilimens" said snape and right then and strings of memories filled my head. There was cedric and I at the Yule ball. That night at the graveyard, the day I told him I was a half vampire. Crashing into Edwards's car door. The door from my dreams.

And then it all stopped. I staggered back and hit the corner of a table with my back. I gasped and my eyes began watering with pain

"concentrate potter" snape said angrily. "if the dark lord invaded your mind not only do you become an easy target but so does your sister"

Yup I had to give it to him, he was right.

"don't you think I'm trying" harry spat at him.

"don't you" snape began but was cut off by a high pitched scream.

Without another word snape headed out of the office and we followed him. Outside there were tons of people gathering around and watching what was going on. Harry and I pushed through the crowd to get a better vey. Everyone was so into whatever was going on that no one noticed I was me.

Up front professor Trelawney was sobbing. There were many suitcases around her, and professor umbridge looked at her with a smug grin. That thing sacked her! How dare she?!

I mean I'm not a fan of professor Trelawney, but still umbridge couldn't sack her! Who was going to foresee my unfortunate death everytime they saw me!?

Well maybe I could do without the death part but still.

In the end professor Dumbledore came and said that professor Trelawney would stay at Hogwarts though she would not be teaching. Dumbledore had already found another teacher for divination. But that got me thinking, how would umbridge respond to this? Because she will do something to get back at Dumbledore I just know that.

"The only thing that soothes me right now is that she won't be teaching there next year." I said angrily to Edward as we sat in the cafeteria the next day. I told him that I had to go to extra classes since I had been doing bad in potions. It was lie of course but I could hardly tell him it was to learn how to close my mind, that would arise many questions for him, and Edward is awfully curious for his own good. Well we had that in common.

But anyways, I sat there across from him as I told him about what happened yesterday at Hogwarts.

"How do you know that?" he asked with curious golden eyes, talk about being curious.

"Well they say that the job of defense against the dark arts is haunted" I began explaining. Then he chuckled, people nowadays laugh without cause.

"I don't recall saying anything funny" I said sternly, he stopped chuckling but I could see the amusement clear in his eyes.

"Sorry, but did you seriously believe that Alex, that the job is haunted?" he said smiling gently at me.

"I see what you're getting at. But there is plenty of reason to believe that. It's a school of witchcraft in the first place."

His smile faded "true…I forget sometimes" he said apologetically.

"It happens to us humans" I said and he chuckled and I gave him a smile.

"Any other reasons for why that should be believed?" he asked.

"Yes, well for one, no teacher has ever lasted for more than one year in that job" I said.

"Really what happened to them?" he asked.

Okay this is where I had to be careful to not let anything slip. Only now was I realizing that harry and I were somehow involved in t he sacking of most teachers.

"Well to start the first teacher died"

"He died" he said looking at me like he couldn't believe it.

"He didn't die because the job was haunted…well…never mind point is he died" I said.

"If you know that he didn't die because the job was haunted then surely you must know why he died"

"You mister ask too many questions. He died end of discussion, moving on…" I took a deep breath "the second teacher had some severe damage in his head due to a spell gone wrong. He went crazy. The third teacher quit after it became known that he was a werewolf, you see many people believe it is dangerous to be near a werewolf, don't get me wrong it is but only in full moon other than that they are perfectly normal people. I don't know why people are so prejudiced against them. Anyway, parents would surely not be happy having a werewolf teaching their children. And the fourth teacher…well he turned out to be a crazy impostor."

"What do you mean 'a crazy impostor'" he asked in frustration.

"He was pretending to be someone else and in the end they found out. And well let's see what happens this year"

"Interesting…well let's hope she doesn't return then" he said with a smile. I smiled back and took a sip of my soda.

"Can I ask you something? Its personal and I don't know if you would feel comfortable" he said cautiously. I noticed in the past days that he was very cautious around me. Like he knew just how easily anything could hurt me. He had a good heart, he didn't mean me any harm, and I knew that. So it was no surprise that I felt so very safe when I was around him, I even felt safe from him. I trusted him wholeheartedly. And he really did want to know more about me, he demonstrated to me all the time how much he paid attention.

"Ask me but I can't guarantee that I'll answer" I said instantly cautious. There were two main reasons for why I didn't want to tell him anything about my life. One well I was ready to tell him. And second it was for the best that he stay out of my life, I don't want to drag him into my problems I don't want to put him in danger, because being so close to him was dangerous for him.

"Well you're parents died right?" he began and his tone was low and gentle.

"Correct" I said calmly trying to show him that I was alright.

"Well then where have you and your brother lived all your life?"

"after our parents died we were taken to our aunts home. She was my moms sister. She and her husband took us in, they have a son our age." I said

"that's nice of them" he said smiling.

Would have been nicer if they hadn't taken us in grudgingly.

"I guess" I responded picking my sandwich to pieces with my fingers.

"You guess?" he asked, I could feel his gaze on me and I still wouldn't look at him.

"Well they aren't the nicest people" I said

"You don't like them?"

I shook my head "neither does my brother. The feeling is mutual, they don't really like us either" I said

"Why not?" well this I could talk about

"The dursleys don't like the…abnormal, I guess you can say, so it's no surprise that they wouldn't like us. They dislike our kind"

"But how can they not like your kind I mean…your aunt grew up with a witch for a sister. Surely she must have been used to your type"

"Yeah well my aunt never liked my mom, because she was a witch. So that just adds another reason for why she doesn't like us. We are like the living memory of my mom, especially me since I look a lot like my mom" I looked up at him. He seemed disturbed he was glaring at the table.

"You alright?" I asked worriedly. He blinked a few times and then looked at me.

"Were they ever…unpleasant to you?"

I chuckled humorlessly.

"Well they certainly didn't act like we were family of them" I said with a cutting tone.

"But now your free from them right?" what was he getting at?

"I wish I have to go during summers. Thankfully I don't spend the whole summer over there. Usually we always leave early to the weasleys" he knew who they were.

"Oh" he said then he looked away, deep in thought.

"In other news I can't wait to see what Frankie has planned out for me today." I said getting up and slinging my messenger bag across my shoulder.

"I'm sure it's going to be really interesting" he said getting up as well and following me out of the cafeteria.

After school we were walking together towards the parking lot.

"uhm alex are you busy this weekend?" he asked me.

"nah my evaluation was last weekend" I said. Damn that meant a lot of studying this weekend.

"well would you like to come to my house on Saturday?" he asked.

If it meant staying near him then yes.

"sure at what time do you want me there?" I asked

"how about I pick you up?"

"works for me" I said as we stopped right next to our cars. They were parked next to each other.

"great so eleven all right for you or will you sleep in?" he smirked at me. I shoved him playfully.

"Even if I did sleep in it wouldn't be that late. Hell I'm awake at five in the morning, and that's on a good day."

He laughed and turned to open his car.

"So I'll see you tomorrow then" I said

"Actually the weather will be nice so I'm going to stay home"

"Ah sucks" I said feeling sad already. Damn so I was going to see him till Friday?

"So I'll see you Friday then?" I asked with hope.

"Sorry, it's rare when the weather is nice for so long, but it happens" he said giving me a sad smile. I pursed my lips, I couldn't say anything. I began fidgeting with my coat. Then I felt his warm hand under my chin, making me look up at him.

"Do you want me to go to your house tomorrow after school?" he said gently. I should feel uncomfortable at his closeness but I couldn't.

"If you wanna" I said looking down.

"Alright" he said. I moved in closer and enveloped him in a hug.

Hesitantly he wound his arms around my waist.

"You need to stop taking me by surprise like that" he whispered in my ear. "I'm still getting used to your scent. It could be dangerous."

I let go of him and took a step back.

"What's life without a risk?" I said seriously. Gave me a stern look and I turned and went to the other side of my car and got in. as I turned on the car I heard a tap on my window.

I rolled the window down without looking at him.

"Look at me" he said quietly. I just looked straight ahead.

I heard him sigh.

"I just want to protect you from me Alex. I didn't mean to hurt you with my words. Understand its dangerous." He pleaded. I could care less about how dangerous it was. What was danger to me anyways? I lived in danger.

"I know" I said sadly, sighing. "But I know you wouldn't hurt me"

He groaned "you trust me far too much"

"Then you should feel happy" I said with resentment as I revved the car.

"Bye Edward" I called out bluntly.

I knew he meant well, but still. I mean I wasn't going to see him for two days. I was going to miss him terribly. And he still expected me to not at least give him a hug?

I turned off the car once in the garage and then walked into the house. I walked into the kitchen and took an apple from the fruit basket. I sat on t he counter eating the apple. Just looking at the kitchen. Believe it or not I had never truly seen it. After a few minutes the doorbell rang.

I got off the counter and slowly made my way to the door. When I opened up I felt stone collide with me as Edward launched himself at me and enclosed me in a tight hug.

"I'm sorry alex I truly didn't want to hurt your feelings. I'm just scared that I might hurt you; I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. I'm not as strong as you think." I buried my head in the crook of his neck breathing in his sweet scent. I truly didn't deserve a friend like Edward.

"It's alright Edward. I was just sad; I mean I won't see you for two days. That's though to take in" I muttered my voice was muffled by his neck but I'm sure he could hear me.

"I know. I'm still sorry. And I am happy that you trust me. I just wish you wouldn't trust me on things like what I am."

"You can't do anything about it. And thanks for caring for me. Another reason to trust you" I said and he chuckled. He let go of me and I took a step back to look at him.

"Just help me out all right alex?"

"Does it hurt?" I asked him

"What?"

"Smelling me?"

He thought about this

"Yes" he sighed and gave me a guilty smile "but in a good way"

"I don't think I understand" I said.

"I'll explain it on Saturday" he said.

"Why Saturday?" I asked. Please don't tell me he's already leaving.

"Because the gives you something to look forward to" I grinned crookedly and I returned a crooked smile of my own.

"its going to be a long two days" I groaned.

He laughed.

"bye alex" he said walking out the door.

"bye Edward" I said "have fun"

"fat chance of that happening. I'm going to miss you"

"makes two of us" I said and then I watched him walk away to his car where his family awaited him with huge smiles. I got into the house once they drove away.

Well back to the hell hole. he was right now i had someting to look forward to on saturday.

well next chapter will be very interesting

i'm already planning it out but it always works best when i just sit and write and let my imagination run free.

so i will now start typing the next chapter

i dont know how soon i will have it up but i hope its very soon.

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-airali