We arrived at Hogwarts, and we had changed into our robes. I walked excitedly into Hogwarts, where Peeves was dropping stink bombs on the first years. I carefully avoided walking below him, and weaved my way to the Gryffindor table.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After the House sorting~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All the new first year Gryffindors had joined our table, finally looking comfortable. The ridiculous amount of delicious food magically appeared on golden plates, but before we could eat, Dumbledore stood up. The whole Hall fell silent, and only Marie and I were giggling. I glanced across the table at Seamus, who was staring intently at Dumbledore.

My stomach lurched, and I began grinning wildly.

"Welcome to yet another year at Hogwarts! I hope that every one of you has an excellent year! Now, before we dig into our delicious feast, I have a quick announcement to make. I don't know how many of you have heard about the Tri-wizard Tournament, *some students began getting excited* but for those of you who don't, it is a contest that brings three wizarding schools together for a series of challenges, and Hogwarts has been given the privilege of hosting this tournament."

The whole Hall erupted with excited chatter and screams.

"'Aye, ya don't think that one of us'll get to be in this tournament, do ya suppose?" Seamus asked across from me with his heavy Irish accent.

He was talking to Dean Thomas, his best friend.

I turned back to Dumbledore, whose silver beard was illuminated by the various candles throughout the tables. His long purple and black robe spoke of a majestic humility, and was waiting calmly for the chatter to die down.

"Now, let me introduce the lovely ladies from the school of Bobaten!"

The Great Hall doors swung open, and every single head turned to look. Girls dressed in blue silk began skipping down the center aisle, stopping now and then, and sighing, blue birds fluttering around them. They all looked identical, with blue hats and low ponytails.

I made a face at them, for all the guys were drooling, staring at their butts.

Seamus was whistling.

Their headmaster, who was, by far, the TALLEST person I have ever seen. She towered about everyone in the hall, and she had a short black bob, with a purple robe ending just above her ankles, black feathers on the end.

"Blimey, that's one big woman!" Seamus exclaimed, staring.

Marie giggled, "She's like ten foot seven-teen!!"

That made me snort trying to not laugh. I then noticed Fred was sitting next to her, his arm around her shoulder. I looked to see Ron's expression, and he looked shocked to see that his brother could get a girl.

I laughed, and then turned to Dumbledore again as the girls sat down, and he kissed the woman's hand.

"Hello, Madame Maxine."

"Oh ello Dumbleydore." She replied in a French accent.

This is so random. What the josh is going on?!

"And now the boys from Durmstrang!"

The Great Hall doors flew open this time, and boys wearing thick long red jackets stormed in. They held canes, which they stomped into the floor, emitting red sparks.

"They're so….hot." I whispered, staring at them.

Marie didn't say anything, but I could tell she agreed by the amazed look on her face. She was sitting next to Fred who looked annoyed, along with all the other guys except Shane, who was smiling, looking down at his plate.

Then Victor Krum, a famous Quittach player appeared, along with his headmaster, who was wearing white, and had a long black beard and cool looking fuzzy hat.

"It's Victor Krum!" I heard Ron breathe.

Who the hell is Victor Krum?

Anyway, everyone got seated before Dumbledore went on.

"Everyone please give a warm welcome to the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge!"

A man about in his 50's stood up, with brown hair and brown robes.

"*cough* Due to an accident in the tournament beforehand, only 7th years are allowed to enter."

All the students began yelling and booing him, even giving him the middle finger.

"SILENCE!!!!" Dumbledore screamed, and everything got silent.

"Unbelievable…" I mumbled under my breath.

"Now, this tournament isn't for the faint of heart. Students die in this tournament. So choose wisely. And tomorrow is the hogsmede trip!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next day~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I stared up at the ceiling as I laid in my bed. I faintly heard Marie walk into the room squealing running over to my bed. I closed my eyes. Then I let out a yelp, she jumped on my bed, scaring the josh out of me!

"EMEMEMEMEMEMEM!!!!!!!" She was jumping on her knees on my bed shaking me.

"WhaaaaAAAAt?!" I turned around facing her.

"Fred, he, oh my josh, ohhhh my Joshua!!!" She started bouncing faster.

I sat up confused, "What happened?" I hoped she didn't kiss him like she did with Shane before they went out.

"HE ASKED ME TO GO TO HOGSMEDE WITH HIM!!" she squealed, "Son of a banshee can you be happy for me!? Why are you still sleeping? Its like twelve in the afternoon, we are leaving in like an hour! And Draco was looking for you."

I don't think ive ever jumped out of bed so fast before in my life, "WHO?!"

She looked at me finally calming down, "Draco, he randomly came up to me and said," she attempted a british accent (which sounded like gibberish), "Ehlloh, Mahree, ave you seeeeen Ehmaily anywheh?"

"English Mare."

"UGH, Hello Marie, have you seen Emily anywhere?" she looked agrivated.

My eyes widened, "why would be be looking for me?"

She made kissy noises and I glared at her, "Oh your one to talk Mrs. Fred Weasley."

She spun around in a circle and squealed, "Lets get dressed so we look purdy for our men."

"Draco is NOT my man," I sighed wishing he was.

"Yeah, yeah," she rolled her eyes and walked over to our closet and grabbed some clothes and shoes so did I.

When we were both dressed we looked at each other and started laughing, we both had pink skinny jeans on, a black shirt, and black shoes with pink laces.

We both just walked back to our closet without saying anything.

Finally, when we didn't look like a bunch of matching creepers, we looked fabulous.

Marie had her hair straight in a messy bun held up with chop-sticks, side bangs down, black skinny jeans, an Ed Hardy white tank top on with a big necklace with a few rings on it and Black and pink DC shoes. I noticed she got blonde highlights put in before school began.

She looked me up and down, "You. Look. AMAZING!"

I had dark skinny jeans on which were torn at the knee a little bit, black sneakers, and a black fitted tee that said I Love My Joshy Woshy, also a necklace that had a diamond studded heart on it. My hair was down and curly.

"You too Mrs. Weasley." I said as we squealed thinking about Fred and Draco.

"Mrs. Malfoy!" she laughed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~walking to the court~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Marie was singing The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, by Lemon Demon as we walked outside, "Angels sang out in immaculate chorus,
down from the heavens descended Chuck Norris.
Who delivered a kick which could shatter bones,
into the crotch of Indiana Jones.
Who fell over on the ground, writhing in pain,
as Batman changed back into Bruce Wayne.
but Chuck saw through his clever disguise,
and he crushed Batman's head in between his thighs.

Then Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and
Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight.

And Benito Mussolini and The Blue Meanie,
and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie

Robocop, the Terminator,
Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader

Lo Pan, Superman,
every single Power Ranger.

Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan,
Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan -

All came out of no where lightning fast,
And they kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass.
It was the bloodiest battle the world ever saw,
with civilians looking on total awe."

I was holding my sides I was laughing so hard and I had tears all over my face," Marie! Stop! Please!"

She was smiling at me wickedly, as Fred walked over with his brother George. Or George walked over with Fred, I couldn't tell at all. What made me freaked out is how Marie walked over to the brother with the dark wash jeans on and black tee that said: Smile. It makes people think about what your up to.

She walked over to him and he hugged her, she hugged him back. Then they turned towards me and the other brother, Freds (I think) arm around Maries shoulder.

"Aw blimey," the other brother nudged me in the ribs, "look at them, makes me wanna barf."

"Way to kill the mood George." Marie laughed.

HOW CAN SHE TELL THEM APART!?

"Son of a banshee!" I yelled, "How can you tell them apart!?"

She laughed, "Well, I don't know, I just can."

"That's one of the things I love about ya." Fred laughed.

I looked at each one of them aggravated and Marie laughed at me, "Relax kitten, I gave Fred a bracelet."

I looked at his wrist, it had red and gold string in it and was one of those friendship bracelets Marie has millions of.

Fred laughed, "Come on Love, lets not be late."

I looked at George as we walked towards the court where everyone was meeting, "So…"

He looked down at me, looking annoyed, "Why is it that he can go out with her but I cant?"

I stopped walking for a second but then ran after George.

"What?!"

"I bloody told him I liked her, he said he bloody did too." He sneered, "But he went out and flirted with her and asked her to Hogsmeade anyway!"

"Uhh…" I said as I began to feel awkward.

Just then, my heart jumped into my throat, Draco was rushing over to me in a casual outfit, since it was the weekend and everyone didn't have to wear robes. His hair was tousled, and his shirt was white with a tan design on it, his jeans were the same kind as mine; black and worn.

"Collins," he said out of breath," I was looking for you."

I looked at him," Why? "

"Because I wanted to tell you that Sam wanted to go to Hogsmeade with you!"

I glared at him, for some reason my hopes were high that he would for some reason ask me to go with him, "You truly are a…a…a PRICK!"

I yelled that not having anything better to call him that wouldn't make my mother want to slap me.

He snorted, "Ok, you git." He rushed off to Crabbe and Goyle.

I muttered something under my breath that I might just have to spend 50 years in purgatory for.

George, not noticing Draco, still seemed to be complaining. I dropped my shoulders, sighed, and walked to the court.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~At Hogsmeade~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Marie and Fred disappeared completely and George was still following me complaining.

I just stopped in the middle of the crowd, he still was whining.

"JUST STOP!" I yelled at him and he took a step back, raised his eyebrow and walked away.

Great, now I was alone. I walked over to the candy shop and felt guilty about yelling at George. Now I just looked like a loser walking by myself. As I was walking to the store I was staring at my worst nightmare, Sam was leaning against the store wall, next to Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy, some random kid I didn't know, Marcus Flint, and Draco.

Shit.

Draco strutted over to me and I stifled a giggle, he looked ridiculous by the way he was walking.

"Collins," he said

I glared at him, "What?"

"I wanted to introduce you to my newest friend Sam." He waved his arm in her direction.

She rushed over, "Yes?"

"Go get me a chocolate frog." He snapped his fingers in her face but was still glaring at me.

I felt a pang of pity for her because she rushed into the store to get him his frog.

Marcus walked over and smiled at me and made a weird noise that sounded like a laugh, but more like: huh…huh….huh

I gave him a disgusted look and walked around the both of them, hitting Draco's shoulder with mine as I walked past shoving him.

I walked into the store which was filled with a rainbow of colors and a smell of sugar.

I jumped when I heard a familiar voice, "Emily! Emily!"

Seamus Finnigan (aginagin).

He ran over to me, "hey I've been meaning to talk to yuh!"

I just stared into his blue eyes, why was he acting like nothing happened last year?

"Uh, ok?" I responded

Just then the most random thing happened, Dean ran over with Malfoy's puffy hat on yelling, "I look like a muffin!" and "Seamus! Help me! It's eating my brains!"

Draco ran into the store, face beat red, pointing at Dean, "You bloody Mudblood! Give me my hat back!"

They ran around the store a few times until Dean ran out.

Seamus just stared at the door, and then he looked at me. We both started hysterically laughing.

We walked out of the store, where Draco and his posse were. I felt even worse for Sam when I saw Malfoy curse and throw the chocolate frog on the ground, grinding it into the dirt.

"It wasn't the right kind, you filthy little Mudblood!" he screamed, spitting at her feet.

Draco! That stupid, idiotic, filthy, disgusting little cupcake.

"They only have one kind of chocolate frog." I stated, walking over to them, the sun reflecting off of the diamond pink heart on my necklace.

"I can't help it if my standards are high." He sneered, glaring at Seamus, who was standing next to me, glaring right back.

"You know, Draco, they have medication for this kind of thing." I said sarcastically.

Draco ignored my comment. "What are you here to see you're new girlfriend?" he smirked, stepping away from the poor frog on the ground.

"Get the hell away from me you….you…."

"TURTLE!"

I spun around to see Marie standing behind me, a look of triumph on her face. Seamus was on the ground laughing, holding his stomach.

"Turtle?!" I repeated, a 'what the fuck' look on my face.

Draco snorted at Marie's randomness.

"Where's Fred?" I asked, looking around.

No Fred.

"Oh he said he had something to do but he would find me later."

"Oh…"

"Looks like Marie's got herself a redhead!" Malfoy chortled as the rest of his minions snickered.

"Yeah, hot like fire." She smiled wickedly.

I glanced at Seamus who was staring at the sky and twiddling his thumbs.

"Whatever I'm getting out of here." I said, walking away by myself.

I heard loud footsteps behind me.

What does he want now?

"WHAT DO YOU WANT!!?" I screamed, turning around.

Seamus and Marie stopped and began laughing again, which made me even more pissed off. Draco had given me a bad mood. He has a special talent and can do that to people.

Right.

"Look I need to be alone right now." I said more quietly this time.

They looked at each other, shrugged, and turned back around. Rolling my eyes, I kept on walking, farther away.

The last thing I saw was Marie walk over to Hermione Granger who was nagging Ron and they all walked into the Quittich store.

I glanced back at Seamus who kept on turning around and looking back at me.

I walked over to a bench in front of the Pranks and jokes store and sulked.

I saw Fred walking out of the store looking around, then down at me. He sat down, and looked confused. "You alright?" he asked

"Terrific." I said flatly.

"Oh, well. You wanna talk about it?"

"Not really."

"Oh, well. Remember your friends are always here for you, and you shouldn't be angry with your friends when they didn't do anything." He explained, "Just remember that. Marie cares for you a lot, she was telling me last night how much she loves being your friend."

With that, he walked away. He walked over to Marie who was sitting at a bench a few stores over feeding a bird. She said something to him and looked angry. He looked confused and she pointed her finger and he walked away looking confused and upset.

I looked over at them and then forward again, "WHOA!" I yelled as I looked up and saw a new Gryffindor standing in front of me about two inches from my face.

She giggled, "I heard that you're that girl who yells a lot!" she ran away skipping to the candy store.

I said to myself, "Brat."

"What did I do now!?" a familiar voice said. I looked up.

Marie was looking down at me arms crossed, "I don't understand why you snapped at me before, I just wanted to talk to you about something, then Sea-mouse, or whatever his name is came and then you freaked and stormed off!"

"Where is Fred?" I asked

"Screw Fred Emily!" she was getting pissed, "Whenever you get mad at that jackass you let your anger out on the people who care about you. What are you going to do the day we all get sick of this…SHIT and you have nobody?!"

I didn't say anything.

"You know, the one thing I learned from my dad was?" she looked at the sky then back at me with her arms crossed. She hasn't talked to her dad for a year. She used to live with him but he beat her up all the time and when she finally told her mom she moved in with her and got her witch powers. The reason she finally told her mom was because her dad said he would stab her if she ever said anything to him again.

"I learned that you should never keep things from the people that love you, like my mom. If I hadn't told her about, you know, I may not be here right now. And that your friends and family can help you, but if you turn away from them, they won't just wait around for you to be in the mood to talk to them." She said seriously.

I continued looking at my feet.

She stared at me, waiting.

I looked up at her through my eyelashes. She was still there. I looked down again.

"Well, you better hope that when you get out of your mood that all of your friends are still here for you. Because," she somewhat laughed but not a happy laugh, "I'm not sure I will still be there."

"Excuse me?!" I yelled, completely pissed. I had let her talk this whole time, putting up with her crap, but now I had to talk. "What the fuck does this have to do with you?! I didn't know that was you behind me, and I had to be by myself so I WOULDN'T take it out on you and Seamus (I pronounced his name slowly, because she could never seem to get it right)!!"

"WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME!?" She yelled back, "IT'S ALL THE TIME, YOU CHASE AFTER THAT SCUMBAG DRACO AND WHEN HE DOES THAT SHIT TO YOU, YOU GET PISSED AND ANGRY WITH THE WORLD AND TURN AWAY FROM YOUR FRIENDS! AND THE WORST PART WAS THAT YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT!"

"Don't call him a scumbag!! And stop spitting in my face." I made a disgusted face, and then began talking again, "You shouldn't be talking. You're chasing after so many fucking guys it's hard to keep track of what the heck is going on!! Like Shane…Fred…that guy on the train…and you're yelling at me because I might have a chance with someone?!"

"Yeah Emily, he totally hits on you. That's why he constantly taunts and tortures you. And listen bitch, Shane is my best guy friend and I don't chase guys! I went out with Shane, I thought the guy on the train was hot Em, doesn't mean I'm going to fucking marry him, and then we broke up. And the worst part is that you have no idea what's going on with Fred and I."

"Get out of my face." I said calmly, glaring up at her, "And stop acting like you're always right and superior to everyone, when you're not. You act like you're the only one with pain, but everyone has some sort of pain. Don't forget, I haven't seen my dad in six years, and I'm never right in my mom's eyes. So just STOP."

"Demon," She began to walk away and stopped after taking three steps and turned around, I looked up a little, "And just so you know, a little FYI, not that you care I mean, but I wanted to talk to my best friend about this, George told me that when Fred left for a little bit before, that he saw Fred kissing Lavender Brown in the alleyway by the candy store after I came over to defend you from that git Malfoy."

She walked over to Shane who was leaning on a tree by a bench about five stores over.

I was really pissed now, and I got up to go back to the castle.

I guess I'll study or something. I can't take being out here anymore.

I sighed and trudged, alone, back to the castle. When I got in there were only a bunch of first years there, which all ran up to me, asking what Hogsmeade looked like.

I ignored them and kept on walking.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next day~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I woke up early, at 4:30 AM. I groaned and rolled over onto my side.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH

Twenty minutes passed and I still couldn't fall back asleep.

OH MY JOSHUAAA!!!!!!!!!

So I quietly got up and tip-toed down to the common room, where I saw Marie sitting on the big reddish couch by the fire.

I didn't say anything at first, still mad about yesterday. But as I got closer I realized that she was crying.

Shit.

"Uh…Marie? Are you okay?"

She looked up, glared at me, and looked back down. "Go away."

I sat down next to her. "I'm not leaving, so you better get used to it." I replied, smiling slightly.

She mumbled something I couldn't hear, and buried her face in a frilly pillow. Seconds later she began coughing.

"What the josh?"

"I inhaled the frilly stuff…" she said, her voice muffled by the pillow on her face.

I began laughing, and she started laughing too, but the type of laugh where you really don't want to laugh but you somehow wind up laughing anyway.

"Are you going to tell me what's wrong or are you just going to sit there inhaling pillow." I laughed, staring into the fire, feeling the hot flames flickering off my cheeks.

"Remember the last thing I told you before you left?"

"Uh…no."

"Well George told me that he saw Fred kissing Lavender Brown…" she sniffed, frowning.

"Mar, George told me yesterday that he was mad at Fred because he was flirting with you."

"What?"

"Yeah. George likes you too."

"He does?" she began grinning.

"Yuppers." I replied, smiling widely, "So what did you tell Fred?"

"SHIT" she reburied her face in the pillow.

I got nervous, "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"

"UGGGHHHH," she groaned into the pillow then looked up, distressed, "He came over to me and was happy to see me, and I glared at him. Then he asked if I was okay. So I told him to go to hell…"

I gasped.

"Then he got confused and mad at the same time and asked what my problem was, so I freaked thinking he knew that I knew and was just playing dumb, so I kinda told him to go fuck off and go to hell along with Lavender."

I stared at her. "Well that was a bad idea, you silly goose."

She glared at me, and jokingly said, "No shit Sherlock."

I laughed, then immediately stopped as I heard a noise above our heads.

"Did you hear that?" I asked, looking up.

I walked under the balcony leading to the dormitories, trying to see if there was someone up there, listening. All I could see was pitch black nothingness, and the outline of the boy's dormitories door.

"Maybe it's a hippo." Marie said randomly, looking up.

Suddenly there was a yell and then a crash.

"The hippo fell!" Marie yelled laughing thinking it was just one of the House ghosts playing a joke on us then realized I wasn't there anymore, "Em? Where did you go? Hello? Heeeellloooo!!?!"

I groaned. Someone had fallen on me.

The person on top of me began laughing, "SEAMUS??"

"Beemousse?" Marie looked at Seamus, crumpled on the floor.

"Blimey, I'm sorry." He apologized, sounding thoroughly sorry.

He tried to shift to his right knee to get up, but wound up colliding with my left arm. There was a sickening crunch, and I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"SHIT! SEAMSTRESS! YOU HURT HER!" Marie yelled, "WE NEED TO CALL MADAME POMFREY!"

Seamus panicked and ran down through Hogwarts to get Madame Pomfrey.

Marie crouched down by me on the floor and then ran to get ice. When she got back my arm was purpler than an eggplant. She looked grossed out as she held the ice on my arm for me.

"Where the HELL did you get ice?" I asked painfully

"I froze water from the sink."

"OWWWW. Holy son of a Joshua!!!!" I screamed holding my arm.

Just then the worst possible thing happened; Malfoy walked over and began laughing at me (I think he climbed through the portrait hole when Seamus had left).

Marie looked more pissed then she did yesterday when we fought.

She looked at Malfoy and gave him a fake laugh, "You know DRACO, I am sick of your shit." She drew her wand and yelled, "Pantalonious Poopicus!"(special thanks to Neil Cicierega).

Malfoy looked like he just saw his boggart, he ran away faster then I could ever run.

"What was that spell?" I asked and groaned in pain.

She looked satisfied, "He pooped himself."

Then I closed my eyes unwillingly and whispered, "Marie….ugh"

She ran to my side and it all went black.

~~~~~~~~~~~Sometime later (5:00 AM)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I groaned inwardly to myself, having passed out. Passing out is really disgusting. I realized that I found myself, once again, in the infirmary. The whole room was dark, but I could faintly make out four figures to my right, by the doors leading to the hallway outside.

Suddenly the pain came back to my left arm, sharp as a dagger. I groaned, and I heard Madame Pomfrey come running over to me.

"Oh dear! Don't move it! It will take a couple hours for your bones to re-grow."

I felt like crying. Especially when I looked to see who else was standing there: Marie, Seamus and Draco.

"What is HE doing here?" I spat, glaring at Draco.

"What, I can't come to see if you're all right?" he asked sarcastically, grimacing.

"No we made him come. Oh, by the way, you still smell like poop." Marie laughed, inching away from Draco.

He turned red. "No I don't."

Seamus just stood there, looking extremely guilty.

"Oh, I'm sorry Emily…" he frowned.

"It's okay Seamus." I smiled, grimacing as my arm stung.

"Well…I have to go. We have classes tomorrow." Marie sighed, looking tired.

"What? Tomorrow they didn't give us classes." Seamus pointed out.

Marie rolled her eyes and walked out. "Feel better Em!!"

I stared blankly at Draco and Seamus, who were still standing there randomly.

"Blimey, 'aye have to go too. I hope ya feel better!" Seamus smiled, then ran out.

Draco looked at me blankly, and I couldn't help but grin a little. He didn't do anything, so I cleared my throat.

He still didn't say anything, just turned on his heel and walked towards the arched door.

How will he find his way in the dark?

Suddenly I felt really cold, since all Madame Pomfrey gave me was a flimsy pajamas and a blanket as thin as a sheet.

"Uh…Draco ?"

He stopped, his white blonde hair glowing in the dark from the moonlight through the windows on the side of the room.

"What."

"Ummm…..can I borrow you're sweater? I'm really cold."

He turned around, looked really annoyed.

"Why should I do that?"

"Because I'm cold." I repeated, smiling really wide to get him to give in.

He just stood there, contemplating it. Finally he began to pull off his midnight black sweatshirt over his head pulling up his shirt underneath it, revealing his flat stomach. I began smiling, but didn't say anything.

He threw it at me and it went over my head.

"Oh thanks" I said with the sweatshirt thrown over my head.

He walked out and looked back once more and said, "Hey Emily?"

I got excited, "Yeah?"

"Don't drool on it or anything." He walked away smiling.

~~~~~~~~~~about 9am~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I woke up to the sound of a female and male voice next to my bed. I didn't open my eyes because I felt like if I did they would stop talking. I realized it was Marie and Fred.

"You wanted to see me?" he asked

"Yeah…" I knew Marie was leaning on the furnace next to my bed that wasn't turned on and was playing with one of her long dirty blonde braids.

"Well?" he sounded tired.

"I wanted to apologize to you," she began ( I felt proud of her), "The reason I yelled at you at Hogsmeade was because your brother told me that when you left me for about ten minutes he saw you kissing Lavender Brown." She sounded sad. I could just tell that she was staring at her feet as she talked.

He didn't say anything.

"Fred…" she sounded upset.

"Mare," he sighed, "why the hell would I kiss a girl when I love you?"

AWWWW! I felt my heart melt and I tried not the grin.

She looked up from her feet and smiled at him then playfully asked, "So you forgive me?"

He walked over to her and stood close to her and joked, "Well, I don't know. I guess I could, Love."

She smiled wider, "But I said terrible things to you" she joked, "I think I have to repay you somehow."

She stepped closer so they were standing chest to chest. She looked up at him and he said, "Well, if you insist. What did you have in mind?"

She giggled and stood on her toes, she kissed him for about ten frigging minutes straight. I almost gagged but then she pulled away and I felt eyes on me, "Poor Em." She walked over to the other side of my bed to fix my blanket so it covered me. I was going to cry.

She walked back over to Fred but on her way over stubbed her toe on the end of my bed and said, "BLOODY HELLS GATES OF JOSHUAS MOTHERS ROOM!"

I don't think I ever laughed so hard before in my life, I was crying and probably looked like I was having a seizure. Fred was laughing while trying to ask if she was ok. She was hoping around the room yelling.

"AHH MY JOSH! WHAT THE JOSHUA JOSHING JOSH!" She fell to the floor and began rolling around, "IM GOING TO MELT THAT BLOODY BED AND MAKE IT INTO A JOSHING BEDPAN!!!!"

Bad idea, the kid sleeping next to me looked over at Marie and he was in the middle of drinking a glass of water, he spit it everywhere. I realized that the kid was the kid from the train who Marie thought was cute.

She was still hoping around the room holding her foot yelling random things at the bed. The kid was still laughing hysterically. I looked at the chart next to his bed and saw his name was Cedric Diggory. Fred was sitting in the chair by my bed and laughing hysterically.

Cedric looked over at Fred and then back at Marie, finally calm. When he looked at Fred he looked a little pissed off.

I ignored it because I was still laughing. I then realized that my arm didn't hurt anymore. I looked up happily to tell Marie but she wasn't there, Cedric and Fred were smiling at the floor in front of my bed where I couldn't see. I leaned over the edge of my bed to see Marie slouching on the end of my bed rubbing her foot.

"You didn't break it, did you? We don't need another accident." I said sarcastically.

She just grimaced and stayed on the ground.

"So…" I turned to Cedric, "What happened to you?"

"I don't really know. I kind of just passed out."

I began laughing, tugging at the sleeve of Draco's sweatshirt.

"Whose sweatshirt is that, anyway?" Marie asked, now standing in front of my bed.

I got into a more comfortable position, propped on my elbows. I mumbled something she couldn't understand.

"What?"

Everybody was staring at me.

Fantastic…

"Uh…it's Draco's."

Marie just stood there, staring. "Draco?! Why what happened?!"

"When you left he was last to leave so I asked if I could borrow his sweatshirt because I was cold. He gave it to me…and told me not to drool on it." I laughed, sinking back into the covers. They felt really nice.

"Oh…" she replied, looking from Cedric to Fred.

"Wait you mean Draco Malfoy?" Fred asked, looking down at me.

I wanted to say something sarcastic, but I didn't. I nodded instead.

Fred grimaced.

"Hey he's not all that bad…" I pouted, glaring at the sheets now.

Fred just shrugged and walked away.

"Hey Fred! Wait!" I called, getting an idea.

He turned around, staring at me oddly. His fiery hair fell into his eyes.

"Do you still have those things that make you sick?"

A goofy grin spread across his face.

"Yeah! I thought everybody forgot about those! George and I made them together." He replied, conjuring up a purple box with his wand.

He set the box on my lap, and when I opened it, it contained what looked like caramel, but with different colors.

"When you eat this one, you'll get warts all over. This one makes you vomit chunks all over the place. And-"

"I get it, Fred" I laughed, "Uh…I'll take the one with vomit."

He handed me a pink piece of candy, and I popped it into my mouth. I almost spat it out it tasted like acid.

"Yeah they don't taste too good."

I gave him a look, and then vomited all over the place.

"EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!" Marie screamed, backing away from me.

Cedric had a look of complete disgust on his face. "I'm not sure these things are such a good idea. She's turning really pale."

"Freeeedddd……" I groaned, feeling like crap now, "There's a cure for this, right?"

"Uh…not yet. We haven't made a reversal candy yet…"

"IM GOING TO STRANGLE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, falling off the bed.

"Oh." Marie said, staring at me on the floor.

Madame Pomfrey came over, screaming at what a mess I made. She picked me up and set me down on another clean bed, then shooed Marie and Fred out of the infirmary.

"Don't worry!!! I'll give one to Draco, too!!!" Fred yelled over his shoulder.

~~~~~~~~~~~An hour later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I wasn't able to fall asleep; I was vomiting every five minutes.

Crap. I got vomit on his sweatshirt. Crap crap crap crap crap!

All of the sudden the infirmary doors swung open, and Draco slouched in, covered in warts that were oozing puss.

Oh, sick.

He was groaning and he fell to the floor in a crumpled heap of silver, green and black.

"Draco?" I mumbled, swallowing yet more vomit.

"You got vomit on my sweatshirt…" his voice muffled by the tile floor, "You're going to make that up to me."

"okaaaayyyy….." I moaned as acid came up my throat, burning my chest and threw up on his sweatshirt again, "There, payback, do you want some more?"

~~~~~~~~~~Marie's Point of view~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I walked down the vast hallway to my room when suddenly someone jumped out at me.

"JESUS!" I yelled jumping back.

Ginny stood in front of me, smiling like crazy.

I laughed and put my arm on her shoulder, "Ginny! You scared me!"

She had no time for games, "Are you dating Fred?"

I looked at her and leaned back a little bit, "Uhmmmm…."

She smiled wickedly, "Because I told my mom that Freddy has a girlfriend and she wants to meet you, tonight. At our house."

I just stared at her, "But, but I cant!"

I absolutely hate meeting parents. Especially since my most recent boyfriend before Fred was Shane, whos dad was the potions master Snape.

"Well," she began playing with a piece of her hair, "I told her you would be there."

"GINNY!" I yelled

"Don't worry yourself silly, shell love you!"

"But, what are your parents like? What should I wear? Does Fred know?" my head rushed

"Whoa, um ok, they are nice people that are pretty easy to get along with. Um wear something pretty, liiiike that one pair of jeans that you have, the plaid ones. And the black tshirt you wear with it. And yes he knows, he was looking for you to tell you what I set up, but I got to you first." She grinned

"Ok ok ok ok" I began pacing.

"And wear your hair like that." She said referring to my braids and messy side bangs.

I took a deep breath, "Ok, where is Fred?"

Just then Fred came running over to me accidentally running into me.

"FRED!" I laughed.

He was so out of breath, "Ginny *gasp* parents *gasp* told them *gasp* tonight *gasp gasp gasp*"

I let him catch his breath as I stared at him oddly.

"I know already, Ginny," I turned towards Ginny but she was gone, "…told…me"

"She's not even here?" he said confused

"Well…she was."

He began speaking quickly, "Ok so are you ok with going because if you don't want to you defiantly don't have to because my bloody sister is such a twit and cant keep her mouth shut and-

I put my hand on this mouth making him stop talking, "Do you want me to go?"

"Only if you want to."

"That's a crappy answer." I laughed

"Well, I do. But if you don't want to-

"I do."

Great, meet the parents.

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I grabbed Fred's hand as we walked up to his cottage like house which I immediately fell in love with. It was perfect in everyway.

"Your house." I couldn't talk

He looked embarrassed, "I know its smaller than a lot of peoples-

"NO! its so beautiful!" I was still staring at it

"Well, I am so glad you think that!" said an extremely happy voice from behind us, "Hello Love!"

I turned around to see hug her son who now looked embarrassed. She turned towards me, and grabbed both my hands, "Oh dear! You are as pretty as my little Freddy said you were!"

I blushed and Fred's face was redder than his hair.

"Come in, come in now!" said ushering us inside.

Once we were all inside Fred took my hand and led me up the stone steps to a room down the hallway of the upstairs.

"My bedroom," he said holding open the door for me.

I smiled at him and walked in looking around. I first looked at his bed, just making sure he didn't have a power ranger bed set. It was completely navy blue with a blue pillow and white sheets. One of the walls were navy blue and the rest were white. I looked at his bookshelf; he had all prank and joke books. Then over at his desk where some old looking scrap books were scattered.

I was in the middle of his room just staring. I then looked over at one of his walls where there were pictures of school last year. Pictures of him and his brother, his family's trip to Egypt, random kids at school who I knew like Oliver Wood and Hermione. I felt like I was being watched so I turned around to see Fred watching me. I smiled and told him I like his room and he thanked me.

I walked over to his bed and sat down, he sat next to me. I glanced up at him and he was still watching me. I smiled with my mouth closed and leaned over on his arm.

It was weird, we didn't have to say anything for about five minutes, and it didn't feel awkward, or like we had to talk. We just sat there, and enjoyed it.

I broke the silence first, "So, you told your mom I was pretty."

He snorted, "No."

I took my head off of his arm and stared at him.

"I told her you were beautiful."

I slapped his arm, "You goofball."

He smiled, "Hey, easy. No horseplay!"

"Oh, why is that? Afraid you will get taken down by a girl?"

"That, and the fact that if you can take me down I will feel like I have no testosterone in me."

I laid back on his bed laughing hysterically.

He put one arm on the other side of me and leaned so he was hovering over me, "There, pinned you. I win."

I smiled wickedly at him and took one of my legs and wrapped it around his and then pulled so his back was to the bed and I was on top of him. I looked at him smirking.

"Oh, now your going to get it."

We wrestled until finally I won and was laying so that my nose pushed against his.

"I win" I whispered

"Well, I get away with the prize." He whispered back

"What?" I asked

He pushed his lips to mine and pulled back, "See, now I win."

I kissed him back, "I took it back!"

Just when he tried to steal it back again and he had me pinned down, the most embarrassing thing ever happened.

His dad walked into the room.

I jumped out from underneath him, and my face was redder than both their hair put together.

His dad raised both his eye brows then walked out of the room closing the door.

Fred looked at me, I refused to look at him.

"Im sorry Mare…" he looked at his lap.

I got a wicked grin on my face, "Now your going to pay."

Before he could ask or say anything else I jumped on him again and laughed.

~~~~~~~~~My POV again~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was waiting for Fred to get the cure for this vomiting stuff, but he had brought Marie over for dinner. I was really pissed, because he had left me vomiting. Even Madame Pomfrey couldn't cure it.

Draco wasn't much better than me, either, and he kept grumbling about his complexion. At one point he asked me to put some cover-up on over his warts.

"What?! Why would I do that?!" I exclaimed, staring at Draco in the bed across from me.

"Because," he drawled, "My face needs to look perfect and you owe me for the ruined sweatshirt."

Great.

"Fine I'll pamper you." I replied sarcastically, "Just don't get mad if I accidentally puke all over you."

I found some cover-up in my black and green bag, which Ginny was kind enough to bring me, and walked over to Draco's bed. His warts were really disgusting. There was puke green liquid oozing out of them. He even had one on his nose, which I was so kind to bring up.

"Isn't this just going to irritate it more?" I asked, staring at the cover-up.

"I don't care!" Draco said, furrowing his brow, "Just do it."

I stood to the left of him, feeling really awkward, because there was no space.

"Don't get it in my eyes, Collins."

"Well there's no room over here!"

"The sit on the bed. You don't have to be a genius to figure that out."

"Obviously…" I mumbled, glaring at his triumphant smirk.

I knelt awkwardly on the bed, but it was really hard to put it on when I was off to the side.

ARGHHH!!!!

"Collins! I don't care what you have to do just do it and get it right!" he demanded, his eyes closed.

I rolled my eyes. "Yes, you're majesty."

Since I couldn't reach I climbed onto his chest and began to apply the cover-up. His expression softened a little when I brushed it on his face, and he actually looked peaceful; for once.

I jumped when he finally spoke, because I had gotten used to the calm quiet.

"Get more on my nose…" he mumbled softly, his eyes still closed.

I rolled my eyes again, not exactly believing I was doing this.

Well, if I don't do this then he'll probably find something even worse and embarrassing to do to me. At least there's nobody else around to see this…

When I was finished, I kind of just stared at him for a moment, seeing past all the disgusting warts that were only covered up a little.

I didn't realize how long I had just been sitting on his chest until he opened one piercing gray eye and asked me what I was doing.

"Uhhh….savoring my work?" I blushed and crawled off of him.

He didn't take his eyes off of me the whole time I got up, put my stuff away and sat back down in my own hospital bed.

The beds make me depressed. They remind me of sick people…

"What?" I asked when I looked up and he was still staring.

"Nothing." He replied calmly, looking this time at the "Get Well Soon, Dracypoo!" cards by his bedside.

"I'm guessing those cards are from Pansy" I grumbled, remembering that little pug-faced witch.

He smirked. "Yeah. I'm really popular, you know. She's in love with me. I've been thinking about going out with her, and it seems like I might have to, seeing as there's no one better at this lame school."

Just shut up! You brag about yourself way too much. Ew.

"Are you trying to make me jealous?" I laughed, watching his expression.

His expression turned from a superior smirk to a face like 8-|.

"No, of course not. Why would I want to make YOU jealous, Collins?" he mocked, his smirk coming back.

"Maybe because….you like me?" I dared to say that, afraid that he would fling himself across the room, foaming at the mouth.

His face turned paler. "Ew. Why the hell would I like YOU."

I just rolled onto my side, staring out one of the windows.

Just then Marie ran into the hospital room yelling my name and speaking a million miles an hour.

"Ohmyjoshua! I was just at Fred's and it was so amazing and there was just oh my god it was amazing!"

Draco chimed in, "I'm sorry I missed that last part, was it amazing?"

She looked over at him and then got a look of pure horror on her face, Draco looked away.

She began talking a million miles an hour again, "and when I was there he showed me all of his things that made you sick and then I was like ohmyjosh what if you just add this and that then the cure will be made!"

Draco sarcastically droned, "Can you not speak so slow, I almost understood you."

She took a white teddy bear off of his side table by his bed and brought it over by me and pet its head.

Draco stared after her, "Hey!"

She ignored him and kept talking, "SO! What I wanted to say what that we found a cure!"

"This is great and all but where is this fantastic cure, spaz?" Draco droned on again and Marie threw the bear at him and he yelled at her some more.

I just rolled over and asked her calmly, "Mar, where is it?"

"Well," she drew out her words, "He has it and he's coming now."

"Why are you talking so slow?" I asked

"Well," she did it again, "Some of our friends here are a little bit slow and cannot follow along."

She glared at Malfoy who just rolled over so his back was towards us.

"Ok, when's he getting here?"

"Soon, soon."

Just then Fred came running In with a brown paper bag smiling. He opened it up and pulled out what looked like the candy, but had the feel of play-dough. I bit it, and spit it out immediately. It tasted like play-dough too!

"Blimey, Emily." Fred said looking at me grossed out.

Then to make matters worse, Cedric walked in and looked at Marie.

"Ello Marie," he smiled, "I've been looking for yah."

She gave him a half smile and I saw Fred glaring at him, I don't think ive ever seen a goofy guy like Fred get this upset.

"Why?" she asked

"I wanted to show you a new song I wrote." He looked happy.

Fred began to put his arm around Marie but she turned to face him, "Fred, is it ok with you if I go? I don't want it to be weird for you."

He couldn't say no, "Fine."

She looked at him then at me who was chewing on the play-dough. She saw how he looked upset and pulled him down to her height, I barley heard her whisper, "Don't worry sweetie, ill see you later."

She smiled wickedly so did he.

EW

Cedric was standing there looking at the ceiling when Marie came over and fixed my blanket for me and kissed Fred good-bye assuring him that nothing would happen between her and Cedric.

The two left leaving me alone with Fred.

"So," I began, "How's it going with you and Marie?"

"Good, good." He said sitting down in the chair by my bed.

"What's wrong?" I asked already knowing.

"I know that Cedric likes her, but I don't think she noticed yet. I'm just worried. I trust her with my life and everything else I have, but Cedric…." he drifted off

"Don't worry. I know Marie is crazy about you," I looked over at him, "I know her, trust me. When you two were fighting…" I stopped wondering if she would want him to know.

"What?" he leaned forward, "What happened?"

"She was crying because she thought you were with Lavender Brown," I sighed and saw the look in his eyes change from envy of Cedric to sadness and guilt, "She wouldn't ever do anything like that to you."

"Oh Emily," he sighed and leaned back staring at the ceiling, "I don't know what to say."

I shrugged and closed my eyes, I heard him say one more thing before he left, "By the way, the side effects to the cure are sleepiness, hallucinations, and being delirious."

"WHAT!?" I yelled barley opening my eyes

"Gotta go bye!" he ran out.

~~~~~~~~~~A few days later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dumbledore had us gathered in the Great Hall to announce the winners of the Tri-wizard Tournament. The lights were dimmed blue, and I was sitting next to Parvati and Padma Patil. They were practically shaking with pure excitement, but I wasn't really that excited.

"And now, the students who will be competing for the Goblet of Fire!" Dumbledore bellowed, pointing his wand gracefully at the big box containing the Goblet.

The gold and silver jeweled box began to melt instantly, revealing a pure gold Goblet, with red, green, blue and yellow jewels. The whole crowd gasped and began to talk excitedly, looking around at one another. Hermione came over and sat next to me, along with Ron and Harry.

"Hey." I whispered, glancing sideways, "We haven't talked in like forever!"

She smiled and nodded, looking up at Dumbledore.

All of the sudden the whole room was lit up in bright purple light, and a small, burn piece of paper fluttered to the sky. Dumbledore caught it with his nimble, old fingers.

"Victor Krum!!!"

The Durmstrang academy began cheering loudly, hitting Krum on the back. He walked confidently over to the door behind the big head table, his red coat with brown fur swishing behind him.

The Hall was lit up with purple again, and another paper flew out, curled into a 'C'.

"Fleur Delacour!!"

A tall blond stood up, and pranced over to the door also.

"Now, the Hogwarts student!"

A giant piece of burn paper shot out of the goblet, and Dumbledore's face turned red with anger.

"I thought I had said only students 17 or older could enter, did I not?!" he yelled, full of rage, " CEDRIC DIGGORY, EMILY COLLINS, MARIE ELIZABETH AND HARRY POTTER?!?!?!?!"

What…

My insides froze, and I felt my face burn, and all eyes turned to me, Harry, Cedric and Marie.

"COME HERE!!" Dumbledore yelled, crushing the piece of paper with his long, spindly finger nails.

The whole Hall fell silent with a hushed fear, and the four of us silently got up, and walked, heads down, towards the door.

Marie looked at me and looked scared, Harry and Cedric were also looking at me.

Shit.

Everyone was staring at us as we walked across the room which now seemed ten times longer than it normally did. Ron Weasley was giving Harry a death look, Oliver Wood was glaring at Cedric, Marie was looking over at Fred but he just shook his head in disappointment. Then I dared to look at him. Draco. He was smirking and so was Marcus Flint sitting next to him.

Once we all got over to the group, Dumbledore was glaring at us yelling. Nobody knew how our names got in the Goblet of Fire.

Victor Krum and Fleur stared at us in disgust.

"'Zey iz not even seventeen!" Madame Maxime, the headmaster of Bobatan academy exclaimed.

Everyone was glancing around, daring to steal a look at Dumbledore or Mad-Eye Moody ( a former Auror- dark wizard catcher- who had come to Hogwarts to teach us Defense Against the Dark Arts) with his insane glass eyes and wooden peg leg.

Then Dumbledore went back out to the Great Hall and announced, "Everyone! Your Tri-Wizard Tournament competitors!"

Some people awkwardly clapped for us.

We all walked back to our tables. I sat by Marie because I didn't want to look at anyone else right now knowing they would be giving me death glares. She sat in her normal spot next to Fred who wouldn't look at her.

Dumbledore hollered, "Let the feast begin!"

All of the food appeared suddenly. Marie, Harry, Cedric, and I just stared at our empty plates. Marie couldn't take the silence.

"Fred." She began

"what? You lied. To everyone. To me. God Marie, you put your name in the Goblet?" he was angry, he still didn't look at her.

"I didn't!" she yelled, "I swear, I swear on my life."

Fred looked at her and looked angry, "You're…terrible, horrible, a liar."

She looked like she was going to cry because she was so angry, "Why don't you believe me? I don't even want to be in the Tournament!"

He didn't look at her.

"I really think you're just mad at me because you know that Cedric and I are friends now and you are jealous!"

Oh no she didn't!

He looked furious then got up and sat by Oliver Wood.

Marie stared at her plate furious.

Draco turned around and tapped me on my shoulder.

"What!?" I snapped

"Nice job getting into the Goblet, how did you do it?" he asked, serious.

"I DIDN'T!" I yelled turning back towards my empty plate.

Cedric waved his arms to get our attention, we looked over.

He mouthed, "Open your common room door for me later. I need to talk to you guys."

I looked at Marie who looked over at me, we nodded and then nodded at Cedric.

He smiled and frowned at the same time, then turned back around.

"This is absolutely unbelievable…" I mumbled through a mouth of dry bread.

"Yeah. This is just great." Harry spat, glowering at the whole Hall.

"I'm sorry…" I said, turning to Harry.

I felt bad for him the most because people already hate him too much. Harry just looked at me, then back at him plate. Ron was refusing to talk to him, and Hermione was just sitting there awkwardly, looking from Harry to Ron.

I couldn't wait until later…