I don't own Harry Potter. I only own my own character and Marie.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A while later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Do you have the password?"

"No…I don't."

"Then you're not allowed to come in!"

"No, I just want to see someone-"

"No!!"

I groaned as the Fat Lady began arguing with someone outside the Gryffindor common. It was probably Cedric, since he had wanted to come over. Harry, Marie and I sat around the fire, waiting for Cedric to discus what had happened with the Goblet of Fire.

"It's okay, he can come in!" Harry yelled to the Fat Lady, who was insisting now that he needed a haircut.

We heard the door swing open, and Cedric walked in, his robes swishing from left to right as he walked towards us.

"She's weird…" he whispered, pointing backwards to the Fat Lady.

"I heard that!!!" she yelled back, mumbling about rude boys.

I smiled. "Okay, so let's talk about what hap-"

"Emily! I need to talk to ya!" Seamus yelled, running down the steps and over to us.

"Uh, okay." I said awkwardly, staring up at him grinning down at me.

His face turned a light red due to the fiery flames of the fire. The flames lit up his blue eyes, turning them a sort of purple.

"I need to talk to ya over thar though."

I got up out of my comfortable position on the couch and over to him. Marie began snickering, only loud enough for me to hear. I just rolled my eyes and followed him over to the window with a chessboard in front of it, all the pieces perfectly aligned.

"So…" I started, tracing the outline of one of the knight chess piece, "What did you want to talk about."

"Uh…well I feel really bad about breaking your arm, and, well, I want to make it up to you. How about next trip to Hogsmeade I take you out for lunch." He suggested with a pleading look in his eye.

Awww….Seamus!! That's sooooo amazingly sweet of you!!

"Seamus! Awww of course I will! That's so nice of you!" I squealed, a huge grin on my face.

He smiled and sighed in relief, and I couldn't stop smiling. I was so happy that he wanted to make it up to me. Before I knew it, I had my arms around him, and was grinning widely into his jacket.

Oh….son of a Joshua what am I doing?!

My stomach lurched into my throat and my whole body froze.

"Uh..I'm…sorry…" I mumbled, pulling away from him.

I turned my head to the left so I didn't see his face.

"So I'll see you next weekend?" I asked awkwardly, my face burning a bit..

"Uh…yeah. Yeah. So…I'll let ya get back to whatever you were talkin' about." He cleared his throat.

"Thanks. Um…bye…" I mumbled, hurrying back over to the little circle we had formed.

Marie grinned at me, looking over at Seamus, who was walking up to the dormitories in black sweats and a green t-shirt.

"So who could've possibly put our name in the Goblet? I mean I don't even know any seventh years, and that would be a pretty cruel joke to play." I started, looking at Harry, whose scar was shining and his emerald green eyes dark and miserable.

"Ya I know. I know a few, but they would neva do that to meh. Or any of us." Cedric replied.

"This is ridiculous! Now the whole school hates us because of some jerk who thinks making our lives terrible is amusing." I fumed, grabbing handfuls of frilly pillow, angrily tugging at them.

I got even angrier when they weren't coming out at my will.

"Maybe it was Malfoy." Marie said the name 'Malfoy' like she had a lemon stuck in her mouth.

"Mar, Draco would never DO that!!" I protested.

"Why are you defending him?! He's a complete jerk and he would do something awful like that to us!" She replied, glaring at me.

He's not THAT bad…is he?

"You're forgetting one thing: he's only fourteen." Cedric pointed out.

"Why do you call him 'Draco' anyway?" Harry asked, staring oddly at me.

"That's his name, isn't it?" I shrugged, looking away from his piercing eyes.

I felt uncomfortable while he was staring at me, so I was really relived when he finally looked away.

"So, now that we've gotten Draco off the list, let's discuss more people. What about teachers?" I asked, eager to get off the topic of Draco.

I sighed and grabbed a handful of my wavy side-bangs, furious at the trouble this mystery villain had caused us.

"Teachers?! Even Snape isn't that cruel." Harry replied quietly.

"Yeah…" I responded, looking down at the ground.

"Maybe…" Marie began.

"Maybe…I don't know. There's like no one that could possibly want this to happen." Cedric said, rolling his eyes.

"Maybe it was Neville." Marie randomly chimed in.

Everyone just stopped and stared at her. Then Cedric started hysterically laughing. He was laughing so hard that he had tears in his eyes, holding his stomach, laying on the floor. I've never heard anyone laugh so hard in my life.

"Ahahaahahahahahahahaa!!!!" I laughed; watching Cedric laugh was contagious.

We looked so stupid, that I began laughing even harder, which made Marie start laughing. Pretty soon even Harry was laughing, and we forgot what we were even laughing about it the first place.

"Well…we have classes tomorrow. I think I should get goin'." Cedric sighed, groaning slightly as he stood.

We all said goodnight, and went upstairs to sleep. I wasn't looking forward to potions first thing in the morning.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next morning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I crawled out of bed at 8 AM, groaning loudly as I fell to the floor ( which I do every morning). I slouched across the room to take a hot shower.

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

An hour later I found myself sitting in the cold classroom in the dungeons.

Potions. Ew.

I couldn't wait, though, to see Snape. I think he's so hilarious; I have to bite my lip to keep from laughing at him, just the way he talks.

Marie sat down on the cold bench next to me, looking really pissed to be here. Fred sat down next to her, she cheered up a bit when she started to talk to him.

"Ready to see the Sevypoo?" I asked sarcastically.

She laughed slightly and turned to talk to Fred about something to do with sea bears. Rolling my eyes I got out my book on potions and opened it up, just in case he decided to be a worm and quiz me on something I obviously didn't know.

Draco, Crabbe, Goyle and Pansy walked in, laughing dramatically at something that was probably really stupid. I stared at them until Pansy looked over, shrieked and then began laughing again.

I stuck my tongue out at her.

Marie saw her and pulled down on one of her eyelids and stuck out her tongue. I laughed as Pansy walked away, looking miffed.

"Quiet everyone, get in your seats now!!" Snape demanded, running into the room.

Marie and I began snickering at the sight of him, trying our best to quiet down.

"Now, we will be learning about veritserum. Does anyone know what that is?"

Hermione's hand, surprisingly (NOT), shot up in the air.

"No one? What a pity. I bet, oh, Draco could give me an answer."

I looked at Draco to see his reaction, and it was obvious that he didn't know it.

"Well, professor, I would love to be you see, before class I had talked to Potter and he wishes to be a good little boy this year, don't you Potter? So I would hate to ruin his chance." Draco drawled, grinning wickedly.

Pansy giggled, and Crabbe and Goyle just sat there, looking dumb.

Snape smirked. "Well, Potter? Do you know it?"

"No…sir." Harry spat, glaring up at Snape through his eyelashes.

"Pity. And I thought you were going to be a good boy this year. Ten points from Gryffindor."

Marie sighed and I noticed that she was stroking Fred's hand. She stopped and folded her arms across her chest.

She did the most incredible impression of Snape, it scared me, "I'm Snape, the potions masta. I am angry with Potta. He is a dim witted rabble-rousa."

Fred and I snorted trying to not laugh.

She kept going, wanting us to laugh out loud, "I like to be called Sevypoo or the Snapester by beautiful women who resemble my motha. Whom I still live with. I never have been on a date before, only because no woman or man can find me attractive. I think I am quite the stud muffin myself."

That did it, I started hysterically laughing so did Fred.

Snape nearly flew out of his seat and over to us.

Marie laughed quietly, "Snapester is angry with the children."

Snape towered over us, only inches from our red with laughter faces. "One more time, and you all get detention."

Snape began to walk away, when Marie muttered, "Sorry, Sevypoo."

I froze and completely stopped laughing at that point. I was actually scared as he ran over so fast he almost collided with the cauldron on the table.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" Snape spat, spitting all over us.

I was laughing extremely hard at that, holding my sides, which felt like they were going to explode all over the place. I glanced over at Fred and saw that he was laughing just as hard.

"THAT'S IT!!!! DETENTION FOR ALL THREE OF YOU!" He screamed, leaning over to us.

"Draco? You will be watching them tonight. I have work that must be done and I will not waste it on these little rabble-rousers."

Draco gave us a superior smirk, and I just rolled my eyes and tried to stop laughing.

"You four will be in the Forbidden Forest."

"But don't like…dangerous things live in there?" Marie asked nervously.

"In my first year I went in there with Potter, Mudblood, Weasley and that oaf Hagrid. Now we will be going alone?" Draco asked Snape, staring him down.

He simply nodded.

"I will pity you if you do not come back alive, Draco. But as for the rest of you, I can't really say that I would care."

Rage built up inside me, and I had to claw at the table to keep from chucking my heavy potions book at his ugly, wrinkly, disgusting evil face.

"Snape is an ass…" Marie muttered under her breath once class had ended.

"Yeah. And we have to be in there, with Malfoy, tonight?! I have school work!" Fred complained, stomping loudly down the hallway.

"You do schoolwork?" I asked sarcastically.

He just glanced over his shoulder, then turned around to talk to Marie.

Again.

"Well, at least YOU'LL be there." He smiled, looking at Marie.

Puke.

Well, at least I'll have the little prick by my side.

"I don't believe this…" I mumbled, walking ahead and away from Marie and Fred, who seemed to like to ignore me and were more interested in talking about sea bears.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At night (Midnight)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was crouching down in front of the potions doorway, the damp hallway eerily illuminated by lime green lights. It was really depressing, actually.

Marie and Fred came ten minutes later, giggling like nothing was going on.

"Guys, shut up!" I whispered screamed.

Marie whispered screamed back, "You look like a creeper! What are you doing?!"

"I'm awaiting for my knight in shining armor!" I replied sarcastically.

Marie laughed and asked Fred, being all sarcastic, what he thought of her outfit (which was weird because we were all wearing pajamas).

She was wearing a black Linkin park t-shirt and white shorts. Fred was all casual in red sweatpants and a plain black t-shirt.

I looked down at myself, and I was wearing black shorts and a dark green t-shirt that had 'David Archuleta' written in silver writing.

"You look amazing." Fred replied, smiling down at her.

"Well well well look who actually showed up."

I turned to my left and saw Draco standing there, his arms crossed. He had black sweatpants and a black t-shirt that had 'I eat crayons and poop rainbows' on it.

I looked at his shirt and fell on the floor laughing.

"You know, I did that once." Fred said.

Draco gave him a death glare. "I had nothing else to wear, and this was Pansy's fat older sister's shirt."

"Yeah because she's the rainbow shitting type." Marie said sarcastically, staring at his shirt.

I finally stopped laughing and stood up. "Well *giggle* uh we should get this *cough* over with."

Draco smirked. "Follow me then."

We trudged along behind him, out the doors of Hogwarts and into the warm midnight air.

"Why at midnight?" I groaned, rubbing my eyes sleepily.

Nobody answered me.

"Nobody's listening to me."

They still didn't answer me.

"DUDE!" I yelled, and they all turned towards me..

"What?" Marie asked, looking surprised.

"You weren't answering me, and now I forgot what my question was." I said angrily, walking ahead of Draco and his stupid t-shirt.

"You know, you would make this a whole lot easier if you just stopped whining." Draco mumbled, looking up at the full bright moon.

"And you would make this a whole lot easier if you just shut up." I retorted, walking faster still.

We were at the edge of the forest. The dark gray trees loomed over us, casting shadows. A slight mist came from around and in between the trees.

"So…anybody want to go in first?" Fred said awkwardly, staring at the trees.

"Don't be a baby." Draco said, glaring at Fred.

"Don't act like you're not scared." I said, looking at Draco's paler than normal face.

"UGH! Puh-lease Malfoy! Fred could SO take you!" Marie spat, angry that her boyfriends manhood was being challenged.

"At least I'm bigger." Malfoy smirked, walking into the forest.

"He's at least a foot shorter than me, what is he bloody talking about?!" Fred yelled, glaring at the spot where Malfoy vanished. Marie comforted him by rubbing his back trying to not laugh.

I snorted and followed him carefully, creeped out by the size and eeriness of the forest. Not to mention the fact that it's forbidden.

About twenty minutes into the forest, we heard a twig snap.

"WHAT was that?" I whispered, squinting into the thick mist and blackness.

Marie held onto Fred's arm, and I felt bad having no one. Marie noticed me and pulled me in also, so we were all huddled together, leaving Draco standing there.

"What, you don't want in on this Malfoy?" Fred joked.

He quickly spun around in shock, his gray eyes wide with fear.

"Uh…guys?" I whispered, staring at something to my left. A big, furry animal was standing there, staring at us with bloodshot eyes. It snarled, revealing fangs the size of daggers that glowed silver with saliva in the moonlight.

All of us froze visibly, staring at the massive thing.

Suddenly its muscles tensed, and it leap forward with a snarl, running forward. It's massive paws thumped on the ground, shaking our nerves.

"RUN!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed, and we all took off in different directions into the forest.

I was running like hell, adrenaline pumping in every fiber of my body. I was running for my life and I hated it.

Shit shit shit shit shit shit SHIT!!!!!!!!

I ran through trees, getting as far away as possible from this demonic wolf-like thing. I had goosebumps throughout my whole body, and my tumbling stomach was preventing me from running as fast.

After running for five straight minutes, I saw a depression in the ground, and then a small cave, but enough for a few people to fit in. I quickly climbed into there, getting into a fettle position, breathing in and out really fast.

My palms were covered in sweat, and I was shaking. I rested my head up against the muddy wall of the cave, trying to calm down.

If anyone gets hurt I don't think I could handle it…

I was waiting, praying for about a half hour when I heard footsteps above my head.

Shit.

I crept farther back into the cave (like that would help me anyway) and stared, wide-eyed, at the entrance.

I inhaled sharply as a dark figure leaned over the top, until I realized that the figure was that of a human.

"Marie?" I asked hopefully.

I must have startled the person because it yelped and fell on its head with a big 'umph'.

"Draco?!" I whispered, crawling over to him.

"What the fuck…" he mumbled, his mouth full of dirt and sweat.

"Where are the others?" I asked worriedly, afraid for Marie and Fred.

"I don't know. We all ran away." He replied, crawling into the cave himself.

"Draco. There's no joshin' room!" I yelled, shoving him back outside.

"Who's josh?! And let me in before that bloody wolf eats me alive. I lost my wand…"

"What?!?! But you're the only one who was supposed to effin' bring it!"

"I know, okay? My God. Shut up or we're both going to get eaten." He mumbled, sitting down next to me.

After a while he said, "There really is no room in here…"

I began laughing hysterically, and he looked at me like I was insane.

"Lighten up, Draco! You big sourpuss!" I laughed, looking at his face.

He didn't say anything, just stared intently at the dirt.

"Go outside and check if there's anything out there. I heard something." I whimpered, hugging my knees to my chest.

He looked at me, sighed, and then crawled outside into the dark. He came back a few seconds later, completely soaked.

"You're wet." I stated as his silver blond hair dripped water onto the floor, turning it into mud.

"That's what she said." He replied, smirking.

I stared at him, dumbfounded, and then started laughing.

"Th-that was s-so bad!" I attempted through laughing.

He just sat there, looking miserable and cold.

"If it makes you feel any better, I can go outside and get soaked too." I offered, being half sarcastic.

"I dare you."

I shrugged and climbed over him to get out. I stood out in the pouring rain while is was getting in my eyes, which made them sting like a Joshua.

I came back in, quite proud of myself. Draco sat there, an amused expression on his face.

"See?"

"Whatever…that was kind of dumb."

As I walked over to my spot in the corner before, I tripped over his leg, and fell into the dirt.

"SON OF A JOSHUA!!!" I screamed, laying there, not moving.

"Who the bloody hell is Josh?" he asked, completely ignoring my state of pain.

"A friend from America. We use his name in place of swear because…well I don't know we just have ever since I had a crush on him a long time ago, Marie teased me by always saying 'Oh my Josh!' whenever I talked about him. Then we started using it for other things, like 'son of a josh' or 'what the josh'." I explained, trying hard not to laugh at his name.

"Okaaay…"

I sighed and leaned against the mud wall again. He stood up.

"Why do you like…I don't know….hate everybody?" I asked, staring at him.

"I just do." He spat, glaring at me from the side.

"Okay…it was just a question…" I mumbled, closing my eyes.

"And if that thing comes back," I said, "Then I'm leaving you for bait."

"Only if you can out run me." He sat down staring at the ceiling of the cave.

Just then there was a screech and a loud laugh.

SHIT.

Draco grabbed onto my arm and I moved closer to him we both didn't breathe.

I heard two pairs of footsteps and loosened my grip on Draco. Draco didn't loosen his.

Just then someone jumped over the edge of the cave, they were wearing dirty red sweats and a dirty t shirt. FRED! He held out his arms above the cave not noticing us, helping Marie down.

"Son of a Josh…" she mumbled, one side of her caked with mud. I could tell that she wiped out.

I got up but Draco didn't notice and he still had me in a death grip, when I stood up he accidentally pulled me back down, making me fall in the mud.

Fred grabbed Marie and pulled her behind him and stared into the cave. Then he laughed.

"Mare, look." He smirked, "Pretty boy is scared of the big bad wolf."

Marie looked into the cave and laughed, covering her mouth with one hand.

What's so funny?

I looked at Draco and then realized what was so hysterical. His eyes were bigger than saucers, his mouth was wide open which made him look like he was trying to scream but couldn't. I began laughing and got up, covered in mud.

I crawled out of the cave and Draco slowly followed me out. Marie hugged me hard and I hugged her back. Fred looked at Draco.

"Do you want a hug too?"

Draco just stood there shaking still. Then I did something which made Marie and Fred's jaws drop. I hugged Draco.

I HUGGED DRACO!

He just stood there. Like a rock, and didn't move. I let go and he looked a bit calmer.

We all walked back. Draco didn't say anything more, neither did I. The only talking that was going on was between Marie and Fred.

When we all got inside Draco walked away and the three of us stood there silent. Marie looked up at Fred.

"Em, I'll catch up with you ok?" she asked looking worried.

"Ok, I-I need to shower anyway." I said walking away up to our bedroom, I was freezing.

I took a long hot shower scrubbing myself clean and then put on new pajamas. I crawled into bed and fell asleep. The only time I woke up was when Marie walked into the room about an hour later and took a shower then crawled into bed next to me. I looked over at her like she was crazy.

"I need to tell you something," she said sounding scared, "I did something….bad."

I sat up faster than I ever did before, and whisper screamed, "WHAT?!"

She looked worried, "I was with Fred…."

I began to panic, "Marie, what did you do?"

She gulped, "Second base."

I gasped and stared at her.

"You're kidding."

She shook her head slowly.

I leaped out of bed, cleared the room in above two seconds, and ran over to the boy's dormitories. I heard Marie scream and chase after me, but I got there first.

"FRED YOU STUPID LITTLE…..NO YOU STUPID BIG CORNDOG!!!!!!!!" I screamed, jumping onto his bed, straddling his waist and attempting to punch him.

"EMILY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Marie screamed

"Get off of me!!!!" he screamed, shoving me off of him.

All of the boys were awake by now, staring at me screaming.

"YOU DID IT!! I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS FRED!!!!!!" I screamed, leaping on him again, wrestling him to the floor.

"Emily, are you alright? And why are you beating up my brother?" Ron asked sleepily, staring bleary-eyed in my direction.

Marie rushed over, dragged me off of him and stood by Fred and looked furious. Seamus was yelling or a fight, and Neville sat on his bed, in blue striped pajamas, looking scared hugging his pillow.

I screamed again, kicked him and walked outside into the common room, out of the portrait and down the steps. I ran as quietly as I could down the steps and down the sixth wing, sitting in front of a window.

I can NOT believe this! Of all the stupid, idiotic, INSANE things she's done, this is the WORST!!!

I put my head in my hands and tried to grasp reality. Suddenly I heard someone walking over to me, and I turned to go hide, but there was nowhere.

Please don't let it be Filch…

It was Fred.

He was wearing baggy dark green sweat pants and a gray t shirt, he looked confused.

"What the bloody hell was that?" he asked frazzled.

"What do you mean, what was that?! YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT!!!"

He looked embarrassed, "I know, I know. But you need to understand. I asked her about a million times if she really wanted to, she said yes each time. I know what you are thinking, I'm terrible. But I love Marie more than I have ever loved anyone before in my life. She just gets me, and I get her." He sighed and leaned against the wall, "You know beating me up won't help. I just don't get why you are so angry."

"Dude, you're only fifteen, and Marie's only fourteen. I just don't want her to make a mistake and be one of those girls that get pregnant at like sixteen." I looked at the floor," I'm just mad because both of you don't know what you're doing. My mom had to go through that and…I don't know…"

He stared at me looking kind of angry, "Well…that's for us to worry about, ok? I'm sorry Emily, I know how much you care about her, but she's a big girl, she can take care of herself."

He began to walk away.

"Then why are you trying to take care of her yourself?" I called after him, hating his very being at this moment.

He turned and walked backwards slowly raising his hands about an inch in the air, "Because I can, she's my girl. I'm supposed to take care of her. And even I understand that there is a large line between being caring for her and being controlling."

"I think you better figure that out then." I said quietly, before getting up myself.

I walked quietly out of the hallway and up towards the common room. I lay down on the couch and stayed there the whole night, not wanting to go back upstairs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Maries POV in the boys room alone~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I stood next to Fred staring at him. I cannot believe what Emily just did! She just came in here, attacked Fred, and then stormed out!

Fred sighed still looking down at me, "I should talk to her."

I sighed as he walked out. I sat down on his bed and looked at my black shorts and gray ACDC t shirt. I ruffled my straight now clean hair and then noticed that I was being watched. I looked up to see about seven Gryffindor boys staring at me dumbfounded.

Shit. They all probably knew.

I snapped, "WHAT!?"

Seamus spoke matter-of-factly, "Blimey, I was hoping for a fight."

I glared at him and looked over at Neville who squealed and turned away. Then at Harry who gave me a half-hearted smile and looked at the ground. Dean was squinting at me looking tired asking everyone what was going on. Ron looked at me strangly.

"You really are quite the character." He said.

"Me?" I asked surprised, "Emily just tackled your brother down and you think I am strange?"

He sighed and lay back down in his bed. Then I dared myself to look at the last face. George.

He was staring at me looking really disappointed. He walked over to Fred's bed and sat next to me. He had baggy black shorts on and no shirt. I felt awkward and didn't look at him.

"Fred and I are not arguing anymore," he began, "but if it makes you feel any better about this situation, Fred wouldn't tell anyone, including me, what happened. He just said he was hanging out with you."

I sighed in relief. This got Seamus all worked up.

"WHAT HAPPENED!?"

"Nothing Leprechaun." I snorted and some of the boys laughed.

"Well, you can trust us." He said

"Right." I rolled my eyes, wondering if Emily was feeding Fred to the Womping Willow tree by now.

Just then Neville spoke in a whisper, "I heard that if you kiss a girl too much, she will have kids. Right then and there!"

I started hysterically laughing falling back on Fred's bed. George started laughing too. Seamus was still pushing for me to tell him what happened. I refused to say anything.

Then George gave me a noogie (what the josh?) and walked back to his bed. I fixed my hair and looked at him strangly. I lay back on Fred's bed, praying to God that for some reason some teacher would walk in and see me here. I crawled over on his bed, so my head was on his pillow and I thought I was going to fall asleep. I felt like I rolled on something and I saw a bump in his bed. Something was under the blankets. I looked under and saw a teddy bear. I giggled and picked it up. George spoke from the next bed.

"Had that since you gave it to him at Hogsmeade. Do you still have yours?"

"Yeah," I said sleepily.

I was beginning to drift off to sleep hugging the bear, when I heard a familiar laugh. It was Fred sitting on the end of his bed.

All of the guys were up again. I sat up slowly and leaned into his arm beginning to fall asleep again. He laughed and picked me up. He carried me out of the room and I nearly was asleep. I heard Seamus whistle and Neville squeak. Then George go 'Woohoo!'

He carried me into the common room and told me he can't go into my bedroom without being accused of giving me date rape. He kissed my forehead and walked out. I looked over to see Emily on the next couch and I sleepily threw a pillow at her. I laughed softly then fell asleep drooling on the couch.

~~~~~~~~The next day (Malfoy's POV)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ew. Ewewewewewewewewewew.

Weasley and Elizabeth?!

EW!!!

By the next day the whole school had heard about what had happened. That loud mouth leprechaun boy told everyone what happened. Then when Marie found out…man. I didn't think the spaz could be so angry.

Weasley looked like he was going to punch Finnigan in the face. That would have been amusing. Marie called him multiple things that made me laugh at his shocked expression. Then later I saw Weasley kiss her to make her calm down.

Yet again, disgusting.

Elizabeth and Collins seemed to be fighting over it, and I decided to milk it a little. During the morning breakfast, I slipped some potion into Marie's drink. This potion will make her dream dreams so real that she'll forget they were even dreams.

Let's have some fun. Time for a fight.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~That night (Marie's POV)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I couldn't sleep. I lay on my bed, rolling over and over.

SON OF A JOSH!!!

I felt like screaming, but obviously didn't. I started to count sheep.

1 sheep. 2 sheep/ 3 sheep. 4 sheep. 5 sheep. 6 sheep 7 sh-sh-sh….ee….p….

MY DREAM:

I found myself in the fourth wing, outside a disused classroom. I stood there, not really realizing what was going on.

"What if someone finds out?"

"Who's going to find out? Nobody's even up at this hour anyway."

Two familiar voices came from the bedroom, and I recognized them as Emily and Draco.

EMILY AND DRACO?!?!

"I want to do what you're friend Marie did…" I heard Draco whisper, his voice low.

I peeked in through the little window, until I saw Emily sitting on one of the desks, Draco sitting, straddling her waist.

When did this happen?

"Draco…we can't…" she asked, looking down at her shoes.

"Why not?"

"Well…I…don't want to, Draco." she whispered, looking indecisive.

"Maybe this'll change your mind." He mumbled, grabbing her hands and pinning her down, pulling her into a kiss.

I gasped out loud.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

I watched the whole thing, forced to be stuck here. She is SO dead.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~my POV (in the morning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I woke up early, got up and got dressed. Today I was going to Hogsmeade with Seamus. Oh yeah, and the first task was just three days away.

Excellent.

I waited in the common room for someone to get up. I was really bored until I came downstairs, and was greeted by a very pissed Marie.

"WHY'DYOU HAVE SEX WITH DRACO?!?!" she screamed, he face as red as Fred's hair.

"What the HELL are you talking about?!" I asked, completely shocked by such a question.

Like where the josh did that come from?!

"I…I saw you with him last night! In the classroom!" she screamed, "You yell at me and attack Fred for what we did but it is absolutely FINE if you and DRACO MALFOY have SEX!?"

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"

She was shaking and crying because she was so angry. I didn't know what to say.

"I think you are hallucinating." I stated.

"The hell I'm not! I walked out of the room last night, and I saw you with him Emily Collins!"

People were starting to walk into the room now. And I didn't notice that some of the Gryffindor boys walked into the room also. Including Seamus, Fred, Harry, and Neville.

"You….you…WHORE!" she screamed, "YOU SLEPT WITH DRACO AND FREAKIN ATTACKED FRED WHEN ALL I DID WAS GO TO SECOND WITH HIM!"

I heard Neville Longbottom screech and a few others gasp. Then I looked over at Seamus who had roses in his hand for me. He looked like he was about to cry, tears welled up in my eyes. He ran out of the room dropping the rose.

I stared blankly at the fallen roses, not believing this.

"You ruined my chance with Seamus…" I said, still staring at the roses," YOU RUINED IT WITH YOUR DAMN LIES!!! Was this a joke?! Was it?! Well it's not funny!!" I screamed, my voice wavering.

I was crying now, and everyone was staring at me. Then they looked at Marie who began yelling again.

"Lies?? Yeah that's why I saw you and Malfoy getting at it! And your chances with Seamus? Psh, that poor kid tried to be your boyfriend like a million times but obviously you were too busy sleeping around! Oh and maybe to get him back you can just SLEEP WITH HIM TOO!"

Fred was staring at her, his mouth wide open. He then looked over at me. I don't think I ever saw Fred be so angry looking. He is normally friendly and happy. But he looked like he wanted me dead.

I looked back over to Marie, tears spilling out of my eyes.

"This isn't funny…" I whispered, staring at her," You knew I liked both Seamus and Draco so you decide to play a joke on me, trying to push Seamus away? You know how I am I would never do something so stupid. I can't believe you Marie Elizabeth." I tried to wipe away the tears but they wouldn't stop, so I just put my head in my hands instead.

"A joke? Yeah, this is all one big joke! Ok Emily, I would really make something this serious up for laughs. Do I look like I'm fucking kidding you?! And if I were to push one of those guys away it would be that scumbag Malfoy. Seamus deserves better than you. If you are just going to keep pushing him away. And that's not even what this is about. Don't deny that you did it with Malfoy, that…that…TOAD!" she was breathing really deeply out of breath.

Neville passed out.

I looked back up at her. "I wouldn't lie about something like this!" I screamed, going from her to the rest of the people in the room," I can't stand you!!"

I was about to leave when Draco walked in. I glared at him.

"Tell them what happened last night Malfoy." Marie demanded.

He just shrugged and smirked.

"Draco you are such a….bastard." I said quietly, still crying.

I got up and ran out of the room, looking for a broken-hearted Seamus.

Marie just sat on the couch with her head in her hands crying. Harry got everyone out of the room and Fred sat with her with a hand on her back. Draco stood in the doorway laughing.

Fred stood up, walked over to Draco and said through clenched teeth, "If you EVER hurt Emily or Marie ever again. I swear to God Malfoy, I will put such a horrific hex on you, that you will be begging to die."

Malfoy snorted and sneered, "Those two twits, they are so ignorant."

Fred did something that made even Malfoy speechless, he punched Malfoy across the face and spat on him.

He grabbed him by the collar and said, "If you don't fix this, I promise you that you WILL regret it. I don't know what you did, but you better fix it."

Malfoy scrambled off the ground after Fred let go and ran out of the room.

Fred sat down next to Marie and stroked her hair trying to calm her. She was in hysterics crying.

I couldn't find Seamus anywhere. I even looked by Hagrid's, by the Quittach stadium, everywhere.

I felt terrible, and I thought it was so amazingly sweet of him to bring roses, and I wanted him back.

SSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAMMMMMUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

Clinically depressed, I walked back to the Great Hall. There I saw him sitting across from Dean, staring sadly at the chessboard in front of him. It was a failed attempt for Dean, trying to cheer up his best friend.

I took a deep breath and walked over there.

"Uh, Seamus?" I asked nervously, standing to his left.

He didn't even aknowledge me.

"What do YOU want?" Dean spat, glaring at me.

"I need to talk to Seamus."

Dean grimaced, got up and moved a few seats down. I sat down next to Seamus.

"Seamus, what had happened back there it wasn't true. I would never….sleep with Malfoy. I don't know what's wrong with Marie. I'm sorry Seamus. But they weren't true…" I said, pleading with him.

I really felt terrible, and I hated seeing him this way.

"I don't believe you." He said stiffly, getting up and walking away.

I began crying again, and I placed my head on the table, feeling the coolness of the table. If anyone came I would be insanely embarrassed. Just then Draco strutted over to me.

He stood next to me and spoke sharply, "Listen Collins, Fred is going to hex me if I don't tell you. I gave Marie a potion that made her have dreams that feel like they really happened. In her dream she saw….you know. I'm not apologizing to you, I'm only telling you because if I don't Weasley will murder me."

I looked up at him and looked how he didn't seem to care at all. He looked bored!

I stood up and looked up the whole two inches to his face. I took a step back and stared at him blankly. He raised one eyebrow.

"What the hell are you doing? Seamus Finnigan, the weird kid, he was crying. Hilarious." He sounded bored.

I just shook my head, cracked my knuckles and punched him straight across the face. He looked at me in shock. His nose was all bloody and he ran away. I just stood there.

It was true to her, in the dream. But she could have been more inconspicuous about it.

I looked over to see Seamus standing behind me staring blankly. He was there the whole time. He walked over and grabbed a sweater that he left on the chair. He looked up at me and simply said, "I believe you now." Then left.

My heart ached and hurt and it was all because of Draco. The stupid thing was, was that I still liked him.

Why do I like him? He's a complete bastard and doesn't care about anyone but himself…

I sighed heavily and walked around Hogwarts aimlessly, extremely bored, but also nervous because of the task that was the next day.

What can we possibly do? I mean, it's not like they're going to give us something that would hurt us…right?

I found myself in the dungeons, looking at the olive wood of the potions classroom.

What the Josh am I doing here?!

I couldn't remember what I was doing there, so I just kind of stood there in my uniform staring at the door for quite some time.

Then I heard footsteps.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Marie's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I just sat on the couch of the common room and sobbed with my head in my hands. Emily was so terrible! How could she lie to me about something so…insane!

I felt comforted by Fred though. He was rubbing my head softly and not saying anything. That as the best possible thing for him to do was what he was doing.

I looked up at him and stared into his brown eyes. He wiped a tear away from my cheek.

"Why did you do that for me?" I said meaning threaten and do what he did to Malfoy.

"Because," he said staring at me sweetly, "I don't want anyone to make you this upset. And I know that he purposely did it to make you and Emily upset.

I stared at him blankly, not sure how to react. I immediately felt like I didn't deserve him and I looked down and away from him. He took my chin and made me look at him again.

"Marie, please don't push me away from you. I feel sometimes that you don't really love me." He sounded sad.

I opened my mouth but I couldn't find the right words.

Then I finally spoke, "I don't really know how to show it. I do love you."

I felt a giant weight lifting off of me because that was the first time I ever told him or any guy that and really meant it.

"Even after what happened with Seamus and Emily and Cedric?" he asked.

"Duhh," I smiled weakly, "I just don't show it that well, because…. I don't really think I deserve you."

He looked shocked. Which made me turn to completely face him and wait for him to speak.

"You wh-what?!" he said still in shock.

"I think you could do so much better than me. You are the best guy I ever met, you put up with my crap and don't complain about it. I mean, its just…I think you need someone who is better at showing you that they love you. I do love you, its just that its so much that I can't show it in words or any other way."

I looked away and I felt his eyes still on me. He didn't say anything else. He just turned my head slowly and softly again and kissed me for what seemed like forever.

When he finally pulled away he said in a whisper, "Marie Elizabeth, don't you ever say that again."

I smiled at his chest thinking about how amazing he was being. I looked up at him and asked, "Only if you promise to never again leave me alone in the boys' room. I don't think ive ever been asked so many questions before in my life or felt so awkward."

He laughed and kissed me once more and then said, "I don't think that will be a problem. Now, what are you going to do about Emily?"

I sighed and looked at the fire.

"I think what Malfoy did was give you a potion that makes your dreams seem real" he began, "I've used it on Ginny and Ron tons of times."

I looked at him questioningly.

"It's easy to make. But what I think we should do is tell Emily my theory and see what she thinks. Any idea where she went?" he asked

I shook my head, "When she gets upset she wanders around…wait…" I began grinning wickedly.

He knew exactly what I meant and pulled out the Mauders map. I leanded over so I was sitting closer to him, I saw him blush out of the corner of my eye. We both said, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

The map appeared and we looked around on it and finally saw where Emily was. In front of the potions room? Then we saw something walking towards her. Shit. It was Marcus FLINT!

I jumped up off of the couch and ran down the hallways. I then noticed that I had a black tank top on and hello kitty pants. I must have changed in the middle of the night to this because I was cold. I spun around to see Fred standing behind me looking at my pants. I began to laugh and then remembered Emily. I ran over to the potions room only to see Emily with her back to the wall and the ogre kid himself staring at her.

They didn't notice us.

Marcus spat, "I have you alone now."

Emily looked disgusted.

He took two steps closer to her, "You wanna do this the hard way or easy way? I mean I wouldn't want to hex you so you pass out, that wouldn't be as fun for me, now would it?"

I squealed out of repulsion. He turned quickly to see Fred and me standing right there.

He ran away quickly and then we turned to Emily. Fred and I explained the potion to her and she just stared at me.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I tried not to think too deeply about what could have happened between me and Marcus.

Ew.

Fred and Marie and shown up, yet again, to be the big perfect heroes. Fred had explained to me about what Draco (Malfoy) had done with the potion, and I just kind of stood there like 'What the fuck?'

"I don't…I don't really care." I finally said, staring at them.

"What?! What do you mean you don't care?! It wasn't my fault!" Marie yelled, throwing her hands dramatically in the air.

"You still cost me Seamus, and my reputation at the school! Everyone now thinks I slept with Draco just because you couldn't keep you're big mouth shut. You know Seamus likes to spread gossip, but you just went ahead and decided to scream lies to the whole common room!"

Marie stood in the dungeon hallway, looking dumbfounded, "Yeah because Malfoy drugging me was sooo all my fault!"

"I've got to go practice for our challenge tomorrow." I said stiffly, brushing past Fred's shoulder on the way back up the steps out of the dungeons.

Deep in thought, I walked over to the Quittach stadium where everyone practices, staring at the cloudy sky.

I CANNOT believe what just happened…

Sighing, I drew my wand and went over every spell I knew, even blowing up a few seats in the stands by accident.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At dinner~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I sat in silence at dinner, looking sadly at the golden plates filled with food. Bright stars reflected in the glassware, making them look majestic. Seamus refused to talk to me, and right now I was pissed at Fred and Marie. No one else knew about what Malfoy had done, so they wouldn't talk to me either.

I felt really alone, sitting by myself at in the middle of a table. Only Neville would talk to me, not even Harry, Ron or Hermione.

Great.

I felt my throat close over as fresh tears threatened to come.

This is all HIS fault.

I turned around to Draco.

"Draco!" I hissed, swallowing the tears that were about to come.

"What?!" he asked rudely, turning around too.

"You BETTER fix this. Make them believe that we DIDN'T have sex, Draco! Besides, what would your fucking reputation be if they found out you slept with me?" I asked sarcastically.

I hated his guts at this moment. Part of me wanted to rip out his insides, but another part of me just wanted to be with him; gain his approval and love.

I glared at his eyes through my tear stained ones, wishing that he would give in and make things right again. I even half expected him to say something about my wording, using the "fucking reputation".

But as I stared at his eyes, something flickered inside of them, and he nodded, standing up.

"Fine." He cleared his throat, "ATTENTION!!! Emily and I did NOT sleep together!"

He sat back down, staring blankly at me.

"Happy?"

I nodded and turned back around.

Hahahahaha he seemed really upset that everyone knew it was a lie…or maybe he's just upset that now he can't use that to torture me anymore. Either one.

I looked over at Marie and Fred hoping to see them happy with me. And everyone else. But they were too absorbed talking to Harry, Ron, George, Hermione, and Seamus. I over heard them say something about the challenge tomorrow. Wishing luck to Harry and Marie.

Great, thanks.

I thought I should say something, "I'm nervous about tomorrow."

None of them even looked over at me when I said that. Even Marie who sat across from me and was sitting between Fred and Seamus didn't listen. Or Ron who was right next to me, and Harry on the other side of him. Just then Malfoy tried to get my attention and mouthed, "Loser" to me.

"When I win, I'm using the money to hire an assassin to come after you." I smiled at Draco.

He smirked and turned back down to his plate, which he hadn't even touched yet.

I looked down at mine and saw that I hadn't eaten a bite of my turkey or bread, let alone the mashed potatoes. Again, I felt like I had to say something.

"Seamus, please, look at me." I sighed, staring sorrowfully at his crestfallen Irish face.

He glanced up, gave me a blue sad puppy-dog eye look, and then looked back over to Dean again. Groaning loudly, I thumped my forehead to the table, staring at the navy tiled floor.

"Great." I mumbled, rolling my eyes at the floor.

I overheard Marie talking, "I can't believe it. The Yule Ball."

Ron sighed, "I'll never get a date."

Fred laughed, "Well, so far I don't have one either."

Marie stared at him with a raised eyebrow, "Wha?"

Fred smiled, "Wow, I would love to have such a beautiful girl go with me like you Marie. But you are so out of my league."

She laughed, "Well, maybe if you were to take a risk and ask me…"

He sighed, "Its defiantly worth a shot. Marie Elizabeth, would you like to go to the Yule Ball as my date?"

She smiled, "Yes, I would love to. And maybe if you're lucky, you could say that you're going with your GIRLFRIEND." She giggled.

"Oh, man." He laughed still joking around with her, "I don't think you would ever say yes to something like that!"

Ron sounded pissed, "ENOUGH WITH IT!"

Fred laughed, "Don't be jealous brother. Just ask someone."

Ron looked over at Hermione who stared back at him. Ron just looked back at Fred and shrugged then began to eat. Fred rolled his eyes and whispered something to Marie about Ron being quite the ladies man.

I stifled a giggle and poked at my turkey with a silver fork. I looked over at Marie who was now glaring at me after she noticed that I was laughing.

I got up and went to sit with the first years like a complete loser. They all just stared at me blankly.

I saw Marie whisper something in Fred's ear and he smiled. She got up and walked over here. WHAT NOW!?

She came over to me and took my hand and dragged me back over to our normal spot. She didn't say anything and sat back down. Fred smiled at her and looked down at her. I looked at them confused.

"I'm pissed at you for over reacting, but that doesn't mean that you have to sit with the first years." She simply said biting a piece of turkey off her fork.

Over reacting my ass….only fourteen and you think it's alright to have sex…

George, who was sitting next to Fred, started talking to him. Marie was talking to Seamus and he seemed to be slightly smiling. Harry, Ron, and Neville were all wrapped up in their conversation on who to go with to the dance. I just sat there, kind of wishing I was still with the first years.

Just then George looked up at Katie Bell about ten or so people down and mouthed, "You…me…" then did a dancing movement.

She looked at him like he was insane but nodded yes. I looked over at Seamus and wondered who he would go with. Just then, Lavender Brown walked over to our table. She tapped Seamus on the back and asked, "Are you going to the Yule Ball with anyone yet?"

I felt like I had to stop her from asking him to the Yule Ball. So I "accidentally" hit my fork that was leaning on my plate and flung potatoes at her. She screamed and ran away.

Oops.

Not.

I mumbled sorry and poked at my food until dinner was over. Marie and Fred walked over to the common room and everyone else went to their bedrooms.

Ew.

I walked back over to the common room alone, thinking about how much I just wanted to lay down non my bed and sleep, but nerves were killing me!

As I walked up the staircase to the seventh floor (which was completely deserted), I tried to calm myself by singing Barriers by David Archuleta.

(My voice started normal)

Well I don't know how to say this right,
And the words got me choking,
I keep hitting this wall,
It's never gonna fall,
And we're still broken,
This mountain we've been trying to climb,
It's never ending,
Just can't do nothing, gotta do something,
Cause if we don't open up our eyes,
We're just pretending,

(My voice got higher)

Well there's a time for giving up,
Didn't wanna have to say it,
All we're doing is building walls,
And now there's too many barriers,

(My voice got even higher, droning out the last words)

Here we are lying here,
It's our last final goodnight,
Just because it feels so good,
We're used to pretending we're alright,
Too many locks (locks), too many cries (cries),
Too many tears (tears), too many lies (lies),
Too many barriers (barriers).
Oh, just too many barriers.

I decided to change the song, so I began singing Homecoming by Hey Monday.

(My voice started normal again)

Homecoming, I'm coming
My sweet mistake
Summer's over, hope it's not too late
I'm pacing, impatient
Up in my head
Taken back to the sidewalk where we met

(I dragged out the last words, my voice wavering from high to low)

And carved out our names
Do you remember that?

(My voice became high)

I'm coming home, I'm coming home
Did you take off while I was gone?
I missed it all, I messed you up, I missed you
I'm coming home, I wanna know
When all the leaves begin to fall
If I'm falling, falling apart for you!

"ARGH!!!" I finished, stomping on one of the stone beige steps.

I had forgotten, though, that at this time Peeves (A very annoying ghost to likes to play tricks and mess with students and especially Filch) likes to play with the steps.

My foot had gotten stuck, sunk through the step.

"Peeves!!" I screamed, trying to pull out my foot.

It wouldn't budge. My ankle just hurt like heck.

I'm going to do something terrible to that ghost….

I took out my wand, feeling the curves and groves throughout it, trying desperately to think of something to help me. Staring at it, I took in the dark mahogany wood, what looked like vines wrapped around the end, and a ruby and emerald jewel (I think they're fake, but…) on the handle.

A spell finally came to me, and I mumbled it, pointing my wand at the step. My foot retreated, and I said a few things under my breath that my mother wouldn't be proud of as I walked the rest of the way.

I muttered, "Phoenix" to the portrait of the Fat Lady and walked into the common room, immediately spotting Fred and Marie. I crouched below the bug couch directly in front of the fire so they couldn't see me.

This is wrong but…what the hey

They were talking about some random crap, but then they got into something that I couldn't resist overhearing.

"You know my brother Charlie? He doesn't live here but he works with dragons. He…well he's here for the first task." Fred said, and by the sound of his voice, he was proud.

"DRAGONS?!" Marie screamed, and I felt her jump directly off the couch.

"Sssh!!" Fred hushed, "And yes, the first task is dragons."

Silence.

I felt Marie sit back down heavily, probably not believing that we had to fight a dragon or something.

DRAGON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!!!!!

I glared through the couch at Fred, wishing that his brother worked with fluffy bunnies instead. Hearing enough, I crept backwards to the spiraling staircase, watching the back of their heads.

I made it up to the girl's dormitories.

How am I going to fight a dragon tomorrow?!

I climbed into black shorts and a baggy white t-shirt, brushed my teeth, washed my face and lay down on my soft bed.

My head was enclosed in the down pillow, so my ears were blocked of any noise. Sighing, I waited for sleep to come.