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It was now early April, the school year had been uneventful for the group of fifth years. It's been the same routine for Atticus and Marnie, their daily and nightly Prefect rounds returning from them in the early morning. Then restarting the routine again. Marnie was mailing a letter to her cousin and walking back from the Owlery.

"Jacobs?" A voice asked.

She turned to see Angelina.

"Do you have a moment to talk?"

"I suppose."

Angelina started. "Lee told me everything that happened."

Marnie groaned. Of course this is about Lee.

"I'll admit Lee has a big mouth which he used to flirt with me. I know for a fact that he wouldn't betray you like that. I'm not saying that your friends did it either so don't worry about that."

"Then who did tell the whole school?"

"I don't know but it wasn't Lee. He does care about you very much."

Marnie has to admit she misses talking to him and she does care about him. Merlin, she messed up for jumping to conclusions.

"I'll see you later, Jacobs."

"Bye, Johnson."

The two girls went to their separate common rooms. Marnie recited the answer to the riddle and walked in.

"Hey Marnie."

"Hey Atticus." she said sitting down next to him and stretching her legs on his lap.

"I'm not a foot rest," he chuckled tickling her foot with his quill.

Marnie giggled. She was quite ticklish on her feet.

"I've always loved your laugh."

Marnie smiled at him.

It was now the Quidditch final, it was Gryffindor vs Slytherin. Marnie sat in the Gryffindor stands next to Madison. This is the first time since Charlie Weasley was in school that Gryffindor had been in the Quidditch final. Lee started to do the commentary. Marnie had missed hearing his voice. She slightly zoned out.

"Gryffindor has won!" Lee's voice exclaimed loudly.

Marnie glanced around and the stands had gone wild including Percy who was usually rather stoic but he was jumping up and down like a maniac. Madison hugged her sister excitedly.

Marnie glanced through the crowd looking for Lee to apologize. She saw him in the crowd her heart skipped a beat as she started to walk towards him but suddenly she saw a certain ginger come out of nowhere and plant a kiss on his lips.

It was good that it was so loud if it wasn't you could hear Marnie's heart shatter into a million little pieces. She wiped a tear from her eye, darted out of the Quidditch Pitch towards the Ravenclaw common room, tearfully recited the answer to the riddle and walked in.

"Marnie what's wrong?" Atticus asked rushing over to his distraught best friend.

She fell into his arms and sobbed. He led her to the sofa and comforted her by stroking her hair.

"Ugh, I can't trust guys except for you and my dad." Marnie said frustrated.

"What happened?"

"I went to the Quidditch final. I missed hearing Lee's voice so I got lost in his commentary. Gryffindor won and I was about to go apologize to him but I saw him kissing someone else."

"Who was that?"

"Ward!" she spat vehemently.

Atticus nodded.

"He must have a thing for redheads."

Atticus said. "That's like saying you would end up fancying someone dark haired because you're best friends with me."

"I suppose so. He's probably been dating her for a while now. I can't believe I was so stupid to fall for him."

Atticus said. "So, you do fancy him?"

"Isn't it obvious." she sighed.

Before Atticus could reply Jaq walked in. She immediately noticed that Marnie was upset. Atticus filled her in.

"He's a git."

"But I still can't help but fancy him."

Her friends nodded.