It was a couple days later, Atticus and Marnie were on their Prefect rounds when there was a noise. They went to go check it out. They found Madison snogging Terry passionately. Marnie chuckled as she began tugging Atticus out of the room.
"Miss Jacobs, Mr. Boot. What are you doing?"
"What does it look like, Quigley?" Madison asked annoyed.
"It looks snogging, 20 points from Gryffindor and 10 points from Ravenclaw."
Marnie asked. "Atticus, don't you think that's too much? It's only snogging."
"You're just going easy on her because she's your sister, Marnie," he claimed.
"It's just snogging, Atticus."
The boy just stormed out of the room much to his best friend's confusion. They finished their rounds in silence.
It's been a couple days, Atticus has avoided Marnie ever since the incident. It's worrying her. She was sitting outside with Lee with her head in his lap.
"Lee, can I ask for your advice from a guy's POV?"
"Sure, love."
"Atticus has been avoiding me ever since we caught Maddie snogging Terry a few days ago. He's never avoided me this much."
"Maybe he's jealous of us," Lee suggested.
Marnie said. "He's never had those feelings for me though."
"Maybe he just realized he has feelings for you."
Marnie said. "I hope that's not the case, he knows I've had feelings for you for the longest time."
Lee smiled down at her. They walked back inside and Lee walked her to the Ravenclaw common room. He kissed her goodbye. The kiss turned into a long snog.
The couple broke apart. Lee said goodbye to Marnie again and walked away. Marnie walked into the Ravenclaw common room to see Atticus sitting on the couch.
"Atticus Dylan Quigley! Please explain to me what's going on!"
He looked up at her. "You're lucky that you and Lee can be open with your relationship."
"Is this your way of saying that you're gay?"
"No, I'm as straight as an arrow."
"Okay."
"Don't hex me when I tell you this, okay."
"Do you have feelings for me?"
He chuckled. "You're not the Jacobs girl I fancy."
"You fancy Madison?"
"I do, I'm seventeen. She's fourteen, granted almost fifteen but I still feel like a weirdo."
"Atticus, you're not weird. You can't help who you fall for."
The boy sighed. "You're not upset that I fancy your fourteen year old little sister?"
"No, if anything you're lucky that you're my best friend. If this was any other seventeen-year-old guy confessing that they fancied my fourteen- year-old sister, they would end up in the hospital wing."
He sighed again. "I was bloody jealous when we caught her snogging Terry."
"Is that why you took so many points away from her?"
"Yeah."
"It's funny that we both fancy Gryffindors."
Atticus nodded.
Over the next year and a half, the school years were rather eventful. He end of her sixth year Cedric was murdered by Peter Pettigrew. Cho had been devastated which had been understandable. Her seventh year was eventful because they had a horrible Defense Professor Dolores Umbridge. She forced Lee to use a blood quill so he had scars on his wrist. In late March of that year, the twins had left with fanfare. Though Lee was very upset but Marnie was there to comfort him.
It was now the start of Madison's sixth year. Marnie was seeing her sister off along with Atticus. Although Atticus was confused why he was there.
"Atticus?"
He turned to the younger Jacobs sister. Merlin, she was beautiful. Her red hair was pulled back into a ponytail.
She smiled at him and pulled him into a kiss much to his surprise.
"How long have you known that she's liked me back?" Atticus asked as they pulled apart.
"For a bit."
The train whistled and Madison boarded the train.
