After potions class Lucy ran straight to her dormitory. She was having the most horrible week and all she really wanted was to be alone for a while so she could think.
Christmas was in a few days, but Lucy found that she couldn't fully enjoy the all the holiday festivities because nothing seemed to be going right.
She felt stupid for trusting professor Craig, and for giving up her spot on the Jr English quidditch team. Her father had played for the Jr English quidditch team in his day, and she knew that he would be proud of her, but now that she had given up her spot how could he be? However, this was not the worst of Lucy's problems. She began to replay the scene in her head. The scene that she couldn't stop thinking about yet caused her so much pain to revisit.
In her head she saw the events that had happened a few days ago. She was skipping down the corridor, on her way to meet her friends in the room of requirement for their epic sleepover. She remembered hearing Cavan's voice in the corridor up ahead, and how she thought she would go say hello. striding confidently towards Cavan's voice with her blonde curls bouncing behind her, she was just about to open her mouth to call his name when she heard something that stopped her dead in her tracks.
"I can't back out now, I'm in no position to at this point. If I were to leave now then they would kill me and Neon too. The Dark Lord is not forgiving"
Lucy remembered how she felt then. She remembered her heart racing and feeling like her limbs were weighing her down and she couldn't move. What happened next, Lucy could not remember. The concussion that Ariana gave her made it hard to remember things sometimes, but she remembered finding herself in the room of requirement and how she had been immediately comforted by her friends, but even her friends could not make her forget what she had just heard.
Was Cavan a death eater, was Neon in danger? The constant swirl of questions in Lucy's head made her dizzy. She finally came to her senses and sat on her bed next to Posy. She still had homework to do and it she hadn't eaten dinner yet, but Lucy found herself drifting off to sleep anyways.

The next morning in the great hall Lucy went to sit next to Ellie. She couldn't bear to see Ellie so upset. Her beautiful brown eyes had seemed to have lost their sparkle since Amrit broke up with her. Lucy brought her a chocolate chip pancake and let her vent about how horrible Amrit was.
"what a jerk! I hope his future career involves mandrakes!" lucy yelled and they both giggled at this. They were so busy laughing with their insults for amrit that they almost didn't notice Veronica being verbally abused by Halda Magnum (ew).
" I know you've been using dark magic to on Cedric Diggory! there's no way he would just like you the way you are! You're ugly and stupid and we all no you used dark magic to enchant your broom! and what's worse is that you don't have any friends to defend you"
"oh yes she does" hollered Neon who had arrived just in time.
"Yeah we're her friends and we know you're just jealous that Cedric likes her more than you!" Lucy joined in with Ellie at her side, who already had her wand in her hand.
Halda knew she was outnumbered so she sat down humiliated and defeated, and what was even better was that Cedric was close by and he couldn't take his eyes off Veronica.
"What is it with all these bitches at Hogwarts?" Neon said while adjusting her super cute neon bow in her hair. since no one knew the answer to this question they all just linked arms and walked out of the great hall smiling at there obvious victory over Halda Magnum.