It had been a few days since I'd arrived in the maze for the third time, and I was starting to get the hang of first-year magic. Harry and I had been hanging out more and more often, and I still didn't know what to do about us. I decided to go see Dumbledore.

I knocked on his office door and entered.

"Ah, May. I thought you might come to see me."

"Yes, sir, I-"

"I have only one thing to tell you. The truth is a powerful thing." Dumbledore winked at me.

"Um, yes, sir, that's true, but-"

"Take this. Use it well."

Dumbledore handed me an old book with a picture of a wand and a sword on the cover. I took it.

"Okay, but sir, I-"

"Off you go." Dumbledore kindly gestured towards the door, and I was too confused to argue as the door closed behind me.

That night, I pondered what Dumbledore had said. Had he meant I had to tell my parents the truth? I thought about it the next day when I was supposed to be taking notes in Transfiguration and decided I had to tell them, because I was ready to be serious with Harry, which meant visiting this world a lot.

I woke up the next Saturday with a plan. I said good morning to my friends, but got dressed quickly and went down to the Great Hall by myself. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were already sitting at the Gryffindor table. I walked over.

"Harry, can I talk to you alone for a minute?"

Hermione smirked at me and Ron smirked at Harry as we left the Great Hall and hid behind a tapestry concealing a secret passage in the Entrance Hall.

"Harry, I have to tell my parents the truth. I'm doing it today, and if they freak out, it's possible we'll never see each other again."

"What?" Harry stared at me. He looked down and blushed. "May, I-"

I cut him off by kissing him. His eyes were open in surprise, but then he closed them and kissed me back. I closed my eyes and savoured the moment.

I finally pulled away and looked at him.

"Why today?" He asked quietly.

"Because I'm afraid I'll lose my nerve and stay here forever. I can't do that to my parents, even if they don't know it."

"Oh."

We looked at each other for a couple minutes, his leaf-green eyes into my forest-green eyes, before I finally stepped away.

"See you later, Harry." I said, hoping I really would.

I went to back into the Great Hall to eat breakfast and say goodbye to Eden, Honora, Clementine, Isla, and Adel. As I was about to leave, I thought of something. The book Dumbledore had given me. It had a wand and a sword on it. For wizards and muggles.

I wonder…

I went back to the common room to test my theory. The book was lying on my bedside table, so I picked it up and opened it. It was completely blank, but that didn't stop me. I brought it to my nose and sniffed the pages, and felt the now familiar feeling of falling through water.

When I opened my eyes, I was back in my room on the night I last left it. I sighed happily and climbed into bed, planning to tell my parents everything tomorrow.

The book had done as I thought it would. It brought me to my own world, and I suspected it would bring me back to the wizarding world the next time I smelled the pages, making sure no one forgot what had happened.

It now sat innocently on my bedside table, and I fell asleep soon after, dreaming happily of Harry.

"Waffles, please!" I said cheerily, sitting down at the table with a smile on my face.

"What happened to you?" Mom asked, getting out ingredients for breakfast. "Why are you so cheerful this morning?"

I shrugged. "It's Saturday. No school."

I carefully arranged my utensils, plate, and cup on the table in front of me so they were perfectly straight with a small grin on my lips. Mom shook her head and started making the waffles.

Dad walked into the kitchen just as Mom was pouring maple syrup on my waffles.

"Something smells good." He kissed Mom on the forehead, and they both sat down at the table across from me with their breakfast. I thought of how that could eventually be Harry and I, and my stomach jumped.

"I have to tell you something." I said, trying not to smile. "You might not believe me, but I can prove it's true, and I'm very excited about this, so try to help me out, okay?"

My parents looked at each other, a little confused.

"Okay." They said.

"Okay. The thing is… I can travel into books. Like, I've gone into the Harry Potter books multiple times since last week, and I've met the characters and taken classes at Hogwarts and everything."

My parents sat silently for a minute. Finally, Dad turned to Mom, who was still staring at me.

"Honey, could I talk to you in the kitchen for a minute?"

"Uh-huh." Mom got up looking dazed. "We'll be back in a minute, May."

I looked after them, panic starting to tie my stomach in knots. That couldn't be good. I picked at my food while I waited for them to come back, and when they did, I put down my fork entirely. They both had condescending faces, and Mom approached me slowly, putting a hand on my shoulder, and smiling at me.

"Are you okay, sweetie? Do you… do you need help?"

I stared at her for a moment before realizing she thought I'd gone crazy and wanted me to see a therapist.

"Mom! No! Get off me! I'll prove it to you!" I pushed Mom off and ran upstairs to get the book.

As I walked back down the stairs, I could hear my parents whispering to each other. They both looked scared as I entered the kitchen. I rolled my eyes at them.

"Mom. Dad. Come on. I'm not going crazy! Come here." I opened the blank book and told them to smell the pages when I counted to three.

We did, and I felt like I was falling through water before landing in my dormitory with my parents. They were holding each other, looking terrified now.

"May? Where are we? What just happened?" Dad asked, looking around.

"We just entered the wizarding world of Harry Potter!" I announced, gesturing to the dormitory. "We fell through the book into the Hufflepuff fifth-year girls' dormitory." My parents slowly let go of each other as they realized what was happening and tried to believe it.

I showed them my dormitory and introduced them to Knight, who was roaming the common room.

"This is Knight. I got him in Diagon Alley with Hagrid."

Mom knelt down and started petting him. He purred.

"Hello, Knight."

"Can we keep him?" I asked hopefully.

My parents looked at each other.

"All right." Dad answered.

I beamed. "Thank you!"

I then took them up to the seventh floor to have Dumbledore explain everything to them and help them believe. I knocked on his door, and he called us in.

"May, how good to see you!" Dumbledore winked at me, knowing I would come back. "And you must be Mr. and Mrs. Green." Dumbledore stood up to shake their hands. "I'm Professor Dumbledore. Please make yourselves comfortable."

Dumbledore waved his wand, and two more armchairs appeared in front of his desk, identical to the one already sitting there. My parents sat down in them, bewildered. I sat in the third one, watching my parents. They were looking around Dumbledore's office, looks of awe on their faces.

"I don't like to 'toot my own horn', as they say, but I do have quite a number of fascinating objects, don't I?" Dumbledore looked around his office too, fondly. He then got down to business.

A while later, my parents actually believed me, and were taking the situation seriously. Dumbledore looked at me.

"I think it's time for you to take over." He said, and I had the sensation Harry had so often had in the books, of being x-rayed by Dumbledore's piercing blue gaze. My parents turned to me. I decided to get the worst over with first.

"So, the thing is, Mom and Dad…"

"What, this wasn't 'the thing'?" Dad asked, grinning a little.

"...No. This was an introduction to 'the thing'." I waited, but no one spoke, so I kept going. "The thing is that Harry and I are kind of… together."

Mom drew in a sharp breath, excitement sparking in her eyes. "As in…?"

I sighed. "Yes, Mom, as in he's my boyfriend."

Mom squealed, actually squealed, and grabbed Dad's arms. "Did you hear that, our baby has a boyfriend! May has a boyfriend!"

Dad chuckled. "Yes, honey, I heard. That's great, May."

I looked at Dumbledore, who was smiling amusedly at my parents. I soon got Mom to calm down, and once she did, she realized what the problem was.

"How will this work?" She asked the room at large, the smile sliding off her face. "We can't move here, and he can't move to our world, can he?"

Dumbledore smiled gently. "No, he can't."

Mom looked at me desperately. You could tell she was ecstatic I finally had a real live friend. A real live more-than-a-friend.

"Here's what I propose." Dumbledore said. I looked at him in surprise. Dumbledore usually left deciding and coming up with ideas up to me. Mom looked at him quickly and eagerly. "I think May should finish school in your world. The two will be able to visit between worlds, but they're both still children. Then, if May would like, once she's graduated high school or university," he gestured to my parents, "it's up to you, I would be willing to offer May a spot at Hogwarts for seven years. Then it's up to May and Harry. By then, they'd be adults."

I was surprised. Dumbledore had my whole future planned out, assuming Harry and I wouldn't break up. I wasn't even mad, though, which was weird; but it actually sounded like a pretty good plan.

"You could, of course, change anything about this proposition that you like, or discard it completely; it is, after all, just that: a proposition."

"No, no, that actually sounds pretty good." I said. "Mom? What do you think?"

"Yes, I like the sound of that." Mom said, turning to Dad. He nodded, smiling.

Joy burst inside of me. I had to tell Harry right away.

"Go." Dumbledore said, smiling at me. "I look forward to having you at my school in a few years."

"Thank you, sir. For everything." I practically pushed my parents back to the Hufflepuff common room and forced them back to our world, telling them I'd be back in a couple hours. I had some people to talk to.

When I came out of the dormitory, my friends were lounging on the couches and armchairs in the common room.

"May!" Screeched Clementine, bouncing up and giving me a hug. "You're back! What's happening? What's going on?" The other girls were on the edges of their seats, ready to listen intently; all except Eden, who was looking like she might fall asleep. Honora kicked her, then leaned in to kiss her.

"Woah, hey, when did that happen?" I asked, gesturing to Honora and Eden, who were now in full make-out mode.

"Ah, ah, ah, your story first, then ours." Said Eden, pulling away from Honora, then smiling at her and giving her another quick kiss. I made an exasperated noise, then sat down, resigned to the fact that I would have to go first.

"I'm sort of staying!" I exclaimed, and everyone squealed, even Adel. "I have to finish school in my world, but I can visit, and I might even go here in a few years!"

"That's so awesome!" Isla gasped.

"I know, I know!" I let them have a couple more minutes of excitement before I finally asked about Honora and Eden.

They looked at each other and smiled, and I got that gush I felt when I was reading a book and something cute happened between the two members of my ship.

"Well…" Honora started. "I was finally going to ask out Susan Bones."

"Oh my god, good for you!" I exclaimed, and Adel shushed me.

"Right before I was going to do it, Eden pulled me aside and told me not to, and when I asked her why, she said 'I want you to ask me instead.'"

"So she did, and I kissed her, and we've been officially girlfriend and girlfriend for five hours and fifty-seven minutes now." Eden finished the story, checking her watch.

The two girls shared another quick kiss, then Adel stated boldly: "Whatever the staff are trying to prevent by dividing the girls and boys won't work so well with you two."

Isla, Adel, Clementine and I laughed as Eden and Honora flushed deep red.

"Sorry, that had to be said." Adel giggled.

"May, have you told Harry yet?" Isla asked.

"No, I was actually on my way to do that when I bumped into you guys. Who distracted me with all your kissing." I added for Honora and Eden's benefit. "Okay, sorry, I'm done teasing." I told them, giving them all hugs before I left the room.

"I'll see you all later!" I smiled and waved, then exited the round door into the corridor across from the kitchens.

I wandered around Hogwarts aimlessly, having no idea where Harry could be right now. I came across some professors, who I stopped to talk to, and I nodded to the ghosts I passed. I even grinned at Peeves, who was unscrewing a chandelier on the second floor; nothing could get me down today.

I finally met Harry coming in from the grounds on the first floor. He was coming around the corner, like he had been in the maze, but this time, he knew who I was.

"May!" He ran to me and kissed me, and I smiled against his lips.

"I told you I'd see you later." I told him.

He kissed me harder in response.

I was surprised no one walked by us, and when he finally pulled away, he left his forehead against mine so I could feel his breath on my mouth.

"So you're staying?"

"Pretty much. I have to finish school in my world, but I can visit, and then Dumbledore said I could come to Hogwarts!" I said excitedly, lifting my head so I could see Harry's eyes. They sparkled with happiness.

"That's brilliant!"

"I know!"

Harry pulled me into his arms, and I rested my head on his shoulder. We stayed there happily, hugging in a Hogwarts corridor, and I let excitement consume me. I knew I would be happier starting my new life than I had ever been before.