A/N: haha, I really like this Chapter! Lol: P. And it's on time! lol

Chapter eighteen: The crying girl

OoOo Mira-Bella oOoO

"Urgh!" I said in frustration as I let my head fall to the table with a soft thud. Time Travel took its toll on me, when I would return to my own time; my head would throb for hours at a time, not to mention the exhaustion I normally experienced. Sometimes it was like time its self was telling me to stop, or trying to convince me that it wasn't worth the try.

"Bri, maybe we should slow down a little on this whole time travel thing." Ally said as she sat down next to me. I could see where she was coming from, we had done nothing but 'travel' the past few days, and I could tell it was taking a toll on her as well as myself.

"No, I want to get this over with; I have to know as much as I can." I said obstinately. "And besides, we have learned loads of things…" I smiled at all we had learned in the past week.

"Another reason to slow down." Ally said as I looked up from the table.

"If you want to take a break then go ahead," I told her as I stood up so that I could cast the spell. "I will go by myself; all I'm doing Is watching them, trying to find the little things that I can change." I said as I picked my wand back up.

"Brianne…" Ally tried to protest but I didn't listen. Just as quickly as I had stood up I was gone. I closed my eyes as I felt the familiar sting of time travel, and then I felt my head ache disappear. Almost as if it was never there.

I felt my feet land firmly on the ground beneath me, which was a relief, sometimes I thought I would never land. Sometimes it felt like I was going to be soaring through time forever.

I opened my eyes and glanced around to see where the spell had taken me this time. The spell had a tendency to take me where I needed to be, which, was not part of its design. I had noticed over time that I was changing things without even really noticing it. At first it was a happy mistake, but then one day I screwed up and had to redo it… because apparently attacking Ron is a bad thing…

At times it was almost like the spell wanted some things changed, not that that makes any sense… and in my opinion, this is a spell is worse than a boy, seeing as it sends out tons of mixed messages…

I noticed that I was in an deserted corridor, or so I though, it wasn't one I was familiar with. I couldn't figure out why it was so unfamiliar, I had the marauders map and I knew the castle as well as I knew my name. I took a step forward and paid close attention to my surroundings.

Over the soft crackling and popping of the torches I could faintly hear what sounded like someone sobbing. As I slowly inched forward, the sound became more defined. I slowly poked my head around the corner. It was then that I discovered where I was. I was in the unused corridor on the ground floor, it was off to the side of the staircase and hidden in an alcove. They had relocated the class rooms that had once been here because the first years had trouble finding it… Hence the reason I wasn't familiar with this corridor.

At the end of the corridor I saw a girl sitting against the wall with her head buried in her arms against her knees. All I could tell about her was that she was around fifteen, the same as me, and had long black hair that fell in soft curls that came to just below her shoulders.

"Are you okay?" I asked hesitantly as I stepped into full view of the girl. My words caused her to jump. I watched as her head snapped up in panic and searched for the source of the voice. When her eyes rested on me, some of her fear disappeared.

Now that I could see her I could tell that she was pretty, her features were soft and composed, despite the fact that she looked like someone had been killed. Her mascara had ran down her cheeks making black uneven lines around her chocolate brown eyes, the rest of her face was splotchy and wet from her tears.

"I'm fine." She said quietly as she rubbed her hand against her cheek. There was something so familiar about this girl, but I couldn't quite place it. There was something about the way she tried to stay so composed when obviously she was a mess… I knew for a fact that this girl wasn't my mom or aunt, sooo, how could helping her fix anything? But I went with the flow, it was against my nature not to help...

"No you aren't." I sighed as I walked down to her end of the corridor and sat down next to her. "If you were fine you wouldn't be crying right now." I told her as she closed her eyes. "You would be in your dorm with all of your friends laughing and having a good time."

"Really it's nothing." She insisted as she tried to pull herself together, "Sometimes I just have to let it all out," She told me sadly. "It may seem like the end of the world now, but in five years it will be a bump in the uneven road that we all travel." She said, and just like that, all in the way she said it, I knew who this girl was. I knew why I was here and I knew why I had to help her…

OoOo Draco oOoO

Draco got cut off when someone made a comment, and he wasn't too pleased.

"Who wants to take bets on who it is?" Blaise asked with excitement as he summoned a piece of parchment and a quill. "20 galleons its Tracy Davis." He said writing down his bet.

"I agree with Blaise." Cherokee said smiling as Draco glared at them all. Blaise wrote her name next to his.

"Padma Patil." Luna said causing people to glance at her like she was crazy, Padma didn't have black hair, Parma's hair was a dark brown, a very dark brown.

He watched as Hermione smiled, "Ummm… Romilda Vane." Ginny and Harry quickly agreed with her, Romilda was a strong person and wouldn't want to be seen I such a weak state, though everyone has their moments. Seamus didn't have any idea, neither did Tom or Amethyst.

"Hmmmm.." Christian said with his best thinking expression. "Who do I know, that used to say that all the time…" He said with a knowing look upon his face. Everyone looked at him waiting for his guess. "I have no clue." He said quickly, a look of understanding on his face. He wasn't going to reveal who he thought it was. Everyone rolled their eyes and looked away.

"Uhhhhh." Taylor said grasping for straws. "Oh what was her name…" She said trying to remember some name that she just wasn't recalling. "Ron's friend… You know the one who threw a rock at his head while they were locked in the dungeons of Malfoy manor…" She snapped her fingers "Kristina Philips." Christian scoffed at this.

"Yeah sure…" Christian said.

"Don't you scoff, Kristina is a very strong person, she is always composed, plus she has to she's a Slytherin, and keeps up an appearance, and as the person said 'sometimes I have to let it all out' not everyone can keep there emotions bottled up forever, at some point the bottle gets full and the emotions spill over and then you have a puddle, and no one likes to clean up puddles, So at some point you have to find somewhere privet and let it all out…" Taylor said all in one breath. "And don't act like you haven't done the same thing as Kristina…" Everyone started laughing. "It isn't funny!" She screeched. No one stopped laughing.

"We are just laughing at how opinionated you are… and if it helps I think your right." Amethyst said smiling.

"Let's just get back to the story…" Taylor said changing the subject.

"Good idea, AND DO NOT INTERRUPT ME AGAIN!" Draco said firmly as he began to read again.

OoOo Mira- Bella oOoO

"You are completely right." I said smiling at her. "Do you want to talk about what happened?" I asked her.

"Sort of, but then again I don't." she said resting her head against the wall behind her. "Let's just say the world is full of people whom you think are your friends." she said quietly, "and then, to prove you wrong, they make your life a living Hell, tell all of your secrets and then finally they treat you like a potions ingredient and crush you into a fine powder." She said.

"Did you ever think that maybe they weren't really your friend to start with. Or that maybe they are jealous of you?" I asked her. "You are bound to do great things, things that if I told you them you would think I'm crazy… But trust me when I say that you have a lot of friends you just need to know where to look."

"How do you know?" She asked in confusion.

"Ask me in…. what year is this?" I asked and she looked even more confused.

"1995" She said hesitantly.

"Ask me in sixteen years." I said as I got up. "Oh, and whatever you do, don't try to stop me…" I smiled and then took out my wand. I left her sitting there with a confused look on her face.

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"Shit!" I yelped as I landed back in the library a little un-gracefully on my back.

"What the hell Bri, you left me in the middle of a sentence…" Ally said in frustration.

"You will never guess who I saw…" I taunted. "And I potentially saved us a lot of trouble…." I said as I got up and brushed myself off. "I think…" I really wouldn't know until the next day.

"Who?" She asked curiously her irritation forgotten.

"Problem numero uno!…" I said in a sing song voice.

"NO WAY!" She whispered loudly, she didn't want to alert madam Pince to our happiness.

"YES WAY!" I said and we both began to dance stupidly around the room.

"I think they have lost their minds…" A voice said from behind us and I spun around with a smile on my face.

"Hi, Jace!" I said waving excitedly. "OH! And no, we aren't Crazy; we are just relieved that I solved problem numero uno…"

"You mean we won't have to deal with…" He trailed off in realization and then joined in on our random dancing.

"Well I told her not to stop me… and helped her through something…" So maybe that's a good thing."

"Now we just have to figure the rest of it out…" I froze as Allie said that.

"Awww.." I groaned

"Buzz kill." Jace said laughing. "You had to go put that out there."

"Well it's the truth, and we need to face it." I said sitting down and putting my head on the table… "What now." I asked, I was out of ideas.

"We could make a roasted pig explode during dinner…" Jace said shrugging me and Ally exchanged glances…

"As fun as that may sound, I'm just so sure that professor Dumbledore would love that." I said as I rolled my eyes at him. Why would I want to make a roasted pig explode?

"Um… so what now?" I asked in confusion. I really had no clue where to go from there. "I don't think I can do it."

"I have no clue." Jace said sitting down next to me. I felt his hand on top of mine. "But knowing you, you're going to figure it out." He smiled at me. "Just have some faith in yourself."

I laced my fingers with his and smiled, "I doubt it."

OoOo Draco oOoO

"Yawn," Draco said closing the book and dropping it onto the table. He was tired of reading it. "I am still not too fond of that Jace kid…" He said causing the others to laugh.

"You think I am joking…" He said In frustration. "But I'm not… Tom would agree with me…. Wait where is my father in law?" He asked. It was the first time any of them had realized he was gone.

"Shit!" Harry said jumping up. "I knew this was too good to last…" He cast a silent spell. "Well don't just sit there! Look for him! If he gets away, which I highly doubt, then we are screwed and he will have to be killed."

Blaise had just reached the door when it flew open and hit him in the face. He fell backwards onto the floor. Draco laughed at his friend as he laid on the floor in pain.

"Owww." he groaned as he sat up. "FOUND HIM!" He pointed at the confused man in the door way as Harry cast another spell.

Tom was standing in the doorway holding what looked like a peanut butter and macaroni sandwich. Everyone eyed the sandwich with disgust.

"How can you possibly eat that?" Draco asked with a scrunched up nose.

"Are you pregnant?" Harry asked his father in law with a smirk. Tom blushed.

"I grew rather fond of them while Amethyst was pregnant with Ginny…" He said, she was craving one and I took a bite, and you know what, they aren't that bad, don't knock them till you try one."

"And tomorrow's lesson will be run on sentences…" someone said sarcastically causing a chuckle to pass among them.

"Next time you want a sandwich, tell us so that we don't think you are making a run for it…" Harry said as he fell back onto the couch.

"Oh not even I am that stupid." he scoffed. "If I wanted to make a run for it…" He smirked, "I would have done it after the hearing when young Harry here went to the loo and I snatched his wand from his back pocket as he went in…"

Harry reddened… "I didn't know you were that good a pick pocket…" He mumbles as everyone laughed. "And besides, you wouldn't have been able to use it, its Voldy proof…" He said dismissively.

"Tell that to the wizard who got boils in an uncomfortable place." Harry glared at him.

"Yeah well…" Harry said shooing dangers at the man, "You won't be able to do that again….

"What the Hell!" Seamus said as he rubbed his bum on the couch, "why am I so damn itchy!" They all looked at Voldemort who was holding up Harry's wand. Harry snatched it from him and just walked away. He didn't know how much longer of this he could take.

OoOo Ginny oOoO

"You want to cater the wedding?" Ginny asked skeptically as her father looked at her eagerly.

"Oh Please Ginny Alice, I need something to do, it would make my day…" he pleaded.

"No, you are not catering my wedding…. Maybe the rehearsal dinner but not my wedding, my mum has dibs on that…" She said referring to Mrs. Weasley.

"YAY!" And he rushed away. Ginny had a bad feeling about this.

OoOo A/N oOoO

Keep in mind that everything that happened in the love happens was from Hermione's and the groups perspective as it was happening to them, everything in this one is how it was happening as Mira saw/ accomplished them… so all of the changes she made led to Hermione and companies perspective. Oh and I have a detail screw up in an earlier chapter, I am going to try to fix that…. That's what I get for adding something spontaneous… I might have to fix the whole chapter to make it work, but if I do I will tell you :P would yall be mad at me id I had to change the whole chapter, please don't be mad at me for that :P which i probably won't change it all, just Mira's part... lol

1. Did you love it!

2. What was your favorite part, mine was Taylor's (haha) little rant on why it could be Kristina :P lol I got a kick out of that, much more of a kick than i should have... lol

3. Who do you think the girl was. I don't know if I am ever going to specifically say, I think that I left enough clues and then I kinda want it to be who you think it is cause in a way I guess it could be any of the people I named or even a few that I didn't… so let me know who you think it is! Please :P

4. What is Hermione's problem.

5. Would you kill me if I re wrote a previous chapter to make it work?

6. What would you like to see happen?

7. Have you seen the new Trailer for the new movie... I LOVED IT! lol my favorite part of that is when Harrys all 'Come on Tom, lets finish this how we started it, together...' then he grabs Tom's shoulders and jumps off of a tower!Extreme diviation but i love that one little snippit... lol haha and Snapes Twirly cape thing... lol thats cool too...

REVIEW PLEASE!

~Taylor (a Slytherin at heart)