"Thank god it's Friday." Rebecca said as she stepped out of the Ancient Ruins classroom with Remus.

"The first weekend is always a relief." He said with a small smile.

"I think every weekend is a relief, I mean everyone needs a break from boring teachers." She said as they headed up to the tower to drop their things off.

"So what do you guys do around here on the weekends? In Salem if we choose to we can go home for the weekend, most people did, except for those who have detention, they have to stay the entire weekend doing all kinds of things. I didn't go home much." She said with a light chuckle.

"I don't know, I usually get my homework done, read a little, take walks around the castle, hang out with James, Sirius and Peter."

"So you don't do a whole lot around here do you?"

"It depends on how you look at it I suppose."

"We can use the field to practice right?"

"Yeah if you want, but someone else might be using it so you might want to reserve it with a teacher and get a note, Slytherins aren't too nice about it, they try to take the field all the time."

"Hey Moony, wait up." James called down the hall as he hurried towards Rebecca and Remus with Peter tagging along behind.

"Where is the dog?" Rebecca asked sarcastically and they all looked at her surprised.

"W-what dog?" Remus stuttered.

"Uh Sirius, he is usually with you." Rebecca asked James who covered his shocked face quickly.

"Uh I saw him tailing after some bird after class." James said with a shrug as he gave a small uncomfortable laugh and looked at Remus and Peter. She glanced at each of them and gave a small nod to herself.

"Right, um well I am going to run ahead and drop off my stuff and go look for Andy, he said he had something to tell me. I'll see you later." She said as she looked at each of them and Remus nodded and she walked down the hall and up the stairs and James turned to Remus.

"Do you think she knows?"

"No, she can't possibly know." Remus said as they walked slowly down the hall.

"But she called him a dog."

"I don't think she meant it that way, she doesn't like him much, I think it was meant as an insult. She doesn't know anything." Remus said calmly and took a deep breath.

"You're right." James said with a nod. "She can't know anything. Can she?"

"No." Remus said surely as they continued down the hall.

After searching for 15 minutes she finally found Andrew out in the courtyard with Claire, Vivian and Malcolm.

"Hey Andy." Rebecca said as she walked up and he laughed at something Claire said.

"Oh hey Becca." He said and then laughed as he looked at Claire and she smiled. "Did you need something?"

"You said you had something to tell me after classes." She said and he paused and nodded.

"Right, Claire will you excuse me please?" He asked and she looked at Rebecca with distaste and smiled at him and nodded before turning to Vivian and Malcolm and striking up a conversation with them as Andrew led her off to the side.

"What is it?" She asked as she looked at the anxious look on his face.

"I got an owl from mom, and she is pregnant." He said with a wide smile and Rebecca stared at him shocked.

"I thought your parents said they weren't going to have any more kids."

"Yeah well I don't know they have been talking about it for a while and I guess they have finally done it, it's a boy." He said and she smiled.

"Andy you have always wanted a brother." She said and she rubbed the back of his head as a dazed expression passed over his face and he sat down on one of the benches.

"I know, I just, I'm really happy, I got the letter during lunch and I have been dying to tell you."

"Well I am happy for you guys, I'll have to write to your parents congratulating them." She said and he nodded.

"I hear you have a date for Hogsmead." He said and she rolled her eyes.

"It isn't a date."

"That's not what I have been hearing." He said with a smile and she scoffed.

"I can not believe the gossip that spreads around here. I mean you talk to a guy and everyone assumes that you are going out, have you heard some of the stuff they have said about us?"

"Yes I have, I mean some of it is true." He said and nudged her and she frowned.

"Why is it that everyone feels the need to butt in to everyone's lives and mix it around and make it sound the worst way possible?"

"Well probably because they are bored to death. I mean we stay here year round pretty much, the only escape is the village, and they need something to keep them occupied, might as well make up crazy stuff about people and spread it around." He said with a shrug.

"So what is going on with you and Claire? You guys are practically on top of each other in class."

"I like her." He said as he looked across the courtyard at her and she looked at him and smiled as she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

"Really?" She asked wide eyed as she looked at Claire.

"Yeah, she is just a little insecure; she really is a nice person. She is funny and smart and pretty."

"Are we talking about the same Claire? The one who gives me death glares every time I so much look in your direction."

"Like I said she is a little insecure. I don't think she means to come off like that, I think its cute." He said and Rebecca scoffed.

"I think it's annoying."

"You think all the girls I like are annoying." He said with a sigh as he leaned his head back.

"Well they are."

"Are you jealous Becca?"

"No, why would I be jealous?" She asked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"It won't change anything between us Becca."

"Yeah right." She said and sighed.

"Becca, you are my best friend, what makes you think a girlfriend will change that?"

"Because it just does." She said as she got up and he looked up at her.

"Becca we both agreed that this was better-."

"Andy it's not that, it's just that, I don't know, you have been different since we have gotten here. I mean it's only been a week and we hardly see each other. You're always with Claire and her friends."

"Becca we are in different houses, of course we aren't going to be able to spend as much time as we used to together."

"I know but I just don't want to like lose you." She said and looked away and he took her hand and she looked up at him.

"You wont loose me, I promise Becca." He said with a smile and she gave him the best smile she could muster and he sighed and slowly let her hand go.

"Well I think I am going to try and find Lily, maybe do some homework so I have an easier load over the weekend." She said and he nodded.

"Alright."

"See you later."

"Yeah." He said and she turned and walked back to the castle and Andrew walked back over to Claire.

"You're awfully quiet." Andrew said as they walked around the grounds late afternoon and she glanced up at him.

"Am I?" She asked and he nodded.

"I guess I am just deep in thought." She said as she looked out over the lake.

"I asked Claire to Hogsmead yesterday, she said yes."

"That's good." She said stiffly and nodded. He stopped and picked up a rock and threw it in to the lake.

"Remember how we tipped over the canoe at camp 2 years ago?"

"I remember, I also remember it was you who tipped us over."

"Lies, I remember you leaning over the edge of the boat which tipped it over."

"That's because you fell in and I was trying to help you out." He said and smiled as she laughed and picked up a few rocks and started to throw them out on to the lake. She skipped one and watched as it went 5 skips and she looked at Andrew with a raised eyebrow and he searched for a rock and threw it 6 skips and smirked at her.

"It's because you're a guy." She muttered and threw a rock out and she sat back on one of the larger rocks.

"What's on your mind?" He asked as he sat down next to her.

"Everything." She said with a smile as she looked at him.

"Anything in particular?"

"Not really."

"I'm really looking forward to going to Hogsmead. Claire described it to me, little shops and all." He said as he picked up a rock and tossed it and caught it and he looked at her.

"You and Remus should meet us for drinks or something."

"Uh no."

"Oh you want to have him all to yourself?" He asked and wiggled his eyebrows and she stared at him blandly.

"I don't even think of him that way and I am sure he doesn't think of me that way."

"I see you guys walking to class, you guys seem pretty close."

"We are just friends, he sometimes comes to the library to work on homework with Lily and I, plus he is a nice guy."

"Do we see a future?" He joked.

"Oh be quiet you silly little person." She said and gave him a small push off the rock and he laughed as he got his footing before he could fall on the ground.

"Hey do you think we could head back? I promised Claire that I would work on Charms with her." He said and she shrugged and stood up.

"I like the grounds, they are very nice. Much better than the stony walls at Salem huh?" He asked as he got in to step with her and she nodded and then they walked in silence.

"So I'll see you at dinner yeah?" he asked as they reached the entrance hall and she nodded and he smiled at her before hurrying up the steps and she sighed and decided to go in search of Lily and headed up to the tower to see if she was there.

She found Lily up in the library and scolded herself for not checking there first.

"Hey." Rebecca said and saw Lily doing Arithmancy. She didn't look up until Rebecca sat down across from her.

"Oh hi.' She said and put her quill down.

"Hey." Rebecca said and leaned back in her seat.

"Did you need something?"

"I'm bored." Rebecca said and looked around and Lily picked her quill up.

"Well I should be done soon, why don't you read or do some homework?"

"I just have the questions from Care of Magical Creatures to do, I'll do those tonight." She said with a shrug.

"Well I want to finish this up so I don't have to do homework tonight. Find something to read." She said and Rebecca got up in search of a book to read.

She skimmed through the books and looked up above her and saw a book on magical healing and she reached up to grab it but sound she could barely reach. She looked around for something to stand on and spotted someone browsing through the books behind her who looked a tad taller then herself. She tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around. He was pale with a large nose, his hair looked greasy as it hung in his face and he held a look of disgust as he looked at her. She had seen him a few times in class but had never talked to him; he was after all a Slytherin.

"Hi, do you suppose you could help me?" She asked as she pointed to the book. "I'm a little too short." She said and he looked up at the book.

"You have a wand you know?" He said unconcerned as he turned back around.

"I don't have my wand on me." She said and he looked back at her.

"That isn't my fault." He said not turning around.

"That's why I asked for help."

"It is none of my concern if you can't reach the book."

"Can you please just grab it for me?" She asked as she started to get frustrated with this guy.

"I'm busy, cant you see?" He asked as he flipped through a book.

"Oh come on, just grab it for me." She said, her voice raising and a few people looked over and the librarian hushed them.

"It would be wise to lower your voice." He said coolly and she glared at him and clenched her fists as he glanced at her, their eyes met and he stared at her for a moment and walked over and grabbed the book and set it down before walking off with his own book.

"Thank you." She said briskly after him and went back to the table with Lily and sat down.

"Why were you yelling?" Lily asked.

"This guy was being a jerk, I asked him to help me get the book and he got all…asshole." She muttered and opened the book and started to flip through it.

"You could have asked nicely."

"Well I did at first and then he started being a jerk." She muttered as she looked across the library and saw him sitting at a desk with his face buried in to the parchment.

"That's him." She muttered and went to her book.

"Oh, Snape." Lily said softly as she glanced over and turned back around.

"Do you know him?" Rebecca asked as she looked up.

"We used to be friends."

"I could understand why you wouldn't want to be friends with him, what a jerk."

"He used to be different before we came to Hogwarts."

"What happened?"

"He started hanging around with some bad people and he called me a mudblood." Lily said resentfully.

"I sure hope you hexed the hell out of him, I sure would have." Rebecca muttered darkly as she looked at Snape.

"We haven't been friends since." Lily said in a final tone and Rebecca took it as a cue to move on.

"Are you almost done Lily?" Rebecca asked as she glanced over.

"Keep asking and I will go slower." Lily said as she looked up with a small smile and Rebecca frowned and looked back down at the book.

"Hey Lily what do you want to do after Hogwarts?" Rebecca asked.

"To be honest, I am not quite sure. I used to want to be a healer but I don't know if I could do that."

"I think you could, you're plenty smart and you're nice, I think you would make a good healer."

"Thanks." Lily said with a smile and Rebecca shrugged. "I used to want to teach, little kids you know, maybe preschool."

"Kids and I do not mix very well." Rebecca said as she dragged her fingers along the desk. "I don't have much patience."

"Yes I know." Lily said with a smile. "Now if you expect me to be done any time soon I suggest we stop talking."

"Right-o." Rebecca said and went back to her book as Lily went back to her homework.

Rebecca tossed and turned in her bed late on a hot Wednesday night. She threw the sheets off herself and sat up as she looked at the clock next to her bed, it was a little past midnight and she could not sleep. She had been tossing back and forth for the past two hours with no sleep. She looked at Kimba sitting on the window sill and he glanced at her and licked his paw, his big blue eyes staring at her and she threw her legs over the side of the bed as she rubbed her face and got up and reached for her wand on her bed side and lit up the tip barely as she went to her trunk and opened it quietly and shone her wand inside. It usually helped to sleep if she read. She grasped a leather bound book and closed her trunk as she headed downstairs for some reading.

She walked down the stairs quietly, passing rooms and she reached the bottom and found the common room dark. The dying fire made small popping noises as the embers simmered and she walked over and lit the fire back up so it was roaring and she turned around and saw Remus sitting on the couch, face in hands as he leaned over the side and she nearly jumped out of her skin.

"Oh shit." She muttered as she jumped back slightly and he looked up at her. His features looked worn and tired as he looked up at her.

"Cant sleep either?" He asked and she shook her head and he motioned to the couch for her to sit. She took her seat at the other end of the couch and he leaned back with a sigh and she watched him.

"Are you all right? You don't look too good."

"Yeah, I am coming down with something, that's all."

"Yeah you haven't looked too hot these past few days." She said as she opened her book.

"Pardon?" He asked as he looked at her.

"You just haven't looked very well these past few days, have you gone to the hospital wing?"

"Its just a cold. Nothing to get worked up about."

"You really don't look that good, you probably should visit the nurse, as scary as she is." She said and he chuckled.

"Yeah she can be a little scary, but she means well." He said and she rolled her eyes.

"So do you normally just sit down here in the dark?"

"Sometimes, yeah."

"Little odd if you ask me." She said and looked at her book.

"Why cant you sleep?" He asked.

"I don't know, I think it was the chocolate that Tess gave me. I knew I shouldn't have eaten it but it smelled really good. She said it was Honeydukes chocolate."

"It is the best."

"Not if you eat it before you go to bed. Never again."

"What are you reading?" He asked as he looked at her book in her lap.

"Oh nothing." She said and held her hand over the cover.

"Nothing?" He asked as he raised his eyebrow.

"Don't judge but its Pride and Prejudice. I'm not some hopeless romantic sop, I just like the book." She said quickly and he chuckled.

"Why would I think you're a hopeless romantic sop?"

"Because Andy calls me a hopeless romantic sop every time he sees me reading it, I avoid letting him see me read it."

"I like her novels, Jane Austen; I'll admit to have read some of her novels." He said sheepishly and she smiled.

"Really? You have read Jane Austen?" She asked surprised eith a smile playing on her lips and he frowned.

"Don't give me a hard time, I get that enough from Padfoot and Prongs." He said and she laughed.

"Alright, I won't say anything." She said with a smile as she held her hands up.

"Do you normally read when you can't sleep?"

"Sometimes, it usually helps me read. I usually read this; I've read it so many times already I practically have it memorized." She said as she ran her fingers over the worn cover.

"Well I think I am going to head back up to bed, see if I can sleep, I'll let you read." He said as he slowly got up.

"You don't have to go." She said and he looked at her.

"I think I should try and get some sleep." He said and she nodded.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow, actually today, since its past midnight- I'll see you later- good night." She said quickly and mentally slapped herself, what the hell was wrong with her?

"Good night Becky. Hope you get some sleep." He said as he started towards the staircase.

"You too." She said and he went up the stairs and she stared at the fire and shook her head to herself, it was just late and she was just a bit tired, it was nothing.

Please Rate and review =) The next one will be longer, i didnt have a lot of spare time this week, but i hope you enjoy and thanks for reading =)