It amazed Jenni and James just how quickly Christmas break passed and that for the second time they were on the Hogwarts Express for the second time. They had asked Harry and Ginny about their plans to stay at Hogwarts for Easter break with Fred and some friends, and their results seem to be favorable for them. They told them that as long as they have two or more friends staying then they're allowed to stay for the break. The two kids were ecstatic with the reply, and so was Fred once they told him in the compartment.

The train arrived at the school earlier than usually, allowing everyone some time to settle in before going down to the Great Hall for a welcoming feast made by the house-elves. The first year Gryffindor girls' dormitory was loud with warm greetings.

"Melanie! I've missed you so much!" Jenni cried happily as she and the blonde girl embraced in a tight hug.

"Don't ever leave me again!" cried an equally happy Melanie.

"I can't believe it's only been two weeks since we last saw each other," Beth stated, amazed. All five girls looked around at each other and couldn't believe that in that small amount of time, all of them missed one another as though it was two months.

"Imagine how strange it'll be over summer if none of us see each other," Hannah commented.

"That wont happen," Jenni said seriously, earning curious looks from the four girls, "because we'll have to make plans to see each other every week." They nodded and agreed with those words.

Dominique came into their dormitory and said that it was time to eat, so the five girls linked arms and they walked to the Great Hall chatting to each other joyfully. After Headmistress McGonagall's welcome back speech everybody dug into the filling foods displayed in front of him or her.

The five girls sat with each other and took turns filling everyone in on their break. Beth and her family went to Germany for Christmas and New Years. Hannah, Scarlett, Melanie and their families stayed home for the Christmas season and did their family traditions: picking out Christmas trees, sipping hot chocolate by the warm fire, eating cookies and telling stories.

Jenni listened intently to all of her friends' stories and reminisced the traditions she would do with her parents: her parents would wake her up right at midnight on Christmas day, have hot cocoa ready for her, and the three of them would stand in the pavement in the snow as they drank their cocoa and let small amounts of snowflakes fall into their hats and hair.

Jenni had done this before she participated in the midnight snowball fight at the Burrow. She had told Teddy she had a tradition to continue without going into details, and by the time she came back the fight had begun, but she didn't care.

When Jenni told her girls this they smiled warmly at her, and told her how her parents would be happy she continued a Christmas tradition - even if they weren't there to celebrate it with her.

Scarlett asked about Jenni about what her guardians said about staying for Easter break. Jenni told them all what Harry and Ginny had told her and James.

"I'll send my parents a letter in the morning!" said an enthusiastic Scarlett.

"Me too!" Melanie said eagerly.

The next couple of weeks were starting to get stressful for the first years considering classes were getting tougher with 'final term talk' from their professors and what they should expect for the next few school years.

Jenni was staying up later and later more than she would like, and occasionally fell asleep on a red poster chair she deemed hers while working on a potions essay or transfiguration diagram more times than she would care to admit. However, she always had Melanie or James to nudge her awake and urge her to go to bed.

One Saturday night Jenni was working frantically through an essay explain the properties dragon blood possesses and how it can be of use, when Melanie sat in front of her and dropped an article from the Daily Prophet.

"What's this?" she asked irritably.

"Just read through," Melanie replied with an uneasy look. Jenni contemplated reading it after she finished her essay, but figured she would bug her about it until she read.

"Fine then," Jenni sighed. She picked the paper up from her parchment and read the article she pointed out at her: Murderer Uncovered. Melanie noticed she had an emotionless expression whilst she read on, and she began looking at her best friend anxiously. When Jenni finished reading the article she looked around, pursed her lips, folded the paper, and looked back at her friend who was looking back at her worriedly.

"Well?" Melanie questioned softly.

"Well," she scoffed, "just as I was beginning to calm down after hearing about the meadow man near where I live… he… he goes and kills again."

"What are you thinking?"

"What am I thinking?" she asked astonished, "I'm thinking I want this man gone. He shows up at the meadow, murder's my parents, for goodness sake and then apparates away!"

Melanie whispered, "People are starting to stare."

"I don't give a damn if people are staring! This monster murdered two innocent wizards and just pops away merrily. Probably saying 'well let me see which innocent family to screw up this time'. No," Jenni said choking back tears, "no. He needs to go away. Far from humanity, and far from me – even if it's for a second." She got up and left to go up to her bed.

"Sorry everyone. Stressing week," Melanie said meekly to the remaining Gryffindor's.

Many Gryffindor's heard about Jenni's blow up towards Melanie and James became overly cautious when he went to talk to Jenni the following afternoon after lunch. He found her in the library working on what appeared to be an unfinished homework assignment. So he walked over to the table she was sitting at and sat himself down across from her.

She continued on her paper – ignoring James' presence. "I know why you're here," she commented while putting quill to parchment.

"I don't doubt that," he said and when she didn't acknowledge what he said he continued, "So why did you quarrel with Melanie? Melanie of all people. If it was Fred or me I'd understand. But Melanie – please, enlighten me."

Jenni begrudgingly looked up from her essay, "First off: I'm not having a quarrel with Melanie. And secondly, I do not want to get into this now or here. So if you'll excuse me I have work that needs to be done."

"Fine, fine. I'll just sit here until you're done with that essay," James said innocently.

Time went by as Jenni finished up her essay and ignored James while doing so. James would occupy his boredom either by staring as she wrote her essay, or by going up and down the aisles in the library. Once Jenni finished she stared to pack her things in her bag and James got up.

"Ready to go?" he asked earnestly.

"Sure."

"Ready to talk?" he questioned as they left the library.

She looked at him intently, "You really want to know why I yelled at Melanie?"

"I'd rather get your side of the story. Mostly because I know that you wouldn't yell at Melanie. And because if you ever did yell at Melanie there's more to it than shouting from you. Like with Uncle Ron"

"You're absolutely right," Jenni said surprised, especially since he made a connection to something that was over a month ago.

She told him all about the article Melanie had her read, and how upset it made her feel. And how disgusted she felt when she learned the man had killed another wizarding family. She detailed how she wasn't necessarily yelling at Melanie, but merely yelling her built up rage towards the meadow man. When she finished she sat down on a nearby bench. She looked up and saw that James was smiling at her.

"For what reason in Merlin's name are you smiling for?" she demanded.

"Nothing," Jenni scoffed, "it's just that Melanie is a nervous wreck because she thinks you're upset at her for her showing you that article. When it turns out you're not upset at her but instead at the article."

"And you're smiling because…" Jenni indicated.

"Because it wasn't as serious as everyone was thinking," said James, "you need to tell her what you told me."

"Why's that?"

"Were you not listening to what I just said to you?" James wondered.

"No, I was. Sorry. I'll talk to her after dinner," Jenni said, now becoming concerned for her friend, "Thank you James."

"You're very welcome," James replied smiling.

"No, really. Thank you," Jenni said sincerely, "somehow, talking with you about these stressful things help me put all of it behind. Even for a second."

Hi everyone! So this chapter was inspired by Gotye's song "In Your Light". Personally, i think the lyrics of the song describe their friendship perfectly! I do not own that song.