Early Morning Meeting

The sun wasn’t even rising let when Amelia stuck out of bed, got dressed and stuck out the common room. She’d just act as if she had the early shift for perfect duties, though no one would really question it since she had her perfect badge on. She told Lance to meet her at the broken girl’s second floor. No one was ever there let along at this hour.

She yawned as she waiting outside the door. She was still tired. Up late studying and now getting up super early. She needed a pepper-up potion or coffee, something to wake her up.

Lance was doing his own work, as he was preparing for bigger tests. He knew that he would be fine as long as he studied, so he just strolled along. Amelia had told him to meet her in the bathroom and so he came around the time, she had asked him too. Once inside, he looked around to spot Amelia and smiled at her instantly.

" Good Morning, Amelia. Is there something you need help with? "

He wondered why she would call him down here anyway.

Alex sighed, as he awoke in the a bathroom stall. The night before had been a all out prank war in the Hufflepuff dorm room. And one of the pranks was that Alex had been locked in the Girls Broken Bathroom. Well not really locked, as soon as he gave in and fell to sleep, his roommates put him in the bathroom. Alex was sure that was what happened, now, how was he going to explain that if anyone saw him. At least his friends had been nice and left him his clothes and his bag. in his back was something important. The contract he would have to sign if he wanted to leave Hogwarts and join the one of the Quidditch Academies he had been invited to. The release paper for Hogwarts. It was signed, but Alex was torn in between handing it in, or just ripping it up.

Alex had been thinking about it the last few weeks, and he had until graduation to chose. He really wanted to go, but he didn't wanna leave the Hogwarts education, his sister, and his friends all behind. But then again, it wasn't everyday a person went to a Quidditch Youth Academy, especially one like Barcelona's. And going to one opened up your future a whole lot more. Alex picked his stuff up and walked out of the stall he had been put in, until he saw Amelia. How was he going to explain that. Not only that, is that he also saw another guy walk in, must've been Lance. Alex decided to just step into a stall until they left, or maybe find a way out using his Parkour, until his release paper from Hogwarts, titled with a huge "HOGWARTS RELEASE" slid out of his hand, and towards the Amelia and Lance... Crap.

Amelia rolled her eyes. Lance was still so clueless even after their experience by the Great Lake. He couldn’t seem to wrap his head around her being less than innocent. She had to admit she had never been like this until Lance came around. It was something in her that made her a whole different person. She wasn’t that ‘perfect’ daughter anymore. Though she didn’t realize it every day she become more like her mother.

“I don’t think we got to finish what we started at the lake,” she whispered into his ear. She was teasing him and she was doing on purpose for once. She started to passionately kissing Lance. She then saw a piece of paper float towards her. She could only read ‘HOGWARTS RELEASE’. Hmm, someone could need that. “Lance what is that?” she asked. Lance was closer to it.

Lance looked at Amelia strangely, ever since the night they shared. He was just not that changed, priding himself that he was a Ravenclaw. To think straight and always look for the best results. Yet, she was always throwing his plans out of the water and always changing. When she mentioned the lake, he tensed up to her and for once he felt hot in the room.

She had said it to him, so softly that he felt strange. He had to know that he couldn't stop this, he had to do what was best for the two of them. She had started to kiss him, and that fell right out of the water. Almost instinctively, he had wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her back with just as much, passion as her. When a piece of paper had approached them, and he pissed that they had to stop. Taking the chance to think again, while scanning the paper.

" It is the letter that allows people to leave the school, as in leave early in there schooling career...someone must be here. That sucks..... "

He said the last part to himself because he wanted to do more with Amelia. Mentally sapping himself because he was thinking about her more then he should.

Alex sighed, Lance and Amelia's make out session was the last thing he wanted to see with all the things going on through his mind. And Alex didn't know why he had been thinking compulsive thoughts as if 'Well, have fun where I've already been.' towards Lance. But Alex shook it off his head, Lance didn't have any fault with Alex's jealousy, nor did Amelia, it was Alex's own fault for letting her go. He had kissed her, and after it, he had avoided her, and even when she wanted to talk, he had found an excuse or just walked away from her. But now it was a strong friendship, and Alex after putting a lot of thought into it, he wanted to leave it that way. He also wanted to leave on a good relationship, as they had stopped hating each other. Maybe go on a whole 'right everyone I have wronged' thing. But as he remembered, he hadn't wronged that many people. But he wanted to say goodbye to his friends, one by one.

He looked over as they stopped. And Amelia hadn't read the part where his name on it. It was signed and everything, all he needed was to bring it in. He just wasn't sure if he wanted to. If he would go, it would maybe be a year before he could back, because in a year he would be able to sign a pro contract. And when the agent explained it to him, he could put off the contract until his graduation, and then when he graduated, he would sign the pro contract, and be a go Pro.

Alex sighed, as he stepped out of his shadow, "That paper would be mine.."

Amelia’s whole disposition changed as Alex spoke. How long had he been there? Scratch that. Well, he got quite a show didn’t he. What was he doing in a girl’s bathroom anyways? She hadn’t even processed the paper yet. She had just processed the fact that Alex had just seen her making out with her semi-secret boyfriend.

Then it hit her. She snatched the paper from Lance, trying not to rip it though. She didn’t want to believe it. Alex wouldn’t keep this from her, would he? She felt so betrayed. She told him everything and he was keeping secrets. She was boiling inside. “Bloody hell! Alex how could you keep this from me! I trust you with everything and you keep something this big form me!” yelled Amelia the Scottish accent once again appearing. If it wasn’t for the accent, that even Amelia noticed, she would say she sounded just like her mum. She was very upset but her anger was masking the tears that were threatening to fall. He was her best friend. She didn’t know what she’d do without him.

Most girls would run away at this point crying. But most girls didn’t swear or grow up in a family like hers. She would stand her ground and let Alex try to explain himself. There wasn’t much he could say or do that would lessen her anger. But if there was going to be a yelling match it was going to between Amelia and Alex not Lance and Alex. Amelia was going to make sure of that. The last thing she wanted was bad feelings between her best friend and her boyfriend.

Lance didn't know what to say at all, it seems that the two knew each other. He was just a little stunned at how things went by. Plus now his ear was hurting from being so close to her, when she had started to yell at this Alex fellow. He didn't know what to do or say, so he just stood back and let them deal with there own problems. He was just placing his hands in his pockets as he waited for them to just start fighting, if it got to far then he would need to protect Amelia.

Alex winced. Damn, she had almost ripped it. Alex understood she was mad, and understood why, this was a big secret to keep from your best friend, just like introducing your boyfriend to your best friend, but Amelia hadn't done that. Alex wasn't in the mood to start another argument until she started yelling at him. Honestly, if he went Alex would find it hard to accustom to a life without ever seeing Amelia. He could do it, obviously, but he would miss her, but Alex wasn't the best wizard, yes he got alright grades, and he could win a duel, but his strength where in his Athletics, he was great at every type of martial arts, he had great detection and had been a detective a while back, which had gotten his brother killed, and he was very good at sports. European Football, Quidditch, and Basketball. And he had to think about his future, if he spent just one year at the academy, he could show off his talent and by the time he graduated, he would be getting a whole bunch of contracts.

Alex clenched his fist. "You trust me with everything? Everything?! When where you going to introduce me and Mr Lips?!" Alex asked. Shit, he had gone too far, he really didn't want to bring the other boy into this, he had nothing to do with it. But he made a point, why had she been so secretive, why hadn't she wanted Alex to meet Lance. "What do you want me to tell you Amelia? If I want to leave, then I will leave, I signed it, because I was thinking of it, and right now, my decision is pretty clear. Again, taken it way too far. He knew that Amelia was aware that the Quidditch Scouts had been talking to him, he had told that to Amelia a while ago, but he hadn't told her about leaving. "Come on then! Tell me! What do you wanna know?! I tell you everything! Do you wanna know that I'm shit at everything Magic related except Dueling or Quidditch?! You wanna know that I'm such a idiot my brother died because of me?! Do you wanna know that my sister HATES me?! Do you wanna know that by this time this week I'll probably be in Barcelona at a youth academy and I might not come back till the end of next year?! TELL ME AMELIA! Tell me! What do you wanna know about me?!" Alex yelled. Alright, that might've come to a surprise to everyone, because Alex was usually the calm guy, but this time he had lost it. He kept so many things bottled up, that he had lost it.

“Did it ever occur to you I was scared? Scared you wouldn’t talk for me for months! Scared you’d just walk away and our friendship would be gone like that! I can’t control your actions that that scared me!” yelled Amelia, why did it seem like everyone seems to want her to be the perfect daughter, friend, sister? She didn’t want to be perfect anymore, she wanted to be a normal teenage girl. “Leave Lance out of this! At least he doesn’t kiss me than doesn’t talk to me for months!” scolded Amelia. She cursed herself as soon as it came out. She hadn’t meant that.

Her whole body was shaking. She was working herself up way too much. Everything was coming out at once. All her pent up emotions just snapped. She couldn’t calm herself down. She had no control when she started to sob. She felt so out of control of everything. Leading the PA while trying to get ready for the OWLs had herself exhausted, not knowing what the hell was going on with her parents and every other little thing that decided to change during the day. She was so drained. The only thing keeping her sane was Lance.

Everything Alex said just broke the amount of stress Amelia could take. She couldn’t take all in. Alex being gone, that terrified her to death. She relied on Alex so much. Lance wasn’t a Hufflepuff and he was a year older. What happens in the common room Lance can’t help and once she was gone she’d be alone. Without Alex she wasn’t sure she wanted to be at Hogwarts. She would rather go to a different school than be here with people she hates without anyone to stand by her.