Lexi's heart kind of sank when he seemed... okay with the fact that he was losing his girlfriend whom he claimed to love so much. She was torn to bits inside and he says I understand. What the hell. Not letting her upset or anger show on her face she simly nodded her head. "Yeah, and I will be here for you when I can." It was true. When she could she would. Although it was safe to say that that wouldn't be for sometime to come. She returned his kiss trying not to pour all of her emotion into it. "I know, Finlay. Me too," she said quietly as she watched him stand up. She pulled her feet up into the seat and turned her head away from him as she finally let the tears silently spill down her face.

Jacob made his way onto the train. Next term. Nexterm, he would make his print on this school. He would be only in his fifth year, and yet it seemed so close to the end. Next term he would have Quidditch, He would be able to help his team take not only the Quidditch Cup but the House Point Cup as well. It was time to show just how Intense eagles could be. They had come in last place this term... and that was not acceptable.

Jacob entered a Compartment, and spread himself out on a comfortable seat. Yup Next term was going to be a very successful term

Finlay really didn't want to go. Not at all. How could he leave her like this? He was practically giving up on them like she was, and some part of him wanted to shout at her. To ask her what the entire year had been about? He didn't though? He might have been being a prat for the last few weeks, but he kind of gathered that it had made him lose him. "You don't get me..." Finn sighed, kneeling down infront of her. "If you still want me in a year...two years....whenever. I'll still be here." He sighed, looking down at the floor. He caught her chin gently with one hand, turning her to look at him. "You mean the world to me Alexandra, as does our relationship. I'm giving you the space you want....even though it kills me." How could it not? He pulled her into another kiss, a more meaningful kiss. "I think I should go...."

Wanting a bit of thinking on his own, Hugo went to sit in the far corner in the back of the train for a while. Putting in his earphones with an "I'm not here" additude, he started writing in his notebook he had found in Diagon Alley a year ago. Time flew. He wrote down new spells- some offensive. He didn't want anyone to know.

"And you don't get me either, Finlay," she muttered so as not to sob loudly. Oh my. He knelt in front of her and she scrubbed her face with both hands. She had expected him to leave... she hadn't wanted him to see her cry. She let him turn her head toward him and just cried as she looked at him. "Thank you Finlay. Thank you for loving me," she choked out before he kissed her again. She still held back a bit though she could feel his emotion in it. She broke the kiss first and buried her face in her hands. "Yes, please go," she whispered.

"Then tell me Lex! Make me understand!" Finn nearly choked on his words, as a few tears rolled down his cheeks. He was crying for her, and he knew she probably wouldn't even care. She was crying too, and it made him not want to leave at all. He sighed, rubbing her cheeks gently. "Loving you is the best thing that has ever happened to me." He was still crying, and he definetly did not feel manly at all. He had never thought he would care this much about a girl, it hurt his heart. He stood up, backing away from her, but just staring at her. "I'm sorry...." He coughed, wiping at his cheeks. "I'm sorry that I made you feel so crap...." And then he walked off towards the corridor, but he paused at the door. He didn't want to leave.

Swallowing she looked at him with anger evident on her face and said, "I have been trying to make you understand for months now. You only seem to get angry or annoyed with me." She rubbed angrily at her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest. Hearing his next words softened her a bit and broke her heart even more. He was crying...he never cried. She wanted to reach out and tell him it was okay, she hadn't meant it. But... she had meant it all. She couldn't give in now. "I'm sorry I made you cry. I am sorry that I am too crazy for you to deal with. Most of all I am sorry for not being enough. Now please go," she pleaded with him.

Finally he put his foot in it. He knew that it would happen, and there it was. He sighed, rubbing his hands through his hair. Maybe she was too much for him, but he wanted to be able to cope, to stick by her. He only got angry or annoyed? He knew why that was, and he thought that Lexi had understood that. He hated crying, and he rubbed at his face, trying to get the tears to stop. He was going to look like an idiot when he left, and that was not cool. He turned to look at her. Not being enough? "You are more than enough for me Alexandra. There is not another girl that could ever live up to you." He reached into his pocket, pulling out a small box. He looked at it, before crossing the room. Not speaking, he took her head, placed the ring into it, before leaving, just as silently.

Dylan was looking for someone to sit with. Or to be alone. He had made his way to the back of the train, and still neither took his fancy. He frowned as he spotted Finn. The boy as crying. He was an odd one. He spotted the compartment that he had come from. Maybe he had had a fight with his bros or something. He spotted Lexi. "Lex?" he called, running to her side. She was crying. He didn't care about that boy. He would punch him later, for making her cry.

Lexi's bottom lip began to quiver violently as she tried not to sob loudly. She heard his words and simply shook her head. That wasn't true. He would probably run into the arms of a girl as soon as he left the compartment. Mia probably. Then he took her hand and she refused to meet his eyes. It was only after he left that she opened her hand and saw the ring. Clenching her hand back around it she sat there staring at her hand and wibbled.

She heard her brother come in and when he sat beside her she simply lay her head in his lap and pulled her knees up around her chest. Full on fetal position. She cried, clenching the ring and said, "We broke up," before the sobs started to come loudly.

Dylan shifted himself so she wasn't lying awkwardly. He stroked her hair, then stopped, his hand rested on her head. "You broke up?" Yes he was happy about this. But she obviously wasn't. He didn't like her upset. "Why? You love him."

"Oh why did you come late to the feast?",Fee asked surprised.
Anything she didnt know? Boy news maybe?! Hehe.
It was terrivle how little time the two had spend. They had been the trip in the beginning and now? Britt hadnt shown up for soo long. Why couldnt they all be in the same house...
"Any news?",Fee asked wiggling her eyebrows.

Ohh Britt wanted to spend moremtiem together? That sounded pretty good.
"Totally",she nodded," what happend to us?"

Lexi tried to calm her sobbing as Dylan petted her head. She felt like her heart was being ripped out of her chest. Rubbing at her face with the sleeve of her robes she said, "He doesn't understand, Dylan. He doesn't get me. It seems like he is always angry with me because I am emotional. I can't take all of that anymore. Not right now." She opened her hand and held the ring up for Dylan to see and said, "He gave me this as he left... what do you think it means?"

Dylan would've held onto her tightly, if she wasn't lying on his lap. "He got angry because you were upset? What a jerk. How insensitive of him." How could a man stand by and watch the girl he loved get upset, and then upset her even more? He wasn't really a man, and Dylan would have to have a word.

He frowned as he looked at the ring. "Um Lex. Why don't you let me look after that for a while." Yep. Rings weren't a good thing. Not when they had just broken up.

Lexi just nodded her head to say that yes, it was insensitive. She loved him, but he was insensitive. She heaved a great sigh and then closed her hand around the ring. He was NOT taking her ring. No way no how. "No, I think I want to keep it, Dylan." She slipped it on the ring finger of her right hand and covered her face with her hands as she cried a bit longer. "Dyl, I don't want to cry anymore," she mumbled.

Aiden was leisurely examining his sneakers trainers, his eyes tracing over the swished Puma symbol on the side. He loved those things.

At the sound of the door sliding open, he lifted his head. "There she is," Aiden smiled, as his girlfriend joined him in the compartment. "I'm all right, thanks. Pretty well, actually, in comparison to the other seventh years." Hell, Trixie wasn't even a seventh year and she had been bawling her eyes out at the feast. Then again... that may very well have been due to a certain Head Boy leaving the school. Without thinking about it his hand found hers. "What about you? What exactly are you doing next year?" He was aware that she wouldn't be returning to Hogwarts, but the rest of the plan was pretty vague in his mind. Hopefully home-schooling! Then they wouldn't really have any long-distance problems.

Dylan shook his head, "Lex. If you want to keep it, promise me you won't wear it. I only want to keep hold of it for a while." The ring was not a good idea at all. It would only hurt her even more. "It is possibly meant to be a love ring. Telling you how much he wants to be with you. So I suggest getting rid of it for a while."

It was mid-summer, but Wesley felt like it was winter.

BRRRRR!

Blowing her red-rubbed nose in the pretty monogrammed handkerchief from the previous night, the soon-to-be sixth year gave one last look at the castle in the distance before lugging her impossibly heavy trunk onto the short side stairs and up into the train.

For a brief second, she stared wistfully at the first compartment at the front of the train, until she remembered there were people behind her who needed to board as well. And then she was walking, down, down, down and away from the first door, then definitely away from the madness of the chocolate party, meandering lost until she reached the very back and simply had nowhere else to go.

The Hufflepuff sighed, rubbing her puffy, sleep-deprived eyes. "What're you going to do now, Wesley?" she mumbled to herself.

Sarah and Lori and Oliver were in the prefects compartment, no doubt. Jack and Reese were graduated. Mariel had left, and Wesley didn't even know what had happened to Jake.

She was, the fifteen-year-old mused to herself, quite alone.

"I don't like being alone."

...

And then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw it. A flash of color in the compartment to her left. Wesley squinted. Was that...a butterfly?

Sure enough, the blur of color took shape as a monarch flattened against the glass, flapping it's wings in sputters. "You don't have to be alone," it said to her, lazy and bright.

Wesley nodded, "You're exactly right, Mr. Butterfly." And then, trunk in hand, she reached for the door and slid it open in one quick motion. Popping her head in, the student called, "Hello?" before being attacked by a hoard of butterflies.

Lexi didn't say anything when Dylan asked her not to wear it. It was already on her hand. She wasn't going to take it off right now. Maybe later, but not now. It felt nice. Like she still had something to look forward to. Which she was sure she didn't. "No, I like wearing it right now. It helps right now. He probably ran off to start snogging other girls he had wanted to snog for the last six months anyway... let me have this one little thing," she croaked out. Rubbing her hands under her eyes she wiped the remaining tears away and sat up. Leaning her head against the window she said, "Can we talk about something else? I hate the thought of him right now... He made me feel like I wasn't what he wanted, like I wasn't good enough.Maybe those are my own hangups... I am not sure. All I can do is try to get myself out of this funk right now."

Dylan continued to stroke her hair. He wanted to calm her down. Happy happy times. "Ok." His only answer to her questions. He did want to make her feel better. "Want to open your present?" he smiled. That would make her happy. He had put a lot of thought into it. If she realised. He wasn't sure she would anymore.

Lexi furrowed her brow for a moment when he said something about a present. Why in Merlin's name... Wow... She had forgotten her own birthday. How crazy was that. Well, it probably had something to do with the fact that her own boyfriend hadn't even given her a gift until today as she was breaking up with him. What a great fifteenth birthday. Woohoo.

She wiped at her eyes and turned to smile at him, "Presents are good," she said. Yeah, that might cheer her up some. She wasn't sure much would right now. Maybe she could get some sort of potion... like Euphoria or something. She would look into when she went to Diagon. Meh. Anyway. She held her hands out for the present and gave him a half smile. That was all she had at the moment.

"Oh you know im totally forgetful." she said. But that wasnt the only reason. she was actually trying to avoidcoming because she hope that it would stop this year from ending but of course it was just a silly thought that didnt work *sigh*. "But I eventually found everything and i made my way down there.' she added.

"I honestly dont know. we were friggin inseperable. You were my very first friend here." she said with a soft smile "I want us to be the type of friends where if someone sees one of us they instantly look for the other." she said giggling.

Dylan beamed. She wanted his present. He lifted her head up so he could get to his pocket. He pulled out a tiny stick, wrapped in pink paper. It was only little but she would like it. He passed it to her. "Here you go."

Lexi eyed the tiny thing for a moment and then took it from her brother. How awesome could such a tiny gift be? She had gone all out for Dylan last year. Sigh. She fumbled with the paper and when she finally got it off she smiled. "Is this a broomstick for a barbie doll?" she asked. Hahaha. Dylan was cute though. Pink was her fave color.

Dylan chuckled, "You have never heard of Red Riding Hood, but you have heard of barbie dolls?" He pulled out his wand and tapped the tiny wand. It grew to it's full size. "That better?"