***A/N*** hello everyone!!!! Sorry, I wasn't around yesterday, I wasn't feeling 100%. Now that I am making chapters a bit longer, I'm thinking of doing one chapter every other day if that works for everyone. Just so that I have some more wiggle room and more time to flesh out my ideas. 

I've also been thinking of doing a second part to this book following Theo and Annie in the future as they get ready to leave Hogwarts (So their 7th years). I think it would be in two parts, one being told only from Theo's POV during their seventh year, and the other part only being told from Annie's POV during her seventh year. I might get that one finished before I release the book about the years in between 'That Damn Weasley Charm,' and this one just so that it makes a bit more sense in the timeline. Let me know what you think in the comments below! 

Speaking of comments, I know that other authors have like q&a type things in their comments sometimes so if you have any questions you would like to ask me personally, leave them below! I sort of realized that you lot dunno much about me lol.

I'll be back Wednesday with another update! xx

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I should really probably stop getting detentions.

They're really boring.

Especially when I'm serving them with Arabella. She won't let me do anything.

Like nothing.

At all.

I've been sitting here staring at the wall for hours at this point.

"Professor?"

"No Miss Weasley."

"May I please go to the loo?"

"Miss Weasley you have been in detention for all of four and a half minutes."

Arabella looks at me from her desk and I glare right back at her.

"It's my last detention Missus, can't I just... dunno, leave now and we can pretend like you don't hate me for no reason?" I say to her.

Arabella goes back to whatever she's working on with a sigh.

"If you let me go I'm sure that I can set up a date with you and Professor Weasley. I'm his favourite niece."

"Tempting. But I am a married witch," Arabella says, not even bothering to look up from her work.

"Really? How'd you go and manage that one?"

Arabella puts her quill down and looks at me.

"Not that I'm surprised that you're married. I mean I am, I wouldn't let anyone in my family marry you... wait that came out wrong. I meant it of course but Mum always says I should think before I speak because I might hurt people's feelings. Are your feelings hurt Professor?"

"I am not hurt Miss Weasley." Arabella snaps.

"Sound pretty hurt," I mutter under my breath.

A few hours later, and by a few hours I mean like another five minutes, there's an explosion outside the door.

Arabella sits up and glares at me.

"Wasn't me professor, I've quite literally been sitting in front of you this whole time." I shrug.

There's another explosion that sounds a little further away from the classroom and Arabella takes out her wand, "You stay put."

"Where would I go?"

Professor Arabella marches through the rows of desks and throws open the door. It slams closed behind her and I can hear her cast a locking charm before she marches down the corridor.

"Wotcher Annabeth,"

I look around the room trying to find the voice but I seriously cannot figure it out.

"Maybe we should just leave her in detention if she can't manage to figure out a window."

My eyes land on a window at the very front of the classroom, Jessie and Raphael's heads are squeezed into the same window.

"You coming or what? Lory, Zach, and Albert only have so many whizbangs you know," Jessie says.

"You should really talk to your Dad about lowering the prices of those things by the way," Raphael adds.

I scramble to the teacher's desk and grab my backpack, wand, and phone from all her different drawers before going over to the boys. Lucky for me that the transfiguration class is on the ground floor of the castle or else this would be a lot harder to do.

"You're really breaking me out of detention?" I say to them. Jessie takes my bag from me and moves out of the way so I can climb through the window.

"We were lost without our Weasley," Raphael says, "Bit surprising but you're the one that keeps this group together."

My feet hit the ground and I flip my hair out of my face and smile at them, "I don't believe that for a second."

Jessie puts my backpack on properly instead of giving it back to me. Raphael throws his arm over my shoulders, "It's your female energy. It's what we've been missing from our group," he says.

"Raph is right, you were the missing link," Jessie nods his head as he speaks, "So good luck trying to escape us."

"You're my boys," I say with a big smile on my face, "Why would I want to leave?"

Just as we turn the corner to head into the courtyard, Lory and the other boys come sprinting around the corner, "Better get out of here if we all want to get detentions!" Zach shouts as he races past us.

Jessie, Raphael, and I don't waste any time and soon the six of us are neck in neck racing across the castle grounds towards the forbidden forest. I've been trying to get Lory to come explore it with me for the past two years but he would only ever go a few steps in before getting the creeps.

Not this time though. Lorcan is the first one of us in the forest and he doesn't stop till we can barely see the castle through the trees.

"I haven't run like that since..." Lory takes a few deep breaths, "I've never run like that."

We all laugh and I clap him on the back a few times, too busy trying to catch my breath to actually say something.

"Lor, you still think she was worth all that?" Albert says, his hands on his knees, his gaze to the muddy ground under our feet. He stands up straight and looks at Lorcan with a smile on his face.

I dunno if Lorcan is blushing or it's because he's a very pale human and running makes his cheeks pink but he laughs instead of answering Albert's question.

"Now what?" Raphael asks the group, "Figure we're stuck in this ruddy forest till Arse-abella out there gets bored and leaves us alone."

I smile really big and Lorcan notices before anyone else does, "No Annie, Dad'll send me back home before I could even blink if I went any deeper into these woods."

"My sister found the resurrection stone in here," I say to everyone, "Wonder what else this place is hiding..."

"The resurrection stone?" Jessie says, a smile already forming on his lips.

"Is that why that teenage ghost guy vanished all of a sudden?" Albert asks.

I nod, "He's not a teenager anymore. He's forty-something years old and is getting married in the summer."

Zach claps Lorcan on the back, "And you've kept this girl a secret from us for nearly two whole years?"

Lorcan smiles and rubs the back of his neck, "She lived across the hall from you lot for those two years, not my fault you didn't notice her."

Instinctively I look down at my feet. The sudden realization that these people who I now call my friends have in fact been living across the hall from me in the same tower just... didn't notice me makes me wildly uncomfortable.

"Oi, don't say that!" Raphael says. I dunno if he can tell how weird I got all of a sudden or if he actually means what he's saying, "Course I noticed her, you'd have to be blind not to," Raphael looks at me and shrugs, "Just sort of assumed that you were like the other girls in our year... you're not, by the way. You can actually hold an interesting conversation."

I glance over at Lorcan for a split second but I can't really read his face... honestly he sort of looks like he has to visit the loo. I look back at Raphael and smile, "Lord knows that Zach can't hold an intellectual conversation. Have to make up for it somehow."

That comment seems to go over well with everyone and it's not long after that that we start picking our way deeper into the woods. Despite me saying that I am perfectly capable of carrying my own belongings, Jessie is still carrying my backpack on his back and won't give it back to me.

After a few hours of throwing pine cones at each other and coming up empty-handed on the cool things front, we all come to the same conclusion,

"There's no way Arse-abella is going to be out there waiting for us," Lorcan says, "We can just sneak back into our common room and hope that she hasn't figured out it was us that got Beth out of there."

"Who the bloody hell is Beth?" Zach asks.

Albert swats the back of his head, "Annie? Annabeth... anna-BETH."

Everyone laughs and Zach turns a bright shade of pink.

"S'okay mate, no one really calls me Beth. It's always Annie, or Banana if you're Ophelia," I instantly regret the words that just came out of my mouth.

Jessie laughs and throws his arm over my shoulders, "Banana eh? I think that's you're new nickname."

"Well to be fair it isn't 'new'. Ophelia has been calling me that for years."

"New to me Weasley, and that's all that matters."

Professor Arabella surprisingly didn't say anything to Flitwick, or take points from my house for the stunt which was a bit surprising for all of us. Even the next time that we had Transfiguration and I forgot that we had a composition due she only gave me one detention instead of a week's worth like she used to do.

"Maybe McGonagall replaced her with a lizard person that looks, acts, and talks the exact same way that Arse-abella did!" Albert says from his bed.

It's been about a week since the boys broke me out of detention. We're all in their dorm room again, staying up far too late and talking about anything we can think of. The girls in my dorm haven't told our prefects or Flitwick who is our head of house that I haven't been sleeping in my actual assigned bed. Suppose that they'd rather me out of their way then get me in trouble.

Which is fine, I mean... maybe it hurts a bit, to not be wanted in the room that you're literally supposed to spend seven years of your life in. But at least I have the boys. Course that might all change when we grow up. That seems to be the case around here. As soon as you reach fifth year, everything flips on its head and you stop caring about having fun and start caring more about finding a partner or actually studying for your classes.

"Lizard people don't exist." Zach yawns. He's already got the curtains of his four-poster pulled tight and I can just see his mess of brown hair lying on his pillow through the blue-tinted mesh.

"Are you, a wizard, in a wizarding school, studying magic and beasts, telling me that lizard people don't exist?" Albert says, staring at Zach's bed.

"That's exactly what I'm telling you," Zach yawns which makes me yawn which makes Lorcan yawn and soon the entire room is yawning and cursing Zach's name.

"Lizard people exist. You're just not open-minded enough," Albert says. He throws a pillow from his bed across the room at Zach's bed but it just bounces off of the curtains.

"Who puts a defensive charm on their bed before they go to sleep?" Jessie asks.

"Someone who doesn't want their mates throwing pillows at them when they are trying to get some sleep."

I yawn really big and stretch my arms up to the ceiling before leaning my head on Lorcan's shoulder. My eyelids are starting to get heavy and I'm too lazy to fight the sleep settling in my bones.

"Oi Banana, isn't it uncomfortable sharing a bed with Longbottom?" Raphael asks.

"Not really," I say in a hushed tone, "Is it uncomfortable for you Lor? Cause I can sneak back into my room..."

Lorcan rests his head on top of mine, "Not at all. And listen, if you're more comfortable here than there then I want you to stay. Even if it starts getting uncomfortable."

I don't respond to Lorcan, half cause I'm nearly all the way asleep and half cause I dunno what else there is to say. I lie back in our shared bed and curl up on my side, holding my teddy close to my chest.

There's a few moments of silence and then I hear Jessie whisper, "Is she asleep Lor?"

I'm very much awake but I pretend that I'm asleep just to hear what these oafs are going to talk about.

Lorcan leans over top of me and breathes into my face for a moment, "Yeah, she's asleep."

"Would it be wrong if I told her that I fancied her?" Jessie asks.

No one says anything.

Jessie fancies me?

"You fancy Annabeth?" Raphael asks.

"Yeah, mate."

"Well, I sort of fancy her too."

Raphael fancies me now too?

"You two can't fancy her," Zach grumbles, "Cause I fancy her."

Zach fancies me too...

"I think that I should be the one to tell her cause I'm the first one that thought of it," Jessie scream whispers.

"I think I should be the one to tell her first because... because I fancy her!" Raphael whisper shouts back.

A bed squeaks so I assume that Zach has now sat up on his bed so he can join in on the conversation, "Neither of you is going to do it first because I am!"

Lorcan clears his throat and I hope to Merlin himself that he isn't going to say that he fancies me too. I can only handle so much in one night.

"I think we should all get some sleep," he whispers, "We've all got Charms first thing."

The boys seem to agree because the room suddenly gets a lot darker as each one of them blows out the candle on their bedside table.

Lorcan lies down beside me and before he rolls over so his back is against mine he whispers, "Did you hear any of that? I hope you didn't... I don't want things to be weird... suppose they already sort of are, now that nearly everyone in this room has said that they fancy you... figure it wouldn't make things any easier on any of us if I was to say... never mind, forget I even tried. "

I keep my eyes closed and I do my best to make it look like I'm fast asleep.

Lorcan sighs, "Goodnight Annie. Sorry about all this."

I dunno how I fell asleep after all that, but I manage.

I wake up before all the boys and sneak out of the dorm and into my own to get changed into my robes. I'm so distracted that I button my top funny and I blank when I'm trying to tie my tie. I have to talk to someone older than me.

As I walk down the stairs of the Ravenclaw tower and out of the common room my mind races. No one has ever fancied me before. Let alone three people all at the same time.

"I could go to Theo..." I mumble, fiddling with my fingers, "Or Leah... Cass..." I head towards the dungeons. If Cass and Leah can't help me then maybe Chandler can or something.

I put my hand on the wall and mutter 'pureblood' under my breath and wait for it to open. I've never really enjoyed coming down here, it's too dark, too... dungeon-ey.

Theseus is walking out of the boy's dormitories when I step into the actual common room, "Hey string bean. What're you doing down here?"

"Uhm, I kind of need some advice... or to just rant really and I dunno where to turn," I say shrugging.

Theseus nods, "Leah is on a run and Cassie's already in the Great Hall.... You can ask me though, if you feel comfortable."

I haven't really had a one on one talk with Theseus before. Not that I don't like him or anything, I just never have had the time or the reason to. But now... he's offering to be the big brother that I need right now...

"I'm being bullied."

Theseus' face falls as he realizes that this isn't just a cute little 'haha let me ask my sister's boyfriend thing.'

"I'm sorry to hear that," He nods over to the sofa before walking over himself.

"If you have somewhere to be Theseus you can go, I don't mind," I say following Theseus over to the sofa.

"If I have somewhere to be...? You just told me you've been getting bullied, there's no way I'm gonna run off to anything after that."

I nod and sit down beside him, "Okay."

Theseus, honestly, is a pretty scary-looking guy. If it wasn't for the fact that he's been at my house and I've seen him laugh and smile and do normal human things I would be terrified right now. He's tall (though not as tall as Ophelia), and his eyebrows are always pointed down like he's either thinking really hard or he's really mad at something. And the scars he has on his face only adds to the 'dark and mysterious' thing he has going on.

But I've also been told that I look pretty scary. Or that I have a resting witch face. Mostly cause I look a lot like Mum and when Mum was my age she looked terrifying, like she knew all your secrets and would use them against you in the worst possible way.

Maybe that's why me and Theseus don't really have that many friends outside of the Weasleys. I mean I have Lorcan and Lysander, and I thought I had the rest of the Ravenclaw boys till basically all of them said that they fancy me...

"Do you want to tell me what's been going on or do you just want to sit here a bit?" Theseus asks. His way of speaking has changed from being sort of defensive when he asked me why I was in his common room to softer and more polite.

I take a deep breath before launching into everything that has been going on. The girls in my dorm being rude any chance they get, making me uncomfortable in my own room or in the castle in general, Professor Arabella taking all of her suppressed anger out on me for no reason at all, how stressed I feel trying to balance my friendships with the Ravenclaw boys and my friendships with Jordan and Lysander because they don't like each other.

I use Theseus like someone would use a diary. I haven't told anyone any of this stuff yet and I don't really know why I chose Theseus to be the one to hear it all but I'm sort of happy that I did.

Because Unlike my siblings, or my cousins, or my parents even, his first reaction isn't 'okay lets go kill them.' Instead, he actually sits here with me and listens to what I have to say.

"And no one has ever fancied me before," I say, "That's not really related to the bullying stuff but last night three of my friends thought I was asleep and then proceeded to tell each other that they all fancied me and I'm now really