A/N: I officially have so much respect for the authors that come on here and update in a weekly fashion. I was trying to be regular, but it just didn't work out, I'm so sorry. Not only have I not had the time, I have just had no where to go with this story, but I finally managed to get you guys something that hopefully you will enjoy. Please let me know what you think!

bb27

Ginny sighed as she threw herself on her bed in her dormitory. It was good to be back. Hermione came in a few moments later, interrupting her day dreaming.

So I'm going to assume this means a lot of "sleep overs" in my room then huh?" Hermione asked sitting on the edge of Ginny's bed as she air quoted slee povers.

Ginny laughed, "Oh yeah, and I'll assume that Blaise will be having many with Draco as well." She sat up as she watched her friend shrug. IT would be weird being here at Hogwarts, learning magic for one, they were pretty far behind having left two months ago in October. However being here, in school with Draco would in it's own way be an experience. They had only just started dating before they left, and here they were no, already having gone trough a wedding ceremony, legitimate or not. Things would b rough with the rest as well. In all four cases, now that Janelle was sorted into Slytherin, all the couples were from the two main opposing houses. Would this kindle a new found alliance between the houses? Ginny doubted it, and feared too that the rivalry would be the undoing of the four miracles that had become of her and her friends' love lives.

"You're thinking. What going on in your mind?" Hermione asked turning slightly and beginning to french-braid Ginny's long, red locks.

For a moment, Ginny didn't respond, but then she began to talk. "I was just thinking, and hoping things will be okay here. And praying too that things with Ron and Kayla will okay, you know? Especially with Hagan... and we have five more months of school. She'll be huge by graduation, if she makes it that far. And... I don't want her or Ron to be ridiculed or segregated because of this. Of course I'll stick up for both of them, because he's my brother and I love them both to death, but the whole school saw me in a wedding dress, so I'll be having to deal with Draco, especially with things the way they are now, his dad being dead and all. And you.. You and Blaise are engaged, so you guys will have stuff on you plate. Janelle is the new girl, and I know Harry will be trying to help her adjust, as we all will I'm sure but... things are going to be different, not all living together? And aside from Potions and lunch, I'll never see Draco, at least the rest of you have some other classes together and-"

"GINNY! You need to calm down. You can come up to my rooms and see Draco any time you want, I have no doubt that he too will be making that same offer very soon. And you need to stop worrying about the rest of us. Not to add to you own but, we have each other. You as a sixth year will have to fend for yourself when one of us isn't around." Hermione said, getting quieter as she winded down her explanation. Luckily she had secured the hair tie at the nape of Ginny's neck because at that point Ginny lopped down on the bed with a moan. "We'll all get through this, I promise."

XOXOXOXOXOXO

"So, this is the common room." Kayla said, gesturing to the stone room where not so many months ago there had been a party that had started everything between her friends.

Janelle nodded. "Are you scared?" She asked, plopping down on the leather couch. She patted the seat beside her and Kayla sat as well. "I mean, I know I am. Starting at a new school? The girlfriend of thee Harry Potter? Pretty scary stuff." She laughed. "Which is pathetic comparted to being hunted by death eaters, but at the same time exponentially terrifying."

Kayla nodded in understanding, then shrugged. "Sure I'm scared. I'm four months pregnant and seventeen. But where as you seem to scared or fearful of other people's opinions and fitting in, none of that matters to me. Working things out with Ron, and not losing him are the biggest things to deal with right now... for me."

"You're probably the bravest girl I know Kayla Reed."

Kayla snorted. "Yeah right I am. If I was brave things with my parents would be so different. I'm scared of my dad, you know he wasn't the best role model to me. What about your dad?" Kayla asked hesitantly. Every mentioning of Janelle's paternity was blatantly ignored by the girl herself. She simply would clam up.

"Same as yours, well not personally, but he was a death eater. Not at all when I was kid though. When the Dark Lord fell, I was only a year old, and Dad got scared and stepped back. When he rose again, right before my fourth year over at Beauxbatons, Dad went back. And I don't know what it could be compared to. Maybe a parent slipping back into a drug addiction, but he was no longer the same person, and I grew to resent him. By the time he died the night of the World Cup, I hated him. Loathed him with my whole being. But once he was gone, you know, I really missed him. The old him anyway. Then Uncle John came and Oh I could never despise my father even a fraction of how much I hate his brother. I had just lost my father, he stole my mother, we left my home, my school, my friends, magic all together. And suddenly I was living as a muggle as fake as my father had been when he was acting like he wasn't a death eater. It is something you do for your family no matter how it makes you feel in the end, but now... I don't regret leaving." Janelle sat silently waiting for her friend's sympathy.

"And you never have to go back." Was the response that she got and definitely wasn't expecting.

"What?" She asked, shocked that she hadn't gotten an 'oh poor Janelle' or a 'that's so sad.'

"I said 'and you never have to go back'. You're here, now, at Hogwarts, with us, and once we're done here, we'll all stick together. Not meaning to sound incapable, but in June I'll be a mother, and Ron and I could really use all of you guys' help." Kayla remained silent for a moment. "Come on, we better get down to the Great Hall before anyone misses us and thinks something terrible has happened. You have no idea how rumors spread in this school. I'm very curious to find out who they think is my baby's father is."

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Draco sighed as he, Blaise, Kayla, and Janelle stood outside the Great Hall waiting for their Gryffindor counterparts arrive. Now dressed in jeans and a hoodie, he was anxious for Ginny to arrive already so they could get this spectacle over with, yet at the same time he didn't want to walk in there and have to explain everything, wanted to wait, forever if at all possible. It still amazed him that Ginny had gone through with the wedding, she didn't have to, he would have dealt with his father, but she did, and she had wanted to. That put a little flutter in his heart. His love for her had grown in those moments in which they were wed. They may not be legally husband and wife, and may no longer be living together, or sharing a bed, but he would keep every promise he made to Ginny when they had said their vows. And he planned on keeping her in his bed, whether McGonagall knew she was up there or not. She was his, and he had a fierce protectiveness of her, more than before when they weren't officially a couple yet. Now in every way, perspective, and form, she was his.

Blaise, standing beside him, was just as much lost inside his own head as Draco. His engagement to Hermione would be the least startling of any of the news that the eight teens were about to break to their peers. Draco and Ginny hadn't been a couple yet, no one knew about Kayla and Ron, and Janelle was a brand new person. At least he and Hermione had been a pair before they had left what seemed like ages ago. Maybe their hopes to wed each other in the near future would not be taken so harshly. What scared him more than his classmates finding out, was that now that they were no longer in hiding, Hermione would be in touch with her parents. That meant that Mummy and Daddy would find out about their engagement, and suddenly Blaise felt guilty. In his mind and in his heart he had always known that he would ask whoever was to become his wife's father his permission before proposing. Now he and Hermione had been together for four months, engaged for three, and he wasn't sure if either of her parents even knew about him. He caught Janelle's eye, and saw that she was visibly shaken. Moving off the wall where he had been leaning, he walked over to her and hugged her tight. "It'll be okay Janelle, they'll all love you." He whispered reassuringly.

Janelle forced a smile, willing Harry and the rest of her friends to get here quicker. She had seen all the looks of contempt she was given, and like Kayla said there was no way of knowing what they could possibly think of her due to all those nasty rumors. What really could explain a girl just showing up with a group of so called fugitives? And how would she fit in, having lived as a muggle for the past nearly three years? She knew things would be difficult, but she really wasn't ready to dive head first into that icy water, not alone anyway, and Harry was yet to be seen coming down the stairs. Her thoughts carried over to him. He had been the one to defeat Lord Voldemort, and Merlin knew he was already famous in any dealings with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, on top of being the new student, how could she handle being "Harry Potter's Girl." She hadn't been there that night in the alley, hadn't seen the down fall of the man her father had become a slave to, only hid out with them for a while, pretending like she fit in. Finally she saw Harry heading down the stairs, Ginny, Hermione, and Ron in tow. Racing forward, she threw herself in his arms, burrowing her face in his neck. The way he hugged her tight, she knew that he understood her fear.

Kayla too shot herself into Ron's arms, only Ron was the one truly shaken by the whole forth coming ordeal. He'd barely survived the wrath of his mother, now he would have to deal with the rest of the school. Sex at their age was one thing, pregnancy was something completely different. No one in years had been a pregnant seventh year at Hogwarts, and now Kayla was, and it was all on his shoulders. How would he be looked at in the eyes of fellow students, younger students, his teachers, his friends? No one had known about him and her at the beginning of the year, sure they had been together in Hogsmeade, but at the point Kayla was already pregnant. He would face the dark lord again to keep his child and Kayla safe, but what could one guy do to protect them from the ridicule and staring eyes of curios people, people who didn't understand what Ron and Kayla had, who couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that a Slytherin and a Gryffindor could be happy together. Were their other friends not also living proof? Getting Kayla to graduation as comfortable and happy as she could possibly be was Ron's goal, that was as far into the future as he would set himself. One day at a time until graduation, from there they would see how things panned out.

"Well are we going to go in?" Hermione asked, linking hands with Blaise, making sure that she was on his right, so that he held tight to her left hand, for the time being hiding the ring that undoubtably anyone who was in the corridor before had seen.

Draco nodded. "Yeah, Gin you ready?" He asked, looking her over. She too had obviously changed out of the dress, and into a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt he recognized as his own as well. The blackness of it made her look paler than normal, however he gave some of that to being thrust back into civilization and magic after what felt like such a long period of time.

Nodding slowly, Ginny made her way to Draco's side, lacing her fingers through his long, strong ones. Giving him a squeeze that she hoped let him know she was fine, she attempted to smile.

Blaise grabbed the door handle and pulled, and slowly and confidently, well for the most part, Draco, Ginny, Blaise, Hermione, Harry, Janelle, Ron, and Kayla entered the Great Hall. The murmuring that could be heard from the outside ceased to an eery silence as they made their way down the aisles, parting at their respective tables. While they had had one another on the entrance, the rest of the meal was to be dealt with solely, with only the back up of their three friends in the same house.

Ginny and Hermione sat on the bench hip to hip, focusing only on Harry and Ron who had managed to create an opening big enough for them to sit side by side across from them. They had all decided that unless someone asked they would not make open announcements of where they had been, what had happened, or who they were with. For several stressful minutes no one at the table said anything. Finally Neville spoke up.

"It's good to have you guys back." He said, pushing around his string beans. "Gryffindor isn't the same with out you, it's so empty in the tour. And classes are not the same by far. But that's probably because we have so many with Slytherin and they were gone too."

Harry smiled feebly at Neville's attempt to smooth things out for the returnees. His awkwardness helped, but unfortunately not enough. He noticed Ron had gained an evil stare from Lavender, and Parvati. Goodness knew they had figured out about him and Kayla, but whether they were jealous or outraged by her pregnancy, Harry wasn't sure.

Ron seemingly oblivious or else ignoring them completely continued to dig into his meal. "You know, I really missed eating Hogwarts food." he said happily.

Ginny laughed, feeling herself loosen up some at her brother's antics.

"I bet your pregnant girlfriend is saying the same thing over at the Slytherin table, by the looks of it she could probably eat everything served on that table. She's eating for two now, but then again it is your baby so she's should probably be eating for about four." Lavender said, snottily.

Before Ron could even process what was being said to him, Hermione turned to her. "Excuse me, I don't think anyone asked you. And incase you oops forgot, I do remember somebody having a little scare at the end of sixth year, who was that again? Oh you, and I do believe it was Seamus, am I wrong?"

Lavender turned red before glaring at her ex-friend and turned back to whisper in audibly to Parvati.

Shaking her head, Hermione turned back to Ron, who stood there gaping, mouth full of potato. "Shut your mouth Ronald, that's disgusting." His jaw slowly closed. "And don't you dare take offense to what she said."

Ginny turned slowly to see how Draco and everyone else were making out at the other table. As far as she could see everyone was either focused on Janelle, being the new girl, or Kayla be pregnant. Draco and Blaise sat back out of the spectacle content to watch, and through in a defensive remark if any ones comment or question got out of hand.

By the time the plates were cleared and dessert had been put out however, Kayla was exhausted, and excusing herself she stood to lead. Ron quickly made his way over to her table and helped her over the bench, then they quietly left together, the Great Hall bursting into noise as soon as the huge, wooden doors shut behind them.

"I've had enough of listening to this." Ginny said rising, "I'm going to go up to the tower-"

"No, you are coming with me." Draco whispered in her ear, as his arms snaked around her waste. "Just because we're back at school doesn't mean I'm going to go back to sleeping alone."

Ginny smiled and leaned back against him. "See you in a bit 'Mione." She said, before being whisked away.

Hermione laughed as she felt a hand clamp down on her shoulder. Turning around she saw Blaise standing behind her, and patting the seat next to her gestured for him to sit down. Janelle not wanted to be left alone at the Slytherin table had followed, and slipped into Ron's vacant seat beside Harry.

"Surviving your first night back okay?" Hermione asked, leaning into Blaise's sturdy strength.

Blaise nodded, "Until they see that diamond ring of yours flash in the light, there really is no news about you and me, the rest of them have stolen the spot light." Blaise joked, stealing a strawberry off of his girlfriend's plate.

"Yeah, well I could do with sharing some of it. Being the new girl has it's ups, but I don't want to know what everyone is sayin' 'bout me 'n Harry behind my back." She pointed to the Slytherin table where several girls were whispering behind their hands. "And that Pansy girl..."

Blaise let out a low whistle. "Oh she's pissed. When she ever saw Draco and Ginny dressed like that she blew a casket, and she's stark mad now. Kept glaring at Draco all through the meal. He's in for it from her, better watch his back."

Harry laughed. "No I think she better be the one being careful, because if I know Ginny, and I do, she'll have bats coming out of her nose faster than the blink of an eye if she even comes within range of her man. Ginny is fiercely protective of him."

Hermione sighed. "Well I do believe I best be heading off to bed, goodness knows that I'm going to have to be bright-eyed, and bushy tailed for the morning when my head girl duties resume. Hopefully my replacement isn't too beat up over the fact that I've come to resume my position."

"Oh you're going to resume your position alright." Blaise growled in her ear before helping her up. "See you guys in the morning."

Hermione waved good-bye, and the two love birds made their way up to the head rooms. Entering quietly and scurrying up to Hermione's room so as not to disturb Draco and Ginny, but at the same time already tearing at each others clothes.

Back in the Great Hall, Harry looked around, then focused on Janelle. "Fancy a walk with me? If we go get our cloaks, I can show you the quidditch pitch."

Janelle smiled. "I would love that."

In ten minutes time, they had left the school behind them and headed out to the pitch.

"So be honest with me Janelle, are you adjusting okay?"

With a laugh Janelle locked her arms tighter around Harry's. "I've only been here a couple of hours yet. I think it will take more time than that to see."

A moment later Harry spoke again. "Just know that I'm here, okay, and I can help you with anything."

Turning around, Janelle smiled and raising to her tiptoes kissed him soundly. "Harry James Potter, after all that I've been through I think going to a new school won't be too bad. You have to remember, the last time I did this I was dropped into a completely muggle environment, getting back into the magical world can't be even half as hard as that was. And like you said, I have you, and Ginny and Hermione, and Kayla. All the friends that I need."

"I think everything is going to be okay." Harry whispered, his arms holding her loosely around the waste.

"Oh believe me, I know things will be okay, you just wait and see."

A/N: What do you think? I have summarized, I have detailized, that's not a word, but anyway... I hope you liked it! Please review, I would really appreciate it!