Bahahaha okay, so I'm positive everyone in the world hates me. Not ONLY did I not update this story for the LONGEST time haha but I just pulled an amazing prank on my friend last night (my friend & I put pads and tampons all over his giant truck) so he hates my guts too lol. Okay so I suppose I have an explanation for all this rucus? Last summer, I got a boyfriend, then got my heart legitimately broken… it was awful… THEN I got a new boyfriend who is 100 times better than the last one and THEN my computer crashed and I lost EVERYTHING on it… it's taken about 3 months for the guy who was working on it to restore everything and when I finally got it back and I was going through all my writing I realized how much I enjoyed writing this story and I promised myself to finish it :) So there you go… that's my excuse lol and I KNOW that I've said this more times than I'd like to review haha but this time I PROMISED myself and I promise YOU ALL that I will finish this story :) And a little motivation always helps ;) haha okay… I still don't own any of the Harry Potter characters because they are all pissed at me too lol I own my girls :) -Mooch

Once Is Enough

I'd never actually thought this plan through… Where exactly had I planned on going when I stepped back into the woods? My broom was shattered, my boyfriend was promised to someone else and my friends were probably having a heart attack…

"Fan-fucking-tastic," I muttered to myself as I smashed my way through the underbrush. It wasn't very fair to the poor little shrubs under my feet. After all, they weren't the ones promised to that pug nosed, self loving, oatmeal faced, "Bitch!" I yelled out loud as I hit a branch out of my way and then let out a sigh.

What a waste of an evening… All that planning for nothing…

A small wind blew through the air and I continued to walk… Where I was going, Merlin only knew.

Finally after a while of walking the trees began to thin and I walked out of the bushes and found myself at the top of a hill looking down on a small community of homes. Muggle homes.

"Where in Merlin's underpants am I," I whispered and then I laughed slightly at the That's what she said joke I had just made. Suddenly I heard a whooshing noise from above me.

"Guys! I found her!" Ophelia's voice suddenly called out and I let out a breath as I looked up and saw her shoot off some red sparks from her wand then started coming down towards me.

"How the hell did you find me?" I asked her as she came closer.

"Oh it was easy, I just followed the trail of sarcasm and the stench of Dork," she replied and I flipped her off as she smirked, "What exactly have you been doing?"

"Well… I smashed into a tree, thanks for noticing by the way, then I crashed Draco's wedding shower… Cool… Yay… So much fun." I looked at her with a completely serious face while her eyebrows shot up.

"What are you talking about? His wedding shower?" She asked me in a voice that sounded like she didn't want the answer.

"Can I just tell you when we get back to the castle. Because I know if I tell you now, when everyone else shows up they are going to want the same story and I'm not in the mood to tell this one over and over again to each person, alright?" I asked her with a sigh and she nodded then got off her broom and pulled me into a hug. I let my forehead fall onto her shoulder.

"Why can't we just be together? It's not fair," I whimpered slightly.

"Life wasn't meant to be fair. Sometimes things happen that don't have solutions," she replied.

"Well that was a great pep talk… thanks." I shot her a glare and she shrugged.

"I think we are past the point in our friendship where I have to sugar coat everything for you to make you feel better," she said and I shrugged. It was quiet and suddenly I saw three more figures coming towards us out of the sky.

"Brooklyn! You had us worried sick! What the hell just happened?" I heard Leo's voice and I rolled my eyes.

"I'll tell you later, I just explained this to Ophelia," I said with an edgy voice.

"What are you holding?" Woody asked slowly and I held up my bottle.

"Cider… Want some?" I asked as I lifted it up and shook it enticingly.

"Where did you get a bottle of cider in the middle of the woods?" he asked again and I groaned.

"I told you, I'd tell you later! Ugh I even have to repeat my explanation of why I'm not explaining things! Merlin!" I said loudly in an annoyed voice. It was quiet for a few moments.

"Does that mean I can't ask what happened to your broom?" Woody asked again and I opened my mouth to yell at him, but then I closed it and let a calm expression wash over my face.

"Yes. It does," I said simply and then got onto the back of Ophelia's broom.

"Can we just go home now? Please? I'm tired of wasting my time here…" I said slowly and Ophelia nodded as she touched off and we all flew back into the sky and towards school.

X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x

The sun was bright in my eyes.

Why wasn't there a curtain on the window? What was this madness?

I groaned and turned over on my side only to find myself falling onto the floor.

"What the bloody hell?" I muttered sleepily from the floor. I opened my eyes slowly and found myself not only on the floor, but in the common room. There seemed to be no one else in the room, but I had no doubts that someone had seen me here. I got up slowly and rubbed my back which still hurt from my fall.

I realized that I had been sleeping on the four foot long window seat in the common room. I looked around and found that Woody was sprawled out on one of the large arm chairs and Leo hadn't even made it to any furniture and looked as if he had been dumped from the sky onto the floor, face down. Meanwhile, Ophelia was propped up against the side of the couch with her head hanging down and drool coming from her mouth with Ruby laying somewhat normally on the couch.

I looked at the clock over the fireplace and saw that it read 2:00 p.m.

"Holy shit," I sighed and then walked over to my friends.

"Guys, come on, wake up," I said to them, but they didn't move. I sighed again.

"Get up!" I yelled as I nudged Ophelia with my foot. Her head bobbed up and she looked extremely disoriented while Ruby jolted awake and looked like I was about to cast an Unforgivable Curse in her face. I laughed a little bit at their reactions as they stretched.

"What time is it?" Ruby asked slowly as she yawned

"Two in the afternoon, considering we got in at five this morning I'd say that's not that bad of a good… days? Sleep?" I asked slowly and Ophelia shrugged.

"What does it matter? My ass hurts so much!" She groaned and I nodded my head in agreement.

"Well look who finally decided to wake up! I really wish you could've seen yourselves… So attractive how you fell asleep and all," Portia's voice floated into the room with a smile in it. I looked up and saw her coming down the stairs from the girls dormitory.

"Ha, ha. You are so finny." I replied with a glare and she just chuckled.

"I know I am," she smiled back at me and then looked us all over, "So how did it go last night?" she asked and I saw Ruby and Ophelia perk up. I still hadn't told them what had happened.

After we had gotten back we snuck back through the boathouse shortcut and back into the castle. It was so early in the morning that even Filch had seemingly gone to bed, although we still had to sneak back to the common room, it wasn't nearly as hard. And when we had all gotten safely inside we hadn't even had enough energy to get up the stairs. I could recall fighting with Ruby over the couch… She obviously won, apparently.

"Let's wake up the boys first. I only want to say it once," I said in a tired voice. I really didn't want to relive any part of last night. It was too painful.

"Get up you lazy asses!" Portia yelled as stepped on Leo's back and hit Woody on the leg. They both groaned and started shifting around, "Brooke is going to tell us what happened, now pay attention… I said wake up!"

"Alright, alright, we're up!" Leo said as Portia stepped on his back again as she went back to her spot near the couch. Woody opened his eyes and looked at me as best as he could. It got quiet and I let out a breath that I hadn't realized I was holding.

"So… After I crashed into that tree,"

"Hold on! You crashed into a tree?" Portia interrupted with a giggle.

"Shut up Porsche!" Ruby glared at her and my friend stopped laughing at once. I nodded and then continued

"So I heard all these voices, and music and I sort of followed them. And then I saw through the trees that it was a party with all the death eaters and Draco's family and Draco's dad was going on about how Draco and Pansy were going to make such a good match… And then all the death eaters left and Draco was alone. So I went out and talked to him,"

"Did you guys kiss?" Portia piped up again.

"I don't want to know!" Woody shouted quickly.

"Shut up! Portia!" Ruby glared again and the room went silent once more. There was a lump in my throat as I started to continue and I suddenly found that I was trying to hold back tears.

"And he told me that he was promised to Pansy through an unbreakable vow his father made with him. He can't break it, otherwise he'll die. I can't let that happen to him. But I don't want to lose him either. And so he asked me to wait for him, and I said yes… What else was I supposed to do? And I just left him there, and oh Merlin why does this keep happening to me?" I suddenly burst out in tears.

As it turned out, even telling the story once was too much to handle. That stupid boy, Draco Malfoy, whom I had fallen in love with unwillingly had totally denied me, but totally embraced me at the same time. This was awful.

Ophelia pulled me close and I felt Portia playing with my hair as Ruby just sat next to me with a solemn look on her face.

"Don't worry Levi Jeans… we'll fix this," Ophelia whispered to me and I just let the tears roll down my face.

"Brooke, I know it seems like I hate Malfoy… Which I do… But I know that you guys are meant to be together… There has to be something we can do." Leonardo's voice said quietly and I shook my head.

"No, there isn't. You don't get it. It's all over. He's with her until one of them dies. And if he leaves her, then he will be the one to die! There is nothing we can do this time… Nothing." I whispered as I broke down into more tears. It was hard enough losing a mother, then a father. And now I had to lose the one person that I had actually found myself loving?

There should be a law against a person's heart being shattered more than once

Because once was certainly enough.

Okay, so what do ya'll think? I know it's been a long while and I'm trying to get my head back in the frame of mind that all the characters are in. Basically I'm reuniting with them haha so I do apologize if their voices aren't exactly the same as they have been… still trying to get into the groove lol.

But! Asides from all of that, what did you think? I want to hear from you all! I've missed you and your inspiration so much! I'm sorry it took so long, but I'm back baby! :) -Mooch