"Oi would you two come up for air sometime?" George snickered, "I swear all you ever do is snog."

Cedric threw George a very frustrated sort of look but George only smiled at his actions.

"What's up George?" Krystal asked slightly flustered with swollen lips.

"Well if you two are still interested, seems Harry's found a place for us to all practice our illegal activities." He stated as he sat down comfortably on one of the chairs at their table.

Cedric's eyes went wide at George's words as he began looking about the library worriedly. "Do you always have to be so careless?!"

"I care about a good many a things." George countered smoothly, "but I think that students sneaking about, well within school hours to practice school work is a bit rubbish. I mean it's basically a study group."

The three of them sat in silence for a bit as George's words settled in, it did seem a bit far fetched that students weren't permitted to learn certain things but Krystal knew full and well the extent behind the "rules."

"So are you going to tell us where the place Harry's found is?" Cedric asked as his patience was thinning. "Or are we suppose to just sit here all night?"

"Relax mate, it's gonna be 8 o'clock, seventh floor opposite that tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy."

Cedric looked to Krystal, he knew fully well where this "place" was as did Krystal "the room of requirements." She said low, "we know where it is."

"of course you two do." George said before he left the two alone once more.

"I don't like that George is so comfortable around you." Cedric said as he watch George smugly make his way out of the library.

Krystal stopped packing up her belongings and faced Cedric full on.

"Excuse me?" She asked with a slight laugh.

"I mean it, him and Neville, they're too, I don't know, they just seem too familiar with you...too friendly for my liking."

Krystal could hardly believe what she was hearing. "They're my friends."

This time Cedric chuckled a humorless laugh as he paid no attention to Krystal, he gathered his things and remained quiet.

"If you have something to say, please don't hold back." Krystal demanded as her anger began to flair at the unspoken insinuations.

"All I'm saying," Cedric said as he stopped messing with his quills and parchment. "You've just been seen around a lot with other guys is all. Running around school with George, watching HIM practice. Sneaking about with Neville, staying up all hours of the night and falling asleep with each other."

Krystal felt like she had been slapped.

"Are you really suggesting that I am messing around on you with George Weasley and Neville Longbottom?!"

He shrugged slightly, his face filled with sadness.

"If you think that then you don't know me at all." She stated.

"Then you're denying it?" He asked.

"I don't have to...plus I thought you hated jealousy." She stated as she grabbed her bag and stomped away angrily.

Krystal entered the Gryffindor common room and threw her bag down on the ground as she slumped into a chair.

"Uh oh, trouble in paradise?" Fred asked.

George looked down at his watch, "is it that time for you and Cedi-boy to break up again before you two make back up two weeks later?"

"Not now guys." Krystal commented a little sadly. Fred walked away smiling but George picked up on his friends sadness.

"You know I was only kidding about that whole break up/make-up nonsense." George said in a much softer tone as he kneeled down to try and comfort her.

"Cedric thinks I'm cheating on him." She admitted.

"Why would he think that, you two are practically sewn together at the lips." George teased slightly.

She smiled but it fell away almost immediately. "Lately we haven't gotten to have very much time together, and it doesn't help that we're in different classes and junk." She answered.

"Well who's the bloke that's causing all the ruckus between you two?" He asked standing up, "I'll shove a couple of puking pastilles down his throat."

Krystal looked at the orange sweets and shook her head.

"Tell me, just his first name and I'll figure out the rest from there." He assured her.

"He thinks it's two guys, and one of them is named George."

He looked down at her sad face and understood immediately. "Oh, I see. Well I've always said Cedric was a right old git."

Krystal sat quietly she didn't know what to do or say.

"Well I guess I'll see you around Krys." George said.

"George wait." She called out.

"Don't want to go adding fuel to the fire eh?" He remarked with a slight smirk as he tried and failed to disguise his sadness.

Krystal felt worse than ever, Cedric now George, what else could wrong?

At 8 everyone rallied to the designated spot, they entered through a high polished door and found a spacious room lit with flickering torches. Wooden shelves lined the walls full of books and instead of chairs there were large silk cushions on the floor. A set of Dark instruments sat at the far wall and as Krystal walking into the room she found the eyes of the three guys who were supposedly in her life romantically.

An angry Cedric.

A saddened George.

And an unsuspecting Neville.

A few votes were enacted to choose both a leader of the "group" and a name to call themselves and then Harry (the officially elected leader) decided that everyone should learn and get use to using the basic disarming charm. "Alright then, everyone pair off and begin."

Everyone paired off and to no ones surprise (with the exception of themselves) Cedric was left with Krystal.

They didn't speak to each other and didn't even try to disarm each other.

"Come on you two, I know you can do it." Harry said as he quickly disarmed Neville.

"Fine." Cedric said, he went to disarm Krystal but she moved quicker and disarmed him first. This only made him more upset.

"Listen Neville, can you take turns to practice with Krystal and Cedric for a couple of minutes so I can walk around and see how the rest are doing?" Harry asked as he walked Neville over to the feuding couple.

"Hey guys." Neville sounded friendly.

"Hey Neville." Krystal responded back a little embarrassed.

"Expelliarmus!" Cedric shouted, Neville's wand flew to the other side of the room nearly hitting Cho Chang's friend in the side of the head.

"Uh, g-good one." Neville chuckled a bit nervously, "I'll just go and, I'll be back." He went off to retrieve his wand.

"What is your problem?!" Krystal asked as she stepped up to her boyfriend. "Cedric you need to realize that this whole thing is foolish and you are acting like a jerk, you seriously just attacked Neville, you need to apologize to him." She scolded, but the loud shouts of everyone else around her drowned out their conversation.

"Of course YOU would come to his defense."

"Anyone would, Neville is a sweet innocent kid who is completely oblivious as to what is going on around him." Krystal tried to defend.

"Tell me again how you aren't seeing him behind my back."

Krystal seethed with anger. "You know what Cedric believe what you want, I have been nothing but faithful to you and even risked altering the entire magical community just to save you because I love you but it seems that isn't enough for you."

"You two okay?"

Cedric stared angrily at the tall red head who interrupted them before taking off to practice with the Creevy brothers.

"Not now Fred!" Krystal shouted as she turned to go and practice with Ron and Hermione. But she couldn't let it go so she went up to Cedric once more and pulled him to the wall where they could talk privately. "Are we finished then?"

He looked at her, "is that what you want?" He asked her.

"It seems that you think I'm messing around with multiple guys so I'm pretty sure you want to break up with me."

He sighed, "I don't want to break up with you...I just don't know right now Krystal."

She stepped in closer, "Cedric, do you honestly think I would ever cheat on you?" She asked sadly. "Yes I do hangout with Neville at all hours and sometimes it is at night BUT it's because we are studying and yes sometimes we so fall asleep at the table mid assignment...Despite what a lot of people think, Neville is smart and kind enough to help me even when he doesn't have to." Krystal informed him. "As for George, he's one of my best friends, he's been there from the very beginning, through all of the ups and downs with you, and lest not forget that he was the one who got us back together at the Yule ball."

He remained silent so she continued. "And yes I watch him practice, as well as every other player on the team as they are ALL my friends, and YOU are the one who said I can't attend your teams practices otherwise I would be there cheering you on one hundred percent." Krystal smiled, "I love you Cedric and if you feel like I've wronged you in any way I am deeply sorry but I need you to see that they are JUST my friends, as are Harry, Fred, Ron, Lee...but none of them hold a candle to you."

"I'm sorry." He said with shame as he cupped her face and kissed her lips once, "I've let the words of someone else cloud my judgment and fed into rumors...It is I who needs to apologize, I am utterly sorry darling."

"You should probably apologize to George and Neville." She suggested. Cedric nodded his head and went on his way to make amends to the hurt George and the unknowing Neville.

Meanwhile Krystal couldn't help but wonder who was feeding Cedric these lies.

Soon Dumbledore's Army (DA) disbursed and everyone went their own ways.

"Hey what was going on between you and Mr Perfect?" Angelina asked teasingly.

Krystal rolled her eyes and let her body flop onto Angelina's bed.

"Rumors, apparently someone told Cedric that I'm messing around on him."

Angelina's eyes went wide, "wait, aren't Hufflepuff's suppose to be tolerant."

"Yeah, and the kicker," Krystal continued, "the kicker is that I'm supposedly cheating on him with Neville and George."

"Neville Longbottom?" She laughed.

Krystal couldn't help but laugh along with her.

"Well at least George is more realistic." Angelina commented once the two had stopped laughing.

"What's that suppose to me?"

Angelina shrugged her shoulder, "well you two do spend a lot of time together."

"He's my best friend."

"Well we're friends too and you don't spend nearly as much time with me, or Katie, or Alicia." Angelina commented.

Krystal wondered if she was spending TOO much time with George, "you don't think George thinks too much into our friendship do you?"

Again Angelina shrugged, "who knows what George Weasley thinks."

Krystal got up and went to her own bed, it seems she had a lot of things to think about when it came to the closeness of her male friends.

"Hey Ang." Krystal called out to Angelina, Katie and Alicia fast asleep.

"Yeah."

"Who do you think told Cedric these things?" Krystal voiced her biggest question.

"Beats me Krys, but it would have to be someone who benefitted from you two breaking up." Angelina said a bit groggily. "That could be any girl here in the school."

But there was only one person who popped into Krystal's head upon hearing her friends words, a certain little blonde haired nightmare.