A/N:
Welcome to 'Its a common crisis'.
This cannot be happening. I repeat, not be happening. Especially not to me.Maybe I'm just dreaming. A quick pinch later I cross that out. I wonder if anyone is witnessing this. I seek a glance to my right and sure enough, half the station has stopped whatever insignificant thing they were doing before and they are now watching the most embarrassing moment of my life unfold in front of my eyes.
Oh Merlin, she's still talking. Does she ever shut up.
"...you were great. But I'm a woman and I need a man... Not a boy"
HEY! Who's she calling a boy. I'm way manly. I have chest hair now and everything. Psh. Take that.
I should probably explain. I, James Sirius Potter, Quidditch extraordinaire, beloved son of THE Harry James Potter, Friend to many, admired by many, owner of my soft and bouncy hair, am currently getting very publicly dumped by my girlfriend Veronica Foxx. On a train station. In front of my parents. The Hogwarts student body and my best mates. This will ruin my rep. I'm the dumper not the dumpee.
Oh fml.
And there she goes again.
"...Vicky understands me."
Wait...Vicky? "Who the fuck is Vicky?!" I asked.
"James." she screeched. I had to fight the urge to cover my ears with my hands. Believe me, it wasn't easy. "You never listen to me. Gosh, I am so done with high school boys. That's why I'm with Victor Krum now."
Holy Shit! "Victor Krum! Merlin! he's old enough to be your father. Ew. That's so Gross."
She flipped her blonde hair off her shoulder and scoffed "Junior. Victor Krum JR."
Now it was my turn to scoff. "HIM?!." Damn. JR was a model turned lead singer of the hit band Troll in Reverse. Okay, So I'm a little jealous. Of him, not her. That guy is a freaking Casanova. He must be getting some left, right and center. Not that I don't get my fair share of action. But in Hogwarts all the girls might as well be the same. Theres not much variation. But who I'm a to complain.
"Oh grown up James. At least Vicky has ambitions" - I'm actually surprised she even knows that word - "And doesn't just sit around day dreaming about Quidditch everyday."
I Do too have ambitions. One day I'm going to be captain of the Cannons! And lead them all the way to victory. Oh yeah.
"Are you even listening to me?!"
To be honest, not really. But I will miss your snogs though.She does snog well. Of course I didn't tell her that. Been there. Done that. Have the mental scars to go with that train wreck and my misters still remember that terrible day. So instead I said "Are you finished yet?"
Crap. Oops. From the look on her face and the gasp the crowd had admitted, I'm guessing I said the wrong thing. She looked positively enraged. Yep defiantly the wrong thing to say. Oh shit. Shes turning red. Back away slowly. Quick, protect your misters.
"I am soooo done with you." she gave a little scream, turned around and started walking off.
She walked towards a tall man wearing sunglasses. He smiled widely and grabbed her by the waist and proceed to suck her face off. Victor, I suppose. His hands roamed down her body until he reached her arse and squeezed. Woah, dude. Keep it PG. They're kids here. They stopped and proceeded walking past, ignoring the throes of girls throwing themselves at him, demanding autographs. Lucky bastard.
Thank Merlin though. For a second there I thought things were going to get ugly. Uh oh. Spoken to soon. She flipped her blond hair, turned to face me and said very loudly "BTW Potter, size DOES matter!" then she proceed to flounce off.
Ouch.
"Okay, people. Off you go now. Nothing to see here. Just a boy getting brutally dumped." Came a familiar voice behind me.
I turned and saw Matt making his way through the crowd. When he reached me he gave my shoulder the pity pat and head tilt. Then steered me towards the train.
"Great entrance, mate. Brilliant way to start the new year!" he said with mock enthusiasm.
"Oh shut up." I shoved him off me. Matt started laughing and pushed me into a compartment. I sat down, trying to find a comfortable position.
Jeez, he's still laughing. Brilliant. What a great friend.
The compartment door opened and in entered Fred. Plopping down on a seat he turned to me and said "Hey Jay! You'll never believe what I just heard. Some little Puff, well I assume he's a puff...he looked like one, anyway he just told me Roni dumped your sorry ass and guess who for.." He paused. "Victor Kr Jr!"
I guess the look on my face confirmed it since Freddie started laughing uncontrollably.
"It's true. She left his standing there looking like a right loser." Matt commented.
"For Krum!" Fred exclaimed between laughs.
Why am I friends with these idiots?
"She also quit school to go touring with him." Matt added.
"She did? Really. That's news to me." I said. Heh, At least I don't have to see her everyday. That would have been awkward.
"Boy you really weren't listening to her. She must have mentioned it At least 10 times." Matt replied.
"You know how it is. She opens her mouth and I just tune out."
"Anyways." Matt turned to look at Fred. "How did you miss it. Weren't you right there saying goodbye to your family?"
Freds' eyes shifted to the floor and he laughed nervously. "That's not important."
Conner and I exchanged curious looks at each other. That's weird. Fred never misses an opportunity to talk about himself. He's even more vain than I am, and that's saying something because I am AWEsome.
But before I could call him on it, the sweet lady walked by with her normal "Anything of the trolley, my dears." She is such a sweetheart, taking her time to supply us depraved children with snacks. The world needs more women like her in it. Not idiotic blonds that leave you for rockstars. But you know I'm not bitter at all. Come to think of it I am actually quite hungry. Never got to eat breakfast since I overslept and Albus didn't bother to wake me up. Git.
5 minutes later and 3 galleons lighter, I proceeded to tuck into a chocolate frog, viciously biting it's head off.
"I heard half the school was there." Fred said clearly trying to change the subject.
Matt threw a bean in the air and caught it with his mouth. "True that."
"Oh fuck off! It wasn't all that. I'm pretty sure no one noticed. This will all blow over soon anyway." I'm such an optimist.
"Yeah right. Still I can't believe you just got dumped by Veronica Foxx."
I shoved Matt off his seat ignore his exclaim.
"It's not a big deal. Can we just forget about it. All I want is to finish the rest of the year in peace." I said.
"Not a big deal." Matt started. "Not a big deal! Bloody hell James. She is the most popular girl in school. Not to mention the decorate. Well I should say was you know, cause she's gone."
"I know, but she really wasn't all that."
"Wasn't all that? Wasn't all that? Victoria Foxx? You need to get checked out. Maybe being dumped for the first time will do that to a person?"
"I said shut up Matthew."
"Whatever you say boss."
Boss? After everything that just occurred. Not bloody likely.
The rest of the train ended up being uneventful and after a few more jabs the boys had stopped teasing me. Thankfully.
As we headed down the road towards the carriages Fred suddenly stop and a look of panic came across his face.
"Oh shit!" He said and turned around and ran towards the train.
"Where the hell are you going Freddy!" Matt shouted after him. "We're gonna be late."
"I've left something behind." He called back without turning around and he jumped into the train.
Brilliant. Now we have to wait for him. We started slowly walking to the train. And just before we reached the door, Fred stepped out looking very flustered and holding up a necklace which had a menacing looking tooth hanging down from it. A necklace of all things.
"Got it."Fred shouted.
"That's it?" Matt said. "You wasted our time for some cheap looking necklace."
"Hey! This is a genuine Peruvian Viper-Tooth dragons Fang. Do you know how rare these are?" He protested. "And besides it was a gift."
Wow. Kudos to the person who gave him it. Freds been obsessed with dragons ever since he was kid.
"Who from?" I asked.
Fred started turning pink around the ears. He looked very uncomfortable for some reason. "Why all the questions?! Weren't you just rushing me? Psh! Merlin!" He scoffed, brushed some dust of his robes and made his way to the carriage.
What was that?
Matt looked at me and murmured "weird."
My thoughts exactly.
Why did everyone suddenly just stop talking? And are they all looking at me? I slowly walked towards the Gryffindor table very aware if the fact many eyes where on me and sat down with the rest of my clan. Why we Wotters always sit together, I'll never know. Fred sat down next to me and Matt opposite to him.
There was an awkward silence as they looked at me. Rose's face was turning red whilst trying to contain yer laughter. And Hugo flat out started guffawing. Jeez! Atleast the others had the decency to pretend not to be laughing at me.
"How you feeling 'big' guy." Asked Dom. Rose snickered.
"Now now Dom. Play nice. You know that size doesn't matter." Matt said.
Okay, this is officially getting old. Not my family too.
"Lay off guys. Id rather just forget this ever happened." I said.
"Easier said then done."Hugo commented wiping tears of his face.
"And why is that."
"You must not have heard. Lily recorded the whole thing and uploaded it on WizTube."
I choked. "WHAT!" I turned to glare at her. Betrayed. By my own sister. The horror.
"Sorry James." She giggled. "Couldn't resist."
I was just about to open my mouth to shout at her when I received a sharp jab to my ribs. Oww! What the hell. I peered at the seat next to me. Bloody Rose had poked my with her elbow. She shook her head at me and nodded towards Lily. Then she mouthed 'look at her'.
Then I realized. Lily was smiling. Scratch that. She was beaming. Which is great news since she spent the whole if the holidays locked up in her bedroom crying because of that letter that jerkoff had written. This was the first time since then I've seen her smile. The anger inside me died down a little. I guess a little humiliation is worth it for her happiness.
"Ah well, not many people would have seen it. Just remove it Lils."
She looked at me nervous and said " Actually, its kinda gone viral 250,000 views and counting."
Frick! A quarter of a million people have viewed the most embarrassing moment of my life.
"And erm..." She let out a little cough. "Someone's made a remix of it."
"WHAT!" This just keeps on getting better and better.
"Don't worry though, its really catchy." She said hastily.
"Really(!) Well doesn't that just make everything better(!)". Choke on the sarcasm Lily, choke on it!
"I think I heard a third year singing it." Matt commented absent-mindly.
By now McGonagall had finished her speech. I should feel bad for missing it but after 6 years, I had pretty much gotten the gist of it. The whole house unity crap, stay out of the forest and don't get caught with WWW merch. Or something along those lines.
The food appears in front if us. Oh Hogwarts food, how I missed you. Dinner ended up being quiet with the exception of Dom scolding Matt for eating like a pig. To which he replied 'Boys will be boys' and continued stuffing food into his mouth.
I had just finished eating when Albus and Scorpius walked from the Slytherin table towards me.
"Hey, big bro." Al started.
"What do you want?"
"Woah, Woah, Woah, is that really how you're going to great me." He said holding his hands up. "Talk about rude."
"Al, I'm not in the mood for this." I said and honestly, I was starting to get a headache.
"Fine! I just wanted to make sure you were fine." He said.
I looked at him.
"Okay, mum wants to know if you're fine."
That's more like it. Still, I don't need to be babied anymore. I'm such and adult. "Tell her I'm sitting in the shower, eating pie whilst sing along to freakin Celine Dion!"
Yepp, I'm so mature.
Al clicked his finger and pointed it towards me and said "Gotcha!"
We were interrupted by a crashing noise. I turned around and saw Rose covered in gravy and Malfoy with cutlery poking out of his body. Pretty funny site.
Why can't those two get along?
Rose turned to glare at Al. "Get your over grown dog out of my sight!" She gritted.
Malfoy stopped pulling forks out of himself. "There's only one bitch around here and I'm looking at her."
Normally I would defend her, but the clan made a pact to stay put of their battles.
Malfoy looked up at us. "She's bloody crazy!"
"I'm crazy!" Rose screeched. "You just had to come here and..." I tuned her out.
And this just got boring. I'm out of here. I motioned for Fred and Matt and pointed to the door mouthing 'Lets go'.
As we headed towards the Gryffindor common room a lot of people stopped to stare at me. It's noting out of the ordinary,I'm used to this type of attention, but usually there's look if awe and lust of their faces. Instead of these stupid grins they have now. And a group of Slytherin even had the gall to stop in front of me and start singing. Ahh, the remix I presume.
Damn it. It really is catchy.
I pushed past them and headed towards the common room. A few more rounds of dodging annoying student and I finally made it to my dorm room.
I dropped down on my bed and let out a sign. This is not how I wanted to start my year.
Matt and Fred entered and sat down on their beds.
"That shits everywhere." Matt said. "Even the Fat Lady was bumping and grinding along with the song."
Ew. Bad visuals.
I sat up and looked over at them. "People will probably forget by tomorrow. It'll be old news." I said.
"Uh huh." Fred said doubtfully.
"I'm telling you, tomorrow no one is gonna care. Tomorrow is going to be a great day."
A/N:
Hey all.
This my first fan fic, so bear with me. Please review and give me feedback. Loved it? Hated it? Let me know.
Hoped you enjoyed it.
That's So Slytherin