Dogs Don't Fall In Love.
"Gottit! She's mine!"
Hun? Oh, James. Nothing new.
"Lily said yes?" Remus asked, and I had to open my eyes. I was actually laying on one of the common room's sofas, taking a nap. After all, what else interesting can I do in a quiet Sunday night, when you don't have even a Hogsmeade trip? Besides dating my week girl, of course.
But she's from Hufflepuff, so no way. This night my distraction level is zero. Her name? Jeez, she said it, but I wasn't listening.
Well, back on James, I opened my eyes and gazed at him. Smiling and whispering, Prongs threw himself on the armchair by my side and said:
"Yes. Moony, Padfoot…Where's Wormtail? Whatever. He's gonna know anyway…I am dating Lily Evans."
"Hallelujah, all of us!" I yelled, jumping. I actually don't support this lasting relationships' stuff, but he had to get one. Poor thing.
"Yes, Padfoot… Lily wanted to know if you got anything to do, a girl of something, at next Hogsmeade…"
"Why, she wants to go out with me?" I asked. Oho, naughty, Sirius. Ha. James looked annoyed to me and said:
"No, git. She wants to go out celebrating, know."
Rolled my eyes. Celebrate when you get married, what the f*ck?
"I… Guess… Guess I've got nothing on Saturday…" I answered, almost getting a shovel to dig my grave. Because actually I did have something. With a girl… Or two.
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"What do you mean by 'we cannot go out?'" the week girl yelled, almost crying.
Oh, bugger.
"We cannot, luv." I muttered back, reclining in a tree. She put her hand in the waist and said:
"Why?"
"Cause James got a girlfriend and…"
"What?" she asked, and some girls approached, like the robots that eat people on James' muggle comic collection. Gettout!
"You said James Potter had a girlfriend now?" one of them said, crying. "But…How?"
"Hell yeah, darling. He had, now can we continue here?"
"No, we cannot. If you'd rather go with Potter to Hogsmeade, I'm not going to stay in your way." The week girl interrupted, offended. I rolled my eyes and went after her.
"Luv, I…"
"I don't know my name, right?" she asked, turning back.
No. Actually not, because you're only a distraction.
"Of course I know!" I lied, faking outranging. "You're Mary…Ann…Louise…"
"I'm Josie! Bye, Sirius." And walked away. Shit. It's better that this reunion with everyone be extremely cool, because this Josie was hot. Well, as she's not here anymore, gotta find another week girl.
"Hey, Takeda!" yelled, running towards a Japanese ravenclaw I've been looking for. "How are you?"
Giggles. I. Hate. Giggles. What's the problem on laughing like anybody else, sometimes a day?
"Oh, hello, Sirius. Heard Hopkins ended up." She laughed.
Sometimes I've got a feeling that there're spied following me, looking for every step I take. And sometimes I'm sure of that.
"She got a little upset because we cannot go out to Hogsmeade anymore."
"She's crazy. Relax. I don't care much for that."
More giggles. If she weren't so… Hot, I would run to ask Filch out. Ok, I wouldn't.
"Good. I was wondering If..."
"Astronomy tower, next week, Monday." She said, blinking for me.
MONDAY? And this week? Well, I can handle this. Just to make sure…
"Takeda?"
"Yes?"
"What's your name?"
"Yuka."
"Thanks."
Now it's fine. Happy with my new "special friend" I went to the great hall to have lunch and Sat in front of Wormtail, Who pinched his meat pudding, bored.
"Alone here?" he muttered, and the pudding fell down.
I'm thinking that's not only me who's pissed. Peter's used to eat one of that just for fun.
"Yes? Oh, more or less. Where are the others?"
"Right there."
Walking on the hall and making the girls sob, James came holding Lily's hands.
"Good morning!"
"Just for you, mate." I said, pointing to the sobbing girls.
Lily gazed worried at them.
"I must fear any hex?"
"No, just if you were dating Sirius." James laughed, blinking. We heard a noise, and Remus came with two backpacks.
"Dorcas forgot her ink." He said smiling.
I don't understand how come he be happy being a butler, but whatever. Dorcas and Emmeline Vance came a few minutes later, talking.
"Hey, people" Emmeline said, sitting beside Dorcas, who started talking to Remus. Peter was eating madly again, but just to get out of there, because a group of Hufflepuff's awaited him, anxiously.
"You're hanging around with them?" I asked, getting pissed. Peter swallowed the pumpking juice and smiled embarrassed.
"Study group…"
I rolled eyes.
"Bye."
Gazed around. James putted Lily's hair behind her ears, Remus drowned laughing of Dorcas' jokes and Fabian Prewett chatted happily with Emmeline. And I'm here, alone (at least till I meat Yuka) watching all of this. Or almost alone. Only when I heard a "Hem, hem" coming from my side, I noticed someone there. Turned to look, and almost dropped the plate.
The prettiest girl ever, with blue eyes and long black hair. She was annoyed, looking at the girls with her forehead a little wrinkled, but yet I could see her pink lips, the waved of her hair, its halo… GOD. WHO'S HER?
"They ignore you too?" she asked to me, putting some food in her golden plate. Still a little dazzled, I nodded and she whispered. When she noticed her presence, Lily stopped treating James like a baby and smiled:
"Lene!"
Hun? What? This Angel isn't... Lene Mckinnon? She was normal, not this appearance here! I looked at her again. Was staring at Lily with a sarcastic smile.
"Morning!"
Lily looked quite embarrassed, but when she ended eating, and all the way to herbology class she treated James as ''Jimmy dear" making me get on the verge of asking Professor Sprout to get out of the greenhouse to vomit. And after class… She continued! And James did nothing. Stood there, like a moron, accepting this. Go on, mate! React!
That night, in the dormitory, He said:
"Lily's a dream, Pads. The dream of my life."
"Awn." I said sarcastically.
"Know when you feel everything good at the same time?" He continued, and I closed my eyes, sleepy.
"So! She's just… It!"
And I cannot remind anything further.
The next morning I woke up earlier than everyone and got that something was terribly wrong with me (and I MEAN that! woke up before Remus! It's the apocalypse.)
Well, I took a bath and only got outta there when I felt myself again (which means James yelling "Gettout, moron!")
The whole week had anything new. My date's only next week, and with all those new couples, I was really left alone. Even Peter, who I thought would be with me for all the lonely nights, vanished! The N.E.W.T's comings made him wanna study like crazy. So: I'm alone.
Friday came, one day before the bog reunion, and we had two classes of potions, like my life couldn't be more screwed.
Although I'm part of the Slug Club (not that I had a choice, since I was almost trapped in there) I don't think he's good. Lily thinks he's the best. Slime ball thinks too. Even Regulus, that git, thinks (well, He doesn't count very much, since He thinks MY MUM is the Best, and anyone Who looks at her and see less than the devil himself does not deserve mental credits. But I don't think so. And on the classes isn't different (except for the fact that we don't have Regulus. And, by the way, this makes my life much better. Cheers for Regulus absence! Cheers! Balloons from the Sky!)
"Today we're going to see a little potion, quite complicated and useless and a little unknown, but will probably appear in the exams: the Wolfsbane Potion. In case of those who want to become aurors, enjoy this opportunity, because this potion has a special thing: calms the wolf during full moon, keeping a healthy human mind as the body transforms. Great creation of one of mine former students, by the way. Well, you can do it in pairs, and come here to get an autographed receipt with me!
The following riot wasn't followed neither by me or the others. Me, James and Peter ran to Remus, whom by this time became white and purple. Remus got quickly away from us and sat on the table, his eyes with a weird halo. James turned to us and said:
"Peter, go with Remus, he's gonna need support."
"Why can't you go?" Wormtail asked. HEY! Because he's going with me, stupid.
"Lily called me."
WHAT? Peter shrugged his shoulders and went for Moony. I gazed outranged to James:
"Prongs!"
"Oh, Padfoot. You can survive without me for now, can't you7?"
"And I'm with who? Peter's with Moony, Lily stole you from me, Vance's with Dorcas…"
"Look, Marlene's alone."
"I'll kill you for that." I replied, turning back.
I got on the table as Marlene read Slughorn's paper. When she saw me, whispered and said:
"James left you too?"
I laughed.
"Pissed with them too?"
"Not exactly. I like them. With them good." She asnwered while placing the ingredients. "It's Just that... I dunno. I'm Lily's friend since second year."
"First year." I said, looking James. "You feel she'd rather stay with him. I feel like this tôo."
Marlene looked at me for a few seconds and said:
"Coming tomorrow or you'd rather go out with the Week Girl?"
OMG! There's people following me, swear!
"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" I screamed, and Professor Slughorn stop flattering Lily and James.
"Yes, Mr. Black?"
"Hum... Nothing."
I turned to the caldron, and Marlene stared at the boiling thing laughing.
"How do you know that?" I said again, whispering.
"Sirius, you and your love life are the entire girl's favourite subject in this school. I, accidently, happen to share a dormitory with four of those girls. I should be daft not to hear." And laughed.
I felt trapped on that smile, not knowing why.