Falling for Black.
"AZURA JANE LOVEGOOD!"
Oh soggy cornflakes. Curse this world.
"What?!" I yell back at my supposed best friend.
"Wait for me!"
"Hurry up then." I tell her. She's running towards me now, arms flailing.
When she reaches me, she's panting and we step onto the train.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Nothing, you?" I reply shortly.
"Oh nothing, as usual. Have you seen Lil?"
"She'll no doubt be in the compartment."
We make our way to said compartment and enter.
Bad idea.
"JAMES POTTER! WILL YOU FUCK OFF?!" She's screaming at him.
Sigh. As usual.
"But Lillykins…" He whines back.
"JAMES! STOP ASKING ME OUT! I WILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!"
"Come on Lily, please?"
"NO! NOW GET OUT!"
Her face was plastered with rage and she was heaving, as if about to blow up. Oh, joy.
Serious Black sat in the corner nearly pissing himself laughing, while Reumus sat back, waiting for it to finally be over. Peter was cowering behind his hand. Wimp.
This was practically tradition. James Potter would come and annoy Lily Evans, Lily would yell and scream, James and company would leave, and finally peace would come again… Until we got to school.
Then the cursed Marauders would once again start with their pranks and James, also known as Prongs, would keep asking Lily out.
Sigh. Another long year.
"James, will you please just leave?" I ask sweetly.
"Oh hey Azura." Finally, you realise I'm here! Geeze, you bloody TOERAG!
"Azura, my you are looking the most beautiful thing today." Black bats his stupid eyelashes. I just wanna rip them out.
"Really Black, do you think your flattery will 'win me over'?" I say sarcastically.
Bloody Black. Well at least, with the way he's going, he will be.
"LEAVE!" Lily yells.
James follows Reumus out of the door, tagged by Peter. Black lingers a moment.
"What do you say, babe, you and me, tonight, the astronomy tower?"
"Sorry Black, I've got better things to do."
"Fine, just a quickie in the room of requirements?"
"Don't count on it, Black." I tell him.
"C'mon babe, everyone needs a little fun every now and then. Even you."
"I swear, Sirius Black, if you keep calling me babe, you will soon know what it is to be a FREAKING UNIC!" That scared him.
He backs out the door. "Okay, I'm leaving now. No need to yell."
He closes the door, but I still manage to catch him asking James what a unic is.
I cackle. Wait, I cackle? God, what am I doing?
"So Lily, now that you're calm, how was your summer?" Alice, always the optimist, asks. Her short black hair bobs up and down on her shoulders.
"Horrid." She groans, collapsing into the seat of the train carriage. "I spent all of the summer listening to boring Petunia dribble on about her new boyfriend Vernon. Eugh. He is the vilest person ever."
"How many letters did you get from Potter?"
"A hell of a lot. I swear I will be the end of him." Her red hair shakes as she makes violent gestures.
I can imagine her with her hands around his neck. Something tells me she's not far from that point…
"What about you guys?" She asks, looking at us.
Now it's my turn to explode.
"Oh you know, the usual, staying at home, bored WAITING FOR LETTERS!!"
They both stare at me like I'm wearing a big sign on my head saying 'I'm a twonk!' in huge letters.
The crack up laughing at my annoyance. Stupid friends.
I glare at them. Nice come back… never fails.
"We're sorry Az, it's just that letters aren't everything." Alice tells me, still giggling.
"Do you have any clue how bored I was? I was waiting for your sodden letters, in my room, hardly coming out because my stinking cousins were staying for the summer!"
Yes, that is correct, cousins. Evil, vile, smelly creatures. I repeat: EVIL, VILE, SMELLY CREATURES!!
All they seemed to do was use my owl to send letters across the sodden world! So I had no way of getting my letters to them.
"Oh alright, alright, we're sorry. I was just…busy." Lily says.
"I was… uh, well, I kind of have to tell you something…" Alice says cautiously.
We both look at her embarrassed face.
"Well, I spent my summer with… someone… A boy… called…"
"Spit it out, already!" Lily says impatiently.
"Okay, I spent my summer with Frank Longbottom." She cringed and put her face in her hands.
Lily and I are both taken aback. Alice? Our innocent Alice? With a boy? Not to mention FRANK LONGBOTTOM?!
Calm down Azura, calm down.
Alice looks at us. "Well? Are you going to say anything?"
We pick our jaws up off the ground.
"Wow." Lily just says.
"Yeah, wow."
Silence. Maybe she's angry.
Lily then came back to reality. "Alice… Did you and Frank do… anything?"
Alice smirks. Oh no. "We might have…"
"Like what?" I suddenly ask.
"Stuff… we kissed… and huddled close together… and may have… slept together?"
She says it so quiet we can barely hear. However, barely is enough.
"You what?!" Lily and I yell out in unison.
"Well, I got given a bottle of champers for my birthday and… well we drank it… and one thing led to another."
We stare at her. Another jaw dropping bit of information.
Oh my god.
"Alice? Are you joking around?" Lily asks her.
She shakes her head, looking guilty.
Oh my god. OH. MY. GOD.
After a while of only being able to hear the train moving on the tracks it is forced to follow, Lily speaks.
"So, was he… any good?"
Alice cracks up laughing, and I follow.
Oh god, it is funny.
"Well, he is rather… huge…"
Was this ALICE? The same Alice who refused to even listen in sex education? She plugged her ears with some form of sound blocking spell and sat there through the entire lesson thinking about food.
We have finally lost it.
Lily suddenly stops laughing and looks horrified.
"Oh my god! The head meeting!" She's remembering the meeting she was supposed to attend because she is now head girl.
Of course she made head girl. She's the bloody good two shoes of the school. Sometimes, it even gets annoying.
Little does she know who the new Head Boy is. MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
James Potter.