A/N::::Okay this is my new fanfiction. I've been writting a lot lately and i have no idea why. Anyways enjoy this chapter and review if you wish for me to continue!

I WILL OWN HARRY POTTER WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER. But i do own the Blackwood family and the Caw family...oh and this plot!

A Harry Potter Fanfiction

It Started With a Bet

1

"I bet you I can!" seventeen year old, Sirius Black said to his friends, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

"You're good Padfoot, but not that good." James told him and Peter agreed right away while Remus stayed silent through the whole conversation.

"I am that good!" Sirius argued and finally James decided,

"Fine!" James said, "I bet you that you can't make any girl popular." James declared and Remus sighed.

"Fine! You pick the girl and I'll make them not only popular but also pretty and date-able." Sirus said and once again Remus sighed.

"I'm friends with morons." he muttered but unfortunately both James and Sirius heard him.

"We are not morons!" the both yelled at him before Remus put his book down and stared hard at them,

"You do realize that you can't just go up to a girl and declare to them that you're going to make them popular, right?" he said. Both James and Sirius remained silent.

"That's what I thought." Remus said before picking his book up and reading it again.

"Just start to date them!" James said, figuring out an idea. Remus rolled his eyes before tuning them out.

"Wormtail!" James said turning to Peter, "Take a camara and go take pictures of every girl in Gryffindor!" Peter nodded his head quickly before running off.

"So Prongs if I win, what do I get?" Sirius asked and James seemed to think about it before answering.

"If you win I'll give you my nimbus 1,000. But if you lose you have to declare your undying love to Snape." James said.

"You really think I'll lose!" Sirius shouted causing James to nod his head. Sirius was about to say something when the compartment door opens and an elder lady pushing a cart full of candy pops her head inside,

"Anything off the trolley dears?" she asked in her sweet elderly voice and them left after James and Sirius stuff their pockets full of candy.

"Arena!" a blonde hair girl said as she came crashing into the compartment. "You won't believe who I just saw shagging in one of the compartments!" she said excitedly. Arena smiled at her friends antics before putting down her book.

"Who was it Mandy?" she asked and Mandy went into a whole explanation of how she went to find the candy trolley when she saw Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Black shagging in one of the unused compartments. This was only extremely funny because Malfoy was going out with Bellatrix's cousin Narcissa Black.

"Wow." Arena said, "I'm going to have fun spreading that around." this sent Mandy laughing even more.

"Hey!" someone shouted and the two girls turned to see a small pudgy boy holding a camara. Arena noticed him to be Pettigrew, a boy in their house and year. Suddenly, and without warning, Pettigrew took a picture of them before running off.

"That was weird." Mandy said and Arena couldn't help but agree. After moment of silence Mandy started talking again and Arena tried to concentrate but she found herself think about all the years in Hogwarts. She was Arena Blackwood, the only known Blackwood to not be sorted into Slytherin. It was even worse because she was sorted into the rival house Gryffindor, so of course she was either shunned, taunted, or abused by her entire family. She looked at her bestfriend Mandy Caw, she was half-blood and unlike Arena she was beautiful. While Arena's hair was pitch black and overly frizzy Mandy's was cut to her shoulders and perfectly framed her face. Mandy's face was smooth and clear with spots of make-up here and there. Arena's face was oily and she had an ugly scar traveling from the bottom of her right eye to her chin. It had happened after her family found out where she was sorted.

"Are you listening to me?" Mandy asked all of a sudden and Arena nodded and again tried to pay attention but she went back to thinking about the years at Hogwarts. She had met Mandy on the train and the two had gotten along almost instantly. They had only fought once and that was when Mandy had decided to shag Sirius Black back in forth year.

"...And then my little cousin throws up all over my new dress and didn't even get..." Arena loved Mandy like a sister but sometimes she could get really annoying.

"Oh my god! James Potter is a self-centered, egotistical, prat!" was shouted as a tall red haired girl came into the room, the compartment door slamming shut behind her.

"What did he do this time?" Arena asked her other bestfriend, Lily Evans. Lily huffed before explaining that, like her, James was Head Boy. And that meant that the two of them would have to spend a whole lot of time together. Now usually if a girl was to spend as much time with Potter as Lily did they would be extremely happy. But this was Lily Evans, the Lily Evans that was asked out by the James Potter at least five times a day.

"Well look at it this way," Arena said, "This is the last year you'll ever have to spend with him. It's not like you'll marry him." the three girls then started laughing at the thought of Lily Evans and James Potter getting married.

"But I still can't believe it." Lily said, "I was sure Remus would have become Head Boy. I don't mind him as much as Potter or Black." Arena and Mandy nodded in agreement, everyone knew that Remus was the good one of the group.

"Well if it isn't my ugly sister." Arena looked up to see her younger bother, Desmond, standing in the door way of their compartment. Arena would have laughed at her brother seeing how he was just starting Hogwarts this year. Unfortunately several of her guy cousins were standing behind him and most of them were way bigger than her.

"Being friends with a half-blood and a mudblood. You truly are a disgrace to our family." her oldest cousin, Javen, said. Javen was her age and was extremely huge and incredibly stupid. The only thing he did have were his looks, and even they weren't that good.

"Don't call her that!" Arena shouted at them and grabbed for her wand. Unfortunately they were quicker.

"I'll call her whatever I want to call her." he hissed before sending a curse at her. Arena stared at the curse coming at her as if it were coming in slow motion. Before she could do anything though she was hit by the curse and then everything went black.

"You loathsome prat!" Lily yelled before sending both the bat-bogey curse at them and the jelly-leg jinx. Desmond, Javen, and the rest of Arena's cousins made their way down the corridor, getting laughed at the whole time.

"I got the pictures!." Peter shouted as he ran into the compartment, his arm waving and in his hand was the camara.

"Good job Wormtail!" James said and slapped Peter on his back while Sirius took the camara and gave it to Remus.

"What." Remus said, acting as if he had no idea what Sirius wanted him to do. Both James and Sirius gave him a look before Remus sighed and developed the pictures for them.

"Thank you!" both boys said before they sat down and started sorting through the pictures.

"Too hot."

"I already shagged her."

"Not ugly enough."

"Too smart."

"Too young."

"Lily's already beautiful enough!" finally the boys got to the picture that Peter had taken of Mandy and Arena.

"That's Mandy Caw! I shagged her, one of the best!" Sirius declared before taking a look at the other girl in the picture. He staired at her pitch black hair and water-like blue eyes. Her face was oily and rough and her eyes were hidden behind a pair of horrid glasses. Her figure was hidden by a very ugly dress and there was a scar running down her face.

"Perfect!" James said when he saw the girl in the picture. Remus saw her too and immediately recognized who the girl was. He of course kept to himself to get back at the boys. It was simply wrong to call any girl ugly!

"When I tell my parents about this..." the four boys looked in the direction of the corridor and saw several Slytherin and a few first years pass by. All of them had some sort of curse on them.

"My Tiger-Lily's touch!" James declared before running out of the compartment to find Lily herself. Being completely now Sirius followed and Remus soon after him. Finally Peter followed because he felt left out. They had just neared Lily's compartment when they heard frantic voices from within,

"Wake up!" one shouted and Sirius recognized the voice to belong to Mandy.

"What was she hit with?" that was obviously Lily's voice which caused James to barge in, his friends following after him. What they saw shocked them for on the ground was the girl that Sirius was supposed to make beautiful and popular.

"What happened?" Remus asked, concerned for another bookworm.

"Her prat of a first year brother came in with a bunch of her huge cousins and started to insult her and us. Finally she got tired of ait and stood up for us. That was when one of her cousin's hexed her and we don't know what the spell was." Mandy answered in one breath which shocked the boys. Sirius, being from a family of dark wizards, immediately recognized the spell that was used on her. Without thinking her took out his wand and mutter the counter curse resulting in Arena sitting up very quickly.

"Head rush." she muttered before noticing that she was sitting on the floor of her compartment and was surrounded by people.

"Are you alright!?" Mandy asked and Arena nodded before slowly stood up and turned to the boys that were in the compartment as well.

"Thanks Black." she said, knowing that he was the one who said the counter curse. Her friends and his friends look shocked that she knew this. She then quickly explained that it's a dark curse and that many children from dark wizarding families usually knew the curse.

"You should do something so that I know that you're really are thankful." Sirius said, putting on his charm causing several people in the room to roll their eyes.

"Oh and what should I do?" Arena asked and Sirius was almost shocked at the way she siad it. It was almost like she was flirting back at him.

"You could go on a date with me." he siad and Arena nodded as if she was thinking.

"All right. I'll go on a date with you..." she said and a grin appeared on Sirius's face

"...If you can tell me what my name is." she finished and the grin slowly disappeared from his face. He couldn't believe it, he asked her out without knowing her name, he was definitely off his game today.

"Um...Emily?" he asked and Arena chuckled. "Not even close Black. Can you even tell me my last name?" she asked and again he drew a blank. Through this conversation Mandy and Lily were laughing uncontrollably and Remus was holding in any laughter he might have had. James was shaking his head disapprovingly at his friend and Peter was agreeing to whatever James said.

"I thought so." Arena muttered but everyone heard her, she then turned to Remus, "Remus would you kindly take these two idiots and their follower away?" Remus chuckled before nodding.

"Come on morons." he said before turning back to Arena, Lily, and Mandy. "Goodbye Arena." he said and walked out his friends just behind him, their mouths wide open.

"Well that was certainly fun." Arena said before her, Lily, and Mandy went back to telling each other about their Summer vacations.

XOXOXOX

A/N::::Okay so that was the first chapter. i hope you like it so far. now i know that Arena (I love that name) and Sirius's home life sound the same but they are not. you will find out more in the chapters to come.

P ~ is for Peter Pettigrew
L ~ is for Lily Evans
E ~ is for Emmeline Vance
A ~ is for Arena Blackwood
S ~ is for Sirius Black
E ~ is for Ernie Macmillan

R ~ is for Remus Lupin
E ~ is for Eloise Midgen
V ~ is for Viktor Krum (He has absolutly nothing to do with this story)
I ~ is for the Incredible lack of "I" names in Harry Potter
E ~ is for Eileen Prince (Severus's mother)
W ~ is for the Weasley's