"Annie, take care of your sister...I won't be here much l..longer." Annie's mother gripped her daughter's hand.
"Promise me you'll take care of her!" her voice was urgent, full of pain. Annie nodded mutely, her gray eyes were filled with tears.
"Promise me!" Annie choked on her words, "I promise." Her mother lay back down, a content smile on her face.
"Mummy, go to sleep, your tired." Annie's little sister said, curling up in her mother's arms.
Annie smiled slightly. She felt the tears threatening to fall, but she didn't stop them, she knew she couldn't. She couldn't keep her promise, she knew it and her mother knew it. She was only nine, she couldn't take care of her sister.
"Annette!" Annie looked up at her mother, but no words left her mouth. "Annette!" Annie closed her eyes, feeling the tears slide down her cheeks. "Miss Williams!"
Annie looked up shaking, her eyes were filled with tears.
"Miss Williams, please refrain from mumbling in you sleep. I will not except crying in my classroom!" Annie nodded mutely, not knowing what to say.
"If you are so bent on crying, please leave the lesson, and come back later." Professor Porter said, glaring at the girl.
"Yes sir." Annie grabbed her bag, stuffed her books inside and hurried out of the room.
She tore down the hallway, not caring about the looks she was receiving from other students, and into the Gryffindor common room, where she collapsed on the couch.
"Annie, get up, come on Annie!" Annie's eyes flew open as a bucket of ice cold water was dumped over her head.
"What the hell!" she screamed, jumping to her feet. She glared at the culprit, a tall boy with shoulder length black hair and stormy gray eyes.
"Sirius, was that necessary?" she fumed. "It was totally necessary, you were sitting in my seat!" Sirius retorted.
"Sitting in your seat!?" Annie repeated, eyes blazing.
"Uh, Padfoot, not sure you should've done that." James said, grinning. "Yeah, got that now." Sirius replied, wearing a smirk.
"Leave me alone prat!" Annie screamed, drawing the attention of almost the whole common room.
"You're so immature, I really don't think it was necessary to dump a bucket of water on my head!" she shrieked.
"Yeah, yeah, now do you mind leaving?" Sirius asked, eyeing the spot where she had just sat.
"I can't believe I was ever friends with you! You're such a Slytherin!" Annie screamed. She turned and stormed up the stairs, leaving behind a very shocked Gryffindor.
"Sirius Black!" Annie fumed, she stalked up to the boy, her eyes blazing.
"Yes Williams?" Sirius asked, innocently.
"I can't believe you! You are an immature prat, and nobody likes you!" she screamed. Sirius smirked.
"I'm sure the ladies would disagree with you there."
"Augh!" Annie screamed in frustration.
"I hate you Sirius Black! I don't know what I ever saw in you! Amelia was right, you are just an immature prat!" she yelled, her eyes were filled with unspilled tears. As the first tear slipped out of its prison, she stormed away.
Annie flung herself down on her bed. She buried her face in her hands, letting the tears, that had been threatening to fall for so long, slip out. She felt her body shaking, but she couldn't stop, she wasn't even sure if she wanted to stop.
After a few minutes, she sat up, and wiped her tears away with the sleeve of her robe.
Annie groaned as she stood up and looked in the mirror. Her hair was a pink mess (trust Sirius to turn your hair your least favourite colour), her eyes were puffy, and bloodshot, her cheeks were tearstained, and her robe had a large green stain on it from potions.
There was a knock on the door, Annie looked up, startled. She took one last look in the mirror, before scrambling into bed. The door opened and Allison Myers stepped inside. "Annette?" she asked, walking over to Annie's bed. "You awake?"
Annie peered over the covers to where the girl was standing. "I just wanted to say...oh never mind, you're probably not even awake." Allison retraced her steps and left the room.
Annie stepped into the Great Hall, it was full of joy and laughter. A few students looked up as she entered, but seeing it was her, returned their attention to their food and friends.
Annie hurriedly sat down at her place at the end of the table, and grabbed a piece of bread. She wasn't hungry and wasn't going to waste food by putting it on her plate.
"Hey Williams!" Annie looked up. A familiar pair of gray eyes met her gaze.
"I need to speak to you." Annie shook her head, not wanting to talk, especially not to him.
"I wasn't asking for permission." Annie gaped in surprise as Sirius grabbed her by the arm and pulled her out of the Great Hall.
"What?" Annie hissed as the two were out of sight. "I want to be friends again, I'm sorry." Sirius said.
Annie stared in shock as the boy continued. "I know I shouldn't have done that. It wasn't right for me to betray your trust once, let alone multiple times-" Annie cut him off.
"Forget it Black, I want nothing to do with you. Leave me alone, you know what just forget we were even friends in the first place!" Annie fumed.
How could the boy who she had trusted just go and betray her like that, and then run back and beg for forgiveness?!
"I have places to be." She said, pulling her arm out of his grasp and hurrying down the hall. Sirius's parting words echoed in her mind. "I can't forget."