A/N: My first story ever, Please review, I love constructive criticism! M&Ms for all who review!
I wish I owned, but unfortunately, I am not J.K. Rowling, as much as I wish I was.
She was so nervous she was visibly shaking. She glared at her quivering hand, silently cursing her nerves. It was bad enough she was the only new girl in her year, no, the only new girl excluding the first years, but to make matters worse she was late.
"Get a bloody grip. You can do this. Just push and walk through. Push the doors open and walk in." She mumbled to herself.
After a few minutes she put her favourite oh-so-bored face and walked through the double doors. Everyone stared at her like she had just murdered someone. Hadn't anyone been late for the welcoming feast before? Well there's a first time for everything. Luckily she had already been sorted during the summer holidays so she knew she was to sit at the Griffindor table. She saw the only empty spot in the table and sat down between a red-head girl and a tall boy, both of whom looked like they were sulking.
The boy across from her gave her a sympathetic look, and she glanced at him with confusion. He gestured to the witch on her left, and the wizard on her right as realization swept through her, the two had been fighting. So that's why this spot was empty. She examined the boy across from her, tuning out Dumbledore as he continued with the notices. The boy had ruffled sandy hair with a fringe that covered part of his face; he had deep blue eyes that were like veritaserum, even though he wasn't looking at her, she wanted to tell him anything he asked. He caught her staring and blushed, looking down and started piling his plate with food. She was so distracted looking at this boy that she hadn't noticed Dumbledore had finished and the food had appeared. Silently cursing herself for being so distracted, she started to spoon some steaming potatoes, vegetables and a piece of steak on to her plate.
There was a large amount of chatter in the great hall, but the boy across from her and the boy on his right were the only ones talking, and it seemed they were arguing about quidditch. The second boy had long, straight, black hair that was about an inch above his shoulders. He had raven eyes to match and his mouth was full of some type of meat. She enjoyed quidditch and was the only girl chaser at her old school, so she listened to the conversation while she made her way steadily through her food.
"Hey you, new girl" the second boy said, his mouth now full of what seemed to be mashed potato.
"If you want to talk to me swallow your food first." She said, scowling as she wiped a bit of potato off her robes. He scowled back and, realising he wasn't going to win against this girl, he swallowed before continuing. She had assumed he wanted her opinion on quidditch, but apparently he had grown bored of the topic, or maybe it was just because the first boy wouldn't give in. either way he had turned his attention to her.
"I'm Sirius; this is Remus, James and Peter." He said pointing to the boys around them in turn. Remus was the sandy-haired boy; James was the boy on her right. He had jet black hair that was messy, as if he had just stepped off a broomstick. His only response to his name was scowling at his food.
"Don't mind James. Him and his Lilyflower have gotten into a fight again." Sirius teased, pointing at the red-head on her left. She had long, curly red hair, freckles coving her face and green eyes.
"Don't call me that. It's Lily. Just Lily." She said and returned to playing with her food.
"Ooh touchy. Ah well. You still haven't told us your name."
"Poppy." She said.
Peter was the boy on the other side of Remus who she hadn't noticed until Sirius pointed him out, but he snickered upon hearing her name. He was short and tubby with mouse brown hair, and his facial features reminded her of a rat.
"something funny with my name?" she asked him sweetly.
"Lily a-and P-P-Poppy are b-both flowers" he stuttered, and upon gaining his courage he asked "can I call you Popsicle?" he smirked, expecting a round of laughter but instead he got dirty looks from his friends.
"She just got here and you're going to send her running away screaming" Sirius said, teasing both Peter and Poppy at the same time.
"Call me Poppy or Pops, and I don't scare easy." I said where Peter seemed to shrink away.
She remembered the boys at her old school. They were huge pranksters, but most of their pranks backfired or never worked. They didn't have the brains to plan their pranks properly. They usually ended up in the hospital wing but they kept trying, they were too immature.
She was brought out of her trance by Sirius.
"Try us." He murmured, obviously teasing her, he waggled his eyebrows at her making her giggle.
They continued to tease each other all throughout dinner and dessert, Remus occasionally saying something, Peter trying to make himself disappear and James sulking. She walked up to the common room with the boys, they were very accepting of her, she noted. Peter went to his dorm to hide, and James went to sulk. Remus and Sirius walked her to her dorm and came inside to chat. She walked down the row of five beds, with the boys in tow, looking into each bed in turn. Lily was writing on a piece of parchment, The next girl had long white hair and was sleeping peacefully, the third girl was painting her toenails a baby blue and introduced herself as Alice before hugging the boys. The last girl had her head buried in a book but said hi to Sirius, and casually shared names with Poppy.
She opened her trunk and searched trough, pulling out numerous muggle books, clothes, accessories and heaps more. She finally found a little rainbow notebook and took it to her bed with a pen.
"What's that?" Sirius pointed to the pen.
"It's a pen. Muggles use it to write." She clicked the pen a few times as Sirius stared dumbstruck.
"But where's the ink?" he asked, still confused. Muggles always had the strangest inventions. "Is it magic?" he asked before mentally kicking himself. Remus smirked at him, but Poppy giggled.
"No, the ink is already inside. It's just how they're made." She explained.
She wrote a few notes, which they read, and then she asked them if they knew how to play tic tac toe.
"What's that?" Remus asked.
"It's a muggle game," Sirius groaned but she continued explaining as if he hadn't, "you have to get a row of three, like this." She said writing in her book. She was the only winner at first, but soon Remus was unbeatable.
"Unfair. You're cheating somehow, I know it." Sirius complained. Remus suddenly realized it was midnight, and hugged her goodnight. Sirius just poked his tongue out at her, which she returned by poking her tongue out in the shape of a hotdog bun, and he gaped at her, this girl was full of surprises.
Sirius and Remus returned to their dorm, talking as they changed, agreeing to make this girl a marauder, agreeing to make her one of them. They agreed to make an initiation process tomorrow.
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