"Hurry the bloody hell up, Sirius!" James spat at his friend who was lagging behind.
They were late.
It was their first day back at Hogwarts and they were already about to get in trouble… Again.
During breakfast James and Sirius had a bit of a food fight. A bit would probably be an understatement. Food was flying everywhere. One even, somehow, made to a slytherin table the whole way across the room.
They were so loud that they drew the attention of other students and teachers, one teacher they hoped hadn't noticed had noticed. Professor McGonagall. Within a few minutes, she had addressed the boys, gave them detention, and sent them to their dorms to shower and change.
James had been waiting for Siris for over twenty minutes and couldn't take it anymore.
"Sirius, out. Now. We only have four minutes." James yelled out and stumbled back when Sirius suddenly bursted out of the bathroom.
"You can't rush perfection, Prongs." Sirius said flipping his hair dramatically before shooting his friend a toothy grin.
James ignored his friend's narcissism and sped past him down the hall.
"Hurry up, you little twat… Two minutes" James said.
They quickly made their way down the hall, but all of a sudden Sirius pulled James against the wall.
"What are you doing now? We haven't the time!" James said annoyed that his friend was going to make them much later than they needed to be, also because Lily was in that class too and if he didn't get there soon someone else might sit next to her.
Sirius, knowing his best friend, and of course, his obvious infatuation with Evans smiled at him knowingly as he replied, "Hold up, lover-boy. Mcgonagall at 12 o'clock."
James looked over Sirius's shoulder, and just as he had said, Mcgonagall was there. If she caught them, he knew they'd lose more house points and would have a longer detention sentence.
Suddenly, Mcgonagall's voice was echoing through the hallway.
"Sirius! James! What are you doing out of class?" she yelled, storming towards them.
Sirius only caught a slight glimpse of the fuming professor and could swear he saw steam coming out of her ears.
"Sirius and James! There you are!" another voice suddenly out.
Mcgonagall, Sirius, and James all directed their gaze towards the direction of which the unfamiliar voice suddenly spoke out.
The voice came from a girl standing towards the other end of the hallway, a girl James nor Sirius recognized.
Mcgonagall must not have recognized her either cause soon she was walking over to examine the young girl.
"And you are?" Mcgonagall questioned.
"Autumn DuBois." the young girl spoke out.
Sirius looked the girl up and down. She was just a few inches shorter than he, pale skin, with the blondest blonde hair he's ever seen. Her hair was slightly curly and was thrown in a very messy ponytail.
Sirius was trying to remember if she was one of the many he had taken out and never spoken too, but she looked totally unfamiliar. Plus, he wouldn't have agreed to take out a girl who looked so.. Innocent.
The girl had a small face with plump cheeks, also her eyes were the widest he'd ever seen, making her look like an innocent little doe caught in the headlights.
He would never take a girl like her out, not to mention the fact that she's a Ravenclaw. The house he hated most, with Slytherin not included since he more than hates that house.
"And Autumn , what business do your have with these two… Boys?" Mcgonagall asked, emphasizing the word, boys.
"You see, it's my first day at Hogwarts. I'm from the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts. These two were supposed to take me to my potions class." she said.
"Oh." Mcgonagall replied, eyeing the three of them before continuing, "Very well. I'll just escort you all there then."
The four of them walked in silence as James and Sirius beamed at their new friend, mentally thanking her.
James liked this girl already. Besides Lily, all the other girls, with exception to a lot of Slytherin housed girls, would throw themselves at James and Sirius, and James could already tell she wasn't like that.
Once they got to class, they were only 7 minutes late, not too bad.
They were confused when they saw majority of the students standing in the back of the class but the confusion was almost instantly erased when the teacher approached.
"Ah, lady and gentlemen, stand in the back of the room, I'm assigning your seats." the teacher, who Autumn later learned's name was Professor Slughorn, had addressed them upon their entrance.
When they got to the back James almost instantly began, "Thank you very much, Ms. DuBois. I'm James by the way." he said, holding out his hand for her to shake.
"It was no problem, really. I was late as well, so all's well that end's well, right?" she said, shaking his hand, and reaching for Sirius's next.
"I'm Sirius." Sirius said coldly, barely looking at the girl who had saved him just a few moments ago.
"Serious about what?" Autumn said, finally getting Sirius's attention.
He let out a low chuckle. Most Ravenclaw's were boring bookworms, but this one didn't seem too bad, he thought to himself.
"Black, Potter, you're over there." Slughorn called out pointing to a table.
James smiled, he was happy he was next to Sirius but couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed that he wasn't seated to the love of his life, Lily. But his happiness reappeared, however, when ever he had noticed that the certain redhead was sitting right across the aisle from him.
He smiled to himself, but the smile soon disappeared when he head the following names called next.
"DuBois annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddddddddddd…. Snape." Slughorn called out.
Autumn took her seat behind James and was stunned to see him suddenly turn around with a disgusted look on her face. For a second she was scared she had done something wrong, but the fear vanquished when she looked to see what James was sneering at, it was the boy next to her, who she had barely noticed.
He was a lanky boy with long black hair that covered most of his face and skin just as pale as didn't take much for her to notice he was from the Slytherin house, wasn't exactly rocket seemed.. Mysterious, and Autumn had always loved mysteries.
Sirius turned around also, but was looking at her instead.
"You're not too lucky today, Autumn . Try not to touch him, you wouldn't want to catch his germs." Sirius said as he glared at the boy.
"Shut it, Black." the boy suddenly snapped.
Autumn was so confused as to why the three boys were glaring at each other, but thankfully the teacher started talking and her two new friends turned around to face the board.
The rest of the class flew by, and when they were dismissed, Autumn gladly got up and stretched.
"Boring, huh?" Sirius asked as he, too, stretched.
Autumn nodded her head as she pulled out her schedule to see where he next class was.
"What do you have next?" James asked, as he ruffled the back of his hair, which was already messy enough.
"Charms." she responded staring intently at her schedule.
"Charming, I also have charms next. .. Remus by the way." She looked up to see who the unfamiliar voice belonged to and smiled at the new face.
"Ah yes, Remus is a friend of ours." James said before continuing, "Moony, we shall trust you to escort our new friend, Autumn , to the charms classroom. Please do not fail us."
Next thing Autumn knew, it was lunch time. She examined the hall and noticed how everyone sat with people of their house. Slytherins with Slytherins, Ravenclaws with Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs with Hufflepuffs, and Gryffindors with Gryffindors. Sadly, the only friends she made so far today were not in her house.
"Autumn !" a voice suddenly called out. A voice she recognized. It was James.
She made her way over to their table and said hello.
"Hey, Sirius." said concentrating on a map.
"Would you like to join us for lunch?" James asked taking a bite from a cupcake.
Autumn looked around, and asked, "But don't I have to sit with my house?"
Sirius, not looking away from his map, suddenly pulled on her wrist, causing her to fall into the vacant spot next to him.
"Couldn't we.. Well, I get in trouble for this?" she asked, wide-eyed, though her eyes were pretty much always wide.
Sirius sighed. "Ravenclaws always worry too much."
"No we-I don't!" Autumn retorted defensively.
"Prove it." Sirius responded, still never looking away from his map.
Remus rested his chin in the palm of his hands. Things were starting to get interesting.
"I will." she said, stubbornly, taking a cookie off a nearby tray.