DISCLAIMER: UNFORTUNATELY I OWN NOTHING FROM THE AMAZING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER, THOUGH I CAN CLAIM ALI, SHE IS ALL MINE. PLEASE REVIEW YOUR FEEDBACK HELPS EVERY TIME. HOPE YOU ENJOY.
Chapter one
"Mind if I take a seat?"
Remus heard a voice he would recognize anywhere. Confused he nodded and cleared the other half of the last bench in the transfiguration classroom.
"Thanks" Ali spoke again and shot him a smile, which he returned rather weakly.
He remembered the same scenario developing six years ago, after both of them had been sorted in Gryffindor.
"Hello" She had said while taking a seat by his side in the great hall "Rosalie Williams, though my friends call me Ali "
"Remus Lupin" He smiled at her completely enthralled.
"Now aren't you a pretty flower" A handsome boy with black hair said as he stretched from in front of her to kiss her hand. "Sirius Black at your service my lady"
"Okay…" She said as she retrieved her hand with a funny face and a giggle. An unusual response for him.
"You are a tough one aren't you? Never mind I like them difficult" He said with his face set for a challenge.
Remus rolled his golden sprinkled blue eyes.
"I'm sure you do" She said again in a mocking tone.
Remus laughed amused at Sirius being rejected.
That was a laughter that was usually heard in the following six years, as every time he would approach her romantically she would shot him down with a comment as witty as the one Sirius would try to convince her with.
Every single girl in Hogwarts would keel over Sirius, thing he took advantage of, in a matter of seconds. At times he didn't even have to pursuit them, they would just fetch him and take him away for a few hours.
After their fifteen minutes of glory the girls would return to their common room devastated and in tears and would chase down the other Marauders to ask them what they had done wrong or how they could have him back. The thing is they couldn't get him back. Sirius was like a little boy; he wanted what was new, shiny, and what he couldn't have. Of course once he had "played" with the toy he would chivalrously dispose it and leave it to follow its own path.
Yet Ali wasn't like either of those girls. He had chased her down ever since he had laid eyes on her yet she just wouldn't surrender, neither would Sirius.
Remus could understand his friend. Not only was she probably the most beautiful girl in Hogwarts along side Lily, but she was also funny, and witty, and at the top of every single class she took, never receiving a grade below a E, also along side Lily, who was her closest friend. Ali never had a foul word to say about anyone except said person deserved it, in that case she would explode like a volcano, which was unfortunate for her contender as she was very agile with a wand… or anything she could use as a weapon.
Yet Remus stayed away from her after they had grown apart, probably trying to avoid his feelings to develop into something more harmful and being rejected like Sirius. If she hadn't taken an interest in "The most delish boy in school" as many girls said, why would she take an interest in him?
James and Sirius were the glorious faces of the Marauders, whereas Peter was almost like a wannabe and Remus was just quiet. He was as valuable as either Marauder inside the group, yet he wasn't as observed and known as his other mates.
The second the lesson ended he almost sprang from his seat, hurrying towards the great hall and away from Ali.
"Wait you-" She begun saying yet he had already left.
She wondered if she had done something wrong, yet they hadn't spoken during the entire lesson, both of them had been preoccupied scribbling every word that Professor McGonagall said. After all both of them knew that she always used everything she had taught in the first lesson of the year in their exams. Occasionally she would glance at him from the corner of her eye, she often caught his eye, yet he would look away the moment their eyes met and scribbled faster, making their table move at times. She was concerned that perhaps rejecting Sirius as much as she had had turned Remus against her making him hate her, he was a close friend of his after all…
"Remus!"
He thought he was loosing his mind, he was already hearing her call his name. As he felt an arm in his shoulder he realized he wasn't imagining anything.
"Remus Lupin are you going to make me chase you down to the great hall?!" She said as she caught her breath, her cheeks had a bright pink tint.
"Sorry, I didn't hear you" He muttered apologetically. What's wrong with me? I never act like this! Smile for Christ sake!
"You forgot your notebook" She eyed him suspiciously and smiled at him while she returned him his notebook. "It looked like your robe had caught on fire or something they way you ran away from there"
They began walking together towards the dinning hall as they spoke.
"I-I'm just hungry that's it" idiot…
"All right then, mind if I walk with you?"
"I'll be honoured" he gave her a crooked smile seeming more like his usual self
"So will I unless you run away, in that case I will know for sure that you dislike me"
"I won't"
"Good"
She smiled at him and they walked towards the dinning room, catching a few gossiping eyes. Their hands would brush every so often making Remus blush a little, he was delighted to see Ali hadn't noticed. Except that she had, reason for which she was smiling inwardly.
It had been years since they had talked for that long, they had been rather close for the first two years, yet after Sirius's attempts to hit on her had became a tad annoying they had grown apart, as Ali couldn't have a talk with Remus without Sirius interrupting them. Reason for which they only spoke a couple of times a month and about banal things, much to both of their displeasure. Remus was sure he was the one to regret it the most as he knew that Ali would have been the most reassuring of companies after he had had his "Fury little accident". He had even tried to tell her, yet he would get cold feet every time.
Ali was far from hating Remus or any of the Marauders, hell she even liked Sirius, just not in the way he fancied her. He was too much for her, too popular, too womanizer, too flirty. Besides she knew that once she said yes he would toss her as he did with the other girls. And she didn't need nor want a man like that.
His attempts were matched and even surpassed by his best mate James, who continuously kept trying to ask Lily out. James wasn't as flirtatious as Sirius and his ways where different, but both of them always got the same answer. Even though Lily was a teensy bit more aggressive than Ali, who was more playful with her rejections.
They had been talking for almost half an hour when the inevitable occurred and the Marauder came into the dinning hall and took a seat by them. Remus swore he could have hit him.
"My dearest Ali, I've chased you ever since first year and you end up cheating on me with my best friend?" Remus turned a discrete shade of pink and Ali narrowed her eyes at him, yet with a smile on her face. "What have I done wrong?" He said faking hurt.
"Well, primarily I can manage to have a lovely conversation with Remus without him commenting about the way I look"
"But how could I not mention it when you are so utterly gorgeous!" Sirius said bluntly, taking her hand.
"My point exactly" She whispered and Remus laughed softly. "You poor thing, you are a lost cause" She placed a hand on his cheek while she spoke in fake concern. Her touch made Sirius smile slyly and caused Remus's smile to disappear.
"Oh please aid my broken heart!" He took hold of her hand avoiding her to take it away, even though she had attempted to do so.
Both Ali and Remus rolled their eyes almost in synchrony.
Ali got closer to Sirius making him release her hand and his sly smile to widen.
"Two seats away from you in the Ravenclaw table there is a pretty blond who would love to aid your broken heart" She whispered in his ear, yet Remus was able to listen.
Both Remus and Sirius looked at the blonde she had been talking about. She was the antonym of what Ali was. She had fake blond hair that fell all the way down to her hips in a loose cascade and pretty blue eyes, which were framed by a thick layer of mascara and pink eye-shadow, her lips were tight as she observed the scene with Ali and Sirius which had made her jealous (along with every other girl in the school) but when she noticed Sirius was looking at her she wet her painted pink lips into a sly smile that resembled Sirius's. While the girl was pretty, she was nothing like Ali, she was a natural beauty, whereas that girl was a hundred per cent plastic.
Ali had light brown curls that fell up to her chest framing her beautiful dark green eyes and pink lips that hid the most wonderful smile that made anyone to whom it was directed blush and smile goofily in response, even Sirius, who would have never been caught dead blushing in a different scenario. Her body wasn't as tall and voluptuous as the one of the Ravenclaw, but she was slim and curvy and of a regular height. She had barely been seen with a trace of make up rather than a thin layer of mascara or chap stick during the winter because she honestly preferred to sleep than to wake up ten minutes earlier to apply make up. Yet she didn't need make up to be pretty, because she was gorgeous without it.
"I believe my work here is done" She said while grabbing an apple. She noticed Sirius face fell a bit, but she didn't notice that the same had occurred with Remus's. "I'll see you in the common room gentlemen"
"Mark my words one day you will be mine love" Said Sirius as she left, she laughed at it.
"Howdy James, Peter" she said as they walked past her.
"Ali?" James called behind her.
She turned as she bit her apple.
"Tell Lily I love her will ya?"
"At your service" She said with a smile and a bow.
James sat were Ali had and Peter by his side.
"She was in a good mood, finally got a date out of her?" Said James.
"Not yet, yet I will someday, if our friend Moony here doesn't do so first" He said mockingly looking at him with narrow eyes.
"What?" James said again as he took a bite of a baked potato.
"Nothing, he is deluding" Dismissed Remus.
"Mhm" Said Sirius before going towards the blond Ravenclaw who had been making eyes at him. He would give her what she was looking for, at least for two hours or so.
Uninterested in Sirius love life or play time he thought about the girl with whom he had spent the last hour with and whose face he was beginning to miss. Though he wasn't given much time to miss it as he saw it by his side in their following period.