Shaundra was sitting in the common room, like she had been doing quite often lately, when James walked in. "Jamesy-boy! I am glad you're here," she said rising out of her seat and jumping in circles around James. After being dizzy from watching the, obviously, bored girl do laps around him he grabbed her shoulders. "Why exactly are you glad I am here," he asked, eyebrow raised. "Well I have a stock of butter beer in my room and no one else to drink it with me," Shaundra replied, softly elbowing him, suggestively.
"Oh well then I am glad I am here too. So where is the butter beer," he asked rubbing his hands in anticipation. Shaundra put up her finger then turned and ran up the girls stairs into her dorm room. When she got in there she threw open her trunk and rummaged threw it. Finally she pulled out 2 cases of butter beer. As she skipped down the stairs she noticed Lily and Sirius arguing about something as they walked threw the portrait hole. Shaundra planted herself next to James and put the 2 cases of butter beer at her feet. "Lil, Sirius! Come over and finish these butter beers off with me and jamesy-boy," she called to the 2. The 2 stopped there quarreling and walked over towards the 2. "Bloody hell 2 cases of butter beer," Sirius bellowed in surprise. "'Because you can't have just one," she explained while handing out butter beers. Everyone moved around so Lily and James where sitting on an arm chair together; Shaundra and Sirius sat on a couch across from them. As if it was fate Peter came down the stairs from the boy's dorm and ended up joining the lot. The 5 were all laughing and letting the delicious beverage slide down there throat.
Everyone had had about 3 butter beers and was on there fourth, when Remus entered the common room with some girl attached to his arm. This pissed Shaundra off royally. This was the 6th girl he had been with in the past week, and what pissed her off even more, was that it was all her fault. Before Shaundra had dated Remus all the girls would say he's cute, funny, nice, but would never ever admit it. He was a mystery to everyone who wasn't his friend. Girls would never tell anyone that they found the mystery man attractive or if they fancied him. But after Shaundra solved the big "mystery", everyone was buzzing about how they always liked Remus and it wasn't fair and blah, blah, blah. As if it wasn't bad enough that Remus ripped out her heart when he dumped her, (You're nothing more then some typical whore; I can't trust you with Sirius! I mean you slept with him! I can't be with you anymore!) But they had every class together so she had to see him with some floozy every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every damned day. Every time Shaundra saw him snogging some girl it just put salt in the wound. She wanted to cry and run away, but no one had seen her cry in her 6, almost 7, years at Hogwarts, and she wasn't about to let people see it now, especially over a guy.
"Oi! Mooney, haven't seen you all day, come join us," James called out to him. Shaundra immediately sunk in her seat trying to be unseen as Remus and the girl walked towards them. "James, you're such an idiot," Lily said while shaking her head after seeing the way her friend acted, but James just gave her a confused look. "Mooney have a butter beer and relax with us," Sirius said shoving a beverage in his hand. "Yes join us, drink my butter beer, with your girl friend, why don't you just stab me repeatedly in the eye," Shaundra whispered to herself. "Did you say something Shaw," Sirius asked not really caring because one of his best mates was finally sitting with them after about a day of hanging around with girls. Shaundra put on a brilliant smile and straightened up, making it look as if she was fine, dandy, happy, glad, anything but what she was really felling. Anger, sadness, hate. "Lupin don't be so rude," Shaundra said handing a drink to the girl, "Shaundra Ryans." Remus stared at Shaundra trying to see if he could find a trace of guilt, anger, or envy. No such luck. Suddenly he snapped out of it, "Oh excuse me, this is Vanessa Gray." Vanessa just smiled shyly trying to seem comfortable in this new group of people. Soon the 4 boys, Lily, and Vanessa got into a conversation about something or other. Shaundra was chugging down butter beers at a rapid pace trying not to let herself get open for conversation. Everyone was laughing at something Vanessa said about Professor Bins, when Remus once again stared at Shaundra. "Uh Shaw, you should probly hold back on the butter beers, that's a lot of sugar," he said in almost a worried fashion. Shaundra just chuckled and put down the now empty bottle. "V- Is it okay if I call you V," she asked. Vanessa opened her mouth to answer but Shaundra didn't wait or care. "How long have you and Lupin been an item, a couple, together, a lovey dovey bee and honey?" Everyone immediately quit talking and looked at Shaundra. Everyone knew that Remus didn't really like the poor girl, or any other girl that he had been with after Shaw, even Vanessa knew this. This was just rubbing it in her face that Remus was using her as a play thing. The awkward smile she had on her face she put on when Shaundra began to speak to her, was now gone, as Vanessa frowned and lowered her head. "Um well, ………… we really aren't ….. you know …. I," she stuttered. No one could believe Shaw was actually making her say it. The whole Remus thing was like the pink elephant in the room no one talked about, it was really awkward talking about it. "Aw I see keeping things on DL, the down low, under cover, incognito, under raps. I see, I see. Well I am off to the library better do the homework sometime, right," she said getting up. "What homework," Peter asked. "Oh you know the homework for class the class we have, the one that we take," she said hurriedly, trying to get past all the bottles and legs. "Here I'll go with you Shaw," Lily said will gracefully rising. "NO!" she screamed turning around looking as if she was hiding something. The group all stared at her, she was turning into a nutter right before there very eyes. Shaundra just laughed, an unnatural laugh, a rather creepy, crazy, and terrifying laugh. "What I mean is, I don't want to ruin your fun, stay here with James, Its cute two couples and, then the boys here. Ha ha, you two are going to need to get some girls or people are going to think you're gay," she said in a rush almost hoping everyone would forget the 1st thing she said. No one answered, but just stared, well except Vanessa, who was still looking down. Shaundra opened her mouth to say something like, I'm sorry Vanessa I shouldn't be so spiteful towards you, you're not the one who is killing me inside. Then she thought better of it, if she said that it would start a whole fiasco, and Shaundra wasn't sure if she could hold back tears and untamable emotions any longer. She closed her mouth and just walked out of the common room feeling like a bitch, an idiotic, sad, angry, bitch.
Everyone was staring at the place Shaundra was just standing at, trying to think of what to say. It was silent for about 2 minutes when finally the silence was broken. "Um Remus I think I better go," Vanessa said standing up looking rather down cast. Remus fallowed suit and said, "I am very sorry for everything, I didn't think she would act like that and-," "Remus, I… just got to go," she said quietly before walking out of the common room, Remus following after her desperately trying to apologize. "What the bloody hell were you 2 thinking," Lily said standing up and smacking James and Sirius in the back of the head, getting a reply of 'ouch.' "What in merlins name are you talking about, I am not the one who went bonkers," James exclaimed. "Think about it! Shaw has just had her broken by Remus. He keeps rubbing it in by having a new girl on his arm, like one of his books ever day. She is kind enough to share whole 2 cases with the lot of you, and then you go and bring Remus over here, uninvited by the person who invited us," She said loudly. The 2 boys just looked at her like she was speaking in Latin. "Ugh, it's like me braking up with you, and then going and shagging Sirius in front of you, then still hanging around the lot of you," she said rolling her eyes. "I would kick Sirius' ass," James said standing up. "Exactly, but Shaundra is different then us. She tries to hide her feelings and pretend nothings wrong. After holding all that in she is bound to let it slip sooner or later. Unfortunate for Vanessa, she was in the line of fire. And this all could have been avoid if you to hadn't invited Remus where he was not welcome," she ended placing her hands on her hips and scowling at the 2. Simultaneously the boys looked at each other and said, 'Oooh, oops!' After being quite for so long Sirius had to ruin the moment by saying, "So Lily was that an offer," while standing up and putting an arm around her, smirking. "Shut up Sirius;" the couple said together before James protectively grabbed Lily and hugged her. "Only kidding mate, plus red heads aint my thing, they are so violent," Sirius laughed while sitting back down. Lily raised an eyebrow and gave a very inappropriate jester to Sirius. They all laughed even the, until now, quite, Peter.
Suddenly Remus stomped threw the door looking extremely angry. "Where the hell is she," he asked in a very annoyed tone. They all gave him a look that said, 'Who?'
"Shaundra! Who else would I be talking about? Where is she, she said she was going to the library and she isn't there," he bellowed. "Well duh, of course she isn't there. Shaundra just said that as an excuse to leave. We don't have any homework, plus she doesn't want any of us to find her," James said as if it was the simplest thing in the world, which it was. "I am going to kill her! What she did was completely uncalled for, rude and purely out of spite," he said angrily. Lily stood up and started walking by him but stopped when she was standing next to him. "Didn't you brake up with her out of spite, for shagging Sirius? I wouldn't be the one talking about spite, Remus," Lily spat. "You know exactly why I broke up with her and am pushing her away from me," he growled. "If that's why then why are you playing this game, Remus? This little vengeance you have against her, is the vengeance from her caring about you, when you don't want her too, because your furry little problem? Or is it from her doing something while she was drunk 2 years ago, that you just can't seem to get over, or deal with," she said returning the glare, he was now giving her. "It isn't that simple," he said looking at the ground in front of him while rubbing his neck. "Being angry at someone, and doing things to hurt them, is as simple, as swish and flick," she said in a low angry tone, referring to the one of the first things they learned here at Hogwarts. Without another word Lily slowly climbed the stairs to her dorm room. Plopped himself on the ground right there and said, "This is all Shaundra's fault she is just messing with my head." All the boys just rolled there eyes and tried to comfort there friend, even though they felt like punching him and telling him he was an idiot. After the Shaundra and Remus split, the 3 had promised to always comfort Remus, no matter how stupid he was being. Remus was a marauder, their Mooney, their best mate, not Shaundra. Yet they all couldn't help but feel this over whelming sensation of………. pity, for Shaw.