Sorry for the wait lovelies, I know this is short but I have my next chapter written so review and I'll update soon. Also, tell me your ideas for pranks and such.
After the 'oh so awkward yet amusing just the same carriage ride', as Alice liked to call it, Alice escaped to find her trunk. She honestly thought Sirius would be over irritating her by now, to think it had been five years now.
She had spent a lot of last year trying to come up with a decent reasoning for his hatred for her but honestly? She couldn't.
She remembered their first encounter during first year. He had been sitting at the Gryffindor table with some of the other first years that had been sorted. She remembered how she wore pigtails like she did so often then. She had walked up to the sorting hat as her name was called.
"Skye, Alice" came the voice of Professor McGonagall.
"Oh wonderful," Alice responded perhaps a bit too loud and sarcastic judging from the snickers that followed her.
McGonagall simply pursed her lips tighter.
Alice walked up and sat on the stool awaiting the dreaded sorting hat. She had heard many stories about the hat from her mother.
It only sees what you let it and it takes in to consideration what you want but ultimately it will put you in the right house whether you think it then or not.
The thing was there was not a certain house she wanted to be in. It was just the idea that these would be the people she grew up with for seven years, the people that would ultimately become her family. That scared her.
As the hat was placed on her head she heard its voice inside her head.
Ah, Miss Skye, a reasonable amount of wit, kindness, spite and bravery. These are characteristics for all the houses. They are also four great characteristics you possess. However, there is one more I sense, courage, and with courage and bravery you are, of course, a… "GRYFFINDOR"
The last word had been shouted to the entire school and with that a decision was made, one that would decide who she was to become, in a way. She had trudged off to the Gryffindor table where students were cheering and shouting.
It was then that she sat next to the boy with grey eyes as she knew him then. Those eyes were incredibly intriguing, as was his entire appearance, but they had caught her attention. They way they had glinted with mischief and sparkled with enthusiasm. She smiled at the boy and he smirked at her, running a hand through his shaggy black hair. Even then he wore that irritating smirk.
However a few moments later, during the feast, he had pulled on her pigtails.
"Yes?" she asked slightly irritated, no one pulled on her pigtails if she could help it.
"Nothing," he responded a smirk playing at his lips.
A few seconds later, she felt another tug.
Again she turned to him, "something the matter?"
"Nothing," he responded and so it began.
She never did wear her hair in pigtails again.
She shook her head to get out of her thoughts and started running towards the common room. Sure, everyone would be enjoying the sorting ceremony and dinner while she had to deal with Sirius' stupidity, of course.
She walked up to the fat lady portrait and groaned… the password! How could she be so daft?
"You kids these days don't have any respect. I say! If your parents knew what you were up to…" the fat lady started rambling on about how horrid kids were these days and to be blunt, Alice did not care.
It was then that a quiet voice called her name behind her.
She turned to find Remus Lupin, with his adorable sandy hair and brown eyes she couldn't help but smile. She liked Remus, he was definitely one of her few good friends and he was also incredibly kind…at times.
"Hey Remus," she said exhausted.
"Take it you don't know the password?" he said smiling.
She nodded embarrassed.
"Well then, you'll be happy to know that this mate of yours is a prefect," he said grinning.
She grinned as she couldn't believe her luck, "Oh Mr. Lupin have I ever told you I adore you? Now, if you don't mind, let me in? As it's getting cold and I'd enjoy putting a shirt on," she said laughing.
He flushed a bit and said, "Oh, right…Hippogriffs," he said to the fat lady.
"Try and hurry Alice don't miss dinner."
She nodded, thanked him again and head up towards the girls dormitories. She entered her room and opened her trunk taking out a clean white shirt and uniform skirt. Pulling on the clothes, she quickly grabbed her Gryffindor tie and put it on too. She then looked at Sirius' boxers that she had just taken off. Now, she could either be civilized and keep them or be cruel and save them for revenge. Of course, she went with the latter, folding them and placing them under some of her own muggle clothes.
Done changing, she headed back down to the common room. It was then that, in a split moment decision, she chose to head up to the boys' dorm. After all, she could just go down to the kitchens and get dinner whereas now was the perfect time for revenge.
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Love,
Jane.