Numb Me Sweetly
a x real x solution

Chapter One

We never really grow up .. We're still who we were when we were 10. Still just as immature, ready to have fun & admit that you still love to hang out at the playground .. The only difference is we've all had our hearts broken .. & that's what really changed us.

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Sirius, James, Remus, and Isabella all stood in a group together, all waiting impatiently for their respective friends to walk though the barrier nine and three-quarters.

"Cuckabarro sits in the old gum tree, merry merry king of the bush is he, laugh, cuckabarro, laugh, cuckabarro gay your life must be," Isabella sang. Remus took his hand out of his pocket and put it over his sisters' mouth, only to have Sirius start in with her sugar high.

"Cuckabarro sits in the old gum tree…" Bella bit Remus' hand.

"I'm the one who's supposed to bite," Remus said light-heartedly. Bella rolled her eyes, and joined in anyway.

"Laugh, cuckabarro, laugh, cuckabarro, GAY YOUR LIFE MUST BE!" They finished, exclaiming the last line.

Torri walked up silently behind Sirius, Bella and James. She put her pointer finger to her mouth, signaling to Remus to stay quiet.

"Cuckabarro- - -" Bella continued with Sirius, but then gave a blood curling scream as Torri jumped on Sirius's back, kicking Bella in the process. Bella turned and glared at Torri who was laughing hysterically. Bella stretched her hand back to smack Torri (who is still on Sirius's back), but at the last minute Torri turned Sirius so he received the full blow.

"What did you do that for!" Sirius screamed as he clutched his red face. Now both Torri and Bella were laughing uncontrollably.

Gwen walked over and looked dumbfounded at Torri on Sirius back laughing and then at Bella who was practically crying. "Did I miss something?"

"Nah, just the usual Sirius getting slapped by a girl!" James said.

"Hey!"

Remus said, "Let's go or we're going to miss the train." And with that Lily joined up with the group, walking to the train in silence.

Just before Sirius got on the train he asked Torri, "Why are you on my back?"

"I don't know really, I just am," She replied jumping off.

Sirius and Torri got onto the train and went to find the compartment that their friends were in.

"Did you miss me?" Torri asked enthusiastically.

"Torri, you were only gone for a minute," Lily stated simply.

"Yes, but a minute for us is like a century to Torri," Gwen added, with a somewhat snort from Lily. (a/n you know that type of thing where you kinda blow out your nose and laugh?)

Meanwhile Sirius sat down next to Bella, who was talking rapidly to her brother Remus. Remus kept on nodding his head to everything he said, glanced over at Sirius and rolled his eyes. Bella… was on a sugar high, not one from actual sugar mind you, but her mind sugar high where she talked a mile a minute… she was lost until it was over. "Sooooo… Lily, Torri, Gwen, James, Sirius what did you do over the summer?" Bella asked them, fast. "I don't need to know what Remus did, he just sat there all summer waiting to see a certain someone."

Remus blushed so much his faced looked like Lily's hair.

"So, Moony, who is this certain someone?" Sirius asked.

"It's…" Bella started to say before Remus put a silencing charm on her. She stayed like that, but that didn't mean she ever stopped giving her twin evil stares.

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"Of course, Remus being the nice person that he is had to take the charm of Bella," Torri explained to Lily when she came back from doing her round of watching the halls.

"Of course, cause it's not like you ever shut up either," She said back sarcastically.

"I take that offensively, mind you."

"It was meant to be offensive."

Torri pouted, and then they both started laughing.

Once they settled down, they got back to their question game…

"Remus, my brother, my twin, if you had to spend an entire lifetime on an island with only one person in this compartment, who would it be? Hint, pick me," Bella asked.

Remus shifted, over the summer Bella had found out who he had fancied, told Torri that it was her, but never let Remus find out that she knew. He sighed. "I don't know."

"You have to give an answer," James said.

"If it makes you feel better, I would spend an entire lifetime with you on an island," Torri said, and glanced at Bella who glared at her.

"Okay, I say Torri because she volunteered. My question. Hmm, whom and what shall I ask?" He thought for a minute. "Lily, would you ever consider taking up James' offer?"

She closed her eyes, and breathed out. "Remus Lupin what possessed you… sometime in the future, but now he's an arrogant prat!"

"It's not like I'm in the compartment or anything," James said.

"And it's the truth," She said, closing the conversation.

"Le se chamailler comme et vieil épousé coupler," Torri said to Gwen in French. (translation: they bicker like an old married couple)

"Je sais, le Lys est dans le démenti," Gwen replied in her native language. (translation: I know, Lily is in denial)

Bella huffed out in frustration, after five years, since Gwen transferred to Hogwarts, she still got frustrated when they switched to French. But then again, Gwen got mad when Torri and Bella would talk in German. It wasn't Torri's fault she was a woman on many languages.

"Oui... ah, Isabella se fâche," Torri chuckled. (translation: Yes..ah, Isabella is getting angry)

"You do realize we don't understand one word, English please," Bella said, trying to clam down.

"Sorry," they said quietly.

"Anyway," Lily started, "Sirius, what if the bright blue sky was green?" She looked around at everyone. "What? I couldn't think of anything!"

"Umm… it wouldn't be the bright blue sky." He said. "My turn! Who will be my victim?"

The rain pelted against the window, as thunder clasped, making all the girls jump.

"Gwyneth. If you could only have one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?" Sirius asked.

The group of girls looked at each other in turn, smirking as the reached Gwen, who was smiling uncontrollably.

"Typical," Bella whispered.

Gwen didn't stop smiling.

"Okay, you don't have to go all crazy on us… you're scaring me," Sirius told her.

They sat in silence listening to the rain, and the thunder rolling.

"If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy. Pez, cherry flavored pez. No question about it," She answered. The four smirked again, and pushed the boys out of the compartment so they could get changed.

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"Before we being our wonderful feast, I would just like to say good evening and welcome back," the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, said.

"It's our pleasure to be back, Albus" Sirius and Bella shouted. Dumbledore chuckled before continuing.

"The forbidden forest is off limits, hence the word forbidden. With that said and done, tuck in!"

During the feast James, Sirius, Bella, and Torri started talking about quidditch.

"The Tutshill Tornados are the best," Sirius said to Bella and Torri.

"No the Heidelburg Harriersare the best!" Bella said as Torri said,

"No the Holyhead Harpies are the best!"

"Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about," Sirius said. Lily, Gwen, Torri and Bella all looked at each other…Sirius had said the words.

Remus groaned because he knew exactly what was coming next. He heard it all summer since Bella came back from Lily's house. They…had watched… Stand By Me, 'starring the one and only River Phoenix.' And now whenever someone had said shut up they replied,

"Shut Up! I don't shut up, I grow up, and when I look at you I throw up," They all simultaneously put their finger to their mouth pretending to throw making a noise to go along. "And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up. Finding new and preferably disgusting ways to degrade a friends mother was always held in high regards!" They said and burst out laughing. (a/n stand by me is one of the greatest movies…it came out in '86, not in the 70's… but lets pretend shall we?)

Sirius and James looked at each other curiously.

"Just don't say the SU word again, they'll go on forever," Remus said, with a warning look.

"But why? I mean it's just some stupid thing they thought up right?" Sirius said to Remus.

"It's from Stand By Me," Remus mumbled to him.

"What's Stand By Me?" James and Sirius said loudly… quite loudly.

The four girls looked up and dropped their forks.

"What's Stand By Me!" Gwen said.

Torri started, "Milo had not only taught sic but to sic specific parts of the human anatomy…"

"Thus a kid who illegally scaled the junkyard fence would hear…" Bella added.

"The dreaded cry Chopper sic balls…" Gwen put in.

"Now he really said sic 'em boy but…" Lily informed.

"What I heard was Chopper sic balls," They finished together, nodded their head and picked up their forks.

"That's great and all… I hope this Milo fellow didn't really teach his son Chopper to do that. But it still doesn't explain what this Stand By Me thing is," Sirius said.

"One, Chopper is a dog. Two, Stand By Me is only one of the best movies ever… staring the one and only River Phoenix," Gwen said sighing.

"I still like Wil Wheaton the best…" Lily said sighing.

"Yeah, only cause he had to reach down his underwear to get the leech off him," Bella said.

"Ohh, River Phoenix in only his underwear… and all wet!" Torri exclaimed. Gwen and Torri started talking about River… and this, was indeed how the feast started, ended, and continued up into the Gryffindor common room.

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Okay, so that chapter was interesting enough as it is…

To tell you the truth, we didn't even really write this chapter in order… see half of it was in my German binder, the beginning and the part after the quote (Shut up! I don't shut up, I grow up and when I look at you…) and Nicole wrote the other part in between there in art… but I had to write the what if part later because she didn't know what to do… I wrote the feast part during social studies, got the quotes from Megan in interest group (or tutoring, depends on how you look at it) and then I wrote the part before the reaching the common room off the top of my head.

And yes I did get the quidditch teams from but what's a good writer without a good source?

I apologize if my French isn't correct, and my German isn't either… The only language I know other than English is German, and not well, I've only had like two courses in it (intro and level 1)

Emily Cadence.