Twisting Love for a Laugh

Chapter 2 – A bet gone wrong

Wednesday Lunchtime

Faye was sitting on the floor in the common room as she usually did. Her legs were crossed and her hair fell over her copy of 'A history of Hogwarts' as she graffitied the cover. She leaned back against the cold stone wall as someone slid down the wall beside her.

"You've really pissed Sirius off you know." It was Remus.

"Well that was the point, and he did ask for it." Faye answered.

"Yeah but you ruined his jacket, you'd already punched him why did you have to do that as well?" Faye didn't answer for a while.

"I did say to him that I knew how to get it out."

"Since when did you do things and then go fix them?"

"True, I probably wouldn't have told him it, well I might have eventually. If he'd asked nicely." She smirked. "Do you have a point to this speech or what?"

"Just telling you to stop bothering us with your immature jokes and leave us alone."

"Immature! You can't talk; you're the pranksters here, dropping your dung bombs in the classroom, exploding people's potions."

"Yeah but we just do it for a laugh, you seem to hold a personal grudge against everyone."

"I do not! Besides it's not as if you don't hold grudges against people, Snape for example."

"Well that slimly little git deserves everything coming to him. Besides, you've been bugging us for, well, forever."

"Oh, yeah and what makes you think you don't deserve it eh?" Remus spluttered trying to find the right words, "Urgh, I don't have time for this!" She stood up grabbing her textbook and walked out of the common room.

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Later, Wednesday Lunchtime

Sirius was leaning casually against a pillar in the courtyard. In front of him was a girl with long blonde hair and big green eyes. She was twirling her hair around her finger in a flirtatious way. He ran his fingers through his long hair.

"So, are you doing anything this evening then sweetie?" His eyes twinkled at the girl.

"Well, it all depends on what you're doing." the girl replied in what she obviously thought to be a seductive way.

"Me, well I'll be looking into some girls gorgeous green eyes and then I'll pull her towards me like this, "he hooked one hand around the girls waist and dragged her towards him. "Then I'll place my lips on hers." He leaned forward and made to kiss the girl when a retching sound came from behind him.

"Pent." He said without even turning round.

"Just wait a minute, I'll talk to you when I've finished being sick." Faye said.

"What do you want? Can't you leave me alone for one minute?"

"It's your irresistible charms you see." She said in a lovey-dovey voice.

"Glad you think they're so. Oh, by the way, I managed to get the stain out of my jacket, took me three hours of research in the library to find the spell though. Three hours which you'll have to pay me back Pent."

"And how would you have me do that Sirius?" Faye looked him in the eyes and pulled her jumper down off her shoulder slightly. The girl he had just been chatting up gave a shriek and stalked off towards a nearby group of girls. Faye covered her shoulder back up.

Sirius sighed, "Thank you, I was just about to kiss her you know."

"Then she should be thankful to me. Think what would happen if she had just realised how disgusting the thing she had just kissed was. Not to mention the diseases she could have picked up." Faye walked past Sirius, casually sending a shower of sparks and a loud bang towards a group of first years as she did so.

Sirius shook his head annoyed.

"What happened with that girl, scared her away?" James joked, approaching Sirius with his arm around Lily.

"No need, Pent did that for me. The witch."

"Hey!" said Lily

"Sorry. It's just like she lives to make our lives a living hell. Can't she just leave us alone? I mean…" but James and Lily didn't seem to be listening they seemed much more interested in each others mouths as they stood there snogging. "God, go get a room you guys."

"Sorry, just because you can't seem to get a girl doesn't mean that no one else can have one."

"What? I can get any girl I want!"

"Really?" James laughed

"Really! They find my charms irresistible." Sirius boasted.

"Are you willing to bet on that?"

"Yes!"

"Okay I bet you can't get…" James racked his brains to think of a girl.

"Go on, who?" Sirius taunted. James grinned evilly.

"I bet you my entire chocolate frog card collection, all 234 cards that you can't get Faye Pent to go out with you by the end of the month!"

Sirius's jaw dropped! "What? That's impossible! You can't make me do that? But I'm not sure she's even human let alone a girl! Bedsides I'd be better off dating the giant squid"

"You chicken?" James started flapping his arms and squawking. "Chick, chick, chick, chick chicken!" Lily hit him for looking like an idiot.

Sirius shook his head defeated, he had never lost a bet and he didn't want to start with this one, "Alright you're on. And if you win I'll do your homework for you for a month."

"Well good luck with that mate; you have no idea what you have just let yourself in for."

"Don't remind me." Sirius put his head in his hands. James and lily laughed at the thought of Sirius and Faye together. Two people that hated each other to death. One who was the schools biggest flirt and prankster the other seemingly the source of all evil. This was going to be interesting.

Unbeknown to James, Sirius and Lily someone had just overheard that conversation. Someone who after sending a spell at some first years had gone to the girls' toilet to splash her face with water. Now she was standing by the sink, underneath the open window which over looked the courtyard listening intently to what was being said.

"This could be fun." Faye chuckled to herself.