The EXTREMLEY Secret Diaries of E.Woods
By Alahria Silvermoon
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
September 5th , 11:15pm, Girls Dormitory
Okay, so here I am, sitting on my bed with the hangings pulled shut. Everyone is fast asleep. I can't sleep. Not after what happened yesterday. These past few days have been well, different. And I'm sure you would just love to hear every detail, right? That's what I thought. I guess I should start at the beginning…
It happened two days ago at dinnertime. Me and Julez were just casually sitting there, eating our pies (vegetable pie for me because I'm a vegetarian). Me and Julez were eating and talking and having a good time. Well, we were. But unfortunately, we had made the big mistake of sitting next to Marietta and Lana; two extremely snobby purebloods who thought they were Andrea Carlington (a very popular and beautiful witch who was famous for her extraordinary voice. All the guys were in love with her). And the sad fact is, Marietta is actually like that. And Lana was just her little sidekick. And they happen to hang out with Lily Evans. I have no idea why, cos' she is like, so nice and there not.
So anyway, suddenly, Marietta says to me: "Well, look what the cat dragged in."
I just ignored her. And then Julez goes; "Oh, be quiet."
"Why are you even talking to us?" Lana asked.
"Um, hello? You talked to us first," I replied.
"Just stop talking, like, right now," Marietta said.
"Why don't you make us?" Julez answered. She started to pull out her wand, when Lily suddenly stood up from her place next to them. She faced them, her bright green eyes glittering with anger. She looked scary. (Mental Note: Never piss off Lily).
"Why don't you shut up for once?" she asked.
Marietta looked at her in shock. "Wha-what?" she stammered.
"I said, shut up!" Lily continued. "What have they ever done to you? I am so sick of watching you both making people's lives miserable. Do you get some sort of sick pleasure out of doing it?"
"Bu-but," Lana tried to speak, but they were both practically speechless.
"You should seriously do some thinking for the first time in your pathetic lives," Lily snarled. Then she turned on her heel and stormed out the door.
Me and Julez looked at each other in bewilderment and without a word, we both got up and walked out after Lily, leaving behind Marietta and Lana, who were angry, confused and bewildered, their faces slowly turning red.
We caught up with Lily, who was angrily stomping down the corridor.
"Wow, thanks Lily," I said.
She looked at us, noticing for the first time that we were walking with her. "Oh, that, no problem," she answered casually. "It was about time someone stood up to them."
After that, we went back to our dormitories after dinner, got out our homework straightaway and went to the Common Room to start it. And we finished by 8…thank god. After that, we had gone up to the girls dormitory and pulled the hangings shut around my bed, where we ate Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and Chocolate Frogs while gossiping about everything that came to mind. And so now we're like, the Three Musketeers. (Whoever they were. I think they were three friends or something).
And the other thing…oh my god…I'm so ecstatic I can barely write. Okay, I have got to get a grip on myself. I'm so lame…
Anywayz, yesterday in Potions, just as the bell for the end of the day was about to go, Professor Slughorn announced that he was going to put us into pairs for an assignment thingy. We had to research a potion that he assigned to us, write a 1000 word essay on it and then make it during class in three weeks. And guess who I got paired with? drumroll Sirius Black! When Professor Slughorn called out my name and then Sirius', Sirius turned around in his seat and flashed me one of his sexy grins. I almost died. Seriously. My heart did this weird flip-flop thing and I felt my knees go weak.
Oh, and Julez got paired with Remus Lupin. When she heard this, she fell off her chair in shock. Everyone turned to look at her, snickering, and even Remus had a bit of a smile on his face as she regained her seat, blushing furiously.
And Lily got paired up with James. She is completely oblivious to his good looks though, and just thinks him to be an annoying, egotistical prat. And James is like, in love with Lily. I hope she doesn't kill him…I really don't want one of my friends to go to Azkaban. That would majorly suck.
So yeah, I think I might actually have a chance of capturing Sirius' attention. With my exceptional wit, good humour and friendliness, he is sure to fall head-over-heels in love with me. And then we can get married and have two kids (a boy and a girl) and they can go to Hogwarts as well.
Who the hell am I kidding? As if Sirius Black would ever go out with me. I mean, I've totally seen the types of girls he dates. They all look like supermodels and have a willingness to put out and have had about a million boyfriends. Whereas I've only ever had one boyfriend. It was only last year, actually. His name was Simon Pratts and he was a Ravenclaw. We went out for a total of two weeks, then he started getting a bit touchy-feely while we were making out and since I wasn't that type of girl, he dumped me. As my grandmother would say; Pffft! Who needs guys?
Okay, okay, I NEED GUYS! Especially Sirius Black…
My cat just jumped onto my bed. She's a black cat with white socks and her name is Shadow. She has something against me. Seriously, she does. I mean, she never comes up to me and when she does, if I try and hug her she hisses at me. Well, until tonight. She just came right up to me, sat down next to me and started purring. O-k then, I don't know what's up with her.
What exactly is wrong with me? As if I don't have enough problems already, what with my one true love not returning my affections, my best friend is in love and my cat hates me! I am so pathetic…
I'm going to write more later, I'm sleepy now…
-Evelyn-
September 6th, 6:00am, Girls Dormitory
I am awakened by the nervous pounding of my heart. Today is the day! Am going to try and get more sleep…the last thing I need right now is bags under my eyes.
7:15am, Girls Dormitory
Julez just woke me up. And I was having a dream about me and Sirius walking through a buttercup field holding hands while a brilliant yellow sun shone down on us. I was pretty annoyed, then remembered my reason for happiness.
Julez just told me I stunk. Then she said she was joking. But even still, I'm going to take a long shower. And steal some of Marietta's perfume.
7:30am, Girls Dormitory
That was such a bad idea. Stealing Marietta's perfume, I mean. It turned out to be cursed if anyone other than her touched it. Which meant that when I sprayed it onto my neck, I instantly developed a red rash. Which looks completely horrible, by the way. What am I going to do?
8:00am, Still in Girls Dormitory
Lily told me I was being pathetic and said she'd fix it. So she took out her wand, pointed it at my neck and said a spell (that I can't remember) and the red rash instantly disappeared. I was ecstatic; I jumped onto her and hugged her tight while Julez called me a freak.
1:00, Lunch
What is wrong with me?
It's less than half an hour until I will be sitting with Sirius and able to have a proper conversation with him. I can hardly breathe…
Pffft…I'm panicking for nothing…
-Evelyn-
8:03pm, Girls Dormitory
Well, that wasn't that bad. In fact, it was rather eventful…sort of. Okay, here's what happened.
After lunch, I went to the library with Julez and Lily. We were having our Potions lesson in there so we could do our assignment there. Anywayz, after Professor Slughorn informed us that we were to be doing our assignment only, everyone got up to find their partners. I was just sitting there, wondering whether to go to Sirius or let him come here. But then, Sirius walked over to me and put his books down at my table!
"Hey," he said casually, but sounding incredibly sexy. "Got any ideas for a potion?"
"Um," I swallowed, desperately trying to think of something to say. Love potion? No…Draught of the Living Dead? No…ARGH! "Um, how about we just, um, look through all the different potions in the text and then uh, choose one?" I mentally cursed myself…exactly how many times did I say 'um'?
"Um, okay," he said, smiling teasingly. He opened up the textbook and we poured over the different potions. "We need something quick and easy," he decided. "Invisibility potion?"
"Isn't that meant to be really hard?" I said.
"Not really," he said. "I'm good at potions, anyway."
"Well aren't you modest," I laughed. "I'm completely crap at Potions."
"Then why did you continue it?" He asked, a bemused expression his face.
"My mum forced me. I have to keep my 'options' open."
"What do you want to do when you leave school?"
"Travel around the world studying dragons. They're amazing creatures."
And then he told me he wanted to be an Auror. I WAS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH HIM!
Then, we decided to have a go at the Invisibility potion and we stood up to research it. We walked over to a bookshelf. On the way, I noticed Julez laughing at something Remus had said. I caught her eye and she blushed, casting her eyes downward.
"I think Remus has a crush," Sirius whispered in my ear.
"I think Julez does too," I whispered back.
"No shit," Sirius answered. "I think the whole school knows." Then he saw my horrified face. "Just kidding."
"Julez would die if anyone knew," I said. "And the sad thing is, she's kinda shy, so it's not like she'll ever tell him how she feels."
"Yeah, Remus is the same," Sirius said. "Prat."
Then for some reason, we both laughed. And then he did that sexy hair-flick thingy to get it off his face.
He looked so sexy just then, that I took a step back and accidentally banged into a shelf of books. A few dropped to the floor.
I blushed furiously, crouching down to pick them up. He bent down to help me.
"I'm such a klutz," I muttered inaudibly.
"I think it's cute," he said, standing up and placing the books on the bookshelf. He reached down a hand, and I grasped it thankfully as hoisted me to my feet.
Then, the bell rang. I jumped a little, surprised.
"Didn't get much work done," he stated.
"Yeah," I answered. "At least we have a few more lessons."
"Well, see you round, Evelyn," he said, giving me a smile.
Sadly, before I could say another word to Sirius, he took off abruptly. I then slowly made my way to where Lily and Julez and were standing.
"You have it bad for him, don't you?" Julez asked. I nodded, and Lily patted my arm sympathetically.
"If you're seriously in love with him, well then I'll be happy to help you with him," Lily said, and Julez nodded her head as well. "Trust me, I'm an expert at these things. It all comes from hanging around Marietta and Lana all these years."
"Would you really help me?" I asked her.
"Yeah, of course," she answered.
Then we all decided to have an early dinner.
I had had a real conversation with him! And I hadn't made an idiot out of myself or anything!
The world is such a beautiful place at the moment…
-Evelyn-
11:02pm, Girls Dormitory
Well, that was quite eventful. Especially as right before all the it all started, Marietta and Lana came into our dorm and started talking, unaware of the fact that we were in the room as well. So we just sat there, stuffing chocolate in our mouths to keep us from making any noise and desperately trying not to laugh, which was extremely hard.
We overheard Marietta bragging to Lana about how her and Sirius Black were going to meet up in some tower. Three guesses for what they were going to do. And Lana was stuck by herself. She said she would try and get onto James, but come on, AS IF! He's only like, totally obsessed with Lily. And it doesn't look like he'll go out with anyone until he gets her, not even to make her jealous. I sort of feel sorry for him. I mean, I wonder if he can help being so obsessed with her. Maybe he has some sort of mental disorder…who knows?
So, after they had left, Julez got the bright idea of going for a little nighttime stroll. Well, Lily freaked out at first, but then we calmly explained to her that Julez had an Invisibility Cloak that we could use. It had been in her family for centuries.
"I still can't believe you stole it from your mother," Lily said, as we made our way to the portrait.
"I didn't steal it," Julez said. "I borrowed it without asking, but I have every intention of giving it back. Besides, she never even uses it, so she won't even know it's missing."
"So where do you guys want to go?" Lily asked.
"Oh, I have something in mind," Julez said, grinning secretly.
"Oooh, spill!" I said.
"Well, I managed to overhear the marauders talking about going down to the lake at about 10 tonight," she began. "And I was thinking, we could go down and kinda eavesdrop on their conversation."
"You mean like spy on them?" Lily asked.
"No, not spy," Julez replied. "We are so above that. We'll just casually listen to what they're saying. And who knows, we may find out something…"
We walked steadily down the corridor in silence. A thrill of excitement rushed through me as we neared the front door that lead out of the castle. I carefully pushed it, hoping that it wasn't locked. And it wasn't! We slipped out of the door carefully, giggling.
It was a beautiful night, with the pale moon casting a silvery, sparkling light onto the inky blackness of the lake. A cool breeze was wafting gently through the air. I breathed in, letting the smell of the cool night air fill my lungs.
"Hey, look," Julez whispered. I looked to where she was pointing, and saw an outline of four figures sitting near the lake on the grass. There was a tree off to the right of them and we decided to sit down behind it. It wasn't that far off, so we could hear what they were saying.
"So did you hook up with Marietta?" We heard James ask.
"Yep," Came Sirius's casual voice. "Man, she's hot. Asked her to Hogsmeade next week as well. She practically confessed her undying love to me right there."
There was an outbreak of laughter.
"So Remus, what's going on with you and that girl?" James asked, and I could tell he was smirking. "Whats her name, Juliette." I felt Julez stiffen.
"Her name is Julez," Remus replied.
"Yeah, you'd know," Sirius laughed. I felt Julez relax.
"Well what about you and Evelyn?" Remus shot at Sirius.
I caught my breath, my heart pounding wildly.
"What about me and Evelyn?" Sirius asked, in a bored voice.
"You two looked pretty cosy in Potions today," Remus replied.
"She's cute," Sirius answered. "Like the way she can't stop blushing and how she says weird things and trips over a lot. And her eyes are the exact same shade of brown as her hair."
"So you like her or what?" Peter's squeaky voice spoke up.
"I dunno mate," he replied.
I let out the breath I'd been holding. HE DIDN'T KNOW?
Suddenly, I fell backwards and let out a small squeal of surprise. I instantly clapped a hand to my mouth, silently cursing myself.
"What was that?" I heard James asked, a hint of fear in his voice.
"I don't know," Sirius replied. "Maybe one of the ghosts?"
"Or maybe not," Remus said. "I think we should go back to our dormitory."
"Yeah, good idea Moony," James said. I heard them leaving.
"That was close," Julez stated.
"No shit, Sherlock," I said.
And then we went back up to the castle.
But I'm not giving up that easily. Lily said she has some ideas to make him notice me. Hopefully it will work. I just need one chance to go out with him. That's all. Just one date.
Anyway, I'm going to bed now.
-Evelyn-
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