A/N: hey guys sorry if they aren't very good T.T I just really like to write so normally I'm just like 'fuck it maybe someone will like it'
but yeah review it, give me tips, correct me if i'm wrong it would be lovely so would people being like 'ohmygosh this is great' that would be lovely too whatever you want to do. But yeah, enjoy?
"No James," Lilly hissed as she walked into the common room, James following behind her "I will not go to hogsmeade with you!"
Milly looked up from her drawing and over to Lilly, her face was almost as red as her hair. James was shrinking in front of her and under the gaze of almost everyone in the common room. Lilly shooed him away and sat herself down next to Milly on the couch.
"I cannot believe he asked me on a date to hogsmeade," Lilly grumbled. "Again!"
Darcie looked over at Lilly "But hey you got a date."
Milly nodded, Darice was right. No one ever asked her out on a date, but that was mainly because when people did she would laugh at them, she never accepted dates. So it was probably her own fault that she doesn't get dates.
"Are you saying I should accept it?" Lilly asked.
"No-"
Milly cut Darcie off "You know you want to," she smirked. Lilly eyes widened, she opened her mouth to say something but the words didn't come out. "Oh come on Lilly, you have to like him. I mean 6 bloody years he's been asking you, bugging you, being so fucking adorable...sometimes. You must have given in just once," Milly said leaning in closer so no one could hear her besides the two girls.
Lilly looked around, as if someone was watching her. "I did one time..."
"You did!" Darcie hissed, "Why didn't you tell us!"
"I was embarrassed. He's such a egotistical, rude, kidish boy!"
"Well what happened?" Milly asked going back to her drawing, it was of two people kissing with fingers extending out of their mouths.
"Well it was sweet, nothing really happened. We just walked around Hogsmeade and went to The Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes, you know the average date people go on," she shrugged.
"So it was too average?" Darcie laughed.
"Yeah! I guess I thought it was gonna be, I don't know different. More like him," Lilly said.
"So you do like him?" Darcie smirked.
She sighed again and slumped back into the couch. "I never said I liked him!"
Milly laughed of course she liked him, but she was just too afraid to admit that the boy she claimed to hate she was actually in love with, or something like that.
"Oh you do," Milly snorted "I can see the love for him in you in your eyes," she was quote a book that she caught Lilly reading one night.
Darcie laughed as Lilly playfully shoved Milly.
"Oh shut it, it was a good book I swear!"
"Uh-huh, you keep telling yourself. It made me almost want to puke just reading that bit," Milly said as she laughed.
"What made you want to puke?" Sirius asked as he sat down in the chair across from Dacrie. Peter sat himself down in front of the fireplace and James was next to Lilly.
"You're face."
Sirius gave Milly a look and she just smiled sweetly back at him. She looked down at the paper but his eyes did not leave her. Her friends talked around her, the Peter and Sirius talked about girls, even though Peter was one of the most awkward boys she's ever met he's such a sweatheart. If he just went with his gut and swallowed his fear he could probably get a girlfriend. He had gotten much better over the years, when they first met he barely talked to her and when he did he would stutter, she always found it very cute. She finished her drawing so she put away her pencils.
"I'll be right back," she said as she walked away up stairs. She placed her drawings on her bed and looked out the window. The full moon was out, the light washed over the grounds and reflected off the water. It gave the giant squid light to be able to splash in. She took a cigarette out of her bag and sat on the window ledge, she pushed it open and let the cool september breeze tickle her nose. Before lighting it she got up and grabbed her father's army jacket and put it on, pulling it closer to her body. She lit it with a spell that she was taught in the second year, she never understood why they were taught how to make fire. No one should teach 12 year olds how to make fire with magic, especially not the marauders.
She looked out at the moon, it was amazing how large it was. She could see the man in the moon, it looked like he was smiling at her. The man in the moon reminded her of her father, they would always go out star gazing when she was little. He would tell her where each of the planets where even if he couldn't see them, he knew where they were. Her father was a muggle, he worked in the military as an officer but he had a love for astronomy.
"Hey daddy?" A young Milly said pulling on her fathers jacket "Can we look at the stars before I go to bed?"
The man looked down at his child who had a pink nightgown on and smiled "Of course Mills," he picked her up by her armpits and carried her outside.
They laid down side by side in the wet grass. He pointed up to the sky to show her the stars that connected to create Orion's belt. Then he pointed to the moon.
"Do you see the man in the moon?" He whispered in his daughters ear.
The young Milly squinted at the moon, as if screwing with her vision would help her see the man on the moon. "No," she pouted. She wanted to see the man on the moon.
"Do you see the two darker dots on the moon?" he said pointing to where he the crevices were.
"Uh-huh."
"Do you see the bigger dark spot underneath it?"
"Uh-huuhhhh."
"That's the man on the moon, he's smiling."
"It looks like he's yelling not smiling," Milly said. Her father chuckled.
Her mum called them in, telling it was time for Milly to go to bed. Her father chased her inside the house, Milly ran screaming into the house to get away from her father who yelled after her saying he was a boogy man. She ran right under her covers and nestled in. Her father came in to tuck her into her bed.
"Goodnight my princess," he said softly as he kissed her forehead.
"Daddy, why is there a man on the moon?" she asked as she rubbed her eyes.
"It's the craters and how the light reflects off them," he said factly, he didn't like to tell lies to his kids to make the magic feel real, because he knew they would grow up to be witches and wizards anyway.
"Oh okay." she paused, pulling her stuffed doll closer to her "so it's not that a man was sent up there then squashed by a meteor or something?"
Her father chuckled "No sweetie, it is nothing like that."
"Okay good, I was worried about the man on the moon," she said as she yawned "goodnight Daddy, see you tomorrow."
The door opened and shut, Sirius walked in and sat next to her. She looked up at him with a confused look on her face.
"How did you get in here?" She asked as she brought the cigarette to her lips.
He chuckled and took it from her "I have my ways."
"Oi," she said as she snatched it back from him after he took a drag "Get your own."
They both looked out at the moon, both thinking of separate people. The marauders always settled down on the full moon, all of them felt jittery and nervous before the full moon. They were all worried about their friend
"He can handle it Sirius," she paused and looked at the boy next to her then looked away "he's a strong guy."
He glanced at her the way she breathed out the smoke looked so exotic. "Yeah I know he will. But I just cannot imagine the pain he goes through every full moon, on such a beautiful night."
"A night of beauty plagued by pain," the words slipped out of her mouth like the smoke from her lungs.
"So poetic...Mildred," he smirked as her head wiped over to look at him.
"Oh shut it," she said as she playfully shoved him.
The two sat in silence once again. She flicked the ash off cigarette and watched it float down into the darkness like a piece of deadly snow. She pointed to the moon with the cigarette between her two fingers "Can you see the man in the moon?"
He looked at her again, his face much softer than it was he looked at peace "The man on the moon?"
She looked over at him, her fingers still in the air pointing, and smiled "Yeah you see the two craters next to each other? And then the big crater underneath them?"
He looked out to where she was pointing, he couldn't see anything "No."
Her hands dropped to her sides and she took another drag. "Oh. Well. If you look hard enough and squint your eyes you can see that the moon is smiling down on us."
"Tell Moony that," Sirius said as he squinted his eyes.
"Yeah." Milly flicked the cigarette away and let it fall beneath them.
"I think I see it." Sirius said softly.
There was a knock on the door and the two teenagers turned their heads. "Yeah?"
"Uh Milly Sirius, Peter and I need to uh check up on Remus before he goes to the shrieking shack," James whispered into the door.
Sirius got up and walked to the door, James came spilling in as the door was opened.
"Oh yeah of course." Milly said, getting up off the floor "Say hello to him," she said as the two boys left.