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Chapter 4 - Did she just do that?
As the five friends walked down the hallway on their way to their compartment, they ran in to Lily.
"Hey Lily how was your summer?" Remus asked.
Lily looked at him for a second before answering. "It was fine, thanks for asking. And how was yours?"
"Ah…Same old, same old, are you looking for a compartment?" Remus asked.
Lily shakes her head. "No, I have a seat."
"Cool"
Just then James cut in, "So Lily where do you want to go for our date?"
Lily looked at him like he'd grown three heads. "Potter I know that you have been hit in the head a few too many times and forget things but let me remind you of one little fact. Not now, not ever will I ever go on a date with you. So why don't you take your broomstick and shove it up your hairy arse." With those final words Lily turned on her heel and walked away.
Then 5 paces up the hall she stopped and turned around and walked back to them.
"I knew you would be back." James says with a smirk.
Lily smiled sweetly at him "James I want you to ask your friend over there to play a song for you." Lily said pointing to Charlie. "It's called Spiderwebs, by this band called No Doubt- it fits you." With that, Lily put both hands on James chest and pushed with all of her might. James wasn't expecting this at all and fell. "Oops sorry you were in my way."
Lily walked away from the others. Sirius bent down and helped James up all the while laughing at him. "Way to go Prongs you really nailed that one."
James brushed himself off and straightened his clothes then punched Sirius in the arm. "Oh shut up Padfoot."
Charlie just shook her head. "Why won't you let me hit her again?"
"Because then she won't go out with me." James said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Charlie turned around and started walking away, while giving them hell and not even bothering to look and see if they were following. "James she doesn't deserve you. You never did anything to her and she treats you like shit. She needs to be knocked off that prim Madonna pedestal. She thinks she is better then everyone else because she's smart and pretty and not one of you boys help. You all kiss her ass, bending over backwards to try and please her."
Charlie did a perfect imitation of all four boys. "Lily, flower will you go out with me because I'm a loser who loves to get my heart broken everyday by a cold hearted bitch? Hey Lily do you have a place to sit you can have Charlie's seat. Lily will you help me with my charms because my best friend not has good as you? Lily will you please talk to me in public so to piss my parents off… my best friend is failing at it because my parents have now asked her over?" Charlie stopped and turned around. "You make me sick. You know what I think I'll sit somewhere else… the thought of having to listen to you four going on and on about how wonderful she is and you James – the next plan to get her to go out with you. Well I would just rather not, quite frankly." With those last words Charlie walked into the next compartment without even looking to see who was sitting there.
James, Sirius, and Frank just stood there looking at each other for a minute before walking down the hall to there compartment. When they entered they just sat there looking at each other for a good ten minutes before Frank broke the silence. "Okay what the bloody hell was that?" Both James and Sirius just shrugged there shoulders.
"Well whatever it was, it sure scared the hell out of me. I have never ever seen Charlie flip out like that! Hell I've never even heard her raise her voice before. Not even when Malfoy, Snape, and Lestrange start teasing her. She just hexes them then walks away." Frank still looked dazed. "Why do you think she hates Lily so much?"
"I don't know…it all started when James started asking Lily out. Hey that's it! She must hate Lily, because you like her James. Charlie has a thing for you." Sirius grinned.
"What? Are you mad? Charlie is one of my best mates. Besides she doesn't hate any of the other girls I've dated or snogged." James said, proving a point.
"Because she knows as well as anyone that those girls don't mean anything…that its Lily you want." Sirius said with a smug smile.
That left James dumbstruck. All he could say was "Your wrong! Ask Moony, he always seems to understand her better then we do. He'll be able to tell us why."
Sirius shook his head as he laughed " Fine, but you wait he'll tell you that I'm right. Right Moony?"
Remus shook his head. "Wrong."
"What do you mean I'm wrong?" Sirius shouted. "How can I be wrong? It totally makes sense."
"Sirius, your right that if this was any other girl then that'd be the case, but the simple fact that it is Charlie makes you wrong." Remus said sitting back in his chair.
"Okay, oh great one, explain that to me." Sirius said crossing his arms.
Remus rubbed his forehead as he tried to think of a way to explain their best friend who was a girl. "Okay, think about what we know about Charlie or what we think we know. One, she never gets or sends any letters to her parents that we know of and seeing as we spend 90% of our time with her at school that is a good indication despite what she says. Also there is the fact that we have never met them at all and have never seen them in person or any picture of them together. As many pictures as Charlie takes there should be hundreds every summer. So that means she either doesn't have any or she never sees them and are not very close. Two, she never talks about, writes to, or gets letters from any friends from back in America other then her old teachers. So that leads us to believe that before us she never really had any. Third, she told us once that the sorting hat said she would do well in any house – that means she is loyal. When you add it all up what do you get? A girl that is loyal with only us to be loyal to."
Sirius sat there for a second in silence "I'm still failing to see what that has to do with Charlie liking James."
Remus hit his head with his palm. "How does Lily treat James?"
"Like shit" Sirius answered slowly.
"Right, see in Charlie eyes Lily is the enemy because she mistreats James. She can't understand how James can pine after someone who treats him so badly or why none of us hate Lily too for the way Lily treats James or how any of us can go to her for help." Remus stated.
"But Lily is nice other then that and some of the things Lily hates about James she is kind of right about." Frank says "No offence Prongs."
James shrugged, good naturedly "None taken Leo"
"See that also plays on her loyalty. Charlie is blind to our faults. She'll get on our case if any of us start acting like complete arses and makes us toe the line but she knows all of our good qualities so she forgives us. Also we are the only friends she has ever had so she will forever be grateful to us. So in her eyes no one has the right the judge or mistreat any of us because in truth no one really knows us like she does. You see she is also very over protective of us she would act this way if any of us showed interest in a girl seriously. Especially if she did not like the girl beforehand or felt the girl was not good enough for us."
"So Charlie doesn't like James, like James likes Lily?" Sirius asked.
Remus laughed. "That is correct."
Frank asked, "So why does Lily hate Charlie?"
Remus laughed again "Because of her hate for James also, in her eyes Charlie is so smart she is stupid."
That comment confused all the boys "Huh."
"Think guys, Lily and Charlie fight all year, every year for the top of class, which means Charlie is very smart; Charlie doesn't study half as much has Lily and she knows it. Lily hates it because she knows that if Charlie did study, then Lily would never able to touch her. Lily also knows that Charlie doesn't raise her hand to answer a question and win our house points but Charlie has won just as many points as Lily. For all kinds of things but mostly because of how well her work is done. Lily is worried that there is a chance that Charlie could be made prefect next year because Charlie helps other students who need help, no matter what their house. She has even cleaned Mrs Norris and de-fleaed her."
"In all fairness that was in self defense; that bloody cat is always following one of us trying to get us in trouble and she started giving us fleas" Sirius interrupted.
Remus nodded and continued "Regardless as to why she did it, she still did and Lily never thought about it. So all Lily can see is this smart, kind person who could be a prefect, and maybe even head girl but is throwing it all away by hanging out with an arrogant twit like James." Remus gave a disbelieving laugh "It's kind of funny if you think about it; I mean both girls are very much alike."
"How so?" Frank questioned. "I mean there the obvious; they're both beautiful, they're both smart and funny and also kind in there own ways but other then that there like night and day."
"That's true Leo, they are very different Charlie is quiet and more reserved. I believe that if it wasn't for us, well mostly James and Sirius, no one would know who she is. She doesn't speak unless spoken to unless it's with us. She doesn't go out of her way to help others who don't ask for her help. She almost never insults anyone even if they deserve it. She will simply either hex the daylights out of you or walk past you as if you're not there. She doesn't stand for injustice but she doesn't make a big show of putting you in your place either. Whereas Lily is not really loud but she doesn't shy away from a good shouting match. People know who she is just because she is her. She will talk to anyone and help anyone whether they ask or not. If you insult her she will say something back to you that hits you right in the balls. Also she doesn't care who is around she will knock you down if she thinks your wrong. No their similarities run deeper then just brains and beauty, but again there differences come into play. You see Charlie is blind to our faults for the most part because she knows all our good. Lily is blind to James's good side because she only ever sees the bad. They both know that the other is smart but also think that the other is stupid; Charlie for hanging out with James and Lily for not giving James a chance. Charlie for hexing people and Lily for thinking everyone listens to her when she says something."
James who has been quite throughout the whole thing, thinking about the girl he's in love with and the girl who is like a sister to him and how they hate each other, asked, "Remus how do you know so much?"
Remus just laughed "I pay attention."
Sirius looks offended "we pay attention."
"To something other then the way their arses move when they walk? All though I do like to see that as well." Remus said with a grin.
"Okay, so, what do we do about Charlie? I have never heard her yell before and she sure yelled then." Frank said, worried.
"We're almost there so why don't we go find her. She's going to need her clothes anyway." Remus said, standing up.
After the four boys changed into their uniforms they want back to the compartment that Charlie stormed into, But before they opened the door they heard something from on the other side that they didn't like.
"Aww, come on Charlie are you sure you don't wanna take a little more off?" A boy's voice echoed through the door at them.
"Yeah you look a little too overdressed in all those clothes," agreed a second male. The boys were momentarily relieved until they heard her reply.
Charlie gave a small flirty giggle that they had never heard from her before then heard her say. "Now boys if I take any more off then I might as well be naked."
"That what were looking for." The first boy said.
That was the last the four boys who were standing outside could take, bursting into the compartment. What they found shocked them to the core. The four boys had just walked in on a full blown game of strip poker played by a couple of older kids. Two of those kids were David Wood and Amos Diggory the captains of the Hufflepuff and the Gryffindor Quidditch teams. However the one person they thought was playing was in fact the only one with her clothes still in place. The four boy's eyes landed on Charlie who was sitting by the door farthest from the game still in her white dress with a book in her lap with her feet curled beneath her. In fact the only thing that she wasn't wearing was her heels. They were on the floor in front of her.
"Charlie what are you doing?" Sirius asked angrily.
Charlie slowly put her feet on the floor closing her book she looks up at Sirius and throwing him a dirty look " Well Sirius, Before you four came bursting through the door like some over protective big brothers I was reading, while occasionally interacting in conversation with our fellow classmates. They were joking around asking me to play a game that involved me taking my clothes off. As you can tell I have not partaken in the activity."
"Well why didn't you leave once you know they were going to play that game?" Sirius countered.
"Because Sirius everywhere else is full, and I didn't feel a need to. They weren't bothering me and I'm guessing seeing as they still played their game that I wasn't bothering them." Charlie stated calmly.
"Well why not just come back to our compartment then?" Sirius huffed.
"I really wasn't in the mood to listen to you four talk the whole time about the Gryffindor princess." Charlie spat showing the first sign of emotion. Her eyes flashed black and dark green. The boys had seen her eyes turn to black when she got mad before but never that color green.
The effect of her words, which only the four boys noticed was startling. As many times as they'd seen that happen it still made them take a step back. This time however they weren't sure if it was her eyes or her anger that caused them to step so far back that they were nearly in the hall again. Charlie, knowing what caused this reaction closed her eyes and drew a few deep breaths. Then she stood up and turned to the other people in the compartment who were all nearly dressed now and watching the exchange between the 5 notorious pranksters. Charlie closed the few steps between her self and David Wood. She then leaned over and pecked his cheek.
"I guess I'll see you around…I can't wait to visit Hogsmeade with you the next weekend we can go." She then turned around and bent down to grab her shoes. The movement caused the three guys behind her to cock their heads to the side for a better view and the four boys in front of her to glare at the other three, leering. Once standing straight Charlie held her head high and pushed past the four boys. The Marauders turned around and followed Charlie back to their carriage and when they reached it Charlie already had her trunk down and was rummaging through it. The four boys walked in and sat down; Remus, who feared that Sirius would say something else to upset her decided to try and fix this.
"Charlie we just wanted to say that we're...."
"Stop" Charlie said, as she stopped rummaging through her trunk and looked at them. "The most painful you can do right now is tell me you're sorry when you have no idea what it is you're apologizing for. In truth you four haven't done anything wrong. This is my problem. I'll deal with it. Don't worry about it okay?" With a sigh she went back to looking through her trunk.
"Shadow" Remus spoke softly using her Marauder name. Finding her robes she stood up closing her trunk, with a click.
"What Remus?" She asked in a dead voice.
Remus stood up and walked over to her. He grabbed her around the middle and pulled her into a tight embrace. Like always whenever they hug her she stiffened, but unlike before Remus didn't let go. Charlie finally relaxed and hugs him back. When he finally pulled away he looked at her. Tears clung to her long lashes and her eyes kept switching between her normal brown and light gray.
"What are you confused by Shadow?" he asked as he wiped a tear away.
"I don't know everything I..." She looked up at him in shock, "Ho-How- How did you know I was confused?" Charlie stumbled on the words.
Remus looked down at his feet "Your eyes were changing from brown to light gray and I know that when your eyes turn that color, you're confused by something."
"How?" Charlie asked looking right at his face.
"You have had that happen many times when one of us is doing something you don't understand. But I didn't know that what it meant until last year when James really started to like Lily and she started acting even more mean to him. Your eyes would always change to light gray when he was talking to her or about her. I asked you once what you were thinking when your eyes were like that, and you said you just couldn't understand James sometimes he confused the hell out of you." Remus said, rushing his words.
"Oh well yes anyways what were you going to say before?" Charlie asked, trying to change the subject.
Remus gently cupped her face in his hands and forced her to look at him. He used his thumb and wiped the last few remaining tears away." I was going to say that were your friends and you don't have to deal with anything on your own. You don't have to hide anything from us either Charlie. You have helped me more then I could ever imagine repaying you for, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like the chance to. Will you give me that chance? Will you please stop hiding from us and let us in? You're our best friend and without you who knows were we would be."
Charlie took a calming breath and gently pulled her face away from Remus hands and looked at all the boys in turn. She then bent down and picked up her robes that had fallen during her hug with Remus. "Tonight in your dorm after everyone has gone to bed." With that Charlie walked out to change into her robes.
After she left, Frank shook his head with a slight air of being bemused. "You my friend have a gift."
"Yeah at one point I thought you were going to kiss her Moony." Sirius chipped in dropping down on the seat.
"What? Me? Kiss Shadow? That's funny." Remus said with a shaky laugh.
'If they knew how much I did want to kiss her they would probably de-nut me.' Remus thought to himself. 'She looks so pretty today. The way her long black hair seems to sweep her back when she walks. The way tears clung to her eyelashes was so heart breaking, but beautiful. It took every ounce of self control he possessednot to kiss her eyes. He loved the way her pale face contained a soft pink glow on her cheeks. When he saw the way she kissed David Wood, he wanted to knock that big head of his through the window. Then she said that she couldn't wait to go to Hogsmeade with him. WAIT. She's going to Hogsmeade with that big headed twit! I'll have to think of something. Maybe I could....'
Before he could finish his thought the girl he was thinking about came back in, dressed in her Hogwarts uniform with her white dress over her arm.
Charlie put her dress in her trunk then hoisted her trunk back on the rack. She sat down across from Remus and pulled her book back out to read for the rest of the trip, while the four boys played exploding snap.
When James lost for the third time he finally turned to Charlie. "Shadow I was wondering if you know the song that Lily was talking about." He finished timidly, as if by mentioning Lily's name was going to provoke another reaction from her… Because one was most definitely enough.
Charlie closed her book and looked at James with a raised eyebrow. "Yes," she answered finally.
"Oh do you have it on your ipod thing?" James continued uncertainly.
"Yes on one of them I'm sure I do." Charlie said, already bored with the conversation. It was always Lily-this, and Lily-that; and James clearly didn't listen to a word of what she'd said earlier.
James threw his hands into the air and dropped them again. "Well will you play it for me…please?"
Charlie took a deep breath and rolled her eyes. "Fine," She knew he wouldn't like it when she did.
Charlie stood up again and pulled her trunk back down. She opened the third compartment and inside there were ten different ipod cases. She started looking through each one, at the list she wrote – detailing each band, on each Ipod. Finally after the sixth case, she found the one she was looking for and pulling out the mini sound system so that they could all hear, closed her trunk. Charlie plugged the Ipod into it and sat it on the top.
"Okay here you go." Charlie said, after finding the song, and pressing play. Everyone waited in silence, and the music began.
You think that we connect
That the chemistry's correct
Your words walk right through my ears
Presuming I like what I hear
And now I'm stuck in the web
You're spinning
You've got me for your prey
Sorry, I'm not home right now
I'm walking into Spiderwebs
So leave a message and I'll call you back
A likely story but leave a message
And I'll call you back
You take advantage of what's mine
You're taking up my time
Don't have the courage inside me
To tell you please just let me be
Communication, telephone invasion
I'm planning my escape
And it's all your fault
I screen my phone calls
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls
Now it's gone too deep
You wake me in my sleep
My dreams become nightmares
'Cause you're ringing in my ears
And it's all your fault
I screen my phone calls
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls
Now it's gone too deep
You wake me in my sleep
My dreams become nightmares
'Cause you're ringing in my ears
When the song ended, Charlie switched the music off and looked at James, trying to gauge a reaction. James appeared a little confused and spaced out, she knew he was thinking.
Finally he looked at Charlie and spoke. "What does she mean by that I don't call her on the fello-o-phone?"
"First it's called a Tele-a-phone." Charlie said, hearing her own American accent amongst the bunch of pure blooded Englishwizards. "It's a muggle method of communication."
"Like we use owls?" James questioned.
"Exactly," Charlie nodded, continuing her explanation, "and secondly, she didn't mean an actual phone she meant that to be taken generally – as in when she sees you, she shuts down, and all you get is the recorded message from an answering machine."
"What's an answering machine?" That was James again.
"A device which takes the call if no one answers." There was a silence and Charlie was met with 4 blank stares. She sighed, "You know? Sorry, we're not in to take your call at the moment, please leave a message…" She mimicked the answer machine message on her old landline. "Or in Lily's case fuck off James and stop bugging me. You give her nightmares; and she won't go out with other guys because you scare them off." James looked sad, and Charlie was pissed off at how sad James suddenly looked; she knew he wouldn't want to hear it.
After Charlie finished speaking, everyone was quiet for the rest of the trip to school; all thinking about the same things; the song, and James and Lily.
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