October

"Pooootions!" I sang to my friends, sitting down for breakfast.

"Shut up." Tom grumbled, stuffing bacon into his face, missing his mouth on his first try.

"What up moody pants?" I asked him, grinning to Scorp who was looking on with amusement.

"Shut up."

"Aww, you're so mean to me!" I whined, pouting.

"Shut up."

"Why is he so moody?" I asked Johnny who was across the table, holding his head in the same way every one else was around- Oooooh there hung-over… duh Elizabeth. "How was the party then? I almost forgot you won against Hufflepuff; the party's a bit delayed though… it did happen like… three days is it now? Yeah three days ago-!"

"Oh Merlin, shut up!" Evan moaned.

"Oh yay, you spoke, I thought you were dead for a moment then!" I laughed, Scorp joining in, the only Slytherin around me who didn't get drunk last night.

"Go away Elizabeth!" Tom moaned again.

"No! It's your fault your not as clever as me and don't know any hangover spells… like me." I hinted obviously, raising an eyebrow.

"Gimmie!" Tom demanded, sticking his hand out in the complete wrong direction.

"Well duh, if you don't remember I'm T Total… or whatever its called and if you've forgotten, that does mean haven't ever taken a sip of alcohol - excepting the Christmas champagne with doesn't count -which I pride myself in to this day so obv-."

"Jesus- look if you have nothing to give us go away and stop gloating!" I laughed loudly for no reason, well there was a reason… to annoy them… causing them all to groan and glare at me. I sniffled teasingly and wiped away an invisible tear.

"Oh goodness and none of you have even noticed…" I trailed off, standing up. "Well, I know where I'm not wanted. Be seeing you." I said, giving them a salute. Scorp stood up and slipped under the table so he could walk with me, being the loser that he is and not going over the top like a normal person… or someone called Elizabeth…yeah…

"What didn't they notice?"

"Nothing really, cut my hair- a couple of inches, my fringe is gone-"

"What fringe?"

"Exactly." I replied grinning. "Come on hon, I'll walk you to your next lesson." He rolled his eyes at the nickname but let himself be dragged out of the hall by the hand, sadly refusing to skip with me.

See you at lunch babes, make sure the others get what they need ok?" I asked Scorp when I dropped him outside Charms, giving me ten minutes to get to Potions.

"Yes mum." He replied giving me a look. I raised my eyebrow. I hit him across the head.

"Shut up, stop being so cheeky!"

"Ugh, I really do wonder why some people think were going out your so mum-ish to me it's painful!" He moaned, I laughed lightly, agreeing with him.

"Yeah I know see you later." I replied, kissing the top of his head, ignoring his squirming and blush as the other Slytherins and Rose laughed, Rose having the decency to hide her laughter. He crossed his arms across his chest and pouted. "Such a moody boy!" I moaned, ruffling his hair and walking away.

I got in just in time, sliding down next to James who was my partner.

"Where were you?" James whispered through the side of his mouth as I got my books out and sorted my hair out, after it being messed up from the fast running it took to get to the dungeons.

"Embarrassing Scorp." I whispered back, turning to the right page as the Professor told us to. A few minutes passed until Professor Daniels set us a task in pairs.

"I didn't see you at breakfast." James said, looking up from the sheet of questions we had to answer in pairs.

"Yeah, well I was sitting with the boys. I'll sit with you at dinner ok? The idiots had a party last night and I need to make sure they're ok at lunch - sorry, I know I said I would sit with you lot-"

"It's ok Elizabeth… sooo… I heard a rumour going around…" James trailed off, handing me the sheet to do a couple of questions and to correct his if anything as wrong.

"Yeah?" I asked, dipping my quill into his ink and writing 'moonstone' in my swirly handwriting.

"That you and Scorp were-." But he didn't get to finish, getting cut off with my quiet laughter.

"You should know better than believe that." I told him, glancing up at him to see his relieved expression. "Even he says I'm more a mother to him than a best friend… which is true but still…!" James chuckled.

"Yeah… Urm…I was wondering-."

"How do you spell stirring? Is it one 'r' or two?" I cut across him. He coughed before answering.

"Two… two r's."

"Oh… were you saying something? Sorry, carry on." I asked glancing up from the paper.

"Oh no it's nothing… you done?" He asked, gesturing to the sheet.

"Nearly… left twice and thennnnn… yeah done!" I said holding up the sheet and giving him an obviously dazzling smile, being the generally dazzling person that I am.

"Good… here you go Professor," He said, handing the sheet to Daniels as he passed. "So… we up for another 'get to know' session tonight then?" James asked, winking. I rolled my eyes.

"Don't you think you've leant enough?" I asked grinning and shaking my head slightly.

"Not at all! I'm yet to learn about your cousins amongst many things!" He replied grinning at me.

"Potter and Morgan- full marks, well done!" The teacher called from the front. "Twenty points to Gryffindor… Weasley and Marks, five out of twenty, terrible… terrible…"

"Which Weasley sir?" Fred shouted out stupidly.

"Well Weasley, I assume the Weasley that's working with Marks." He replied sarcastically. I giggled and saw James grin, giving Fred a look as if to say 'what did you expect?'

"Hello boys." I greeted, smiling evilly.

"What you grinning at?"

"You been in pain then today?" I asked them, they nodded enthusiastically. "Brilliant here you go then!" I said, performing the spell on them.

"Marvellous, cheers darling you really do work wonders!" Tom exclaimed happily in a fake posh accent.

"Waaaaait a minute… why are you so happy that we were in pain?" Johnny asked, finally catching on. Scorp answered for me though.

"Because we didn't invite her to the party dumbasses so she wanted revenge but silently… you should know this by now! It's how she works!" He told them with a mockingly appalled tone. I gave the others a smug look, blowing a kiss to Scorp who caught it and blew one back. They all frowned at the truth and looked at me.

"Sorrrrrrry Liz! Forgive us!"

"Yeah… soz babes."

"Wow that was heartfelt. I forgive you Tom but not you E. That apology was… disgraceful!"

"Hey y'all, how's it going?" I asked, jumping onto one of the red sofas next to James.

"Right, first question. What are your cousins' names?" He asked. I rolled my eyes.

"You always have to jump straight into the question… no hello… not howdy… oh how sad!" I wailed, ignoring 4's sigh of frustration. "Oh, hey bitch, I almost didn't see you there!" I said smiling at her… with sarcasm of course.

"Well, I'm gonna leave if she's staying." 4 replied, ignoring me.

"Bye then!" James said grinning and turning on me. "Righty… what are your cousins' names?" He asked, putting his legs on my lap as 4 got up and disappeared to the other side of the room.

"Well, there's Michael who's a year younger, irritatingly like a little brother-"

"Yeah I feel for you." James butted in, giving a meaningful look at Albus who glared back at him, grinning I carried on.

"Then there's Mike who's two years younger and MJ, the sweetest four-year-old you could ever meet and my favourite." I concluded.

"Is it some sort of family tradition… all M's?"

"Yup, don't ask… and I'm allowed to call him my favourite because they're not siblings, they're cousins. So it's not mean!"

"Still a bit mean though." Roxanne interjected.

"Na-ah, I had a big debate about it with Evvvvvvv- no one." I corrected myself stupidly, remembering that none of them particularly like the boys. They all raised their eyebrow at my apparently obvious miscommunication but didn't say anything more about it. All being Roxanne, Willow, Fred, James, Al and Rose. "Next question?" I asked.

"If you've forgotten… that's not how it works, you ask one of us a question first." James reminded me, scoffing at my idioiticness… is that a word? Well… now it is.

"Oh yeah… hmm… I'm gonna choose…" I trailed off, looking at them all. "Rooos-Roxanne." Rose looked distinctly relieved and Roxanne very wary. My questions couldn't be that bad… could they? Probably… I am a question machine. Hard-core. Yeaaah….

"Go on then!"

"Right… Roxy… this is kinda a dirty question but I was wondering if anyone else had so… have you ever walked in on… a boy," Roxanne was narrowing her eyes as if to decipher what I was going to say before I did. "Urm… you know…tickle tickle…?" Roxanne and Willow burst out laughing while the others had looks of complete and utter disgust on their faces.

"Oh my Merlin Elizabeth… no, luckily I haven't… Jesus you're so strange!" Roxanne told me truthfully, still laughing with Willow.

"Wait… who did you walk on while they were wanking?" Willow asked; ignoring the fact I changed the word to some nicer ones.

"My cousin," I told them, wrinkling my nose. "He didn't see me but…"

"You saw him?" James finished laughing. I glared at him.

"Yes… unfortunately." I told them. "But I'm not telling you which one or when!"

"Oh yeah, because we can't guess!" Roxanne put in sarcastically.

"Was it MJ? It can't possibly have been Michael after all!" James said, also sarcastically.

"Next question please!" I shouted out over their laughter.

"Hey Elizabeth... how was your sleep?"

"Fantabulous!" I told James, filling my plate with food and pouring myself some pumpkin juice.

"Good."

"How was yours?" I asked him, looking up from pouring golden syrup on my bacon… it's so tasty! Don't judge!

"He had a bad dream." Fred told me grinning. Hmm… there seems to be some sort of private joke here…

"Oh yeah? 'Bout what?" I asked him, cutting my bacon up because 4 wasn't around… I'm not usually that bad at eating but I would do anything to annoy her.

"Nothing." James grumbled, ungracefully shoving a waffle into his mouth… yeah a whole waffle. I felt my face morph into a disgusted one as I looked at him.

"Goodness you're disgusting." I commented. He turned to look at me, raising an eyebrow.

"Thanks." He replied dryly. I whacked him across the head when he went back to his food drawing a laugh from Fred, as he was the only other one around us. "Heeey!" He moaned.

"Stop being a drama queen-"

"King actually-"

"No queen because your acting like such a little girl. Whats wrong?" I asked him, putting a hand in front of Fred's face when he started to laugh again.

"He's sad because-"

"Did I say you could speak Frederick?" I asked him. He pouted and looked at the table mumbling a 'no'.

"Nothings wrong Eliza-"

"Fine then… if you won't tell me I'll have to get it out of Fred." At the mention of his name, he looked up grinning.

"Can I speak now?" He asked. I raised my eyebrow. "Ok then, well he was upset and stressing last night because you didn't come back yesterday when you said you were gonna visit your snake- your friends." He corrected when I gave him a look.

"Really? Are you that over protective over me?" I asked him. He shrugged a yes. "Oh well het over it." I said meanly… not too meanly but still meanly. "Isn't meanly a weird word?" I asked them.

"No." They said in unison.

"Yeah it is look: meanly, meanly, meanly, meanly, meanly-"

"Alright! Yeah it's weird. You're weird."

"No your weird!"

"If I wanted my own comeback to be said to me I would've eaten it!" James replied like the dumbass he is.

"Riiiiight ok then moody pants, you're a dumbass then."

"Awwww that was mean!"

"Mean… or meanly?" I asked smartly, putting emphasis on the 'meanly' by leaning forwards slightly.

"Mean." He replied scoffing at my idioiticness. See it is a word!

"…or meanly?"

"Shut up."

"…or meanly."

"You're going to die one day."

"…or meanly?"

"You make no sense!" James said pretending to cry like a baby.

"Cudgycoo!" I cooed squeezing his cheeks.

"Bye then." He replied oh so smartly, getting up to leave our fantabulous discussion.

"…OR MEANLY?"

"SHUT UP!"

"NO!"

"He's gone Lizabeth!" Fred told me with remorse.

"That's new."

"Yeah do you like it?" Fred asked grinning. I picked up my bag and gave Fred a pitying look.

"No Frederick."

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