Changed my mind, skipped to 6th year :D
Five years on, I do not know how I didn't work out that Sirius Black was one to stay away from. I guess I was innocent and naive back then, and I had no idea that anyone could be that annoying. Now I know better.
But to make myself feel better, I tell myself that the only thing that was predictable from the first day was James and Lily. Since James was my first friend, and Lily was my second, I think it would be awesome if they got together. So does James. Lily does not.
He asks her out at least once a day, and way more than that when something big like a dance or a Hogsmeade weekend is coming up. It's quite amusing to listen/watch all the different ways James comes up with to ask Lily out, and all the ways that Lily comes up with the reject James. I honestly think that when they are alone, they spend all their free time thinking up new and creative ways to entertain us.
My favourite was last week when James got inside one of the suits of armour and stood, motionless, in the charms corridor until Lily came out of her lesson. Then he grabbed her.
'Let me go!' Was the inevitable demand.
'Not until you go out with me.' Was the inevitable reply.
'Potter!' And a slap, were the inevitable reaction. But I think she's wearing down. No really, I do.
But enough about their trainwreck relationship, let's move onto mine. Sirius Orion Black. I hate him. And I know that girls are normally all "Oh, I do hate that incredibly fit guy who I argue with all the time! Oh, look! I'm in love with him! Oh, look! He's in love with me too! Yay, now we can be clichéd together!" But it's totally not like that. Really. It's actually not like that.
I hate his little smirk and the way he flips his hair out of his eyes, because he thinks that he can make you swoon just by smiling. Ugh. And he's a man-slut. I mean, I'm not a nun, I've had boyfriends, but he has a new girl on his arm literally every week. At least.
And Sirius I'm-so-gorgeous Black finds it fun to torment me. Which is not very enjoyable for me. So I retaliate, then he retaliates. Let me tell you, it ain't pretty. Our friends even have a daily tally chart of who gets the last word. I think I'm winning at the moment...
The start of term feast was, as usual, awesome – there was no other word for it. I could have sworn I could hear the table complaining about the weight, but to be honest that wouldn't be that strange around here.
Lily, Alice and I ate until we thought we would explode, and James and Sirius ate so much that people were actually edging away from them, just in case.
'So,' I said, turning to Alice, 'Time to place bets on how long it is 'til Lily gives into James, me thinks.' I could see Lily glaring at me out of the corner of my eye, but I looked expectantly at Alice.
'Ah, you're right!' She exclaimed, excitable as ever. 'I'm putting a galleon on her cracking by Easter.' She looked at Lily, 'You know you want to.' Lily looked outraged.
'No, I flipping well don't!' She ranted. 'He's immature, arrogant, he hexes people for the fun of it, he doesn't like Severus for absolutely no reason-" But she was cut off by the arrival of the very boy she was speaking of.
'Ah, that's where you're wrong, my Lily flower. I do have a reason.' James said, with a smile that was almost smug.
'Oh really?' Lily said, disbelievingly, 'Care to share?'
'No, not really.' He said casually, reaching across to nick a chip from my plate. "How's you, Muggley?' He'd called me that since the first day of school. Gr.
'Not bad, poncey, not bad.' I replied, nodding. 'Where's the rest of your posse?'
'Right here!' I groaned. 'I knew you missed us over the holiday!' My arch nemesis said, in an extremely camp voice, squeezing in between Alice and I on the bench. He put his arm around me, and whispered in my ear, 'Give us a hello kiss?' I shuddered, not wanting to be in that close contact with Black.
'Ew!' I yelled, shrugging out from under his arm. 'Get off me!' He laughed, then planted a big soggy kiss on my cheek.
'Knew ya loved me!' He called as he skipped away, winking over his shoulder at me. I didn't see any of that though as I was trying to get Black saliva/germs off my cheek.
'Ew, ew, ew! Does anyone have any hand sanitizer? This is disgusting! Eeew!' I said desperately. Dis. Gus. Ting. James was laughing at me.
'You know, when Lily and I are married,' this got him a look of shock and revulsion from Lily, 'And you and Sirius are married,' and the same from me, 'We're going to re-enact this moment and laugh.' I stared at him.
'You honestly think that I would let Black come near me with a ten-foot pole, let alone marry him?' I asked, appalled. Everyone knew we hated each other. James tapped his nose knowingly, and sauntered off. Lily and I both stared after him in disbelief.
'He thinks I'm going to marry Black?'
'He thinks I'm going to marry him?' We said at the same time, then laughed, high-fived and went back to eating. Alice was shaking her head.
'You girls need to find a nice, stable relationship with someone you love and trust. Like I have with Frank...' And then she was gone, staring into the distance. She'd been going out with Frank Longbottom since about third year. It was quite adorable, really.
'Meh, I'm sixteen. Plenty of time for that later. Right now, I wanna party hard, get hammered, and make out with random guys!' I whooped, not realising Dumbledore had stood up for his speech so everyone had gone quiet. Everyone in the Great Hall was gawping at me, even the teachers, who were supposed to be, you know, discreet about staring.
'Yes, erm, thank you for that, Miss Morrell.' Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling. I could see the Marauders laughing at me, a few spaces down the table. 'Now onto a few school rules that Mr Filch has asked me to go over.' And I stopped listening at that point. I never really stuck to rules, they were a bit boring. Well, a lot boring.
On the way up to the common room after the feast, Alice suddenly said to me, 'You know, you never placed your bet on how long Lily's going to last this year.' Lily rolled her eyes, and walked a bit faster to catch up with Dorcas Meadows and Mary MacDonald, the other girls we shared a dorm with.
'I'm gonna go for...' I thought about it a bit, 'She's gonna say yes just after the Summer holidays, next year.' Alice laughed.
'No way, she'll surrender way before then! But hey, you wanna give me your money, that's fine by me!'
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