Sirius picked himself up off the floor and sat next to the raven-haired girl. The two sat silently for a while, it wasn't awkward it was just soothing.

"You were right." Arielle finally spoke. "You can say I told you so."

"I don't want to Ari." Sirius said looking over at the girl's defeated expression. Arielle shifted her eyes to the floor. She had never seen this side of Evan, and she didn't like it all. He was the git that her friends warned her about. Rosier couldn't stand up for her if it meant going against his friends, going against Regulus.

"Don't be to hard on yourself Arielle." Sirius said. "Those Slytherins are just damn sneaky."

Arielle let a small smile play on her lips. "You can say that again. I just don't understand how I didn't see this side of him before, Sirius. I always thought Evan was better than that. I don't understand why he doesn't have the courage to stand up to his friends or to that bastard brother of yours."

Sirius shifted in his seat on the couch so he could get a better look at Arielle.

"They are terrible people. And it's not that he doesn't have the courage Ari, it's that those boys, none of them, including Evan, would ever choose you or anyone else over each other."

Arielle looked up into Sirius' grey blue eyes sighed and shook her head.

"I don't understand, I would perhaps if they were all family. I know I would never choose anyone over Lucius, as much as it pains you to hear. But none of them are family. I wish I knew why they were so loyal to each other."

"I don't know Arielle, all I know is that I think you should stay away from them." Sirius said.

"I will. I'm going to have to deal with Evan tomorrow." Arielle agreed as she stood up to stretch and go to bed.

"Ari?" Sirius asked.

"Yes Sirius?" She answered stopping at the staircase leading up to the dormitories.

"Why did you jump in front of Regulus?"

Arielle crinkled her nose searching for the correct answer. "Because Sirius, he is your brother, you shouldn't hex him, despite what you think he loves you, I can see it in his eyes."

Sirius looked down to the floor, her words ringing in his ears.

The next morning Arielle sought out Evan at the entrance of the Great Hall. She got there extremely early just so she wouldn't miss him. She did not really know how to break up with someone; it would be her first time doing it. James and Sirius told her that the girls they've dated usually scream at them and then slap them across the face. Arielle decided to take a more practical approach and just be straightforward and collected. She kept going over and over what she was going to say until she saw Evan and his friends approaching and her heart dropped into her stomach.

"Rosier can I talk to you a minute?" Arielle demanded as the Slytherin boys attempted to walk past her. Evan froze and looked at Arielle and then back at his friends. "I'm sure they can survive your absence for a minute or two."

Evan sighed nervously and walked over to Arielle.

"When I first met you on the train four years ago I thought you were one of the most enchanting people I've ever encountered. " She began, feeling the lump in throat form. She swallowed; it was not suppose to be this hard. "Even though Black was such a git, I always thought you were different. Until I learned you were just a puppet in his stupid little games. I'm disappointed and I think that we should go our separate ways because they obviously aren't in the same direction. "

"Is that what your stupid Gryffindor friends told you to say?" Evan asked his reaction more angry than Arielle imagined.

The tone in his voice made Arielle flare up in fury. He had no right to be upset with her. "No actually Evan I can think for myself thanks. And I think I know an asshole when I see one, and that is what you are Evan, a coward and an asshole."

Evan crinkled his brows as if she slapped him across the face. "You think you know everything Arielle but you don't. I'm glad you have this all figured out, I'm glad you have me all figured out. Because you and your stupid friends don't know a damn thing about me or Regulus or the rest of the gang. You think Sirius and James are so damn chivalrous don't you?"

"They stood up for me when you wouldn't Evan! You're damn right I think that!" Arielle interrupted.

"I could tell you stories about them that would shock you. You think you know them but you don't at all. You think I'm bad? You think Regulus is bad? Wake up Arielle we are nothing compared to those Gryffindor scum. And how about the fact that you lied to me about the pitch? Last time I checked I wasn't the only one fucking up this relationship!"

Arielle looked at Evan in a mix of shock and fury. She had never seen Evan lose his cool like this before and outright yell at someone.

"I lied because I had too. The Marauders are my friends; I wasn't going to just dump them because I got a boyfriend in the rival house Evan! I'm not that shallow, I don't leave people who are loyal to me. But if they ever laid a hand on you I would have hexed them all in a heartbeat. You couldn't though; you couldn't stand up to your friends. I did, I defended you ever step of the way. Obviously your priorities are fucked up." Arielle yelled back a bit surprised at her foul language.

"If only your brother could see you now." Evan said in a low tone.

"How dare you bring Lucius into this."

"I feel sorry for you. I can only hope one day you see the truth. I'm glad this over because I could never love somebody that hangs out with the likes of Sirius Black, someone who calls me a coward. You know nothing Arielle, you think you do because you can't see past your own ignorance." Evan turned around and went into the Great Hall without even glancing back at the pale skinned girl.

Arielle froze. Nobody had ever talked to her like that in her entire life, not even Lucius. The word love kept popping in her head. Had Evan loved her? She glanced over to the staircase on her left and saw Regulus Black. He had seen the entire thing unfold. She watched as he looked at her with a smug expression taking one last hit from his cigarette, which were forbidden at Hogwarts, and throwing it on the stone floor, stepping on it with black leather shoes. She looked forward again into the Great Hall to see all the people that now filled the long tables. The Slytherin boy began to walk towards. She felt Regulus' hot breath on her neck, her heart pounded wildly in her ears.

"A war's coming baby." He whispered into her left ear before switching to the other side of her head and pushing the black hair behind her right ear. "You best figure out what side your on."

Arielle's dark blue eyes followed Regulus' aristocratic form as it retreated into the Great Hall leaving her dumbfounded and alone. She had never felt more alone in her life.

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