Hello lovely people of the interconnected webz. I mark my return to the world of fanfiction writing, with this chapter. It's short. But it's still a chapter.

So read it, and hopefully enjoy it? Yes? Maybe? 8D


"Alright that's enough for today everybody!" called James, signalling the end of an extrenuous quidditch practice. The tryouts for the Gryffindor team had been just 2 weeks ago, and their first match which was against Slytherin, was in exactly one week. As captain, James thought he had a brilliant team that was more than capable of beating Slytherin so long as everyone played as well as he knew they could, but he wasn't allowing any room for mistakes. They had been having practices every day for 1 to 2 hours since the team had been decided. James, Sirius, and Taylor Lowney were the three chasers, Sirius being lead chaser, James playing left, and Taylor was right. The keeper was seventh year Damian McLaggen, the beaters consisted of two burly sixth years by the names of Andrew MacIsaac and Michael Thorbourne. The seeker position was filled by another seventh year named Zara Lappete. As the team landed back on the quidditch pitch, all extremely tired and in desperate need of showers, James informed them all that their next practice would be tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. sharp. Everyone groaned. They had been working their butts off for 2 weeks, and they had all hoped that James would've at least given them tomorrow off, seeing as it was Sunday and he already made them give up their Saturday evening. The team started making their way back to the change rooms and then began to make their way back up to the castle.

Taylor brought up the rear of the group, slowly making progress towards the castle. She was alone for a few minutes, but then she noticed that Damian had slowed down as well and was now walking next to her.

"Um, hi?" Taylor said in a rather confused tone.

"Look, I wanted to apologize for ignoring you. I just don't think there's any point in leading you on, and it's nothing against you but I just think that maybe we should just go back to what we were before I asked you to the dance."

"We were nothing before that." Taylor bluntly stated.

"I know..."

"...So basically you just don't want to talk to me ever again? Is that what you're saying?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying. I knew you'd understand." As Damian said this, Taylor just stopped. She couldn't believe what he was saying, and how she hadn't noticed he's an asshole before all this. Damian continued on walking though, as if they had never even had the conversation. Lily was right, thought Taylor,guys don't have to like you at all in order to kiss you. Kisses mean absolutely nothing to them.

"You know what Damian?" As Taylor shouted, the whole team turned and stopped to see what was happening, including Damian.
"What?" he said, a tone of annoyance in his voice.
"You're a pathetic loser who can't get girls his own age, so instead you go for the younger ones because you think you can get them to do whatever you want just because you're older than them. Which is absolutely crazy, because no girl in her right mind would ever want to do anything with you, you disgusting pig. Now, it isn't all your fault of course because I was stupid enough to actually believe that a guy like you was capable of chivalry, but really all you wanted to do was take advantage of me. Which luckily for me, you didn't. So when you realized you couldn't control me, you "dump me" like I'm nothing. Which, to be fair, that's all I ever was to you. Nothing. And maybe I am overreacting but you know what? I really don't give a fuck. And I would like to thank you, for making me realize how much better I can do. Just stay out of my life, you bastard."

Once Taylor finished her rant, she swiftly strode past all of her teammates and was gone, leaving the rest in a state of shock.

"Bloody hell, I'm glad I wasn't on the receiving end of that..." whispered Andrew to Sirius. Sirius and James had been smirking the entire time, but now that Taylor had left they could both let out their laughter without fear of receiving the wrath of Taylor.

"Everything she said... was so...true!" James said between spurts of laughter. This, on top of Sirius and James' laughter, earned them death glares from Damian.

"She's just mental, and needs to learn how to calm her shit." Damian said, in an attempt to regain some of his severely lost dignity. It didn't work. Damian also proceeded to leave the midst of his team, and soon enough each member of the team was back inside the castle. It was about 8 p.m., as Sirius and James began to head up the grand staircase with the rest of the Gryffindor quidditch team.

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Meanwhile, Remus had been in the library working on a potions essay. He had been there since 12, working tirelessly on an essay for transfiguration.

"Aaaand...finished." mumbled Remus to himself. The sandy haired teenager slowly began to shove all of his papers, books, and quills back into his bag before he proceeded to stand up. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was almost 8 p.m. and so he began to make his way out of the library. As he was passing by the last set of bookshelves before the exit, he heard someone quietly call his name (as not to get in trouble by Madam Pince). Remus turned to see who it was, and it turned out to be Frank Longbottom.

"Oh, hey Frank. What's up?" Remus asked as he walked over to the bookshelf Frank had previously been inspecting.

"Just looking for a potions book...but anyways, you know Avery right?"

"Avery? Uh, yeah, I guess...I mean, we're both prefects...and uh, we do patrols together...sometimes.." Remus awkwardly stammered out as his face slowly turned a light shade of pink.

"So you guys talk, right?" Frank clearly didn't get that Remus was not entirely comfortable talking about her.

"Um..sort of, I guess..."

"Could you do me a favour then? Would you ask her what she thinks about me? Because I really like her, and I just thought that her and I had such a good time together at the dance, but she hasn't spoken to me much since..." Upon hearing this, Remus perked up considerably, because it was obvious (even to Remus) that she was not interested in him.

"Oh, well I'm sure I could ask her, but I think it would be better if maybe you talked to her yourself."

And with that, Remus turned and walked out of the library. Knowing that Avery wasn't actually interested in Longbottom made him feel a lot better, because Remus had been a little jealous after the two of them had kissed at the dance. And by a little jealous, he was actually super jealous, only he would never admit it. As Remus was climbing up the grand staircase, he was greeted by a very upset Taylor Lowney. Taylor hadn't been looking where she was going, and she ran straight into Remus and fell over.

"Taylor? Are you okay...?"

Taylor just stared up at Remus for a moment, with a mud smeared face stained with tears. She stood up and brushed past Remus, while muttering the words, "I'm fine," while she continued to run up the staircases. Remus stared after her for a moment, thoroughly confused and even a bit concerned, but continued heading back to Gryffindor tower all the same. Only moments passed, when suddenly Remus heard someone stomping up the steps behind him.

"Damian...?"

"Out of my way, Lupin." Remus quickly obliged to move to the side of the staircase, in order to avoid being trampled by a very visibly angry seventh year. As Damian's stomps began to fade, Remus stood just staring into space, wondering what the hell had just happened within the past 10 minutes. First, Taylor runs into him and was visibly upset. Second, Damian was even more pissed off than normal. And now, third, the rest of the quidditch team was now heading straight for Remus and all of them were laughing.

"Remy Pie! Fancy seeing you here, on this lonesome staircase at this lovely hour."

"Whatever Sirius. Hey, James, did something happen at practice tonight?"

"Yeah, one could definitely say that." James said with a smirk.

"Well, what was it?"

"Taylor told Damian off for being a douchebag. It was great." Sirius laughed as he informed Remus.

The rest of the quidditch team continued on upstairs passed the three fifth year Gryffindors.

"So, how was your evening Moony?" James asked as they began to climb the stairs as well.

"It was all right. I finished my transfiguration essay," and found out Avery doesn't like Longbottom,Remus thought," but other than that, it was fairly uneventful."

"Well. That sounds boring." Sirius blatantly stated.

Remus sighed heavily as he and his friends entered the common room in a comfortable silence. It was surprisingly empty, for a Saturday evening. Only some third and second years were enjoying the comfort of the warm fire and couches.

It was safe to say that the remainder of the weekend would pass rather uneventful in comparison to today, but next weekend was the Hogsmeade trip. That in itself promised excitement for the students of Hogwarts, as they began to settle in for the night.


Okay, so there's that update. On another note, HAPPY DECEMBER 8D December. It's one of the best months of the year. It contains Christmas. Christmas time inspires me to write more, in fact I'm pretty sure I started this story around Christmas, last year :3 Anywho, Christmas and December are the not the point of this A/N. So, if there's anyone who's actually interested in this story and what-not, I was wondering if there's a certain interest for certain characters that you would like to read more about, whether it's one of the marauders or maybe one of the girls, or one of the "couple" thing I haz going on...(like Remus/Avery, James/Lily, Sirius/Taylor, or maybe even Peter/Mia...but probably not the wormbutt.) So if there is anyone who want's to hear more about certain characters, feel free to either PM me or ... leave a review? 8D by the way, I'm looking to update again either this weekend or sometime next week, and I know that everytime I update I say "Oh yeah I'm gonna update every week!"...and then I never do. But I'm being for realz dis time, I have made it my mission for the Christmas holidays to either make rapid progress in this story, or finish it altogether! 8D And sorry the update took so long, I have had literally no free time the past 2 months between school, rehearsals, and trying to keep up a semblance of a social life 8P
Well. This is a long note. So I'm going to cut it off now because I'm ranting,

Ta ta for now!

- HazelEyes8D