A.N.- here's chapter nine. Reviews are love, and I like love! I got the idea for the prank from breezieair, but I tweaked it a bit. All credit goes to her!
Disclaimer- none of it is mine and yah de yah de yaaaah
Chapter Nine
Confrontations.
I was avoiding him and he knew it. Whenever I saw him I would go the other way. I could see the frustration on Remus's face whenever I slipped past him, but I had decided that to protect him, I couldn't be around him.
To make matters worse, James and Lily had had another fight in the Great Hall yesterday, so now everything was tense. Marlene had thrown pumpkin juice in Sirius's face when he made some rather dirty remarks and Mary and Peter had been off somewhere in a broom-closet most likely. That had left me and Remus at the table alone, me reading my favourite book again and him revising his Charms work.
I was sitting in the library on the second Saturday back, studying alone. The work load was ridiculous. I sighed and rubbed my eyes, my elbows on the tables. I picked up the Arithmancy chart again and looked at it. then I threw it down again and sighed, pulling my essay towards me.
"You've been avoiding me." I jumped and looked up. Remus was standing there, with his bag over one shoulder and he was frowning.
"So?" I asked, picking up my quill and proceeding to scratch out sentences.
Remus sighed and sat down. "So, I want to know why." The look on his face was enough to tell me that he wasn't going to take no for an answer. I threw my quill.
"I just don't want you getting hurt." I mumbled as I stood up and gathered my stuff. I walked off and turned around a bookshelf, only to come face to face with Remus.
"God, stop doing that!"
"What makes you think that you can hurt me?" He asked quietly. I frowned.
"Look at me! You know what I am!" Remus shrugged.
"So?" he sighed. We were getting nowhere! I groaned loudly. "I'm dangerous too, Sophia, but I still want to be friends with you. I'm not going to say this again, so listen. You are not a monster and you are not going to hurt me, or Lily or anyone else. You want to know why?"
I sighed. "Why, Remus?"
He looked me in the eye. "Because you care." He smiled weakly and walked off. I shook my head and
tried to clear my buzzing thoughts. He really didn't care?
I got back to the dormitory and threw myself down on the bed. Lily came out of the bathroom and sat down next to me.
"You okay?" she asked. I took a deep breath, then let it out.
"Just boy trouble." I replied. I looked around the dorm. "Where are Mary and Marlene?"
Lily bit her lip and took my hand. I narrowed my eyes and let myself be dragged off. She opened the door and I saw Marlene hunched over a cauldron and Mary was holding a book, Moste Potente Potions. I sat down on the edge of the bath and looked around.
"What's going on?" I asked slowly. Lily and Marlene looked at Mary. Marlene came over to me and put her arm around me. She had her pranking smile on and I knew that was bad news.
"What would you say to pranking the Marauders?" she asked devilishly.
"I'm listening." I replied. I'd been wanting to get the Marauders back for years. Mary smiled.
"Marlene had an idea this morning at breakfast. She was wondering how embarrassing it would be if the boys were impersonated for a day." Lily began.
"So then Lily said that it would be easy to do, all we'd need is a bit of Polyjuice potion." Mary cut in.
My eyebrows went up as I took in what they were saying and then to the cauldron in the sink. A smile etched its way onto my face.
"No way…"
"Yup." Marlene smiled. "We're going to impersonate the Marauders for a full day, say some things that are a bit embarrassing, then let them loose the next day."
"They won't even know what hit them." Lily smirked. "So are you in?"
"Duh!" I squealed. We hugged and then bent over the potion book.
"How the hell are we going to get some of these ingredients?" I asked. Lily waved a hand nonchalantly.
"Slughorn loves me. I'm sure I can get them if I ask." I nodded.
"What about the hairs?" I asked. There was silence.
"We'll figure it out closer to when the potion is finished." Mary said. We all nodded and trooped back onto our dorm. We all got changed for bed. I was wearing thin shorts and a tank top, lily was wearing an old t-shirt and a pair of track pants, Mary was wearing a pretty red nighty and Marlene had shorts on and the shortest pair of short I had ever seen, however, mine were pretty close too, so I want one to talk. I pulled out my book and started readin again. Marlene flipped through a magazine and Lily was writing an essay.
"So what's going on with you and Sirius, Marlene?" I asked. she looked up at me with raised eyebrows. "He's been flirting with you almost every day now and you turn him down?"
"Maybe because I don't just want to be another notch in his bedpost." I dropped my book.
"What?" I asked, and I hurried over to her bed. Lily and Mary did the same.
"Yeah. He said that I was hot and all that crap, but then he suggested we go find a comfy broom-closet." She scowled. "Can you believe that?"
"You've had plenty of one nighters before, why not with Sirius?" Mary asked gently. That was true. Marlene was one of those girls that flirted with a guy then shagged them, leaving them the next morning. She called it a 'love 'em and leave 'em' strategy. I studied Marlene's reaction and I grinned like the Cheshire cat.
"You like him!" I exclaimed. Marlene frowned.
"No I don't." she huffed.
"Yes, you do! You like him and you want him to be your boyfriend, not just another…how did you put it? 'Notch in the bedpost.'" Marlene threw a pillow in my face and I laughed.
"Don't deny it Marls." Lily smirked. "It's obvious."
"Well, what about Soph?" Marlene asked, "She's been in love with Remus since third year and she won't do anything about it, even though it's obvious that he likes her too."
"Shut up Marlene." I rolled my eyes. "And he doesn't like me." All the girls groaned. We'd had this conversation before.
"Yes he does! You're just too blind to see it!" Mary burst. I shook my head and wrenched the door open and stopped, my eyes growing to the size of galleons. James, Sirius Remus and Peter were standing there, Sirius's hand raised to knock. They were frozen.
"How much of that did you hear?" I whispered.
"All of it." Peter replied. I nodded and closed the door behind me.
"You are not going to repeat anything that you just heard to anyone, or so help me Merlin I will drain you dry." I threatened. I noticed Sirius's eyes were roaming my body and I punched him in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" he asked.
"Next time I want to be ogled by a hormonal teenage boy, I'll ask!" I hissed. I turned back to the door and opened it. "Oh and Sirius? Just ask her out already!"
With that I closed the door and leant against it. Lily came over with a frown.
"You alright?"
