Back again!
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New chapter.. read and review please.. you'll be pleased to know my belly button has recovered.
Effie Pov
Sirius, James and I all took the flew network back to the Potter Manor. My parents were already there, we were spending Christmas with the Potters this year. The white, Victorian styled manor appeared from behind the trees after we walked up the windy road. We entered the big wooden doors and walked through into a large room, it had a Christmas tree 10 feet high, almost touching the ceiling. Multi-coloured lights floated around it.
"Mum! Dad!" I ran up to them and hugged them tightly. They smiled down at me.
"Effie! How was school?" Fifi Fraiser smiled at me in a light French accent.
"Good." I said. I looked behind my parents to see a teenage boy hiding behind them.
"JOSH!" I screamed and raced up to hug him, I hadn't seen him since the summer in between fourth and fifth year.
"Bonjour Effie" He smiled and hugged me back.
"I thought you were spending Christmas with Mums family."
"I wanted to come to England." He shrugged. He had a thick French accent, making it hard to understand him. He looked nothing like me, he didn't inherit the veela silvery hair, instead he had my father's jet black hair, but he did have my mother's aristocratic facial features.
"Good, you should come over more often, I've missed you." He looked a bit guilty.
"I've been... occupied." He said, looking down. I smirked.
"Nous devons parler plus tard, Josh" He rolled his eyes.
"Are you going to introduce us Effie?" Sirius's voice came from behind me.
"Oh, sorry, Sirius, this is Josh, my twin brother. Josh this is Sirius Black, my friend" I introduced them. They shook hands.
"Sirius Black?" Josh asked, Sirius tensed.
"Err, yeh."
"Est-ce votre nouveau copain?" Josh asked me curiously.
"NON! il n'est pas comme le reste de sa famille non plus." I told him.
"Je parle français aussi" Sirius said smirking. Josh and I blushed.
(A/N
Translation! Btw I used a translator so sorry if it's a bit wrong
"We need to talk later, Josh" He rolled his eyes.
"Are you going to introduce us Effie?" Sirius's voice came from behind me.
"Oh, sorry, Sirius, this is Josh, my twin brother. Josh this is Sirius Black, my friend" I introduced them. They shook hands.
"Sirius Black?" Josh asked, Sirius tensed.
"Err, yeh."
"Is this your new boyfriend?" Josh asked me curiously.
"No! He's not like the rest of his family either." I told him.
"I speak French too." Sirius smirked. Josh and I blushed.)
"Sorry." I muttered.
"Effie! Josh! Come say hello to your relatives please." Mum called. We rolled our eyes and trudged over to say hello so Charlus and Dorea Potter.
After talking to the parents for about an hour Josh and I went for a walk in the court yard.
"So who's this girl?" I asked. Josh grinned.
"Her names Cilla. She's beautiful."
"She's French?"
"Duh."
"And she's the reason you've stayed away from home for so long."
"Yeh, she lives in Grandmothers village"
"So you've been going out for a pretty long time then?"
"Two years."
"Shit, you're the opposite of me, you know that?"
"Why?"
"My longest boyfriend lasted 5 months, and that was the longest by far, most last less than a month." Josh laughed.
"You have anybody special in your life?"
"Maybe..."
"Who?"
"His names Zachary Riley." I said. Josh stopped suddenly.
"WHAT?" he shouted.
"Shut up, mum and dad don't know yet!" I whispered.
"Effie, he has a reputation!"
"How would you know? You've been in France!"
"Gossip travels."
"Exactly, it's gossip! A rumour!" I said angrily.
"Whatever Effie, you're smart. But be careful."
"Anyway, why haven't you told us about Cilla before?" I changed the subject.
"She doesn't even speak English."
"So? We speak French."
"You'll meet her when you go to France next." He said.
"Good, I think that's next summer you know." Josh looked shocked. I smirked.
"Why don't you want us to meet her?" I said softly.
"You might not like her." He whispered "And I love her so much."
"If you love her, so will I." I smiled. "Come on, let's go back inside."
We walked back into the Manor. The adults were in the sitting room.
"Where are James and Sirius?" I asked.
"Up in their room." Dorea answered. Josh and I leaped up the stairs, down a large corridor and into the room at the end of the corridor. Sirius and James were sitting on James's bed, a bit of parchment in their hands.
"Learn to knock!" James snapped. He stuffed the parchment in his bedside table drawer.
"Excuse me." I said.
"What do you want?" James sighed.
"Somebody's PMSing" I murmured.
"Shut up! I'm a freaking guy!" He retorted.
"I just want to spend time with my favourite cousin!" Josh said. "Good to see you mate." They shook hands roughly.
"So what school do you go to Josh?" Sirius asked.
"Beauxbatons." He answered
"Why did you go there and Effie to Hogwarts?"
"It's tradition to go to Beauxbatons on my mother's side of the family. Me and Effie both took French lessons and she sucked at it, so I went there and she went to Hogwarts?" He shrugged "Grandmother wasn't too pleased she was going there though."
I punched his arm playfully "Je n'ai pas sucer! Je peux parler maintenant" (A/N I did not suck. I can speak it now!).
"Clearly" Josh rolled his eyes, Sirius laughed and James looked confused. Great, it's my turn to get ganged up on all holiday.
We talked for the rest of the night. The days until Christmas passed easily. At six am I was shaken awake by an excited James, Sirius and Josh, who were all sharing a room.
"Effie! Presents!" I groaned.
"Let me go back to sleep" I mumbled.
"Sorry!" James picked me up and slung me over his back.
"Let me go!" I screamed, Sirius covered my mouth and put a finger to his lips.
We crept quietly down the staircase, or rather they crept quietly and James held me on his shoulder.
All of a sudden an alarm went off, we all froze. Lights flashed and a net came down onto us. We all fell to the ground. The parents walked down the stairs to see what was wrong, then started to laugh their heads off.
"I told you to wait until morning!"Charlus said. He ran his fingers through his messy black hair.
"It is morning!" James said, sounding muffled.
"I had nothing to do with it!" I said.
"Whatever you say Effie. Well, we might as well open the presents now." Charlus said brightly.
Can't we go back to bed?" I moaned. "It's the holidays!"
"It's Christmas! This day only happens once a year, only about 90 times in your life, and you've already wasted 16 of those precious days!" James ruffled my hair playfully.
"Whatever!"
We all sat around the Christmas tree.
"Effie, can you hand out the presents dear?" Mum said. I grumbled and got up.
"James, this is from your parents." I threw the present to him. He opened it with glee and found a few Zonkos products.
'Great, thanks Mum, Dad!"
This went on until about 8 am. I ended up with clothes, makeup, sweets and a few books. The usual.
I decided now would be a good time to write to my friends and see what's happening, I started with Lily.
Dear Lily
Hey! How was your Christmas? Mine was alright
Guess what! Josh came over for Christmas, remember my twin? You met him fourth year summer holidays? Remember your crush? Haha! That was hilarious.
So I've been stuck in this house with a bunch of nutters, everybody related to the Potters are retarded, they make James look like nothing. Sirius is here as well, which adds to the package.
If I survive the rest of the holidays, I'll see you at school or maybe sooner....
Love
Effffie
Pretty dull letter, but she'll kill me if I don't write. Next one.
Hazel!
Met any cute guys in Italy yet? Oh wait! You're with Remus now, no more flirting with every guy who comes into your life. Haha the joys of only liking one guy! Sucks to be you.
Love you
Effie
And Alice
Alice
How is Frank? What have you been up to? How was your Christmas
Mines been pretty dull, so far. Sirius is here so I'm sure he'll make things more exciting soon, I think the parents are planning on having a party, so we might see eachother then.
See you soon
Effie
I gave all three letters to James's owl Lily (sad I know, seeing it also had reddish feathers) and set him off.
Teddy came up to me and lay on my lap. I stoked him for a bit, looking out the window. I was surprised when I saw an owl heading towards me. It swooped into the window and landed on my knee. I detached the letter and read it.
Effie
It was nice while it lasted
Zach
I stared at the letter, shocked. That was it! After all I've done for him.
"Effie, are you in here? We're starting lunch." Josh peered into my room. He saw my staring at the letter, tears falling down my cheeks. "Oh. What's wrong?"
"He dumped me, fucking bastard." I showed Josh the letter.
"What the fuck? How is that even a break up letter?" Josh said, I cried harder.
"Just go Josh, tell them I feel sick or something." I didn't want any boys around me, relative or not.
I just sat there for the rest of the day. Thinking about all my past relationships. I always managed to fall for the bad boy, the player. They always broke my heart in the worst way, it was like they just lost interest in me. Maybe I wasn't an interesting person. Somebody knocked on the door.
"Effie?" It was Sirius.
"Go away Black" I tried to say firmly, but failed. As soon as I said Black he burst into the room.
"What's wrong Effie?" He asked softly.
"Why did you cheat on me?" I said furiously. He looked taken aback.
"I- I- I don't know, I was fifteen! Why are you bringing this up now." He said. I thrust the note into his hand, he read it.
"Did I bore you?" I said through my tears
"Wha-?"
"What's wrong with me?" I wiped the tears away with the back of my hand.
"Nothing"
"Then why does this keep happening to me? They always get bored!"
"I didn't get bored with you!" He said quickly.
I snorted "Then why did you cheat on me? Right after... after"
"I don't know, each girl just started to flirt with me, I couldn't refuse."
"You could! You didn't want to!"
"I was fifteen!"
"So? So was I! I still liked you! Why didn't you come after me?"
"I thought you wanted to be alone."
"Yeh, at first, but a week later? You had already forgotten about me, already with another girl!" I whispered.
"I didn't kno-"He started
"But you didn't even try!"
"Look Effie, I really liked you! I thought you were interesting, pretty, smart, witty, fun. Whatever! But you started to like hate me. I thought you wanted me to leave you alone! So I did, if you wanted me to like come after you or whatever, maybe you should have been a bit nicer towards me." I was shocked, but I knew he was right. That's what I liked about Sirius, he was always honest with me.
"You're right, I'm a bitch" I sobbed.
"No! That's not what I meant!" Sirius tried desperately to cheer me up. "I think you're really nice, I think you're a really good girlfriend! Zach was just a retard."
"Really?"
"Yeh" I moved closer to him, he tensed.
"What did you like about me?" I just needed some comfort.
"You were always happy, and never got bored. You were always fun to be around and well, you're a great kisser-"I was inches from his face now, I could tell her was getting uncomfortable, he was about to move back when I pressed my lips to his and pushed myself closer to him.
"Je t'aime" I whispered into his ear, it was a lie, but if it got what I wanted.
"Effie, you don't mean it" He tried to pull away. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer.
"Please?" I kissed his neck, he groaned.
"NO!" He said firmly and pushed me off. "You'll regret it! Like you did before."
"What kind of player are you? And I didn't regret anything." I crossed my arms.
"The why did you say you're a virgin to James?"
"Did you really want James to know you cheated on me after we did it?" God he was an idiot.
"Look Effie, your upset, I'm not gonna take advantage of you when you're on the rebound" He got up and left me.
Hazel Pov
(A/N ALL THE TALKING IS IN ITALIAN, EXCEPT FOR LIKE WHEN SHES TALKING TO ENGLISH PEOPLE)
"Ciao, bella" Angelo said to me as I walked past him. "Why don't you come get a drink with me?"
"Sorry Angelo, my grandma wants me to do some chores" I sighed. It was hard saying no to all these gorgeous guys when Remus wasn't around to remind me how amazing he was. I raced up to my grandma's house and found an owl on the kitchen bench.
"That's for you Hazel" My mother told me, pointing to the owl. The owl looked familiar, so did the writing on the letter. Effie.
Hazel!
Met any cute guys in Italy yet? Oh wait! You're with Remus now, no more flirting with every guy who comes into your life. Haha the joys of only liking one guy! Sucks to be you.
Love you
Effie
'The joys of only liking one guy'? Didn't she have a boyfriend? She was so confusing. She never knew what she wanted. Still she was right, having so many guys around me and not wanting them was so new to me.
Effie
You have a boyfriend, don't you? How's it going at the old Potter Manor? Are you still alive?
I'm coming back from Italy early, so I might see you before school.
Xxx
Hazel
The Potters had invited us to a New Year's party at their Manor, so we were coming back from Italy a bit earlier than usual. The Potter parties were always an extravagant event, everybody invited would come. It was just one of those things you couldn't refuse.
I spent the rest my time in Italy walking around the fields surrounding the little town my grandmother lives in. I loved Italy, but I hated how everybody knew everybody in this town, if you were talking to a boy or anybody your mother would know in almost five minutes. Sometimes I liked to just to go on walks when I felt too cooped up. I wished it was summer. In summer, for about two weeks, we went to the coast. I loved it there, it was so peaceful.
It was time to leave. We were taking a Portkey to our house, which was in the English Countryside, near Brighton. It was small, as usually only my mother and father lived here when I was at school.
Davies Family.
We are pleased to invite you to the Potter Household for New Years Eve
6:30pm-
Dress: Formal.
It was short and simple.
"Can we go shopping for it Ma?" I asked.
"Of course Hazel, we'll go to London tomorrow." She said. I smiled, I loved the way me and my mother were so alike, we hardly ever fought.
Lily Pov
Evans Family.
We are pleased to invite you to the Potter Household for New Years Eve
6:30pm-
Dress: Formal
Alice Pov
Williams Family.
We are pleased to invite you to the Potter Household for New Years Eve
6:30pm-
Dress: Formal
PARTY NEXT CHAP!
Yay!
Yes, i know effie was acting a bit strange this chapter... but she doesn't have much control voer her emotions:)
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p.s I can't claim i own Zachs breakup letter, it was missgeorgeweasleys doing! And i love her for it, a hint of advice if you ever need little pushes for writing a fic then you just gotta drink red cordial (undiluted of course) and your set (:
