Chapter 10: American Barbie

The news of baby Oliver Wood traveled around the school and every conversation at dinner consisted of Melinda and Nathan's 'Sin Child'. As Lily sat down at the Gryffindor table she frowned at the things she heard.

"I heard they were drunk and then slept together!"

"Well I heard from a little birdie that they dated for like a week and then Nathan forced her into it."

"No, no. I was told by someone quite close to the situation that Melinda was being a little tart and then Nathan, being a guy, took her up on her offer."

Lily was surprised to hear a fourth, more familiar voice, add to this conversation.

"Will you Chirping Charlie's just shut your mouths? You don't know anything!"

The owner of this voice took a seat next to Lily and she, Lily, realized that it was Amanda.

"Chirping Charlie's?" Lily asked.

"What? I couldn't think of anything else!" Amanda shoved nearly a whole piece of bread into her mouth, she sounded rather troubled.

"What's wrong Amanda?" Lily took hold of the remaining bread Amanda was about to shove into her mouth and placed it on her plate.

"Nothing's wrong, what makes you think anything's wrong?" Lily shook her head slowly, would Amanda never learn?

"Because when you're upset, or nervous, or mad, you put things into your mouth. You're like a teething baby. Whatever you can find, you'll chew. Food, a spoon, a straw, your nails," Lily lifted Amanda's hand to show short stubby nail-beds.

"So?" Amanda grumbled.

"So, nothing. I have no problem; I was just proving that I know that something's wrong… so spill."

Amanda frowned, "I wish you weren't so bloody smart, it really ticks me off!"

"And if you can't find something to chew on, you insult the nearest person, that usually being me." Lily smiled.

"Shut up Lily!" Amanda picked up the remaining bread and shoved it in her mouth, but it obviously was too much as she began to choke.

"Amanda?" Lily asked. "Are you ok?"

Amanda continued to cough and splutter; she then began to turn blue in the face.

Lily stood up; she would have to jump over the table to get to Amanda. However, before she got the chance Sirius was behind Amanda. He pounded her on the back and she spat soggy half-chewed bread, onto Lily's plate.

"Ewe, I'm full!" Lily pushed the plate away from her.

Amanda took a few deep breaths and the three laughed for a second at Lily's comment.

"Are you ok now?" Sirius asked Amanda.

"Yes thank you. I…" Amanda turned around but when she realized it was Sirius Black standing behind her the smile dropped from her face.

"…I could have handled it by myself." Amanda finished, rather complacently.

Sirius just laughed, "Sure you could have."

He smiled dubiously but his eyes gleamed with mischievousness, and then he turned away and headed back to where he had originally been sitting.

"What was that?" Lily asked. "The guy just saved you from choking to death and all you could say was: 'I could have handled it myself!'?" Lily impersonated Amanda as if she was a caveman, her voice deep and slow-in-the-head sounding.

"What?" Amanda asked, sounding as though Lily had just said something in Swedish.

"Why be so mean?" Lily asked, a little slower.

"He's a jerk."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Well that jerk just saved your life."

"Whatever," Amanda grumbled. She grabbed the last remaining piece of bread and was about to shove it into her mouth but Lily grabbed it and tore it into six tiny pieces, then shoved one of the pieces into Amanda's mouth.

Both girls laughed until they began to attract the attention of others.

"So, what's wrong?"

Amanda sighed and picked up a piece of the bread.

"It's the whole Oliver Wood thing. I really liked Nathan and I thought I had a chance with him, but now that he's got a kid I don't think he'll want me." Amanda waved the piece of bread around, getting a dirty look from a girl with long braded hair, who sat next to her.

"Don't worry, some how I don't think he's you're type."

But Amanda wasn't listening; she could see the girl with the blonde braid looking at her menacingly. "What's your problem?" she snapped; firing up again.

"You wanna watch where you wave that thing?" The girl asked, referring to the bread, flipping her braid over her shoulder.

"I'll wave it where I like!" Amanda smacked the girl in the cheek with the bread.

"Oh no you di'nt!" the girl shouted.

"Go back to America Barbie!" replied Amanda callously.

"Amanda! - Sorry, she's having a bad day." Lily apologized.

"I can see that, try and keep your dog on her leash next time will ya?" The girl retorted, turning back to her friends.

"I'll show you dog on a leash!" Amanda got up and pulled the girl's braid until she was forced to step out of her seat. "What's the problem bitch, you of all people should know it's a dog eat dog world!" Amanda's reply to this was a sharp slap in the side of the face.

"What kind of a plastic slap was that?" Amanda asked, letting go of the girl's braid and punching her square in the nose. This stopped the girl. She fell to her knees, clutching her nose as it poured with blood.

"I'd watch my Prada covered feet if I were yo-" Amanda never got to finish her last word.

"Amanda Remmings, Candice Prone, get here now!" Professor McGonagall stormed down from her table. "Both of you to my office, NOW! - get up Miss. Prone! - Both of you; move… NOW!" The girls marched out of the hall.

Lily was satisfied to hear that Oliver Wood was no longer the main conversation piece, and she took a piece of the bread from Amanda's plate, dipped it in her pumpkin soup and shoved it into her mouth.

"Did you see the fight between Remmings and that Prone girl?" Sirius asked Remus as him and James entered the common room.

"Yes, I did see it. I don't know where Manda gets her violence from. Must be her mother, I won't deny she's the pant's in the family. Although I don't know her dad so it could be him too." Remus muttered behind his book.

"I wasn't there but I heard it was a real cat fight." Peter snorted like an asthmatic cat with a fur ball caught in its throat.

"It was more like a dog fight actually." The boys turned to see Lily sitting in an armchair, only lit by the light of the fire, doing her homework.

Remus saw James straighten up and his hand automatically jumped to his hair.

He opened his mouth to speak but Sirius jabbed him in the side and gave him a look that said 'don't do anything stupid'.

"Did you see it?" James asked, trying not to let the egotistic-ness into his voice like it usually did when he was talking to Lily.

"Yeah, I did actually. I was sitting across from her when she picked a fight with the American girl in Slytherin. She was sitting with a few of her Gryffindor friends, not that I'm saying the American girl didn't egg her on."

"Whadaya mean?" Peter wheezed.

"Well Amanda was a bit angry about… stuff and she was waving her bread around, she nearly hit the American girl in the face and when the American told her off she actually hit her with it. When Amanda failed to apologize the American called her a dog so Amanda got up and - pulling her by the braid - dragged the American with her. She slapped Amanda so Amanda punched her in the nose, end of story." Lily didn't take her eyes off of her parchment and text book the whole time.

"Oh yeah!" James and Sirius hi-fived each other.

"Moony, your sister rocks!" James patted Remus on the back.

"Well you would may say that, but I'm not so sure myself-"

Lily cut Remus off. "Who's Moony?" Lily asked.

"Oh, um, just a nickname for Remus." James looked kind of nervous.

Lily snorted. "Why Moony?"

All four boys looked at each other and grinned.

"No reason." Sirius shrugged.

"Ookaay." There was a few minutes silence when the portrait hole swung open and Amanda stormed in muttering things like: "Stupid McGonagall" and "I am gunna do more than break that stupid Barbie's nose!"

"That's my cue!" Lily gathered her books and ran up the stairs after Amanda.

"Hallelujah!" Sirius threw his arms up as if he was thanking the heavens.

"What?" James asked, although he couldn't seem to get the stupid grin off of his face.

"Oh c'mon James! You just had a general un-bigheaded REAL conversation with Lily Evans, long time crush and short time nice-to-you girl!" James laughed, Sirius looked as though he was going to jump up and dance around.

"Yeah James, congratulations." Remus smiled shaking his head.

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