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Brittany's Point View.
Well, let me tell you all a little something. I hate detention! Yes, that is where I am now. All thanks to stupid Sirius Black! I'll tell you, I cannot stand that boy. He must have something wrong with him upstairs. There is no way that all of the lights are on up there. Let me tell you about why I am in detention.
Flashback….
Jade got up to go sit with her partner and I stared around the room to see who mine was. I saw James sitting with Lily (that will be a disaster), and Remus sitting with a Ravenclaw girl. I looked around to see where Sirius was, when someone sat down in the chair next to me. Closing my eyes and counting down from ten in my head, I turned around to where my partner sat. "Well, we cant work on the project if you have your eyes closed, Brittany." Oh great, why do I always have to put up with him.
"I'm trying to control my anger and not strangle you, Black. I suggest you get out your book and find the animagi section." I said, not opening my eyes and taking soothing breaths. This was going to be so much fun. Not!
"I don't really think that we need to use the book. You should just let me do most of it." Black said, pulling out a piece of parchment and pen so that he could start writing. I just sat there, dumbstruck, as he started to recite things about animagi and different kinds of uses they had. When he noticed that I wasn't responding back to him, he stopped and looked at me. As if realizing a mistake, he dropped the pen and parchment into his bag and stared at me.
"How do you know all of that stuff?" I asked. I was curious, sue me. He cleared his throat awkwardly and got his book back out, turning it to the correct page. Lifting up the book, he pointed to a section with a short quiz.
"We should take this to see what kind of animagi we would be." He said changing the subject. Pulling the book closer, I decided that I would ask him about his knowledge of animagi some other time. Before I could even look at the first question though, he snatched the book out of my hands and looked at me.
"It probably be best not to mention that bit of information to anyone." Sirius said, dare I say it, seriously. I nodded my head and he smiled. "I'll ask the questions, you just answer them." He said, looking at me with mischievous eyes.
"Alright, what's the first question?" I asked, getting myself ready for some hard questions. Since they were from our Advanced Transfiguration book, I began to think back on all of our lessons about animagi from the past years.
"O.k." Sirius said, running his finger down the page. "What's your favorite color?" I looked up at him, and he gave me that annoyingly adorable smirk.
"That cant be a real question. Give me the book." I demanded. I mean really, what kind of Transfiguration book would have that kind of stupid question in it. Sirius shook his head and held the book out of my reach.
"No can do. I'm the one asking the questions and I don't want you to peek." He said. I sighed and motioned for him to continue. He stared at me, and I realized that I hadn't answered the first "question."
"My favorite color is a bright pink." I said, and he shook his head, writing something down in the book.
"Favorite flower?" He asked and I rolled my eyes, but decided to go along with the questions.
"Pink Lily." I said.
"Favorite animal?"
"White Tiger."
"Favorite Season?" He asked as he furiously scribbled on the page.
"Winter time." I said. He looked up at me and asked why, so I continued. "Because I like to be able to cuddle up next to the fire and watch the snow."
He got a wicked grin on his face and leaned in a little towards me. "Would you like to cuddle up with me?" He asked innocently. Smacking his arm and pushing him back from me, I scowled at him.
"No thank you. Could we just continue the questions." I said haughtily and he wiped the grin off his face, only to replace it with a pout.
"Fine then, I just have one question left." He said, and I rolled my eyes at him. His questions were so stupid. I doubt we could use them for any.. "Is it true you had a crush on me?" He asked, once again grinning wickedly. My mouth dropped open and I could feel the heat rising in my face. Seeing him smirk and taking my blush for a yes, he continued. Which he should not have done. "Well, if only you would have told me sooner. I guess we could just go have it in a broom closet and no one would have to know. But I really doubt if that's your style. Maybe in an empty classroom or some---"
That's as far as he got before I tipped his chair backwards and sent him flying backwards onto the ground. Fuming, I stood up and turned towards him on the ground. "You have some nerve, you know that?" I asked him and he finally knocked off on that stupid smile. "Why would you even be that rude to someone? Is there something wrong with you?"
"I didn't do anything wrong, and no there isn't anything wrong with me. I'm sorry if you're just jealous because your best friend has me and you don't." Sirius argued back. I let out a shriek of frustration and balled my hands into fists.
"I'm jealous? No way. Your wrong, because why would anyone ever be jealous of a giant bastard like you?" I asked. I was getting ready to say more, but a stern voice interrupted our argument from the front of the room.
"Ms. Rose! Mr. Black! I will not condone this type of behavior in my classroom!" Professor McGonagall shrilled. "Detention, for the both of you. Tonight, be here at 7:00 sharp." With that she turned to the rest of the class. "Class dismissed. I expect you all to have completed something by the end of the week."
Everyone looked around, then began to gather their things. Fuming, I grabbed my bag and headed out of the classroom.
And that is the great tale of how I ended up in detention for the night. So here I am, sitting at a desk in McGonagall's office, staring at the back of Sirius' head and thinking of ways I can decapitate him. Sure, some might think I'm over reacting, but they haven't been through six bloody years of school with him. Oh, goody, here come McGonagall to dish out our punishment.
"Good evening. Tonight you two will be cleaning out any old books and the like from the supply cabinets. When they are finished you may go, but no sooner. I will be in my quarters if you need me." She glanced over her glasses at us. "I trust that you will behave."
"Yes Professor." I said, and she gave us a thin lipped smile before heading into her room at the back of her office. Not looking at Sirius, I got up and walked to where the supply cabinets were located and opened them up. Coughing at the amount of dust that was coming out of them, I waved my wand and muttered a cleaning spell.
"It helps if you cover your face before opening the cabinet." Sirius said snidely. I glared up at him, seeing as he was about a head taller than me. Closing my eyes and contorting my hair and eyes into shortish black, and grey, I looked back at him.
"It helps if your not such a prat all the time." I mocked, doing my best impression of him He rolled his eyes before taking out some of the books and slamming them on a desk, causing dust to go flying everywhere. "Watch it, will you?" I asked him, but he just ignored me before taking out his wand and doing a cleaning spell on the books. Sticking out my tongue at him, even though he couldn't see it, I changed my hair back to the normal blonde color I always wore it as. In reality, it's supposed to be black, but I liked it better as blonde. Don't ask me why.
"Are you going to stand there, or are you going to actually help me?" Sirius asked, turning around and looking at me. He had finished the book and was going back to get another one. I sighed and went back to the supply cabinet. I pulled out a book, this time shielding my face from the dust, and set it down on the table. Muttering the cleaning charm again, I put the book on the finished stack and turned back to the cabinet. Noticing the amount of books we had left, I groaned.
"This is going to take forever." I said. Sirius looked at me like I was stating the obvious, which I was, and then he muttered something causing most of the books to go flying onto separate tables around the room.
"There, now all you have to do is walk around the tables and clean off the books." Sirius muttered to me as he made his way around some of the books, shooting off cleaning spells. I stared at him opened mouthed and watched as he did something nice, for once. But good things don't last forever. "You know, we wouldn't even have to be doing this if it wasn't for you."
I looked at him, staring blankly. How could he think that this was my fault. I will not blow up about this. I will not blow up about this. Oh crap, too bad. "How can you think that this is all of my fault?" I shrieked, but not loud enough to get McGonagall. He gave me a disbelieving look before shaking his head.
"Isn't that just like you? You girls are always blaming your faults on others. I mean, come on, why would I want to get myself detention? I am nothing but an innocent here." Sirius said, talking to me as if I was a little child. I am not a little child. Sixteen is not little.
As much as I wanted to tell him off, I could only stutter for a few minutes, before fixing him with a silent glare. I promised myself I wouldn't talk to him for the rest of the detention, and even for the rest of the year if I had to. It wouldn't be hard either, because Sirius Black and I do NOT get along.
This is how the rest of the detention went. Cleaning off books and then levitating them back into the supply closet. It was spent in silence, with the only occasional sigh from me, or the slamming of books by Sirius. When the detention was over, I gathered up my robes, which I had shed during the detention, and walked out of the room completely ignoring Sirius. I couldn't wait to get into my bed or have a shower. Whatever one happened first.
When I got to the dormitory though, I was stopped by someone. "Brittany, I would like to talk to you for a moment." Remus said, stepping out from behind Jade's curtains. I didn't want to know what they had been doing up here, but I was saved the trouble when Jade stepped out from behind him, fully clothed, and not looking ruffled in the least.
"Um, o.k." I said, setting my robes down on my bed and following them out the door and back down to the common room. I was wondering what this was all about, when I saw the rest of the marauders (Sirius included), and Lily sitting in a circle. "Guys, if this is some kind of séance or something, then I want you to leave me out of it." I said, only half-joking.
"It's not. Don't worry. We just want to have a type of, group meeting." Remus said, leading me over to sit in-between James and Lily. James gave me a smile and grabbed my hand, while Lily tried her best to not make eye contact with me.
"This is stupid. I cant stand it when we fight." Jade said uncharacteristically. She pointed an accusing finger between Lily and I. "James and Sirius have gotten over all this, why cant you two?"
I looked at Lily, who was now looking at me. "I'm sorry." We said at the same time. We started to giggle, and then full out laughs, as we hugged and forgave each other. That was the thing about our friendship, we could be fully pissed at each other at one point, and then the next we could be friends again.
"Finally." James said as he got up off of the ground. Peter followed and got up as well, heading towards the stairs. He stopped when he realized no one had followed him. Sirius rolled his eyes and got up to follow him.
"It's o.k. Wormtail. I'm going to bed too. Don't wet yourself." Peter nodded eagerly, and Sirius sighed again. "Come on Moony. You can say goodnight to Jade later." Remus rolled his eyes at Sirius, said goodbye to Jade, and ran up the stairs growling something about killing Sirius.
"Goodnight." Jade said as she and Lily walked up the stairs to the dorms. I got up and followed them, but before I walked up the stairs, I looked at James. Walking back over to him, I kissed him on the cheek.
"Goodnight, James." I said, as I began to walk back up the stairs. Before I could get to far though, James had pulled me back to him and had kissed me fully on the lips. When he released me, my face was flushed and I was smiling.
"Goodnight, Brittany." James said.
I touched my fingers to my lips where we had kissed. The only thing was, I hadn't felt a spark.
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