Chapter 10: The War

"June!" Mary screamed as she saw me boarding the train "Merlin! I missed you so much and I'm so sorry I could not even say a proper goodbye! After spending time with Amos, granny came and told me we had to leave. It totally sucked but you know how granny is, right? Anyhow what did I miss?"

"Nothing really, just a night where I had got drunk real bad."

Mary's eyes widened "You are kidding me, right? You did not get drunk! You never get drunk! You did not allow us to get drunk!"

"I know, but I planned to make an exception." I said smiling at her.

"And let me remind you, that exception was with Sirius." Lily huffed from behind me.

"No freaking way!" Mary screamed making me temporarily deaf "So what happened? Did you snog each other or something?"

"What? No! Mary, he's dating Claire. Did you forget that? And even if he were not, I would never do that!"

"Oh! Of course you wouldn't" Lily said mockingly as Mary and Lily both burst out laughing.

"Whatever! I am getting on the train. You can miss it if you want to." I said glaring at both of them before walking off.

"So, how was your Christmas? I heard you spent a lot of time with Amanda." I told Remus as we walked together taking prefect rounds.

"There is absolutely nothing going on between Amanda and me." He said exasperated "She was just sad about Sirius dumping her."

"And then there was some snogging, right?" I said trying not to laugh at his face. Remus had gone pink and his brown eyes were as wide as golf balls.

"What? No! I...Not… Who gave you all this nonsensical information?"

"My eyes, to be truthful" I said laughing.

"Well yes, maybe something happened but I haven't heard from her since then."

"Oh Remus, I'm sure you will!" I consoled hum as he frowned.

That was when I heard the voice. It was like someone was laughing. "I think someone's out of bed after curfew." I said as I moved towards the source of the noise.

"You'll be surprised by how many people are out after curfew. After all, it's the first day after Christmas. All couples like to 'have some fun'" he said making air quotes.

I laughed as I opened the broom cupboard. And there they were, Mary sitting on Amos' lap as she laughed loudly. Her laugh came to an abrupt ending as she saw me.

"June! You're here!" Mary said as she gave a huge fake smile.

"I'm here but as far as I remember you're not supposed to be here."

'The thing is Amos and I wanted some privacy and-"

"Mary! This is like the 10th time I've caught you! And next time you both" I said looking at Amos "are going to Professor McGonagall."

"Seriously guys, you are the number one on the list of rule breakers." Remus piped in.

Mary huffed as she said "Okay!Next time we will snog before curfew time."

"Much better" I said before turning and leaving them to exit.

As we continued forward, there was a silence between us.

"You are pretty serious about your job, aren't you?" Remus asked after about 10 minutes.

"Well, it's a duty. I have to be serious about it. Though I think Lily will be chosen the prefect next year, I hope she is. This job is too tiring."

"I agree with that." he said.

"Did you hear that noise?" Remus asked me after about 2 minutes of casual talk. He took a left turn and started walking towards another broom cupboard.

"No, I didn't…..Oh wait! I heard it too! Don't tell me another couple is making out" I whined.

"Looks like that."

Remus walked towards it and pulled at the door. "It's jammed." He told me.

I came forward, removed my wand "Alohomora." The door opened. I peeked inside. "That's weird, no one's inside." I said looking back at Remus.

"Well, maybe it's some other broom cupboard, maybe we came to the wrong one. I think we should leave." Remus started to ramble after looking at the empty place. He had turned pink and his eyes were frantically moving all around the place as if searching for something.

"Remus, what's wrong?"

"Wrong? Nothing! Nothing is wrong."

"Then why are you sweating?"

"It's just hot in here. We should seriously leave."

I gave him a funny look before coming out and shutting the door behind me. I hadn't walked 2 steps when I heard a thud.

"Okay! There is something wrong there" I said as I walked back to opened the door. Remus tried to hold me back but I was faster and within seconds I had pulled open the door. My eyes widened. Sirius stood there holding Claire against the wall. Claire's legs were wrapped around Sirius' waist and her shirt buttons open. Seeing me they both sprung apart.

"June!" Claire said on seeing me as she started to button her shirt. Her face had turned the color of a tomato.

"Yes, you better button them up" I said glaring at her. Remus came up behind me. "You knew didn't you?" I turned to Remus.

"Well….of course not."

"Don't lie, this was the reason you wanted me to get out of here so fast." Then I turned to Claire and Sirius "And how were you two hiding?"

Sirius just shrugged. I eyed him suspiciously. That was when my eyes fell up on a cloak on the ground. I bent down and picked it up. "An invisibility cloak. How clever, I must say."

"Why, thank you." Sirius said as he took it back. "Can't manage to lose it now, can we?"

I ignored him as I looked at Claire. She shrunk under my stare. "Go to your room, right now. I don't want you talking to anyone till I have come and spoken to you. Did you get that?"

"Oh c'mon, June! Why are you getting so angry? You handle these situations every day. How am I any different?"

"Well, I don't know, maybe because you're my sister." I screamed at her "Get out, now before I drag you out of here."

I could see she was nearly in tears but I could not care less. She left without a sound. I stared at Sirius next. Remus made some excuse about seeing if Claire reached the common room safely and took off.

"You know what? I accepted your stupid relationship with my sister. I even accepted the undeniable fact that you are surely going to break her heart one day. But, if I ever see you making her break any rules or taking advantage of her, I swear to God, I'll murder you with my own bare hands"

Sirius smirked as he said "Wow! Someone's becoming a possessive little sister." He looked amused as if he was thoroughly enjoying this conversation.

"If you mistake protectiveness with possessiveness, then fine, I'm possessive." I said glaring at him.

"Do you know she is not as innocent as you think?"

"Maybe, but I'm sure you're still not worth her."

Sirius started to walk near me. "Why don't you accept it? You're just jealous."

"I'm not!" I countered.

"Liar."

"You know what? Forget it! I'm done talking to you. You can do whatever you want. But the truth is that you're a pathetic excuse of a human being. You take advantage of girls and then leave them broken hearted, for them to fend off for themselves. You in fact laugh at them and don't even care what the feel! Girls are not toys, Black. They too like you have feelings." I screamed.

Sirius glared at me as he grabbed me and pushed me towards the cold wall, his body leaning into mine, our faces not even an inche apart "I'll tell you something, I'm tired of hearing those lines from my parents, my brother, my aunts and uncles and now even you. So you hear me clearly, you say I'm pathetic, I'll show you how pathetic I can be. I'll break up with Claire anytime in the next 3 weeks." Sirius said in a cold voice that I felt as if I had been petrified.

"You won't do that!" I finally spoke in barely a whisper.

"Oh! I would." He said with a cold smile.

"I'll kill you!"

"You can do nothing to harm me." He said before leaving me and walking away.

As I stood there seeing his retreating back, I realized something, intentionally or unintentionally I had started a war with The Sirius Black.