Chapter 11

We got our Hogwarts letters two weeks before term was to start up in September. I had taken the same subjects as the boys, care of magical creatures, arithmancy and muggle studies, I did want to do ancient runes, but I would have been on my own apart from Remus, he is not too bad but I thought I would not need that subject anyway.

Remus had joined us by that time, he had only been with us two days, but he was still there. "Well let's face it" the four of us were sitting in James' room "we're gonna have to work on this prank if we are gonna not get caught by Filch" yes, yet again James and Sirius were arguing about how to pull off a prank aimed at Filch, well, they have not managed it yet, so let me say, I do not think they will succeed this year, but what the hell! I'll join in; they can just take the punishment for it. "James, are you completely insane? Right number one, you have an invisibility cloak, number two, we have everything to do the prank, number three, there's four of us, maybe even five, only maximum of two people can do the prank, or are needed, number four, where Filch is it's bloody deserted, get passed the prefects perfect. Can I make myself any clearer?" the boys, even Remus looked up at me, "She's got a point Jamie Boy"

"How many times do I have to tell you? Do NOT call me Jamie Boy!" I giggled at the two boys; Remus just looked back to his book. Sirius had started calling him Jamie Boy at the end of last school year; every time Sirius would say it James would go mad; he hated it.

I sat down on James' bed as I had been sitting on the floor, but did not want the boys looking that far down to see me. "Ok, we've sorted it out thanks to Louise, what should we do? I'm bored"

"James you're always bored"

"Your point?" I rolled my eyes. We just decided to go into the garden and muck about a bit.

Sirius decided to get the hose pipe out, and spray, well you could probably guess. Me. Yes he decided to be very annoying and get me drenched, yeah, something Sirius would do isn't it? We had fun though, I trapped Sirius under the upturned paddling pool, (it is one of those blue plastic shell shaped paddling pools) and I sat on it so he could not get up, well, he could have, if it was not for James hammering pegs into the paddling pool into the ground. We are so nice to Sirius, it was only when Sirius threatened to trap me under there with him was when I let him up; well I did not know what he would do to me would I?

Ok that day I had decided to do my hair, so I did not really want to get my hair wet as it would muck it up. Remus and James pinned me down to the floor with me struggling, I knew what they were planning and did not like the idea one bit. I could sense Sirius behind me, suddenly I screamed as cold water hit me, I was expecting it but I did not expect it to be freezing cold.

I got up and chased Sirius all around the garden until he tripped over a tree root falling over; I stopped short of him and dived onto him whacking him playfully "Oi that's not fair! You're wet!"

"It's your fault you idiot!" I sat on him ringing my hair over his face, giggling. He pushed me off him shaking his wet hair. I laughed at him, bad idea, he lunged at me; knocking me clean to the floor, pinning me down he started to tickle me. I screamed, trying to push his hands off, or him, but as usual he was too strong, damn him. "Sirius get off! Your fingers hurt!" he just laughed and kept tickling me in the ribs until he saw I was in actual pain, which after a while I was, I had this burning sensation in my ribs, a tear escaped my eye in the pain.

Sirius got off me quickly and helped me up, I screamed slightly with the effort "Godric, what happened? Have I hurt you?" I shook my head, unable to speak with the pain, I leant on Sirius for support, he steadied me looking into my face, I had clutched by one of my right ribs, it was agony, it was painful to breathe; I took shallow breaths scared of breathing too deeply.

Sirius took my hand away from my ribs and pressed gently, I screamed with the pain, he bit his lip looking at me apologetically, and he trailed two fingers down my ribs, I cried out, it was so painful, more tears escaped, it was agony, I did not know why he was doing it, Sirius was causing me a lot of pain, knowingly and not stopping.

"James! Can you get your mum? Louise has broken her rib, or at least I think it's that" he looked back down at me, I was crying with the pain, he hugged me being careful where he put his hands as I shook with the pain of my ribs, I did not know what to do with myself.

Within a few hours the pain had gone, but I was not allowed to jump on Sirius, and the boys were not allowed to jump on me. Sirius stuck out his bottom lip I laughed at him, he was such a sadistic puppy!

I did not just call Sirius a puppy.

I was really tired so I fell asleep on the sofa, no not on Sirius. I awoke to the sound of exploding snap; I rolled my eyes groggily as I sat up to watch Remus, Sirius, and James playing the noisy game. I stretched out and swung my legs over the side of the sofa, walking over to the boys "Good evening Lou lou" I rolled my eyes Sirius had started calling me 'Lou lou' a few days ago, I hated the name but there was no point telling him to stop; he would not.

A few days later we went to diagon alley to get our school supplies, the boys stayed on either side of me, not wanting to let me out of their reach, this seemed weird, but I just did not think anything of it, I enjoyed it, common, three boys, looking out for me, three hot guys at that, you would not complain, so I wasn't.

After we got everything we needed we went to the ice cream parlour, while James and Remus sat down with their ice creams, Sirius said "Lou lou, run and jump!" I knew what he meant so ran up to his back and jumped on, he supported me with his hips and arms. He ran up and down the street with me on his back. I laughed all the way, it was so fun. I held on with my arms round his neck resting my head next to his. I loved getting a piggy back from Sirius, I just felt so safe and that he would never drop me, unless he actually said 'And drop' which is when he would put me down. His hair smelt so sweet, as I had my face in his hair.

He dropped me into a chair next to Remus, Remus had got me and Sirius a coke, I thanked him sucking through the straw, feeling the cold liquid trickle down my throat, it was nice, I was really hot after being on Sirius' back, it was half way through summer after all, it was one of the hottest summers I had ever experienced.

I put my feet on my chair, wrapping my arms around my legs, resting my chin on my knees and smiling at the boys around me, Sirius put his hand on my shoulder, rubbing slightly, he smiled at me, I poked my tongue out in return. Sirius laughed at me; he was always laughing at me, just shows how mean he is!

Ok it got to the day to go back to school, no way am I gonna bore you with the journey; nothing happened is what you need to know.

First term, boring as hell, the only thing that was funny was me and Sirius were partners for potions. Yeah, we did not blow up the potions classroom, I added too much of something, no idea what it was, all I know is it blew up right in front of me. That was a month of detentions for the pair of us.

Care of magical creatures was a laugh, not really that interesting creatures, it was just funny, Sirius and James would try to imitate the animals, it was hilarious, I can give you that. The teacher was a good teacher though, he was cool, I did like his way of teaching.

Arithmancy, ok subject. Nothing exciting in it though.

Now, muggle studies, this was the only subject James and Sirius did not muck around in, they would sit there, with rapped attention, not talking, or passing notes, or, anything, just sitting there, making notes. It was weird, every other class they mucked around, muggle studies; they didn't.

Christmas came, nothing actually happened that year to be honest, nothing exciting, I looked at the necklace again though, I had not looked at it for a while. I still did not know who had given it to me, and I was no closer in finding out. It annoyed me, how could I not know who had given me something. I looked at the note again, I put a spell on it to see if there was any invisible ink or something, but there was nothing (we spent that Christmas at school).

Valentine's day, usually, nothing happens at valentine's day, but this year, I awoke covered in hearts, a few red roses were on my bed, I looked by my side and saw a vase with striking red roses placed carefully in the glass vase. The vase had an angel carved in the side, nobody told me who had done it, nobody came forward to tell me, who on earth sent me all that stuff?

Ok I am going to skip to Easter...