"I don't have time for players." Zoe said to the seventh year Gryffindor standing in front of her.
"Every girl has time for me." The boy said with a grin.
"Unfortunately, or rather fortunately for you, I don't." She said.
"Why fortunately for me?" He asked in surprise.
"Because…" She began with a smirk. "You couldn't handle me." She finished, then walked away.
Sirius watched all this with a half-smile on his lips. His Zoe had spunk, and lots of it.
She was that girl that hit you full on in the gut, without doing anything except smiling. Her eyes looked into your soul, and you could do nothing except bare it to her.
One day he'd get her, but until then… he turned back towards the pretty blond he'd been giving his attention to before.
Zoe stormed out of the hall, seething from her rage at the whole world. She watched the snow fall to the ground, then conjured herself a pair of skates and headed for the middle of the frozen Black Lake.
"What are you doing out here?" She heard someone ask behind her.
She flipped around so fast her leg came out from underneath her and she felt the bone in her ankle snap. "Bloody Hell." She cried in anger.
"Bloody hell Zoe, are you mental?" She heard Remus demanded from somewhere beside her.
"No." She said with a scathingly sharp voice. "I'm not the one sneaking up on people while they're skating on frozen water."
Remus looked down sheepishly and Zoe felt her anger drain. "Just help me get my bloody boot off."
Remus nodded and gently brought her foot forward. He unlaced the boot and tried to pull it off as softly as possible, but he still saw Zoe's lips thin and heard her sharp intake of breath.
He left it on and tried to look around it. "I think it's broken." He said, looking closely.
"No shite." She said in aggravation. "I could have told you that the minute I fell."
Once again, Remus got that expression of embarrassment, pain, and regret on his face, causing Zoe to feel bad for her own actions.
"Stop worrying about it; just help me stand so I can get to the bloody nurse so she can get the bloody thing off my foot." She said in exasperation.
Remus lifted her to her feet, but when he tried to lift her off them she refused to allow it and he stopped fighting with her, worried he would end up hurting her worse.
Sirius turned as the Great Hall's doors were opened. He watched in stunned disbelief as Remus helped a hobbling Zoe in threw them.
He gave the blonde-haired girl an apologetic smile and headed towards his best friend and… whatever Zoe was to him.
"What in the hell happened?" He demanded.
Zoe didn't even look up as she bit out "Broken" because she was doing everything in her power just to stay conscious.
Sirius bent down and saw just how much pain she was in, and without further thought, lifted her off the ground and cradled her in his arms, walking towards the nurse's without a backward glance or a good day to Remus.