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Funny fact: When I started writing this chapter I wrote it in Icelandic, and then realized I write this story in English and went O.O
Chapter 36
Marlene McKinnon
With all the drama I had totally forgotten Quidditch.
What kind of player am I?
But to be fair we've only played two games this year and haven't practiced as much as we have for the past years – But two games done, means two games left.
After Hogsmeade the Slytherin - Hufflepuff game had been canceled, but when everyone was starting to get over the whole "Thing" Dumbledore decided to let Quidditch back on.
Slytherin had won.
Which was not good for us at all.
"So," Gideon says as he stares over us, he rubs his hands nervously together. "I know that I haven't been the best Captain and the drama in this team has been.. on-going and never ending. And we haven't practiced as much as I had planned, but we only have two more games.. and honestly, we NEED to win. Okay? So we're just gonna have to step it up a notch. And no drama, okay?"
His eyes linger on me, and I can't stop myself from scowling.
But who are we kidding? How is this going to be dramaless? With me and Sirius on the same team?
He's going to try to push me off my broom. I know it.
"So," Gideon claps his hands together, trying to sound like he's excited, but his nervousness shines through "Get your lazy asses out on the pitch!"
Sighing, I grab my broom and follow the rest of the team out to the pitch.
James Potter
After few minutes of flying around, Gideon seems to be breathing normally. He was way too stressed to focus on the practice at first. He's probably terrified of drama. Not that I can blame him. But nothing dramatic has happened so far. Thank Godric for that.
Happily I pass the quaffle over to Joann Clearwater.
As she leaps towards the hoops there is a yell behind us and I turn my broom just like out of instinct - just in time to see Marlene fly in full speed towards Sirius where he floats in the air, casually holding his bat with a too-innocent-for-Sirius look on his face.
"ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?"
Sirius doesn't bother do answer her or act like he notices her screaming, honestly he doesn't even look at her.
"I'd like it better Black if you focused on beating other people off their brooms than you teammates!" Snaps Marlene when no one says anything, even Gideon is quiet as he floats just above the hoops, ignoring what's going on.
"I didn't see you," Sirius finally replies. "I mean," he gives away a laugh. "You don't exist to me anymore so why would I?"
Marlene's eyes narrow.
I look over at Gideon again, wondering if he wants anyone to step in, but he just continues to stare at something far away from Marlene and Sirius.
"Give me that!" Suddenly Marlene is racing on her broom towards Fabian, her hand reaching out.
"Give you what?" Fabian says, his eyebrows rising.
Marlene doesn't bother to answer him, just reaches out and yanks the beaters bat from his hand.
"Oi!" again Fabian is ignored by the blonde.
"Quaffle Joann." Marlene then next turn to Joann
"Uh..." she trails off, not knowing what to do.
"QUAFFLE!" snaps the blonde.
Joann sighs and chucks the quaffle at Marlene who catches it, before she throws it into the air and smacks it forward with the bat into Sirius' direction.
She doesn't miss.
It's maybe not as painful as getting a bludger thrown at you, but damn Marlene seems to smack the quaffle hard.
Sirius gives out a loud pained grunt as the quaffle hits him square in the face and then falls towards the earth.
And so the yelling starts.
It's rather hard to make out all the words that are being thrown, not just by Marlene and Sirius, but also by Fabian, Joann, Patrick and Gideon who finally butt in.
I focus on getting myself on the ground.
Not wanting to hear the words my friends throw at each other.
Not wanting to see the hurt in both of their eyes.
Not want to see the destruction that is happening right before my eyes.
When I finally reach the bottom, I jump of my broom and walk towards the changing room, quickly, still able to ignore the screaming happening above me.
- Hunting For Happiness -
"Morning Potter," her voice is possibly the only thing that is good about this day. Even though she still calls me 'Potter'.
"Evans," I greet her, hardly looking up from the paper I have spread in front of me.
"I heard practice yesterday didn't go well,"
I finally look up, nodding.
Lily takes a seat on the couch opposite from the chair I sit in. "Marlene's a mess."
"Sirius is one too." I sigh, closing the paper and throwing it on the table.
"Do we do anything?" Lily sighs, crossing her legs and biting her lip.
I shake my head, leaning back.
Lily sighs again, mimicking me and leaning back herself. "Sirius is an ass."
My eyes narrow. "Marlene is a slut."
I don't know why I say it - Marlene used to be my best friend, but to be honest, what she did to Sirius was too much for my liking.
Lily's mouth drops open. "You did not seriously say that!"
I roll my eyes, grabbing back the paper that suddenly became a lot more interesting that Evans at the moment and the drama that seems to follow everyone.
"You are both assholes." Lily spits out and stands up, throwing me a disgusted look before stalking away from me.
I groan loudly, crumbling the paper in my hands and chugging it into the fire.
Wishing I could burn drama as easily as I can burn paper.
Marlene McKinnon.
"-And then I threw the quaffle at his 'oh so perfect and can't be hurt' face." I end my speech with a shrug, smiling a little when Mary rolls over on the bed laughing loudly.
"Telling the story again?" Lily raises her eyebrows as she enters the room, her cheeks slightly red and lips drawn back in a thing line.
"Mary didn't hear it," I give her a little smile. "So wassup?"
"'Wassup?'" repeats Lily, shaking her head as she sits down on my bed sighing, leaning her head against my shoulder.
"What's up?" I re-phrase it for her.
She smiles a little. "I know. Nothing really, I just.. I just talked to James Potter and he wasn't .. pleasant-"
"Wait," Mary sits up in her bed, throwing her arms in the air dramatically. "You and James talked?"
"Har-har." Scowls Lily, sighing again. "Yes. We were actually discussion Marlene and Sirius."
I scowl, but she ignores it.
"Anyways, he was an ass."
Mary snorts. "Did he ask you out?"
"Nope."
Mary raises her eyebrows and so do I.
"Than what did he do?" I ask
"He said bad things."
"About?" I push further.
Lily sighs, closing her eyes. "I said that Sirius was an ass and.. and he said that.." she trails off, her eyes still closed.
"Lily." I say forcefully. "What did James say about me?"
"He just called you a not so nice name."
Sighing, I stand up. "I need to talk to him."
Mary gives me a look. "You sure about that? I mean none of the boys have said a thing to you or any of us since you and Black broke it off.. so do you think its vise?"
I give her a scowl. "I don't care if its vise Mare. I just want him to stop calling me bad names when it's his best friend that shagged someone behind my back."
Mary sighs, nodding slowly.
Lily leans back on the bed, keeping her eyes closed. "Just don't kill Potter. I don't want to clean up that mess."
I roll my eyes and then head for the doors, hoping James won't be hard to find.
- Hunting For Happiness -
The Common Room is crowded, but spotting one James Potter isn't hard, thankfully.
He sits, with Remus on a couch on the Common Room, the latter one probably working on some homework, but James just seems to be staring forward.
I can't help but be relieved that Sirius isn't there. He'd probably scream at me again or .. call me a whore.
A part of me is livid with him.
I just want to throw some stuff at him and slap him again.
Maybe even punch him.
Kick him where it hurts the most.
Smash his 'flawless' face into pieces.
Take each of those fawning girls and stuff them down his throat.
"What are you doing?" there is a sigh, and I notice that James and Remus have spotted me, the first one addressing me.
Remus seems to roll his eyes at James and give me a little nod.
Remus is nice. Remus is always going to be nice. Even though his best friends hate me. I really love Remus at times like these.
James is usually nice. But when it comes to Sirius… let's just say that with him his loyalty lies. And that is obvious.
"I wanted to talk to you," I answer, deciding to just go all in here, and not make up some twisted excuse.
My eyes narrow a little to show that I am strong and that I am not breaking down inside.
I put my hands on my hips and lean slightly on one leg.
"Aha." James' reply is cold, almost.. spiteful.
Sighing, I remove my hands from my hips and cross them over my chest. "James, we need to talk."
The dark haired boy doesn't bother to answer.
I feel frustration build up inside me… but also the most dangerous and terrifying feeling there is… hurt.
"James." Remus sighs, giving his friend a look.
James sighs as well, finally standing up from the couch. "Fine."
"Thank you." I shake my head and walk towards a deserted corner.
"Oka. Talk." James orders as soon as we're far enough away so people won't have an easy time eavesdropping in on our conversation.
Suddenly I'm feeling nervous. I cross my arms again, leaning slightly against the wall. "You're not talking to me."
"I obviously am," James begs to differ. "I'm standing here, talking to you right now."
"You haven't been talking to me." I re-phrase, rolling my eyes slightly.
James snorts. "Why should I talk to you?"
"Not talking to me is unfair!" the words just slip out of my mouth.
"Unfair?" James repeats, scoffing.
"Yes! That you just stop talking to me because of him! Merlin James, I know he's your best friend but we used to be pretty darn close! Me and you!"
"Well," James sighs. "It's just all about teams now.."
I scoff "Teams? As in me vs. him?"
"Pretty much."
My eyes narrow with anger as I lean closer to him so I can whisper the words to him, my voice filled with anger and spite. "He's the one that cheated on me! So none of MY friends should be on HIS team! Not even you!"
James looks surprised. His mouth opens and closes repeatedly unable to make any words.
"W-What?" he finally manages out.
"Sirius cheated on me," I say, this time more calmly.
"What?" James says again.
"Guess your darling friend didn't tell you everything." I say, shaking my head. "But yeah that's all. Go back to your "Team Sirius" now Potter." and with that I stalk off.
- Hunting For Happiness -
Once again mine and Mary's notebook turns out to be quite handy.
After speed-reading through Mary's entries (most of them about Reginald Cattermole who she is still heartbroken over, poor girl) I finally find an empty page and start writing down what I've been aching to do.
I am going to make a plan.
I'm so tired of it.
Tired of not being able to just walk around the school without hearing his steady whispers of words like "Whore" and "Bitch".
Tired of seeing him and "Random slut of the day" making out at a random spot.
Tired of people choosing "Team Sirius" over "Team Marlene."
Sirius Black is going to get what he deserves.
I'm going to show him how it is to feel hurt.
Maybe snogging Adam hurt him. But who is Asam to him? Other than a random ex boyfriend of mine? Nothing. Adam means nothing to Sirius.
It's not good. It's not good enough. I need someone that will affect him.
I need something that will push Sirius Black off the edge.
I need him.
And I'm going to get him and I'm going to make Sirius Black pay for all he's done.
A/N: So, I'm basically working my self up to the more "Juicy" chapters, I don't want to let all of the stuff happen at the same time, because I want to play it out a little. So I apologize if the chapters get dull at points but I promise some juicy-ness in the future ;)
But let's play a game! Let's play a "Truth game."
Rules of said game: You leave a review, in said review you can either ask me to: Give you a spoiler (you can specify if you wish about what, but ask at your own risk) or basically ask me anything, about the story, the characters, heck you can ask a question about me. So yeah, all you have to do is review and I'll reply :) If you don't have an account I cannot send you a reply, but if you don't have an account and still want a spoiler, I will simply just write the answer to the spoiler on my tumblr and post the link to your answer in the next chapter, comprende?
So basically: Review - Question/Spoiler - Answer.
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Oh oh oh! While I remember! I have had a story translated now! :D My one shot "Move" which is of course a Marlene/Sirius one has been translated to German! So if you can read German and want to read it in German it can be found as a link in my profile (Original version can also be found on said profile). A.t.m. the same girl as translated "Move" is working on translating some more stories, which makes me soo excited!
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Rainbow Dust