I finished the next part. And here we go again. Nothing and no one belongs to me. Oh I want to tahnk Kate Dixon for Lily's qoute. I really liked it and I hope you don't mind me using it. Erin comes from my imagineation but as you know she has been hepling Sirius in running my brain and ruining my life. This chapter is pretty short and I'll get the next one out hopefuly tomorrow. If not later tonight. Thank you and keep reviewing and no flames.
Chapter 15: too hard
In the next few months my friends where the only things that kept me from going completely crazy. They kept coming up with more and more insane tricks to keep my mind occupied. As a result I had more detentions to keep my mind occupied. They kept my spirits up. Once when I could hardly bare it anymore I told Lily life was too hard and I didn't want to deal with it anymore.
She only looked at me and said ""Too hard? Life is hard. The most important things we do are hard. The person who feels he cannot face another day, yet does, is no less brave than he who slays dragons without fear. If you never do anything hard, you won't live." I have gone by that advice ever since
I poured more into my studies than I had before. The only problem was (James had the same one) I got top scores anyway. So I really didn't have to put much more into it but the good thing was I hardly had two seconds to just relax and wonder about stuff. When I did that I always ended up thinking about my dad. I was just so busy with work and Quiddich and we were always planning something
That summer I went home with James. All my father's things had been put into storage and the house stood empty. The house was mine and I couldn't stand to see anyone else living in it. I planned to move in when I got older. I quickly learned to ride Dad's old motorcycle. It felt like I still had a part of him. He loved that old bike. We tinkered with it and made a few " modifications." We also named it the Shadow. We had fun though running around Digon Alley. People had learned to hide all valuables when we came in sight. Though we terrorized every one there, they all loved us.
My forth year was pretty boring except for the fact that Lily and James finally admitted that they liked each other and then started going out. Erin and I were going out too. Remus refused to let us fix him up. He said he didn't trust us. Although I caught him looking at Addi a few times during breaks and vise virsa. So we fixed them. Secretly of course. Now they were very happy. Imagine. My best friend and my twin sister. Peter didn't even try. And we didn't bother.
Chapter 16: Waiting
My fifth year was very interesting. James, Remus, Lily, Erin and I were made prefects. What possessed the teachers to make us prefects I don't know. But they did. We had lots of fun by pretending to punish ourselves.
The potion would be ready any day now. It was a few days before the full moon when we pulled the cloak off the cauldron. The potion swirled around. I looked at James.
"Tomorrow night. It'll be ready then." We nodded and pushed the cauldron back into its hiding place.
The next day was one of the longest we ever had.
"Sirius Black, James Potter, The lesson is not being taught outside. Remus Lupin, is the desk teaching you?"
"No mam."
"Good. Will you boys please pay attention ? Honestly what am I going to do with you?" We exchanged looks. The others were feeling the same way. We were worried about what would happen, what could happen, if we didn't get the spell perfect. Peter was already sweating and it was our first lesson of the day.
That night at dinner none of us ate. Not even Remus who was always hungry. The thought of what we were attempting that night took away any appetite we might have had.
"What is wrong with you boys today?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, first in class you pay even less attention than usual. Now you're not eating. What are you up to?" Erin asked.
"Up too? What makes you think we're up to something?" I asked
"Because you're always up to something." Lily informed us. James and I looked at each other. Then we glanced at Remus and Peter. Peter looked more nervous that he had at the sorting. Remus looked guilty.
"Guys, You don't have to"
"Yes we do, Moony. Don't try and stop us."
"Stop you from doing what?" Lily's eyes narrowed
"I'm not hungry anymore. Prongs?"
"Nope. I say we go work on that essay for Astronomy."
"Me too. Wormtail, come on." We left the girls and walked out into the hall.
"Look we can't do anything until everyone's asleep. So we might as well get started on our homework." James said as we entered the common room.
"I say we go blow something up. People are starting to suspect something."
"What you won't do to blow something up, Padfoot."
"What?"
Of course we couldn't concentrate on our homework either. Then the girls came over.
"Okay guys what's up?" James and I looked up. Remus was helping Peter with his homework. Peter was doing worse than usual.
I sighed. " We can't tell you."
Before the girls had looked mad. Now Erin and Lily just looked hurt.
"It's not that we don't want to" James hurried to say.
"No, it's not that."
"It's just we can't let anyone know. Not yet."
"Don't you trust us?" Lily was back to being mad.
I left James to Lily. She was one of the sweetest, most gentle, kindest people I knew, but when she was mad it was safer to be on the other side of the castle. That wasn't possible now so I settled with the other side of the room. That was one of the things I loved about Erin. She never got mad. People never saw what we saw in each other. I was one of the most hot-tempered kids in the whole school and she was one of the sweetest. I was loud and out spoken. She was quiet and shy. We were exact opposites. Black and White. Literally. When I got mad, I got even. She never got mad. She just got this hurt look on her face that made me melt. She had that look on now.
"Erin, please don't do that. You know I'd tell you if I could."
"Why not Sirius? What are you doing?"
"I told you I can't tell you?"
"It's dangerous isn't it?"
"Yes." She gasped and threw her arms around me.
"Please don't. I couldn't bare it if you got hurt because of some stupid trick."
"Erin, I won't get hurt. It's not a trick. It's a spell.. And you can't talk me out of this."
"What kind of spell."
"One we're not supposed to do." I gave her a genuine marauder smile.
"Don't do that."
"Do what?"
"Give me that smile. You know it's why I like you so much."
"I know." We were quiet for a minute
"Erin?"
"Yes?"
"If something happens, take care of Remus. Will ya?"
"Why? What could happen?"
"Just please will you?" She paused.
"Yes."
"Sirius." James called.
"Hang on, Prongs. I gotta go."
"Why?" Her eyes were wide with fear.
"Quiddich practice."
"Oh." She laughed. I smiled and kissed her goodbye. Then James and I sprinted out of the room.
"So did you tell her?" He asked.
" Nope. I was dying to though."
"Yeah me too. I thought Lily was going to kill me."
"I know."
At practice we did even worse. We hardly paid attention to Charlie Jones our captain. He yelled at us. We dropped a dungbomb on him. He yelled at us some more. We dropped another dungbomb on him and he yelled some more. And the endless cycle continues.