Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Author's Notes: All right folks, you wanted more? So I decided to give you more! (Just remember that you asked for in.) I just wanted to thank everyone who reviewed my story! I have to say that I was afraid that no one liked my story, so I was thinking of discontinuing it. Yet when I read the reviews my fragile self-esteem was boosted and I deiced to post the next few parts that I have written! I hope you enjoy it! Peace!

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Last time:

"If we have a deal I'll tell you all you need to know."

"You can kiss my butt."

"Goodness, how could I refuse such an offer." He said sarcastically. "No thank-you, I think I'll pass. Oh well, you'll be hearing from me soon Mr. Snape. Pleasant dreams." And with a shimmer, he was gone.

How did he know my name? Snape wondered.

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"I can't believe you didn't tell me sooner! They could have died!" I yelled at Jeremiah, who was sitting down while I paced in front of him.


"I'm sorry! I just didn't think it was important."

"Oh I understand," I started coldly, "It wasn't about you."

"Now that's not being fair."

I stared at him seriously. "You don't get it do you? My friends could have died because you thought it wasn't important enough to just warn me…HOW COULD YOU THINK ANTONIUS ON THE LOOSE ISN'T IMPORTANT?!"

"Ahem." A voice said behind me, I whirled around to face Sirius. "Hope I'm not interrupting any serious yelling." He said smiling.

"Saved by the boyfriend." Jeremiah muttered; I heard it though.

"He's not my boyfriend!" I said, my cheeks burning.

"Jeez, could have fooled me." Jer said teasingly. I knew he was teasing me for the soul purpose of seeing me squirm.

"School tomorrow." Sirius said ignoring Jeremiah's last remark.

"Ugh, great. Thank you so much for reminding me." I said sarcastically, while groaning.

"Anytime." He replied winking at me roguishly.

Just when you think it couldn't get any worse…

"Oh Sirius-poo! It's me, your girlfriend!" The most annoying voice in the world called.

"G-g-g-g-GIRLFRIEND!?!?!? YOU AREN'T EVEN MY FRIEND!!!"

"Oh Siriy you're so cute!" Cindy pinched Sirius blushing cheek. Embarrassment was hard on this boy.

Sirius turned to Angela and Jeremiah. "Help…now…. very scared."

I sat on the arm of Jeremiah's chair. "Nah, I think you are doing fine on your own."

Then Cindy caught sight of the other person in the room.

"Who's this?" Cindy asked sleeking up to Jeremiah.

"Who's that guy who always scares her away?" Jeremiah asked trying to back up in his chair.

"Severus." Sirius replied.

"SEVERUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jeremiah yelled.

"Oh you are so CUTE!" Cindy called.

Cute? I thought giving Jer a look over, Not quite the what I would have thought, annoying would be more my choice of words…

"Angie, I'm really sorry that I didn't mention Antonius sooner. Can I leave now?" Jeremiah said, looking at an approaching Cindy like she was a slug.

"Nope, I am suddenly feeling the need to let you suffer for a little while." I told him smiling sweetly.

Jeremiah was cornered in his chair so he couldn't get away while Cindy cooed at him.

"Look um,-" Jeremiah stared.

"Cindy." Sirius supplied.

"Cindy, I'm um…. married! And my wife would kill me if she found out that I was being wooed by such a…. beautiful woman as yourself." Jeremiah said, lying through his teeth.

"Married! You haven't been married since the 19-"

"-74! We've been married since 1974." Jeremiah interrupted me.

"Aww!! You think I'm beautiful! How sweet!" Cindy exclaimed, it was quite obvious that was the only part she had heard.

She cooed around him for a few minutes. I thought that Jer deserved what he was getting, but even I had to draw the line when she started nibbling on his ear.

"Ooohhh Cindy! If you don't leave that poor man alone I'll call Severus! Just think, his greasy hair nuzzling against your strawberry body washed cheek, and his sweaty palms running through your Pantene Pro V hair." (No offence to anyone who uses those products J )

"EWWWW!!!!!" Cindy shouted at the visual and then ran out of the room.

"Ok, I've learned my lesson. If anything comes up I'll tell you immediately. Just please don't make me go through that again!" Jeremiah pleaded.

I smirked, "Good."

Jeremiah looked at his watch, "I've gotta go. I have a meeting with some, er-" He glanced at Sirius, "Business associates."

I could tell he meant vampires.

"Ok, bye. Give them my regards."

After Jeremiah left Sirius turned to me, "What was that about?" He asked.

"What was what about?"

"The yelling."

"Oh nothing terribly important." I felt bad lying to him, Well get over it! That nasty little voice in my head said. That nasty little voice seems to be talking a lot lately…maybe it's trying to tell me something…

"Another thing has been kinda bothering me since last night." Sirius asked hesitantly.

I sighed and sat down knowing that the next couple of minutes are not going to be pleasant. "Just get to the point chiot."

"That guy that killed the teacher," He paused as if unsure of what to say then plunged on, "How does he know you?"

They always have to go for the hard questions first don't they? I thought.

"Oh that. It's a long story."

"I have time." He said then sat down in the chair opposite of mine.

"Well I don't. Au revoir!" I said than ran out of the room, leaving a stunned Sirius in my wake. I felt bad about leaving him hanging there but that was a question I wasn't ready to answer.

When I raced out of the room I was running one second and on the floor the next. Apparently I had run into someone. I looked up trying to look for the said someone when my eyes fell on the Headmaster.

"Oh Headmaster. I'm sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Yes, Severus Snape has the same problem." To my relief he smiled. "And where would it be that you were trying to get to in such a hurry?"

"Um, to my common room! Where we all have a lot in common!" Where did that come from? I wondered.

He gave me a curious look and then walked on.

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I walked outside, even though I'm not supposed to. If anyone saw me out I would get in trouble. Oh, well, I'll just be careful. Man, what a week. I felt like getting away from people; now, where do you go to get some privacy in this place? Hmmm, the Forbidden Forest, hey, I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself.

I sat next to a tree which to the normal human eye it was ugly, so, naturally I thought it was quite pretty. People judge without really knowing what they're judging. Oh great, another one of your stupid lectures. The nasty voice struck again.

Suddenly I wanted to find that stupid voice in my head and hurt it in ways I never knew existed.

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With a start, I woke up. Not even knowing I had fallen asleep I stood up and walked to the castle. When I got there, it was quiet and empty. Where did everyone go? I looked for signs of life while strolling down the halls to my common room. Hearing footsteps behind me, I turned around. My heart felt like it was going to pound its self out of my chest.

I breathed a sigh of relief; it was only Professor McGonagall. Puzzling, she wasn't her normal self. She looked frightened and pale.

"You heard the Headmaster; get in your common room this instant!" McGonagall said nervously.

"Why what's wrong?" I asked.

"Weren't you listening? Now, go to your common room. I don't see you going! GO!"

Without any questions, I decided to go. I would ask someone when I got to my common room. A few seconds later, I had gotten there, I spotted James, Sirius, Remus and Lily was sitting in a circle by a roaring fire talking.

"Hey, guys, what's going on?" I asked. They were so involved in their conversation that they obviously didn't hear me come in. They all jumped at least a foot in the air and calmed down when they saw it was I.

"Jeez Angie, don't scare us like that." Lily said one hand over her heart. Sirius gave me a cold look, obviously still angry from my storming out on him. I wanted to apologize, but I would have to do that later.

"What's going on?" I asked the third time in the past ten minutes.

"Y-you mean you w-weren't there?" James said still recovering. He oddly sounded a lot like Peter.

"JUST TELL ME FOR DIEU* SAKE!" I shouted. The whole common room got quiet and everyone stared at me. This was not the reaction I was looking for.

"I know what happened. I was there." Cindy was shivery and nervous, but still in that annoying superior tone she always used with me.

"Like, Cindy, like, go to bed or something. You look, like, horrible. I'll like, tell her." Renee said.

"No, no ,no! I'd like someone to tell me who doesn't say 'like' every sentence."

Cindy gathered herself together and started to tell the story. She was great at telling stories; heck she had practice.

"Well it all started when I was going to the library to fetch my good-berry-cherry lip balm that I left there by mistake. The librarian was out to lunch at the time, so when I knocked but no one answered. I thought it couldn't be that much trouble to just go in and out of the room to get my lip balm so I walked in to a horrible smell! I found my lip balm on the table, but the smell was over powering so I decided to find out what it was. Then lo' and behold I found a-a-a-" She stopped to breathe and choke back tears.

"I-I was so scared! There was a dead body of a girl in the restricted section! She looked like she was sucked dry or something! It was terrible! The way she was just lying there all bloodless and her skin all waxy. (She could really have used some strawberry moisturizer right then) It looked like it had been done by a vampire or something!" She blew her nose in a pink hanky.

I was so shocked I could hardly breathe. I looked at the boys. Remus stared at me with wild fear. A vampire she said, a vampire.

"Um…Cindy? Sorry to break the dramatic moment, but why were you in the restricted section?" I asked.

"How dare you ask me something like that when I'm vulnerable. Can't you see I'm a victim just like you?!"

"No, no, you're wrong. I am nothing like you, not even close, I never want to hear you, me or like in the same sentence, unless Renee's trying to talk."

"Come on Renee and Cindy, let's go to our dorm room." Jay said, and led them away.

Feeling suddenly exhausted from all the day's events, I headed up to my dormitory, not even waiting for Lily to join me.

"Hey Angela! Sirius wanted me to talk to you." I turned around before reaching my dormitory, to see a frowning James.

"Oh, uh, what about?" I tried to act natural.

"He thinks you are trying to avoid him, he thinks you don't like him."

Avoiding him? Yes. Not like? Where'd he get that idea? "Of course I like him! I really like him! A lot!" The nasty little voice reared its ugly head. Girl, you need acting skills. Darn voice I thought I told you to SHUT UP! I thought back.

Then Remus walked-up, "Hey Angie? Can I speak to you for a sec?" He looked quickly at James, "Alone?"

Before I even got the chance to answer he grabbed my arm and dragged me away.

"Um… this is kinda hard to say but…ah… are you killing people?"

"Jeez, could you be anymore blunt?"

"Listen. I've been covering-up for you-"

"I've been covering you too!"

"Yeah well the point is I would appreciate it if you would answer me!"

"Of course not! Why would I kill those people?"

"Well then where were you when the murder happened?"

"I was in the bathroom!" Jeez, I should really work on my excuses, I thought.

"In the bathroom? Excuse me. How stupid do you think I am?"

"Ummm…if I answer that truthfully would you get mad?"

"You better tell the others and Dumbledore what you are. Or I will." Remus finished dramatically. He then turned on his heel and left.

When I went into my dorm room I found a dozen roses on my bed. Turning to Molly Smith I asked, "Who sent these?"

(I don't know Mrs. Wesley's name either so of course I gave her one.)

She shrugged and said, "I don't know, they were there when I came in after dinner."

I picked them up and looked for a card. Instead I found a wooden talisman tied to it. I took that off and inspected it closely, then dropped it in shock.

"Antonius." I whispered softly, getting over my shock quickly. Antonius was always the kind of guy to do this. The talisman had his family symbol on one side and the Roman Eagle on the other, another one of his favorite trinkets.

"Huh?" Molly asked, not hearing what I said. "Did you figure out who your secret admirer is?"

"He's hardly an admirer, or a secret." I said.

"He must really be some guy then." Molly said lying down in her bed, then quickly switched the subject for no apparent reason. "Those murders sure are scary, aren't they? I wish I'd feel safer here, don't you?"

"Yeah." I answered absentmindedly. Tomorrow everyone's going to Hogsmead. That's when I'll leave.

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Well I hope you liked it! I want to say thank you to all you lovely people who reviewed my story and encouraged me to post more parts. I'm coming out with a new one so this one might come out slower that it is now. (Like it can get any slower ^_~) Also I thank you for being so patient and I hope you don't burn my house down because I didn't post this part.

* Dieu: God

Next on Witches, Wizards, and Vampires! Oh my!:

Angela tries to run away but gets a surprise visit from an old friend, but is he really the one who's been causing the murders?

Also, a school dance brings up some old feelings and jealousy, and what in the world in Snape doing?