Author's note: I just re-read one of the HP books and realized how bad my fics have been so far. I promise to try and make them better and keep everybody as in character as I can. Thankz.
Mellyssa
Chapter 3: Memories
When Mellyssa got to her room she saw Snape looking at a mug doing something that most people had never seen. Snape was laughing. Mellyssa saw what he was looking at. "Oh no, I knew that I should have hidden that seperately." "You do realize that I'm going to bring this up every time I talk to you, don't you?" "Y'know, no matter how much you try to hide it you really aren't all that much different now than you were back when we were the students instead of the teachers. Well except for the clothes. You finally stopped wearing those raggedy t-shirts and ripped jeans. And I haven't seen you play the guitar once yet. Or sing, although you never really liked to show off much, did you?" "I haven't played in years. And I haven't sang for even longer." "Pity, You were really good. Do you remeber those sessions we had during the vacations?" Snape was starting to looked annoyed and his voice reflected it. "Yes, I do. Just why are you bringing up what is long gone now?" "I don't really know. I guess it's just being back here. There are so many happy memories that even...certain other memories couldn't ruin." "What memories? You surely couldn't mean that time when I accidentaly dissolved most of the bones in you left side that one time could you?" Mellyssa was starting to look sad. She took a deep breath, as if she was having a hard time telling him this, sighed, and started to talk. "No. Something much worse. I really don't want to talk about it." "It doesn't have anything to do with how you were acting after winter break in third year does it?" "What do you mean?" "Well I don't remember all of it but I thought that you had been acting really strangely after you came back. One minute you acted just fine, then you'd seem depressed, then you'd be fine again. And sometimes you would act overly happy. And Lily was with you a lot more often than usual. And then there was that one time in our mixed potions class when someone mentioned something, I think it was a curse? Anyway, you ran from the room and I could have sworn that you were crying." By now Mellyssa was obviously upset. "I was. And it was a curse that had been mentioned. The cruciatus curse." "Well why would you cry about something small like that?" "It wasn't small to me. Now will you please leave? I don't want to talk about it anymore." Snape sighed. He knew that there was something very wrong here but decided that it would be best not to press. "Fine. But if you want to talk you know where to find me." He set the mug down on the table and walked out of the room. After he had shut the door Mellyssa collapsed onto her bed and cried.
Meanwhile, as he was walking back to his classroom to get the homework that he still needed to grade Snape's thoughts wandered to the past. How close the entire group had been. They always stuck up for each other even though after a while they started to form small groups within their group. There were they four troublemakers, James, Peter, Sirius, and Lupin. Then there was Lily and Mellyssa. Those two had been like sisters, If one of them knew something then it was a given that the other knew it too. And then there was him. The "punk". The others had been friendly enough even if James and Sirius seemed to have it in for him. They all played pranks on each other and even kept score. The one with the most points at the end of the term always got a little trophy that they had all pooled their money to buy. And of course there was the small group of him and Mellyssa. She was the only other one in the group with a talent for music. She was no match for him when it came to guitars but she was far better when it came to singing. When they did a duet they balanced each other out nearly perfectly. Snape almost laughed when he remembered a comment that she had made after one time when she was feeling particularly theatrical. "Alas, if only I had another set of arms and an extra mouth, then I could play the flute as well." "You can play the flute?" Severus had asked her. "Of course I can!" "Well in that case I could probably take care of that lack of limbs and extra mouth you seem to have." Then they both started laughing. That had been the day before winter break in third year. When she came back she was a totally different person.Even now, as well as she hid it, he knew that if she didn't tell someone she was probably in danger of just breaking down one day. "I just hope that mentioning that curse doesn't make her cry anymore or she'll have trouble teaching that class." By now he had reached his classroom and forced himself to concentrate on the assignments that he had to grade.
He hadn't been there ten minutes when there was a knock on the door. "What is it?" "Professor Snape, could I talk to you?" "Of course Draco, come in." Draco opened the door and came in. As he was closing the door behind him snape asked him "What do you want to talk about Draco?" "Um, well you seem to know that new teacher and I was just wondering how." "We were in school here together. We were in the same year." "But she acts like you two actually knew each other." "We did." "How?" "Draco, I am trying to grade these papers and need to concentrate. Your constant questions do not help." "I'm sorry sir. As soon as you answer my last question I promise that I will leave." "You are sure you will uphold that promise?" "Yes sir." "We were friends." Draco just stood there, mouth agape. "Well you said that you would leave once I answered your question so leave. And do not ask me about this again. And I would suggest not asking Mellyssa about it either." "Y-yes sir." And Draco left. Quickly. Snape simply shook his head and got back to grading the assignments.
As Draco ran he passed Harry, Ron, and Hermione. As she watched him Hermione couldn't help asking "What's wrong with him?" Of course, just as she said this Peeves appeared right in front of Draco, causing him to fall down. Ron saw this and called out "Aww, did poor little Draco see a big mean ghostie?" Draco glared at him as he got up and straightened his robes. But Ron wasn't quite done. "So just what scared you so bad? Did you just find out that you're poor or something?" While that one wouldn't usually have annoyed him in the slightest, he wasn't in any kind of joking mood so he prepared to pull out his wand just as Mellyssa rounded the corner, her face still slightly red. Draco didn't see her so he pulled out his wand and pointed it at Ron. "Care to repeat that Weasley?" "Really Draco, I would have expected someone in Snape's house to behave better than that. Especially a Malfoy." "You get away from me." "What? You aren't still annoyed about my little trip down memory lane earlier are you?" "I was just talking to Professor Snape. You must have done some spell or something because he said that you two were friends when you were students here." "He was telling the truth. We were friends. We still are. Well at the moment he's not on very good terms with me." Hermione, noticing that she looked like she had been crying, spoke up. "What's wrong?" "What do you mean?" "You look like you've been crying." "Severus went just a little too far." "How?" This time it was Harry who was asking. " "Well I had been talking about when we were students here and he brought up a rather painful subject." "Oh. What was it about?" "Ron! You can be so stupid some times. She obviously doesn't want to talk about it." "Thank you Hermione. I'm glad that it's still the girl of the group whose the perceptive one." And with that she walked away, leaving four very confused students standing in the hall
Well was that at all better? I'm gonna do more in the next chapter. I'm still working on getting Snape in character but it's really hard to do when he's talking to Mellyssa. Well, as always, Please review! >^.^< BR> Oh yeah, If you think you know what's bothering Mellyssa then e-mail me and tell me. If you get it right then I will list your name. I know that this might seem kinda lame but hey, I'm new at this and before I joined ff.net the only people who read my fics were my sister and two of my friends. I'm trying here, I really am. Just bear with me. It might take awhile for me to get the hang of it.