A/N: Alright, I'm not listening to Malfoy, and I'm going to be doing more of this than At Last because I'm really getting into this one. Besides, I'm feeling a lot better now, and I'm not going to be too depressing (it has to be a little depressing since it was just a depressing chapter). Also, I'm going to be skipping a lot of the year in this because I have a great plot for that summer which includes a incredibly cute Quidditch player (who I am imagining looks like Oliver Wood in the movie) and a Lilly and James row. Now, on to the story!

Girls

By Wolf Speaker

Chapter 5:
Deely-Boppers

"Sirius, where exactly do you go every full moon?" said Charlotte abruptly when the gang was in the common room, sitting by the fire.

"What do you mean? I don't go anywhere on-" started Sirius.

"Don't lie to me, I've seen you," said Charlotte, noticing all of her friends (Remus, Peter, James, and Lily) were staring, but she really didn't care.

"Can this wait?" whispered Sirius, glancing around at his friends. They all gave him looks that clearly said that he couldn't give her an answer, even later.

"No, it cannot wait! I'm sick of all of this secrecy, Sirius, and I want to know what's going on," said Charlotte, barely controlling her temper.

Now, Charlotte isn't one to lose her temper. The only time she does is when she's really nervous or worried. Here she was both, and it was obvious to Lily, who was glaring at James, who just so happened not to notice because he was glaring at Sirius, who didn't notice because he was watching Charlotte, who didn't notice because she was looking at Lilly, who didn't notice because… I think you get the picture.

"Charlotte, believe me, I want to tell you, but I can't. Not right now. Please, please say something," added Sirius after a long silence. He was getting really worried now.

"Sirius," Charlotte said finally, "I want to be able to trust you. I can't trust you if you are constantly lying to me."

There was a long silence between the group as everyone stared at Sirius, except for Charlotte, who was on the verge of tears.

"I guess I'll go to my dormitory," Charlotte said quietly, and ran upstairs.

"How can you guys be so mean to her!" Lily shouted once Charlotte was out of earshot. "You told me the day after James asked me out! What's wrong with telling her?"


"Lilly, we barely know her," said Remus quietly.

"Yeah!" piped up Peter. "What are we supposed to do? Just go around telling everyone you think is worthy?"

"No, Peter, but she's our friend! I don't know how you guys can just sit around and not think of the torture you are putting her through!" yelled Lily. "Do you realize how much she is hurt, and how much it hurts me that I can't tell her? She comes to me, crying because she thinks Sirius doesn't care about her, or that she has no friends because they can't trust her! I can't take it much longer! If you guys don't tell her soon, I will!"

Sirius was staring at Lily, looking like he was trying hard not to cry (strange for a guy, isn't that?), James was glaring at her, Remus was simply looking at her with no emotion showing in his face at all, and Peter was looking terrified.

"Well," said Remus, "Everyone knows that this is really my decision. And as you all know, I don't want my secret out. But Charlotte has been a great friend to me. I wouldn't want to keep this from her for a moment longer."

Sirius looked like he could kiss Remus (which, thankfully, he didn't), while James and Peter looked rather perturbed.

"Are you kidding?" yelled James, but got a look at Lily's face, and fell silent.

"I'm going to go tell her. I'll be right back," said Sirius, with a smile on his face.

*

"Char?" said Sirius quietly as he opened the dormitory door. "Are you okay?"

Charlotte quickly straightened herself up after what looked like she had been crying on her bed. Her face was rather blotchy and her eyes were red and puffy.

"Yes, yes I'm fine," she said, quickly drying her eyes. "Do you need something?"

"Well the guys, Lily, and I have been talking. They agreed to let me tell you what's going on," said Sirius slowly.

Charlotte just looked at him expectantly, waiting patiently.

"The truth is… Well, Remus isn't quite… normal. He's… well… He's Moony," Sirius said, struggling to find the right words.

"And that tells me…?" said Charlotte, starting to look angry.

"Okay, there's no easy way of saying this, and you're obviously not going to let me stall," joked Sirius, "So I'm just going to come out and say it. Remus is a werewolf. Peter, James, and I go out there with him every full moon and keep him company."

"Wow… Now I understand why you couldn't tell me," said Charlotte.

"But we've agreed you're trustworthy, and you know now," said Sirius, wiping a tear off of Charlotte's cheek. "I have wanted to tell you for a really long time, but it just doesn't seem to ever work out for me. I always caught the guys at a bad time whenever I asked to tell you. Come on, let's go back downstairs."

*

"Lily, can we talk?" said James.

"Sure," she said, not in her usual perky voice. Something was obviously wrong.

"Lily, what's wrong with you lately? I mean, you have been acting strangely. Like standing up for Charlotte, who nobody cares about except you and Sirius, and giving us that whole speech that we really didn't need yesterday," said James.

"Well, I'm sorry Mr. I'm-the-best-Chaser-this-team-has-ever-seen. If I have offended you in some way, please forgive this poor little peasant. Lower-class people shouldn't speak so to macho Quidditch players," said Lily, totally going off the subject, then storming off (did they say macho then? I can't really say).

James just sort of stood there, sorting out what Lily had said. After a few seconds, he had an Andy moment and yelled "Hey!".

*

"Can you believe that? He just comes up to me and says that, like I did something wrong!" complained Lily that night in her dormitory.

"Lily, you really have to chill," said Charlotte, never ceasing to act American. "You're totally spazing out. What's your beef?"

"Okay, does that even make sense?" said Lily, coming out of her anger phase.

"In your language, that means that you are making way too big of a deal of this."

"And what's your beef means…?"

"That means what's your problem," said Charlotte, waving that aside. "You have to tell me specifically what James said."

"Well, let me think. He said 'Lily, what's wrong with you lately? I mean, you have been acting strangely. Like-' never mind. You don't want to hear the rest," said Lily.

"No, I want to hear," said Charlotte, sitting up on her bed.

"Well, he said… 'Like standing up for Charlotte, who nobody cares about except you and Sirius, and giving us that whole speech that we really didn't need yesterday'. Charlotte, I'm sorry," said Lily. "I really didn't want to tell you that. And I know Remus and Peter care about you. I just think James is having a male P.M.S."

Charlotte was silent for a moment. She looked like she was going to cry again, but didn't. Charlotte really wasn't one to cry, but she wasn't even hurt this much at her old school. And everyone hated her at her old school…

**FLASHBACK**

"Jenna, what's everyone staring at?" said Charlotte.

"Oh, I'm sure they're just… um… looking at my new lip gloss," said Jenna. She looked kind of nervous.

"Where's my Potions book?" muttered Charlotte, looking through her bag. There was a rip in the bottom.

"There it is," said Jenna, still acting nervous, pointing at the floor by the door.

Charlotte got up to get her book when a boy yelled across the room at her.

"YO, CHARLOTTE! MAYBE YOU SHOULD USE YOUR TELEKINESIS TO GET YOUR BOOK!"

Everyone in the class started laughing. Even Jenna laughed.

"Jenna," whispered Charlotte. "How could you tell?"

"I… well…" said Jenna, cowering by the window, not looking at Charlotte.

"What's wrong with you, anyway Charlotte? Do you just do that teleki-whatzit stuff to keep yourself amused? Or maybe you do it to get a boyfriend?" came a shout from somewhere in the room.

Charlotte couldn't take it anymore. She usually was very calm, but when it came to guys, she wouldn't take any shit. She totally snapped, and when she snaps, you might want to get out of the room.

Things were breaking every where, cauldrons were smashing on the floor, and the people that taunted her got thrown out the window. Books were flying, papers were ripping, and people were screaming. Then Professor Yarnot walked in.

Of course, all of the teachers knew about Charlotte's "abnormality", and Professor Yarnot knew exactly what was going on.

**FLASHFRONT**

"Charlotte? Char, are you okay?" said Lily.

"What? Oh yeah, I'm fine. Just… just thinking," said Charlotte dumbly. "Just thinking" is what all people say when they just don't want to talk about it. Lily seemed to know that.

"What's wrong?" she said worriedly.

"Well, it's just… it's just…" said Charlotte, getting close to tears again. "I've never had any real friends. It seems like you're my only friend. But the thing is my 'only friend' at my old school turned out to be… well, a traitor. She told everyone about my problem, and that's why I had to leave."

"Charlotte, I can't believe you could think that! We all care about you, and would never do that to you!" said Lily, coming over to the bed and putting her arm around her shoulders.

"I know that, but I've just been hurt so much, I can't take anymore," said Charlotte, tears streaming down her face.

"You know, James is just a wally. He'll never be as close to me as you are," said Lily. "True, I'd never have sex with you, but you're my best friend, and nothing will ever change that."

That got a wet laugh from Charlotte, but she still didn't feel much better. How could James do that? He had seemed so nice before.

"Oh yeah!" said Lily suddenly. "James doesn't know about your telekinesis! You never told him!" Lily seemed to be very happy about this.

"So? I'm sure Sirius will tell him sooner or later," said Charlotte.

"Not if we tell him not to. And since James doesn't know, don't you think we should have a little fun with it?"

"Like…?" said Charlotte, slightly confused.

"Oh, harmless things. Taking his books during class and putting it under the teacher's desk, having forks hit the back of his head at dinner… you know, stuff like that," said Lily, a maniac gleam in her eyes.

Charlotte started to grin, but her smile suddenly faded.

"Ya know, Sirius will be able to tell what we're doing," she said.

"So? He'll think it's funny, and after we tell James, he'll have us do it to some slimy git like Snape or Malfoy," said Lily, still grinning wickedly.

"Well, I wouldn't mind a little harmless revenge," said Charlotte, grinning again.

*

"Um, James?" said Peter slowly at breakfast the next day. "Why is there a fork behind your head?"

"Wha-?" started James, but a fork hitting him in the back of the head cut him off.

"Do you have a magnetic plate in your head or something?" said Peter, trying not to laugh.

"Ha, ha. What did you guys do, enchant that fork to hit me when someone asked about it?" growled James.

Nobody seemed to notice that Charlotte was concentrating hard on something behind James.

"Uh, James? Turn around," said Remus, looking confused.

When James turned around, there was a goblet floating behind him. It flew up and banged him on the top of the head. Everyone was laughing except for James.

"What did you guys do?" he said firmly. "Really, stop, or I'll hex the lot of you."

"Stop doing what?" said Sirius mock-sweetly.

"Okay, if you don't tell me, I'll post that picture I took of you guys wearing deely-boppers in all of the common rooms!" said James sinisterly.

"What are deely-boppers?" said Charlotte, taking a rest before she sent up a plate at James.

"They're those little antenna things with tiny balls on them that you wear on your head. Sirius, Peter, and Remus had some of those on at New Years Eve. They were a beautiful pink color," said James with a wicked smile.

"You wouldn't dare," said Peter, looking genuinely terrified.

"J-James, y-y-you know we wouldn't do that to you," said Sirius, starting to sound like Peter with his stutter.

"Yeah, nobody's that poxy!" said Remus nervously. It took a lot to make Remus nervous, so there must have been something else going on in that picture he didn't want to be seen.

For the sake of the other guys, Charlotte waited for Peter, Remus, and Sirius to leave before lobbing a plate at James's head.

*

"Charlotte," said Sirius when they were alone in the common room that night. "You are such a… a…"

"Poxy?" said Charlotte, grinning at Sirius, who looked beside himself with joy.

"No, you're a wonderful, magnificent, beautiful-"

"I know, I know," said Charlotte, and she leaned over and kissed Sirius.

"Intelligent, resourceful…" said Sirius afterwards, grinning still.

"I get the idea. Now, what am I going to do tomorrow?"

"Actually, I have to talk to you. When can we tell the guys about your…. What is it again?"

"Telekenisis. Anyway, you can tell Peter and Remus, but I want to have a bit more fun with James first," smiled Charlotte.

A/N: There are a couple of British terms (poxy, deely-boppers) that I got from a book with a glossary in the back explaining all of the British terms (by the way, poxy means horrible). Okay, I realize there really was no point of this chapter, nor any sort of plot. I just kind of pieced it together. Next chapter, I'll have the Yule Ball, and a bit of Severus being… well… like he is when he's an adult. But he'll be worse (I know, it's rather impossible, but when he's a teacher, he can't hex people **Wolf speaker grins evilly**), and he'll actually have friends (I know, weird, huh?). Okay, I'm going to stop telling you people, otherwise you're just going to skip the next chapter (then flame me for having plot holes), and I couldn't take that. I'm sensitive here! Don't **sob** do this to me! See, now I'm depressed! That's it! I'm doing a runner, and none of you can stop me!