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Open To Interpretation
January past quickly for everyone at Hogwarts. It seemed like they had just gotten back from their holidays just in time for homework and just plain strenuous work that was piled on all of the students. Most Hogwart's professors seemed to realise that they had already wasted half the year and needed to make up for lost time unless it was Professor McGonnagal who had never wasted a single minute in her life, thankyou very much.
It was the night before Valentine's Day, which was a Saturday this year, and Jessabelle, Lily and Arabella were sitting around a table in the common room furiously doing their homework, hoping to finish before the weekend started. The Marauders were sitting back and relaxing around the fire, one of them every now and again offering up a prank to play on some poor soul, Snape to be exact.
"How about-" Sirius started.
"Nup, dunnit." James answered before Sirius had even finished.
"How did yo-"
"Changing the robe colours? I know you like the back of my hand Padfoot, and believe me that prank is way over done."
"Stupid know-it-all git." Sirius muttered to himself. The other boys laughed at him.
"How do you boys plan on passing your Nasties or any of your tests for that matter, unless you start doing some work?" Lily asked the Marauders.
"I didn't know you were concerned Lils." Sirius replied.
"Not concerned, just curious."
"You're just annoyed that we manage to get everything done without even trying."
"Keep dreaming Sirius. He told me himself that he has to stay up to ungodly hours of the morning in order to get everything finished." Arabella smirked at the boys.
"Nice going, Padfoot." James said smacking Sirius.
"Way to ruin our rep, Oh-Teller-Of-Secrets." Remus joked.
"Anything to add Wormtail?" Sirius and the rest of the group turned to Peter.
"Yah....I'm going to bed." Peter got up and walked up to the dorms.
"Good idea Pete." Lily said packing up her stuff.
"Hey! It's Valentine's Eve!" Arabella announced.
"10 points to Bella. Come on. Goodnight guys." Jessabelle followed Lily up to their dorm.
"Should we leave you two alone?" James looked to Sirius and Arabella.
"Ha Ha, very funny." Sirius said dryly. Arabella walked over to Sirius and kissed him on the cheek.
"Goodnight Sirius." She grinned and walked up to her dorm.
"Dee-niiiied!" James drawled. (A/N Not drooled!)
"Prat."
"OH! I don't think I can stand your verbal abuse any longer Padfoot." James feigned hurt. Sirius let of a string of expletives that had Remus covering his ears. "Much better, thankyou Padfoot."
"Anytime Prongs."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Breakfast on Valentine's Day was very exciting for all of the older Hogwart's students. The owl post came and delivered all the Valentine's Cards. The whole school was very grateful that Valentine's Day fell on a Saturday this year, unlike years before, which meant they could enjoy the whole day. It was also a Hogsmeade weekend, which served to lighten everyone's moods.
"Quick! We might miss the Owl Post! We have to be there now!" Arabella cried running around Lily and Jessabelle as they made their way towards the Great Hall.
"If we did miss the owl post Arabella, they would wait around for us you nutter." Lily reassured her. They entered the Great Hall and made their way to where the Marauders usually sat. There was a huge group of people surrounding the Gryffindor Table and the girls were curious to see what they had missed.
"But I have a girlfriend!" Came the unmistakeable voice of Sirius Black. The group laughed at something the girls couldn't hear. They pushed their way though the people standing in front of them, dreading what they would find. Sirius was in a chair with a scantily attired girl all in red sitting in his lap.
"Padfoot." James looked warily at the girls. Before Sirius could do anything, the girl on top of him grabbed his face and kissed him. A little while later the girl came up for air looking very pleased with herself.
"Now that was unacceptable. I have a girlfriend remember." Sirius said wagging his finger at her.
"Not anymore you don't." Arabella's stony voice cut through the now silent Great Hall. Sirius jumped up, the girl on his lap shrieking as she hit the floor.
"Belle. It's not what it looks like! I mean, it wasn't supposed to happen. Belle-"
"No, Sirius. What's not supposed to happen is us."
"Belle, I-"
"Save it, Sirius. We're over." She turned to walk away but Sirius grabbed her hand.
"Wait Belle-" he said desperately.
"Don't call me Belle." Arabella wrenched her hand out of his grip and walked out of the Great Hall. Sirius looked distraught. He had never been dumped before, no girl had meant as much to him as Arabella. He ran out of the Great Hall yelling her name.
"Get off the floor, Becky." Lily said coldly to the girl on the floor. "You're attire does not meet the school requirements and for that alone I will have to deduct 10 points from Ravenclaw. As for what you just did," Lily paused at this, "I thought Ravenclaws had a deeper respect for themselves and their peers. You should be ashamed of yourself. Get out of my sight. As for the rest of you," Lily raised her voice for their benefit, "Return to your house tables, the show's over." Everyone obeyed her, she was after all the Head Girl.
"That bastard." Jessabelle spat as she and Lily sat down beside James and Remus. Peter was still in their dorm.
"How could you let him do that?" Lily asked the boys.
"Don't start, Lils. We usually don't interfere when it comes to girls." James replied.
"Why couldn't you make this one of your exceptions?"
"And have him do it behind everyone's back?" James looked straight at Lily. "I'm glad Arabella found out like this."
"You wanted them to break up?" Lily raised her voice again in disbelief.
"No, Lily-"
"Then why didn't you stop him?"
"If Sirius is going to change then we can't be the ones to do it for him." James reasoned with her.
"But-"
"Enough! I'm not going to talk behind my best friend's back.....anymore than I have." James muttered the last bit to himself as he stood up and left the Great Hall.
"Hey!" Lily called after him.
"Leave it, Lils. He's just as disappointed in Sirius as you are." Remus stopped Lily from going after James.
"Poor Bella." Jessabelle sighed, "Let's go find her and go shopping. It is a Hogsmeade weekend after all." Lily and Jessabelle stood up.
"You'll explain to Peter and James why we can't join you guys at Hogsmeade, Remus?" Lily said sarcastically as they left. Remus put his head in his hands.
"This is why you never date your friends." He sighed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I can't believe that little asshole! How could he do this? Stupid, stupid." Arabella was pacing around the girl's room in anger; Jessabelle and Lily were perched on the end of her bed. "I'M SO STUPID!"
"You're not, Bella! HE is." Lily corrected her.
"But I fell for him. URGH!!" She yelled in frustration. "And then to have the nerve to try and apologise. As IF I'd take him back!!!"
"So I guess that's a no for shopping?" Jessabelle muttered to Lily.
"Shopping?" Arabella stopped pacing. "You guys are going shopping? How did I not know about this?"
"Uhh...It's a Hogsmeade weekend Bella.....remember?" Lily asked cautiously.
"That's right. Well what are you waiting for? We'll miss the first carriages! Let's go, let's go!" Lily exchanged a confused look with Jessabelle as they followed Arabella out of their dorm.
"Should I take her Valentine's Day cards with us?" Jessabelle whispered to Lily as they ran down the stairs leading to the common room.
"Have you got them?"
"Yeah."
"May as well...we can laugh at them over lunch." Lily shrugged.
~*~
"Should I give them to her?" The three girls were sitting around a table at The Three Broomsticks when Jessabelle asked Lily about the cards again.
"Give what to her?" Arabella said looking suspiciously at Jessabelle.
"Go on then." Lily sighed. Jessabelle handed Arabella a group of cards.
"My Valentine's cards?" Arabella laughed. "Oh dear. Who is it this year?"
"Oh, gosh, like, everyone, like, loves me." Lily giggled in a fake voice.
"Shutup Lily. You know she didn't mean it like that." Jessabelle admonished her.
"Says who?" Arabella raised an eyebrow at Jessabelle then started laughing, the other girls joining in. "Oh, this one's really sweet." Arabella was leafing through the pack.
"Who's it from?" Lily peered over her shoulder.
"Marcus can't-say-his-last-name. Sixth year, Ravenclaw."
"Going for younger guys now?" Jessabelle asked cheekily.
"You know Bella. She likes to corrupt them early." Lily grinned but received no response from Arabella. She had gone extremely silent.
"Here's one from Sirius." Arabella said after a while. She threw the card at Lily who was glaring at Jessabelle.
"You didn't take his out of there?" Lily was still glaring at Jessabelle.
"Whoops."
"Oh, Bella." Lily had finished reading the card and she handed it to Jessabelle to read.
"I'm not feeling well. Can we get out of here? It's really stuffy." Arabella ran from the table and out of The Three Broomsticks. The two girls quickly followed her.
"Bella." Lily walked over to Arabella who was leaning over looking like she was going to throw up.
"I'm going to throw up." She said panting.
"Don't let him get to you like this, Bella." Arabella collapsed onto the ground. "He just proved that he isn't worth it!" Lily sat down next to her.
"But he is worth it! You read the card. How could he write that then go and do something like he did? It's not fair!!" Arabella wailed, getting a few strange looks from passer-bys.
"Let's go back to Hogwarts. You're confused and plus you don't look too good." Lily said getting up.
"I don't feel too good." But Arabella still got up and walked back to the carriages with the two girls. Jessabelle had thrown the card out behind her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Doesn't look like someone liked their card very much." Peter bent down and picked up the card on the ground. "Listen to this. To my gorgeous Belle-"
"Wormtail." James warned him, looking at Sirius who was getting paler by the second. Peter continued on almost spitefully.
"I wish I could say this to your face but I love you. There's no one else for me. Happy Valentine's Day, beautiful. Love, Sirius." Peter looked up at Sirius. "Oops. Sorry Padfoot."
"Stuff it." Sirius stormed away from them and they didn't see him again until the next morning, looking extremely sorry for himself.
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Author's Note: You are speaking to a thoroughly pissed off meg. My bloody computer deleted over ¾ of work that I had done and I had to redo it again which is probably why crummy. But yeah, ya get that.I was working on the oldest computer in history but I'm on a different one now *pats the screen* good pooter *cough* Anyhoo.It's turning into a soapie really quickly!! The last bit, the note from Sirius, was dripping with sap.oo does anyone watch The Bold and the Beautiful?
Amber: I'm having my sister's, brother's, cousin's, uncle's, son-in-law's child!
Bridget: (gasping) You mean you're having your husband's baby??
Amber: (thinking for a while) Yes!
Bridget: Oh No! What are you going to do?
Amber: I don't know. But I know this. I'm having this baby whether I have to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. (Stares off into the distance blinking furiously and wiggling her eyebrows.)
A/N: Have you ever tried that? It's extremely hard to do...ANYWAYS!!!!! I've got a few too many screws loose upstairs.they keep falling too.On to the thankyous!!!! And sumfin stuffed up at fanfic and I didn't get emailed all my reviews but I saw them anyways!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
Thankyous To:
old-soul: Thankyou! I'm glad you like it and you took the time to review!!
Kat: If you think my fic's cool then you just hafta be cool yourself! Thankyou!!
sirius' lover: Not as long as it was going to be originally but yeh.hang in there!
lily elizabeth evans: Thankyou so much!
*SxYgReeNEydROse: Thankyou! I hope you get better.I'm on holidays at the moment!! No school for me!! Yay! Sorry I'm not teasing..okay well I am but *grins* I love long reviews and I'm just as crazy as you so don't worry!!! Thanks again!
Hazelmist: Remus is always pegged as the shy/reserved/brainy one so I decided to make them all cheeky little devils and then they all have their mature/serious side.bit conflicting but yeh! Thanks for reviewing!
6 reviews! The most for any chapter.I think..cept for the first chapter which got 8 for some reason *looks confused* Keep Reviewing! It's my oxygen!
meg
Open To Interpretation
January past quickly for everyone at Hogwarts. It seemed like they had just gotten back from their holidays just in time for homework and just plain strenuous work that was piled on all of the students. Most Hogwart's professors seemed to realise that they had already wasted half the year and needed to make up for lost time unless it was Professor McGonnagal who had never wasted a single minute in her life, thankyou very much.
It was the night before Valentine's Day, which was a Saturday this year, and Jessabelle, Lily and Arabella were sitting around a table in the common room furiously doing their homework, hoping to finish before the weekend started. The Marauders were sitting back and relaxing around the fire, one of them every now and again offering up a prank to play on some poor soul, Snape to be exact.
"How about-" Sirius started.
"Nup, dunnit." James answered before Sirius had even finished.
"How did yo-"
"Changing the robe colours? I know you like the back of my hand Padfoot, and believe me that prank is way over done."
"Stupid know-it-all git." Sirius muttered to himself. The other boys laughed at him.
"How do you boys plan on passing your Nasties or any of your tests for that matter, unless you start doing some work?" Lily asked the Marauders.
"I didn't know you were concerned Lils." Sirius replied.
"Not concerned, just curious."
"You're just annoyed that we manage to get everything done without even trying."
"Keep dreaming Sirius. He told me himself that he has to stay up to ungodly hours of the morning in order to get everything finished." Arabella smirked at the boys.
"Nice going, Padfoot." James said smacking Sirius.
"Way to ruin our rep, Oh-Teller-Of-Secrets." Remus joked.
"Anything to add Wormtail?" Sirius and the rest of the group turned to Peter.
"Yah....I'm going to bed." Peter got up and walked up to the dorms.
"Good idea Pete." Lily said packing up her stuff.
"Hey! It's Valentine's Eve!" Arabella announced.
"10 points to Bella. Come on. Goodnight guys." Jessabelle followed Lily up to their dorm.
"Should we leave you two alone?" James looked to Sirius and Arabella.
"Ha Ha, very funny." Sirius said dryly. Arabella walked over to Sirius and kissed him on the cheek.
"Goodnight Sirius." She grinned and walked up to her dorm.
"Dee-niiiied!" James drawled. (A/N Not drooled!)
"Prat."
"OH! I don't think I can stand your verbal abuse any longer Padfoot." James feigned hurt. Sirius let of a string of expletives that had Remus covering his ears. "Much better, thankyou Padfoot."
"Anytime Prongs."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Breakfast on Valentine's Day was very exciting for all of the older Hogwart's students. The owl post came and delivered all the Valentine's Cards. The whole school was very grateful that Valentine's Day fell on a Saturday this year, unlike years before, which meant they could enjoy the whole day. It was also a Hogsmeade weekend, which served to lighten everyone's moods.
"Quick! We might miss the Owl Post! We have to be there now!" Arabella cried running around Lily and Jessabelle as they made their way towards the Great Hall.
"If we did miss the owl post Arabella, they would wait around for us you nutter." Lily reassured her. They entered the Great Hall and made their way to where the Marauders usually sat. There was a huge group of people surrounding the Gryffindor Table and the girls were curious to see what they had missed.
"But I have a girlfriend!" Came the unmistakeable voice of Sirius Black. The group laughed at something the girls couldn't hear. They pushed their way though the people standing in front of them, dreading what they would find. Sirius was in a chair with a scantily attired girl all in red sitting in his lap.
"Padfoot." James looked warily at the girls. Before Sirius could do anything, the girl on top of him grabbed his face and kissed him. A little while later the girl came up for air looking very pleased with herself.
"Now that was unacceptable. I have a girlfriend remember." Sirius said wagging his finger at her.
"Not anymore you don't." Arabella's stony voice cut through the now silent Great Hall. Sirius jumped up, the girl on his lap shrieking as she hit the floor.
"Belle. It's not what it looks like! I mean, it wasn't supposed to happen. Belle-"
"No, Sirius. What's not supposed to happen is us."
"Belle, I-"
"Save it, Sirius. We're over." She turned to walk away but Sirius grabbed her hand.
"Wait Belle-" he said desperately.
"Don't call me Belle." Arabella wrenched her hand out of his grip and walked out of the Great Hall. Sirius looked distraught. He had never been dumped before, no girl had meant as much to him as Arabella. He ran out of the Great Hall yelling her name.
"Get off the floor, Becky." Lily said coldly to the girl on the floor. "You're attire does not meet the school requirements and for that alone I will have to deduct 10 points from Ravenclaw. As for what you just did," Lily paused at this, "I thought Ravenclaws had a deeper respect for themselves and their peers. You should be ashamed of yourself. Get out of my sight. As for the rest of you," Lily raised her voice for their benefit, "Return to your house tables, the show's over." Everyone obeyed her, she was after all the Head Girl.
"That bastard." Jessabelle spat as she and Lily sat down beside James and Remus. Peter was still in their dorm.
"How could you let him do that?" Lily asked the boys.
"Don't start, Lils. We usually don't interfere when it comes to girls." James replied.
"Why couldn't you make this one of your exceptions?"
"And have him do it behind everyone's back?" James looked straight at Lily. "I'm glad Arabella found out like this."
"You wanted them to break up?" Lily raised her voice again in disbelief.
"No, Lily-"
"Then why didn't you stop him?"
"If Sirius is going to change then we can't be the ones to do it for him." James reasoned with her.
"But-"
"Enough! I'm not going to talk behind my best friend's back.....anymore than I have." James muttered the last bit to himself as he stood up and left the Great Hall.
"Hey!" Lily called after him.
"Leave it, Lils. He's just as disappointed in Sirius as you are." Remus stopped Lily from going after James.
"Poor Bella." Jessabelle sighed, "Let's go find her and go shopping. It is a Hogsmeade weekend after all." Lily and Jessabelle stood up.
"You'll explain to Peter and James why we can't join you guys at Hogsmeade, Remus?" Lily said sarcastically as they left. Remus put his head in his hands.
"This is why you never date your friends." He sighed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I can't believe that little asshole! How could he do this? Stupid, stupid." Arabella was pacing around the girl's room in anger; Jessabelle and Lily were perched on the end of her bed. "I'M SO STUPID!"
"You're not, Bella! HE is." Lily corrected her.
"But I fell for him. URGH!!" She yelled in frustration. "And then to have the nerve to try and apologise. As IF I'd take him back!!!"
"So I guess that's a no for shopping?" Jessabelle muttered to Lily.
"Shopping?" Arabella stopped pacing. "You guys are going shopping? How did I not know about this?"
"Uhh...It's a Hogsmeade weekend Bella.....remember?" Lily asked cautiously.
"That's right. Well what are you waiting for? We'll miss the first carriages! Let's go, let's go!" Lily exchanged a confused look with Jessabelle as they followed Arabella out of their dorm.
"Should I take her Valentine's Day cards with us?" Jessabelle whispered to Lily as they ran down the stairs leading to the common room.
"Have you got them?"
"Yeah."
"May as well...we can laugh at them over lunch." Lily shrugged.
~*~
"Should I give them to her?" The three girls were sitting around a table at The Three Broomsticks when Jessabelle asked Lily about the cards again.
"Give what to her?" Arabella said looking suspiciously at Jessabelle.
"Go on then." Lily sighed. Jessabelle handed Arabella a group of cards.
"My Valentine's cards?" Arabella laughed. "Oh dear. Who is it this year?"
"Oh, gosh, like, everyone, like, loves me." Lily giggled in a fake voice.
"Shutup Lily. You know she didn't mean it like that." Jessabelle admonished her.
"Says who?" Arabella raised an eyebrow at Jessabelle then started laughing, the other girls joining in. "Oh, this one's really sweet." Arabella was leafing through the pack.
"Who's it from?" Lily peered over her shoulder.
"Marcus can't-say-his-last-name. Sixth year, Ravenclaw."
"Going for younger guys now?" Jessabelle asked cheekily.
"You know Bella. She likes to corrupt them early." Lily grinned but received no response from Arabella. She had gone extremely silent.
"Here's one from Sirius." Arabella said after a while. She threw the card at Lily who was glaring at Jessabelle.
"You didn't take his out of there?" Lily was still glaring at Jessabelle.
"Whoops."
"Oh, Bella." Lily had finished reading the card and she handed it to Jessabelle to read.
"I'm not feeling well. Can we get out of here? It's really stuffy." Arabella ran from the table and out of The Three Broomsticks. The two girls quickly followed her.
"Bella." Lily walked over to Arabella who was leaning over looking like she was going to throw up.
"I'm going to throw up." She said panting.
"Don't let him get to you like this, Bella." Arabella collapsed onto the ground. "He just proved that he isn't worth it!" Lily sat down next to her.
"But he is worth it! You read the card. How could he write that then go and do something like he did? It's not fair!!" Arabella wailed, getting a few strange looks from passer-bys.
"Let's go back to Hogwarts. You're confused and plus you don't look too good." Lily said getting up.
"I don't feel too good." But Arabella still got up and walked back to the carriages with the two girls. Jessabelle had thrown the card out behind her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Doesn't look like someone liked their card very much." Peter bent down and picked up the card on the ground. "Listen to this. To my gorgeous Belle-"
"Wormtail." James warned him, looking at Sirius who was getting paler by the second. Peter continued on almost spitefully.
"I wish I could say this to your face but I love you. There's no one else for me. Happy Valentine's Day, beautiful. Love, Sirius." Peter looked up at Sirius. "Oops. Sorry Padfoot."
"Stuff it." Sirius stormed away from them and they didn't see him again until the next morning, looking extremely sorry for himself.
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Author's Note: You are speaking to a thoroughly pissed off meg. My bloody computer deleted over ¾ of work that I had done and I had to redo it again which is probably why crummy. But yeah, ya get that.I was working on the oldest computer in history but I'm on a different one now *pats the screen* good pooter *cough* Anyhoo.It's turning into a soapie really quickly!! The last bit, the note from Sirius, was dripping with sap.oo does anyone watch The Bold and the Beautiful?
Amber: I'm having my sister's, brother's, cousin's, uncle's, son-in-law's child!
Bridget: (gasping) You mean you're having your husband's baby??
Amber: (thinking for a while) Yes!
Bridget: Oh No! What are you going to do?
Amber: I don't know. But I know this. I'm having this baby whether I have to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. (Stares off into the distance blinking furiously and wiggling her eyebrows.)
A/N: Have you ever tried that? It's extremely hard to do...ANYWAYS!!!!! I've got a few too many screws loose upstairs.they keep falling too.On to the thankyous!!!! And sumfin stuffed up at fanfic and I didn't get emailed all my reviews but I saw them anyways!! Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!
Thankyous To:
old-soul: Thankyou! I'm glad you like it and you took the time to review!!
Kat: If you think my fic's cool then you just hafta be cool yourself! Thankyou!!
sirius' lover: Not as long as it was going to be originally but yeh.hang in there!
lily elizabeth evans: Thankyou so much!
*SxYgReeNEydROse: Thankyou! I hope you get better.I'm on holidays at the moment!! No school for me!! Yay! Sorry I'm not teasing..okay well I am but *grins* I love long reviews and I'm just as crazy as you so don't worry!!! Thanks again!
Hazelmist: Remus is always pegged as the shy/reserved/brainy one so I decided to make them all cheeky little devils and then they all have their mature/serious side.bit conflicting but yeh! Thanks for reviewing!
6 reviews! The most for any chapter.I think..cept for the first chapter which got 8 for some reason *looks confused* Keep Reviewing! It's my oxygen!
meg