THE QUEEN OF MY HEART

Disclaimer: By the way, Brenda Lee is mine. And so is Melissa Crabtry. I don't care if anyone uses them. I just wanted to say that they're the only characters that I made up.

Chapter four: According to James

The gang had planned to meet in the library to work on the special potion that they were brewing. Sirius, Peter, and Remus showed up on time, but they couldn't find James anywhere. He had been the one to say where they should meet and when. It seemed odd that he was the only one not there.

"Maybe he is here," Remus guessed. "Maybe he just started looking for a book."

"Maybe he saw some girl and followed her behind a book shelf," Sirius suggested, smiling.

"He's going out with Brenda," Peter reminded.

"Doesn't mean he can't have fun on the side," Sirius said.

"Wouldn't hurt to look around a bit for him," Remus told them.

Sirius, Peter, and Remus parted to look in separate directions. Remus found himself wandering down unfamiliar aisles. The shelves reached toward the ceiling. Remus wondered how someone would get a book from the top of the shelf. On some compulsive urge, Remus scanned for people, and once seeing none, began to climb the shelf. The books seemed to get dustier the higher he reached. The books near the top had probably never been read.

"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" the voice came from the other side of the shelf.

Remus reached the top and glanced over the shelf and down into the aisle. Two people stood just below him. One of them had untidy black hair. It had to be James. The other person was blond, and from the view Remus had, she had quite a nice body. It seemed to be Brenda Lee.

"It's not you, it's me," James told her.

"I've heard that one before," Brenda scoffed.

"It just doesn't seem right to lead you on like this," James went on.

"You know something, James Potter?" Brenda asked. "You are a cad. I don't even know why I went out with you."

James ignore this statement and continued, "I'm sorry, Brenda, but I'm going to have to break up with you."

Brenda shook her head, saying, "You're insufferable."

"I know it'll be hard to get over me at first," James told her. "But you're strong. I'm sure you can do it."

Brenda slapped James across his face.

"No one has ever dumped me!" She yelled. "Look at me! I am a freaking goddess!"

James was silent.

"You know what?" Brenda said calmly. "If you want to pass up this, that's fine with me. I can get any guy I want to. Most of them are much better looking then you."

Brenda turned on her heels and walked away.

Just then, Remus lost his balance. He flipped over the shelf and went hurtling toward the ground. James pulled out his wand and casted "Wingarium Leviosa!" just before Remus hit the ground. Remus had to breath a moment while James gently set him on the ground. Remus looked up at James.

"What on earth were you doing up there?" James asked.

"I was," Remus began, but he couldn't think of a good explanation. "I was looking for a book."

James raised his eyebrow at Remus.

"Did you see what happened?" James questioned.

Remus nodded.

"Why did you break up?" He asked. "You had just gone exclusive."

"I can't date one girl too long," James told him. "That's like tying me down. Plus, Brenda started talking about doing things next summer."

"So," Remus voiced.

"So, that means she plans for us to stay together until next Summer," James began. "We got together this Summer. Next Summer we'd have been together a year. You know what that means?"

"No," Remus answered, pulling himself off of the ground.

"That means she'll be begging for a ring," James explained.

"A ring?" Remus repeated. "You're only sixteen."

"I'll be seventeen next year and that'll be our last year at school," James went on. "She'll be expecting to take vows right after we graduate."

"So you dumped her?" Remus assumed.

"I had to," James told him.

"She wasn't too happy about it," Remus voiced.

"Not many of them are when they're dumped by James Potter," James said narcissisticly.

"You had Brenda Lee," Remus informed. "She's one of the hottest girls in school. You could have waited it out."

"Nah," James replied. "Once they start getting serious, it's time to bale. If not, you're trapped for life."

Remus wasn't sure about this, but he didn't comment on it.