Reaka: Hello Teenage Maru! Do you want to do the disclaimer for me?

Teenage Maru: (runs away)

Reaka: At least I tried! Anyway, you all know the scenario. The only characters I own in this whole damn fic are Rose and Maru. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to respond to the reviewers.

Fool Moon: I agree. All cliffhangers must die. Thank you!

Reese Craven: Potato pototo. What's the difference? Or is this revenge for pointing out your typos? Eh, no matter. Thank you for your review! I made Snape say "cat got your tongue?" twice? Oops! You and I both know I didn't mean to do that.

I'm aware I spelled potato wrong the second time. I'm going by pronunciation to make my point. Yeah. Anyway, part of this story will be with Maru and Rose, but most of it is Maru's point of view. You know. The usual stuff. So, on with the next chapter!

Hell-warts

(Rose and Maru)

The sunset shone so bright in Maru's house that Rose closed the curtains so she could look at the pictures. Maru was taking a bathroom break leaving Rose to stare at her pictures.

She picked up a picture of Lily and James. As she stared at James for a while, she had to admit he was a little cute. And Lily was really beautiful.

"They look perfect for each other," she thought.

Suddenly, James's picture winked at her. Rose blinked and shook her head.

"It's my imagination," she thought.

Lily waved at her. Rose screamed and dropped the picture. Quickly, she put it back on the picture and found one of Sirius. She looked at it hoping it was safe. But Sirius started playing with his hair and raising his eyebrows suggestively to her.

"Oh my god, I'm getting hit on by a picture!" Rose yelled. She put that one down and out of her sight. Looking to her right, she noticed a picture of Peter Pettigrew with a younger Maru at his side. Peter waved at Rose, and she quickly had the urge to tear it up. But she remembered it was Maru's picture. She just buried it with the other pictures.

Finally, she found another picture of Remus. He really was a cute as Maru portrayed him to be. She started looking for other pictures of him. She found three other pictures.

The first one showed all four Marauders smiling at the camera. Rose smiled as they all waved to her. Without even realizing it, she waved right back at them. The second one showed Remus reading a book with James and Sirius behind him looking as though they were going to jump on him. Maru came back before Rose could pick up the third one.

"Are you okay in here?" Maru asked. "I heard you screaming for bloody murder."

"Oh I'm okay," Rose said, "considering that I was just hit on by a picture of Sirius."

Maru laughed.

"I forgot my pictures have the tendency to move when I found them. I'm sorry for that."

She was about to say something more when she found the picture of her and Peter standing together in the picture.

"What do you know? So I do have a picture of the ugly bastard."

"You know how I knew it was him? You looked like you didn't want to be in the picture."

"No, I didn't. Now where was I with my story?"

(Maru's point of view)

Peter Pettigrew wasn't only a manipulative rat, but he was also a major control freak. I soon learned that I couldn't do as much as get to Potions on time without his permission. He didn't care that my grades would steadily drop, and that I was losing our house lots of points for being tardy. All he cared about was snogging with me.

About a week after we started dating, James walked to me in the hall.

"Hey there, Maru," he said cheerfully.

"Hey," I replied.

"You don't look so happy. Something you want to talk about?"

I looked up at him and wondered if I should tell him about Peter. He didn't know about my crush on Remus either, but was it really worth being controlled by Peter just to keep that secret. Apparently, I thought it was that important. So I shook my head no.

"That's okay," he said. "Lily wasn't sure if I'd see you before she did today, so she wondered if you wanted to come to Quidditch practice with her."

"But she doesn't play Quidditch."

"No, but she likes watching me. But who doesn't? I'm a sexy beast."

I laughed. James Potter was still full of himself.

"Get over it, James. I'll see if it's okay with Peter."

"She also told me to tell you, if I saw you first, to tell Peter to stuff it and come anyway. You don't have a choice in this matter."

I laughed when he said it. It just seemed really funny to me.

"Good! A smile!" James said. "I haven't seen one of those on your face since you started dating Peter. See you later, Maru."

He turned and walked away before the bell rang. Right when he left, Peter came up to me and grabbed my arm. It wasn't a gentle grab either.

"What'd he say to you, huh?" Peter asked angrily. "What'd you tell him?"

"What're you so paranoid about?" I asked. "I didn't tell him about you okay? He just wanted to know if I would go with Lily to watch him practice Quidditch."

"No! You're supposed to spend time with me! That's what boyfriends and girlfriends do!"

"Stuff it Peter! I'm going anyway!"

I broke free of his grip on my arm and ran away from him. To this day, I still don't know where I got the courage to say that to him. But it felt good to say it.

On my way to the Quidditch field, Sirius saw me and started walking along.

"Hey there, Maru!" he said. "Heading to the Quidditch field too?"

"Yeah," I answered.

"And Peter isn't stopping you?"

"I got some courage and told him to stuff it."

"Maru!"

"Are you going to tell me that I did something bad?"

"No. I'm surprised you're capable of saying that to anyone! Pretty soon, you'll be calling us all shit-head bastards and other stuff like that!"

"Sirius, you are a shit-head bastard."

He laughed as we entered the field.

"You sure know how to say that calmly," he laughed.

Lily and Remus were sitting in the stands waiting for us. Their conversation stopped once we walked in.

"Maru!" Lily greeted. "We haven't seen much of you lately! How've you been?"

"Okay," I answered.

"Good to know," she said. "Where's Peter?"

"Peter never watches the Quidditch practices," Remus answered. "I thought you knew that."

"Must've slipped my mind," Lily replied.

As the conversation centered on Peter, I decided to be more focused on the practice. It was amazing watching James and the other players flying on their broomsticks. James had the Quaffle and was going to the goal in front of him. He'd scored. I held my breath as I watched a Bludger nearly hit his head. I sighed as he missed.

"Maru?" Remus asked. "Maru, are you with us? Or are you too busy watching James to hear us?"

I looked over. Remus and the others were staring at me funny. I blushed. Remus came to me and sat down.

"So, Maru," he said. "Now that you're with your friends, minus your boyfriend, is there something you want to tell us?"

I couldn't help but wonder if they knew what Peter was doing. Thinking it was nonsense I pushed the thought out of my head. I looked up at him and lied.

"No," I lied.

There was something in his eyes that made me wonder if he knew I was lying. It really hurt lying right to his face. He patted my shoulder.

"Well," he said, " you can tell us if something does come up okay?"

I nodded, and he smiled.

The next three weeks were frustrating on Peter's part. He tried everything to be alone with me. But every time he tried, Remus, James, Sirius, or Lily would casually find and start talking to us. I could actually feel his anger as he gripped my hand tighter each time. I couldn't help but feel like they were watching us somehow.

Then one night, I couldn't take anymore of Peter's crap.

We were walking down the hall when he saw Remus coming towards us. Grabbing my hand to make sure I couldn't get away, he opened a door to a classroom and shoved me inside. He closed the door himself after walking in.

"You told them," he growled. "You said something didn't you?"

"No!" I argued. " I didn't tell them anything! I swear!"

"You lying little bitch! I know you did! Why else would they do that to us? Huh?"

"Maybe they realize what a sneaky bastard you are!"

He yelled and lunged at me. I quickly jumped out of the way. He turned to me again.

"Why you..."

"STUPEFY!"

Peter fell, stunned. I started breathing quickly expecting him to jump up and try to come after me again. I didn't want to think about what might've happened if he caught me.

Luckily, the door was unlocked. I twisted the knob and walked out. Once I did, I bumped into Sirius and Remus at the same time.

"Well, there you are!" Remus exclaimed. He sounded somewhat relieved.

"We've been looking all over for you!" Sirius said. "Remus said you and Peter looked desperate to be alone, so we came here."

The three of us walked into the Common Room. Once there, I let myself fall right on the couch.

"Maru, are you okay?" Remus asked. "You look like you just experienced something horrible."

"Well, she is dating Peter," Sirius joked.

"There's something I need to tell you guys," I said slowly. "It's about Peter."

Remus and Sirius looked at each other then back at me.

"We wondered when you'd actually say something," Sirius said. "Tell us everything."

(Rose and Maru)

"They knew?" Rose asked, surprised. "How did they know about Peter?"

"I don't know how much they knew," Maru confessed, "but I told them everything all the same."

"So how did they react when you actually told them the whole story?"

Maru looked at her pictures for a while longer, then she looked back at Rose.

"They reacted like this..."

Reaka: That's it. So, how do you like it? That's not the end of the story! There's still a few more chapters to go yet with that. But that's it with the chapter. Review, please! Review!

One more thing! I'm going to be changing the name of this. What should my new title be? Any suggestions? I need to know. Thanks! Review! You know you want to! Review!