Chapter 3: Bombastic Love

When the train stopped, everyone exited out. Hagrid's large booming voice could be heard over the talking and moving about.

"Firs' years! Ova' here! Firs' years this way!"

The marauders followed the rest of the crowd to carriages. They soon found one, and jumped in, with Frank Longbottom.

"How was your summer?" asked Frank.

"It was pretty good, a lot of thinking being done, you?" said James.

"It was alright, my mum took me to France, that was pretty cool," Frank said with a smile. The four boys liked Frank, and he hung out with them occasionally.

"Did you see pretty French girls?" Sirius asked hopefully, lately he was having his thoughts on girls, pranks, girls, the map, girls, and his friends. Remus rolled his eyes, and James smiled in spite of Sirius. Frank just laughed.

Pretty soon after, the carriage stopped and the five boys got out of the carriage, and went up the large stone steps to the entrance hall of the school.

Soon the whole school was seated waiting for Professor McGonagall to bring the terrified first years through the large oak doors.

The sorting hat ceremony went extremely slow for Sirius, who was whining the whole time. When Dumbledore finally stood up and said his words ('tuck in') Sirius immediately dug into the food.

When everyone finally finished eating dinner, the second years (minus Sirius who went off for his 'date') went up to their common room. The girls sat down on the common room couch and stared at the fire.

"I wonder what we'll all be like in seventh year . . ." said Alice curiously.

"Tess will be a whore," Britney muttered to Daisy. But Tess, and everyone else heard.

Tess raised her eyebrows at Britney, who was smiling innocently. "You'll be the whorey daddy's girl," Tess said dangerously low. Britney frowned.

"We'll see," said Britney lightly.

"No, you'll see how wrong you are!" Tess said angrily and stomped up the stairs.

Britney turned to her friends. "I seem to be getting into a lot of fights lately, don't I?" Britney asked them. They all nodded. Britney sighed. "I need to relax?" she asked them. They nodded nervously. "I'm going to bed," Britney grumbled.

About an hour later, Sirius finally walked into the Boys dormitory clearly proud of himself. He had a cocky grin etched on his face.

"Hey Romeo," Remus muttered upon his arrival.

"That I am," Sirius said happily. Everyone continued doing what they were doing. "Isn't anyone going to ask me what happened?" asked Sirius to everyone. "Frank? Peter? James? Remus?" They all ignored him. "Fine I'll say it anyway!"

Sirius started jumping on his bed, up and down, up and down, talking about his night with Kelly. The only one who was actually listening was Peter, who seemed awed by Sirius' accomplishment.

Next Day

"First lesson . . . Herbology, that's not that bad!" Alice said happily.

"That's because it's you best subject," muttered Daisy.

Alice smiled to herself.

Lily ate quickly. "We better hurry, classes start in ten minutes," the girls looked alarmed and quickly wolfed down the rest of their food. They ran out, and they were half way through the grounds when Lily stopped. "Where's Britney?" she asked looking at the three girls, Britney was not among them.

Tess looked at her watch. "Who cares? There's no time!" Tess exclaimed, and the four girls rushed off to the Greenhouse 2.

"Come in girls! You're just in time!" Professor Sprout ushered the four girls in. "Now today won't be anything special. I need you to help me plant theses flowers for the school; we will get into the lesson, next class. Grab some flowers!"

The second year Gryffindors and Slytherins all quickly moved around and grabbed some flowers. It was very dull work, and they worked on it for ten minutes before, Britney rushed in.

"Ms. Turner, what is the meaning of this?" Professor Sprout asked.

"Er, I was, uh . . . sleeping?" Britney said slowly.

"10 points from Gryffindor, ask Ms. Evans what you have to do!" Professor Sprout snapped. Britney quickly went over to where Lily was. She was in between Lily and a boy with greasy black hair and a hooked nose.

"Hello!" Britney said cheerfully to the boy next to her. He turned and looked at her; he had a hateful look that someone was disturbing him. Britney didn't notice at all. "I'm Britney, who are you?" James and Sirius were across from Britney and the boy, and they looked up.

The boy glared. "Leave me alone, you god forsaken annoying child!" He snapped. Britney looked quite hurtful. She nodded and turned back to her planting.

"Hey!" Lily said angry with the boy. "You should apologize, she was only being nice!" The boy shot dagger with his eyes at Lily.

"I don't need a Mudblood like yourself tell me what to do!" the boy said through gritted teeth. Everyone was now interested in this conversation. The Gryffindors gasped while the Slytherins sneered. James and Sirius stopped what they were doing and looked intently at the boy.

Britney gasped and turned to him (Lily having no clue what the problem was). "You listen to me, you god forsaken boy! Your head must be to swollen to realize that Lily is better than you in anyway! You have no right to call her that!" Britney said clearly to him.

"I don't want to hear anything from a stupid silly ditzy girl like you!" the boy accused Britney. Her eyes narrowed.

"What's your name?" she asked the boy slowly.

"Why should I tell the stupid? You'll forget it soon anyway," the boy growled. That was enough for James and Sirius. Professor Sprout, having to go to check on a plant in another Greenhouse, wasn't there to witness what happened.

James and Sirius whipped out their wands, it all went to fast for the students to see.

James yelled, "Petrificus Totalus!" the boy went rigged as a board and keeled over.

Sirius yelled, "Wingardium Leviosa!" the boy shot up into the air at about up to their shoulders.

James yelled, "Flipendo!" and the boy went straight into a large plant, with its petals opened like a mouth, behind him. But, landing into a plant isn't that bad . . . right? Well, as soon as the boy touched the plant, its two mouths like petals closed around the boy.

Everyone looked at the plant horrified. Britney and Lily slowly turned they're heads, facing James and Sirius. They looked completely shocked. Then Sirius burst out laughing, James followed suit. Soon everyone started laughing. The only ones not laughing was Britney, Lily and Remus.

Lily's mouth was still hanging open, then Professor Sprout came in. "What is so funny?" she asked scanning the children, to see the cause of laughter. She noticed a spot empty. "Where's Mr. Snape?" This caused the laughing even more. "Stop it this instant!" She noticed Lily, Britney and Remus not laughing or smirking. "Ms. Evans, where is Mr. Snape?"

Lily looked hesitantly at Britney, then at James and Sirius. They were only sticking up for her. But she couldn't lie to a teacher. Lily slowly raised her arm and pointed at the large flower, like plant behind her.

Professor Sprout's eyes widened. She rushed over to the plant, and pulled out her wand. She muttered a spell and the plants 'mouth' opened. Snape rolled out of the mouth and onto the concrete floor. "Ennervate," muttered the children's Professor. Snape's eyes snapped open; he sat up and looked around. He seemed to have realized what had happened and he got up pretty quickly.

"Who did this?" angrily asked Professor Sprout. She searched every one of the children's faces: all keeping to the innocent look. She passed James and Sirius' faces, but quickly went back. They both had the innocent faces that looked forced. She narrowed her eyes.

Sirius was looking around the room, and James was looking straight at Professor Sprout. Their teacher was staring there waiting for an answer. But when none came, she ordered James and Sirius to stay after the lesson.

"Did you do that to Mr. Snape?" asked Professor Sprout.

"No ma'am," James said slowly.

"I know you two did it, I can see it in your eyes," Professor Sprout said to them calmly.

"Well, we might have been involved, a little bit," Sirius said thoughtfully.

"How so? All you two have to do is tell the truth!" Professor Sprout seemed to be growing impatient.

James and Sirius didn't say anything.

"Twenty points from Gryffindor! Get going to class," Professor Sprout snapped. James and Sirius ran out quickly to their next class.

That Night

"I don't like that Snape guy," James muttered, while in the common room.

"Me neither, he thinks he has the right to say those things," Sirius said sitting down next to James on the couch.

James nodded his head. "That was fun though," James said slowly, a smile playing his lips.

"It was," Sirius said smirking.

"No, that was horrible," Remus said putting his book down. "You two could have gotten into more trouble!"

Sirius just rolled his eyes. "No, it was all harmless."

Peter smiled at the thought of Herbology class.

"That was hardly harmless! I mean he got eaten by a flower! You're lucky that wasn't the poisonous kind, or you would have been in a lot more trouble then you are!" Remus scolded them.

"Sorry mom," said Sirius pouting.

"No, I'm serious," Remus said more quietly.

James just looked at him. Remus gave up and he went back to his book, frowning slightly.

"Don't worry Remus, we probably won't do it again anyway!" James said smiling.

"Yeah! Well, unless Snape does anything else rude," Sirius said thoughtfully.

Second Week of School

The five girls, walked back from their last class on the Friday.

"I can't believe we have all that homework," whined Tess. The crowd of people coming out of the classes was quite huge. A boy with orange-blond hair was walking in front of Tess.

"You know what Dom, just leave it," said the boy with orange-blond hair in front of them.

"No, are you kidding, that was a bad turn down," said the boy who seemed to be Dom.

"Shut it," said the boy.

"He smells good," said Tess to her four friends.

Britney smiled. "Let me smell!" she went to go smell the boy, but then she tripped and smashed into his back.

Lily let out a snort, just as the two boys turned to look at Britney who was standing there. She gave them, her innocent smile that most people found cute.

"Hi! I'm Britney," she held out her hand. The two boys smiled at her. "This is, Tess, Lily, Alice and Daisy," she said still smiling.

"Patrick," said the boy with orange-blond hair. "This is Dom, what year are you in?" he asked looking at Britney.

'This isn't good,' thought Britney. "Uh, second year Gryffindor," Britney said biting her lower lip.

"Cool, Dom here is a Gryffindor," Britney gave a polite smile to Dom.

"Hopefully, we'll see you around," said Patrick giving the girls a wink, and he walked off with Dom. Britney scowled.

"Oh that's just great!" Britney muttered.

"I like Patrick, he smells really good," Tess said thoughtfully.

"You like him because he smells good?" asked Lily trying not to laugh.

"Well, I can learn to like him in other ways," said Tess thoughtfully.

"Oh please, he's not even good looking," said Britney.

"No, he's gorgeous," said Tess dreamily.

"His smell or his face?" asked Lily, enjoying teasing Tess for once.

"Er, both?" asked Tess confused.

"That's not a good answer," said Alice catching on to the teasing.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't ask you opinion, I like him, and I'll make him like me," snapped Tess.

Lily finally burst out laughing.

"You guys will help me, won't you?" Tess eyed them hopefully.

"Oh god," Britney muttered. "Fine," Britney didn't know why she was doing this in the first place.

"F-fine," Lily said trying not to laugh.

"Yeah," Alice said.

"Sure," said Daisy.

"Great! First things first! One of you has to warm up to Dom!" Tess said, looking at Britney.

"NO!" Britney turned around and walked away.

A/N: And so you meet Dom, Patrick and Snape! hehe, or anyone else i left out! I'm on chappie 14, and no where finished...i think. I love chapter 13, its cute, and sort of mean. Patrick won't have a big part in the story. He's only in it a few times. Poor Britney, she does alot for Tess and no thanks. You'll see;)

Next Chappie: Drowning

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