Chapter Five – A Girls Guide To Life

A/N: OMG! Chapter five! I am so very proud of myself, I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have done writing it so far. I love all feedback and I will be responsible for any mistakes in this story, I hope nothing is really cliché in this story (overdone) I think maybe the introducing a new character is all. But Anna Michelle's life is different to other girls one's, it's not the old transfer student from America trying to get in Harry Potter's pants and love life, but a saviour story of a girl who has been cruelly treated is finally getting the care she needs. There is still the question though, who is her father Oo (sorry I am in love with that psycho face) Anyway, read on. Also, this chapter has a lot to do with girls and their genitals, so if you want, skip the part if you're a young reader, it's not to bad, just explain some things to Anna that she didn't notice. Oh and Anna hasn't suddenly gotten angry, mood swings are something we girls all get.

Anna braced herself for meeting everyone and held Remus's hand tightly as they walked through the doorsill and into the roomy kitchen. Everyone had regained their self-control and hopefully were not as nervous as Anna to meet them.

She was clad in the nightclothes that Remus had given to her (or she thought he did) last night, she didn't notice until now that she was wearing them. She kept her feet walking and sat in the most far seat from the people in the kitchen then, which was right at the end of the table. Finally, when she had assured that she was going to be okay, Anna stood, she had never talked to anyone with the exception of Remus. She was shaking all over when she spoke in a nervous voice.

"Hi, I am Anna Michelle," she said a little unevenly, trying hard not to cry, "I-I am sixteen this year and I hope that I will see much more of all of you." Her jade eyes went a dark green with a sickly uneasiness, even after she had sat down and stopped speaking.

Remus, whom she owed so much too, spoke for her in a more clear voice, "I'm pretty sure you will Anna, I'm going to enroll you into Hogwarts." Anna looked at him with dark senseless eyes, she didn't want to go there, Hogwarts was the place that haunted her, the huge, castle thing.

"I-I don't want to go there!" She said, in a shaky voice, a boy with raven black hair, green eyes like Anna's and circular glasses nudged his friend.

The boy spoke, "Maybe we should- you know – change the subject Remus, since Anna doesn't want to talk about it. I mean there isn't anything wrong with Hogwarts once you see it."

"Anna, I think that going to Hogwarts would be best f-" Remus started but was interrupted by the raven haired girl at the opposite side of the table.

Anna's stomach region was really bugging her and she wanted to get out, but not to Hogwarts. Anna stood up with a sudden confidence and to everyone's surprise spoke angrily and clearly, "No, changing the subject won't do for me, WE are going to settle this NOW!" Her black hair blew into her face as she spoke and her forest green eyes were filled with an internal courage. "I will NOT go to that… place. And that is FINAL!"

She stormed out of the room, everyone staring at her since they didn't know what to say. Hermione Granger stood and assured everyone that she'll have a girl talk with them, Ginny followed her, winking to Harry as Hermione smiled to Ron.

Anna was situated on the bathroom floor, she looked up at her visitors but did not speak as they invited themselves into the room. Hermione looked over to Ginny and nodded.

Ginny said nonchalantly and sitting down on the cold tile floor, leaning on the bathtub, "So, what's up?" Anna closed her eyes and pointed up.

"The roof."

Ginny sighed with a rage, "It's a question in teen slang, I'm asking you what is wrong!" She almost yelled, Hermione hushed her. Anna opened her eyes.

"I know this is something you don't wanna talk about but hear us out," The smart brunette said soundly, "What's the sudden mood swing?"

Anna sighed in depression and looked down at them, they were harmless, she could at least tell them how she felt, "I feel really sick, like I'm having my guts removed or something…" The girls looked horrified, she frowned, "Maybe I should go and tell the boys if it's too gross for you to-"

Hermione and Ginny shook their heads, Ginny spoke first, "No, No, it's just I think I know why your acting this way. How long ago did it start?"

"Well, it's never caused me to be angry before, just depressed, it started when I was around Ten to eleven." Hermione giggled as Anna said this, Ginny had a huge grin upon her face.

"My, my, my Anna Michelle, you my child are an early bloomer." Hermione said with a laugh, Anna flushed because she didn't know what it meant, Hermione saw this and smiled again, "Don't worry about it, better then being a late one, I was early as well when I got mine."

"Got what?" Anna asked with a small grimace.

"Accio, Girls Guide To life!" She said with a flick of a wooden stick a flicker of red and yellow light errupted from the stick, As she saw Anna look at it with surprise, she muttered, "I'm a witch, and I think you are too." Anna still looked at it in horror as a book came flying into the room.

"Okay, what were talking about, is this," She showed Anna a page in the book which had a picture of a lady, marking off days on a calendar, "It happens to every female."

"But- what is it?" She asked as a reply, Ginny was in hysterics of laughter, Hermione was a little shocked and Anna was totally clueless.

"It's your periods, here I'll read the text." She paused looking down at the book, "A girls first period can come as quite a shock. It normally happens around twelve, or thirteen, and it can come without any warning. You could be sitting down reading or at school or you could wake up one morning and find some blood between your legs. Just like that." Hermione looked up at Anna, she was taking all this in easily, She kept explaining where it came from and all abou the craps, answering all the questions Anna had thought about in her mind. She explained how mood swings could effect her. Afterwards, Anna felt more comfortable knowing that anger moods happen to everyone when they feel they were at a risk.

"So princess, you ready to tell us why you hate Hogwarts so much? And maybe your life story?" Ginny asked when Hermione was finished explaining, "Please! And we'll tell you all about our lives."

Anna smiled and nodded, the girls exchanged glances of glee, "Just as long as you don't tell anyone else?" The two girls nodded and smiled sincerely to her again.

"We promise," Hermione said, she did a hand shake to Ginny and Anna, just to prove that they are all honest.

"Okay, I'll tell you about me first. As you know, my name is Anna Michelle, I have never known my father and my mother had died when I was one, I don't like telling people about my mother, all I know is that her name was Merriweather Michelle, she looked nothing like me, except for her paleness. I guessed at first that I had inherited it all from my father, so I stuck to that. Also another thing about my mother was how she had died, was that she was murdered by Lord Voldemort." She paused with a sigh remembering her mothers scream in her head, even though she was only one she remembered a bright green light erupt over her mother and she fell to the floor, dead. "I have never, until recently, actually today, ever been In daylight, I have lived in total darkness for what seems to be forever, I had never any visitors only letters from someone that I had decided I hated."

Ginny looked curious, "Who?"

Anna shrugged, "Don't remember the name," She said frowning, "But it had something to do with poem or riddle." She shrugged again. "Oh, Well."

"Continue," Hermione replied Anna, smiling slightly.

"Well, I was tortured in full dark, they thought I had information, but I was only five! I guess it was just something to make me stronger, cause after a while they stopped, I think I was seven but anyway, I was shoved back into the cabin, someone came everyday to give rations of food and water to me but I had never met them, I suppose it was one of Voldemort's supporters."

"Death-eaters." Hermione cut in, nodding.

"Yeah I think it was that." Anna said continuing her story, "Then I met Remus, at the time I didn't know his name, he never told me, he tutored me for english, mathematics and the rest of it. He also taught me how to pray and everything related to god. I thanked god for him one night, and that was my first prayer."

"When I grew to be eleven, Voldemort somehow found that Remus had feelings for me and was going to far with the caring, so he told Remus to say a goodbye to me and leave, or die. Remus had no choice, so he said his goodbye and gave me a T-shirt, seven sizes big for me though, and his diary." Anna's voice was full of confidence in telling people her story and Ginny and Hermione were listening intently as she described all that had happened to her.

"And why do you hate Hogwarts?"

"I'll get to that later."

Anna had to be practically dragged back into the kitchen, everyone was in there still, but all helping make lunch, she walked in with her new acquainted friends, she couldn't believe that she only met them today, it felt like they had known each other for a lifetime, due to swapping life stories. Even though Hermione and Ginny didn't feel that their stories were as crash hot or serious as Anna's, she found both exciting to their surprises. They didn't notice that she hadn't said about Hogwarts yet.

Her mood had eased down and Anna was once again slightly nervous, but happy. Everyone sat down to lunch, Hermione and Ginny joining Anna at the end of the table. People started to introduce themselves and greet Anna in a cheerful manner, as if the anger swing never happened, this was because Remus had asked them to pretend it never had happened, knowing Anna's state, they agreed, they knew she had a right to be angry as everyone did.

A flaming red haired boy spoke first, "Ron Weasley," the boy said, his eyes full of emotion, Anna smiled and shook his hand, "Sixteen as well." Anna was liking these people more and more by the minute.

She had already met Hermione and Ginny, but they laughted and met each other again. They pulled off comments like, "Nice to meet you then," and "Oh how do you do," before bursting into laughter, making everyone stare as if they were mental.

She looked upon the last boy, "Harry Potter," he said, "You know the rest, sixteen etc." He flushed and smiled to Ginny who grinned at Hermione who set of a million more grins to everyone. Anna felt like flying or on the verge to anyway, she thought it a gift to see everyone so happy, she had never seen anyone so happy before, Maybe Remus but this place was so cheerful it awed her slightly.

But even though this was, something bugged her, something about a dream, then she remembered it all, she had a million images from the dream flash before her mind, she decided to confront Harry later.

"This is Molly and Arthur Weasley," Anna nodded as Remus said this, she shook hands with each of the couple and turned to the twins. "And these two are Fred and George," amused, she shook their hands as well, they were twins she knew that because they looked exactly the same.

After a nice lunch, compliments to Mrs. Weasley, Anna felt stuffed, it was as if she had just ate two months of rations, Hermione laughted when she told her that. "Well, get used to it girl." She had said. Anna finally felt at home, she finally had friends and people to share her opinion to.

Weeks and months went by and Anna learnt more and more from Hermione and Ginny, to speak up and have confidence, to check out a guy (A/N: It'll come in handy later) and they were starting to teach her how to dance and how to over come the worst of things… Embarrassment. She even had a flick of Hermione's wand, only to say the spell wrong and blow up Hermione's trunk, it was shocking but Hermione did a sort of repair spell, and the pieces of the exploded trunk came back together to form the suitcase it once was.

After this event had happened, Anna was stuffed, she ate her dinner and then was surprised as Remus addressed her in a formal sort of manner and asked her if they could speak alone. She nodded and he asked where she would like to go, to his surprise, she walked into the bathroom and sat on the floor, Remus closed the door behind him and stood.

"Sit." Anna ordered, he sat opposing her and she rolled her eyes, "Sit, next to me…" She said slightly annoyed, but she hadn't told him where to sit the first time so she apologized for her rudeness.

After a minute, Anna decided to break the uneasy silence, "So, Remus. What did you call me in here for?" She said in a small voice, she still hated to talk, even though she did a lot to Hermione and Ginny.

"I wanted to tell you, that you don't have to go to Hogwarts, I can always send you to some-some other school like Durmstrang or something." He asked a little shaky, Anna studied what he was wearing.

A light blue button down short-sleeve shirt that exposed only a small bit of his chest, black slacks and casual men's shoes. She realized what Hermione had said about men, Her voice echoed through Anna's mind, 'Check out all that looks good! Don't worry it's a girl thing, even if you don't want to you find you look at their clothes, then their facial features and then their body, your mind generates mental images of them, if you like what you see, catch him Anna!' She had winked at her with a little cat purr.

Even though she tried to resist, she found herself staring into Remus's cloudy honey brown eyes, he was smiling and his hair was looking rather messy. It annoyed Anna slightly, so she took out a comb and frowned at his questioning face.

"Remus!" She said flushed, "You really-" One brush, "-need to-" more brushes, "-Rethink-" a longer brush, "-Your hairstyle!" She finally finished straightening his hair but then she realized it could not be tamed when it stayed for a second and then sprung back out at her. She grumbled about stubbornness and then remembered what Remus had said about Hogwarts.

"I know this is unexpected, but I rethought it, thanks to two of my new friends, Mione' and Gin." Remus smiled and nodded, Anna let out a sigh and smiled as well. "I want to go."

"That's good news," he said, putting a hand through his hair and looking up at the roof, unknown to the feelings that were boiling inside Anna.

For some reason, she felt a sudden sickness, butterflies in her stomach, she thought it was her period, but it seemed to only happen when he was around. She knew that it wasn't anger, she couldn't feel angry towards him ever, she loved Remus with all her heart, she was prepared to die for him… maybe that was it.

Realizing this, Anna went hot in the cheeks. She felt a wave of dizziness, it felt as if she was going to faint, maybe it wasn't love, but maybe it was her period, maybe… she was so confused. She didn't know what to do as she collapsed into Remus's lap, she was conscious but dizzy. She could only see the white roof of the bathroom until a blurry object blocked her thoughts, Remus was asking if she was okay.

With her sight regained, she forced herself up only to accidentally hit Remus in the head, out of force, their lips met and held there as if in a lock, both people were frozen, Anna finally pulled away flushing scarlet.

Remus was also going red. Anna stood and said uneasily, "Sorry Remus… B-b-but I-I-I… I have to go!" She said, running up to Hermione and Ginny's room. She knew Remus was going to follow her, but after a minute he didn't so she ran faster.

She closed the door with a quick reflex and slumped to the ground, a hand to cover her face. Hermione and Ginny looked at one and other and then one of them asked her what was wrong.

"Humilation Nation," she said, Ginny and Hermione had told her a load of girl and slang talk, stuff to use and stuff not to.

Hermione looked at Ginny with a tilt of her head, "Gin, Get this girl to a seat, I'll get the ice-cream." Ginny nodded and watched Hermione slip out of the room. What seemed to be five minutes later, Hermione came back, with a small tub of three colours, vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. She held them underneath Anna's nose.

"Which one do you hate the most? Choose honestly cause this is a ritual." Ginny said, Anna started at her with a funny look but chose strawberry to be the most hated flavor, Hermione made a face.

"I agree with you," She said, eyeing the strawberry, "What's your most favorite flavor?"

Anna chose chocolate for her favorite, even though she had never tried vanilla. Hermione took out a spoon and opened the tub of chocolate. She then nodded to Ginny and Ginny locked the door.

"I understand that something happened with either one of the two subjects, Periods or Boys/Men/Whoever?" Hermione said, Anna looked shocked at her power to know these things. Then again, Hermione knew from the best, she told Anna that she had many older cousins who had taught her about the rituals and such. Personally, Anna thought she was a genius, and proof was backed up with that. Hermione knew so much about…everything. She was wondering why guys weren't begging her to date her. If Anna was a boy, she definitely would.

"Boys… men… whoever," Anna said, slowly pronouncing each word as if, if she said them fast, they would poison her.

Hermione took out a tablespoon of chocolate ice-cream and then gave it to Anna, she held it, "What this is, is a ritual where you tell us the problem, we compromise and then find a solution, each part has a flavor, for the problem, it's the one you most like, for the solution it's the one you like the least and for compromising it's the one in the middle."

Anna nodded and looked over at Ginny, as she did, someone knocked on the door, Ginny grinned and knocked back sarcastically, then yelled, "Could you knock any louder!?" She yelled, Anna almost fell off her seat and Hermione was laughing.

"Sorry," came the reply, Ginny looked back at Hermione, Hermione came to the door.

"Male, or female?" She asked in a sly and sneaky voice.

"God Hermione, It's Remus!" The man outside yelled, Hermione and Ginny were both at the door so they didn't see Anna blush. They looked at each other then back at Anna, who had regained control of her facial colour.

"He's a safe bet, we'll let him in." Ginny said, Anna shook her head drastically.

"NO! do NOT I repeat do NOT let him in!" They looked at her weirdly, and then turned back to the door. Anna crouched in a corner and stayed silent, half hidden in the shadows, being alone in the dark was her element, or maybe always being in the dark was her element, she didn't know better, either one.

"What's wrong Professor Lupin?" Ginny asked, there was a muffled cough and what sounded like a sigh before he spoke.

"I need to ask you, is Anna in there!?" Anna shook her head again as he said this, Hermione tried not to laugh.

"No Professor Lupin, Sorry." Hermione said opening the door a crack. "I think she went into the bathroom again. She said something about mood swings." Remus nodded and left.

When they finally heard his footsteps die down, Hermione and Ginny burst out laughing. Anna was still in Humilation Nation so she didn't speak. Only frown.

"So now we know who Anna is talking about," Hermione said, in a serious voice.

A/N: So, So, So Sorry about the cliffhanger! I will post the next chapter up as soon as I can. Do not worry fans, Anna did that by ACCIDENT, she is not getting with Remus, he is way too old… or is he… Evil grin. Maybe later.