Four Lovely Ladies- Chapter 2

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A/N: I've always wondered what a beta-reader is, so could someone please tell me.

A/N: This chapter is dedicated to you BlueMoonChild89! My very first reviewer ever!

Dear Journal,

"Wake-up sleepy heads!" Called my dear friend Stella at the top of her lungs.

Why does she have to be such a morning person!

I heard Bailey grumble from across the room. And then everything got quiet for a few seconds. Good, I thought, she has finally come to her senses and is allowing us to sleep. It was only 6:30 in the morning, why the rush? But, just as I thought that, a loud banging could be heard in my ear! I jumped up, and screamed holding my ears tight.

"GOD STELLA, SHUT THOSE THINGS UP!" Yelled Lily.

Stella was holding a pair of cymbals she must have conjured from her wand.

Bailey ran up to Stella and whacked a pillow on her head.

"O-o-o-o," said me and Lily in unision, "you're gonna get it."

Stella took the cymbals and slammed them together in Bailey's ears, and then she grabbed a huge pillow off of her bad and started hitting her with it. Bailey ran out of the room screaming and throwing her hands in the air. This was hilarious! At least that's what I though, then Stella rounded on us.

Lily and I just glanced at each other, screamed, and ran out of the room also. We are so-o-o-o gonna get it. We giggled and laughed all the way down the staircase.

We were all in nightgowns only and were trampling down the steps. Bad idea, especially because the marauders were in the common room and our dresses were kind of short.

Then Lily ran right into James, knocking him over. Bailey laughed and pointed, then kept running, she ran right into Sirius and they both toppled on the ground.

Stella tripped over James as he was trying to get up and fell on top of Remus who then knocked Peter down.

I was the only one left not in the dog-pile.

"Hahahaha...you...hahaha...guys...haha...look...ha...funny!" I said in between giggles.

Then Remus grabbed my leg and I fell down also.

We all began laughing and smiling, until I found Sirius looking up my skirt, then I scrambled to my feet and pulled my dress down past my knees.

"Nuh-uh Sirius, I'm taken!" Squealed Stella when she saw Sirius looking up her skirt too, then jumping up and pulling her skirt down.

"I'm really, I understand if you wanna look up my skirt Sirius, but Hollie's!" She said.

I flushed and my mouth dropped open. I pushed her back into the pile and said, "I am just as pretty as you!"

And then Bailey got up and said, "No fair Hollie," and then helped Stella up, Stella smiled and Bailey grabbed her arm, "I wanted to push her in!" Laughed Bailey shoving her back in.

"Bailey! I'm insulted!" Said Stella with her hands on her hips.

"Yeah I know, I'd find it insulting too if Hollie pushed me in." Bailey smirked and watched as Stella prepared herself for a fight. Stella drawled her self up to full height and said, "are you calling me a weakling?"

Bailey drawled herself to full height also and beat Stella by two inches and said, "So what if I am?"

Then Bailey broke off into a run and ran out the portrait hole. Mind you she was only wearing her nightgown. Then Stella jumped and ran after her, again with only a nightgown on.

"They're insane." Stated Remus.

"Cute butt though," Added Sirius with a lopsided grin.

"I better go get them before they make total fools of themselves." Said Lily walking out of the common room, with only her nightgown on.

"Well, aren't you going too?" Asked James

"Are you kidding, I'm going to back to bed," I said softly and walked back up the spiraling staircase. I could never really talk to guys unless they made me really mad.

"Suit yourself, but we were just going to play truth or dare." Said Sirius with a small smile.

I turned around and said," That's why your up so early, to play a stupid little game that in all you do is get yourself embarrassed?"

"Oh, so you're hiding something, I see then, you don't have to play, I respect the fact that some people hide things and-"

I cut him off, "I'm hiding something! You think I am hiding something! Sure I'll play then, just to prove to you, I'm not."

This is most uncharacteristic of me, but I was in a bad mood, and I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before.

I plopped down on one of the red comfy armchairs and crossed my arms and legs, looking into Sirius's eyes, with an expression that said, "try me".

"Feisty today, aren't we, what, is it that time of month again?" Asked Sirius sitting down in front of me and the others just sat around us. I looked disgustingly at him.

Then Bailey walked in, and didn't help at all, "Yes, she's PMSing and it doesn't mean what you think P.M.S stands for Pre Moon Syndrome."

I just gaped at her, open-mouthed in shock. How could she! They were bound to figure that I was a werewolf now! And the last person on earth I wanted to know was the marauders, no doubt would they tell the whole school!

Bailey slapped her hand on her mouth and slowly walked upstairs.

"What is she talking about?" Squeaked Peter. Who had been very quiet until now.

"I have no idea-" I started before the howling and barking and meowing of my best friends interrupted me.

Not a second later did a white fox-like-dog and orange striped cat come running into the room. Who were they? You ask. The dog was Stella and the cat was Lily, they had lasted two full years without exposing their animagi forms. They had mastered in fifth year illegally, and now where running amuck in public!

I just stared even harder.

"Excuse me, please, I'll be right back down...and...yeah." I stuttered to the marauders and ran upstairs after them.

On my way up the steps I heard Sirius say, "Nothing to hide, huh."

And that is how my first morning at Hogwarts in seventh year went, feeling upset and not trusting my friends, what a great start to our so called "rememberal year"!

Love A Desperate and Miserable,

Hollie