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Chapter 4

Once mistake will make or break you

ISABELLE'S POV

I'm a nervous wreck! I can just tell something is bound to go wrong! And the only shoes I have to wear are boots I was wearing back in my time with the kitty type heel.

"I need some shoes!" I moaned. None of theirs fit me, too big. Damn! Why am I cursed with tiny feet?

"Calm down Bella!" Lily said soothingly.

"Yeah, nothing will go wrong." Gina said giving me a hug.

We went into the great hall with Gina in front of me and Lily behind me. I glanced behind me to say something to Lily and didn't see a banana peel on the floor in front of me. Before I knew what was happening, I went flying onto the Ravenclaw table. Narrowly missing a bowl of oatmeal, I stared at the bacon and pancakes splattered over me. The entire school burst into a fit of laughter as I wiped some strawberry jam off my new sweater. I carefully placed my foot off the lap of a grinning seventh year male student. Pulling my skirt down, I swiftly jumped off the table.

"Nice legs," a tall Ravenclaw boy complimented me.

"Thank you very much, my eyes are here" I said, pointing up.

I glared at the other boys who were looking at me sheepishly, "Same to you! Wipe that dirty look off your faces." I turned around quickly, receiving a sympathetic look from Lily and Gina.

We stalked off to the Gryffindor table, with me saying, "Think I drastically worsened my image with the boots." Lily and Gina giggled, finally resolving to sit 'near' James and his friends. Of course, their definition of 'near' meant sitting at least one meter away from Sirius and James.

"Why are you sitting so far away," James asked, teasing Lily, who ignored him completely.

"I think they'll settle only on this," I said, staring down at my plate. 'Excellent entranceIsabelle,' I told myself, feeling really embarrassed.

"It could have been worst." Peter said.

"Yeah on Snivellious' first day-"

"Who?" I asked. Knowing fully well who.

"Severus Snape." Lily said not looking at the marauders. I put on a clueless face.

"If you see a slime ball in the hallway with greasy hair, that's him." Said Sirius.

"As I was saying." James said claiming my attention once more. "On Snape's first day he was so nervous he forgot to put on trousers so he came down in some red boxers some that his mum probably brought him."

I choked on the orange juice I was drinking.

"Ew! Mental image!" I said with a shudder.

"Not a pretty sight." Remus said with a grimace.

Lily handed her, her timetable after close inspection.

"They haven't tampered with it." She muttered. I laughed. "So does it say who your partner is?"

"Partner?" I asked.

"For defense against the dark arts." Lily said. She gave me a look. "I got James."

"I got Remus." Said Gina.

"Err I got... Sirius." I pulled a face.

"Don't complain," Sirius said, still focusing his breakfast. "You should be grateful... with our talent, all three of you will score high grades without laying a finger on your wands. Besides that, my partner seems to be a damsel in distress." Lily rolled her eyes, and turned away to talk to a Ravenclaw girl. Gina just shook her head and turned her back on them to talk to a Hufflepuff girl leaving me to fend for myself. So I did.

"Excuse me?" I sneered, clenching my napkin.

James kicked Sirius underneath the table after seeing my reaction to his words. Sirius simply looked at James questionably. "You seem to be the type of girl who needs to be saved twenty four seven," he continued, stuffing his mouth with sausages. He was oblivious to Remus' signals to shut up. Peter laughed, enjoying the scene.

"Especially with your graceful entrance," he said, "You must be the clumsiest girl I've seen since... Aurelia Longbottom."

I couldn't take it any longer; I stood up and threw Sirius' plate directly in his face, letting the egg yolk drop down his neck and over his robes. Next I poured the rest of his cereal on his lap.

Remus started laughing but carefully pretended to have a coughing fit in his napkin after Sirius removed the plate from his face, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"

"James," I said sweetly, ignoring Sirius' swearing, "Tell Lily and Gina that... due to a certain self centered git that they informed me about yesterday," I said looking straight at Sirius, "I'll have to meet them up during Potions."

"Excuse me?! I'm not the one who needs to get their eyes checked for NOT SEEING A BLOODY BLUDGER," Sirius retorted weakly, but I had already left the room.

I entered the empty girls' dormitory, planning to have a shower. I felt so dirty, covered in food. My hair was glued together with some jam. Something sticky was on my legs. Reaching the girl's showers, I found only a wall with an empty portrait. 'They probably hadn't put the showers here yet. Maybe the wall opens up with a password.' I waited impatiently for the character to return to his or her painting to no avail. There was a full hour until my first class and there was no one in the entire Gryffindor common room including the boy's dormitory.

SIRIUS'S POV

God that girl makes me so mad! Now I need a bloody shower! Well, it's a good job I have an hour till potions.

Somebody's in here, I can hear the shower running. Oh well I'd better get mine as well. I'm as tense as a rod.

I start it and get the temperature just right then I step under throwing my towel over the side of the cubicle. I let the water pound at my back, it relaxes me. I wash my hair and body. Then I just let the water glide down my body. I heard the shower switched off next to me and decide it's about time I got out too.

I reached for my towel to find it gone. Maybe it slipped into the other cubicle that the other lad used. I stepped out only to find Isabelle the so called lad and she had robbed my towel.

I coughed. She spun around and sucked in a breath. She looked down and my cheeks flamed. I realised I was still naked.

"Um, you've got my towel." I said with a confidence I didn't feel. She flushed.

"Well, erm, as you can see I'm using it." She said.

"Well I need it." I told her. She smirked at me.

"Too bad." She said bending down. Oh but she did look good in the towel with her hair sticking to the slopes of her breasts. Her thighs, calves and upper arms were toned. She picked up her shampoo and stuff and she left. "I'll bring it back to you."

She didn't look back. As soon as the door shut I got back in that shower and put it onto freezing.

She came back fully dressed but her hair was still wet. She threw the towel I managed to catch it with out showing too much of myself. She left again. So I got out. I left for our dorm to get dressed. When I was ready I headed down to potions with my bag and cauldron.

ISABELLE'S POV

While we were waiting, with the Slytherins, for the Potions Master Gina asked me

"Who's your partner? I got Lily."

I got out my timetable and looked for my potions partner then I found it or rather him. How ironic, my potions master in the future is my potions partner in the past.

"It's Severus Snape." I told them. Gina shuddered.

"At least he's good at potions." Lily offered me as sympathy. I rolled my eyes.

"Why hello." A Draco Malfoy double said. It was Lucius, Draco's father

"Hey." I said bored. I felt Gina tense up beside me. I'll have to ask her about that.

"Malfoy, Get away from her!" Sirius snapped.

"Oh, Sirius! Butt out! He's just having a civilized conversation with me." I snapped. Then I turned to face Sirius. "Unlike you he knows how to be civil-" I of course knew this wasn't true especially in the future. "- I bet you don't even know the meaning of the word."

Sirius was speechless, I could tell. I relished the thought that I silenced the random idiot.

"In!" The potions Master commanded. On the way in Lucius whispered to me

"Because of what you did to Black at breakfast and the way you dealt with him then, you've gained a lot of peoples respect." I smiled smugly at that.

It just goes to show, one mistake could make or break you. In this case it made me.