Sorry about the delay and everything, but to pay for it here's a long chapter.
Chapter 37: Wankers
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"What the hell is a wanker!" (AN: I've always wanted to know myself. Then I looked it up…) Danny screamed again trying and failing to get a look at what was going on behind him. James and Remus had left Sirius and Carly joining Lily and Danny.
"A wanker is a prat or something along those lines." James said.
"What's a prat?" Danny asked still trying to look over his shoulder, but being blocked by Remus,
"A wanker is like…not a prat…a wanker is someone who…pleases themselves…" Remus said fidgeting while pushing Danny forward.
"Like a masturbator?" Danny asked laughing as Lily blushed from the language. "Sirius is a masturbator?" Danny asked laughing even harder. James glared at Remus, who was laughing also,
"He doesn't need to no- OW!" Lily had smacked James over his head before he could finish his sentence. Danny narrowed his eyes and Remus let out a strangled cough,
"So what about that food, huh?" Remus asked leading Danny into a big building labeled CAFETERIA. Danny, who was now trying harder to look over his shoulder, followed Remus into the building. Once inside Lily gasped and looked around. There were many different tables all over the place. Some round ones that looked to seat at least five and then a couple long rectangular tables that could seat in entire house. Danny led them over to a circle table that had six chairs at it; the table magically expanded and added three chairs. Rolls and a pitcher of pumpkin juice appeared on the table as the chairs pulled themselves out waiting for people to sit in them. When James took a seat the chair squealed and pushed itself back under the table. Lily shook her head,
"They have labels stupid."
"Oh." James said stupidly looking for the chair that had his name on it. This caused Remus to look around the table. Danny had sat himself opposite Lily a chair labeled Carly was on his right and Ben on his left. Next to Carly's right was a seat labeled Jack, on Ben's left was two seats on labeled Doug and the other labeled Sue. James' seat was next to Sue, then Lily's, then Remus'.
"It's a little early for dinner we have to wait a little for the real food to come." Danny muttered now looking very displeased at the door. Lily followed his gaze and shook her head. Carly and Sirius had just walked in arm in arm smiling stupidly at each other. Danny glared as Carly approached the table and grinned at him,
"My seats still here?" She asked looking over to the right of Danny. Danny nodded and the seat pulled itself out waiting for her to sit down. Before she sat she glared at Danny, "What about Sirius?" She asked. Danny shrugged and another chair appeared next to Remus labeled Wanker. Remus and James let out a snort of laughter but quickly stopped when they saw Sirius' face. Sirius opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly cut off by a,
"CARLY!" And a whoosh of a dark blue cloak passed Sirius eyes. Soon Carly was again on the ground laughing,
"Oi! Sense when you all decided to start tackling people!" Carly said grinning and pushing the person off of her. The person laughed and helped her up. "Everyone this is Sue." Sue was a short girl only reaching five feet making Lily feel proud of her slightly taller body. Sue had dark brown hair and chocolate colored eyes that sparkled. She had a stocky build as if her blue uniform arm selves would burst from the muscle contained underneath it. Her face had a thin shiny scare leading from her left eye to her jaw. She smiled reveling a missing front tooth and two deep simples on either side of her face,
"Hi everyone! Now let me see if I remember Carly's letter's good enough." She tapped her chin and pointed at James, "James Potter, right?" James nodded and shook Sue's hand, "And Lily Evans, god you're pretty." Sue said causing Lily to blush, "Remus Lupin you're a looker."
"Sue Cummings not afraid to voice your opinions." Remus said shaking her hand. (AN: Carly has mentioned her friends to them before…I just never wrote it…sorry) Sue grinned wider and turned to Sirius her grin falling from her face,
"Whoa, Carly, you are one lucky girl." Sue said eyeing Sirius. Carly snorted,
"Hardly."
"Hey!" Sirius protested now taking the seat that changed itself from wanker to Sirius. Carly laughed and Sue sat down. Soon the hall began to fill itself with people who either approached Carly or backed away in fear. The last three students to walk in where laughing hysterically over something and grinning like idiots a few girls sighed as they walked over to their table.
"Look whose back." A tall brown haired boy said standing over Carly,
"Couldn't get enough of us?" A handsome red haired boy added,
"Or was it that we couldn't get enough?" The last boy with almost black hair asked grinning wildly at Carly. Carly jumped up and received a large hug from all three of them. The boys took their seats now only recognizing the other people there.
"Hey, who are you?" The red head asked sitting down next to Sue,
"James Potter." James said,
"Remus Lupin,"
"Sirius Black. Who are you?"
"Oh, so you're Sirius Black the jerk that stole Carly's heart from us?" The brown haired boy said sitting in-between the red head and Danny. Sirius raised an eyebrow, "I'm Ben Lynch."
"I'm Jack Foster." The blonde said grinning over at Lily whose hand was snatched up by James' and held in plain view for everyone to see. Lily laughed,
"I'm Lily Evans." She said rolling her eyes at James and fingering her gold necklace. James gripped her hand, but didn't let go.
"I guess I have to say who I am them huh? I'm Doug Benner. And I guess we need to explain ourselves don't we?" Doug said looking around the table. Lily nodded as did Remus. Sirius seemed less interested as he looked over at Carly who was looking back.
"We are the trouble makers of ASM." Sue said grinning reveling her missing tooth, "We like to cause trouble and play quidditch."
"Don't forget girls!" Jack added.
"Cough, boys, cough." Sue added.
"Well it looks like the Marauders have met their match." Lily said laughing,
"The who?" Danny asked,
"The Marauders aka me, Sirius, James, and Peter Pettigrew who didn't come tonight." Remus explained, "Well we where before Sirius and James got leashed by girls," this received him a kick from Lily and Sirius, "We were the rulers of Hogwarts. The only thing we liked to do was chase girls, play quidditch and …pull pranks on Slytherins." Remus said looking off into space,
"Who are the Slytherins?" Ben asked,
"Their the equivalent of the Dominions. At Hogwarts we even have our very own Sara Foster and Jeremy Jenkins." Carly said glaring at a table to her left. Every one turned to look at that table and saw an entire house sitting at one of the rectangular tables,
"They like to sit by themselves their not very welcoming people." Sue said.
"Why don't all of you sit with your house?" Remus asked,
"Well are school is all for unity between houses, even though the Dominions refuse to abide by the rules, they put in extra tables. Plus everyone is friends with different houses anyway. Sue, Ben, and Jack are all in Woodrow." Doug explained,
"Your quidditch matches must be brutal if you're all friends." James said. Sue grinned,
"Even though the quadpot matches between Woodrow and Charlotte are intense nothing is or was more intense then the Charlotte and Dominion quidditch match." Ben said,
"Sense Carly's left the Charlotte house is nothing. It's sad to watch." Jack said,
"HEY!" Doug and Danny said at the same time,
"Well it is." Jack said defending himself. Doug and Danny slumped into their seats lower.
"So Carly how's your mom?" Danny asked buttering a roll. The Marauders and Lily held their breath and looked over at Carly who looked over at Danny with narrowed eyes as if trying to read him,
"She's fine." Carly said really fast causing the Americans to look at Carly now interested,
"Are you sure?" Danny asked again raising an eyebrow,
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?" She asked looking down at a burn in the table,
"You're not a very good liar." Doug pointed out.
"Just leave her alone alright. If she says her mum is fine, then she is." Sirius growled receiving a kick from Lily.
"Then if she's so fine I'll see her at the game then?" Danny said glaring at Sirius. Carly is obviously not fine, Danny thought, Black must be doing something to her.
"No." Carly said in a small voice,
"What do you mean your mom was your biggest supporter?" Sue said. James and Remus winced as tears threatened to escape from Lily's face.
"Is everything alright Carly?" Ben asked,
"Yeah, everything's fine." Carly said her voice shaky. Truth be told this was the first time anyone had ever brought up the topic of Carly's mum in front of her. She didn't want to believe it so she just kept putting it off,
"Are you sure?" Jack asked. The Americans all looked concerned and Sirius was starting to get angry. Stupid Americans. Always budging into everyone's business. He stood up angrily, his chair falling to the floor,
"If she bloody says she's fine, she's fine. Leave her the bloody hell alone!" Sirius yelled. Doug, Ben, Jack, and Sue all looked taken aback while Danny stood up now squaring up to Sirius. Danny being a good few inches taller then Sirius towered over the dark haired boy. Sirius growled and pushed Danny,
"Why do you even care Black?" Danny snarled pushing Sirius back,
"Why do you care?" Sirius growled menacingly,
"Because she's everything you wished you could have."
"I already have her."
"No you haven't. Don't lie we all know." Danny said waving around at Ben, Sue, Doug, and Jack and smirking thinking he had won, "You haven't had Carly ever. You don't even know. You would if you cared."
"For you information I do know. I know more then you think Koler. So why don't you back off." Sirius said pushing Danny again James and Remus had begun to stand up about to pull Sirius away from Danny. Ben and Doug where thinking along the same lines,
"You're a liar you have no fuckin clue." Danny said. Carly stood up and pushed her way between them,
"This is ridicules. Danny, Sirius does know. Sirius you know I love you so-"
"You love him!" Danny shrieked. The whole hall had gone silent, "You've only known him for how long not even three months and you love him." Carly shook her head and pulled down her collar reveling the silver chain. She then pulled down Sirius' reveling the now faint burnt mark around his neck. Danny raised an eyebrow, "So?"
"Danny no matter how many times I say this it never seems to get through your thick skull! You were my first best friend I had ever had. You where the one that didn't make fun of my funny accent, until after we were friends. You played quidditch with me when everyone else thought it was stupid compared to quadpot. You where the one that started the quidditch teams at ASM with me. You are my best friend. That's it. And it breaks my heart to tell this to you but that is all we will ever be. Don't you realize that?" Carly said now staring at Danny. Danny's shoulders slumped in defeat. Carly pushed his face upwards to face her, "I love you Danny Koler, as a friend. I love Sirius, as more then a friend, but you will always always be on the top of my list, okay?" Danny shook her hand away, and shoved Carly to the side staring at Sirius,
"You are the luckiest man alive Black. I swear if anything happens to her you are not only going to be killed by her mother, but by me, and the rest of us." He said turning to look at Carly one last time before walking out of the cafeteria with Sue, Ben, Doug, Jack, and Dave at his side. Carly slumped down in her seat and sighed. James, who was just recovering from his shock, looked around to see everyone staring at their table.
"What are you all looking at?" James said. Every one turned back to their own tables. Sirius was grinning stupidly,
"I'm not happy with you either." Carly said not even looking up at Sirius,
"Why what did I do?"
"You started it." Carly said she was about to say something else when-
"Sorry, Mullet, but you have to go join your team now." Carly groaned and grabbed a roll before walking out of the hall.
"Glad you could show up Mullet." Alison Vestry, the team captain said. Carly growled at her and began getting ready. "Now since we're home there is going to be a huge crowd."
"What? We've never had a big crowd." Dave Williams, one of the beaters, said.
"Well we've got a little more support from other countries now." Alison said glaring over at Carly,
"What!" Carly said looking over at everyone now. Alison ignored Carly's outburst and went on with her prep talk. She turned to Jack Sloane, the other chaser,
"Ever since you moved to England a lot of how can I say this…male fans have been coming more and more even to practices." Jack said. Carly narrowed her eyes,
"Why?"
"I don't know. Their all shady looking though." Tim Marsh who was sitting next to her said. Carly turned her attention back to Alison really confused now.
"Alright so we've played Mexico before, and crushed them. This should be the easiest team we've played all year and that includes England." Alison said glaring at Carly,
"What the bloody hell is your problem?" Carly blurted out before she could help herself. Alison frowned,
"You are starting to turn on us." Alison said,
"How?" Carly said now shocked,
"Your like all the rest now that you've got some fame you think your better then us."
"What do you mean?"
"You never talk to us, you never come to practice, and you write letters to any of us." Alison shot back. Carly shook her head and started to laugh,
"You all are crazy. I swear I have not changed. I never write you letters, because I never have before even when I first started. Anyway why don't any of you write to me! I never come to practice because I practice with my house team. You all know what its like to be playing and in school at the same time now try playing almost professionally. I don't think I'm better then any of you. I've never said that. I never talk to you all because you never talk to me. God what is up every American's ass today?" Carly said grabbing her broom and storming out of the locker room. The team was speechless, nevertheless they followed her.
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