Thursday turned to Friday and Saturday seemed to come as though a whole day had been skipped. Hannah and Lily still not talking and what made it worse was her telling Clare and Carolyn, although they hadn't taken it as bad as Lily, they were angry with both of them because the arguing was getting to everyone. So Clare had a plan for them to talk to each other again – in the form of sharing secrets!
"We all know that people keep secrets." Clare said, "So we are going to play a little game, we're going to see/share a secret that we have never told any one of the four of us. And we're going to see it!
"Why?" Lily asked
"Because you're accusing Hannah of lying, just because she kept a secret and it's only fair that we share secrets – but they are our own."
"That made no sense."
"So." Clare said "Well are we gonig to do this or what?"
"Alright." Carolyn and Hannah said
"Lets do it then."
"Who wants to go first?"
No-one volunteered an Clare began to get impatient and said
"Hannah can."
She sighed and let Clare say the spell, which showed one of her secrets
"Why can't we just tell everyone?" Remus asked
"Because I've got a boyfriend, a violent one at that." Hannah answered, "I swear I'll try and break it off but I don't know if I can, you've seen what he does."
"And I hate seeing you like that." He whispered "It also hurts seeing you with him."
"Yet I'm always thinking of you." She smiled, "And your lips."
"It's so hard to try and keep my hand off you around school, I just want you to be mine and not have to share you."
"If not before, after this year you'll have me all to yourself."
"Third year sucks." Remus muttered, "Especially all this sneaking around."
She kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"You got me to look forward to." She grinned, a grin which he returned.
"And we are not going to see anymore." Clare said
"Aww." Carolyn teased
"You had a secret relationship for a year?" Clare asked, turning to Hannah.
"Yeah." She answered, "Didn't you ever wonder where I kept disappearing to?"
"Not really."
"Nice to know I'm loved." She pouted
They laughed hard and Lily said
"Don't ever do that again, it improves your looks."
This made them laugh louder and harder and Hannah whacked Lily over the head with a pillow.
"Enough!" Clare said suddenly "Next person."
"Not me!" Carolyn said
"Or me!" Lily added
"Carolyn." Clare said
Carolyn had her arms wrapped around someone but it was difficult to tell who. She was kissing him chastely and it wasn't until she was spun around that they saw that it was Snape. They were all over each other, Carolyn weaving her fingers in his hair. She kissed him hungrily, undoing the buttons of his shirt and pulling him onto the bed.
"I..Love..you." She whispered
I don't want to see anymore." Clare muttered, looking slightly sickened.
"Us neither." Lily and Hannah added
"Well now you know why I regret it so much!" Carolyn muttered
"What possessed you?"
"I was drunk!"
"You must have been out of it to do that!" Lily said "Or on something."
"It's not funny!" Carolyn snapped
"No, it's disgusting!" They responded, pulling a face
"We ain't here to judge me though are we?" Carolyn smirked "Now lets get on with it."
"I'm going last." Lily said quickly as Clare was about to open her mouth
"Fine."
"So what do you want done?" A woman asked
"That!" Clare pointed to a broken heart
"You sure?" The woman asked, looking surprised
"Yep."
Clare sat down in the chair, watching the man sterilise the needle. This was going to remind her to always think before she went out with someone and not to see guys for their appearance alone. As the man came towards her with the needle, her life seemed to flash before her but she shook herself mentally – this was something she had to do, as well as getting over her fear of needles. She felt the needle press against her skin, it seemed to burn slightly and she winced in pain but took deep breaths and it was over almost as soon as it had started.
"You'll need to keep this over it for at least a week or two." She said
Clare paid and smiled to herself, killing two birds with one stone had never been so easy.
"When did you get a tattoo?" Hannah asked
"Summer before last." Clare answered, "It's to remind me not to judge guys so easily."
"And look where that got you." Carolyn said, "Heartbroken over Paul."
"This kinda explains why you didn't go out with anyone last year." Lily added, "I really think that we seem to be cursed you know."
"Why?"
"Well excluding this year, and for Hannah from fourth year, look back at all the guys we've dated."
"Drake, Joshua, Max, Peter, a few people I can't remember and including one night stands Snape." Carolyn said
"Kieran, Carl, John, Sirius, Alan, Paul, some lad with blue eyes whose name I can never remember, Ken." Clare added "The list is endless."
"When did you go out with Sirius?"
"For a dare, it went on for like a week or something."
"Oliver, Darren, Jamie, Alex, Lawrence, Mark, Terry, Aaron." Lily said, "People. I suck at remembering names."
"I don't even think we want to know all the lads you've been out with Han." Clare and Carolyn teased
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Hannah, before third year, you seemed to have a new boyfriend every few weeks."
"Okay then, I'll name, a few." Hannah smiled, "Jason, Craig, Michael, Matt, Jerry, David, Ali, Aianson, Richard, Tom, Alan, Alex,Ryan, Remus."
"Remus doesn't count." They said "And I thought you said a few."
"You said before fourth year, I went out withRemus during third." Hannah replied, "And that is a few considering."
"Anyway, Lily's secret." Clare said, quickly.
"Alright." Lily sighed, "Does this spell pick random memories?"
"Yeah."
Lily was sitting by the lake, minding her own business, no one around to disturb her when James came up behind her, trying not to draw attention to the fact that he was there, until he tripped over a stick and fell into the lake.
"James!" Lily yelled, as he got out of the water, "What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?"
"Nothing." He muttered, feeling extremely embarrassed.
"You were spying on me weren't' you?"
"No." sounding rather unconvincing
"I'm not going to go out with you!" she snapped
"How about a kiss then?" he asked, cheekily
Lily's face could have turned milk but after a moments worth of thinking, her face softened and she said
"One kiss and you promise to quit bugging me and swear to leave me alone for the rest of the year!"
"Okay."
Lily kissed him on the cheek, and grinned as she pulled back.
"I didn't say what type of kiss I'd give you." She smirked and walked off grinning.
"Who was that and where was the real Lily?" They asked
"Were you feeling okay?" Clare added
"Yeah." Lily answered, "I just found a way of using that to my advantage, he left me alone for nearly a whole year so it paid off."
They giggled, after all it was only a kiss on the cheek, it didn't mean anything and it was James. They would do anything just to get rid of him at times. Well, almost anything.