Chapter seven: Jealousy

Lily and Nicole had gone to talk to Hermione after she and Sirius had stormed off. Hermione had cried to them the whole night. She told them that she was confused about how she felt for Sirius and that she did like him a lot but she was just so angry with him. She didn't understand why he had got so angry with her and why he wasn't listening to her reasoning. They had told her that Sirius didn't get rejected a lot and what Sirius wanted, Sirius usually got, if that meant girls, food, or grades. They told her that Sirius did have a lot to drink and his anger was probably pent up anger from Malfoy, Snape and Peter and she just happened to be the person he vented all his anger onto. But they also told her that they had never seen Sirius act the way he does around her, towards any other girl before. They noticed that his face always lit up when she entered a room and that whenever someone spoke about her, he would get embarrassed and he would stutter.

Sirius never used to care if a girl had fallen out with him but when Hermione fell out with him, he moped around with a face like a wet weekend. After talking till early hours Hermione finally decided that she would talk to him at dinner the next day because he was going into Hogsmead during the day.

'Thanks for last night girls.'

'No problem Amaya. Sirius can be a prick sometimes, but he's ok really and he does care about you.'

'You still going to talk to him?'

'Yeah hopefully. I'll just say to him that I want to talk to him and we can go outside in private. What do you think? Do you think it will work?'

''Course! Sirius would be mad not to make it up with you. But are you going to get with him?'

'Well I've given it a lot of thought and I think I will and I will face any consequences when and if I come to them.'

They all faced each other and started to giggle.

'I can't believe that you have been able to tame the Sirius Black. Womaniser, player extraordinaire of Hogwarts!'

'I haven't tamed him! But the three of us have got the three biggest players under our thumbs! It's good to be a women and in control don't you think?'

'Defiantly.'

They walked into the Great Hall laughing but Hermione stopped when she saw what was at the Gryffindor table. She felt physically sick at what she saw.

Sirius was sitting there but with some skank on his lap, he was feeding her grapes. Jealousy washed over her in a fury of anger, she wasn't quite sure why but it did. Lily saw that she had stopped so she looked back to see Hermione just staring at the table.

James and Remus were sitting with Sirius and this tramp and had noticed that they had come in. James whispered something to Remus and they both gave Hermione sorry sympathetic looks. Nobody else including Sirius had noticed this. Lily sensed something was wrong and followed her gaze to the Gryffindor table. She was shocked that Sirius would do something like this and immediately felt sorry for Hermione.

'Look we can go somewhere else or to the kitchens if you want. James showed me where it was and we can get some food easily and sit out by the lake. Come on.'

She put her arm on Hermione and tried to guide her back out the door but failed as Hermione stood her ground, never taking her eyes of Sirius.

'No don't be silly. Its not like we were together was it? It's ok he has every right to have a girlfriend, I can't stop him can I? I'm just a friend.'

They made their way over to the table and the only available seats were opposite Sirius and his desert, with James and Remus opposite. It was now that Sirius had noticed that Hermione had sat down and decided to pull this girl into a passionate kiss in front of everyone. Nicole, Lily, James and Remus all stared at Hermione expecting her to react to it. But she just didn't even acknowledge them. She just helped herself to some mash potatoes and stared at her plate. The whole table, however didn't like this, so Nicole cleared her throat making the couple pull apart.

Then Sirius said in a really cheerily voice

'O hey girls, Michelle? You know Lily and Nicole, that's Amaya.'

Hermione didn't have a problem with this girl apart from the fact that she was sitting on his lap putting her off her food, but she smiled sweetly at her anyways. Michelle just ignored her and didn't even face her.

'That's lovely. Sirius hunny, where are you taking me tonight? I want to finish what we started before we got rudely interrupted.'

However Sirius wasn't listening to her, he was watching Hermione, she wasn't facing the couple but leaning on one hand staring at her plate, moving the mash potatoes around with her fork on her plate.

'What's the matter Amaya, not hungry?'

Sirius said that all too nicely, too nicely. Especially after the fight they had last night. Lily, Nicole, James and Remus, half way through eating their food, stopped and looked up and between the two of them. They knew something was going to happen, probably another argument. All eyes were on Hermione, but she replied matching his tone

'O nothings the matter, I've just lost my appetite.'

The four breathed a silent sigh of relief. Through all four of their minds ran the same thing, maybe it wasn't going to be that bad after all. They all dropped their gaze and were going back to their food when Sirius replied

'O why is that? I hope it isn't anything serious, we wouldn't want that now would we? Nothing to complicated just something nice and simple. But then you like complications don't you?'

This was bad, very bad. And they all knew it. All they could do was sit and prey for the best..

'O don't worry it's nothing serious and it is quite simple really. Just looking at you and your tramp of a friend here put me off my food.'

The four of them dropped their cutlery and groaned. James and Remus put their heads in their hands. This was going to be one long dinner.

'Tramp? Excuse me? Who the hell do you think you are calling me a tramp?'

'Shut up bitch, nobody was taking to you, just run along and play with the traffic.'

Michelle sat their gobsmacked. Lily, Nicole, James and Remus were trying to contain their laughter while Sirius just sat there and smiled at her.

'My, my my. It sounds like you're jealous Amaya.'

'Jealous? O Sirius dear, what have I got to be jealous of? A pig faced slag that has no dignity or respect for her self? Or a pathetic excuse for a man who is no better than Malfoy or Snape?'

'No, jealous that Michelle is sitting with me and you are not. Jealous that she is not a dirty whore. Jealous that she is not some know-it-all nobody.'

Hermione sat there in silence, she was hurt. You could tell that she was. None of her friends had ever called her a whore or a know-it-all nobody. Just people like Malfoy who she just usually let it wash over her. Lily was shooting daggers at Sirius, Nicole was giving Michelle filthy looks. James was looking at Sirius gobsmacked and Remus stared at Hermione. Not really knowing what to say,

Hermione got up from the table.

'Excuse me.'

'What? Truth hurt? Told you, you were jealous.'

Hermione turned around to Sirius and said

'We'll see who's jealous.'

She mouthed don't hate me to Lily and Nicole and made her way over to the Slytherin table.

Malfoy had been watching the whole scene and was now watching Hermione approach him.

'What can I do for you sexy?'

She smirked at him and sat on his lap and whispered in his ear.

'You want one over on Black?'

He nodded and she started to stroke the side of his face.

'Tell me what he's doing.'

'Watching you, he looks angry.

'Good, I don't care what you do, just kiss me.'

He didn't need telling twice, he lifted her up and placed her so she was straddling his lap, and kissed her hard. She didn't fight it or pull away, she gave him access and deepened the kiss. He ran his hand up the sides of her legs and under her skirt, pushing it up her thighs. He then ran one of his hands under the back of her shirt pulling her closer towards him.

Gasps could be heard from all over the hall, from students and professors from all houses. Sirius watched with pure hatred and anger. He stood up and walked over to the Slytherin table. The others followed closely behind him. He pulled Hermione off Malfoy and she stumbled to the ground, Remus caught her before she fell all the way. Sirius then got Malfoy by the scruff of the neck and pushed him against the wall.

'What did I tell you Malfoy?'

'Sirius leave him alone!'

'Hey she came to me Black.'

'And you were more than willing I presume?'

'Put him down Sirius it was me!'

'Yes I was, have you not seen her? I'd fuck her right now in front of everyone, dam she's hot for a Mudblood.'

Sirius lost it, he punched him, braking his nose, and blood was all down his robes.

'Sirius stop!'

He looked at Hermione, she was horrified at what she just saw. They both looked at each other for a few seconds.

'Amaya I-'

She turned and ran out of the hall. Sirius watched her flea closely followed by Lily and Nicole. James and Remus were not far behind.

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