I know I said thatI wasn't going to do anymore chapter till my exams are over, but how could I resist. Especially with Katherine bugging me all the time to update. This chapter is dedicated to her, because she made me update sooner than expected.
Chapter Seven
Hannah woke up lying next to one of the Hospital Wing beds. Remus was lying in it.
Emma was still lying, fast asleep, next to Sirius.
James was also lying on one of the beds, Lily and Isy were talking to him, he was the only one who was up.
'Sirius is the one we should be worried about,' he told them.
'Why?' asked Isy, she suddenly realised it was a stupid question, and shook her head.
'This is my entire fault,' cried Lily, tears streaming down her face. 'Emma knew we shouldn't have gone and now Sirius, her boyfriend, is dying!'
'It's not your fault, Hannah and I wanted to go too,' cried Isy, she too had tears coming down her face.
'Come on guys,' said James, 'it wasn't anyone's fault, no one blames you,' he said comfortingly.
Chloe ran into the room, her eyes were read, puffy and swollen.
'Sirius,' she panted, 'is he ok? Is Emma alright? Oh she must be so worried.'
'She's sleeping now,' whispered Lily, 'try not to wake her; she only just got to sleep poor darl.'
'Is what I heard true?' Chloe asked.
Lily, James and Isy looked at each other.
'What did you hear?' asked Isy.
'He got hit by the Whomping Willow,' she said quickly.
'Yeah,' James said, 'so did Remus and I, but not as hard as he did.'
'Oh,' said Chloe. 'I'll come back later, if Emma wakes up tell her Annie is coming after dinner, Nick and Alex are coming later and Ryan and David will be round when they stop snogging their new girlfriends, oh and Ellie will be down during her free period,' she said waving goodbye.
'Will do,' said James.
'JAMES! Honey, are you alright?' shouted a girl with short blonde hair and blue eyes.
'Sam?' said James, quite alarmed that she had come, 'could you be quiet? Emma, Remus and Sirius are sleeping.'
'Oh they'll live. How are you James? I was so worried when I heard,' she said loudly.
'Sam, I'm a bit tried, do you mind coming back later?'
'But honey, you weren't tired on Tuesday,' she said and winked seductively at him.
James cringed, but she was to busy looking at Sirius and a red-haired girl lying on his bed to notice. 'That's because I hadn't been hit by a tree.'
Sam laughed, 'ok honey, I'll see you later then,' she said and walked out, but not before pushing Isy out of the way and giving James a kiss.
'Eww,' said Isy, 'she's such a skank.'
'How come you date her?' asked Lily, but another girl with long curly hair and blue eyes walked in.
'James!' she shouted.
'Not you too,' he said loudly, and he slumped back onto his pillow.
'He doesn't know what he's talking about,' she laughed.
'Britney, do you mind if you come back later, I'm very tired.'
'Sure thing sweetie, and when you get better we can have another night like Tuesday,' she said grinning, she walked out.
'Two girls?' said Lily.
'Yeah,' said James, 'and both so annoying.'
'Then, may I ask, why?' said Hannah.
'Their good if you know what I mean.'
'Oh, I think we get you loud and clear,' said Lily, who was still shocked.
Remus stirred and slowly opened his eyes.
'Remus? Are you ok?' shouted Hannah.
'You don't hate me,' he said.
'Of course not,' she said, 'don't be silly, why would I hate you? Why didn't you tell me?'
Remus shrugged, 'I didn't think –'
'Don't worry about it, I don't care, all I care about is if everyone is alright.'
'All we need is Sirius to wake up, we know that Emma is alright, she's just sleeping,' said Isy.
'She's probably just in shock,' Remus said.
Sirius turned over and just like Remus, he slowly opened his eyes.
'Hey! Padfoot, dude, how are you?' said James.
'Prongs? What's with dude?'
'Don't know, it was like a spur of the moment thing,' he explained.
'What's wrong with Emma? She's ok, right?'
'Yeah, she's just sleeping, are you –' but Lily was cut off by another girl, she had tanned skin, sandy, long blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes.
'Not another one, James,' exclaimed Lily. James shook his head.
'Sirius, are you ok? I was so worried when I heard,' she said. 'Why is that girl lying on your bed?'
'Sirius, what's going on?' asked Isy.
'Anyway,' the girl continued. 'I only just arrived, mum and dad dropped me off at the station, and well, here I am,' she said excitedly.
Sirius looked at Emma, who was muttering something about werewolves and dogs in her sleep.
'Sirius?' she said waving her arms to get his attention, it didn't work.
'Yeah Natalie?' he said, still looking at Emma.
'You never call me Natalie, it's always Nat. Anyway, I got into Hufflepuff, you're in Gryffindor right? You look a bit preoccupied so I'm going to come back later,' she said shaking her head as she walked out.
'Padfoot, who as that?' Remus asked.
'Well,' she said uneasily. 'I met someone during the holidays and she said she was transferring from Beauxbatons and well, we hooked up,' he explained with great difficulty, but still not drawing his eyes from Emma.
'I can't believe you!' shouted Isy; 'you wait till Emma hears you're breaking up with her for some, for some, some . . .' she was lost for words. 'For some blonde bimbo,' she looked proud of herself for thinking of how best to describe her.
'Isy is right,' said Lily, 'she's going to be distraught you had a girlfriend all this time.'
'I knew it was wrong for her to date you,' shouted Hannah, 'I thought you had changed.'
Sirius had now taken his eyes off Emma and was looking at James.
'Are you going to go out with her?' asked James.
Sirius looked at Emma one last time, 'I –'
Annie, Emma's sister, Ryan and David walked in.
'Is she alright?' asked David.
No one said anything, they were all too shocked.
'What's wrong?' asked Ryan.
'She'll be fine,' said Sirius, 'she's just sleeping off a long night.'
Ryan and David laughed, 'we'll come back later then.'
They all left, no one said anything, it was too hard.
Emma woke; saw Sirius was awakes and smiled.
'How are you, Sirius?' she asked.
He smiled weakly and kissed her passionatly.
She giggled feebly, 'feeling better?'
'You are so stupid!' shouted Isy, 'he has a girlfriend!'
Emma stopped abruptly and turned to Isy.
'No he doesn't silly billy. I'm his girlfriend,' she said and turned to Sirius, who had a tear running down his cheek.
'Sirius, why are you crying? Did Isy upset you? Isy, you are so mean to Sirius sometimes.'
Isy could see tears swelling up in Emma's eyes, she didn't care that she was blaming her for what Sirius had done, all she cared about was how she was coping with it.
'Sirius, Isy is just being stupid, don't listen to her,' she yelled, trying to convince herself.
Natalie bounced back into the Hospital Wing. 'Hey Sirius, that girl is awake. I know I said I would be back later but I was thinking we could spend some time together, because it's been like two months or something!'
Emma couldn't believe it; Sirius was actually cheating on her. She slowly walked up to Natalie and slapped her.
'You know the reason why I was next to him was because he's my boyfriend, maybe not anymore, but he was,' she whispered to her.
Natalie looked as though she'd been slapped again. 'Sirius is this true? You've been cheating on me with this slut?'
'She's not a slut,' shouted Sirius, 'everything was perfect until you came along. Do you know what it was like, to have no one love you, not your parents, your brother, because of something so trivial as being pure and loyal to your pureness? And then a girl comes along and says she loves you back, the first person ever to love me, and then you come along, or I stuff it up, I should have told you, Emma.'
Natalie and Emma stood next to each other, both staring at him. Natalie was staring at him with pure hate and poison in her eyes and Emma was staring at him with lust and love in her eyes.
'I'm so sorry, Emma, I met her before we were together and I really do love you,' he said, 'do you forgive me?'
OK, I know there is a lot of dialouge in this chapter but there always is! Next chapter is going to be very romantic, I think. It's the preperation for the ball.
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