Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in the Harry Potter books! They all belong to J.K. Rowling except Josette, Joey and Macie.
Josette wiped the tears away as she walked to the dark musty corridor she'd planned to meat Malfoy in. She had done it and it had cost her more than a fat lip and a black eye, it had cost her, her heart.
"So, you did it?" Malfoy stepped into the corridor and smiled, "That little bitch packs quite a punch huh?"
"Don't you ever call her that, not ever." Josette said angrily, glaring daggers at Malfoy.
Malfoy's mouth quirked up in a half smile, "It's amazing, she's turned her back on you, refused to even think that maybe you didn't mean those things, she's beaten you to the ground and still you stand up for her."
"Because she's my best friend. I can't get mad at her because of the things I said about her cousin."
Malfoy grinned, "I like how you didn't go for subtle, you got into a full blown fight so close to the teachers. You're friends don't know that I threatened you into saying those things, lets keep it that way, shall we?"
Without another word Malfoy spun on his heel and stomped away.
Josette slid to the floor, and cried into her hands, she'd lost her only friends and now she was at the hands of a mad man. It had all started the day Josette had found out about Remus being a werewolf, Malfoy had confronted her and decided that she was spending far too much time with "those blood traitors" as Malfoy put it and he wanted her to end their friend ship, or he would make sure that Josette's whole family was killed.
"Bastard ." She mumbled under her breathe before standing up, wiping the last tear away, and walking to the Gryffindor common room.
Lily sat on James's lap, her arms wrapped around his neck. Her mouth was firmly attached to his. She slipped a hand up to run it through his messy hair.
James moaned and leaned back against the back of the couch. His hands stayed firmly on her waist as she pushed his tongue passed the barrier of her mouth.
"James." Lily moaned.
Unfortunately their little party was interrupted when Sirius and Remus walked in.
James jumped up, causing Lily to fall off his lap, and onto the floor.
"oh I'm sorry did we interrupt something?" Sirius asked grinning.
Lily grinned also as James pulled her to her feet.
"No, it's fine Sirius. How did you get the password?"
Sirius collapsed into one of the arm chairs, "I heard James say it when we stopped by to get something."
Remus sat down on the other arm chair, he didn't say a word. Just stared down at his feet. A week had passed and still he had a horrible hurt look on his face all day.
"So, Sirius have you talked to Joey yet?" James asked hoping against all hope that this would make Remus at least put his input into the conversation.
Sirius wasn't an idiot he knew what James was trying to do but he didn't mind, if getting mad at Sirius was what it would take to get Remus back to normal, he'd deal with it.
"No I haven't talked to her in private since that night." Sirius glanced at Remus.
Remus was looking at Sirius, "why do you need to talk to Joey?"
"Well um that day that Lily and Josette found out about you being, well, uh a werewolf I kind of kissed her and then ran off."
"You did what?" Remus was out of his seat before he gave it a second thought.
"Hey, Remus calm down, she hasn't made much of an effort to talk to me."
Remus growled angrily and sat back down just as the port hole swung open again and Joey came through on a run.
"Lily, he……." she trailed off when she spotted Sirius, Remus, and James, "What are you guys doing here?" She sniffed.
Lily went over and put her arm around her best friend, "Come on we'll go into my room and talk. We'll see you guys later."
Joey kept her eyes on the ground as she and lily walked to Lily's room.
"See, she didn't even look at me." Sirius said as soon Lily's door was closed, "She doesn't like me like that."
Remus rolled his eyes, "Oh please, she loves you! It's completely obvious even to me."
"She does?"
"Yeah."
"Well why doesn't she show it?"
Remus grinned, "Because that's the way my precious cousin is, she doesn't show her love unless you show it first, she's like that."
Sirius muttered under his breath, "well what should I do?"
"Ask her to go to Hogsmeade." James and Remus said together.
"What happened Joey?" Lily asked as they sat on her bed.
Joey sniffed, "He's completely ignoring me! Every time I see him in halls or say hi to him he ignores me! I don't know what I did and I can't ask him because he'll just ignore me!"
Lily thought for a moment, "Well maybe you should talk to him, maybe he really does want to talk to you but doesn't know how!"
Joey smiled a little, "The great Sirius Black, lady's man doesn't know what to say? Yeah right."
"No, maybe he realizes how much he really cares for you and he's afraid if he messes this up he'll be a broken little man that has no real use and life, and he'll live in the shrieking shack for the rest of his life as he slips slowly into madness."
Joey laughed through her tears, "Maybe, but what if he just wished that it never happened and that's why he's ignoring me!"
"Well there's only one way to find out, and I have the perfect idea on how to do it."
The snow had begun to fall casting a white sheet over the Hogwarts Grounds. Most students were inside sleeping, or playing something, but not the marauders. They were outside playing the snow.
"Oh I'm singing in the snow, just singing in the snow!"
"Sirius, it's singing in the rain not the snow." Remus said packing more snow onto his snow man.
"But it's not raining."
"Never mind." Remus muttered.
"Hey guys." Lily and Joey were walking towards them, "What's up?"
"Nothing, we're just playing in the snow." James answered falling back into the snow to make a snow angel.
Joey grinned, "Fun."
"Oh yeah."
Sirius and Joey simply looked at each other. Their eyes meeting, neither one saying anything.
"Argh!"
They turned to see James sitting in the snow, snow covering one side of his face, Lily was laughing.
"That's it!" James jumped up, "Snowball fight!" He yelled and began picking up snow to pack it into a ball.
"Guys against girls!"
"No, not fair, we should get Sirius, then it'll be even." Joey said to Remus.
"That's why I said girls against guys." Remus was hit by a snowball.
The fight was long, and messy. At one point Remus even managed to put Snow down the front of Joey's shirt. Joey got back at him by putting snow down the front of his pants. By the end everyone was covered in snow, Peter was laying on his back under a mountain of snow that Sirius had thrown on him.
"Well wasn't that fun?" James grinned and wrapped an arm around Lily.
Just then they could hear a yell before someone came running out of the castle at top speed. It was Josette, her hair was falling around her flushed face. She was holding a hand to her side and there was blood on her mouth. She took a deep shaky breath as though she were about to cry.
She turned and saw the marauders, Joey, and Lily glaring at her. She opened her mouth, closed it again and began walking down towards the frozen lake where a few kids were daring each other to run out on the frozen surface.
"Josette!" Malfoy came stomping out of the castle. When he saw the six of them he grinned, "See Josette run by?"
Nobody answered him, only glared. He shrugged and went back into the castle.
"Wonder why she was crying." Joey said softly.
"Probably feeling bad about what she said." Remus offered.
"No, if she felt bad she would have said something that's the way Josette is." Lily said softly as they all began walking towards the castle.
"Yeah she would have." Remus gazed one last time towards the lake before turning and following his friends.
A/N: AHHHHH WHY AM I SO CRUEL! I know you have questions and i'm sure they'll be answere in the next chapter, i'm planing on posting at least two more chapters before christmas...or at least before the new year starts, I get to go to the movies the day after christmas! YAY! oh so anyway yeah just bare with me for a little while longer, when this story id over i'm going to start a new story or two so keep an eye out for it.
malfoy's fair maiden: Yeah i know what you mean about getting in trouble, I had to sit in front of the class all by myself one time because I was talking! it was so emberassing and it didn't help that i had a crush on half the boys in that class. sigh oh well. So yeah it really hurt me to wirte that last chapter because Josette was so mean but think this chapter really helps to show that Josette really isn't all that mean.
FredandGeorgefan0350: Thank you!
thehiddenauthor: Yes I know its mean but I bsolutly love to make people think one thing then turn around and make them feel or think the exact opposite! so much fun! yay!