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It was one A.M when Sirius, Remus, and Joey finally got back to the Gryffindor common room. Peter had left soon after the snowball fight, saying he'd had something to do, and Lily and James ad gone back to their room.
"Wonder why there was blood on Josette's mouth." Remus said as the three walked up the stairs to the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Maybe she was sucking on someone's neck." Joey grumbled.
"No that couldn't be it, she was in the sun, vampires die in sunlight." Sirius said as though they were having a serious conversation.
"Unicorn blood." The fat Lady's portrait swung open and the three climbed into the common room.
The first thing they saw was Josette sitting in front of the fire, her hair was covering her face, but they could tell she was holding something against her face.
"Josette." Remus spoke softly.
Josette's head came up and she stared at Remus. Her face looked horrible she had a black eye, her lip was broken again, there was a long bloody scrape from her chin to her forehead. Her right eye was so bruised it was closed, Josette winced and stared again at the fire.
"What the hell happened?" Joey asked forgetting that she hated Josette and sitting next to her.
"Nothing that concerns you." Josette grumbled standing up and walking towards the girls dorms.
"Sorry, I though maybe it was ok for me to be concerned." Joey snapped.
Josette forced her face into a sneer, "I wouldn't want the help of a werewolf and his little blood traitor friends." She was gone before Joey could say anything.
"That little bitch!" Joey screamed angrily.
"Don't worry about it Joey. She's not worth it"
Sirius slung an arm around Remus, "Don't worry Remus you'll find a better girl"
Remus shrugged, "Yeah. I'm going to bed. Make sure you two don't do anything I wouldn't do. Night"
As soon as Remus was gone Sirius shoved his hands in his pockets and looked away.
"So"
"So." Sirius imitated Joey, "You know there's a trip to Hogsmeade coming up"
"Yeah, I saw the flyer"
"Well, I was wondering if you'd like to come with me? Like a date"
Joey grinned and threw her arms around Sirius's neck and kissing him, "I'd love to." She grinned.
Neither of them heard the cry's coming from the girls dormitory.
"So you two are dating finally?" Remus asked with a grin.
"Yep." Sirius grinned and held Joey's hand.
"That's ten galleons Lily." Remus said to lily who sighed and pulled out ten galleons and handed them to Remus, "and here I though they would at least last until the winter ball." She sighed, "Oh well"
"You bet on us?" Sirius and Joey yelled together.
"Hey you bet on James and I"
"Yeah, but….oh fine"
"Where is Prongs?" Sirius asked glancing around for his friend.
Lily shrugged, "He mentioned something about a snitch and ran off"
They all walked into the Three Broomsticks with a smile.
"Five butterbears Rosemerta dear." Sirius called.
"So, what are we going to do today"
"We could go to Zonko's." Sirius said as Rosemerta placed the five butterbears on the table.
"We always go to Zonko's. Why don't we go to…umm." Lily couldn't think of anything, "Ok, we'll go to Zonko's"
"Ok, we'll wait until Prongs shows his face then we'll go to Zonko's! Maybe we can even go to the Shrieking Shack"
Everyone agreed and began talking about the upcoming winter ball. The girls talking about what they would wear, The boys deciding whether or not to pull a prank.
"I think we should really talk to Peter and James before we decide, they might be a little mad if we just tell them what we decided." Remus pointed out.
"No, we already know James will want to pull a prank, and Peter will do anything we tell him to do. He's such a push over, sometimes I think we should stop taking advantage of him, but he makes it so damn easy"
Remus nodded in agreement, "Yeah, he is really a big pushover"
"So anyway, it's basically up to us, since we know James's vote, and Peter will agree with anything we say. What do you think"
"Well I think if we do pull a prank we should do it towards the end so it doesn't completely ruin everyone's night"
Sirius nodded and finished off the last of his butterbeer, "Hey Rosemerta, can I get two more?"
When the barmaid nodded Sirius turned back to Remus, "But the question is what should we do"
"When"
Sirius and Remus looked up to James standing over them grinning, he took a seat next to Lily, who gave him a quick kiss before going back to talking with Joey.
"We were just deciding what prank we were going to do at the Winter ball"
James faked a hurt look, "And you were going to leave me out? I'm hurt"
"Don't worry mate, we were just tossing around some ideas"
James nodded and leaned in so the three could talk about the prank, meanwhile.
"Do you think I would look better in green or red?" Joey asked "Hmm, I'd say blue to match your eyes but it is a Christmas ball"
"Hmm you're right, maybe I should go for different, but you should definitely wear green, it'll match your eyes and with your hair you'll be extra Christmassy"
Lily snorted, "Yeah and then maybe we can hang some ornaments from my ears and put an angel on the top of my head"
"No, I don't think we'll need to go that far." "Oh, we should go find a dress now! That way we won't wait till last minute"
"Yeah." The two girls stood up then, "Guys we're going to go find a dress to wear to the winter Ball. We know you don't want to come so we'll meet you at Honeyduke's in about an hour ok? They'll give you time to waste your money on those stupid Zonko products."
"Bye." Lily kissed James then sighed when Sirius pulled Joey onto his lap.
"I don't know, I really don't think I can survive a whole hour without seeing you"
Joey laughed and pulled away, "Well you're going to have to. I'll see you later. Bye guys"
Sirius sighed and watched as Joey and lily left.
"Ugh, do you have to do that in front of me?" Remus asked.
"Do what?" Sirius asked innocently.
Remus rolled his eyes.
"So should we head to Zonko's?" James quickly interjected.
"Yeah, let's go."
"You're such an idiot!" Malfoy said angrily pushing Josette against a tree.
They were standing near the shrieking shack. Josette was glaring angrily at Malfoy. She was getting tired of being his little servant.
"They could have told a teacher, or worse the Headmaster, then he would have found out and I would have been in trouble, then your family would be dead, wouldn't they?" Josette didn't answer, only kept her narrow stare on Malfoy.
"Go get a dress, we're going to the winter ball together, and you need to wear something decent. I have things to do so you'll have to pick something on your own, and it better be acceptable." Malfoy pushed Josette back one more time before stalking off.
Josette let out the breath she'd been holding and stalked off to the only dress shop in town. She'd just about had enough of Gavin Malfoy, he had pushed her around long enough. If it weren't for her fear for her family and friends she'd have punched him by now.
What she had said last night was still running through her mind, she wished she could apologize but their was no way she could walk up and apologize to Remus out of the blue without blowing her cover. And she didn't think Remus would forgive her anyway. What she had done was not acceptable no matter what her excuse was.
Walking into Madame Derma's dress shop, Josette smiled and began wiping the snow off her coat. It was warm and welcome inside the shop, just as Josette had hoped. Josette began looking through the racks, pulling things out, putting things back. She had just pulled out a white dress with pink lace when she heard a voice behind her.
"What are you doing here"
Josette turned to see Joey and Lily glaring at her, their arms crossed across their chests.
Josette just went back to looking through the dresses, ignoring the two angry witches. She pulled out a beautiful green dress but put it back again not liking the shade. She noticed out of the corner of her eyes that Lily and Joey were following her. She kept ignoring them and pulled out a silver dress she liked. Then a short black and red dress she thought was cute.
"Don't ignore me bitch!" Joe said angry that she was being ignored, "Who do you think you are saying those hurtful things to my cousin"
Josette put the brown dress she'd been looking at back n the rack with a disgusted face, and pulled out a green dress with a red ribbon around the waist.
"Fine, just keep ignoring us, but that won't make us go away, what you said and did was un believable, if it had been anyone else telling me what you did I wouldn't have believed it, but when Joey told me I believed it." Lily said narrowing her eyes.
Josette fought back the urge to tell the truth and turned to dressing rooms, closing the door and locking it Josette put the white and pink dress she'd pulled out first and put it on. Unfortunately their were no mirrors inside the dressing room so she had to go outside where Joey and Lily were waiting.
Three dresses later Josette was nearly in tears from all the things Lily and Joey were saying, she would have walked out but she needed a dress, and their was only one more dress to try on. It was a beautiful dress that reached Josette's knees, it was a deep crimson red, with a dark forest green ribbon wrapped around the waist.
When Josette stepped out to inspect herself in front of the mirror Lily and Joey opened their mouths to say something but they caught sight of a horrible sight. All the other dresses Josette had tried on had sleeves so they hadn't seen the purple bruises blooming on Josette's shoulder's. Now they could see them quite clearly. For a moment Josette wondered why the two weren't saying anything but she turned and saw bruises on her shoulders and part of her back from when Malfoy had pushed her against the tree.
"Damn." She muttered with a sigh as she looked at the damage. She spotted Lily and Joey staring with open mouths. "Don't stare, you'll make me think you actually care. Just laugh and tell me I deserve it."
Lily shook her head sadly, "No." She whispered.
"No matter what you've done no one deserves to be hurt like that." Joey agreed carefully stepping forward, "What happened"
"Malfoy's in a pissed off mood." Josette grumbled, "Look don't pretend to be my friend again just because I got myself in trouble." Before either girl could respond Josette went back into the dressing room.
Ten minutes later Josette come out, dressed in her robes. She didn't even look at Joey and Lily as she paid for the last dress she'd tried on, and left the store.
"I'm worried about her Lily." Joey said sadly, "She may have said some really horrible things about Remus but she was best friend for so long and I think some of the stuff she's done has something to do with Malfoy"
"Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing, but until she chooses to tell us something we can't help her"
Joey nodded her head and they began looking for dress's. After a few minutes they began laughing and making jokes again.
"Hey what about this one?" Joey pulled out a blue dress, it was tight and cut in a slash, one side reaching her ankle, the other side reaching her knee as she held it up to herself. The bottom had blue ruffles on the bottom, the top had no straps.
"It's beautiful, try it on"
Joey nodded and with a grin ran into the dressing rooms. When she came out there was a grin plastered on her face, "How do I look"
"Fabulous"
The dress hugged Joey's every curve, it fit her just right and didn't show anything that it shouldn't.
"Really?" Joey turned and gasped when she saw herself in the mirror, "I do look fabulous"
"Sirius is going to swallow his tongue when he sees you!" Lily grinned.
"Do you think he'll like it?" Joey asked worriedly.
"He'll love it, now go change, we only have twenty minutes to find me a dress.
As Joey was changing back into her clothes Lily began looking, she came upon a few dresses that she liked, but none that she fell in love with.
"Hey find anything yet?" Joey asked, her dress under her arm.
"None yet, what do you think of this"
Joey wrinkled her nose at the chocolate colored dress, "Umm, eww"
Lily smiled and put the dress back, it was then she noticed a green dress. She pulled it out carefully and looked at it, it was a simple green dress with no straps, and it flared out from the waist down. At the waist there was a shiny ribbon of the same color as the dress, it tied in the back and on the hip there was a small pink flower.
"It's perfect, try it on." Joey urged.
Lily grinned and quickly went to try the dress out, when she came out she sighed. The dress brought out her eyes perfectly, and matched her hair in just the right way, so she didn't seem too Christmassy. "Oh my gosh, it's beautiful!" Lily smiled and twirled around, letting the dress flare out and fall back down.
"It's perfect for you Lily, you have to buy it"
Lily nodded happily.
Ten minutes later Lily and Joey walked through the doors of HoneyDuke's, each with a bag.
"I wonder where the guys are?" Lily said out loud as they walked towards the chocolate aisle.
"Dunno." Joey pushed absently at the bottom of her skirt when she felt a slight draft. "Maybe they spent more time at Zonko's."
Lily shrugged and didn't notice when the bag she was holding was opened just a little. She looked over at Joey, who was picking out some every flavored chocolate. The back of her skirt was going up just enough for someone to take a peak.
"Hey!" Lily yelled.
Joey turned to see her skirt up and screamed, until she heard laughter, "Ugh! Sirius"
Sirius's body appeared out of thin air, followed by Remus, and James. All except Remus were laughing.
"That was just wrong!" Remus said shivering as he though of that sight he'd seen.
"Sirius that was just wrong!" Joey said slapping Sirius on the arm, her other hand was behind her keeping her skirt down.
"Don't worry Joey, he can't pull your skirt up now." James laughed.
"Shut up Potter!" Joey said angrily.
Sirius wrapped an arm around her, "Oh come on Joey, lighten up. Ok, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that, it was stupid"
Joey smiled, "Ok I guess I forgive you, but if you ever do it again you'll be having no children in the future"
"It's a deal"
"James"
Joey and Sirius turned to se James trying to peak into Lily's bag.
"It's a surprise! You can't see"
James pouted, "but, Lily"
"Oh, pout a little more, it won't help but it'll make me laugh." Lily grinned and kissed James, then
glanced at her watch. "We should get going, we'll be late for dinner if we don't"
"But, the chocolate is calling my name!" Joey whined as Sirius and Remus pulled her out of the candy store.
"Don't worry Moony always has some chocolate on hand for emergencies." Sirius said grinning when Joey attacked her cousin.
"Remus! You have to give me some chocolate!" Joey whined digging into his pockets.
"I don't have any now! When we get back to the school, just wait Joey"
James held Lily's hand tightly and smiled, his life was finally perfect.
A/N: Ok if you want to see what The dres's look like (including Masies) go to this link: If it doesn't work, tell me and i'll try and fix the problem. k? thanks.
Me And You Is Friends ...
You Smile, I Smile ...
You Hurt, I Hurt ...
You Cry, I Cry ...
You Jump Off A Bridge ...
I Gonna Miss Your Dumb Ass
Beautiful poem...it brings a tear to my eye, every time I hear it.
I heart the werewolf spirit: Yeah sniff i know what you mean wipes tear away it breaks my heart to put Josette through all of this but it's for the good of the story, and like i've said before, it will get better! I promise, well actually I can't promise that because It's my mind and I cna never predicte what my mind's gonna throw out there next, but i'm pretty sure it'll be ok. The next chapter will be longer, and the chapter after that too, I have it all in my head so YAY!