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"Are you ready yet?" Lily ran a hand through her hair as she knocked on the bathroom door of her old dorm.
"No, keep your pants on Lily!" Masie yelled through the door, "I'm not done yet, I have to look perfect!"
Lily smiled before walking to the mirror above Masie's dresser and checking her makeup. This was the first ball she'd ever been to where she would have a real date, and she didn't want to mes it up.
"Relax Lily you look fine." Joey pulled the curlers she'd put in her hair out and began arranging the curls on the top of her head. "How do you think Sirius would prefer me to do my hair?"
"I think he'll love it no matter what you do."
Joey nodded but still bit her lip as she tried to decide how to put her mass of spiraling curls on her head.
A minute later the door flew open and Josette ran in. Her hair was a mess, her face flushed and she looked like she was going to cry. She quickly pulled out her dress and put it on, trying to get the zipper up by herself. She didn't finish with the zipper before starting on her hair.
Lily looked at Joey who was watching the sight sadly. Lily could tell Joey wanted to help Josette but out of respect for her cousin she didn't do anything.
Five minutes later, Masie was out of the bathroom, and the three friends left, leaving Josette to finish getting ready by herself.
"I kind of feel bad." Joey admitted, "I know what she's said but she was my best friend for so long, and now she needs me and I can't help her."
"Yeah, we can only hope she'll ask us for help, or tell us what's really been going on." Masie sighed.
Masie had agreed to meet her boyfriend in the Great Hall, while Lily, and Joey stood at the top of the stairs waiting for the guys.
"So, do you think Remus is coming?" Lily asked, "it's only a day or two until the full moon."
"Yeah, I think he'll come, even if he doesn't want to Sirius and James will force him to. They're always looking out to make sure he doesn't wallow in self-pity." Joey grinned, "They're great friends, exactly what Remus always needed."
"But he had you, he already had a great friend." Lily pointed out.
"Yeah, but I'm a cousin, it's different with family. You always need someone that's not family to complain to about your family so having James, Sirius, and Peter really helped him."
Lily nodded in agreement. When she had first met Joey and Remus, Remus had been quieter then he was now, he had only murmured a 'hi' before hiding behind his book, he didn't even join in the conversation when the topic turned to books.
"Hello hot stuff, have you seen my date?" James wrapped his arms around Lily's waist and nuzzled her neck.
Lily giggled and wrapped an arm around James's neck, "Hello."
"Hi." Sirius grinned and twirled Joey around, "don't you look beautiful tonight."
"Why thank you Sirius, you look very beautiful too." Joey laughed at his expression and kissed him.
When she finally pulled away she ran to her cousin and jumped on him, "Hey handsome, seen where my cousin ran off to, he would never be caught dead at one of these shin-digs."
Remus smiled, "Ha ha Joey, you're a comedian."
Joey kissed Remus's cheek before looping her arm through his and Sirius's arms, "Well let's go."
When they walked into the Great Hall Lily gasped. The ceiling was dropping light snow onto everyone though no one seemed to notice or mind, and when Lily held her hand out and caught a snowflake she realized it was because it disappeared right before it touched her. The tables were replaced with smaller, round tables all had enough chairs for eight people to sit, and white candles dripping in blue wax floated around the room.
"Let's get a table." Remus said and led them to an empty table.
"I want to dance." Joey said immediately pulling Sirius out onto the dance floor.
Remus shrugged when James gave him a questioning look, then James and Lily were off onto the dance floor. Remus sat by himself now, but he didn't mind. He wasn't even going to come but James and Sirius had threatened, begged, and eventually bribed him to come down, Sirius now owed him ten galleons, and a bag of chocolate frogs every time they go to Hogsmeade for three weeks.
Remus looked up into the ceiling, watching the whirling mass of make believe snowflakes. His thoughts disappeared as he watched the snowflakes, everything was so beautiful.
"Remus." A voice whispered in his ear.
Remus looked up to see Josette, sitting next to him.
"Before you yell at me, and tell me you want me to leave, let me say something." Josette said quickly. "I'm sorry, I never meant any of the things I said to you. I know you'll never forgive me. But I had to tell you the truth even if you don't believe it!" Then, not giving Remus a chance to answer Josette hurried off to where Malfoy was standing.
"What did she say?" Joey had hurried over when she saw Josette leave, dragging Sirius behind her.
"She said she was sorry for everything she'd said even if I didn't believe her."
"Well do you?" Sirius asked sitting next to his friend.
"I think so, I don't know though she's with Malfoy after all."
Joey bit her lip, not wanting to worry her cousin about what she'd seen in the dress shop.
"What do you know?" Sirius asked her when he noticed her biting her lip.
"Nothing, why would I know anything." She began twisting her coat in her hands.
Remus looked up, "Well then why are you twisting your coat?"
When she realized what she was doing Joey put her coat back on the chair and sat on the other side of Remus, "Ok, well maybe I saw something, but you have to promise not to do anything. Both of you. Don't give me that look Sirius, I know you and I know you'll go help kick Malfoy's ass."
"Ok, promise." Remus said quickly.
"Sirius?"
With a sigh Sirius made an ex move over his heart, "I promise."
"Ok," Joey bent closer, when Lily and I were in the dress shop Josette was there. We yelled at her told her to leave, called her names all this, then we kind of standing around the dressing room while she was trying on different dress's hoping we could get some sort of fight out of her but she ignored us. Well the last dress she tried on had no straps and the back was low." Joey leaned even closer, "Her back and shoulders were covered in bruises, really big bruises. She told us to just laugh and tell her she deserves it, because we were staring, we told her no one deserves that and when we asked what happened she said Malfoy was in a bad mood. Malfoy's beating her! I think, and Lily agrees, that's why she's been acting like this, because Malfoy is beating her if she doesn't and probably holding her brother over he head."
Sirius went to stand up but Joey tried to hold him down. She was so little of course that she didn't do much damage. She finally sat on his lap.
"No! You can't go anywhere! You promised!" Joey said frantically.
"That was before I knew what had happened." Sirius sad darkly. He and Josette had been good friends for a while, and Sirius had always been very protective of his friends no matter how close he was to them.
"No! You have to trust that Josette will come to her senses soon! She's smart, she knows we know now, and she risked getting Malfoy mad to come talk to Remus didn't she? That means she's at least trying, give it a few more days and I'm sure she'll come to her senses!"
Remus was staring down at the ground, his fists were clenched at his sides.
"Remus, calm down." Joey said touching his shoulder soothingly, "She'll be fine, she's strong."
Remus shook his head, "She should have told me! She should have trusted me!"
"Don't take it personally! It's not that she didn't trust you!"
"But you don't know that Joey." Remus snapped angrily, "She can't handle something like that on her own!"
"I know Remus! Don't yell at me it's not my fault!" Joey yelled back.
Remus softened, "I'm sorry Joey, I'm just mad."
"We all are Moony." Sirius said, "but we just have to wait it out, it's hard but we have to."
Remus nodded and ran a hand through his hair, "Yeah, I'll try, but it won't be easy."
Meanwhile……
"What did you say to him?"
Malfoy's fingers were biting painfully into Josette's' arm but she didn't say anything about the pain, "Nothing!"
"Don't lie! I saw you, what did you say?"
"I told him to stop having people talk to me for him!" Josette said quickly making up a lie.
Malfoy narrowed his gaze, "I think you're lying, but I'll let it go this once. Let's go dance."
Josette didn't say anything as Malfoy dragged her onto the dance floor. She wrapped her arms around his neck and stared over his shoulder at Remus. Joey, and Sirius. She watched as Joey leaned forward and whispered something to Sirius and Remus. When she was done talking Sirius jumped up but Joey quickly jumped on his lap and said something that made him calm down.
Josette ignored Malfoy's hand as he slipped it lower towards her butt. Remus was yelling at Joey, and Joey yelled back causing Remus to apologize, or at least that's what it looked like he was doing. He ran a hand through his hair and said something sadly to Joey and Sirius. Then Sirius and Joey were dancing again and Remus was left alone. If it weren't for Malfoy, Remus wouldn't be alone. Josette would have asked him to go with her to the Christmas ball and they would be out on the dance floor having a fun time. Instead Remus was sitting alone and Josette was dancing with a person she hates with a passion.
Josette lifted her hand briefly to wipe a stray tear away. It was then she noticed that Sirius and Joey were dancing not to far off. Joey was looking sadly at Josette, when she saw Josette looking at her though she turned back to Sirius.
Josette knew then that they had been talking about her, why hadn't she realized it? What were they saying? Had Remus told them what she had said? Or worse had Joey told Sirius and Remus what she'd seen at the dress shop.
"what is wrong with you?"
Josette looked at Malfoy and realized she'd stopped dancing, "sorry." She muttered and looked back over his shoulder as they began dancing again. Remus was gone from the table, now Sirius and Joey were sitting there laughing and talking.
'Where had Remus gone to?'
"Ms. Froll, may I speak with you?" Ms McGonagall looked sadly at Josette.
"Um, yes of course." Josette pulled away from Malfoy and followed Professor McGonagall.
"This has been so fun." Joey said on a sigh as she, Sirius, Lily, Masie, and Remus walked to the Gryffindor common room.
"Yeah, for us, but I don't think Remus had such a good time." Sirius said
"I did too, I spent the whole night talking to a delightful Hufflepuff girl who couldn't dance because she had a swollen ankle."
Joey sighed and stopped to slip her shoes off, "Remus you should have talked to her."
"How? She was with Malfoy all night!"
"You should have went to talk to her and if Malfoy had a problem with that you should have punched his lights out."
Remus grinned at Sirius's suggestion but shook his head, "No Joey's right, she'll come to me when she's ready."
"Yeah, so what are you doing with us Lily?" Sirius asked desperate to change the subject.
"Masie, Joey, and I are having a sleepover in their dorm." Lily said as they approached the Fat Lady.
"Pertificous Totalos!"
The fat Lady muttered about staying out all night before swinging open to let the threesome into the common room.
The sight inside the common room was horrible, everything had been destroyed, the pillows laid around the room, the stuffing coming out. The chairs were knocked over, or had been thrown against walls or the tables, a group of people were sitting on the ground in front of the fire, the couch having been knocked over also. A few people were picking the room up a bit, and five or six people were standing at the bottom of the Girls Dormitory stairs. Where someone was yelling and there where noises that made it sound like whoever was up there was destroying everything they could get their hands on.
"Alice!" Lily spotted their friend Alice, her arms wrapped around her boyfriend Frank Longbottom.
Alice turned when she heard Lily, Oh thank goodness you guys are here!"
"What happened? Who destroyed the common room? What's going on up there? How come you all are just standing down here?" Masie asked quickly.
"It's Josette, she destroyed the common room and now she's up in her room making a mess, Dumbledore and McGonagall talked to her during the dance. Frank and I had decided to come back early because we were tired and found Josette throwing a chair against the wall, the rest of the room had already been ruined, she hadn't even used her wand."
"Why? Why is she doing this?"
Frank answered when Alice buried her head I his chest, "You-know-who, he got her family, he killed her parents, her younger sister Leah, and know her brother, and her younger twin brother and sister are missing. She's alone."
A/N: OMG! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME! Ok before you send me messages saying you hate me with a passion, let me just say that ina twisted way this is good for Josette, yes her family is gone but now she's no longer Malfoy's slave, her brothers gone so Malfoy can no longer hold him over her head right? Right! Ok so i'm sorry it's so sad but...well I don't know. Ok nxt chapter will more then likely comtain alot of Quiditch because I just realized i have no Quiditch games in this story so far and that is not good!
I heart the werewolf spirit: Yeah, I know what you mean, Josette's life is just getting worse and worse! huh? Ah I hope it gets better for her!
malfoy's fair maiden: Yeah, the onl class I sit in the front in is World History and that's because all the losers who don;t do anything except talk about how hot eachothers mom is sit, and they suck so i sit in the front in that class all my other classes though are awsume and i get to sit with my friends! yay! Yeah I have no attention span either, don't worry about it.
EVERYONE HAVE A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A MERRY NEW YEAR! I'LL HAVE THE NEXT CHAPTER UP SOMETIME NEXT YEAR PROBABLY!