Chapter7 --Prank Attacks

"So yeah, you lost" Sirius smiled as he sat down on the couch the group was around.

"Shut-up Sirius." Tyson didn't even open her eyes from where she sat, her head back and eyes closed, on the other end of the couch.

"I don't have too" He smiled again in satisfaction.

"Yeah you do" James said from where he sat on the ground surprisingly doing his homework.

"Oh really?" Sirius looked over at James like he wanted to hit him; James just nodded and continued with his homework not even knowing that Sirius was glaring at him.

"What the hell is you problem?" Rielly looked up from a magazine she was reading towards Sirius.

"What the hell is MY problem? I think your directing the question to the wrong person! You should be talking to Potter and Tyson!" Sirius looked pissed over at Rielly.

"No I mean your problem, everyone else has got along with Tyson and Potter just fine, it just you that hasn't. Why are you being such an ass?" Rielly put down the magazine.

"Don't call my best friend that!" James being the eleven year old that he was, he didn't like being mad and only liked things to go nice and simple for life, so without even realizing it he was arguing on behave of Sirius. Sirius stopped glaring at Rielly long enough to look at James to see if he was being sincere, and he was. With an exchange of a look both boys smiled and looked back at Rielly, and once again they were best friends.

"Quit yelling at her, she was just stating the obvious!" Aerith looked over at James.

"Stating the obvious?" James stood up.

"Yeah Sirius has been a real jerk lately for no reason other than jealousy, and everyone knows it!" She too stood up along with Rielly. Everyone else in the group sat there watching their friends yell at each other not knowing what to say.

"Exactly, he's been acting like Malfoy, that slimy git." Rielly glared at Sirius

"You shove it Gainbrough!" Tyson jumped up defending both her 'boyfriend' and her best friend at the same time. And like with Sirius and James it took but one look from each other to confirm their friendship.

"Stay out of this Tyson, it isn't your fight!" Rielly gritted her teeth. By now the whole common room was looking at the group, amazed that this group of friends that had been so close the whole school year was finally falling apart.

"How dare you say that he doesn't have a reason to act like that, I'd say he has a pretty damn good one. But what the hell do you know? Nothing because he never told you, he told me and James, so yeah this is my fight seeing how I'm more clued in on it than you!" Tyson's gray eyes filled with hate instantly.

"What?" Erayn asked trying to get Tyson's attention but she just ignored her.

"That doesn't mean anything! Just because you and jerk over there who can't get his priorities straight can become friends with just a smile doesn't let him get away with how he's been acting" Rielly almost shrieked.

"It's fine Ty, cool down I'm not gunna duel my girlfriend's friends." Sirius lowered his eyes when Tyson had looked at him with a look that obviously asked if he was gunna hex her.

"No but I will!" Tyson spun around towards Rielly her wand gripped in her hand.

"Ty no, Sirius is right, please stop." James grabbed hold of Tyson's arm that held her wand.

"Please Ty don't do anything. Put your wand down." Sirius sounded sick, like he wanted to just give up everything. Tyson glared at Rielly for a moment before considering what Sirius had said and dropping her wand on the couch beside her.

"Yeah that's right Tyson, do what your little boyfriend tells you." Rielly grinned. In a split second Erayn was up on her feet and Rielly was on the floor holding her nose. Everyone jumped back from Rielly until the realized what had happened then looked back up towards Erayn who still had her fist clenched.

"My nose!" Rielly screamed, everyone just looked from her to Erayn not knowing if they should laugh or be angry, "Help me Aerith!" Rielly demanded.

"Sirius is my boyfriend and I'm tired of having it seem other wise." Erayn glared at Rielly who was getting help to stand back up from Aerith.

"You Bit-" Aerith started but was cut off by Sirius.

"Don't you dare call my girlfriend that, if any one is, its you!"

"Huh?" Aerith snorted, "Remus did you just hear what he just said to me, are you going to let him talk to me like that?" She pulled her glance from Sirius and Erayn to Remus who was sitting on the couch quietly with Peter; she hoped that Remus would be civil enough to help her out. He looked startled and was quiet for quite awhile making Aerith speak up again, "Well?" everyone was staring at him waiting for his reply.

"Well you did start to call Erayn the same thing first, did you not? So he was just standing up for her like any loyal boyfriend." Remus shrugged.

"Omigod, you people are impossible!" Aerith screamed before grabbing hold of Rielly who still held her nose which was bleeding and dragging her off to another side of the common room. Everyone looked at each other then at Remus who just shrugged again.

"I'm sorry guys that I've been such a jerk lately and I know that you just wanted to help and I was pushing you two away…" Sirius started apologizing to Tyson and James.

"Wait this is what I meant, Sirius. I'm your girlfriend and evidently there's something that you aren't telling me but you told Tyson and James. That's not right; you have to be able to tell me too!" Erayn fell down onto the couch rubbing her knuckles now thinking that she had acted rather foolishly when she punched Rielly. Sirius looked down at Erayn sadly then to James and Tyson. He sat down next to her and took her hands. For once in his life he was being sincere.

"Erayn, we've all got secrets and some of them just can't be told, I'm sorry but if you really care for me you won't ask about it anymore." He hung his head sadly.

"Don't you see Sirius, its only going to get worse if you don't stop it, you have to tell someone!" Tyson looked ready to cry for the first time that any of them had ever known her. She wasn't going to cry not over this she told herself no she wouldn't, and she didn't.

"Sirius tell me, please!" Erayn choked on her reply.

"I can't! Tyson you wouldn't understand why I can't either!" His first answer was directed to Erayn the second obviously to Tyson.

"I would understand more than you would ever know" Tyson looked down at the floor for a moment then got up and left to the portrait that led out of the common room, though her along with everyone else knew it was to late to be out. Remus quickly followed.

"So your not going to tell me?" Erayn looked up at Sirius her hands still in his.

"I can't" was all she got back.

"Okay I understand, but you have to understand that I can't stay with someone that keeps secrets from me, especially important ones evidently like this." This time it was Erayn's turn to stand up and walk out but she headed toward the dorms, whispering a small, "bye" to Sirius on her way out.

The common room was quiet for almost a whole minute no one moving barely even breathing.

"You know things are bad when the biggest pranksters in the school are causing the most depressing drama." Sara sighed; her comment received a few weak, tired chuckles but nothing more. She followed Erayn to see if she could comfort her. Sirius, James, and Peter all got up and went to their own dorms to talk all this out. Leaving everyone else to sit there for sometime before each group slowly went back to what they had previously been doing.

Remus followed the stairs from the seventh floor down to the first and quietly snuck past the prefects and out the side door of the castle to the castle grounds next to the lake. There on the edge just a foot or two away from the small lapping waves of the lake sat Tyson, he knew she would be there, it was her favorite place at night. He went and sat next to her, for a long while neither spoke.

"Tyson I know you know my secret as does the rest of the marauders. And I know that you know what the others are trying to do to help my... problem. Obviously Sirius has his own problems and it kills me that he didn't tell me after I told him mine. But what is done is done and now I have to face the fact that I'm not the only one with problems, evidently so does Sirius... and you too. What else kills me is that I have you and the boys to help me with mine, and Sirius has you and James... but you... you have no one. That must be a hell living in your head with no one to talk to about things. Your not one to open up about these things but you need to for your own safety. We don't need a suicide."

"Remus you know me better than that, I would never kill myself... that's not what scares me..." She didn't even raise her head from where she had her arms wrapped around her knees and her face laying on them.

"Then what does?"

"That someone else might." She looked up into Remus' eyes, they were scared but not for himself, no they were scared for Tyson. She would never talk like that if it wasn't serious.

"Who?"

"Someone I hope to never see again."

That night Tyson did something she had never done before, she let everything go. She told about her past and her feelings, about what waited for her in her future. What scared her the most? Now she didn't cry, she couldn't. She had held in this story to long to break down and cry so she told it without an expression, without thought, while looking over the lake. Remus just sat there and listened, looking at her, not knowing that he was the first to hear what she was saying, and that it would not be told or spoken of again for another five years.