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Chapter seven.
Lily woke to the sound of her alarm clock buzzing. She whacked it so it stopped, then she rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, it was very hard. She had so much on her mind. Well, not really. Just one thing; one person who dominated her thoughts.
James. She hated him but she loved him at the same time. It was so frustrating! She didn't want to go back to him. He promised he would stop the pranks, and then he had gone against her wishes.
Emma got up early that day. She wanted to get ready for hertrip toHogsmeade. A picnic. It was so romantic, almost as romantic as when she had danced with Sirius in the Great Hall at Breakfast. She woke up Ellie, who was rather annoyed at being woken up so early. Ellie was not a morning person, and she had her problems with Remus. So waking her up was not a good idea. She grumbled unhappily and glared at Emma with red eyes.
"Go away!" she groaned loudly.
"Ellie, get up! You have to help me get ready for my picnic date with Sirius."
"No!"
"Please."
"Not unless you leave me alone and let me have at least two more hours sleep." She grumbled
"Fine!" Emma said exasperatedly, she walked out of the room; "I'm going to find Lily!" she called.
James Potter was depressed, he had the girl he had always dreamed of being with, and then he had ruined it by pulling a stupid prank.
He got dressed slowly, and then went down to breakfast. James had a detention today with Sirius for bewitching the Slytherin's robes so they screamed, "we know we stink, please clean us." He helped himself to some toast.
Dumbledore stood up and clapped his hands to get the attention of the students.
"I have an announcement to make." He said, "We have a new program here at Hogwarts, it is optional. Professor Dinglebat, our divination teacher, is organizing it. She will explain it to you."
Professor Dinglebat stood up; she walked to the middle of the Hall. She was wearing long swishy robes, lots of beads and bangles. Her flaming frizzy red hair was tied into a fountain ponytail on the top of her head.
"I decided to do this because it is almost Christmas. This program is called Amoraccio, which comes from the Italian words Amore Di Baccio, which means kiss and love!" she said excitedly, "Basically, it is mistletoe, but with a twist! If you are caught under the mistletoe with someone, you will be trapped there until you kiss them!"
James groaned; he hated this woman enough already, now she had to go and put mistletoe all over the castle?
"Does this suit me?" Emma said, she had tried on what seemed like a million outfits, she wanted this date to be perfect. Lily and Kat just sat there, pretending to be interested. They were in their dorm. Ellie was down in the common room entertaining first years with her ever-changing looks. Occasionally they would hear a squeal of excitement from one of them.
"Make you hair green and your eyes scarlet!" they'd say, or "Pink and blue!" or "Yellow and black!"
Ellie decided she was tired of entertaining the small first years, so she decided to come upstairs and talk to her friends. She looked at the pile of clothes Emma had thrown on the floor. Ellie pulled out her wand, pointed it at the pile and said, 'Blusstaka!" out of the pile came a blue singlet and a black skirt, they floated in mid air.
"Wear that." She said, before flopping onto her bed, Emma grabbed the clothes and ran off into the bathroom.
Ellie let out a long, drawn out sigh.
"I'm stressed," she announced "I so don't want to go back to the orphanage for Christmas. The nuns will probably want me to come back."
"Refuse. Don't go." Kat said,
"Yeah, they can't force you." Lily agreed, "That's not the real reason you're stressed is it?"
"What other reason is there?"
"A Remus reason maybe?" Kat said,
"Oh that was completely over before it even began." Ellie said casually, as if she didn't care.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked,
"He doesn't seem to have time for me anyway, and we're so different…"
"… I'm not her type and she's obviously not interested in me." Remus said,
"You never know." Sirius told him,
"You should ask her out." James said,
"Nah, I don't have to confidence, she'd never go out with me."
"Why?" Peter asked,
"Cos' he's not my type!" how many time do I have to tell you that?" Ellie shouted
"Okay. Geez, don't get tooshy." Emma said,
"Calm down Ellie."
"I'm calm, it's just Remus." She said, they thought she didn't care, but she did.
"Come on, let's go or you'll be late Emma." Lily said,
"Late for what?" Sirius asked,
"Our detention with McGonagall." James said, "Hurry up."
Sirius muttered something about McGonagall and detention then followed James out of the Great Hall.
"You do like Ellie don't you Moony?" Peter asked,
"Yeah, but she doesn't like me. That thing at the ball was a mistake."
"Oh, let's go to Hogsmeade." Peter said, trying to take Remus' mind off Ellie, Peter hoped to see Jesse Lestrange there. He was trying to be like James and Sirius when he was around her. He wanted to be suave and nonchalant, but for him it was pretty much impossible.
Emma walked with Ellie, Kat and Lily, the nervous feeling lingered in her stomach like an annoying bug. They reached the spot where she was going to meet Sirius.
"You guys can go; he'll probably be late." Emma said,
"You sure?" Lily asked,
"Yeah, go on."
"Ok." Kat said, as they turned their backs and walked away.
Emma stood there, twiddling her thumbs nervously; she heard a rustling in the bushes behind her.
She turned around, expecting some kind of animal to pop out in front of her. Nothing happened, so she turned back around and looked eagerly for Sirius.
Someone put a hand over her mouth and grabbed her from behind. She tried to scream but nothing would come out.
"Where do you want to go Ellie?"
"Well, I have no family to shop for, and I'm not going to buy you guys' presents in front of you, so I'm good, I don't need to go anywhere."
"Okay, what about you Kat?" Lily asked,
"I need to buy something for Sam, but I know what I want to get!" she said,
"What?" Lily asked,
"A broom maintenance kit, and one of those quidditch books."
"Oh, he'll really like that." Ellie commented,
"What are you getting Remus?" Kat said,
"Why would I get him something?" she asked,
"Cos' you have a thing for him?" Lily said,
"Nah, not anymore. I don't have a thing for him." Ellie said, truthfully.
They all bought what they needed to buy and decided to leave Hogsmeade, wondering where Emma was, they just assumed that she had gone back up to the castle with Sirius.
When they returned to the castle, there was no sign of Emma in the Gryffindor common room, so they checked the head's common room, and found her sitting on the couch, sipping butterbeer and reading a piece of parchment.
"Hey Em, how was your date with Sirius?" Lily asked, throwing her bag on the couch,
"Stupid bastard didn't show, did he?" she snapped, getting up off the couch
"Are you okay Emma?" Lily asked, surprised that Emma would call Sirius that,
"I'm just fine," she said, throwing her butterbeer in the fire, "Just peachy, now get out of my way you mudblood bitch." She pointed her wand at Lily, none of the girls had their wands with them, and so they were defenseless against Emma.
Lily stood aside, allowing Emma to brush past her and walk swiftly out of the room.
Sirius and James were finally leaving detention, they were laughing about how Flitwick had fallen off his stack of books while trying to give them a lecture about the danger of pranks.
They rounded a corner, to bump into Emma, who immediately pointed to Sirius' neck.
"You prick." She hissed,
"Excuse me?"
"You never turned up."
"For what?"
"Our picnic, you stupid asshole."
"What picnic?"
"You never really liked me did you?" she demanded,
"Well… um…er."
"Not good enough Black." She snarled, "octaviana."
Sirius suddenly sprouted started screaming, in pain. Seven legs sprouted from different parts of his body and then as the screaming got worse, an eighth leg grew.
"What the hell did you do to him?" James shouted,
"Nothing, I didn't do anything." She said, "If you want to end up like him, you will stay where you are, so move."
James stepped aside, just as Lily had. Emma walked away towards the Slytherin Common Room.
"That was weird." James said, watching her disappear.
"Hello? Can you help me?" Sirius asked desperately, his many new legs flailing about, and he seemed to be in a lot of pain.
"Oh, yeah sorry." James said, diverting his attention back to Sirius, who resembled an octopus.
"Is she drunk?" Kat asked, She and Lily were sitting in the common room, wondering what was up with Emma; Ellie had gone to get some food from the kitchens.
"No, that bottle was half full, and there was only one here, James drank the rest the other night with Sirius." Lily said, "You should've heard them, they were going on about how I was an evil nymph and they were deliberating on how to spell the word I."
"Right." Kat said, "I don't know what was going on."
"I do, Sirius was in detention all day long. So he sent her that letter…" Ellie started, as she walked in through the door, clutching a lot of junk food.
"How do you know?" Lily interrupted,
"I saw them on the list last night when I was in McGonagall's office for detention."
"Why were you in detention this time?" Kat asked,
"That doesn't matter." Ellie said, "Anyway, Sirius sent her that letter knowing full well that he would be in detention. What a prick!"
"She's pissed, and she's taking it out on us." Kat said,
At that moment, James came through the portrait hole, with Sirius, who seemed to have an excess of legs.
"What in the world happened to you?" Lily asked, astounded.
"Emma did that octopus curse on me." he said, as one of his legs kicked over a lamp, "Oops, sorry."
"That's okay." Lily said, pointing her wand at the lamp, "Reparo."
The shattered lamp flew back to its original shape.
"She was saying something about a picnic. I never invited her on a picnic."
"Yes you did." Ellie said, shoving a piece of parchment under his nose.
"A picnic? I never wrote this! Though it is in my handwriting, what the hell is going on here?" Sirius exclaimed angrily.
"I don't know." Ellie said.
Then the portrait hole opened again, Emma climbed in, smiling happily.
"Hey guys, what's up?" she asked
They all stared at her, something was definitely wrong. She looked at Sirius,
"Sirius! What happened to you?" She asked concernedly,
"What?" He shouted, "How can you not know? You did this to me!"
"I certainly did not!" Emma yelled, now fuming with anger, "stuff you Sirius Black, we're over."
"Fine by me!" Sirius yelled, as he kicked over the lamp, again. James pushed him out of the room, making him fall out of the portrait hole.
Emma stomped over to where Kat, Lily and Ellie were and said, "Can you believe him?"
"Yeah, why would you do that to him?" Ellie snapped,
"What's your problem?" Kat asked, "Why would you call Lily a mudblood?"
"What? I didn't! Why would I do that?" Emma protested
"Whatever Emma, just leave. We don't need your bullshit around here." Lily said; the three girls walked up the stairs leaving Emma standing there, completely befuddled as to what had just happened.
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