a/n: hope you like this chapter.

chapter 15: by Pinocchio.

Jesse ran down the hallways as fast as she could, her long robes were billowing behind her as she ran. The howler was re-playing itself in her mind.

'You will pay; I will make you pay! You will be punished for making me feel this way!'

She rounded a corner and turned into a darker corridor, she tried to run faster but she knocked into something, a person, she screamed loudly.

'Lumos' the person said,

'Oh Claudia, Bella, thank god it's you.'

'Where are you going in such a hurry?' Bellatrix asked accusingly,

'I'm running away from Pettigrew, he found me and started asking me if I felt the same way yet,' she said breathlessly, 'and then when I told him to eff off, he said he would make me pay and he started running at me. Thankfully he's so fat that he can barely waddle fast enough to catch me.'

'Oh, poor you.' Claudia said sympathetically,

'Where are you two going?' she asked,

'Lunch.' Bellatrix said, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world,

'Oh, well I'll catch up with you later then, I gotta keep running, I'm gonna go down to the quidditch pitch.'

'Why there?' Bellatrix asked,

'Because Pettigrew is no good at flying, so maybe I'll stay in the air for a few hours.'

'Ok, see you later.' Claudia said, as they parted ways, Jesse went towards the pitch and the twins went towards the Great Hall for lunch.

'34…37…uh, 99…100! Okay, ready or not here I come!' Sirius called,

'You'll never find me!' Ellie called,

'Or me!' Emma added,

Ellie, Emma, Kat and Remus were playing hide and seek with Sirius, he was desperate to play for some reason, and so they were all hiding from him.

Sirius ran around the common room, trying to find them, not realizing that they were all on broomsticks hovering above him, suddenly Kat sneezed, blowing their cover.

'Aha! Hey! You're not allowed to hide on the ceiling!' Sirius grumbled, 'that's cheating!'

They came down from the roof and landed gently on the floor, laughing at Sirius' annoyed expression,

'Sorry, but that was hilarious.' Emma laughed, kissing him on the cheek, as she heard a rap at the window, her tawny owl Nelson was there, tapping and hooting at them from outside. Emma walked over and let him in, wondering why he hadn't gone to the owlery instead, she untied the letter from his leg and stroked him. it was addressed to her and her brother Daniel, but seeing as he wasn't there, she would read it first.

Emma walked up to her bedroom with Nelson sitting on her arm; she sat down on her bed to read the letter, she recognized the handwriting immediately.

A tear ran down Emma's cheek as she put the letter down, she took Nelson off her arm and walked over to her desk. How could this have happened? Everything had been perfect, they were normally so happy, and now this, this would ruin her life. She took out two-pieces of parchment and a quill; on each she wrote three words:

I hate you.

She wrote the different addresses on each envelope, and sent Nelson off, out the window. She brushed away a stray tear and walked downstairs.

Emma walked back into the common room, an angry look on her face. Her eyes were cold and her face was tear-stained. She walked past her friends without saying anything.

"Emma?" Sirius asked confusedly, "Emma wait!"

He climbed out the portrait hole after her and grabbed her arm as she walked off,

"Emma, what's wrong?" he asked,

"Just leave me alone!" she screeched as she wrenched her arm away from him,

"Emma stop!" he said, "Tell me what happened? What did that letter say?"

"As if I'm going to tell you. But that letter taught me something; love sucks! We're over Black." She said monotonously,

"No Emma, you have to tell me."

"No!"

"Emma!"

WHAM!

That was the sound of Emma's fist connecting with Sirius' face; she ran off quickly as he keeled over in pain, his nose was broken.

"Sirius?" asked a voice, it was Kat, and she had come out to see what was going on, "Oh my god, how did this happen?"

"Emma." He groaned, "She hits hard."

"Come on, you've got to go to the hospital wing, now."

Kat helped him up and walked with him over to the Hospital Wing, where Madame Pomfrey healed his nose instantly, and cleaned of the blood that was leaking out.

"Thanks Kat, that was good of you to help me. I don't know what's wrong with Emma, I'm worried." Sirius said,

"Yeah, I'm going to try and find out what's going on with her." Kat said, "see you later."

"Bye." Sirius said.

Kat found Emma sitting down on a bench in the quidditch stadium, with her head in her hands, a piece of parchment sat next to her, it looked like a bill of some sort, but Kat couldn't see properly

"Hey Em, what's up? You seemed upset in the common room."

"I wasn't upset, leave me alone Katherine." She said bitterly,

"Katherine? You never call me Katherine. There must be something seriously wrong." Kat said worriedly,

"There is nothing wrong, just piss off and leave me alone!" Emma shouted, getting up and walking away quickly, Kat noticed she had left the tear-stained letter on the bench; she picked it up and read;

Dear Emma and Daniel,

How are you? I hope you are very well and enjoying your life at Hogwarts.

This year has been an unpleasant one for us; your mother and I have been having some problems in our relationship, I'm sorry to burden you with such horrible news at such a time when you are nearing your final exams, but you had to know eventually. Your mother and I are getting a divorce. I am very sad that it came to this, I still love your mother dearly, but she doesn't love me anymore. She has temporarily moved in with your Aunt Helen, I hope you can understand why we are doing this, I hope you aren't mad with us, just because we are getting a divorce doesn't mean we don't love you. I'm sorry about this parchment, your mother took all the good parchment with her when she left, and as you can see this is written on our electricity bill from this month.

Love Dad.

So that was why Emma was acting weirdly, why wouldn't she have come to them for help? Instead of acting like a total bitch.

Kat hurried back to Gryffindor tower with the letter in her hand.

"Guys! I know what's wrong with Emma!" she shouted, waving the letter around, then she noticed that she was talking to a bunch of random second years, who were giving her a strange look.

"Did you happen to see a bunch of seventh years leaving?" she asked, embarrassed,

"Yeah." Said one of them, a little boy who Kat recognized as Emma's little brother Daniel, he was looking quite happy, so obviously he hadn't seen the letter yet.

"Hey Daniel, do you know which way they went?"

"Left." He said,

"Thanks Daniel." She said, she now knew they must be in the Head's common room,

"Um, Kat?" he asked,

"Yeah?"

"Have you seen my sister? I saw her before and I tried calling her but she wouldn't answer."

"No, sorry, I haven't seen her." Kat lied, before climbing out the portrait hole and heading down to the Head's common room.

"It is too!" James argued,

"It so is not." Ellie said,

"What are you arguing about?" Kat asked as she walked in, Ellie and James were sitting on the couch arguing about something, Remus was reading a book and Sirius was sitting on the window seat, staring aimlessly into the sky.

"James thinks that pink is a better colour than black." Ellie said, "But he is so wrong."

"I am not! Pink is so cool!"

"It's not! Kat will you tell him that he is wrong?" she asked,

"No, because I have more important stuff to tell you." She said, James gave her a look as if to say 'excuse me? What is more important than our debate about colors?"

"The fact that I know why Emma is being a bitch!" Kat said,

"What? Why?" Sirius asked, suddenly becoming alert,

"Her parents are getting a divorce." Kat said, handing him the letter.

a/n: Haha, a bit of a cliffie, but oh well! Next Chapter by: pretty.little.happy.princess!