When the girls woke up the next morning there was a note from Fifi.
I went to breakfast early. See you guys in class.
They got ready as quickly as possible, guessing the guys were waiting for them. When they got down the stairs Sirius didn't even say hello, or good morning "Where's Fifi?" the girls gave each other a quick smile. Than they explained that she had gone to breakfast early.
When they all got down to breakfast the girls thought maybe they should explain to the boys they situation of last night. But before they did the boys brought it up.
"So is Fifi still mad?" Remus asked.
" No, and I don't think she was actually mad," Gabi said looking at him.
"Really? The whole fuck you thing seemed kind of like anger to me," Peter put in. They had to laugh at that one because unfortunately Fifi had giving a mad appearance.
" I suggested maybe she was just pms-ing," James said proudly.
"Bloody hell James! Can we not talk about THAT," Sirius said looking somewhat disgusted, "while im eating" he finished.
"Anyways," Margo said trying to get back on track.
Lily took it up this time, "Fifi has always had a very low opinion of herself physically."
"Everyone talking about her made her really nervous and made her feel fat and ugly," Gabi pronounced
" And than us all whispering made her think we were talking about how fat and ugly she is," Lily put in.
"But she's not fat or ugly," Sirius put in looking confused and upset. He thought back to when he had said she ate a lot and slammed his head on the table.
"Padfoot what the hell are you doing?" James asked him.
"Huh?" Sirius replied looking upset.
"Never mind."
"Yeah back to me," Lily said and James automatically looked at her, "If you guys see her stay away from appearance comments unless we give you the signal."
"What's the signal," everyone enquired not having been notified of it.
"I will pull on my ear," she said smiling.
"Right," they responded looking around very confused.
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The seven friends were going into their first class of the year. Transfiguration, with Professor McGonagall. Well, it could be worse, right. They could have potions with Slughorn or … actually it sucked pretty bad. However, they were being positive, I mean the boys had already started planning a prank and a party. And the girls where just happy to be back with the boys. They walked in to the room and saw Fifi already sitting down and flipping through a muggle magazine of some kind. Sirius got a huge smile, as he remembered where he always sat in this class. Since these eight became friends in second year (they didn't like each other in first) they had always sat in the same seats for Transfiguration. James and Peter sat on the bench behind Fifi. Lily and Margo on the bench next to her to the right, Remus and Gabi to the left, and Si got to sit with Fifi. This was the one thing that made this class bearable. Walking up to her and without questioning it everyone miraculously took their seats.
"Hey Fifi," they all choused at her.
"Hey guys," she said while setting down her magazine. " You know these famous muggle guys are really good looking!" she added looking at the girls with a smile. Sirius' smile dropped at that comment, but Fifi didn't see.
"Really?" questioned Lily, while running towards Fifi to look at the pictures along with Margo.
"Come see them Gabi," Margo ordered.
"All right, all right, I'm coming," she replied and while getting up she whispered an "I'm sorry," to Moony. As the girls looked at the pictures the boys looked at each other looking slightly upset, while the girls occasionally could be heard whispering things like "OMG! I have never seen someone that good looking." Manly to Si's disappointment it was Fifi saying such things.
"TAKE YOUR SEATS," McGonagall bellowed "CLASS IS STARTING." The three girls who had been looking in to Fifi's magazine ran back to their seats and sat down.
The class passed peacefully enough. Gabi and Remus held hands under the desk for a while before it was time to start transfiguring rocks into comfy chairs. Fifi was amazingly the first one to successfully do this, making her get Gryffindor 20 points. By the time the bell rang Remus and Gabi had done it as well, leaving those three with little homework and the others with extra homework.
"Nap time!" James bellowed after class.
"Actually its history of magic – oh, yes nap time for you," Lily replied realizing that most people slept in that class. The walked on to their least favorite class, one where the teacher was a ghost. I mean come on, how can they be expected to pay attention when a ghost is teaching them. Once the arrived they realized to their disappointment that this class was with the Slytherins.
"Great more Malfoy and Snape, just what I need," Sirius muttered looking a little down.
"Awesome, my favorite class with my favorite people," James muttered sarcastically.
"Can you two try not to fight with them at least today, please?" Fifi questioned them. Right away Sirius stopped and about a minute later they got James to relax. They took their seats for this class, different than last time but still in the middle. Class got going. It was pretty boring for a while as Professor Binns lectured on Dragon wars or something like that, but than he asked Fifi to go around and collect everyone's homework from the summer. She got them from all her friends and fellow Gryffindor and headed over to the Slytherins. Everyone had gone back to sleeping or taking notes, except Si who was keeping his eyes on her. All of the sudden when Fifi was in front of Snape's desk there was a loud bang and Fifi fell to the floor.
"FIFI," Sirius screamed and ran over to her. The girls and fellow marauders not short behind him.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER?" Sirius spit at Snape. For a second Snape looked like he was going to start an argument, but when he looked down at Fifi lying on the floor surrounded by her friends he changed his mind.
"I didn't do anything to her, this time," he replied and Sirius looked mad, upset and scared, "she just fell to the floor." The girls where trying to figure out how to pick her up best and Sirius just leaned down and grabbed her. James, Peter, Margo, and Lily followed right behind them. Once they were in the hall Remus and Gabi went into a spare classroom and started kissing.
"We really shouldn't be doing this," Gabi said, "I mean my best friend just fainted." He looked down at Gabi's face and decided to go to the hospital wing with their friends "come on," he told her.
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Turns out Fifi just needed a little food in her system. She didn't eat much at dinner because she was so upset and she skipped breakfast. She was out of Madame Pomfreys care in no time, but her friends where worried why she lied.
"For the love of god, stop looking at me like that," she told them as they were all sitting around the lake the next afternoon during their off period.
"Like what?" they all questioned her, but they did look guilty.
"Like I'm ganna break. I am not going to just collapse and faint again, okay. You guys saw me eat breakfast and lunch," Fifi replied.
"Why did you lie to us?" Margo questioned, quickly regretting what she let slip out and covering her mouth. Now it was Fifi's turn to look guilty and she did.
"I… I," she slurred not knowing what to say " I was going to go but than I ran into someone and went on a walk with them."
"Oh, okay cool," the boys except Si said in unison.
"WHO," all the girls questioned looking excited. Sirius looked like he wanted to know, but he wasn't going to ask in front of his boys.
"Well, Darren Fields," she said looking down at her shoes.
"Wait, the Darren Fields?" Margo questioned.
" The 7th year Ravenclaw, gorgeous one?" Lily asked looking jealous.
"Yep," Fifi responded looking at Sirius who was looking at the lake like he had just been smacked by someone. She made a mental note to ask him what was wrong later.
"Dang Fifi. He is so hott. You always get the best guys," Gabi responded. Remus gave her an upset look before getting up.
"I have to go…" he said trying to think of an excuse "to the dorm," he responded lamely giving Gabi another upset look.
"Shit," she muttered and everyone looked at her, "nothing, sorry."
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