Chapter 5: Being so Tough.
I guess you're just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to feed
I guess you're just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to bleed
(Just what i needed-The Cars)
The girls may have had some luck and even fun helping Sybil get ready for a date but the guys…were not as lucky.
"Damn it Snape why cant you just let us try something." Sirius said desperately. They had spent most of the morning planning. Everything was set except for…
"Come on Snape! Just let us cut your hair and clean it up a bit." James growled. Snape had flat out refused now for them to chop off any bit of his hair.
"You will someday need to cut it." Lupin pointed out.
"NO!" and with that Snape leaped up from the table their were sitting at and ran as fast as he could to the Slytherin common room.
The marauders didn't even bother to follow him.
"We will never win with that loser." Sirius sighed.
Snape had given up on being anything or anyone. He just couldn't be as cool or as popular as the others.
But now… but now he was forced into this predicament. He didn't want all that. He just wanted to be left alone. And they all wanted him to be something he just was not.
He entered the common room. After fetching a book from his dorm, Snape settled himself down sitting in his favourite chair far away from anyone else.
"Hey Severus, I heard about your little deal." A voice sounded soft hit Snape's ear.
"What do you want, Rudolphus?" Snape said looking up at a boy his age.
"You shouldn't be here, you should be hanging with your new buds." The boy said in an attempt to sneer.
"What ever I don't care about those jerks."
"But you should! I mean this is a chance to get back at them!" Snape looked up at Rudolphus's face. It was shining with triumph.
"What are you on about?" Snape said roughly.
"Sabotage. You need to wreck their lives Snape and here's the perfect way!"
"Yeah, I suppose…"Snape trailed off thinking. "You suppose! Come on Snivels or how 'bout Snivellus as they love to call you, think of the possibilities!" With a warning look not to follow him, Snape quickly got up.
"FINE!" He shouted and he disappeared out of the common room.
"I have thought it over, and fine you can change my hair." Snape said abruptly, standing outside the changing rooms, at the Quidditch pitch.
James, Sirius and Remus just stared at him; they had just come from Quidditch practice.
"Ok…why the sudden change?" Sirius asked warily.
"Who cares lets just get it over with." Snape said with a hint of a whine.
"Okay then lets meet tomorrow at the beech tree outside after dinner!" James said and the three marauders left the pitch.
"There now you look great." Sirius said two hours later the next day. They had met Snape and got started right away on his hair.
"See it wasn't that bad…" James said.
Snape just gave a wince and continued to stare at the mirror Sirius had brought to their meeting spot under the beech tree. Snape's hair now was fairly short but they had spared him long bangs on the side.
"I hate short hair!" Snape muttered then he handed Sirius back the mirror.
"Why because you cant hide behind it?" Sirius asked in a sharp voice. Snape didn't look at any of the guys; he just ripped up a blade of grass and stared at it.
"Something like that…" Snape let his sentence trail away.
Snape then sat up straighter, "You are all lucky you know." He said in a strange voice.
"Because of our hair?" James asked scrunching his face trying to understand what Snape had meant.
"No. You guys are…are the well…well the greatest at every thing here." Snape said wistfully.
"Were not really." Lupin said modestly.
"You know the only reason I come here isn't for school." Snape murmured. "You didn't come to learn, you...no way!" James said laughing slightly.
"I came here to get away from my father." Snape said.
"Then why do you go home for Breaks, you know Christmas and that?" Sirius asked tentatively.
"Just to make sure that he hasn't finally snapped at my mom and…" Snape then stood causing the other to jump.
"I'll meet you guys tomorrow, same time and place?" he said and waited for them to nod, "Then bye."
And with that Snape the loser left the three most popular alone with heavy thoughts.
"Hey! Where did Wormtail go to?" Sirius asked referring to Peters nickname.
The other two shrugged, "Lets go in now." Lupin whispered