Chapter 7: Perfection.

I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time time
'cause when you're standin' oh so near
I kinda lose my mind, yeah
It's not the perfume that you wear
It's not the ribbons in your hair
I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time
(Just what i needed-The Cars)

"You know, you are the most retched person I have met!" Sybil screeched in the common room later that night. It was Thursday evening and the dare was supposed to end that Saturday, right before they left for summer vacation.

"Yeah! Well you are just a stupid half twit, brainless, whore!" Sarah yelled back.

Just then the doorway leading out of the common room opened and Sam came in. she smiled at first but then her face turned grave, "Why cant we all just get along?" she cried at the two girls arguing.

"Wait! Sammy we can explain she…she…" Sarah tried but Sam waved her away with a hand, "Don't bother trying Sarah Anne Moore!" Sam said in a soft deadly voice, "If you too can't work out your problems—"

"I don't care!" Sybil shouted, "I really don't know why! She just started to call me these names and such!"
Sybil looked like she was about to cry, "Why do you hate me so much?" she asked turning to Sarah.

Sarah didn't look right at her, instead she examined her feet, "Its because…because…the teacher caught me cheating off of your homework, but you didn't get in trouble, and you should have!"

Sybil's jaw dropped, "How…how …did…did you get…get my work to cheat from?" she demanded from Sarah.
"From that day I pushed you into Snape, do you remember? I threw a book of yours, then picked it up." Sarah said, "And you were too busy dreaming over Snape that you didn't notice me taking the work."

"I will have to report you!" Sam said, Sam had been made Ravenclaw's prefect.

"Fine!"

"And I will have to tell mum and dad."

"NO! Sam you cant!" Sarah howled.

"You did it too yourself, now can we deal with this and get on with the dare?" Sam asked frowning.
Both girls glared at each other then nodded, "Ok." Sam said swiftly.

"Here are the shoes, Lily got them for you." And with that Sam handed Sybil a pair of small-heeled navy blue shoes, with a round toe,

"They look gorgeous!" Sybil murmured. The other two girls nodded.

"Lets go see what they look like with the dress." Sam suggested and the others followed her up to where the dress was.

"Okay we have the hair, the shoes, the pants and shirt, know we need…" Sirius said checking off a list they made with his quill.
"How about the attitude?" James suggested.

"What do you mean?" Snape grumbled. He was dressed in dark navy blue pants, a pale cream t-shirt, and black shoes.
"Well for starters you cant grumble." James said waging his finger in front of Snape's face.

"And you can't be sarcastic to her either!" Remus said severely.

"Fine with me, no grumbles or sarcasm." Snape said in a bored voice, "What else?"

"Keep the conversation clean."

"So in other words don't act like Sirius would."

"Shut it you!" Sirius snapped.

James and Remus laughed their heads off at this. When they finally recovered, James still smiling, Remus said, "Well don't make fun of her either."

"Damn you guys. You ruin all my fun."

"Yeah we know." James said, "And know we are FINISHED!" he raised his arms in triumph.
"Hooray!" Snape said in a hollow voice.

"What ever! Lets get back to the common room!" James said then he and Remus turned to leave. But Sirius stayed behind, "You too go on. I wanna talk to Snivels"
Snape looked surprised then suspicious.

"Okay. Don't kill him though or we'll lose." Jameswarned and with that him and Lupin were gone.
"Look I know what you're going through." Sirius said abruptly.

Snape looked closely at him, "Oh really? I am sure you do."
"Yeah I do! My folks hate me, so I ran away and now I live with James's folks." Sirius said angrily.

"Really? I never knew."

"Yeah well my mums a nutter, and my dads a big alcoholic." Sirius said.

"Yeah my dads one too, he used to ignore me and beats my mum or well he used to." Snape said he looked close to tears.
"Sorry about bringing this up." Sirius said and he turned to the door, "Hey wait, Snape?"

"What?"

"Here." And Sirius threw something to Snape.

"Keep it!" and Sirius was gone.
Severus looked down in his hand and saw a chain with two army tags hanging off of it. They were pine green. They had a silver serpent engraved in them and seemed to glow in Snape's hand
"Thanks." Snape whispered and then he finally left.

"Well now we are done!" Lily announced that Friday morning at break. "Too bad Sarah can't make it to the date." Sam said sadly.

"Why?" the two Gryffindor's jumped at these words, "What happened?" Kirkley asked.
"She got caught cheating and is now going to serve two detentions." Sam said shaking her head.
"She and Sybil are washing up right now, from Herbology class." Sam informed the other two.

"Who did she copy form?" Lily asked,

"Sybil."

"WHAT?"

"Yep and her and Sybil had a row, then I had to report her to Prof. Flitwick. And now I have to send my parents a letter." Sam finished her tale with her head hanging low.
"Don't worry everything will work out fine!" Lily assured Sam.
"I have to send the letter now. See ya!" Sam said standing up and trotting off to the owlery to send an owl.

"Poor Sam and Sarah" Kirkley said.

"Yeah and poor Sybil too!" Lily said.