Disclaimer: I do not own or have any claim in the creation of any character from J.K. Rowling's books. Sophie and Isabelle are my creations so do me a favor and don't use them without permission.
I awoke to the sounds of Lily and James fighting. This wasn't an abnormal occurrence in any way shape or form aside from the fact that it was early. Three in the morning to be exact. I groaned and shoved my pillow under my head to try and get back to sleep.
"It's not going to work. They've been going at it for almost two hours now," I heard a voice say a few beds over, causing be to come out from my hiding spot beneath the pillow.
Isabelle, one of my two best friends, was sitting upright on her bed with a textbook wide open. She hand shoved her dark brown hair up in a twist, her wand holding it in place.
"Finishing your Herbology report, no doubt," I muttered bitterly remembering that I had finished my a day ago.
She narrowed her eyes in my direction. "I'll ignore that."
I got up and grabbed my pillow, shuffling over to her bed. I plopped myself down onto it, groaning as I shoved my face into the pillow.
"Why do they always do this?" I asked, my voice muffled from the down inside the pillow.
I felt Isabelle stroke my hair motherly. "I don't know. Because they're meant for each other, probably."
I sighed and tried to ignore the yells from my best friend.
"Sophie, you're not going to sleep over that. I can guarantee that," Isabelle murmured.
"You're right," I said quickly before hopping to my feet. I stalked over to the door and flung it open revealing Lily backing James against a wall.
"You spoiled, stupid, selfish little beast! I wish I'd never laid eyes on you! You're the most conceited, arrogant person in this whole school and I hope that you fall off your broomstick at the next Quiditich match!" she hissed in his face as he tried not to laugh.
"Oh Evans, you don't really mean all of that. How would you manage without me?" he said smoothly.
"Excuse me!" I said stepping in between them. "I know this is rather important but some of us need to get a little sleep so if you could wait until morning to finish this discussion that would be great."
"Sophie," Lily snapped. "Go away."
I crossed my arms and merely watched as James snuck up into the boys dormitory.
"You stupid prat," Lily called after him before brushing past me and heading to her bed.
"He's such a coward," she muttered, slipping into her pajamas.
"We know," Isabelle and I said in unison.
Lily shook her head in frustration and crawled into back, sinking back into the cushy pillows and mattress. She closed her bright green eyes for a moment before looking at us again.
"I'm sorry we woke you," she whispered to me.
I shrugged, returning to my bed. "It's okay. No big deal."
"He makes me so angry," Lily whispered before drifting off to sleep.
"We know," Isabelle and I said before closed my eyes and Isabelle returned to her paper.
The next morning at breakfast all three of us were yawning with exhaustion. Lily plopped down next to Sirius Black, who coincidentally was right across from James. I placed myself between James and Isabelle and grabbed an orange for my breakfast.
"Eat much, Hennessy?" Sirius joked between bites of bacon. He was constantly giving me a hard time for not ever eating a big breakfast.
I swallowed my first bite of the orange, making a face at him. I grabbed his copy of The Daily Prophet and flipped it open.
"You three look tired," James said, eyeing Lily who ignored him.
"We had some trouble getting to sleep. Something was making quite a racket from outside of the dormitory," I said casually, skimming through some story about an attempted break in at Gringotts.
"We heard that to," Sirius said, faking shock.
"Yeah," I said, noticing Lily's annoyance with the conversation. "I have to get to Herbology though. I told Professor Maverick that I would help her get the Rapidrear sprouts ready for class today."
"Suck up," I heard Sirius cough as I walked away.
I was a bit of a suck up, but Sirius Black's opinion didn't really matter to me.
