The Beginning- A Love Story.
By: BlackandLupin.
Disclaimer: we do not own any of the original characters, except for the ones we created; the original characters belong to the brilliant J.K Rowling.
Chapter 2: A sudden infatuation.
The sound of leg chairs scratching against the hard stone floor echoed around the hall as the teachers hurried over to the fallen boy.
The students stood up and stretched theirs necks to get a clear view of what was happening.
The rushing of footsteps bounced off the walls of the great hall as Professor Dumbledore rushed over beside McGonagall, closely followed by Professor Rector, the potions teacher, Professor Steveman, the Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher and Madam Lastien, the school nurse.
Dumbledore looked down at Christopher's body… "He must go to the hospital wing." He said as he looked at Madam Lastien.
The nurse nodded and pulled out her wand from the insides of her robe as she made a stretcher appear from thin air.
Both Professor Rector and Steveman helped Madam Lastien put Christopher on the stretcher as it levitated in the air, Madam Lastien pointing her wand at it as it glided towards the door.
"Oh my god… his face is so pale." A fifth year Ravenclaw gasped as the stretcher passed between the tables of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
"I hope his alright." Lily whispered as she and Nicole twisted their bodies as the stretcher passed them.
Filch opened the door as the stretcher passed through it, Madam Lastien walking behind it with her wand in front of her, closely followed by Professor Rector, the head house of Slytherin.
Murmurs buzzed around the hall from the students. None of them could comprehend what just happened. The murmurs become louder but suddenly died down when Dumbledore stood in front of them all, with his hands held in front of him.
"Settle down, Settle down now!', he called out over the murmuring of the students, 'the sorting is still commencing and so we must continue with the ceremony."
The students regain their posture and settled down onto their seats as the hall once again became silence.
There were only three more students to be sorted into their houses; after the last student, Brian Gleestien who was sorted into Gryffindor, Dumbledore once again stood in front of his students and addressed them.
"Well that was rather an interesting sorting ceremony I have ever witnessed… I have to say that I would have never thought that the hat could ever have such an impact on a person before." He smiled, trying to ease the situation.
"I would just like to welcome our new students to Hogwarts… so welcome and for the students who have returned, welcome back,' many of the students smile up at their head master as he continued with his speech, 'before we tuck into the fabulous feast, I must remind all students that the grounds around the forest are forbidden and there has been new rule to obeyed this year,' Dumbledore looked directly at the four Marauders as they all smile at him innocently as Dumbledore's eyes twinkled with amusement, a smirk quavering at the end of his lips, 'curtsy to our care taker Mr Filch."
Dumbledore gestured to Filch who was standing near the doors of the great hall, his ruddy cat, Mrs Norris purring beside his left leg.
The first years craned their heads to look at the care taker.
"First years,' all first years heads turned to the head master, 'our lovely fifth year prefects will show you around the school and will lead you to your house towers after the feast. If you have any trouble, please do not hesitate to ask for help from any of the prefects from fifth, sixth and seventh years, the teachers or myself and of course our two very delightful head boy and girl."
Two people stood up to indicate that they were the new Head Boy and Girl.
A very pretty burnet haired girl stood up from the Gryffindor table. The girl could almost pass as Nicole's older sister; that is if she had one.
"Our lovely head girl… Kira Hemsly,' Dumbledore introduced, 'and our head boy… Amos Diggory."
Amos Diggory was a rather handsome young man from Ravenclaw. Almost every girl from the Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor sighed as they looked at the Head Boy; even girls from Slytherin had dreamy expressions on their faces.
Both Head Boy and Girl sat down as Dumbledore beamed at them and continued with his speech.
"Well with no further reminders… tuck in!" with a wave of his hands, platters of food appeared onto the four house tables as cheers rang out from the happy students, seeing
sight of their favorite dishes.
"About time!" Sirius exclaimed as he loaded his plate with the nearest available dishes he could reach.
"James, your mum is a great cook but I can never get bored of this." He said as he stuffed his mouth with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.
Remus chuckled as he watched his friend stuffing his face with another mouthful.
"Prongs, you might want to pace yourself." Remus said as Sirius swallowed hard.
Sirius was about to retort back, but his eyes were staring at the person behind Remus. Remus looked at him questioningly and turned his attention to the person behind him.
His piercing blue eyes met a rather stunning light grey one. Sasha stood behind him, smiling.
"Hi', she said smiling at James, Sirius, Peter and then to Remus sweetly, 'could I have that jug of pumpkin juice?" she asked.
Remus stared up at her, getting hypnotized into her eyes that he didn't hear what she was saying. Sasha smiled at him again.
James cleared his throat as Remus revived from his trance.
"Huh… what?" Remus stuttered.
"The jug of pumpkin juice… could I have it?" she asked again, laughing slightly which made her eye twinkled, 'we some how ran out down there." She nodded her head towards where her friends were sitting.
"Um… sure." Remus stuttered again as Peter handed him the jug.
"Thanks." Sasha replied, taking it from him. As she placed her hands around the jug, Remus' hand slightly brushed against hers.
Sasha blushed slightly, making her way back towards her friends, Remus watching her.
His three best friends eyed him as he turned to them.
"What?" asked Remus.
"We didn't say anything." Peter said shrugging with a smile as Sirius started to laugh.
"I know those looks." Remus said.
"And you said I have it bad for Lily." James remarked, raising his eye brow making Sirius chuckled.
"Well you do." Remus retorted, staring down the table to where Sasha was sitting with the girls.
"Sure, sure." James said, smiling.
As Sasha made her way back to her seat and sat down, Nicole was eyeing her spastically as she witnessed what had happened between her friend and Remus.
She smiled to herself as she watched her friend pouring some pumpkin juice into her goblet. She looked up the table and found Remus staring at Sasha.
His expression was always unreadable, but as Nicole watched him, she could see an expression of warmth in his piercing ocean blue eyes.
Remus noticed that Nicole was watching him and smiled politely at her as she smiled back, turning her attention back to talk to Rose.
The feast finally ended and the fifth year prefects gathered the new first year students and led them around the castle as the four Marauders made their way up to the Gryffindor common room and sat in front of the fire.
"So when are you going to ask her out Remus?" Sirius asked, smiling at his friend as he slouched onto an arm chair opposite Peter.
"Oh not this again." Remus moaned tiredly.
"Oh yes this again." Peter squeaked from across him.
"Why don't you ask James when his going to ask Lily out." Remus said desperately, trying to change the subject from himself.
"Hey, hey… we're not talking about me and Lily here; we're talking about you and Sasha." James remarked.
"And besides, I'm not going to asked him that question because his too chicken to ask her out." Sirius glance at James, smirking as James gave him death glares.
"I'm not chicken!" James retorted defensively.
"Then why haven't you asked her out yet… you obviously like her a great deal?" Peter looked thoughtfully at James.
James looked down at his hands, blushing slightly.
"Because… because I don't know if she likes me back." He explained quietly.
Sirius was shock at what James had just said.
"Well, why don't you found out by asking her out?" He said.
"What! Are you bonkers Padfoot? I'm going to do that… besides, I'm trying to get her to notice me."
All three Marauders looked at James in surprise at how he felt. They all knew that he cares for Lily a great deal, but there was something else in the way he explained how he felt to them. 'Could it be love?' They all wondered. 'No it couldn't be, James doesn't know the meaning of love yet… his only fourteen!' They all thought.
"Well you know what I do to get a girl's attention… show off your talent, it always works for me." Sirius said nonchalantly.
James had taken Sirius' advice, showing off his talents by pulling pranks on the Slytherins to Lily last year, but that hadn't got him any where.
As Sirius continued to pasture both James and Remus as to when they would pluck up the courage to ask out the girls that they fancy, the portrait whole swung open and Sasha, Nicole, Rose and Lily stammered into the common room.
Their laugher caught both the attention of Sirius and James as James' eyes widen at the sight of a certain redhead that was standing next to Rose.
"Ah, girls… we were starting to wonder where you have gone to." Sirius said, flashing them his charming smile.
"Why?" Sasha asked curiously.
Remus' head spun around at the sound of Sasha's voice.
"Oh, you know… thought we'd catch up." Sirius replied, smiling at them.
Nicole could feel her stomach fluttering at the sight of Sirius smiling at them, to her it felt like he was only smiling at her.
Lily raised her eye brows at Sirius, before Rose spoke.
"So… what did you guys do during your holidays?" she asked as she made her way around them and sat on the sofa, across from Peter and James; Lily joined her on the sofa as Sasha and Nicole sat on the other sofa across from Remus and Sirius.
The boys started to tell the girls of what they got up to on their holidays and the girls shared their tales of their holidays.
"How come you didn't go home for the holidays Sirius?" Nicole asked after finding out that he had spent his holidays with James and his family.
"Well I didn't really wanted to go home… and because of the fact that I don't get along to well with my parents." He explained.
"Oh that's awful." Rose said sympathetically.
"It was no biggie; I had loads of fun spending the holidays with James and his parents… probably better than I would have had at home with my brother, Regulus."
Regulus Black was Sirius' only younger brother who was a year below him, in the house of Slyherins. Every member of the Black family that had attended Hogwarts were always placed in Slytherin, Sirius however was the only member of the Black family to be put into a different house.
Sirius thought it was a blessing to have been sorted into Gryffindor, where he now has the very best and good friends that surrounded him.
His parents were furious when they found that their eldest son was placed into Gryffindor, but Sirius didn't care what they thought, in actual, he doesn't get along with the rest of his family members, except for his favorite cousin, Andromeda and his favorite uncle Alphard.
"You don't get along with him too?" Sasha asked.
Sirius shook his head as an awkward silence fell.
"Rose…' she looked up at James as he said her name, 'I have to complement on your new look, it really suits you." He said trying to distract the awkward silence.
Rose beamed at him as Lily looked at him in surprise.
"Thank you." She smiled.
James noticed that Lily was staring at him and flashed her; his most charming smiled that made the entire girls heart skip a beat. Lily had to admit that he was rather handsome, when his not showing off or pulling pranks, but she wasn't about to admit that.
They had been talking for such a long time that they hadn't realized it was getting really late, until Sasha took a glance at her watch and announced that the girls and herself should be off to bed.
"We've got classes tomorrow and I don't want to be too tired for the first day back."
"Yeah and we've got Potions first thing,' Rose informed, 'I heard Gareth Hornsberry from Hufflepuff talking about it."
Sasha made a strangling noise and making a face at the thought of having Potions first thing in the morning. Remus smiled in amusement at her.
"Hey… Potions isn't that bad." Nicole said defensively.
"That's because your good at it Nic." Lily said, smiling slightly at her friend's defensiveness.
"So are you!" remarked Nicole.
"I don't know how you two handle that class." Peter said in awe.
Both Nicole and Lily smiled at him sympathetically. Potion wasn't one of Peter's strong points; he would have failed his third year of Potions if both Sirius and Remus didn't help him.
"Don't worry Peter, you'll get use to it… we'll have a study session if it gets too difficult, ok?" Nicole said trying to reassure the rather chubby faced boy, as he nodded.
"We may have hold on to you for that one day Nicole." Sirius said smiling at her.
"Sure… any time." Nicole said as she felt her heart melting under Sirius' smile.
Sasha, who was noticing this, quickly got up and beckoned the girls to do the same.
"Well we should get going."
The girls bade the boys good night. As Sahsa walked passed Remus, she smile at him for a minute as he smiled back at her, causing Nicole to walk right into her.
"Oh… what the…" Nicole stumble backwards as she saw the two's exchange and smile at them.
She noticed that she wasn't the only one who had noticed their little exchange, but James had seen it too as Nicole smiled at him, darting her eyes on the two lover birds, James smirked at her with a knowing look. They both grinned for their friends.
"Well good night boys." Nicole called out; grabbing Sasha's arm with her as they walked to the girls dormitory staircase, with a last glance at Remus, Sasha followed Rose up the stairs.
Nicole was behind her as she gave James another quick smirk before disappearing up the stairs.
The girls finally made it to their dorm and changed into their pajamas. Sasha had just finished brushing her hair and making her way towards her bed as the others were already in theirs. Nicole was watching her.
"So Sasha… What is your fascination about him?" Nicole asked as she sat up on her bed, her knees pulled up to her chin, her bed covers covering her legs.
Sasha looked at her puzzled as she got into her bed.
"Her fascination with whom?" Lily asked from beside Nicole.
"Remus Lupin." Nicole replied simply, smiling at Sasha.
Sasha's eyes widen at Nicole. 'How could she have known?' Sasha thought.
"What!" Both Lily and Rose exclaimed, staring at Nicole.
Nicole was still smiling at Sasha, as she blushed.
"What… what makes you think I have a fascination about Remus Lupin?" Sasha asked nervously as her blush turned into a deeper shade of red.
"Oh I don't know, maybe when I saw you two exchanging little glances and smiles at each other as we were making our way to the great hall for the feast, and maybe when you went up to him and asked for that jug of pumpkin juice and your hands touched slightly as you took it from him and maybe when we were saying good night to the boys and I walked into to you…,' Nicole said coolly, counting off the exchange's she had witnessed, 'take your pick." She smiled at her friend as Sasha's eyes widen at her observations.
Both Lily's and Rose's eyes widen, there mouth hanging widely opened at what they had just heard. Sasha's cheeks turn crimson from blushing so hard.
"What!" Both Lily and Rose exclaimed again in bewilderment.
"So, what's your fascination about him,' Nicole asked again. 'do you like him Sash?"
Sasha snapped her head up at Nicole's question.
"Oh my god… you do!" Rose shrieked in delight as she sat at the side of her bed to look at Sasha more closely.
"Do you?" Lily asked eagerly.
Sasha looked at her friends in turn and looked down at her hands as her face glowed red from the blushing.
"Well…um… yes." She said sheepishly in a quite voice, biting her lower lip.
The other three girls screamed in delight for their friend.
"I knew it!" Nicole said in triumphed, throwing her arms in the air as she kneeled at the edge of her bed.
"Why haven't you told us about this?" Lily asked, smiling widely at her friend.
"I don't know…,' Sasha shrugged, smiling happily, 'I started to like him at the end of last year when I saw him helped Peter with the Potions exam. I thought it was really sweet of him." She smiled wider.
"You have liked him for that long and you haven't told us… talk about trust, I'm hurt." Lily said jokingly, looking slightly hurt, holding her hand to her heart.
"Me too!" Nicole agreed, pouting.
"He is a looker, Remus Lupin. You would look so cute together." Rose commented thoughtfully.
"Oh I can just see it now,' Nicole said as she kneeled up, 'oh Remus, I love you. I have for a long time,' Nicole acted as Lily and Rose rolled over in laughter, 'oh Sasha, I feel the same way… come here a kiss me you big stud." Nicole ended, pretending to kiss an imaginary Remus.
Lily and Rose double over in laughter, clutching their sides, gasping for breath. Sasha threw her pillow at Nicole in embarrassment; the pillow hit Nicole squarely on her head.
"Oh shut up!" Sasha said as she threw the pillow.
"Hey!" Nicole said as the pillow hit her and threw it back to Sasha.
"I'm not in love with him… I don't even know if he even likes me." Sasha retorted as her friends tried in vain to regain the posture.
"Oh please, he so likes you back Sash,' Nicole said, 'I could see it in his eyes every time he looked at you." She smiled, recovering from her laughter.
"Do you think so?" she asked uncertainly.
"I know so." Nicole replied in a knowing voice, smiling at her friend.
Rose, Lily and Nicole looked at each other again and burst into freshly new peals of laughter.
"Oh shut up!" Sasha shouted feeling embarrass again, but couldn't help but to laugh as well.
"No seriously… I'm happy for you Sash." Lily said sobering up and smiling at her.
"Yeah me too." Nicole agreed, also smiling at her.
"Me too." Rose agreed as well as she beamed at Sasha.
"Thanks you guys." Sahsa smiled appreciatively.
Lily, Nicole and Rose looked at each other again with knowing smiles as they suddenly started to sing…
"Remus and Sasha, sitting in the tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First came love, second came marriage and third came the baby in the baby carriage."
They all hollered in laughter, as Sasha stuffed her face in her hands from the embarrassment from her so call three best friends.
The early morning rays of sun light cascaded around the Hogwarts grounds, the morning dew soaking the newly rebirth of the plants around the school and forbidden forest as the students of Hogwarts awoke, preparing for the new day.
The four Marauders made their way down to the great hall for breakfast. As they entered the hall, they were surprise to see that the girls were already there, half way through their breakfasts.
The boys made their way towards the girls, dragging Remus with them as he insisted that they should leave the girls at peace.
Inside he felt a powerful serge of nervousness trailing up his body as he caught sight of Sasha.
"Good morning ladies… how are we today?" Sirius asked cheerful as he placed Remus next to Lily and opposite Sasha.
Peter sat next to Sasha as James sat next to Nicole and directly opposite Rose.
The girls watched them as they sat.
"Oh we're good, and you Sirius?" Rose asked.
"Same all." He replied back casually.
There was a short silence as almost every eye was on Remus and Sasha.
"My Sasha… you're looking radiant today,' James said as he looked at her from where he was sitting next to Nicole, 'don't you think so Remus?" James asked as he looked at his friend with a cheeky smile.
Nicole almost choked as she was taking a sip of orange juice from what James had asked Remus.
Remus glared at James dangerously as James held the expression on his face.
Sasha was turning extremely red at the comment as she stared down at her bacon and eggs.
"Yeah, don't you agree Remus?" Peter piped inn, grinning at him.
Remus turned his head towards Peter, glaring at him. If glares could commit murder, both James and Peter would fall to the floor as their last breath escape from their lifeless bodies.
"Um… yeah,' Remus replied awkwardly; Sasha looked up from her plate at Remus, 'I guess so."
"You guess so?' Nicole asked with raised eyebrows, 'I thought the Marauders were supposed to be charming?"
"Oh we are Nicole, but I think young Remmy here was just caught of guard." Sirius replied smiling at Remus.
"Um yeah." Remus replied quickly and looked at Sasha.
Sasha smiled timidly at him as he smiled back at her. 'Why did I say that… she probably thinks I don't find her attractive.' Remus thought to himself as he continued to look at Sasha.
Peter started to talk to her as the others joined inn, trying to distract the awkwardness between Remus and Sasha.
As they all chatted away, Nicole and James were whispering at each other.
"That was cruel James Potter." Nicole whispered.
"Well someone had to start the conversation between them two." He smiled.
"By asking that question?" Nicole asked with raised eye brows, James just smiled widely at her in responds. Nicole shook her head with laughter.
"How long have you known?" Nicole asked.
"Since from the train trip back to Hogwarts, You?"
"Since last night." They both laughed.
"How do you think it all started?" James asked.
Nicole noticed that the others were slightly watching them whisper.
"Maybe we shouldn't talk about this here where they can easily hear us. They're starting to stare at us." Nicole told him as James looked up and saw Sirius staring at him with raised eyebrows. James just smiled at him and turned back to Nicole as they both started to laugh again.
Nicole's laughter suddenly stopped as she heard a girl calling out Sirius' name.
"Sirius… hello." A rather pretty Chinese girl approached him and sat down next to him.
Nicole noticed the girl as Mayling Chao, a third year Hufflepuff. She watched as the girl chatted up Sirius, as Sirius smiled at her.
Nicole scowled at her as she poked at her food. James was watching her as he plating his plate.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah." Nicole replied still scowling at the Chinese girl. James followed her gaze and spotted what she was glaring at.
Lily had notice her friends livid face as she looked beside her at Sirius.
"Um Nic, we should get going. We should get to the library before class starts." Lily said as she watched her friend.
Nicole still glared at them before answering Lily… "Ok."
Both Rose and Sasha looked at Nicole and Lily as they started to get up from their seat and looked at Mayling and Sirius.
"Wait, I'll come with you." Rose said.
"Yeah me too." Sasha rise from her seat.
Remus watched her.
"See you guys in class." Rose said as she and Lily made their way towards the door, glancing at Nicole.
Sasha gave Remus another timid smile and ran up to catch up to Nicole. She rapped her arm around her miserable friend as both James and Remus watched them.
James returned his attention back to his friends as he looked at Sirius who was still chatting with Mayling, looking rather friendly with each other. Sirius hadn't even realized that the girls had left.
Potions were uneventful as always, especially for Peter as he tried so hard to understand the names of the Potions they were told to memorize.
The bell finally rang for the end of the lesson as the students made their way down to their next class; Care Of Magical Creatures.
James and Sirius were walking together as Peter and Remus walked behind them.
"So… what's happening with you and Nicole Jones,' Sirius asked as he looked at Nicole who was walking ahead with the rest of the girls, 'I thought you were crazy about Lily?"
"There's nothing going on between me and Nicole." James replied, looking at the girls.
"Sure, you two looked pretty cozy at breakfast." Sirius pointed out.
"We were just talking." James replied honestly.
Sirius raised his eyebrows at James.
"Talking… what about?" he asked.
"Oh just stuff,' James looked at Sirius as Sirius' eyebrows were still raised, 'anyways, I think she likes you."
Sirius looked at James in surprise and then looked at Nicole.
"What… did she say that?" Sirius asked.
"No, but I think she does." James said thoughtfully as he stared at Nicole who was walking arm in arm with Lily.
"Well if she does like me… I'm sorry to say that I don't feel the same way about her. She's not my type." Sirius said nonchalantly.
James looked at his best friend, shocked… "Sirius that was harsh."
"I don't mean it that way,' he said as he looked at James and then at Nicole, 'what I meant was that, yes she's pretty and she's nice, but I see her more as a good friend then as a girlfriend. You know how I am James, I probably ending up hurting her." He looked at James.
James thought at what Sirius had said. Apart of him knew that Sirius was right about the part of him hurting her.
Sirius is one who doesn't stay in a relationship with a girl for too long. He likes to be care free and date other girls. James had to admit that he is slightly like that, but somehow he knows that if he was ever given the chance to be with Lily, it would turn out differently.
"Yeah, your right." James agreed.
"Hey, I wasn't expecting you to agree with that,' Sirius scowled, 'you were supposed to say… no Sirius, you won't hurt her."
James laughed at him… "When your right… your right Padfoot." James said, clapping Sirius on the shoulder, laughing. Sirius joined him a second later.
The fourth year students got through their classes in one piece, but were given a load amount of home work from Care Of Magical Creatures and Transfigurations. Their last class was canceled as their teacher, Professor Limerta, the teacher of Divination suddenly fell ill.
The students took this opportunity to sit outside and enjoy the cool breeze.
James saw Nicole sitting alone down near the lake as the girls were in the library. They had left Nicole because she had asked them to give herself some time alone. They did what she had asked; after what happened at breakfast, Nicole was still brooding over Mayling and Sirius.
She had over heard a group of third year girls in the girls' bathroom at lunch time, that Mayling and Sirius was an item and had been for two weeks. Apparently, Sirius had bumped into Mayling in Daigon Alley during the holidays and has been sending letters to each other, and had asked her out then.
Nicole was heart broken at the news and her best friends tried so hard to cheer her up all day, but at times like this, all she wanted to do was to be alone.
James walked up to her and sat down beside her. Nicole hadn't realized that he was there as she stared at the water until James spoke.
"Hey there."
Nicole turned her heard towards him, looking startled.
"James… I didn't see you there,' she said staring at him, 'where are your boys?" she asked looking around.
"Oh… they, um, busy do something." He lied.
In truth, the three had gone to the kitchen to get a little snack before dinner. They had found the entrance to the kitchen in their third year, which James' dad had told him where it was located.
One night after curfew, the boys felt slightly peckish and decided that they should give it ago in finding it and asked the house elves for some food, in Sirius' words… 'Anything and everything with chocolate!'
Nicole didn't really pay to much attention at James's answer.
"And where are your girls?" he asked, looking around for them, but there was no sight of them any where.
"In the library." Nicole replied dully with a soft sigh.
James observed her for a moment and noticed that she looked rather down then her usually happy, cheery self. Every time James sees her, he would always find her with a smile on her face, which caused people around her to smile as well.
He now knows why Lily was always so cheerful when she was around Nicole; he smiled slightly at the thought of Lily.
"Hey, are you alright?" He asked, still observing her.
Nicole looked at him slightly before replying… "Yeah, I'm fine." She said rather of focus.
"If your fine… then why do you look like someone has taken your favorite toy away." He was still observing her.
Nicole couldn't help but to laugh at James from his choices of using analogy.
"Finally you laugh,' he smiled slightly, 'so what's really wrong Nicole? You know you can talk to me, I'm your friend and I here for you."
Nicole looked at him, surprise. She couldn't believe her ears at the things he had just said to her, and that it actually came from James Potter himself. She always thought that with the kind f reputation he had, she would never in her life witness him saying things like this. She wondered if many people knew this side of him.
"Since when did you become a psychologist,' she asked, smirking, 'I thought that was Remus' department?" James laughed at her.
"Well being around Remus has it's influences,' he said, 'I may be a Marauder and I may have my bad reputation, but I'm not heartless, 'he remarked defensively at the look Nicole was holding, 'We're not all that heartless to people… well depending on which people your referring to." He said with a cheeky smile.
Nicole shook her head laughing at him knowing to well to whom those people he was referring to; anyone who crosses them and especially the Slytherins.
"So tell me… what's wrong and don't say it's nothing." He persisted.
"No really, it's nothing." Nicole lied. The news of Mayling and Sirius together was still hurting her, but she wasn't about to confess that to James who is Sirius's best friend and she would die if one of Sirius' friends knew how she felt about their friend.
"It's Sirius isn't it?" James answered her thought simply, looking at her. Nicole's eyes widen as she looked at him, 'do you like him?" James asked nonchalantly.
Nicole couldn't believe that James knew what she was thinking as though he could read her mind like an open book. Nicole didn't answer him, but just stared at him in
disbelief at how accurate his guess was.
"What… what made you think I was thinking about Sirius?" she asked, acting as casual as she could.
"Because I saw the way you were looking at him at breakfast when he was talking to Mayling,' James answered, 'its ok if you like him… I won't tell."
Nicole stared at him in disbelief again. She couldn't believe that James Potter was talking to her about such a topic as this. She would always imagine that if James knew how she felt about Sirius, he would go and tell the whole school and embarrass her till the day she leaves Hogwarts, but no he was actually incredibly nice about it. 'I don't see why Lily doesn't see this side of him… his not all that arrogant as she claimed him to be.' Nicole thought to herself as she bit her bottom lip as James was surveying her.
"How did you know I like Sirius?" she asked apprehensively, biting her lip as she looked at James.
"Like I said, I saw the way you were looking at him and Mayling at breakfast and by the look on your face as I said Mayling's name… you found out their together didn't you?" Nicole nodded her head slowly, looking at the lake, 'I'm sorry." He said sympathetically.
"Its ok,' Nicole replied quietly, still staring at the lake, 'was I that obvious?" she asked.
James laughed… "Just a tad,' he said laughing as Nicole's face turned red, 'but I don't think anyone else saw." He added quickly.
"Please don't tell anyone about this… especially Sirius." Nicole asked pleadingly.
"I won't." James said earnestly.
"Do you promise?"
"I promise." James said solemnly.
Nicole smiled at him in gratitude as he smiled back at her only just remembering the conversation that he had had with Sirius earlier the day about Nicole. He had told Sirius that he thought that Nicole liked him and James' assumption had been right and now he had promise Nicole that he wouldn't tell his best friend about this conversation as he now was contemplating with himself if he had broken his promise to Nicole… 'no, I had that conversation with Sirius before I had this conversation with Nicole… so technically, I didn't broke my promise to her,' he told himself, 'did I?' Before he could contemplate with himself any future, he realized that Nicole was talking to him.
"So what do you think will happen between Remus and Sasha?" Nicole asked him as he turned to her, but before he could reply back, they both could hear shouting back up at the castle. They looked at each other, got up and made their way toward the source of the shouting.
Up ahead both James and Nicole could see a few people gathering around three girls. Nicole instantly recognized who those girls were, Lily, Rose and Sasha, a few Slytherins were crowding them as a bunch of Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs students near by watched the commotion. As James and Nicole came closer, they distinctively heard Lucius Malfoy, a fourth year Slytherin, who thinks that the Magical world belongs to purebloods only; insulting her friends.
"You shouldn't be at the presence of me you filth mudbloods." He spat at Lily and Rose. James had heard him say those words to Lily and was about to grab his wand, when he stooped as Nicole started to talk.
"That is so old Malfoy… can't you come up with anything new? Of course not, your brain to small for that." She remarked as the Slytherins glared at her. James was smiling behind her back as her friends looked at her in appreciation.
"Well, well… why isn't it the mixed blood,' Lucius said smugly as the Slyhterins behind sniggered, 'why don't you mind your own business half breed." He retorted.
As he said this, the other three Marauders appeared beside James. Both Sirius and James had the look of displeasure on their faces as they eyed the Slytherins venomously.
"Watch what you say Malfoy." Sirius barked.
Lucius turned to him with raised eyebrows, smirking… "Oh Black, how sweet… you've come to protect the half breed." Lucius said sarcastically as he laughs with the rest of the Slytherins.
Sirius was about to grab his wand and hex the day lights out of him, but suddenly stopped.
"What are you looking at?" Lucius snapped at Nicole as she inched a little closer to him, examining his face.
"What's that on your face?" she asked.
"What?" Lucius demanded felling his face.
People around them started too looked at Malfoy, trying to see what Nicole was talking about, but they couldn't see what she saw as she looked at his face more closely.
"Is that grease?' she asked pointing at his face as the people around her became confused as they couldn't see anything on his face, 'Malfoy… don't tell me that you and Snape were in the broom closet again,' she smirked, shaking her head, 'you should really cover your tracks."
The whole crowed roared in laughter at Nicole's insult at Malfoy as Severus Snape's greasy face turned red from embarrassments, his long greasy black hair covering his eyes slightly. Sirius had to grab hold of Peter's shoulder from preventing himself from falling over of laughing so much.
Peter had to grab his shoulder in turn to prevent himself from collapsing with laughter. James was wiping tears away from his eyes as Remus was gasping for air, clutching his side. The girls double over in laughter as Sasha's face turned red from laughing so much; Rose was leaning on Nicole to prevent herself from falling to the ground as Nicole smiled innocently at Malfoy and Snape.
Malfoy's eyes turned into stone like ice as he glared at Nicole, gritting his teeth.
"Ah, that was priceless." Rose commented in between her laughs.
"What are you laughing at you filthy mudblood,' Malfoy retorted, 'how dare you laugh at me?" He gritted his teeth as his stone cold face turned into a sickly grin.
"You know… I'm glad that your parents are dead, because that means there are two less worthless muggles in this world we don't have to worry about." he retorted smugly.
The laughter suddenly died out at Malfoy's words as Rose's face became white. Nicole eyes were set directly on Malfoy's as anger building up inside of her. 'How dare he brings her parents into this! She thought to herself as raged took over its peek in her. Nicole took a step forward, about to punch Malfoy, but someone had beaten her to it.
She looked at the fist that had collided with Malfoy's nose as her eyes trailed to the face that belonged to the out stretch fist; her eyes widen as the fist belonged to Rose.
Her face was set in rage, her jaw clenched, eyes stone cold as though she was on a murderous rampage with tears threatening to fall.
"How dare you bring my parents into this you filthy, worthless piece of scum!" Rose bellowed as Malfoy was holding his broken nose. The impact of the punch had broken his perfect, up right shaped nose.
Malfoy glared at her… "You'll pay for this." He said softly.
Rose stared at him for a moment as the tears trailed down her cheeks. She turned on her heels and rushed out running into the direction of the lake.
"Rose!" her three best friends called and ran after her.
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"His finally awake!"
"Where did you learn how to do that?" he asked in awe.
The full moon shone high above as he could feel his limns aching, his body ready for its transformation.
"What do you mean he has a sudden interest for me?" Lily asked confused.
His heart broke as the news reached his ears, anger building inside of him as his friends tried in vain to come him down.
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