Pick 'n' Mix and Valentines Day

The rest of Yule passed uneventfully for the Black siblings, trying to stay in their parents good graces whilst Shaula slowly teaches Regulus and Sirius abut muggles and muggleborns. Slowly, Shaula began replacing the poisonous teachings that had been ingrained into her younger brother, who began to question everything that he once knew.

When the holidays had come to an end, Shaula and Sirius promised to write to Regulus every week before boarding the train and splitting up to find their friends. It took Shaula a few minutes of searching before she found Pandora sat in a compartment by herself reading a book.

"Hi Pan, how was Yule? Get anything exciting?" asked Shaula as she walked into the compartment and put away her trunk.

The blonde placed her bookmark into her book and closed it as she answered, "It was amazing, we went to New Zealand for the holidays and the sites were fantastic. Did you know that the wizards over there are more connected to nature than wands?"

"Connected to nature?" Shaula responded before the pair went into an in-depth discussion about the connections between nature and magic. They had been so deep into the discussion that they hadn't noticed Lily knock on the door and enter with Severus following behind her.

"HELLO."

The two Ravenclaws swung their heads around, surprised by the redheads arrival and yell whilst Severus just gave a slight sigh at his friends behaviour.

"Hello Lily, Severus. How was Yule for you both?" asked Pandora as she offered them a smile and moved up on the bench, allowing Lily to sit next to her. Severus sat next to Shaula, offering her a polite nod.

"Christmas was good, it was really good to see my parents again. I've never been away from them for this long before," said Lily. She dug around in a little bag that Shaula hadn't noticed before, before Lily pulled out four pink and white striped bulging baggies.

"I brought some pick 'n' mix sweets for us to enjoy on the train. I know you guys are purebloods so you probably haven't tried them before, so I wanted to get you guys these." The red haired girl passes out the little baggies to everyone and Shaula immediately opened hers, excited to eat her once loved sweets that she hadn't had since her previous life. She hoped there were some gummy bears in the bag or she promised herself she would start crying.

Pandora pulled out a jelly bean and held it up, "I didn't know muggles had Bertie Botts beans as well." Lily giggled and Severus gave a small smile at the girls lack of knowledge. For a girl who loved to learn as much as possible (mainly regarding magical creatures, charms and potions), the two muggle raised children found it quite funny and slightly sad that the two purebloods didn't know much about the muggle world.

"They are Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans, they are just called jelly beans. There's not as many flavours but I promise none are a horrible flavour like vomit or earwax," explained Lily and Pandora looked at the orange bean in her hand in wonder.

Shaula left the three to their bean conversation as she searched through her baggie for some gummy bears and eventually found them at the very bottom hidden under the strawberry gummy sweets. Carefully picking out as many as she could without letting the other sweets fall out, she held a total of 7 tiny bears in her palm.

"Those are called gummy bears Shaula, Lily likes to bite their heads off. She's quite morbid if you hadn't noticed," joked Severus as he noticed the Black sister gazing at the bears. Lily turned and gave a playful glare at her friend.

"I only bite their heads off so that they wont suffer when I eat them,"

"They can feel pain?"asked Pandora as she prodded one of the bears and Shaula clenched them in her hand and moved them away from blonde's hand, determined to let any of the bears to go waste and slowly starts to eat them, savouring the fruity, sweet taste they gave.

Lily laughed, "No they don't feel pain, its a joke a lot of muggles make. Some like to eat the bodies first or the heads and like to defend themselves by saying its to make the bears suffering end quickly."

The blonde slowly nodded, not entirely understanding but quickly goes back to riffling through her baggie.

This is how the four continue the rest of their train journey, eating the pick 'n' mix sweets and Lily and Severus sometimes explaining what each sweet was. They only stopped when they had to change into their uniforms and Severus had left to change in the toilets and was soon back and the four having fun with their sweets once more.

Time seemed to go by quickly after this, January coming and going and nothing of significance happening within the school. Shaula continued her studies with Pandora, Lily and Severus. The four Marauders pulling some pranks throughout the school but nothing huge.

Valentines day soon comes and it was obvious leading up to the day that many of the older students were anxious and Shaula had witnessed at least half a dozen students giving others either some chocolates or flowers or whatever. Shaula honestly couldn't stand the idea of dating someone at the moment, she found the notion incredibly disturbing. If Shaula was to be totally honest with herself, she was incredibly confused when it came to both age and sexuality regarding relationships.

In her previous life as Chloe, she had known for certain that she preferred women but had been unsure whether she liked men romantically. Sure she found them attractive, but she just wasn't sure if she could ever actually be in a relationship with one. If that wasn't the only problem she had having a relationship with someone, she now had to deal with age as well. She was 19 when she died, but was now 12 years old. So that made her 31 yearsol mentally. However Shaula felt like she was a separate person from Chloe. That she was Shaula and that Chloe was someone else that she just happened to share memories with. So was she really 12 years old?

Either way, Shaula decided that physically it didn't matter at the moment. She was only in her first year at Hogwarts and had plenty of time to deal with romance. That's if she ever decided to even date anyway.

James however, had decided that he was going to ask out Lily for the first time. After months of trying to get her attention through pranks or 'pranks' (which both Lily and Shaula called tormenting the Slytherins but whatever), James felt he was ready to finally ask the red haired girl out. He made a huge plan with his best friends of what was going happen. Shaula had no idea what the plan was and only knew there was a plan because Sirius accidentally let it slip to her once and begged her not to mention it to Lily. She agreed, with a promise that she could ask one favour from Sirius with no questions asked, whenever she wanted.

The 14th of February finally arrived and everyone was in a happy mood, Shaula and Pandora were sat with the Gryffindors for Breakfast. The pair were sat with Lily and her dorm mates Dorcas Meadows, Mary McDonald, Jasmine Iswood and Sachiko Kurosaki. Jasmine was probably Shaula's favourite out of Lily's dorm mates if she had to choose, simply because she was the politest and most intelligent of the lot.

The group of girls were chatting, not noticing when the four boys, until a bouquet of lilies sat on Lily's lap, startling the poor girl. They all sat in silence whilst she slowly picked them up and examined them, before sneezing.

"I can't stand flowers. They make my hay fever awful," said Lily as she placed them in the centre of the table, away from her.

Shaula giggles under her breath as she looks over at James, who only stares at her with shock at how dismal Lily reacted. She could only assume this was the start of a long day for her friends.

A long day it was too, little notes were sent to Lily who either didn't see or just glanced at briefly, pulling a confused face before throwing the notes into a bin. James had even had an owl deliver her a small wrapped up gift during lunch, to which she looked at confused as well.

"Is it someone's birthday?"

Shaula couldn't help but laugh at how oblivious her friend was. Many people from her previous had often said that Harry had gotten his obliviousness from his father, but apparently it had actually came from his mother instead. The young girl couldn't help but laugh even more when she saw the poor Potter bash his head into the table at Lily's question.

It wasn't until dinner that James had finally had enough and stood on top of the Gryffindor table and turned to a surprised Lily.

"LILY EVANS WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?"

Everyone just turned at the bright red girl who could only flush in embarrassment at the boys actions.

"MR POTTER!"

Heads swivelled to see Professor McGonagall marching her way down the aisle of tables towards James. He could only gulp in nervousness from the furious look on her face before he hopped off the table and ran for it out of the room with Professor McGonagall on his tail.

Laughter echoed around the room at the pairs actions as the girls gushed around Lily about James' proposal. Shaula made her way over to the lions table and looked at the fuming girl and all she could do was smile.

She had watched all day at how James' plans didn't work. Shaula could see Sirius howling with laughter along with Remus and Peter. The four boys were a funny group and Shaula desperately hoped that she could keep this happiness going forever.

A/N: I can only apologise at the very delayed update. I remember when I put on my profile that I was going to update on New Years. It is now September. That is quite a long time since New Years. This chapter has not been edited. At all. I have literally just typed this and uploaded this. I just want this out and try to get this school year over because nothing is happening in this school year and I WANT ACTION!

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