Cast:
Sirius Black - Julian Schratter
James Potter - Francisco Lachowski
Remus Lupin - Dylan O'Brien
Peter Pettigrew - Logan Lerman
Lily Evans - Daria Sidorchuk
Marlene McKinnon - Erin Heatherton
Emmeline Vance - Lyndsy Fonseca
Chapter One: Nothing New
"Sirius Black I HATE YOU!"
Most people didn't look up to see a girl with blonde locks screaming her head off as well as looking at the said person with hopeful eyes that he would come after her. After seeing no more than a flinch at the call of his name, she gave out an aggravated sound and turning a full 180 degrees to run off somewhere. The few people that did look up shook their head and looked down sadly. This wasn't anything new to Hogwarts.
"Nice Padfoot, another girl has run off because of you. This would be what… the 15th time this month a girl went screaming because of you." a boy of 17 remarked as he looked up from his food. His hazel eyes gleamed with amusement at the scene. His messy black hair fell gracefully on top of his glasses and a grin broke out on his face, as filled his plate with food.
"Hmm has it really been that many?" said the boy who was called Padfoot. His shaggy dark brown hair whipped around his forehead as he consumed himself with his food. His crystal, blue-grayish eyes concentrated on his meal. He looked up with his mouth full and said: "Well that's what I call a good start."
"How many times do I have to tell you Sirius? Don't speak with your mouth full," a sick looking boy said, sitting right of Sirius. To keep with his scolding tone, his pale face held a stern look. However, his clear amber eyes showed amusement and a joking attitude.
"But, what's wrong with this one?" said another boy who imitated Sirius' way of eating. His short blonde hair and dull blue eyes looked at Sirius in confusion. "She was cute."
"Alright lay off! Yea she was cute but the girl was just too…" Sirius had begun to say.
"Clingy, perky, annoying, boring…" James said, interrupting him and rolling his eyes.
"Emotional, futuristic, and no longer a challenge," Remus added, slowly cutting his meat unlike his friends next to him.
"Fine, she was just like the rest. It's not my fault all the cutes ones are annoying." Sirius said, shrugging carelessly. He then put on lopsided grin. "Besides why stick to one girl when there are so many others out there? It's a bore." Sirius said once again resuming beastly manner of consumption.
RING RING RING.
The rest of Marauders just laughed and pulled Sirius away from his food. "Come on, Padfoot, we have class." All that could be heard before the doors closed was Sirius' yell of despair.
"No! Don't take me away from my food. I'll DIE!" This was followed by a fake over dramatic cry.
Behind these mischief makers were two girls making their way to class. One of them had black hair with her bangs swept to the one side. Her hair grew out to come to the middle of her chest, in layers. Her brown eyes sparkled dangerously as she looked ahead with anger. She stood tall, and walked ahead. Walking next to her was a shorter girl. She had blonde curls seeming to bounce with her every step. Her hair stopped at her shoulders, framing her face. Her amber eyes reflected the same anger as her friend. Her body had an athletic built to it after years of Quidditch.
"God he just makes me so sick!" the latter one said.
"Don't let the other girls hear you say that, Mar. You'll be murdered in your sleep faster than you can say Sirius Black," the other one said rolling her eyes.
"Ugh to think how many girls idolize him? I'm pretty sure I heard Maya talk about a club called 'Seriously Sirius.' He has his own fan club." Marlene said laughing and shook her head as she walked to potions class.
"MARLENE! EMMELINE!"
Both of them turned around to see a red-headed girl running to catch up with them.
Lily smiled up to them with her sparkling emerald eyes. Her auburn hair flowed gently down her back. Combined with her pale skin, she looked like a fiery goddess. Her height equaled the average of Marlene and Emmeline. She has relatively thin, only showing a bit of fat on her arms. "You guys left the hall pretty fast."
"It's that stupid Black and Potter. Running around the school as if they were kings of the world. Especially that Black." Emmeline said, slowing her pace down to wait for the other girl to watch up with them.
"You -"
Before Lily could say another word, a voice carried the entire hallway.
"OY EVANS, WAIT UP."
Lily groaned in anger and purposefully sped up. "Speak of the devils." Marlene said as she followed her friends pace. However, the three boys caught up fast with the fourth one a short distance behind.
"You can't run from me dear Evans especially now that we are spending so much time together as Heads." James said cockily. "So how about you and me go out this Saturday?"
"Potter for the last time. Read my lips. . . .YOU." Lily said in a frustrated tone. She knew that she was on the verge of exploding in anger as her eyes grew in intensity. The people watching around them shrunk back in fear for if there was one girl you shouldn't get angry, it was Lily. Many of the on lookers had first hand experience with her anger. However the people closest to her remained as they were.
James' face grew into a grin. "There are plenty of other things I want to do with your lips." He said suggestively, wiggling his eyebrows. Before Lily could say anything, a warning bell rang out, telling them to be in class in five minutes.
Lily made the motion of wanting to strangle him but let her hands go and shouted in aggravation. She stomped off to her Potion class. Her friends followed her, rolling their eyes. Marlene had walked in last. She laughed, seeing that Emmeline had chosen a seat next to another Gryffindor. There was no telling what Lily would do once she was angry. She walked over to the empty seat next to Lily and sat down.
The door opened once again and the four boys walked in once again. Lily turned her head around so fast that it seemed as if her neck broke. Her eyes were flashing dangerously as if challenging them to sit near her. A whimper was heard as the four boys shuffled their way into seats that were the farthest away from the group of girls.
"Alright class. Calm down." Professor Slughorn said as he walked to the front of his class. "As you know, this year is your NEWT year. I will do my best to prepare you guys. However I need cooperation from you children as well. Let's try not to repeat last year's incident of mixed genders," he said looking over to the Marauders who held a perfectly innocent face.
The rest of class erupted in silent laugher as they remembered the events of the year before. A potion had gone wrong by someone (three guesses who) and it resulted in making every student near by grow parts of the opposite gender. One male was sprouting blonde hair and a girlish voice along with the largest breasts you have ever seen, while one of the girls became buff and extremely muscular but still having the rest of the feminine attributes.
"So please try not to kill anyone this year. Today's class won't be too hard. Nor should there be any chances of messing up. We are just reviewing with the Everlasting Elixirs." The professor waved his wand and the instructions appeared on the board.
The entire class began to gather the materials and commenced with their potion. The only sounds that could be heard were the chopping of materials or the stirring of the cauldron. A good forty five minutes passed without anything happening. The professor went around, looking at people's work, thinking to himself "This is too good to be true." And indeed it was. As soon as he thought it, an explosion happened in other corner where the Slytherins sat. As the smoke cleared, boils and warts began to form on Severus Snape's face. The Professor groaned. He turned his head to see Black and Potter falling on each other with laugher.
"BLACK! POTTER!"
"And so, just when I was able to make lose his pants in front of everyone, Minnie decides to come along and ruin my fun." Sirius said one fine day while nearing the lake. "She gave me detention and took of 15 points! Okay the point taking came after I called her Minnie but still." He took a piece of rock and had it skip across the lake. He waited for a response but when he didn't get any he turned around to see his best friend gaze dreamingly off in the distance. Sirius turned his head and saw him staring at a certain red-head who was sitting close to edge of the lake. He rolled his eyes and went over to him to smack him on his head.
"Ow! What the bloody hell was that for?" James said looking at Sirius and rubbing his head.
"Get over her man. There are plenty of other girls out there." Sirius said rolling his eyes and following his line of sight and looking at Lily, sitting with her friends.
"She's the one man. The one. What I wouldn't give to go over there right now." James said getting the dreamily look on his face.
"Give me your broom and it's done." Sirius said smirking. Before James could answer, he dragged him off to the group of girls. When he found Marlene, he sat down next to her and gave her a kiss on her lips. "Hey babe."
"He's looking at you again," said Emmeline smirking.
"More like staring." Marlene added in.
"God. When will he learn to quit? It's not funny anymore!" Lily said aggravated again. She purposefully faced her friends so that her back would be to him.
"Maybe it's not a joke. Maybe he actually likes you," Marlene suggested.
"Are we talking about the same person? He's only after me because I'm the only girl who ever said no to him." Lily said with a sigh. She just wanted him to leave her alone. Was that too much for a girl to ask?
"Don't look now. He's coming over along with Black." Emmeline said looking past Lily.
Lily stared at Marlene who was right in front of her. Oddly she had a tinge of pink on her cheek when Black was mentioned. Sirius came over and sat down next to Marlene giving her a kiss on the lips. "Hey babe."
Lily's mouth dropped. She looked at Emmeline whose face reflected Lily's shock. She was put out of her shock when a familiar voice said her name. Lily looked up to see James still standing up and looking at her hopefully.
"Hey Evans. You look cute today. How about joining me for a nice walk around the lake?" James said titling his head to the side. Lily raised her eyebrows. That was too un-egoistical for him to say. Before she said anything, James' added. "I know you have been wanting to for the longest of times."
And there we go.
Lily was about to retort when she noticed James' predicament. She smiled sweetly to him. She stood up and walked close to him. "You are right. I've been waiting forever to do this." Lily couldn't contain her laugher. He was falling for it. Right when he was leaning in, Lily put both her hands on his chest and pushed him backwards. Bulls eye. Lily thought as she saw James fall directly into the lake.
"I have no idea why you would ever think that I would go out with an egoistical, big-headed, no-good JERK like you!" Lily screamed as she made her way back to her friends. She grabbed Marlene by the arm and pulled her up. With a final look of hatred toward James, she marched off with her friends following behind. Behind her she heard, "She touched me! Padfoot, she actually touched me," which was followed by "You are hopeless."
They had finally reached Lily's dorm. They were unable to say anything as Lily was walking too fast. She snarled the password to the knight in the portrait and stormed in. As soon as they made it in, Lily started to pace, mumbling. "GAH he just makes me so aggravated. Why does he love to torture me?"
It was a few seconds later when her friends joined her in the room. They sat down on her couch waiting for her to calm down. Once her crazy pacing was done, she sat down in the arm chair looking at Marlene curiously.
"When did you start going out with Black?" Lily asked with a little bit of a harsh tone.
Marlene blushed under the scrutiny of her friends. "Last night. It just happened." She said shrugging lightly.
"You do remember that it's been two days since his last girl. He's a player and you know it." Lily said with a face that showed disbelief.
"And you are the one who said that he was horrible" Emmeline added
"Yes. How could I forget the horrible screaming?" Marlene said rolling her eyes. "But I think I'm different for him. He asked me in the most romantic way." Her eyes became dreamy and she sighed softly.
"And she's gone ladies," Lily smirked which caused a pillow throw at her.
"Don't say we didn't warn you." Emmeline remarked before smirking slightly and asking about the details. This again resulted in a pillow traveling across the room. The girls decided to make it a sleepover and went into her dorm, talking late into the night.
"You broke with her? Already?" Remus looked in shock and with disbelief. "It's been a three days mate." Fate found the marauders in boy's bathroom as that seemed to be the safest place to be away from an angry group of girls.
"Three days too long. No offense. She's an amazing girl and all that but it wouldn't have worked out between us." Sirius shrugged it off as though he had been told that he had detention again.
"You are seriously impossible." James said shaking his head. Even he had the decency to wait a little longer before breaking up with someone. Sirius shrugged again as if it wasn't a big deal before looking in the mirror to look at his red cheek.
"How did she take it?" Peter inquired.
"Well not too well. I think she may have actually liked me a lot." Sirius said wondering if this strange thought was true.
"No really paddy?" James replied sarcastically. "Why else would a girl agree to go you with you?"
"Because she heard I'm great in bed?" Sirius said with an innocent look on his face. A look that could have fooled anyone but those who are closest to him. "And don't call me paddy. It's Padfoot. Say with me now. Pa-Duh-Foot"
The three chuckled. "You'll never change will you?" Remus said shaking his head.
"Nope and don't count on it." Sirius said causing them to laugh. It was a silence in the bathroom before Sirius ventured out to say
"Do you think it's safe to go to the great hall from the raving mad lunatic?"
"Who are you talking about?"
"Evans of course"
That resulted him in another smack around the head from none other than her knight in shining armor, James.
Author's Note:
Thanks for reading for Chapter 1! Just a note – Mary doesn't know every single detail. She's telling the general story but for the sake of this actually being a story, I'm using some liberties here.
As usual, please read and review! Any suggestions and critiques you might have for me are greatly appreciated! Thanks a bunch.
Until next time,
Miss. Sappho