"Shaundra
"Shaundra! Hey Shaundra, there you are, I have been looking for you."
"Oh sorry Lil."
"What are you doing out here?"
"Oh, I . . . . . well . . . . just looking at the lake."
Shaundra was lying, and Lily knew it, but she didn't want to pry, instead she just smiled.
"You kind of just disappeared on me after D.A.D.A."
"Ya sorry about that."
Flashback
Lily was laughing as the two walked out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, were as Shaundra, looked tired and a bit annoyed.
"I'm going to beat my head against a rock if I get one more detention!"
Lily just laughed again and said, "That was so funny, though. That was absolutely hilarious."
Shaundra had been passing notes with Sirius Black, when the professor took it away and said, "Aren't you worried about getting better marks in my class, Ms. Ryans. If so, I suggest you stop passing notes!"
Shaundra just looked at the man smugly, closing her eyes and crossing her arms arrogantly. "I'm more worried about you, professor. If you weren't so nosy, pocking your thoughts in my private life, and focused more on teaching me what I needed to learn I wouldn't be bored to death at the point of passing notes, now would I?"
The whole class burst into a fit of laughter, while the Professor gave Shaundra a look that she quiet often received in this class.
She had earned herself a detention. . . . . AGAIN!
Shaundra took the note that he was handing back to her, not bothering to read it.
She sighed.
"8:00?"
"8:00," he repeated agreeing.
"Oh fantastic, I'll bring the pumpkin juice, and we'll call it a date," Shaundra said sarcastically threw gritted teeth, feeling really annoyed that she had gotten detention again.
"Lily, are you laughing at the fact I got detention, or from the previous events," she questioned her friend skeptically.
"From the previous events," she giggled from behind her palms.
"That's not like you to laugh at a teacher," Shaundra mocked. Lily just rolled her eyes and held out her hand to change the subject.
"Let me see the note."
Shaundra pulled out a note from her robe pocket and handed it to Lily.
Hey Shaw! Throw a paper at the skirt in front of you, she keeps staring at me. It's creepy.
Why Sirius? She probably likes you, like every other girl in this school!
Hmmm, she's pretty I guess. How long tell she starts swooning over me, do you think?
I bet you ten galleons she tries to chat with you after class, and then asks you out at lunch.
Well I bet she asks me out in the hall.
It's a deal!
Are you going to say yes?
It depends on what kind of reputation she has.
?
;-D
Oh you mean, gross you pervert!
But she doesn't always have the best things being said about her among the girls.
Oh, well then yes! Hey this also means I have been asked out more times today then you!
No I am ahead of you by 2! But unlike you I don't say yes to anything with legs, and in your case, a big mouth!
Why didn't you say yes then!
Would you say yes to Luscious and some random Slytherin you don't know? Or any Slytherin?
Bastartds!
Right you are my friend! So how long till you . . . . . you know try to, ya?
What do you mean?
I mean when are you going to sha-
"Shaundra that is disgusting!" Lily said hitting her arm playfully.
Shaundra just laughed, but stopped when she saw Sirius speaking to the girl that had been staring at him. Shaundra smiled and pointed them out to Lily.
Lily turned just in time to see the girl bashfully look down and blush. Sirius was leaning against a wall smirking his famous smirk. He said something and the girl giggled gleefully. Then the girl said something to him and he smiled, raising his hand to move a piece of hair from her face. Again she giggled, then said something that made Sirius go wide eyed with shock. The girl turned around and run quickly to her group of giggling friends
Sirius turned around and stomped away. When passing Lily and Shaundra he turned and glowered at them and started mumbling about having to barrow 10 galleons from James.
"Lily-kins, I'm going to be 10 galleons richer by lunch time," she stated smugly, a smirk tugging at her lips.
"Don't call me that, just because you're not James doesn't mean you can call me that," Lily scolded.
Shaundra ignored her and started walking forward. "It's quiet the waste though, I'm just going to give it to your boyfriend. Where else would Sirius get his money but from his best friend. Hmmm maybe Remus? Definitely not Peter."
Lily stopped walking and yelled, "Potter is not my-
"Ryans! Come with me at once!" McGonagall yelled from behind them, coming around the corner.
Shaundra sighed. "What the bloody hell did I do now?"
End of Flashback
After that, things had gone by so quickly yet so slowly.
McGonagall had taken Shaw to the headmasters office were she was told, her mother had been found in a muggle area, mysteriously beaten to death.
Dumbledore had excused her from all of her classes, so she could get her thoughts together, and just absorb it all. The headmaster probably thought Shaundra was going to collapse into the ground and sob endlessly. When she hadn't reacted that way, but merely nodded at the tragic news, he must have thought she hadn't taken in what was going on completely. But Shaundra knew even better then Dumbledore what had happened.
She immediately took advantage of having the rest of the day off by walking to the lake and sitting on the cold ground, not once moving, not even for lunch, just thinking.
She hated her mother. She was a stupid slut, who pretended to be oblivious to Shaundra being beaten by her father every time he was in a foul mood, or just wanted to hit her for his own amusement.
Shaw probably would have dealt with the fact better if it had always been like this, but it hadn't.
Shaundra's mother used to stick up for her and protect her like a mother should. But once Shaw turned 7 her mother just stopped coming home, maybe once a week coming to change her clothes, usually drunk, and half dressed.
Still the woman was her mother. So a tear was shed for the child abandoning drunken whore. Nothing more and nothing less.
"It's almost time for dinner," Lily pointed out. "Wouldn't want to miss out on your ten galleons again!" she said coaxing the girl to smile weakly and stand up.