The two only walked about a step or two before Lily flew into a torrent of words and stories. Most recounting the days events like what Slughorn said about her potion, or what Marry had said at lunch, or what Sirius face looked like when the girl didn't even talk to him, or how James had tried to ask her out again and ended up getting some of Lily's freezing potion in the crouch of his trousers by 'accident.'
Like always, any conversation with Lily made her smile and laugh hysterically it was amazing, usually when Shaundra was in a foul mood it was practically written in stone, well until Lily came along. The only other person who could do that was James.
Once in the hall Shaundra could barely stand from laughing so much. When she stumbled in to the hall the first thing she saw was the Marauders sitting at the very far end of the Gryffindor table deep in conversation about something or another.
"Look Lily there they are," Shaundra pointed, grabbing lily's hand. "Let's go sit over there."
"But I- no-" Before Lily could finish her protest Shaw dragged her down the table to the boys. The boys were occupying most of the room and Shaw hated to ask the boys to scoot over so instead she sat on Remus' left leg, knowing the shy boy would immediately push Sirius to the right so he would move over, making room for Shaw. Which is exactly what happened, and Remus turned a lovely shade of red.
Remus was always the shy one, and it was absolutely adorable to Shaundra. She took every opportunity she could to make him blush. Many people would see this as a way to tease or make fun of him, but that's not really what she was getting at.
Shaundra sat down and easily jumped into the conversation she knew nothing about.
"I agree profusely, Gobberbottom should definitely be sacked," she said nonchalantly, grabbing a dinner roll.
The Marauders (Well excluding Remus who was still trying to recover from Shaw sitting on his leg) all looked at her skeptically and amused. "Shaw just because the bloke gives you detention left and right doesn't mean he should be fired," Sirius said with a knowing grin.
"Excuse me, but that has nothing to do with it," she said defensively." The man's a pedophile! I saw him checking out your arse. I say this for your sake Sirius."
"Oh how noble of you," Sirius mocked sarcastically.
"But honestly, who actually likes the man?" Shaundra asked, looking at the boys seriously, and purposefully letting her eyes linger on Remus' eyes before smiling and turning back to the other boys.
"Well I don't like McGonagall but you don't see me calling her a pedophile," Peter said matter-of-factly.
"That's different, Pete my boy, and you know it," Peter winced and Shaundra's nick name for him.
"How is it different, Ryans," James asked smirking trying to sound like McGonagall.
"It just is ok," she said crossing her arms.
Lily coughed uncomfortably seeing as how she was still standing there. Shaundra looked up and then across to James and Peter. "Hey Jamesy-boy scoot over for your Lily-kins, gee don't you have any manners?"
"Oh, oops sorry, Evans, hey Wormtail scoot over for my Lily-kins."
"Uh no thanks I'm just going to sit somewhere else," Lily said rather put off at the fact of sitting next to James.
"Don't be silly, Evans," Shaundra said smirking. "Pete, move over."
"Err ok," he replied awkwardly looking at the ridiculously large 7th year sitting next to him named John McCoy
A lot of people were afraid of him just because he was very intimidating considering he was from the states, and the guy thought he was the best thing since pudding.
"Hey M-McCoy, you mind moving over for Lily," Peter stuttered. McCoy looked at Peter briefly before turning back to his conversation and not moving over. "Sorry Shaw people tend to not listen to me," Peter said a little sadly.
"Nonsense Pete, all you have to do is be more assertive, like this," Shaundra said reaching for a dinner role, then bouncing it in her hand while looking at McCoy as if taking aim.
"No really this isn't needed, Shaundra. I'll just find Marry and sit with her. Just put the dinner role dow-"
Before Lily could finish Shaw flung the roll at the back of McCoy's head. He turned around and gave her a menacing look. "Oi McCoy! Why don't' you do as my friend Peter here asked you to do, and scoot over!" Shaundra scowled at him.
"Excuse me," he said turning his body towards the group.
Shaundra grunted in frustration and stood up slamming her hands down to lean over the table. "Do you understand English, man? Bloody hell, move your gorilla-like being into the vacant area to your left! Or are those words to large for you?" McCoy glared at her for a few seconds, but then moved over and continued his conversation like nothing happened.
Shaundra sat down and smiled at Lily. "Sit." It was more of a command then a request but Lily didn't hesitate to refuse it. "No thank you." But one look from Shaw got her to sit down next to James.
"There that wasn't so hard. Now we need to talk Sirius."
"What! Why me?"
"I do believe you owe me ten galleons," she said folding her hands and looking down.
"Damn I thought you would forget."
Shaundra looked up and smiled. "Of course not."
The two began to argue about the terms of the bet and Lily couldn't help but smile. It was an odd thing to see Shaundra a mess like she had been at the lake. Yes there had been times when she was upset, sad, or angry, and yes it was a bit difficult to get her out of that slump, but never had she been so quiet. It was scary. But hopefully she was truly feeling better. Lily of course would probably never know because Shaw had a little tendency to hide her feelings and was very good at it. But she seemed fine so one could only hope.