Heartfelt Heart-to-hearts
Okay y'all, here's chapter 10. Enjoy yourselves.
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We dedicate this chapter Zak. Because he was useful last chapter when we were having issues. So yes. Enjoy all.
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"Bria!" Came Emma's voice from the other side of the drawn curtains. "You're crying! It is really time to get up. I told all the teachers you were sick, but you are not supposed to sleep until three PM on a Friday. You ready to tell me what's the matter?"
"No. Go away. I just want to sleep!"
"Bria, you have slept for the last seventeen hours. I think there is something wrong, and I think you should tell a friend. Normally if you didn't want to talk to me, I'd suggest you went to Sirius, but somehow I doubt this is a good idea."
"No! It's his fault I'm still in bed. He is an arse!" Bria said, sitting up and flinging her bed curtains open to reveal Emma standing there with some herbal tea.
"You want some tea?" Emma offered, holding the cup under Bria's nose.
There was a brief pause as Bria considered the offer. Bria sighed and took the cup in her hands and gestured for Emma to sit.
Emma smiled and crawled next to her friend. Sitting cross-legged across from each other Emma watched Bria test the temperature of her tea. "Bria," Emma said, "Spill. No one even knows what happened."
"I bet Black told James or Remus."
"Black! Brie, you are definitely not on a last name basis with that boy. You call him 'Padbutt' for goodness sake! I am going to kill you if you don't start explaining."
"Well, he doesn't get to be Sirius anymore. He is not allowed to speak to me ever again."
"See? Even this anger is less scary to me than your just being hurt and sad. What did he do?"
"Okay, so you know that Justin has had a boner for me for years, right?"
"Yeah. Everyone knows that."
"Okay, so yesterday he asked me out, and I said yes, and Sirius started screaming at me, and telling me I wasn't allowed to date. So I told him not to tell me what to do anymore, and then I said I didn't know if he was even my friend anymore. And I left, but I still cannot figure out what the problem is. It's not like I haven't dated before, and he has never done this before. It's like he just really hates Justin I guess."
"Bria, you never let Sirius get to you. He is always forbidding you to do things. And you never listen."
"Yeah, but it's never like he meant it before. This time, it was like he really expected me to obey. Which he has never really done before. I don't know what's wrong with him!" Bria finished, as Emma took the tea away so she wouldn't throw it across the room, as she was prone to do.
"Bria, don't you think there may be more to this whole thing than you're thinking? Maybe he knows that Justin is planning to use you or something. You really don't know."
"No. He was just being a spiteful bugger!" Bria flung herself backwards.
"Bria, I know that he hacked you off, but you really need to let it all go." Emma said, pulling her friend back up. "I think that you need a trip to Hogsmeade. There is one tomorrow you know?"
"Yes. I'm going with Justin. That's what started this whole mess!"
"Oh. Well, then maybe you just need a restful weekend, and shouldn't go to Hogsmeade."
"No. I am not going to let Black dictate my life."
"Where'd you learn a big word like 'dictate'?"
"From Remus."
"I figured."
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"REMUS!" Sirius screamed from across the corridor. "Why isn't she here?"
"For the twentieth time Padfoot, I don't know." Remus said calmly, once Sirius had caught up with him.
"She wasn't in any of our classes, and that is not normal. Even for Bria! Why isn't she being here!"
"Maybe because she's avoiding you because you hacked her off so badly."
"Now how did I hack her off? That doesn't make sense at all."
"Have you already forgotten about what happened yesterday after breakfast?"
"What happened?"
"With Bria!"
"Oh. Right. I was trying to forget about that. Remus, what am I going to do mate? I can't just tell her I'm sorry. And I definitely cannot tell her I like her. That would just be horrible! And then she would know!"
"That would be the point, wouldn't it?"
"Why would I want to do that? That could ruin our care-free friendship."
"Padfoot! Wake up! It is messed up already. You are not going to regain the same friendship. Ever! And you have taken to abusing exclamation points since she got mad at you! Not that you didn't before, but these are annoying exclamation points."
"I was talking, how do you know if I was abusing exclamation points. Words don't come with exclamation points."
"I just know."
"Well, what am I supposed to do about Cheese?"
"I don't know, Sirius. Maybe you should figure it out for yourself this time."
"But I need your help! Without it, I'll never get Bria to forgive me!"
Remus sighed. "Sirius, I can't tell you what to say. Then she'd be forgiving me. Not you. This you need to figure out for yourself. And don't just go to James. He would be even less helpful than I am. He'd tell you to steal her bed, and refuse to give it back until she'd forgiven you or something."
"Steal her bed! Great idea, mate! I'll do it! Moony, you're the best!"
"No! That is not a good idea! Stop. Sit! Stay! Okay. Promise me you won't do anything bad."
Sirius looked at his friend in despair from his vantage point on the floor. "But, I don't know what to do. But I know that I am not okay without Bria."
Remus sat down next to him, ignoring the stream of students passing them by. "Sirius, if you're not okay without Bria then you have to figure out what you need to do so she can forgive you. You cannot force her to do anything, but you can try to make her see how much you need her. Who knows, maybe she needs you too."
Sirius nodded and gazed absently across the corridor. "Remus, you are right (as usual) but one thing."
"What is that?"
"You're a sap."
"I know."
"Good. As long as we agree."
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"Well maybe you should try giving more and taking less." Came a voice from behind her. "Give to God, and you shall have your reward."
"Now, why would I want to give to God?"
"Because, that's what good Christians do."
"Well, I'm not a good Christian. I'm a witch, aren't I?"
"Maybe you should be. Then God would give you the things you crave."
"Who are you anyway?"
"Samantha. I used to be friends with Bria, and then I saw the light. Now I can't spend time around that girl. She does not respect God."
"So, if I give into this God you so worship, do I get Sirius?"
"I suppose it's a possibility. God grants many gifts."
"I don't really want to be like you, but I want Sirius. Isn't there a happy medium?" Rose pouted a little, and scanned the crowded corridor for Sirius. "I just want him to be in love with me. And hate that girl Bria. She is just in the way. You know what I want from Sirius?"
"What?"
Rose leaned toward Samantha, and whispered something in her ear. "Oh Merlin!" Samantha shouted, jumping back away from Rose several feet. "I hope that God NEVER grants you that wish! That is unchristian."
"Yes, but so am I."
"I hope that God refuses you everything you ever wish for now! That anyone would wish for God to do such a thing, it is blasphemy." Samantha crossed herself, and ran away.
"I have no idea what's wrong with that girl, but it is a bit insane how strongly she reacted to my wish. I bet she used to wish such things. Before God kidnapped her." Rose continued to wander down the corridors, wondering how she could make her wish come true.
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"Emma! I've been wondering where you were." Emma turned, and saw Remus standing right behind her.
"Oh! I've been looking for you. I was talking to Bria up in the girls' dorm. She is in a sorry state."
"Yeah. So is Sirius."
"Do you know why he yelled at her? Because I think I know why she's so upset about him yelling at her."
"Yeah. I know why he was so hacked off. He is in love with her."
"I thought so. She's in love with him too."
"I hoped so. Those two are so hopeless. What in the world are we supposed to do with them?" Remus asked, running his hand through his hair, as he was prone to doing. A nervous habit he'd picked up from Sirius.
"Merlin. I don't know. But we had best figure it out soon. Otherwise, Hogwarts is doomed. They will never let us be at peace." The two started down towards the great hall. "I think we should make them realize how much they miss one and another, and then they will snog and all will be well."
"Yes. Except that Sirius thinks the way to get Bria to forgive him is to steal her bed."
"And Bria thinks she should de-man him. But that isn't really all that abnormal. She'll regret all her attempts once she figures out that she's in love with him."
"You mean that she hasn't figured this out yet?"
"Not as such. She just thinks she's mad that he forbade her to do something. She doesn't know why she went emotionally numb though. I wish our friends were more intelligent. But instead they are just going to beat around the bush for months, graduate, and then try never to see each other ever again."
"So we should make sure this doesn't happen. They are honestly worse than Lily and James, By the way. How's Lily coming?"
"She's less stubborn than Bria, but she really believes that she hates him. Which makes her even more difficult than Bria. Who knows when she's going to get over herself. It could take all year for all I know."
"Terrific. A long-term project. I guess we're in this together, though, so hopefully with the two of us it might be faster."
"Perhaps. The wizarding world should thank us. We deserve a medal for--"
"Putting up with them? I agree."
"Indeed. Dinner?"
"Sounds reasonable."
"I do worry about them though. What if they never realize that the perfect person for them is just right there? Has always been right there. Right before their eyes? And with Bria and Sirius, it's their best friend in the entire world. The one person that Bria really relates to, and now she's not even speaking to him. They need to work this out. Pronto." Emma said.
With that, they walked into the dining hall, and joined the rest of their friends (Minus Bria).
"Hey, Emma, where's Bria?" Sirius asked, before she'd even sat down. "Isn't she coming to dinner? Is she dying? Is she still mad at me? Is she ever going to forgive me? She wasn't in any classes today. She is normally better than all that."
"Wow. Hi to you too Sirius. Bria isn't coming to dinner, she isn't dying, she is still mad at you, she might forgive you, if you play your cards right, she slept through classes, but she'll be going to Hogsmeade tomorrow. So she is not really sick. Don't worry, and DO NOT try to break into the girls' dorm this time. Samantha would have a heart attack."
"Yeah. That girl's gotten weird this year. No bible camp for me, if this is what it does to people."
Just then, Rose wandered over. "Hi Sirius, hon. How are you this evening. How is that prick, Bria doing this evening?"
"Rose, don't mention Bria to me. You don't know her, and I don't like you. So go away."
"Wow. How uncharacteristic of you Sirius. I think you are making headway already."
"Toward what, Moony?"
"Getting Bria back."
"How was that making headway?"
"Rose hacks Bria off, so by telling her to sod off, you are doing Bria a favor, too bad she isn't here to have witnessed that. That might have made her forgive you. Too bad."
"You are too kind Moony."
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Yay! We updated again! Be proud. Okay. We don't know when the next time we are going to update is going to be, but we'd just like to say that we don't mean to offend any Christians with Samantha.
Hannah: Yeah, what we're trying to do is exaggerate certain stereotypes.
Mariah: Yeah, we're doing this with Americans too.
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