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They were almost half way to the school and she was almost halfway done with her book when the sweets trolley came by. Seeing as her stomach was more than aching from not eating anything and seeing as it was well int the afternoon, she decided to treat herself. She stood, dug into her pocket and pulled out 3 golden coins. She opened the trolley door and caught a bit of the conversation that the boy was having with the women who pushed the cart.

"I'm sorry, but if you don't have enough money, then you can't have the sweets." the woman said. The boy pleaded his case,

"But I promise you that I will be able to pay you back! I won't forget! I promise!!" the boy seemed more than upset about the situation. His pale skin was turning a slight shade of red from embarrassment. Many other students were gathering outside the cars and started snickering when they realized who it was and what was happening. Jessica's brother popped his head out when Sirius had motioned for him to see what was happening. Jessica didn't want her brother to start harrassing the boy.

"So Snivy can't pay or a piece of candy, can he?" James mocked. Jessica's throat started tightening, why did he out of everyone, have to be her twin brother. The students started laughing at Severus and Jessica, out of pure impulse, dropped her gold into his hands. She turned around and started shuttin the trolley door, she heard that all the laughing had stopped. She knew that James and Sirius would never let her live this down. She sat back on her seat, still dressed in her muggle clothes, which were light blue jeans, a black hand-me-down t-shirt from James and a pair of low tops. Everything she was wearing and everything that she had in her trunk, including her cat, she bought with her own money.

She continued to read and barely realized that her friend, her only friend, had walked into the barren car. She looked up at her friend whose eyes were the same shade as her brothers and her hair was a little lighter in color than his also but was twisted into mad man like curls. "Jess!!" the girl practically shouted at her. Severus looked up from the car over and stared for a few moments.

"Yes?" Jessica pondered.

"What you did earlier! With Snivel---I mean Severus. It was brave!" she started. Jessica gazed down at her book, which she was on the last page of.

"So? I thought I'd be nice. He needed the money more than I did, Alyssa." Jessica's stomach let out a loud growl. She decided not to look Alyssa in the face, but continued her statement, "Besides, James needs to know when to shut is big, fat mouth." she closed the book.

"Well, now everyone is talking about you, ya know! Everyone thinks it's more than strange that not only did James Potter's sister--" she was cut off by Jessica's furious retort.

"JAMES POTTERS SISTER?!? Is that all I am to the entire school?! Not smart enough, not funny enough, not pretty enough to be my own person with my own name? Well then, how come I am the one that is the reason that James is passing? How come I am the one for the past 5 years has done all of James' homework? And how come I am the one getting none of the credit, am the one forgotten about, and the one always ignored and seen as invisible with about as much feeling as an ant? Tell me, why am I the forgotten child?" Jessica was getting all teary-eyed again. She didn't want to cry in general, but definitely not when another person is around. "You know what?" Jessica started again, taking a deep breath, "Just leave." Alyssa was was looking down, not wanting to hurt her friend anymore.

Alyssa turned away, walking towards the door. She opened it and was half way out when she turned and said, "By the way," Jessica looked up at her, "we're almost at school. You might wanna get into your school robes." With that, she left, shutting the door tight on the way out. Jessica pulled down the curtains that would allow people in the walkway on the train to see into the compartment and also the curtain leading outside.

She started to dress into her school robes, little did she know that she had an admirer that had found a small flaw in her curtain drawing skills. The boy stared and, unfortunately, no one stopped him, for no one saw what he was doing. Jessica had finished dressing and was about to draw up the curtains when the boy straightened his posture and made it seem like he was about to knock on the door when she opened the curtains. When he caught her eye, he offered her a friendly smile, which he, for the first time in his life, recieved back. She opened the door and allowed him to come in, her in her red and gold Gryffindor robes, him in his green and silver Slytherin robes.

"What can I do for you, Severus?" she asked, shutting the door and sitting across from him. He sat, quiet nevervously, on the seat directly in front of her, or tried to at least. When Severus attempted to sit, he miscalculated exactly how far away the seat was from were he was standing. He fell to the floor with a slightly disturbing thud. Jessica couldn't help but to giggle a little while standing and lending a hand to help him not only up, but to his seat. She once more, once Severus was seated, sat back across from him.

"Well, before my most embarrassing spill," the young, black haired teen started, "I wanted to say 'Thank you' for what you've done for me today. You saved me from your brother, and you gave me more than enough gold to by a small treat." he started digging around in his pocket. "Which reminds me!" he took out 2 gold coins and some silver as well, he thrusted them towards her but she merely grasped his hand in both of hers, and with a warming smile said,

"Don't worry about it! You don't owe me anything in return. Keep the change. If I intended you to give me change, then I wouldn't have given you all of the gold in my hand. All you need to do for me is--" before she could answer, she heard a loud, earth shattering knock on one of the windows for the walkway of the train. She looked over and noticed it was Sirius and James, accompanied by Remus and Peter. Peter gave Jessica a friendly wave but James and Sirius looked infuriated. They came storming in, before which Jessica let go of Severus' hand.

"What do you think you're doing?" James didn't seem to be questioning a single person, but both as a group.

"What do you mean? You don't have to know everything I do in my life, James!" she stood in her own, and Severus' defense.

"That's right, I don't have to worry about you. No one even knows you exist." James pushed his sister down onto the bench seat then turned to Snape, pointing a thin, lanky finger at him, "If you ever THINK about talking to my sister again, we'll find you and you don't want to know what we'll do!" Sirius, with his arms crossed, nodded in agreement behind James. Remus was standing outside the compartment with Peter, waving and saying 'Hello' to fellow passengers. In a sudden wave of fear, Severus stood and forced his way out of the compartment and into his own across the way, pulling down all the curtains and practically slamming the door shut on Peter's behind.

Jessica was more than flustered, she was hit with a massive mixed wave of anger and nausea. "How could you, James?" she was getting sicker by the passing seconds. Thank merlin she could see Hogsmeade up ahead, not more than a minute away. She needed air and she needed it now. She shoved past her brother and his barbaric friends and rushed towards the nearest exit. James soon caught up with her and grabbed both arms and made her face him, practically nose to nose.

"You listen here!" he started, becoming more angry by the minute, "You are not to talk to him! He's a skeez and no good. He studies Dark Arts and is just a total slime ball!" she shoved him away and into Sirius, who fell back when the train lurched to a hault in the direction they were already falling.

"You don't own me, James Potter. Don't think you can dictate a life you can't begin to even comprehend." with that, she turned on her heels and left the train. Alyssa met up with her on their way to the thestral drawn carriages and put an arm around her shoulder.

"You okay?" it was a simple question, one Jess couldn't too mad with. So she nodded as a reply, but Alyssa didn't take that as a satisfactory answer. "My brother's heckling you again isn't he?"

"Who, Sirius?" Jess started her sarcastic tone up again. "Nah, just bein' himself!" she faked a smile. Alyssa smirked and laughed a little.

"Sounds like the jerk." they walked up to the carriages and Jessica's face lit up a bit when she noticed Severus was alone in the carriage she was about to climb into. No sooner did she put a foot on the step to hoist herself in, did a hand grab at her waist and more then pull and more than shove her out of the way and into the mud that was new to the terrain. She looked up from the mud puddle to see a blond haired boy and several others sporting the same Slytherin colors climb into the carriage.

The blond sneered at her and said, "Slytherins only!" It happened to be the notorious Lucius Malfoy. Jessica rolled her eyes and was helped out of the puddle by Alyssa. She looked at her clothes and noticed that they were more than filthy. Alyssa preformed a simple cleaning charm while the carriage was pulled away and all but one Slytherin was seen laughing at her. She and Alyssa settled for the carriage sporting their brothers and Remus and Peter. Jessica was sitting across from Sirius and next to Alyssa on her right with the edge of the carriage to her left. James was across from Alyssa and Remus was on her right. Peter munched happily on the last bit of sweets he had from the train ride while the carriage bumpily made its way to the school.

When they arrived, they unloaded their luggage in the hall way and started walking into the Great Hall. Jessica attempted to walk over to Severus, not only did he turn away, possibly from fear, possibly from embarrassment, but Alyssa grabbed her arm and pulled her to the Gryffindor table. They sat across from eachother at the very end of the end of the table, to distant themselves from not only their siblings but also everyone else, whom they will fully admit, they do not get along with. Thankfully, Alyssa was the only person around to hear it but, while Dumbledore gave his speech and while all the first years were sorted, Jessica's stomach growled loudly, seeing as she has yet to eat all day and it was now well into the night. Everytime the sounds came from her stomach, Alyssa would giggle quietly, and Jessica would glare at her with a smile on her face.

Finally, when everyone was sorted and no one else was talking the food arrived. Jessica chowed down more than raveniously. It was not that hard to see, that if it were not for Hogwarts, she would be dead from starvation. When the last bit of crumble had been eaten, everyone got up and started moving towards the doors. Seeing as they were closest towards it, Jessica and Alyssa were the first ones out. Jess hung around outside the doors, as if waiting for someone. She leaned against the wall and just stood there waiting. Alyssa called her a moment later, "HEY J.P. (Jessica Potter)" Jessica looked in her direction. "Let's go! We gotta get the best room!"

"Go without me! I gotta talk to someone!" so Alyssa nodded and bolted up the stairs before all the first years to Gryffindor Tower. When Jessica found the person she was looking for, she rushed over to them. "Severus!" she rushed towards him, who tried to act as if he didn't know she was calling him. She almost got to him too, but was intersected by Lucius Malfoy once again.

"What do you think you're doing, Potter?" he said arrogantly.

"I'm trying to talk to Severus, now if you'll excuse me," she once more tried to get to him, but was stopped but Lucius once agian.

"What do you want with him?"

"To talk to him."

"About?"

"None of your business."

"Well, until you tell me, you are not permitted to speak to anyone in Slytherin." Lucius sneered.

"I'm talking to you, aren't I?" Jessica smirked back as evilly as Lucius did.

"Yes, well, that...doesn't...count!" Jessica smirked more, looking down, with a little chuckle. She looked back up at him,

"You really are dumb Lucius." she noticed that Severus was long gone, so she headed for the stairs to take her upstairs while Lucius started walking towards the stairs to go towards the Dungeons. Lucius was set on having the last word, so he shouted at her,

"You watch your back Potter!"

"I don't need to if you're the one threatening me!" she continued up the stairs. "I guess I'll just have to talk to him tomorrow morning in Potions! "

END

A.N// Honestly, I wrote both Chapters 1 and 2 in a whole. I started at about 10 p.m. and ended at 2:30 a.m. I just couldn't stop. Please review, if you don't I surely will die.

-Jessi . 33