Chapter 9

"He hugged you?" Alaina cried, a huge smile on her face. "Oh Lyssa!" Alaina pulled Alyssa into a big hug. Brittney rolled her eyes at her jubilant friends.

"You two are some of the most insane people I ever met," Brittney uttered as she sat down next to Lily in the Great Hall. It was now lunch time and the three girls and Remus had met Alaina on her way from Care of Magical Creatures. This class took place outside in a little padlock close to the Forbidden Forest. Everyday, Professor Kettleborn would wobble down the slopes and show the class a new creature that day.

Alaina had told the girls that James, Sirius, and Peter went up to their dorms to discuss something important. Remus had nodded his head and sprinted towards the Fat Lady portrait, leaving a very dismayed Alyssa behind.

"Then why are you friends with us?" Alyssa asked as she sat down across from Brittney. Alaina sat down next to her. Brittney rolled her eyes at the happy girl as she reached out to gathered her lunch.

"Because, you and Alaina are crazy enough for me and Lily." Brittney said with a smirk. "As long as we have the two of you around, then we don't need to worry about us being as insane as you two?" Brittney smiled as all three of her best friends looked dreadfully confused.

"Wait..." Alaina whispered, as she thought through what Brittney had said. She started to twirl her hair and Brittney could only laugh.

"Wouldn't the two of us have rubbed off on you and Lily if we stuck around all the time?" Alyssa whispered, and she bit her lip, clearly concentrating hard on the words that Brittney had said.

"But think about it, Britt," Lily said, a smile on her face. "When we first me Alaina she was as shy as could be. I just think that me and you rubbed off on Alaina, and then once she got

together with Alyssa it was like a train crash!" Lily and Brittney started laughed as the other two girls looked once again confused.

"I don't get it..." Alyssa whispered, and she thought for a few seconds, more. Lily and Brittney quickly ate, hurrying to finish their food before class started.

Then, as though the two had twin telepathy...

"HEY!" Alaina and Alyssa cried together, hands on their hips. Lily and Brittney burst into tears of laughter at the looks on the girls' faces.

"I was not that shy!" Alaina cried, indignantly. This time, Alyssa joined in the laughter. "I wasn't!" She looked around at her laughing friends and smiled weakly. "Ok, maybe I was a little bit."

"Lainy," Brittany said with a smile. "Do you remember the way you acted towards Sirius yesterday?" Alaina nodded but then paled. She was looking over Brittney's shoulder.

"Jake?" She asked, with a look of fear. Jake could be an extremely jealous person, and Brittney immediately knew that at the sound of Sirius' name the brown-haired boy must have gone red.

When they were all in fifth year, Sirius had been going out with a girl named Naida Kinni. Sirius had liked her a lot at the time, and doted Naida with tons of gifts and hugs and affection. Then, as the story went, Sirius had found Naida snogging another boy in a closet. It had been Jake.

Ever since, Sirius and Jake had hated each other. Every time they spoke, it was words of anger or disgust. They were extremely competitive, and every time the played Quidditch, one or the other ended bloodied up.

"Hello, Alaina," Jake sneered, Alaina stood up and walked around the table to Jake. "What is this I hear about Sirius Black?" Brittney groaned at her sudden slip. She never had wanted to get her in trouble with her boyfriend.

"Jake, its no big deal," Alaina said with a fake smile. "We sat with the Marauders on the train ride here, yesterday. I looked for you but I didn't find you anywhere. Where were you?" This was in fact a true fact. Brittney had helped Alaina search for Jake everywhere, yet they had not found him anywhere.

"Well, I was sitting with my sister, of course," Jake said with a sneer that rivaled Severus Snape's. "While you were sitting with Black!" Brittany turned towards the door to the Great Hall, and at the complete wrong timing, the Marauders had chose to arrive.

Oh bloody hell!

This day was just about to get a little interesting...