A/N: Whoo! Chapter 4 for my Remus story! I didn't forget about him so there! I've got chapter 5 going, but am thinking about rewriting it because it feels funny to me.
Otherwise I don't own any cannon character on here. I own Hayden, Avril, Morgan and the twins.
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Chapter 4: Entitled
HPOV+
I wish I had gone Avril's route and had nearly all my classes with Remus like she did; but I don't. I only have Charms, Transfiguration and Herbology with him, though I get to see him twice a week thanks to Herbology and Transfiguration! Yeah to most people that would have been enough, but he's been avoiding me like mad! I guess I could chalk it up to the fact that I sit a great deal of a distance from him in Charms and Transfiguration due to my see-but-don't-touch policy of earlier…yeah that got tossed out the window! I've tried to get close to him in Herbology, but Sirius, James and Peter are always with him-- Ahhh!! I want to scream! You think I'd be able to talk to him at least once since what happened, simply because Sirius is attached to Avril like a lost puppy, but NO!!! Can I just say I'm frustrated because the guy I like makes the first move for once and then decides I'm not worthy to talk to?! YES! I THINK I'M ENTITLED TO THAT!
This is so unfair.
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Lily waved her hand in front of my face, drawing me from my thoughts, being forced out of my inner head rant.
"What's wrong?" She asked pointedly smothering her piece of toast with jam.
"Nothing." I said knowing I wasn't going to be able to get away with a simple brush off as that was.
"Yeah sure, you look like crap. I mean where's your usual vigor?" Morgan asked digging into her plate full of eggs and bacon as Avril made a gesture down the Gryffindor table to the group of boys huddled close together discussing something potentially prank worthy.
Lily and Morgan looked confused; I hadn't told them about what had happened to between Remus and myself, I especially didn't see the point then if he was going to pretend like it never happened. He sure knew how to hurt a girl, maybe he was more like Black then I thought. Avril turned half way in her seat so Lily and Morgan could see her back as she pretended to snog some invisible person, her own hands traveling up and down her back, getting an assortment of snorted laughter out of the people watching if not down right comments about getting a room.
"Stop!" I snapped harshly as quietly as I could having realized that the boys were looking our way, Sirius and James looking thoroughly amused. I wanted to die! Why did my friend think making fun of me was…fun!?
"Sorry." She mouthed silently, quickly stuffing her eggs, bacon and slices of cheese between her pieces of toast.
I felt bad suddenly; Avril couldn't defend herself verbally from my own verbal attacks. It had been nearly four months since she ran out of the castle that morning, Sirius on her heels, the two disapparating right outside of the the anti-apparition field, Avril doing a side-apparition completely by accident, not even knowing Black had, had a hold of her when she disapparated. It only made the scene more odd that morning long ago when Dumbledore went after them, disapparating closely behind just outside the field like they had. It was then that the former enemies suddenly became so close; they do say that sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, but there was something more there, something that they weren't telling us. I had tried to press the matter with Avril, but Black came to her defense and we had a row. It was another reason why I didn't care for him, besides everything else, but then again I guess I shouldn't have pressed her about it so early.
"Sorry about that I didn't mean to snap." I said picking a piece of bacon from her plate that she had been reaching to stuff into her make-shift sandwich; she smiled giving her understanding.
"You really shouldn't make out with yourself love, people will think you're crazier then they already do." Sirius' voice trailed into my ears abruptly. I contemplated hitting him over the head with the empty silver tray that once held the eggs that were by then gone.
"That's her whole point." Morgan chuckled, pouring herself more orange juice, "It's one thing to hit someone walking on the pitch with a Quidditch bat, but you've only got fright appeal there. She's decided on the whole package. Frightening, abusive, mean, loony, son of a bitch." Morgan had been referring to what the teachers were calling 'The incident' which involved Avril without warning attacking a beater with his own bat on the Slytherin team that had called her family blood-traitors and mudblood lovers. The girl never took nicely to the use of either prejudice word-- obviously.
Lily snorted out her pumpkin juice, Sirius and I laughed as Avril shook her head rolling her eyes. "We've several packages you might like. One just might be right up your alley Black." Morgan smirked.
"I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you." Lily smirked, trying to dry off her spilled juice.
"Oi, what's so funny over here?" asked James as he wiggled a seat in next to Lily, Remus and Peter following suit.
"Calling Avril a frightening, abusive, mean, loony, son of a bitch." Sirius retorted, leaning his back against the table, choosing to sit the wrong direction as he chuckled.
"That fits her completely." James nodded his head in agreement. Avril made a rude hand gesture.
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RPOV+
I'm sure she's mad at me, I mean avoiding her all week really wasn't a smart thing to do, but I didn't want to have to deal with Sirius, James and Peter's odd stares or probing questions if they saw us together more then normal acquaintance should have been. Calling her an acquaintance wasn't fair to her; you really didn't think nasty bits while snogging just an acquaintance would you? Of coarse unless you were Sirius. I had to figure out how to get her alone like I did that night, but the problem was she could usually be found with one of her best mates and it didn't help that James and Sirius where always bothering me about her during class. Despite the fact we have three classes together, Herbology was the only one that offered the chance for me to get closer to her, though once again my best mates were becoming a hindrance and I contemplated feeding them to the dangerous man eating plant we were working with that week.
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The opportunity presented itself quicker then I thought it would when the Gryffindor where to go against Hufflepuff later that week and I found myself sitting next to her at the quidditch game. Just as happy as she normally was she yelled bows and hisses along side the rest of the Gryffindor's who cheered for their team. James, Sirius and Avril were on the team as Chaser, Beater and Seeker though it had been awhile since the three had done any of their normal stunts. It was middle of March and still a bit chilly, but she had her robes off like several others did that day from jumping up and down and screaming until their voices were hoarse.
"Hayden." I said trying to be heard over the crowd and she looked to me, her cheeks flushed from the cold air, "I wanted to apologize for avoiding you this week." I said my eyes down cast feeling rather sheepish.
"I was afraid that you were regretting it." She said softly, her warm breath rolling over my ear as she had whispered it to me so as not to have to yell. My heart sped up and I started to get nervous. Why was I nervous?! I mean I had no problem kissing her down in the kitchen! Then again it had only been two days before the full moon then and my wolfish side had a habit of rearing its head during those times; like my confidence being a lot better then it normally was.
"Na-- no!" I stammered shaking my head and the memories of that night swam to the forefront of my mind as I dared to look at her.
She was smiling brightly and her dark blues shimmered a bit or was that just my imagination and like for the color that caused the hallucination? I didn't know but was happy nonetheless and found myself smiling briefly before I reached for her hand and tried to ask what I had planned to that day.
"Um ah actually I was wondering if you wanted, I mean if you'd like to ah…" I stammered looking down at her hand that I held between my own, her skin cold and a bit rough from her scrimmages with her brothers I was sure. "If you'd ah…well if you'd go out with me." I managed to blurt the rest out instantaneously feeling like an idiot. Why would she want to go out with a guy like me? For pete sake what am I doing, I'm a werewolf?!
"Yeah!" she beamed at me, but it quickly dropped when she took in the expression upon my face. "What's wrong? Did I take it the wrong way? I sorry if I took it that--"
"NO!" I practically yelled and once again felt like an idiot as I had startled her. I tried to lower my voice. "No I meant that. You know if you wanted to date me I mean."
I watched her smile return to her tan face and couldn't help smiling myself; out of the blue my eyes caught sight of her older brother's pointing in our direction and smiling wildly at each other when four things all at once come to pass that I had not anticipated. One, Hayden leaned in and kissed me; it deepened as I was too shocked by it to really protest; not that I wanted to anyway. Two, the twins were on the horizon with expressions that were full of intent to tear the mickey out of us. Three, Lily and Morgan gawked at us, their mouths suspend open so wide they could have opted for a fly catcher and four, the whistle went off declaring that Avril had caught the snitch, the Gryffindor's going wild as we had won.
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A/N: Short chapter I think, but hey. I felt bad cuz I hadn't written on this in weeks while my other stories progressed so far ahead. So I'm gonna try and keep this one up and going!
