Author's Note: Just to let everyone knows this chapter is back to Megan's P.O.V.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling, not me.
Chapter 5:
"Hello, Remus, Sirius," I smiled kindly as I met the two boys outside of the Great Hall. "Anybody in the mood for a Hogsmeade trip?" I was in a very good mood, as I usually was on Hogsmeade days, or Quidditch game days.
"And what if I was to say that I am not in the mood for a Hogsmeade trip?" Sirius asked as the three of us began walking.
I rolled my eyes, "Well then, you'd get to stay here at Hogwarts and be bored. And then since you're so bored you're going to become depressed. And then since you're depressed you're going to become a loner. And then since you're a loner you're going to barely graduate. And then when you barely graduate you are going to wonder for the rest of your life why you didn't come to Hogsmeade." I exaggerated a bit, but those were the first words that came to mind, so they were the first things to come out of my mouth.
Remus gave a short chuckle, "How exactly did you think of that scenario?"
"What?" I raised an eyebrow. "Are you saying that, that wouldn't happen? Because I think that, that is quite possible." Both Remus and Sirius eyed me with strange looks. "So maybe it's a little out there. But still very possible."
The cold air hit me unexpectedly. I knew it was going to be cold, but I just didn't imagine that it was going to be that cold. I buttoned my jacket the rest the way before we officially began our trip to Hogsmeade. Nothing out of the ordinary happened on our way to Hogsmeade. Although Sirius did decide that it'd be funny to drop snow down the back of my shirt. Which led me to attempt to throw a snowball at Sirius; I missed and accidentally hit a kid from Ravenclaw. That made Sirius and Remus laugh, I was able to stop there laughter by casting Locomotor Mortis, a leg-locking curse, and both of them. Both of them were caught off guard, causing them to lose balance and land face first into the snow. Once I had a good laugh at them trying to get up I finally used to counter-curse on them. After that we agreed not to mess with snow anymore.
The first store we stopped in was Zonko's Joke Shop. I wasn't into many things there, but that was just because I was never much of a prankster myself. Sirius enjoyed himself quite a bit though.
I laughed as he made his way to buy more than his fair share of Dungbombs, Frog Spawn Soap, and Nose-Biting Teacups. "What exactly do you plan on doing with those?" I asked, standing next to him while Remus was off looking at Sugar Quills.
"Do you really want to know?" He questioned as he handed the store clerk the money he owed her.
I thought for a second before saying, "It might be better if I didn't know." I figured I couldn't get into any trouble if I didn't know what he was doing.
"Come on, Moony!" Sirius yelled from the front of the shop.
Remus soon caught up with us, and we went to Tomes and Scrolls, a little book shop. Though its selection of books was not the greatest, occasionally there would be a good read that would show up. I stumbled across the series Enchanted Encounters, by Fifi LaFolle. I held up the first book to show Remus. "Have you read this series?" I asked curiously.
"No, have you?" He answered with a shake of his head.
I nodded and put the book down, "It wasn't anything special. My mom loved it for some reason." I looked around to find Sirius and saw him looking like he was ready to smash his head through a wall. "What's wrong with him?" I snickered.
"Sirius isn't exactly what I would call a book person. In fact, I think any moment now he'll start whining about wanting to leave."
Remus obviously knew his friend very well because only a few seconds later did Sirius come over to us and childishly say, "Can we leave now?" It made me laugh because not only had Remus predicted what Sirius was going to do, but there was something about the way he pouted that just made me laugh. "What's so funny?"
I shook my head, "It's nothing, yes we can leave," I turned my head to look at Remus, "as long as that is alright with you too." He nodded and we left.
The next stop we made was at Spintwitches, a sporting goods shop, which mostly sold Quidditch supplies. We left only moments after we came in. Sirius and I were complaining about their lack of well anything. It was a complete disappointment.
We briefly visited Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop, where Remus bought a new quill, but Sirius and I were asked to leave due to "improper usage of the quills." It started when Sirius kept on poking my side with a quill, getting ink on my jacket. I had told him to knock it off, but did he listen? No. It wasn't too much time before I began poking him back with a quill, but I think when I marked his forehead with black ink was when the store keeper had had enough and asked us to leave.
Remus gave us an almost disapproving look, but I think the black line across Sirius's forehead made it hard for him to keep a straight face.
"Where shall we go next?" I asked as we began walking the streets of Hogsmeade once again. I caught a glimpse of Honeydukes out of the corner of my eye and asked, "Does Honeydukes sound good to anyone beside me?"
Remus answered, "Yes!"
At the same exact time Sirius answered, "No!"
I was going to ask Sirius why he said no, but before I could Remus was already pulling on my arm towards Honeydukes and Sirius was reluctantly following us. Once inside Honeydukes, Remus ran off to who knows where, and I looked at Sirius, trying to figure out what was wrong with Honeydukes. "Why did you say no, exactly?"
"Well," he sighed, "Remus has a strange obsession with chocolate. Last year we came here and it took James, Pete and myself to keep him from buying the whole store."
I wanted to laugh because the story, I just found it amusing, but I held back my laughter. "So what do we do now?"
He shrugged, "Let's not worry about it. We'll figure out how to get him out of here when we have to. In the meantime let's buy some candy. Do you have a sweet tooth Roma?"
"I don't know if I would say I have a sweet tooth, but I do like sweets."
"Come on then," he said tugging on my wrist.
After a minute or so of looking around Sirius offered me a box of Cockroach Clusters, which I had to turn down, knowing that they contained real cockroaches. He still bought the box, figured he could give them to someone who was foolish enough to accept them. He also bought a package of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
I stood behind him in line holding a bag of Jelly Slugs, and a bag of Fizzing Whizzbees. I handed the cashier four sickles before meeting Sirius and Remus. Remus had obviously purchased a lot of chocolate from what I could see he had bought a Cauldron Cake, a few Chocolate Frogs, one or two Chocolate Bars, and a pack of Chocolate Cauldrons. I still don't know how someone could stomach so much chocolate in one life time.
"Is that all you're getting Moony?" Sirius asked looking at him obviously surprised.
"Well, Padfoot, you see I thought we'd probably be going other places after this, so I wanted to save some money."
Sirius gave him a pat on the back and smiled, "Wow, I was expecting for you to make a scene like you did last time we came to Honeydukes."
"I kind of wanted to see that," I spoke up.
"Well, maybe next time." Remus laughed.
We stopped by Gladrags Wizardwear for not even five minutes before going to The Three Broomsticks Inn.
"Three Butterbeers Madame," Remus called out form the table where he and Sirius sat on one side and I sat on the other.
Madame Rosmerta acknowledged him, and continued to do her job.
"So what are your plans for Christmas, Megan?" Remus asked.
I was embarrassed at how long I had to take to answer that question. I knew that I'd be broken up with Dominic by Christmas, and I knew I could always tell my parents by sending them a letter. The only thing that made me want to go home for Christmas was knowing that my brother would be there to help me. But I still hadn't entirely convinced myself that I was going home for Christmas. "I'm not sure yet, but probably a more than awkward dinner with my family, and Dominic's family."
"What exactly is going to make it awkward?"
"The news I have to tell them."
The sandy-haired Marauder stopped for a second to think, he was probably thinking about what the news was. His eyes practically flew out of his head when he asked in a quiet tone, "You're not pregnant are you?"
I couldn't help but laugh hysterically at this. Sirius began laughing as well, probably because he knew the real reason why Christmas was going to be awkward for me, and Remus couldn't have been farther off. "No, Remus, I am not pregnant. I have different news that I don't think my parents or Dominic's parents are going to be happy to hear about. But I am most certainly not pregnant."
"Well that's good. Not that you have bad news for you parents, but that you're not pregnant," Remus explained as if I couldn't guess that it was a good thing that I wasn't pregnant.
Sirius laughed, "Yeah, imagine if you had to tell them your actual news, and then add that your pregnant to the conversation."
"For some reason, I'd really rather not imagine that. It wouldn't be a fun dinner," I said shaking my head.
"So what is the news that you don't want your parent's to hear? If you can tell Sirius, you can tell me."
Did I really want to tell another person? Remus seemed like a trustworthy guy, but with telling him why kind of involved telling him to whole story or else my news just seemed silly. I decided I'd tell him, but instead of telling him the long complex version of the story, I'd shorten it to save time.
"Well, I'm going to be breaking up with Dominic sometime soon. And well, our parents, or should I say our moms have been planning for us to marry one another since we were like eight."
Sirius gave me a look that might as well have been screaming, you couldn't have told me the short version? It would've saved a lot of time.
About ten minutes passed when a felt a pair of hands covering my eyes. "Guess who?" And easily recognizable voice said from behind me.
I rolled my eyes, not that anyone could see it, and said, "Toby, you can leave now." Toby Carlson, his crush on me was cute when he was a first year, tolerable when he was a second year, getting annoying when he was a third year, and by the time I was in my seventh year I had learned to accept it, but it was still bothersome.
The fourth year Hufflepuff removed his hands from my over my eyes, and stepped in front of the table Sirius, Remus, and I were seated at. "Why would I leave? I'm talking to my favorite girl; I'd be a fool if I left."
"Don't you have friends to hang out with? Why aren't you with them? Haven't you ever heard of the buddy system?"
He smirked, "I came to be your buddy." This made Sirius laugh and Remus even gave a chuckle. He glared daggers at them.
"As you can see I don't need a buddy because I already have those two."
Toby looked Sirius and Remus up and down as if he was examining them, "I see. Well let me introduce myself. My name is Toby Carlson, and I don't understand what you two found so funny about my earlier remark."
"You remind us of our friend," Sirius said. I assumed he was talking about James because of how he chased Lily all throughout our seven years at Hogwarts.
The fourth year eyed Sirius doubtfully as if he didn't fully believe him, but quickly turned his attention back to me. "Anyways, Meg let me know when you dump Dominic." He turned on his heel to leave and added, "I'll be waiting."
"That boy," I sighed once he finally walked away.
"I never knew you had an admirer," Sirius teased, "please let me know when the wedding is. I'll be waiting." I don't know which was funnier the fact that Sirius had a dead on Toby impression or the fact that while he was doing it he spilled about half of his Butterbeer onto himself. Probably, that him spilling Butterbeer onto himself was funnier. After Remus and I began laughing, Sirius gave a faint scowl, "I meant to do that."
"Sure you did," Remus chuckled. "You should probably get yourself cleaned up before we leave."
Sirius nodded, and left the table.
"Remus," I began, "is Marlene McKinnon glaring at us?" I gave a very small nod towards the table I saw her sitting at along with Dorcas Meadowes. I was almost positive that she had been, but I just wanted to make sure.
He shook his head, "Not us, Sirius. He broke up with her a few weeks ago, she didn't take it very well, and I suspect that she still hasn't gotten over it."
I glanced at Marlene one last time to see if she was still looking our way. "How many weeks has it been since Sirius broke up with her?"
"'Bout two or three, maybe four."
"Do you know why he broke up with her?"
He shrugged, "I haven't got a clue. Well, I know he started spending less time with her, and then one day he broke up with her. But I don't know the actual reason." He paused for a minute, "Now that I think about it he broke up with her soon after he started talking to you."
"What are you saying?" I asked curiously. But I knew exactly what he was saying. He was saying that Sirius broke up with Marlene because Sirius started to fancy me, but I knew it couldn't be true. Sirius broke up with Marlene only a few days after he met me, he couldn't have fancied me already.
"I was just pointing out the facts."
I had something I was going to say, but I completely forgot it when Sirius came out with a wet spot around a certain area, making it look like he had peed on himself. I giggled loudly, "That's a good look for you Sirius."
"We need to leave now," Sirius replied with an expression that showed absolutely no amusement.
Nobody argued with Sirius. I only didn't because I knew we'd have to walk through some of Hogsmeade, and there was a great chance of him being seen by many people. After each of us threw down the amount of money we owed, we left The Three Broomsticks, and we were almost instantly joined by James and Lily.
"Have an accident, mate?" James laughed, gesturing with his hands to Sirius's wet spot.
Sirius, James, and Remus got into some kind of conversation about something I just wasn't interested in, so I thought to start up a conversation with Lily.
"So how was your date with James?" I asked after making my way to her side. That was one of the first times I had spoken to Lily besides a few times during previous classes we had had together. I kind of hoped that she wouldn't find it odd that I was asking her a question that was nowhere near my business.
She smiled, "It was surprisingly nice. When Potter had convinced me to go with him I really wasn't expecting it to go this well." She paused before asking, "How was your date with Sirius?"
That question got everyone's attention. "My what with Sirius?" I asked, thinking that I must've heard her wrong. Who would've told her I was on a date with Sirius?
She looked from me to James and then back to me, "I'm sorry, James said you were on a date with Sirius."
"Well it's not my fault Padfoot forgot to mention that he was on a date with Megan," James tried to defend himself.
Sirius looked at James with some kind of look. I wasn't really sure what kind of look it was, but it was a certain look. "Because we weren't on a date."
The boys began bickering, mostly James and Sirius, with Remus adding a few comments, so I continued to talk with Lily.
"We weren't on a date. I have a boyfriend."
"That's what I thought, but James insisted that you and Sirius were on a date. I'm sorry for even bringing it up."
"It's not your fault you were told wrong information, so please don't be sorry."
She quickly looked towards the boys, "Yes well, I'm sorry that he's such a git."
"Which one?" I questioned.
She laughed, "That really is a good question. I'll just say both."
I spent most of the trip back to Hogwarts talking with Lily. I was kind of happy I had a girl to talk to, even if there were a few awkward moments when neither of us knew what to say. For the most part it was fun. But for the whole trip I couldn't help but think about if Sirius and I becoming friends and Sirius breaking up with Marlene really did have a connection.
End of Chapter 5
For some reason I kept getting distracted as I was writing this chapter. I mean I am easily distracted on any given day, but while writing this chapter I was distracted by everything. I'm not sure how happy I am with this chapter, but I told myself that I'd have it up today. Anyways, please please please please review. I don't care if that sounds desperate or not, but please review.