DECLARATIONS OF A DIFFERENTIATED TEEN
By Alahria Silvermoon
Disclaimer: Go back to chapter one.
Friday 11th October, 2:03pm, Potions
ARGH, how I hate dungeons.
They are so depressing.
All cold and dreary.
2:06pm
Professor Slughorn is going on and on about a potion we are meant to be making.
I think we are making a love potion. Amortentia or something.
2:08pm
Oh, I need to tell you what happened yesterday. It was actually quite sad.
Remus is now going out with a girl called Julia, from Ravenclaw. She is in the year below us. He asked her out on Wednesday.
When Lily confronted Tania about this, she said: "Oh, well I swear that's what I heard. That Remus was going to ask out Julez, of course. But it looks like I was mistaken, and he really said Julia, not Julez. I am terribly sorry, I was just repeating what I thought I'd heard. Oh, is Julez okay?"
Poor Julez spent the whole night sobbing into her pillow. She kept saying: "Why did he ask her out? Why is she better than me? It's my hips, isn't it? Or my thighs."
It just about broke my heart to see her like this. And now she is on some stupid diet that she heard Marietta and Lana talking about.
Me and Lily have tried talking some sense into her, but she remains convinced that her butt is too big and she needs to be skinnier for Remus to like her. And it doesn't help that Julia is like a stick figure, either.
4:01pm, Gryffindor Common Room
I just talked to Sirius! He came up to us in the common room. Julez had retreated upstairs, wanting to be alone. Sirius wanted to know how Julez was.
Wasn't that so nice of him? Like, he actually cares about my friends.
And I have to say, Tristan hasn't shown much interest in Lily and Julez. All he seems to want to do is make out. Which is nice and all, but I would prefer to talk and do things together that don't involve us kissing.
No, not those things, thank you very much. I am not like that at all. I mean, I'm not Marietta, who will put out for just any guy. I would only put out for Sirius Black. And that's only if we had been dating for more than seven months. Hey, I have morals, okay?
This is so embarrassing. I don't even discuss these things with my friends, and I am discussing it with a diary? Anyone could read this!
Uh...completley disregard those last two paragraphs. 'Kay?
Good. Back to what happened.
So I told Sirius that Julez was depressed because she is in love with Remus, and he doesn't seem to like her back.
"Bloody prat," Sirius muttered.
Me and Lily exchanged a 'look'.
"He does like Julez," Sirius said. "But he thought she didn't like him. And every time he tried to ask her out, something always interrupted."
"But what about Julia?" I asked.
"Julia?" Sirius asked, with a confused look on his face.
"The girl he is going out with," Lily said.
"That's just a rumour," James stated firmly. He had just joined us.
"Yeah, Remus likes Julez," Peter added.
This is so weird. I have to do something.
4:22pm
Okay, so me and Lily went upstairs where we explained everything to Julez. She almost fell off the bed when she heard.
And then, we told her that Remus wanted to meet her down at the lake.
Okay, I lied to her. But it was sort of the truth. James, Sirius and Peter were going to tell Remus that Julez wanted to meet him down at the lake.
So Julez has gone down to the lake. And me, Lily and the marauders are going to follow and see what happens.
4:53pm
Oh my god, that was so sweet.
Remus was already there when Julez came down. They both said 'hi', and then there was an awkward silence.
'I'm not going out with Julia," Remus said. "That was just a rumour. I actually was going to ask you out. But I kept chickening out."
"I'm so stupid for actually believing the rumour," Julez replied.
"You're not stupid, Julez," he said. "You're amazing." And then they kissed.
Awwwww.
Oh crap, Peter just stepped on a twig and it cracked rather loudly. Julez and Remus are looking at the tree we are all hiding behind. Now they are walking towards us.
5:31pm, Great Hall
Yeah, so we got busted by Julez and Remus. And Peter wouldn't stop apologising until eventually Sirius threatened to hex him.
6:34pm, Library
Me, Lily, James, Sirius and Peter are trying to finish essays for various subjects. I am attempting to finish a 6-page essay for Care of Magical Creatures on the properties of unicorn blood. Which is ridiculous. How can you possibly write 6 pages on unicorn blood?
Remus and Julez are off taking a walk somewhere. They said they were discussing prefect stuff. Pfft, as if. Going to have a make-out session, no doubt, since we interrupted them earlier. I don't even know why they bothered lying to us.
Sirius is sitting right next to me and all I can smell is that cologne he wears.
Mmmm. I am going to buy some next time I go to Hogsmeade.
Oh, and that smell reminds me of the love potion I brewed this afternoon in Potions. Well, Lily mixed everything together, I got the ingredients out and passed them to Lily (because as Julez pointed out it, how could I possibly screw that up?) and Julez chopped and squished them all.
Anyway, it turned out perfectly because Lily is a genius. And apparently, it was meant to smell like whatever was attractive to us. When I smelt it, I smelt cinnamon, that cologne that Sirius wears and that smell that lingers in the air just after it's rained. Mmmm.
We overheard James whispering to Peter that he was going to snitch some (because Remus made it perfectly, of course) and secretly give it to Lily. When Lily heard this, she turned around and fixed him with one of her scary glares. James went white, and avoided looking at her.
ARGH! I cannot concentrate on this essay at all. And I am usually good at writing down stuff about animals. It's all Sirius's fault. If he wasn't sitting next to me, I bet I would have been finished with this essay in a flash.
6:58pm, Library
Lily and James are bickering once again. Lily asked James if she could borrow his ink because she had run out. The idiot said; "Well, if I let you use my ink, then will you go out with me?"
Lily sort of went red, and got an angry look on her face. "Shut it Potter," she snapped.
And now they are arguing. Over every possible thing they can think up.
Sirius just leaned over to me (almost killing me with his sexiness) and whispered, "I think we should lock them in a broom cupboard together."
Then Peter goes; "Let's go back to the common room now."
"Where you two can argue in peace," I added. Me, Sirius and Peter exchanged a 'look'.
7:13pm, Sitting by the lake outside
Okay, so our plan worked brilliantly. Well, Sirius's plan. We were all walking along the corridor innocently, when Sirius nudged me and looked pointedly ahead to where there was a broom cupboard.
As we neared it, Peter swiftly opened up the doors (and he did it really fast as well), I grabbed Lily, Sirius grabbed James, and we dragged them both kicking and screaming into the cupboard.
Then we locked the door and ran off, ignoring their incessant banging.
We are now sitting by the lake, eating Bertie Bott's that we scabbed from Lily's secret stash of lollies under her bed.
I just ate a potato-flavoured bean. Amazing. It tasted every bit as yummy as a real potato as well.
And I have found that even though Peter is incredibly weird and can be an annoying little tag-along at times, altogether, he isn't that bad.
Sirius and Peter are currently teasing me about my extreme obsession with potatoes. ARGH.
7:57pm
We have decided to go and make Lily and James promise to stop fighting for the rest of the night if they want to be freed.
8:14pm, Girls Dormitories
Well, when we got to the broom cupboard, there was noise at all. The cupboard looked completely normal and untouched.
"Maybe they're dead," I whispered fearfully. "Like, what if there wasn't enough air in the cupboard or something?"
"Well, at least there would be no more fighting," Sirius said, opening the door.
And do you know what we found there? Of course you don't know!
Lily and James were sitting on the floor, fast asleep. Her head was on his shoulder and his head was on her head.
We quietly high-fived each other, and then closed the cupboard door, deciding to not disturb them and let them wake up together.
9:18pm
They still haven't come back. Me and Julez are laughing our heads off, imagining what will happen when Lily wakes up.
Poor James.
Saturday 12th October, 10:05am, Girls Dormitories
Ahhh. The joy of sleeping in. Sigh.
I have found that I only enjoy sleeping in when I really need it. Like, when I've woken up at the crack of dawn every morning.
As opposed to when I don't need the catch-up of sleep. Then I just feel icky when I've woken up.
I just realised that Lily is still fast asleep in her bed. So that means she did get out of the broom cupboard last night.
10:11am
I just pounced on Lily. Literally. I jumped onto her bed and started shaking her. She woke up with a start and blinked at me.
"What do you want?" she asked, rubbing her eyes tiredly.
"Jeez, you slept in late," I said. "Any reason for it? Like, maybe perhaps staying out all night?"
"Evelyn, I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about," Lily stated, yawning.
"Like hell you don't."
"Oh, all right then. Me and James woke up around midnight, got out of the cupboard, and walked quickly and silently all the way back to Gryffindor Tower."
"But what happened before you feel asleep?"
"You mean before our so-called friends decided to trap us in a tiny, musty prison cell and leave us to die? Well, after we'd been through exactly how we were going to kill you all when we got out, I guess we just fell asleep. Happy now?"
"Well, you wouldn't stop arguing," I said. "And when we went to let you out, you's were asleep and looked so cute that we just decided to leave you both there."
"Thanks for that," Lily remarked dryly.
"You're welcome!" I said cheerfully. Then I gave her a big hug so she would know how much I appreciated her friendship and not be mad at me when she later on found out that I had stole her Bertie Bott's. And now we have decided to go and interrogate Julez on what happened with her and Remus last night.
10:22am
"Nothing too exciting happened," Julez said. "We just made out. And talked." Then she went off to La-La land, making it impossible for us to have a conversation with her.
I am meeting Tristan in the Great Hall for lunch at 1pm. Then we are going to go for another walk around the grounds.
I have realised that there is not much to do around Hogwarts. All me and Tristan seem to do is walk, talk, and snog. And to think I thought having a boyfriend would be hard work.
Pfft, it's a breeze.
Whatever that means.
Well, maybe I'll lose a few pounds on account of all the walking we do.
3:02pm, Girls Dormitories
Tristan said he loved me.
3:03pm
It was while we were kissing down by the lake. He pulled away from me, rested his forehead against mine and said; "I love you."
And stupid me was in shock, and I had no idea what to say. Eventually, I managed to say; "Oh, um okay. You too."
Then we went back to kissing.
3:05pm
Well, I am in way over my head now. There is now way I can break up with him or anything. He loves me, for crying out loud.
3:06pm
It does feel nice to be loved.
Up until now, the only people that I knew loved me for sure were my mum, dad, brother, Julez and Lily. And not in a romantic way.
3:09pm
I really, truly detest myself at times.
Why in Merlin's name did I have to say it back to him?!
I could of just been all; "That's really nice Tristan, and I am very flattered that you feel this way about me, but I am a mere girl of 16 and I am not ready for love yet."
And okay, it would be a total lie because I am in fact ready for love.
I think.
But still.
3:11pm
I don't know what to do.
4:08pm
I asked Lily and Julez what I should do.
Lily said to break up with him before it gets any further.
Julez said that I wouldn't do that, and maybe I should try distancing myself from him. It is actually meant to work, like it turns guys off.
But I can't do either of those things, because they seem mean and I am not a mean person.
ARGH. Why do I have to be so nice? It makes it a whole lot easier for people to take advantage of me.
Like this morning for instance, Julez asked me if she could scab the piece of toast from my plate because there was none left. And me, being the generous person that I am, gave it to her.
I am so screwed.
Monday 14th October, 9:04am, Charms
I was up at 5:00 this morning. I had just had a dream about not finishing my Care of Magical Creatures essay and then Professor Hidgate cast the Imperius Curse on me and then forced me to eat raw chicken legs while mocking my vegetarianism.
Ugh.
So I got scared and set about trying to finish it off. Which I did in about an hour or so.
And then I realised that I didn't have Care of Magical Creatures until tomorrow.
9:12am
The weirdest thing just happened. I mean, it was beyond weird. I overheard a conversation the marauders were having (they were sitting right in front of me).
Everyone else was talking quietly, because Professor Flitwick had left the room. Probably to go and complain about us to the other teachers.
Anyway, Julez and Lily were talking about eggs and I was just listening, while trying to get a bit of sleep. And I really couldn't help eavesdropping on the marauders conversation.
Remus had just said something, and then Sirius goes; "Geez, what's up with you mate? Is it that time of the month already?"
"Close," Remus muttered.
That time of the month? Doesn't that refer to 'girl's problems?' Is there something I was missing?
Nope. I just asked Lily and Julez and after giving me weird looks, they concluded that 'that time of the month' meant 'girl's problems'.
Um. Okay. This is way weird.
Remus isn't a girl. I am 100 percent sure of it. And please don't ask how I know this, as it involves a very embarrassing incident when I accidentally walked into the boys bathroom in third year, and I'd rather not talk about it.
But what else could 'that time of the month' refer to?
This is so confusing.
Maybe I should ask James? No, too embarrassing.
Remus? Even more embarrassing.
Peter? Um, no.
Sirius? I'm not even going to think about it.
I am just so weirded out right now.
9:20am
I am going to try and forget about it.
9:21am
I actually said that out loud. Now Lily and Julez are trying to force me into telling them.
They are bribing me with chocolate frogs.
But that's okay.
As long as they don't start bribing me with potatoes.
Julez just saw that last entry.
Crap...
9:32am
Okay, so I gave in and told them. I had to, they were driving me insane.
Julez is now trying to figure out exactly what it means. She said she will talk to him and them tell us.
This is so embarrassing. He is so going to know that I was eavesdropping.
I am going to go drown myself.
10:15am, DADA
Julez told me that drowning yourself is a really horrible way to die, on account of not being able to breathe and all.
So scratch that.
10:17am
I don't think she will ask him. She is too chicken.
But all three of us are desperate to find out what he meant by 'that time of the month'.
Lily just goes; "Well, give it a few months or so and you'll be able to find out if he really is a guy."
This caused Julez to choke on the piece of Drooble's gum she was chewing. And when she spat it out, it landed in Marietta's hair.
HAHA.
We just about died laughing. And then she turned around and was like, "What are you freaks laughing at now?"
Which only made us laugh harder.
She has no idea. And I am not planning on telling her.
Revenge is sweet.
5:20pm, Gryffindor Tower
Julez spoke to Remus about the 'issue'. She said that he assured her that it wasn't anything abnormal. His mother gets sick a lot and he often has to go home and stay with her for a night. Which is really sweet, and has made Julez love him even more.
Thank god it was only that.
Actually, that sounded kind of mean. I don't mean that I'm glad it's his mother that's sick. I meant that I'm glad he isn't like, secretly a girl or whatever.
This has been a really weird day.
A/N: I decided to update as a little christmas present for all of you who read this. Hehe, aren't I nice?
And I changed the title. Uh…is it crappy? I rather like it. I wanted something different, and creative. Well, make sure you tell me what you think. I thrive on feedback.
Anyway, thanks to:
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Paddie'sGirl - I'm not that obsessed with potatoes. But they are yummy. And everyone calls me wierd, haha. Mean Girls...just had a good idea for another torture. Mwahahaha, thanks!
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