DECLARATIONS OF A DIFFERENTIATED TEEN
By Alahria Silvermoon
Disclaimer: Refer to previous chapters.
4:47pm
Well, we did actually end up going to the Hospital Wing. According to Lily, it was because she needed to see if he was actually dead. Not to make sure that he was okay. I tried to tell her that making sure that he wasn't dead and making sure that he was okay is practically the same thing, but she wouldn't listen to me and just ignored me.
She didn't even pay attention when me and Julez started singing that sitting-in-a-tree-and-kissing song. Pretty immature, huh?
So back to the story. We arrived at the Hospital Wing and had to beg Madam Pomfrey to let us in. When she finally did let us in, she only gave us ten minutes. So we went inside and down to the far end of the room, where James was lying down, all bandaged up. He actually looked quite adorable. Anyway, Sirius, Peter and Remus were all sitting around the bed, quietly talking amongst themselves. James was sleeping, I think. Well, he had his eyes closed so I just kinda assumed that he was sleeping. Marietta and Lana were nowhere in sight, which made me extremely happy. Because after all, they do have a slight tendency to ruin every moment I have with Sirius. Well, every moment in my life, actually. But anyway.
BACK TO THE STORY. STOP GETTING SIDETRACKED, EVELYN.
I can't believe I just talked to myself. I'm insane, I tell you. INSANE. LOCK ME UP IN THE PYSCHO WARD AT ST. MUNGO'S AND NEVER LET ME SEE THE LIGHTS OF DAY AGAIN! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ahem. Right then. Moving on.
So when we saw James lying there, Lily goes (in a fearful whisper); "Is he dead?" Her voice was only slightly trembling.
Sirius looked up in surprise and goes; "No. He's just unconscious. We're still waiting for him to wake up."
And then from the bed, we hear James's voice go; "I am awake, you idiot."
When Lily heard this, she gave a sob of relief (well, that's what it sounded like) and literally threw herself at James. So there she was, lying on top of him with her arms wrapped around his neck, sobbing into his shoulder. She kept going; "Thank god you're alright. I really didn't mean to jinx you. I swear I didn't."
And you should've of seen James's face. I swear, I have never seen someone that happy before in my life. He looked like he was in heaven. Well, he looked a little bit bewildered, and kept patting her awkwardly on the shoulder, but still.
Me, Julez, Sirius, Remus and Peter just sort of looked at each other and sighed. I think that we were all pretty much in shock. I mean, Lily hugging James? Lily being that close to James and not screaming at him? Poor Peter looked quite terrified, actually. I gave him what I hope was a sympathetic, kind smile. He just looked even more scared, though he did smile back. He's a good kid, he is. Well, not kid. But you know what I mean. He's beginning to grow on me.
Okay, that sounded so weird. 'Grow on me'? What is he, a plant? I wonder who made up that phrase. They deserve some immediate psychological help.
Anyway, once again, back to the story I was right in the middle of telling.
So obviously, Lily's sudden, surprising display of affection towards James was doomed to last no longer than a few minutes.
Madame Pomfrey came in and just sort of stood there with her arms crossed, clicking her tongue at us. We all tried to ignore her, though. But then she told us that we had to leave right away because she needed to give James his potion and he needed his rest.
So Lily just sat up, still sniffling. And her face was all splotchy and red and she goes; "I look horrible, don't I?"
Then we all laughed, including her and James said; "Of course not. You couldn't look horrible if you tried. I happen to think you look beautiful, as always."
Sirius and Remus just rolled their eyes and Lily was just like; "Uh, okay, thanks." Then she hastily got up said; "Well, I, er, hope you get better soon." And then she said a hurried goodbye and rushed out, murmuring something about unfinished Transfig. homework.
James was just like, staring at the ceiling with a smile on his face and his eyes all glazed over. And then Madam Pomfrey shooed us all out.
Then we all walked back to Gryffindor Tower, where Julez and Remus went up to his dormitory and I was left sitting awkwardly with Sirius because Peter had gone to the bathroom.
And I was practically killing myself trying to bring up something to talk about, when Sirius brought up the whole 'James and Lily Issue' and we discussed that until Peter came back from the bathroom. So it was okay, I guess. And Marietta didn't make any appearances, either.
Now Lily is sitting with us and we're all interrogating her. She keeps brushing us off and going; "It was nothing. I don't know what came over me, I was just glad that I wasn't a murderer."
And we were all like; "Sure, Lily. Whatever you say."
Anyway, I'm going to dinner now. I could do with a few potatoes…
Sunday 18th December, 8:19pm, Girls Bathroom
I cannot believe that I let them talk me into this.
I am so stupid.
And extremely embarrassed. I swear I'll never leave this bathroom again.
Lily and Julez keep knocking on the door and saying things like; "Oh, don't be such a drama queen, Evelyn! It's really not that bad."
HA. Easy for them to say. They're not the ones with bright purple hair.
Yep, that's right. They dyed my hair purple.
PURPLE!
Seriously, it couldn't be any other colour, could it? It couldn't be…oh I don't know, midnight black or crimson red or, um, sunshine blonde. Noooooo, it just HAD to be purple. With white blonde chunky streaks stuck at random places in my hair.
And you'd think that it would be an easy spell to reverse. You'd think that you could just dye your hair again using the same spell but with a different colour. HA (again). This is me we're talking about, remember?
Not that they meant to dye my hair purple and blonde. Oh no, they meant to just slightly darken the shade of my hair and give me a few blonde streaks for a 'nice change'. But then they started having too much fun and got a teensy bit carried away. (Their words, not mine).
And so they kept darkening my hair until it was almost black, and then decided that it didn't suit my skin tone. THEN, Little-Miss-Witch-Of-The-Year-Number-One (Lily) decided to try out some blonde streaks. And so she kept lightening them until eventually they went white blonde, quite similar to the hair colour of that Narcissa girl from Slytherin who always glares at me and shoots me snooty looks while sniffing loudly and looking down her nose at me.
Okay, so there I was with black hair and white blonde chunky bits all throughout it. And they both decided that they didn't like the contrast between the black and the blonde and decided to change my hair back to it's natural colour. So Little-Miss-Witch-Of-The-Year-Number-Two (Julez) attempted to change my hair back, but ended up turning it purple, because she mixed up the charms. I don't how she did it, but she did. And it was then that we realised that in this particular spell, you couldn't dye over unnatural colours. Or you could, but I was very rare that you succeeded and most witches and wizards who'd tried it ended up setting their hair on fire.
So they were all like; "Um, it looks, um, different." And so then I had to get up and go into the bathroom to look at the catastrophe that had become my hair. And then I freaked out, locked the bathroom door and whipped out this diary so I could have a good, relaxing rant. Which will hopefully release some of my anger.
I blame Professor Mcgonagall for this situation. She's the one who thought it would be amusing (okay, educational) to branch off from dying our eyebrows to dying our hair. And then when none of us could achieve it, she told us to go away and practice it over the weekend and when we came back to class, we would be able to do it perfectly. Or else. (Sirius goes to her; "Or else what?" She just ignored him, though).
ARGH.
I just realised that everything's quiet. I can faintly hear muffled giggling coming from somewhere outside the bathroom. I wonder what happened to Lily and Julez.
I hope they feel extremely bad for what they did to my hair.
I am going to go outside now and tell them that I forgive them. But they so owe me.
8:31pm
Though I still have no idea what to about my hair…
8:54pm, Girls Dormitories
Oh, god.
Once again, I cannot believe what they have both done.
My stomach positively aches from laughing so hard.
I can't possibly be angry at them now. They're kicked out of my bad books and back in my good books.
Because they both dyed their hair 'unnatural' colours as well. So that I wouldn't be left all alone to be laughed at and ridiculed.
So now Julez' hair is a darkish sort of green on top, and white blonde underneath. And Lily's hair is now somewhere in between dark blue and light blue with a big white blonde streak running from the front of her forehead to the nape of her neck.
Seriously. I am not kidding.
I unlocked the bathroom door, opened it and there they were. Standing in the middle of the room, anxiously scrutinising their appearances in the huge mirror on the wall. I just gaped at them in complete shock, until finally Lily broke the silence and goes; "Well, I'm going to look on the bright side. Maybe this will turn Potter off me for good."
And then we all started laughing. And pretty soon, we were all collapsed on the floor, a huge bunch of arms and legs and bodies and very eccentric hair colours.
And so now I won't look like an idiot by myself. I will have my two best friends right by my side, and we will take the embarrassment together. We will brave whatever comes our way, and we will keep on holding our heads high no matter what happens. (Um, metaphorically, of course. I think. Unless Lily was serious…).
I still can't believe that they did that. I seriously have the best friends ever.
9:14pm, Girls Dormitories
Marietta and Lana just walked in, arms linked and hair being tossed over and over again and laughing at some dumb thing that Marietta said about Lucy Walker resembling an overweight hippogriff. They're such evil witches.
Anyway, they stopped laughing for a split-second when they saw me, Lily and Julez sitting on my bed, stuffing our faces with Bertie Botts. About a minute passed, while we got ready to insult them right back with a few smart comments and a couple of well-aimed (but secretly hidden) beans. And then they looked at each other, and just burst out into gales of laughter.
I swear they sounded exactly like those screeching hyenas that my muggle cousin, Anthony, made me look at that time we went to the zoo for his fifteenth birthday three years ago. Have you ever heard hyenas laughing? Or screeching, or making that laughing/screaming noise that they always make? Yeah, so imagine that and times it by infinity and you'll have some idea of how those two biatches sounded. Now can you feel my utmost pain? Can you?
Me, Julez and Lily were just sitting there, wincing while covering our poor ears with whatever we could find. My protection was one of Julez's thoughtlessly discarded three-day-old sock and the empty packet of Bertie Botts, just in case you were wondering. Yeah, not exactly the best I could think of, but I was desperate.
So when they finally stopped their laughing/screeching (I bet they heard them all the way in Nebraska…wherever that is), Marietta goes; "Are you's like, trying to start some weird new fashion trend or something? Like, for freaks only or whatever?" And Lana was all; "Yeah!"
So then Lily retorted quickly; "Is that the best you could come up with? Because I certainly didn't find it to be creative at all."
And then Julez added; "Yeah, I'm actually quite disappointed in the both of you. I was expecting a much more insulting comment, one that would undoubtedly result in one of our infamous screaming matches that always seem to end with us jinxing each other and in detention for a month. I kinda miss that, you know. I did enjoy them quite a bit."
And then Lana goes and says; "You mean you actually like fighting with us?" And the funny thing was, she didn't mean it in a sarcastic way or anything. She was seriously, genuinely and utterly confused out of her mind.
Marietta just mumbled; "Idiot" and then she turned around and swept past her right out the door from where they first came in. And Lana was quick to follow. So that got rid of them for the time being.
I have to admit, though, despite the fact that I won't have to live through my humiliation all by myself, I am still dreading tomorrow. Immensely.
And I know that I shouldn't give a stuff about what people think, and blah blah blah and so on and so forth. But I just can't help it. I mean, would you really enjoy a bunch of people staring at you and whispering and laughing and taunting you?
And what if Sirius is too embarrassed to be seen with me? It could ruin his reputation, his popularity, whatever. And even though I will firmly stand by my strong beliefs that Sirius Black is not like that at all (and that he is actually a kind, caring person with a good heart) until the day that I die, I still can't shake the thought of what if?
And for that matter of 'what if', what if Remus breaks up with Julez because he is too embarrassed to be seen with her? Okay, that sounds pretty stupid now that I've given it a second thought. I mean, Remus snobbing someone just because of what they looked like? As if. After all, he was the one that tutored Lucy Walker in Potions and sat with her and was her Potions partner during first term last year.
But still. What if, what if, WHAT IF?
ARGH. Why on earth do I always have to get myself into such incredibly stupid situations that I cannot get myself out of?
Sigh.
10:24pm, Girls Dormitories
Extremely tired…
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep……
Monday 19th December, 6:03am, Girls Dormitories
Just woke up and cannot get back to sleep. I keep thinking about the whole 'hair issue'.
And I just had an extremely scary dream involving Professor Mcgonagall riding an insane hippogriff called Buckwings Witherbeak, purple daisies that kept falling on everyone, and me doing the chicken dance at the front of the Great Hall atop the teachers' table in front of the whole school.
I don't understand why I cannot have normal dreams like normal people. Like, dreams about forgetting your Transfiguration homework and getting detention off of Professor Mcgonagall.
Ugh. I so don't want to face the rest of the school.
6:06am
I should really pretend to be sick. That would seem like the most logical conclusion, right? I could be sick for about a week or so until my hair turned back to normal.
Expect I am pretty sure that it lasts at least a few months.
I am so screwed.
6:14am
Well, on the bright side, the day after tomorrow is the dance! Which means that it is three days until the Christmas holidays begin!
I really can't wait to see all of the family. Each year our big family Christmas party is held at a different person's house. Last year it was our turn, this year everyone is crashing at my Aunt Hilda's house. She's been divorced twice, and has one teenage son, Harold, who is seventeen and likes to talk with his mouth open which is really quite disgusting.
Anyway, me, Angela and Micheal are spending most of the holidays at our Father's house in Scotland. Then on Christmas Day, we are all going to our Aunt's house, then everyone always crashes there at nighttime and we all go home the next day. Me, Angela and Micheal will be going back to our mother's house.
I love Christmas. The only downside is that I won't get to see Lily and Julez until we get back to school.
So tragic, isn't it?
6:44am
Ugh. Julez and Lily just tackled me. And scared the living daylights out of me. I seriously thought that they were both fast asleep. But apparently not, seeing as they both ran at me out of nowhere and bombarded me with hugs and a nice, cheerful, 'Good morning, sunshine!'
And Lily got the first shower as well, simply because she got there first. And Julez already informed me that she's having the next shower, or she'll hex me while I'm asleep.
How nice of her.
7:11am
Okay, so Julez, Lily, and me are way too scared to go down to breakfast. We're all dressed and ready, while most people are still getting ready.
We've decided to quickly and quietly sneak down to the Great Hall, grab a bunch of food and quickly run back up here to eat. And by then, maybe we'll have worked up enough courage to go to class.
8:02am, Girls Dormitories
We are now safely within the confines of our beloved, safe dormitory. Sitting on my bed, with the hangings pulled shut.
That was way close. When we first opened up the door to go down to the Common Room, we had to check that the coast was clear. So I carefully crawled (hehe – alliteration!) past all of the doors until I got to the top of the stairs, and then I stuck my head around so that I was looking down into the Common Room, while still staying hidden. And guess who were down there, sitting on one of the cushy, red couches? The Marauders, of course!
So then I had to report back to Lily and Julez, and quickly explain to them that there were in fact, people down there. And then we had to devise a plan to get out of there without being noticed. It was right then and there that Lily got the brilliant idea of wearing headscarves around our heads, so that no one would notice our hair. And we could just make a run for it, so no one would stop us and ask questions.
Only we couldn't find any headscarves, and we didn't know any spells to conjure up any, and we were running out of time. So we each grabbed the nearest jumpers we could find. Which happened to be our school ones. So there we all were, standing by the doorway with grey jumpers wrapped around our heads like turbans. We looked hilarious. Anyway, we finally made it down to the top of the stairs, and once we got there, Lily grabbed onto both of our hands and yanked us down the stairs, and we ran. We ran for our lives down the stairs, across the room and out the portrait, ignoring the bewildered looks of the people in the Common Room. And then we flew down the many corridors and staircases (which were practically deserted, thank Merlin) and ran into the Great Hall. Not many people were there, so we quickly grabbed what food we could get and stuffed it all in napkins and then ran for our lives once again up and up until we reached the portrait. And just as we got there, it opened and all four Marauders came out. Julez gave a squeak of fright and buried her face in her hands, pushing through the portrait door and we all ran up the stairs and collapsed on my bed.
Thank god it's over now.
Julez just started laughing and when me and Lily gave her strange looks, she goes; "Did anyone not realise that we could have just used my Invisibility Cloak?"
So then we all felt really stupid.
Now we will have to go out. And face everyone.
8:47am, Girls Dormitories
Okay, we are about to leave. Wish us luck.
…Or not. Seeing as, you know, you're a diary, an inanimate object and all.
ARGH.
9:29am, Charms
Well, at least Professor Flitwick applauded us on performing quite tricky magic.
And we were the first ones to get to class as well. We all agreed that this was the best thing to do. Because then we wouldn't have to walk into a full class of students and have them all stare at us all at the same time.
But you should have seen their faces when they did come in. The students, I mean. They all waltzed into the room as per usual, but stopped and stared once they'd caught sight of us. And then they were all; "Oh my god, what happened?"
And Carmella Price from Ravenclaw goes; "Wow, you must really want a good mark in Transfiguration."
Subsequently giving us a perfectly good excuse for our unnaturally coloured hair.
And when the Marauders came in, they were just like; "Woah."
But then Remus came and sat next to Julez as normal, kissing her on the cheek and telling her that she looked 'beautiful' and she was sure to get excellent marks off of Mcgonagall.
And Sirius just grinned at us and goes; "Nice hair, girls."
And Lily just had to go ahead and say; "Not a word, Potter." James just shrugged and, catching my eye when I smiled sympathetically at him, smiled back.
Then, Peter came up to us and said; "I really do admire you girls for your confidence. I don't think I could ever go out in public with hair like yours."
And I totally get that he meant it in a nice way, not a mean way and I just smiled and went; "Thanks, Peter."
I've smiled a lot this morning, haven't I? Well, it's made me feel a lot better.
9:31am
Though that definitely wasn't the reaction that I was expecting. For everyone to be nice about it, that is.
10:05am, DADA
Okay, so we have actually gotten a few taunting comments and cruel smirks (from the Slytherins). But that really doesn't bother me, because on the contrary, a lot of people have come up to us and congratulated us on performing tricky magic (the Ravenclaws, of course). And then there's the students who just stare at us with admirable and amazed looks on their faces (the Hufflepuffs). And the Gryffindors just smile and sort of do the whole, 'nice hair' thing.
This morning at breakfast, you should have seen Mcgonagalls face. She was walking towards us and she just sort of stopped and stared at us. She closed her eyes for a moment and sort of pressed her lips tightly together, and then opened them and walked straight past. But she did manage to say; "Nice job, girls. Though I certainly did not expect you to go to such drastic measures to complete your homework assignment."
Well, at least we didn't get in trouble. Professor Dumbledore even winked at me and smiled. I felt quite privileged, actually.
11:09am, Break
Okay, so yeah. There are actually heaps of people who have laughed at us (in a cruel way). But whatever. It could be SO much worse.
Tuesday 20th December, 2:03pm, Care of Magical Creatures
Ohmygod. Tomorrow is the Christmas ball!
It just kind of snuck up on me…I swear yesterday it was still two weeks until the ball.
I think I'm going crazy.
6:19pm, Girls Dormitories
OH. MY. GOD. (Again).
Sirius and Marietta broke up.
A/N: Well, I'm not dead after all, am I?
Thanks so much and lots of smiles to: Maraudess, Ant, gekommen:um:zu:bleiben, Paddie's Girl, The Lost Tear, Lilia Black, SweetSummerx3, 8)- i refuse to use a real ..., Ellemay, loreine, elodrie, draconiandevil5, xoon, Off Dreaming, MissBlack2, FayTheLioness, HpC0ldplay.
Thank you all for reviewing! I'm so happy that everyone liked it. :)
I swear, I really did mean for the Christmas Ball to finally happen in this chapter. But then all the other stuff happened, and I decided to wait just one more chapter. So, you will find out what happens at the Christmas Ball in the next chapter, I promise. And Sirius and Marietta broke up! This is where the story gets really interesting, and where EVERYTHING starts to happen and my story really starts to develop.
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