Sick Inside
Clemence walked to the Great Hall that morning with Lily. Halfway down the stairs they stopped when they heard someone yelling their names. They turned to see a slightly chubby looking girl running down the stairs after them. She was short enough to be a third year. She was waving her hands frantically and smiling.
"Lily! Clemence!!"She squeaked out and stopped on the stair above them.
"Ummm...hi?" Lily said trying to recognize the girl. She never wanted to be the one that looked like an idiot.
"Hi! You don't really know me but I know you! I'm Peter's girlfriend! I was telling him how the other girls in my dorm...they're not that friendly all the time. They say I talk to much which I don't see and even Peter said that that was just ridiculous. So he said that you wouldn't mind if I hung out with you sometimes. Isn't that nice of him. And nice of you too of course. Oh silly me! I'm Heather!!" She took a deep breath and exhaled before sticking out her hand and grabbing Lily's to shake vigorously.
"Ummm...nice to meet you...Heather. Okay umm...well we're going to eat breakfast then we have class. But you can walk in with us." Clemence smiled sheepishly and motioned for Heather to go ahead of them.
Lily glared at Clemence before following after Heather, who had begun to pretty much tell her life story to them. They got into the Great Hall and decided they had never been more thankful that different houses sit at different tables. After what seemed like an hour of listening to Heather say goodbye they headed over to the Gryffindor table and sat with James and Peter and Remus and surprisingly enough Sirius.
"No Melanie today Sirius?" Lily looked around to see if maybe Mel had become his latest ex.
"No. She said she wasn't feeling well."
"Oh well. hope she feels better." Lily said before scooping some fruit on her plate.
"Oh Peter?"
"Hmm?" Peter turned his attention to Clemence. She never addressed him solely.
"We hate you. Sicking Heather on us like that." Clemence hissed leaning over the table slightly and Lily sat next to her nodding.
"She doesn't have any other friends."
"Ugh...fine but she better not follow us everywhere."
"Hey!" Clemence twisted around and looked up to see Amos standing behind her. He leaned down and kissed her. She replied happily, kissing him back.
"Class starts in 10 minutes." Clemence pulled away and smiled sheepishly at Lily.
Clemence sat back normally shoved a quick spoonful of parage in her mouth. Lily and Clemence went back to the common room to but not before being stalked the whole way there by Heather.
Lily and Clemence went in to see that everyone else was already in the classroom. Sighing they sat at a table in the back. Lily, for some reason, always preferred to sit in front of the class. They sat with Sirius and James behind them and Remus and Peter to the side of them.
"Clemence!" Lily and Clemence turned around to see Sarah and some of her friends coming toward them.
"Yeah?" Clemence felt weird with Sarah smiling so happily at her.
"There is a Valentine's day party coming up soon. I was wondering if you'd like to come? It's February 13th at 12 o'clock at night. So really it's on the 14th."
"Sure. Can Lily come?"
"I suppose." Sarah flicked her long black hair over her shoulder and stalked off, the other girls flocking behind her.
"Only Ravenclaw's and Slytherin's are ever invited to those parties. I wonder why she asked you. Not even Melanie goes and Melanie is always talking to Sarah and her friends." Lily whispered to her, once Sarah was gone.
"So. Should I go? Is it weird that my boyfriend's ex-girlfriend is inviting me to a party?"
"Well they are valid. I mean she's not tricking you I don't think."
"Alright."
Lily nodded and they walked to Arithmacy. Clemence stopped and sighed when she saw Amos standing outside the classroom talking to his friends.
"Oh God...I really don't feel like sitting with him."
Lily laughed lightly, remembering how clingy Amos used to get when they had dated before.
"Hey Amos"
"Hey Emme. Wanna sit together?"
"Sure."
Amos smiled and took Clemence's hand, leading her into the classroom. She sat down next to him with Remus in front of them. Clemence sighed as Amos took her hand and held it, trouble was it was the hand she wrote with.
The professor droned on and Clemence was forced to pay attention. There was no chance for note passing in this class. The professor never took his eyes off the class. Of course he also never shut up.
They came into the Great Hall after Defense Against the Dark Arts for lunch. Clemence made a short detour over to the Ravenclaw table to talk to Sarah. Lily went to sit down, pulling out her transfiguration book to read over the chapter they would be covering in class later.
"Oh my dear Lily-flower...always over achieving."
"Go away Potter."
James of course didn't listen. Instead he sat down at the table next to her and began to lean toward her and attempt to read over her shoulder. She tried the best she could to ignore it. Hoping that one of his brainless followers, Remus excluded because she didn't mind him in the least, would come along and catch his attention. No such luck though. Sirius did come and sit down and Peter of course was right behind him, but that wasn't enough to catch James Potter's attention.
"Potter. Would you kindly remove your face from my book. It's a bit hard to read with your big head blocking my view. Oh and do try washing your hair sometime."
"Aww..."James pulled away from his aforementioned postion to pout at Lily."I figured you'd like my hair like this, after all you spend an awful lot of time with Snivellus and his greasy mop."
"Yes indeed. Tell me Evans is dear Snivellus alergic to Shampoo or does he think the grease makes him look better."Sirius chimed in, he never missed an opritunity to crack a joke about Severus.
"For your information his hair is not all that greasy! And stop being such insufferable gits!"
Lily huffed again at them, just for the dramatic effect before turning back to her book. She was thankful when Clemence came walking over and sat down in between James and herself. She took a muffin from the bowl in the middle before smiling at Sirius and Remus, who had also just joined them, and began to eat.
"Well aren't we in cheery mood this afternoon. Have you just come from a broom closet?"
She glanced up at Sirius and smiled."Well aren't we just out and about today. Visited your dear sick girlfriend yet?"
"hmph." Sirius snorted before picking up his sandwich and finishing it off. James had covered his mouth with his hand and looked to the side so as not to be caught laughing at her comeback. Lily just outright smirked and Remus sighed. Peter looked slightly nervous about who to be loyal to.
Sirius got up and walked out of the Great Hall, James getting up and blowing Lily a kiss to which she bit her thumb at. Remus laughed lightly at that and then, along with Peter, excused himself from the table to go follow after Sirius.
"So? What are you so happy about?"
"Well...Regulus asked me to the party. He said he heard I was going and he wanted to go with me."
"And?"
"And Lily? I said yes."
"But you're dating Amos and you said you like Remus...and Sirius. Em you're acting like Melanie, I don't be to be mean but you are."
"I am not. God...I am, aren't I? What am I supposed to do Lily?!" Clemence buried her head in her arms and muttered something that Lily couldn't make out.
Clemence and Lily got up a short while later and made their way to Transfiguration. They stopped near the door to the class when they saw Sirius and James standing outside trying to wrestle each other. Lily and Clemence went to stand by Remus and watched as Sirius pinned James to floor and after counting to 3 jumped up and began whooping at the top of his lungs. James laughed pulling himself up and whooping around with Sirius.
"Clemence!" Clemence shut her eyes and Lily could see her mouthing a 'no dear god' under her breath.
Sirius and James had stopped their dancing and had glanced over Clemence's shoulder to see some 6th year Slytherin's heading to Potions. Regulus had cut off from the group and was headed toward them.
Clemence turned around and opened her eyes to see a smiling Regulus Black stop in front of her. Sirius was glaring at his brother and James already had his wand out, but Remus was simply giving Lily a questioning gaze.
"Can't wait for the party. I'm looking forward to a dance with you." Regulus smiled and Clemence suspected that he only really stopped to annoy his brother.
Of course when Regulus leaned over and planted a kiss on the corner of her mouth she was damn sure that he was using her to get Sirius as angry as possible. So much for Regulus being the more decent of the two.
As Regulus walked away she could hear James grab Sirius' arms and hold him back from pretty much hexing his brother to hell.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!" So Sirius didn't want to curse Regulus after all...he just wanted to kill her.
"Mr. Black, as you may well be aware it is time for class and as you also may well be aware I do not allow such language as that to be used in or around my classroom. Now if you would all please head inside."
Clemence nodded and hurried passed Professor McGonagall and into the classroom. She sat next to Lily and as far away from Sirius as possible.
The rest of the day was uneventful. She excused herself from dinner and since she was still avoiding Melanie she went to the library and sat there for a good while, until Madam Pince finally kicked her out.
"Em! Wait up." She turned to see Remus walking briskly down the hall to catch her.
"Hey."
"So are you really going out with Regulus?"
"Kind of yes. It's just to the Valentine's party."
"Just to make Sirius mad?"
"No!" She started walking faster but he was a bit taller and his legs had no trouble keeping up with her.
"The two of you need to stop acting like babies. All you're doing is hurting each other. I seriously think he was considering breaking up with Melanie. But now that your involved with Regulus and Amos...look he's just worried. He doesn't want anything to happen to you alright."
"Fine."
"I agree with him too. I don't think you should go to that party."
"I'll be fine. I can take care of myself you know!"
Remus nodded and said nothing else on the subject. The rest of their trip was completely silent. What Remus didn't realize was that she wasn't trying to get Sirius' attention anymore.