How could she tell them so much, the four most popular guys now know her. The sound of footsteps fast come up behind Anabella. "Hey, you left pretty fast." sirius says putting a hand on her back. "Yeah, um I was going to put this away." she lied, holding her guitar out. "What's wrong?" he asks. "Nothing, I'm just hungry, I want to get to dinner." Anabella replies as she turns to walk away. Sirius catches her wrist, "that's a lie, and I don't need to be a wallflower to gather that." he says jokingly. "It's just, I told four strangers who happen to be the legendary marauders about my friend." she tells him, rubbing her elbow. "Then let me tell you my life story." sirius says. Anabella hesitates for a bit then nods. "So you being a pureblood would know the black family is always pureblood fanatics. Well I was disliked because I didn't have the same views as them. When I got here in first year I was told I'd be put in slytherin, all our family was in slytherin. As soon as I was put in gryffindor they resorted to verbal abuse." He noticed arabella flinched at the mention of verbal abuse. "You're family is abusing you verbally too, aren't they?" he asks. "My mom and her family do because I'm illegitimate, my dad's married to someone else because of some pureblood arrangement." She replies turning away from him. "Well anyways, it's gotten worse don't say anything to anyone else. They've resorted to physically hitting me." sirius says. Arabella flinches again. "Your mother and family hit you?" he asks. "The had since I was five. I've been beaten, starved, anything, you name it." Anabella says. "You've been tortured, sold into prostitution." She shakes her head. "Not tortured, and technically not sold into prostitution either. I was raped when I was twelve, by one of the disgusting pureblooded pricks that mom had been set up with. My mom even walked in on him doing it and me begging her to get him to stop, she grabbed her depression pill and walked upstairs." Anabella tells him and a tear runs down her cheek. Sirius wipes the tear off her cheek. "I won't tell anyone if you won't." Anabella says pulling away from his hand. "Deal." "Deal." "Sirius, have you by any chance been tortured, by your parents?" she asks. "Not yet, though I wouldn't put it past them." He says bitterly "We're two pureblooded outcasts in the same boat." She says holding out her hand. Sirius takes her hand in his and shakes it, saying, "you know you can trust us 'legendary marauders', as you call us." She chuckles at him. "Okay, so what if I did trust you, what would happen?" she asks. "Well probably the best friendship ever, not to mention the greatest pranking team." he says. "Yeah right, I'd rather stay a wallflower." she scoffs. "Well if you ever do want to become friends with the marauders then you know where to find us." he calls over his shoulder as he turns to walk back to the witch statue. Anabella laughed to herself. She couldn't become friends with them she didn't feel the need to, and she definitely didn't want to bother them with her 'annoying voice.' and "clingy personality.' as her mother always reminds her. She walked back to her dorm in peace and quiet. She wouldn't become friends with them it would only keep her from her Goal, and that was to leave the country with her friends, start new in america and study wandless soundless magic more than she has been in order to study at Ilvermorny. She then heard a loud thump from behind her and noticed that someone was following her. She turned around to find regulus black, who was currently standing next to a fallen portrait that was whispering rude things to him. "What are you doing?" She questions him "trying not to get caught by some prefects." He replies, holding his hand out to shush her "for what?" "being in the wrong place at the wrong time." "I would suggest you go that way," She tells him, pointing to the passage that was empty at the moment. He gives her a calculating look. She rolls her eyes and says, "If I really wanted to turn you over to a prefect I'd just shout for them." He nods and runs quickly away down the hallway shouting thank you as he ran. "No problem!" she shouts back and makes her way to the gryffindor common room.