A/N: Hello! I know I know this story hasn't been updated in FOREVER, but I wrote a whole bunch of chapters and I'm going to post them all today. The more I read fanfiction the more I feel bad about not updating and the more I want to update so I'm going to try. Anyway I'm going to post the author's notes at the bottom from now on (or at least the long ones) so people read it. Enjoy chapter 4!
"I'm telling you, she was just asking for it! I mean, she's obviously acting this so that I'll ask why she doesn't like me and then I'll apologize, and ask her to be friends. Who does she think she is? She wanted me to react in a way that makes me want to be her best friend but do you know what? She can't control me! So I didn't give her what she wanted!"
Piper was in the bathroom ranting to Myrtle who, in turn, giggled. "Hee hee! I never liked her…" Followed by a big sigh, Piper smiled. "I showed her…" They were both off in their own little fantasies, Myrtle was daydreaming about Hermione's embarrassed face, and Piper was replaying the moment over and over again in her head. "They were in here often last year" Myrtle eventually broke the sweet, imaginative silence. "Who's 'they'?" asked Piper. "Her and her two boyfriends!"
"Really? What did they do?"
" Oh they were making a potion. They even flooded my bathroom! Word is that those three cause trouble everywhere. I hear that they're rummaging their noses in the business of…." She hushed her voice to a whisper and looked around judiciously. "…Sirius Black!" Myrtle gasped and spiraled down into the toilet as if she had said too much. Piper was left standing there, her mood flickering back and forth. The interesting news gave a nudge to her curiosity, while at the same time she was still half stuck in the replaying of Hermione's red cheeks. "A few years after I… Well you know…. Died, him and his friends arrived at Hogwarts. They were real troublemakers those four" Myrtle started. "They would bully me! Laugh at me! Call me a freak." She whimpered before bursting free a fresh set of tears. Piper pushed opened the stall door and sympathetically crouched down next to the emotional girl in front of her.
She put her hand on Myrtle's back, attempting to pat her comfortingly, but Piper's wrist floppily swung right through her. "He was here!" Myrtle exploded with buckets of random energy, surprising Piper.
Just then, a stern cry rang throughout the halls, chilling Piper to the bone. "PIPER SHAY!" She tiptoed over to the door, opening it the slightest crack. She knew what was coming. Professor McGonagall stormed down the hall, her face white with rage. The back of her robe sailed behind her, one foot above the ground.
"PIPER SHAY! You come her right this very second!" Myrtle hovered above her friend, her head poking over the door. If she were alive, she would have been breathing all over Piper, who gulped as if she were a guilty child in a cliché movie. She whipped around and stood tight against the wall, her back enclosing any loose air. The door flung open, smacking Piper square in the face. White-hot pain shot through to the back of her head, throbbing so loudly that she couldn't hear the screaming of the head of Gryffindor House.
"NEVER before in my entire teaching career have I seen such atrocious behavior from a student like that! Piper Shay I am shocked and ashamed at your outburst, you just wait until Professor Dumbledore hears about this!"
But by then, Piper was unconscious.
A/N: Thanks so so much for reading, I know this was a super short chapter but they get longer (I think). So I have a theory that this story will be read more than my other one: The Other Battle. That one I will finish, and I have great plans for it, and I personally like it better, but it's a crossover, and they don't get read as much. I would love it if people were to read and enjoy my stories, not for me but for you, because I love fanfiction and want other people to love it too. So thank you so so much for reading if you want to leave a review it would be greatly appreciated though you don't have to.