Blue Suede Shoes

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Chapter 2

Peppermint seems to find solitude in resting against my neck. I've been asked more than once in the winter if the possum collar is real or fake. One, never call Peppermint a possum. Ferrets are nothing like possums. Possums have those long disgusting rat tails and beady little eyes that follow your every step. With those creatures around, you're never really alone.

Second, they are grey! My Peppermint is a beautiful creamy white with a dark brown spot under her chin!! And thirdly, I would never ever wear a dead animal around my neck!! Wouldn't the fur start to stink? Aren't fur buyers afraid that blood is going to seep through the stitching and stain their clothes or their necks! Imagine, blood gushing down your neck and there's nothing you can do about it because you're in town and people will think you're dying because of all the blood loss from the poor little animal draped around your fat neck!!!!!

Lily says I've become much too passionate about the subject. I tell her to mind her own business. Peppermint isn't allowed to come to breaky with me, so I leave her in the kitchens with the house elves. They think she's adorable. She always comes into the Great Hall to find me once she's done eating.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. During this time I sit between Lily and Sirius, and Remus and Hannah sit across from us at the Gryfindor table. James sits on Lily's other side. It has been like this for the past year. Before James and Lily became an item, girls sat on one bench; the guys sat across from us where James would play footsies with Lily until she'd kick him in the shins or throw my scrambled eggs in his face. My eggs! My beautiful fluffy and golden brown eggs that Hannah says are close to burnt. It's not true, don't listen to anything that girl says. She talks too much. She should be coming back tomorrow morning. Yay!

Today, I take my usual seat and load my plate up with food. Remus eyes my plate carefully. "You got enough there for ya, Sal?"

I look down at my plate and then my tummy. "I'm a growing girl Remus." Then I heap two large waffles on his plate before he can stop me. "And you need fattening up." My Quidditch reflexes are too fast for him. He just shrugs and digs in. Heehee.

Beside me, Sirius scoops a generous helping of eggs, toast, bacon, and fruit before grabbing a bottle of ketchup and drowning said delicious food while singing. "Gonna have more ketchup, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta have my ketchup, yeah, yeah, yeah." I can see bits of cantaloupe swimming in the glop. Then he picks up a spoon and in the red gloop goes. Yummy. This was Hogwarts' hottie. The drowner of yummy breakfast. Curse this world… and all the idiots with it. I rub a hand to my forehead.

"You okay?" Lily asks, worry written clearly on her face.

I smile back. "Don't frown Lils. Frowning causes wrinkles." She smiles back before returning to her bran muffin. Yum, I love bran muffins. One moment while I drool. Ok, all done. I decide to wipe my mouth on my napkin.

As I shovel my yummy-lishus eggs into my mouth, I notice Remus' gloomy look. He misses Hannah. Remus Lupin has had a crush on her since the fourth grade. Hannah likes him too, but she's too self- conscious to flirt with him! Lily's always ordering her to tell him how she feels. We just remind her about James and she shuts right up about the subject. It took her forever to admit lovey-dovey feelings for James and now that she has, all of a sudden she's the expert on the love. Pft!

Anyways, Lily says he's too shy to ask her out but I know better. He's got this cunning gleam in his eye and I'm not talking about him squinting into the sun! He's biding his time, I can feel it. Can you feel it? I sure can. Actually, right now I feel a hand on my leg. It's traveling north.

Not breaking stride in eating my eggs, I suddenly lower my fork with a Jab! I feel the metal points slide between knuckles.

"Ow! Bloody Fu…" Sirius threw his hand in the air, my fork marks imprinted in a brilliant red on his hand. He looks ready to cry. Heehee. Cackle with me.

"Ok, Sal. Stop with the cackling and the hand rubbing. It's a little creepy." Lily takes the fun out of everything. She's a fun sucker. I protest loudly.

"I was protecting my honour! My virtue! His hand was traveling to do some sneaky peaky spying!" I give Lily my best-affronted look. She's my best friend; she should be on my side for this.

She raised an eyebrow at Sirius' howl of pain. "Oh get over yourself, Black. She didn't stab you that hard." That's better. She patted my hand. "Good girl." I nod.

Sirius pouted, still gripping his right hand. "I just wanted to see if those thins were socks or tights!" He seems extremely put out. James chokes on his pumpkin juice, smothering his laugh while Remus shoves an entire piece of toast in his mouth. I never knew that boy had such a large trap.

I slide my knee up, pulling down my overall leg. "See, all the way." I proudly show off my neon pink socks. Hannah had sent these to me, said she found them in an airport side store; they reminded her of me. She's such a sweet girl. "Aren't they cool?"

I glance over at Sirius to find him staring. He's staring at my socks rather intently. I flick his forehead, hearing a hollow thunk. "You ok?"

"Uh." He nods stupidly.

Around a mouthful of hash browns, James asked. "How can you wear that stuff all the time?"

I look down at my clothes. "What's wrong with it?"

James smirked, raising an eyebrow, much like Lily always does actually. Scary. "Do you see anyone else wearing clothes like yours?" Lily elbows him in the gut, muttering a warning.

I look down at my clothes. My outfit consists of a white tank top under my cute short overalls, my thigh length neon pink socks, and these really cool elf shoes I found in a muggle shop during Halloween. I have two silver bracelets on my left wrist and a plain ring on my right thumb; there are smiley faces along the surface. This morning I threw my hair into a messy bun, pinned it with a few bobby pins, put on a little make up, strung my silver chain with a pearl drop around my neck, and headed downstairs with Lily. I looked pretty darn cute!

Looking back up at James, I smirked. "Can I help it if you don't look chick in pink?" Sirius barked a laugh out, slamming his injured hand on the table. I clicked my tongue and smooshed his face into his left over scrambled eggs. That'll teach him to smother good food in ketchup.

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