Well I'm so close to 10 reviews please can anyone who reads and wants to say about anything review because I'm out of ideas, I don' know whether I am continuing with the story as one or breaking it up into their years like J.K did with the HP series. I want to make one change to chapter 9, instead of having Transfiguration they will be going to Care for Magical Creatures so Max doesn't have to use her wand since it is missing. I may stop once the year is over for Max and the others but I want you to review and tell me if you want me to continue.
I hope I'm not too pushy with reviews but I've noticed other stories with much more reviews than what I've got and they have fewer chapters. Please tell me if I'm being too pushy.
SpringBabe

Chapter 10: 14th of February

The professors seemed to find it funny to pressure us about the upcoming exams and we were soon piled up with so much extra work that we had to stay up just as late as the 3rd and 4th years. Not as much as the 5th and 7th years who had OWLs and NEWTs. Kerry and Lily helped Alice and I out with potions, I helped with DADA but the other three didn't need much help. Sirius had started sitting next to me in all my lessons but since the rest of his friends followed (James, Sirius, Peter and Dylan) there wasn't enough room for all of us so it ended up being me and Kerry with James and Sirius while Alice and Lily sat with Nick and Dylan leaving Remus with Peter and anyone else from the other houses.

Of course it was only the beginning of February and the exams weren't until the end of May but the professors weren't satisfied with the amount of work we were doing in classes. I had stopped mucking about with Sirius and was getting less extra work than what Sirius and James did. It was only in charms that I was able to have fun with Sirius because we always had charm fights with each other practising what we had learnt during the year.

"Miss Ride and Mr Black, I am pleased to see that you are practising your charms but could you please do it quietly." Professor Flitwick squeaked from the other side of the room while he was assisting Peter. Remus was back for this lesson but he looked pale and tired but I had to ignore him to escape Sirius' spell.

"Hey do you know why Remus always disappears?" I asked Sirius between breaths.

"I don't know why he disappeared this time but he said his mother was sick last time." Sirius answered and deflected my spell.

"Yeah but his mum can't be sick once a month, can she?" I questioned.

Sirius raised his eyebrows and if he thought any harder I would be able to see a light bulb glowing above his head.

"I think I know why," he muttered.

"Why?"

"I don't know exactly but I'll find out soon.

I didn't know if he found out or not because I had forgotten after that class. I always thought that Nick was friends with Sirius but when we got to transfiguration Nick took a seat next to me before Sirius even got in the door. I glanced at Dylan who shrugged his shoulders and took a seat next to Nick. For a change Lily sat next to me instead of Kerry who sat with Sirius, James, Remus and Alice at the front. I didn't know what made her change spots since we always sat at the back but I guess I would be able to focus more without the distraction of Sirius and James. I was watching Sirius make Kerry laugh and I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach, as Kerry flicked her hair out of her face like Perri and Mellissa did in front of Nick and Dylan.

'So what if she's falling for him, it's not like I care.' I thought to myself but I couldn't concentrate on the lesson anymore and it seemed hard to transfigure my matchstick now that I was so focused on Kerry and Sirius. 'She's my best friend I should be glad if she likes him, Sirius is a great guy to be around.' I was full of angry even though I knew that I shouldn't be but I couldn't help it.

"Miss Ride your matchstick." Professor McGonagall alarmed me as I prodded the matchstick one to many times sending it into flames.

Of course I got the most homework and since transfiguring matchsticks was one of the first things I did I was told to stay back after class.

"Max I know you can transfigure a matchstick well, but what happened before was extremely surprising since you are one of the top students in my class." McGonagall ranted.

"I am." I was shocked the only class I was in the top was DADA and Herbology.

"Yes now, any distractions should be cleared before your exams because we don't want you grades to drop do we?"

"No Mam," I answered robotically.

"Now go to lunch, I'm sure you could do with the food." Professor McGonagall dismissed me.

I didn't know what the problem was between Sirius and Nick but I knew it was stupid. They wouldn't look at each other during lunch and they both fought over the same treacle tart.

"Honestly what could be so bad that you have to fight over the one treacle tart when there are more in front of you?" Remus said and they dropped the tart, looked at each other and tried to storm the opposite way but didn't work since there was only one door.

Herbology was interesting since it was me, Sirius and Nick at one bench working on the same plant.

"Would you both stop it?" Kerry asked after they fought over the watercan, soil and kept staring at each other.

"No since he took the one thing I liked the most," Nick replied not looking at Kerry but sending the death stare to Sirius.

"How was I supposed to know?" Sirius asked.

"Maybe I told you all that night," Nick shouted at him.

"Mr Black and Mr Martinez, what is this racket, if you want to yell please do so outside and not in my classroom." Professor Sprout said sternly.

Nick and Sirius got back to work not saying anything, not looking at each other and not doing anything. Kerry and I had to take over and we had a conversation without the other two.

"Hey how come you didn't sit next to me in transfiguration?" I asked.

"Well since Nick and Dylan were already there I thought that it would be best if Lily sat with you since they are the only two Gryffindor boys that she can stand and Sirius said he wanted to asked me something." She replied.

I knew I would sound to nosey if I asked her what they were talking about so I changed the subject. "Which boy would you want to go out with on Valentine's Day?" I was doing alright at catching up on a lot of things since I was stuck in a cage for the first 11 years of my life.

"I don't know, I'm not fussed or going to make a big deal about it if someone asks me I might think about it. We're 11 and we shouldn't be worrying about boys yet."

"Yeah, I still want to know who your ideal date would be."

"Alright I'll tell you tonight."

"Okay." I replied. "Hey which one of you two boys are mature enough to clip the leaves."

Of course both of them said they were which ended in another shouting match. Everyone had stopped their work and was watching Sirius and Nick. Sirius had his wand pointed at Nick.

"What you going to do Black, change the colour of my robes." Nick sneered.

"Stop it you two stop it your suppose to be friends." I said jumping in-between the boys. "Put the wand away before you do something stupid and regretful." I told Sirius who reluctantly put the wand away.

"But he started it!" Sirius yelled.

"No I didn't you decided you would stab me in the back!" Nick yelled back.

"Mr Black and Mr Martinez, detention tonight with me." Professor Sprout demanded, "Class dismissed."

(Nick/Fangs POV)

After everyone else left the Great Hall, Sirius and I waited behind for our detention with Professor Sprout. She walked over to us from the head table where all the professors sat and waited in front of us.

"Well." She said.

Both Sirius and I stayed quiet.

"Well is one of you going to tell me what the fighting is about. I've talked to Professor McGonagall and she said that you were friends, so why are you acting like this?" she asked.

Both of us stayed silent and looked at the ground.

"I think that it is silly if you are fighting over a girl." She randomly said trying to make us speak.

I looked up at her, 'how did she know I thought?' I looked at Sirius; he was looking at professor Sprout trying to find out how she knew.

"It's obvious, you're showing all the symptoms, but what does it matter. Your 11 you aren't going to be in a serious relationship until you much older so forget about all this nonsense and start acting like friends again." Professor Sprout said.

"Sorry Nick," Sirius muttered to me.

"Yeah I'm sorry too. We were both acting like jerks weren't we." I replied.

"Yeah we were, she wasn't worth it." Sirius said.

"No she wasn't," I replied but I knew that Max was.

"Well you two can go back to the Gryffindor tower and apologies to your friends especially Max." Professor Sprout smiled as she left us and walked out the hall dumbfounded that she knew who we were fighting over.

As we were walking back to the tower we passed Melissa and Perri who were studying the lists.

"Hi Sirius, hi Nick," they said adding more charm to my name.

"So have you to found the perfect girl for Valentine's Day next week?" Melissa asked staring at me.

"Um there's really no one I like yet." I said quickly not looking at Sirius.

"Yeah same but I could ask one of you since your both just as beautiful as each other." Sirius said not really asking.

"Well I may still have a chance with Dylan so you can be Sirius' Valentine." Peri told Melissa, smiled then they both walked off.

"Geez, you like Max one minute then you go out with Cummins." I turned to face Sirius as we walked up the stairs.

"Well since we both like Max I can't ask her out now and both the Cummins twins are the prettiest girls in our year." He told me.

"Fair enough." But I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. If Sirius liked girls because they were pretty then how long would it last between him and Melissa.

(Max's POV)

"So Kerry who do you like?" I asked when we were all up in our dorm.

We were all sitting on our beds in our P,J's talking. The Cummins twins hadn't come up yet so we were safe to talk about confidential stuff between the four of us.

"Well, don't get mad but I kind of like Dylan." She blurted out.

"Phew," I accidently said out loud.

"Why it's Phew when he is almost like a brother to you?" Alice asked me.

"Yes why?" Kerry repeated.

"No reason." I said.

"Who do you like Max?" Kerry asked.

"No one." I replied hoping I wasn't blushing.

"Then why are you going red?" Lily asked.

"Max likes someone, Max likes someone." Alice chanted.

"I do not." I stubbornly said.

"Do too."

"Do not."

"Do too."

"Do not."

"Do too, admit it. I did." Kerry said.

"Fine I likeSiriusBlack." I said really fast.

"Who?" Alice asked.

"Say it a bit slower or we'll throw you out the window." Kerry joked.

"Fine, I ...like... Sirius... Black." I said slowly.

"Ha got it out of you." Lily replied. "Wait what?"

"She said she likes Sirius." Alice replied for me.

"I know what she said but why him?" Lily replied bossily.

"Oooo you're so lucky that Sirius is available because I think Dylan's going to be like Nick and uninterested." The girly voice of Perri Cummins walked in talking to her sister.

I grinned inwardly at the fact that Nick was uninterested in Melissa and happy that they thought Dylan won't like Perri as well. They strutted into the dorm with smug looks on their faces.

"Wait Sirius asked you out?" Kerry asked, not believing it. It didn't even occur to me that they were going out just that she had moved onto Sirius since Nick didn't like her.

"Yep he did and on Valentine's Day we're going to be having a romantic date unlike you losers." Melissa sneered.

"Hello how are we losers when we are friends with everyone and top of your brothers so called list, we know that it is him setting it up and you two are helping him other but you're stupid list isn't going to affect our so called loser status because we aren't going to allow you to have control over our reputation and we aren't going to become losers over night or anytime so have fun trying." Kerry ranted on and on.

That girl was the best at defending us like she was the best at threats and making us look like we were the ones to fear. (Only among the first years excluding the boys.)

"Well we'll see about that, what your four don't know is that we were the most popular at the school we were just at. I won't tell you the name because you won't be able to understand it and won't be able to pronounce it," Perri's sneer exactly like Melissa's sneer.

"That's it." Kerry and I both charging at the girls, I got to Melissa first and knocked her to the ground when someone coughed from the doorway. Kerry pushed Perri onto the bed and was holding her down making sure that she wouldn't get away. The person coughed again but this time I looked up to see who it was double checking that it wasn't McGonagall or a prefect before focusing on Melissa.

Lily gave a small grunt as she also say the person standing in the doorway.

"You do know that you can just hex the girls and then I'll ask you out." James smirked leaning against the door, his messy black hair sticking out everywhere and stands were hanging over his round rimmed glasses covering his deep hazel eyes.

"You're a real jerk if someone hexing someone makes them attractive to you then I'm glad I don't hex people." Lily said folding her clothes and pretending Kerry and I weren't on top of the Cummins.

We didn't see Perri pull out her wand while Kerry was distracted, Alice and Lily were too preoccupied with getting into bed. I was focusing on Melissa so I just heard Perri whisper pretrificus toatalis. I whipped around and saw Kerry in the full body bind spell. I went to get my wand from my pocket but it wasn't there. Fumbling through all my pockets I searched for the only thing that could represent me as a witch. Melissa used this time to regain the ability to stand and pulled her wand at me.

Of course our voices were rising throughout the whole fiasco many people had heard. While James came up to see what the commotion was another kid the same second year that ratted me out fetched McGonagall knowing that the noise coming from our dorm would get worse and need a teacher to end it.

"Mr Potter what do you think you are doing, this is the girls wing and the girls dormitory. Get back downstairs into the common room where you are allowed to be while I sort this mess out." McGonagall's voice sounded stern so James reluctantly did what she told him to do. "Now I don't believe this." She gasped. Perri and Melissa still had their wands drawn out and pointing at me, while Kerry was still lying motionless on the floor. "Explain yourselves all of you." She said sternly reviving Kerry and looking from Alice who wouldn't hurt a fly to Melissa and Perri who were standing side by side trying to look as innocent as they could.

"It wasn't us Miss," Lily started.

"Oh yeah who was it that threw me off the bed yesterday?" Melissa threw back.

And then the mouths opened and the verbal war began. I was shouting at Melissa then to Perri not hearing what I was saying because Kerry was also shouting at the Cummins' twins. Lily was trying to explain it all to McGonagall while Alice was standing in an awkward situation helping Lily then all of a sudden she yelled.

"SHUT UP!" It was the loudest I had ever heard her, I suppose the Ravenclaw's on the other side of the castle heard her. The Slytherins would have heard her and probably all of Hogsmade heard her. Of course James couldn't resist coming up the stairs again followed by Sirius, Nick, Dylan and the rest of the Gryffindor tower trying to fit in the dorm. By now there were too many boys and the stairway recognised them so it turned into a slide. All the boys standing on the stairway ending up slipping down into the common room, only the boys who managed to get into the dorm were lucky enough to stay.

"Now if everyone would be quiet I would like to hear what you four," McGonagall pointed at me, Kerry and the Cummins, "have to say for yourselves."

"Well Professor what happened was that Melissa and I were walking into the dorm talking to each other about who asked Melissa out for Valentine's Day. These four overheard us and started getting into a row. Ride pushed Melissa to the floor and Scott pushed me onto the bed pushing me into the mattress as hard as she could. Because she wouldn't get off me I had to pull my wand out and body bind her otherwise I might be stuck in the mattress." I saw her looking at James as she said this who gave her the thumbs up.

"Professor that isn't what happened." I stated.

"Miss Ride you can tell me your version." McGonagall didn't look like she would believe me but I couldn't let those two get away with it.

I began, not looking at Sirius who started this whole mess by asking Melissa out in the first place but at McGonagall trying to make the truth more convincing. The only problem was that I was now well known for my trouble among the teachers as well as students like Sirius said I would be.

"Okay, Melissa and Perri came walking into the dorm talking about their dates for Valentine's Day. Then Kerry asked if Mellissa was really going out with Sirius since we are only in 1st year and it seems too soon to go out with people." I said looking at McGonagall trying to make my eyes as innocent as they could. I thought I say Sirius look guiltily at me but he looked away before I could be sure. "Then they insulted us, Kerry told them to stop. Perri insulted us again. This time we had enough and Kerry and I knocked them to the ground. James was standing in the doorway telling one of us I don't know who to use their wand. Perri pulled her wand on Kerry and body binder her while Melissa pulled her wand on me along side Perri."

"Well I'm surprised Miss Ride I would have thought that you would have pulled your wand out at them as well." McGonagall asked me.

"Well I would have but someone's taken it because I haven't used it since charms." I sheepishly admitted.

"Are you sure you didn't lose it?" McGonagall asked.

"we had charms where I used it then care for magical creatures and herbology where I didn't use it. But I always keep it in my robe pocket so it must have gone missing after Charms." I said.

"We'll try to find it but all of you better be careful with your wands." She said turning around to everyone standing outside the dormitory. "Now Miss Scott is your story the same as Miss Ride's?"

Kerry nodded then McGonagall turned to face all of us. "You four will be taking separate detentions with me and the other Professors for the whole week after dinner. Now everyone to bed." She left and one by one the rest of the students followed.

James stayed behind and went to talk to Perri. Sirius was waiting for his best friend not looking at me or Melissa.

"Well I'll see you tomorrow James." Perri said as she waved goodbye to the boys.

I know it finished weird but I've been busy and haven't had time to write which means you need 2 more reviews to keep me writing after this month.
There isn't much I like about this chapter but I'm just trying to complicate the relationships and add in some drama.

Hope you keep reading and reviewing

SpringBabe.