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Chapter 11: One big Mess

The week went so slowly that I thought I would never see a weekend again. Since my wand was still missing I couldn't do the practicals in Charms, Transfiguration and DADA. We alternated our detentions with each of the four heads, Hagrid in pairs and Filch in pairs. Kerry and I were lucky that Hagrid asked to have us together which meant that the two cumin twins couldn't do anything to us and that I would be able to fly around Kerry and Hagrid.

Mum found out about my week of detention and she wasn't impressed. I could almost hear her talking as I read the letter, "Max I'm very disappointed in you I would have thought that you hanging around Lily would take the wild side out of you and stop you from following Nick and Dylan. I have now heard that your amount of detentions is now more than Dylan's. It is nothing to be proud of because now you are going to be known as the rebel, trouble maker and nothing more. I hope that you will get over it but it may just be part of your DNA since Nick and Dylan have the knack of getting into trouble. Maybe you should stop hanging around the boys and start concentrating on your work and focus on not getting into trouble.
Love Mum."

She still loved me; I had never had someone love me even if I did something bad. I remember Jeb telling me that I was special but never said he loved me and punished me when I tried to escape the school.

Classes became awkward I wouldn't go near Sirius, especially now that Mellissa was always around and joined Lily at the front since she wouldn't go anywhere near James. I was beginning to see why Lily hated James so much, now that he was going out with Perri he became even more of a show of and an arrogant jerk. I had more of a reason to hate the two boys because my wand was found in the possession of Perri. James and Sirius stood up for them saying that they might have just found it not knowing who's it was and was going to give it back to me once it was established to be mine. Everyone knew that it wasn't true, even the boys but since there was no evidence that they stole it they weren't punished and I was the one behind in school work. Nick wasn't talking to Sirius, Dylan was siding with Nick in whatever war the guys were having while Remus and Peter didn't know what to do. I don't think it took Remus and Peter long to realise they didn't want to hang around Mellissa and Perri anymore and ended up sitting next to Nick and Dylan while James, Sirius, Mellissa and Perri took up the back of the classroom.

"I don't know how you put up with them?" Remus asked during the week when we were having lunch.

I glanced down the Gryffindor table where Mellissa was trying to entertain Sirius, to my delight Sirius didn't look entertained but bored and regretting his decision.

"Most of the time we make sure they aren't in the dorm with us." I replied.

In no time the week had past and it was Valentine's Day. Most of us escaped outside to escape the number of couples that wanted to make out in empty classrooms and broom cupboards. I was one of the unlucky ones that weren't so fortunate. I was in the common room with Kerry trying to finish my potions essay. Of course I wasn't getting anywhere since Mellissa was sitting on the couch right up against Sirius laughing at everything he said. Occasionally Sirius would catch me looking at him and tried to look at me properly but I looked away as soon as our eyes meet. Nick and Dylan had escaped to the forest so they could fly again but they didn't ask me.

"This sucks," I moaned shutting the books, "let's go do something fun."

Kerry didn't need to be told twice as much as she liked helping out her friends she was starting to get annoyed with all the help on potions I needed. Mellissa's head perked up at the sound of something fun, she knew I had a secret but there was no way I was going to tell her or let her see. Now that Mellissa and her sister knew I had a secret they wouldn't leave me alone. They also knew that it wasn't an average secret, or something normal like who I liked (I also wasn't going to tell them that either.) Kerry knew what fun meant, she also knew that it was highly likely that we would run into Dylan or Nick. Sirius seemed to know what fun meant as well and looked disappointed that Mellissa was with him and that he wasn't going.

I was putting stuff in my trunk when Mellissa walked in. "So how come Sirius knows what fun means but I don't."

I knew what she was talking about but I wasn't going to tell her. I may have grown up in a dog crate for 11 years but I wasn't stupid, Jeb taught me how to read and write and also set up a little school for all of us once we reached a certain age.

"Of course Sirius knows what fun means, only he can't show it because you have no idea what fun means." I replied.

Mellissa looked at me confused and I had no idea if what I said made sense but there was no way I was going to say, Sirius knows what fun means because he's seen my wings and knows that fun means I will fly. I left the dorm leaving Mellissa trying to figure out the answer. I didn't give her an answer I just repeated what she said. Kerry wasn't in the common room and neither was Sirius, it looked like he made a run for it while Mellissa wasn't there.

I ran out of the common room and down to the courtyard where Hagrid's hut was located. Banging on his wooden door would normally get him to open it so after a few attempts I headed into the forest on my own. It wasn't the first time I had entered the forest without permission and it wasn't going to be the last time either. It was easier entering the forest without Hagrid since I was able to slip into the trees without anyone watching. I was in the forest when I heard a twig snap. I didn't see anyone follow me but just to be safe I looked around. There wasn't anyone there but it could have been a bird or one of the other forest animals. I started walking again, this time a shiver went up my spine. Not because I thought someone was following me but because I had no idea what type of animals lived in the forest. For all I knew the forest could have been full of Erasers. Scared for the first time I came to Hogwarts I shot straight into the air since if there was any Erasers in the forest they wouldn't be able to hurt me. I heard another twig snap below me but I didn't look down, instead I flew straight up higher than I had ever been before.

The high altitude didn't bother me since I had bird DNA. Two years ago Jeb taught me how I was different to humans. I didn't understand at first but I made myself focus so I could learn about myself. I knew that as well as lungs I also have air sacks, I also have bird blood cells and have a bone structure like birds. I was remembering the offer that Dumbledore gave us about getting our wings removed, I felt like getting rid of my wings was like chopping of half my body. It also wouldn't feel right and I needed the wings to complete who I was.

I had lost track of how long I had been flying for and was about to head in when my stomach rumbled for the 5th time when Nick and Dylan caught up with me.

"We haven't flown together in a long time." Dylan said the tip of his wings touching mine.

"I know." I replied. "I miss it just being the three of us."

"We could just keep flying and never come back." Nick suggested.

"That's tempting but I'll miss all my friends here." I said.

"Yeah, School will be over in 4 months then it will just be the three of us." Dylan said.

"Plus, Amelia, Hamish, Monique and Ella." I added.

"I mean just family."

The three of us flew for a bit longer ignoring our hungry stomachs, trying to catch up with each other. All we did was talk about what had happened since Christmas. It had been a while since we had time together, I missed the conversations Dylan and I would have, Nick occasionally joining in and how Nick and I could almost read each other's minds. Ever since we found our own friends we started to drift apart. No wonder I wasn't a Hufflepuff because I can't even keep my old friends when I make new friends. We landed just before the Forest joined with the school grounds in-between the trees. The sun was setting as we walked back to the castle and we made it to the kitchens and common room just before curfew. I wasn't looking forward to running into Filch out of curfew so we inhaled our food and took some with us to minimise our chances of getting a detention. I was surprised to see Kerry and Alice talking with Sirius since they wouldn't talk to him when he was going out with Mellissa. Remus and Peter were also talking to the them and Lily was reading a book by Kerry's side. Mellissa was trying to flirt with James in-between shooting glares at Sirius, James however was too busy trying to impress Perri to notice her sister. It didn't take me long to realise that Sirius and Mellissa had broken up, I was relieved and without realising I took a seat on the couch next to Sirius. As soon as I sat down I wanted to get up since it showed that I was jealous of him and Mellissa but then I would look weird if I immediately jumped up from where I was sitting. Dylan joined us sitting on the ground next to Remus and Nick reluctantly agreed squeezing in the gap between Kerry and Dylan. Nick and Sirius were still acting weird towards each other but I didn't know if it was normal since they weren't the closest of friends. I was able to talk with Sirius and Remus since Mellissa was no longer hanging around. It was only when James came over that things really started to heat up. James wanted to talk with his friends but where ever James came the Cummins twins followed.

"So the group is reunited again." Mellissa sneered.

No one bothered to look up, we all knew who it was and I didn't want to be involved in another fight.

"So is it just me or did you all ignore Sirius while I was with him." Mellissa tried again. "Just so you girls know, Sirius cares about appearance not about personalities."

Sirius cracked. "I care about personalities more than you do Cummins." Sirius growled. How many times did you laugh when I didn't joke or anything the whole time I was with you. I don't know why I went out with you; I like people who are smart, beautiful, funny and kind. You don't fit even one of those categories."

Mellissa stood still, shocked; it almost looked like she got slapped in the face. Sirius was lucky that he was able to make a scene in the common room because this way Mellissa wouldn't be able to change the story.

A 5th year walked past with her friend, "Danni can you go get some ice because that girl just got a burn."

I couldn't help but laugh. Mellissa and Perri both glared at me but I didn't back down.

"Come on Mel, he is so not worth you popularity." Perri reassured her sister.

I held back laughter until they got up into the dormitory.

"Well that went well." I commented.

Sirius just looked down.

"Hey at least this happened in the common room where everyone saw because now she can't twist it around." I reassured him.

"Yeah I guess, well I'm going to bed." Sirius muttered and left.

The next morning wasn't nice at all, somehow Mellissa and Perri managed to get some people on their side. Of course it wasn't any Gryffindor's but some of their brother's friends who offered to beat up Sirius and James. Perri stormed away from James earlier in the morning when he told her that he would pick Sirius over her. The whole Great Hall saw so Perri couldn't do much about James except spread rumours about how horrible he was to her and how she couldn't dump him because he wouldn't take no for an answer. No one believed her but Mellissa was able to come up with something better against Sirius. The things that she said got me so mad that I forgot about being angry with Sirius and forgot everything that happened over the past month.

Nick started to be civil towards Sirius and acted as a bodyguard but he didn't get to friendly towards him.

Remus disappeared once again and I found Sirius and James whispering in the library about something and someone. I heard things like "It won't work," or "he's our friend" and "we can't do that."

"Why don't you just ask him?" I asked them after I found them in the library again.

"Ask who what?" Sirius asked.

I knew that he wasn't that dumb or oblivious he just acted it. "Remus, you dolt, just ask him to tell you the truth. The only way that he won't tell you is if he has a massive secret bigger than what I have and if he doesn't tell you then leave it at that. Don't push your friendship."

I didn't know if they found out what Remus was up to but I didn't want to push it and didn't need to care, especially if it ruined our friendship I thought it was better not knowing. James and Sirius were friendlier towards Remus and seemed to include him in everything while Peter who was always hanging around Peter since he was unsure of James and Sirius started to spend more time with Nick and Dylan.

"He is starting to get annoying, wanting to do everything the other three are doing." Dylan told me, a week later when we were flying around while everyone else was at the Quiditch match between Slytherin and Hufflepuff. James and Sirius were debating whether they wanted to watch the game or us fly. They chose Quiditch since they had already seen us fly a million times.

"Why don't you start hanging around with the other guys again?" I asked.

Dylan and Nick exchanged looks and shrugged their shoulders. Nick seemed to be avoiding Sirius again but was spending heaps of time with James and Remus when Sirius was in detention by himself.

"What do you have against Sirius anyway? I thought you were friends and now ever since we got back from Christmas Holidays you haven't been nearly as friendly towards each other." I asked Nick.

Of course Nick being the silent type of person and not talking unless he had too just shrugged his shoulders and practised some new techniques we learnt from the hippogriffs. Once we heard more noise and cheering we decided to land and join up with the crowd exiting the stadium.

"That was some awesome game." James said to Sirius oblivious to the fact that we had just joined them.

"Yeah, I'm glad we chose Quiditch over wings it's a shame Max, Nick and Dylan had too miss out." Sirius replied.

I walked up to him since I was a few people behind him and elbowed him in the side.

"Ouch, that hurt." Sirius exclaimed.

I gave him a weak smile. "We were right behind you in the stands watching the game."

"No you weren't we were." Mellissa and Perri said in unison.

"I wasn't sure if it was true or not but I didn't reply because I didn't want to give the game away."

"No you weren't, Max was and I know because we were sitting with her." Alice said appearing out of nowhere, Kerry, Lily and to my dislike Snape backing her up.

"Well I'm sure that she wasn't there the whole time, maybe she and her cousins were looking at wings." Perri said.

"Will you please move you're blocking the doorway?" A Ravenclaw Prefect yelled from behind a sea of people.

"Cummins come with me." The prefect added after making his way over to us.

I couldn't help but smile when the twins followed the prefect to where ever he was taking them. Nick however wasn't smiling which wasn't surprising, but I didn't expect him to frown.

"What?" I asked.

"I ... nothing." Nick replied.

I wasn't the only one who had notice the change of expression Nick had. Sirius was looking at Nick with curiosity. All of us headed up to the common room to finish any homework due on Monday. Lily and Alice had finished their homework so they went up to the dormitory to talk. Kerry hadn't done her potions homework which helped me out since I knew she was getting fed up with doing homework then helping me. Sirius and James ignored their homework and went up to the dormitory. Nick followed them and didn't come back down with James later so I was hoping that he was sorting stuff out with Sirius.

When Dylan went up to put his potion books away he came back to the common room announcing that the two boys had gone.

All of us stopped working; I scanned the common room just to check they hadn't come down without us noticing. James didn't seem fussed that two of his roommates were missing and simply told us they would reappear. None of us relaxed and split up to search the castle for them. Remus relaxed after we searched the castle for 10 minutes and went to asked James something, missing out on meeting up with the Cummins twins.

"So Max how long have you been flying for?" Mellissa asked me.

"Less than a year once I learnt how too." I replied. I knew they weren't talking about flying on a broom, somehow they found out.

(Nick's POV)

I saw James and Sirius whispering about something while we were finishing off our homework. I wasn't sure but when I saw them pointing to me and beckoning me to follow them up to the dormitory I had to double check to see if anyone was behind me. Double checking that Remus wasn't around me in case they wanted to see him I followed them up to the dormitory.

"Hey mate, why were you so dark when the prefect asked the twins to follow him?" Sirius asked.

"I have a feeling..." I stopped I didn't know if James and Sirius were going to help me. If I said it was about Max Sirius would help but I didn't want to take advantage of Sirius by using Max. "I have a feeling that the prefect that went with the twins saw Max's wings on our very first flying lesson and overheard you saying wings."

"Dam I need to be careful don't I." Sirius replied.

"Yeah but I need to know where the twins went without Max knowing." I said.

"I know a way." James added rummaging through his trunk.

"Dude sorry but I don't think that cloak is going to hide me from Max." I said as James pulled out something silvery.

Sirius and James both laughed. I felt stupid when I put the cloak over my shoulders and was surprised to see that my body had disappeared. I wanted to know what happened when I put it over my head so I pulled it over my head and looked at my reflection in the mirror. I wasn't there I could only see James and Sirius trying to look at me.

"Wow," I said pulling the cloak off of me and handing it back to James. "But I can't use it."

"You can and Sirius will go with you to make sure you bring it back and don't run off." James said handing the cloak back.

We both ran into the twins a few floors later without being caught, I tried to apologise to Sirius but he told me not to talk since the cloak didn't hide noise. Following the two girls wasn't hard since they couldn't see us and they were talking amongst themselves that they didn't hear us walking. It was only when Max and the others were walking towards us that it became complicated and my theory was proven right.

"So Max how long have you been flying for?" I heard Mellissa ask.

"Less than a year once I learnt how too." Max replied, I almost let out a sigh of relief but stopped myself. Max was acting like she was talking about a broom.

"Not on a broom, with your own wings." Perri said.

I didn't know what to do Max was going to have to make a comeback on the spot and she wasn't prepared for this. Sirius bet me too it, his wand was already drawn and I heard him speak.

Perri froze so I followed Sirius' actions and froze Mellissa. The reaction on the other guy's faces was the best and I wish I could take a picture of it. Sirius started to tug me, indicating that we had to move. We ran as fast as we could, which was hard since we had to try and keep the cloak covering us. Once we got to a deserted corridor, Sirius pulled the cloak off of us and stuffed it in his pocket and we took the long way up to the common room not wanting to be caught near the Cummins twins, the only problem I had was trying to stop the twins from blabbing about us.

That's the end of the chapter. Sorry it took so long to update but I am now writing two stories and this chapter is long. I hope you still like it and I hope it makes sense because I kept writing without realizing.
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