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Chapter 3When we got into the castle, the First Years were looking in awe at the floating candles and well, at everyone. The sorting part was extremely boring. The only thing that kept Sirius and I entertained was poking each other and laughing at the names, which James contributed to while Lily gave us glares to shut up. Which would only work for a little while until another weird name gets called. I mean, really. Who names their chilled Lapiz, BlueFin? And Who, Boo? And Wellington, Zebra? Shall I go on?
After the feast, the Marauders and I accompanied Lily on showing the first years around. Boo Who looked like he was about to cry at what BlueFin Lapiz said to him. Something about how YOU-KNOW-WHO was going to take over the world and eat him. How he didn't get into Slytherin was beyond me.
When we were getting close to the Gryffindor tower, Zebra (Zebra? Really? You couldn't name your daughter something more… Oh, I don't know! NORMAL? …Then again, I suppose I have no room to talk… My parents named me Fayre… Awkward moment when I realize my name is just about as weird as there's…) noticed James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter standing awkwardly behind the group with me.
"OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE MARAUDERS!" she practically screeched. Sirius smiled goofily while Remus sort of nodded and smiled politely. James sort of looked away as if she didn't talk. And Peter…well, Peter looked absolutely terrified at the pitch the girl just talked in.
"Yes. Yes, they are," I responded to her…screeching. Lily looked slightly annoyed. The girl, Zebra, just glared at me with her stony brown eyes.
"And who are you?" she asked narrowing her eyes.
Was she going to kill me in my sleep or something?
"Fayre…" I said slowly. She looked as if she was going to say some sort of remark when Sirius wrapped his arm around my waist and brought me closer to him.
"She's a good friend of mine, that's who she is," he said. The girl just stared starry eyed at him.
"Okay," she said. If he said that the sky was green and the grass was blue, she would agree.
"Can we move on here?" asked Lily, still slightly annoyed.
All the First Years nodded their heads, not wanting to feel the wrath of Lily Evans.
We started to move again when Zebra turned around and glared at me. Sirius noticed and then we, being the children we are, both stuck out our tongues at her. Her face turned bright red at noticing that Sirius had caught her.
I mean, really? She's eleven. He's seventeen. THAT'S A SIX YEAR AGE DIFFERENCE! Did she really think that they would ever, could possibly ever, be together? She may do that, but Sirius wouldn't stoop that low. …At least I don't think he would ever date or even snog an eleven year old… I shuddered just thinking about it.
Sirius and I were laughing our heads off. James and Remus were smiling at us knowingly. Peter looked slightly confused.
"Did you see her face?" he laughed. I nodded and laughed with him in response. Sirius then noticed he still had his arm wrapped around my waist and he suddenly whipped it back to his side.
Did his face turn slightly red?
That's when I noticed that my heart was beating really fast as he ran his hand through his hair and looked up at me with his somber looking grey eyes.
What was wrong with me? I shook my head and smiled at him before I looked away.
We followed the group to the Gryffindor common room. Lily gave the password to the fat lady in the portrait.
I snuck a glance at Sirius and he was joking with James about something.
…..
"It's after hours. Shouldn't you guys be sleeping?" asked Lily standing there with her hands on her hips. James just smiled up at her.
"Shouldn't you be sleeping, Head Girl? Don't want me to take points," tsked James. Lily's jaw dropped.
"YOU take points? I'm going to dock points, Potter," said Lily flipping her red hair. James raised his eyebrows, but he was still smiling at her, his hazel eyes twinkling.
"Oh really?" he asked. Then Sirius grabbed Lily around her waist and pulled her into his lap. She blew a piece of red hair out of her face angrily.
For some reason, this gesture bothered me…
Yet, I laughed with the rest of them.
"Aw c'mon, Evans. Don't be like that. We're just sitting around and talking. Even your best friend, Fayre's here! Don't want to give her detention do ya now? And it just wouldn't be fair if you gave us detention and not her," said Sirius giving her his signature puppy dog eyes.
Speaking of puppies, I miss my puppy, Charcoal.
Lily looked over at me and sighed. Then she got off of Sirius' lap and sat down on the floor next to me but not before taking a package of chocolate frogs from Remus.
"Thank you, Remus," she called over her shoulder, hiding a smile as she sat down next to me.
"So, Fayre, you suddenly look sullen," noted Sirius as he ate a chocolate frog, dragging out the last word.
"I just miss my puppy," I responded.
"Puppy? When did you get a puppy?" asked Remus. Peter just tried to hog all the chocolate stuff but Remus was quicker in hogging it.
"Oh, well, he's not MY puppy. He's actually a big dog and he only came to me at night. He has such unusually pretty grey eyes," I said thoughtfully. James started to choke on the chocolate he was eating. Remus looked pale. Sirius froze. Lily started to laugh and gave me that knowing smile that she had when we were on the train. Peter just looked slightly confused and then realization seemed to dawn on him. Suddenly, I was the only one who was utterly confused. James swallowed the chocolate he was choking on and looked at me with the same knowing smile that Lily had on. O…kay…this…was…weird… Lily and James had the same expression on their face. That doesn't happen very often.
"So, this, dog, what did he look like again?" asked James smiling and leaning forward.
"Uhh, well, he was big and black, like a midnight color, with big grey eyes. I named him Charcoal," I said. Sirius rolled his eyes at the name Charcoal and muttered "stupid nickname". At least, that's what I think he said.
"It's NOT a nickname, it's his name…. AND IT'S NOT STUPID," I said throwing a pillow at him.
"It's stupid," everyone said at the same time. I just looked at them.
"Trust me, I would know," said Sirius.
"And how would YOU know?" I asked.
"I just…do," he replied with a smirk on his face. I rolled my eyes and hit his leg that was dangling beside me.
The subject then changed to the Zebra girl. The Marauders seemed to be happy that the subject had changed.
"She seemed to like you," I said smiling up at Sirius. Sirius winked at me.
"Well, I'm pretty handsome."
"Of course you're handsome. But sorry, ladies, he's seriously mine," said James mock glaring at Lily and I and then sniggered at the little play on words (or names in Sirius' case).
The night went on with jokes and ended with Sirius and James singing some song at the top of their lungs, which Lily tried to hush them but it wasn't very effective for even SHE was laughing.
Before I went to bed though, Remus leaned towards my ear.
"Sirius talked about you over the summer," he whispered. I felt my face flush.
"Doesn't he always?" I laughed it off. Remus just smiled at me, his hair falling into his eyes, and shrugged.
Why can't my heart stop beating?
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I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was sort of a filler chapter. Nothing exciting happened I know. WELL, some Sirius/Fayre stuff happened.
And seriously, (haha, Sirius…haha) what is up with that Zebra girl?
I don't know. But, I secretly love her. FANGIRL OVER THERE.
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Innocently Beautiful
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