They were back at Hogwarts now, back to studying, and back to sleeping whenever they had free time. Loralei had gotten so busy that the months flew by, including Quidditch matches, and the one that Sirius was looking forward to: Slytherin vs. Gryffindor. She barely remembered playing it at all, let alone winning. She did remember sleeping afterwards while there was a party going on downstairs, as well as celebrating James' birthday a week later, but other than that she just remembered Lily or Remus quizzing her or she quizzing them, what seemed like every day.

Loralei did look run-down, she had bags under her eyes, and stopped wearing anything to cover them up. Her hair was always in a ponytail or messy bun, and she fell asleep everywhere. It wasn't until a week before OWL's that she calmed down enough to only do her homework, and the minimal amount of work, and stopped studying all together, while everyone else crammed.

On the day of the OWL's for Divination, Charms, and Transfiguration, she was ready, and rested while everyone else looked like zombies. Her plans worked, and she was only a little nervous.

Charms and Divination were easy, she remembered them calling for a break before Transfiguration.

"I'll meet you out there." She told Lily as Loralei packed up her bag. "I'm going to get something from the dormitory." Loralei paused for a second. "If Siri asks, I'll see him later."

Lily nodded. "I'll be by the lake."

"Meet you there." Loralei said, before putting her bag on her shoulder, and they went in opposite directions.

Loralei dove up the stairs for her Transfiguration textbook that she had been studying a little last night, before going back to the Black Lake where she was meeting Lily, Alice, and Melanie. But when she got out there, Lily stormed passed her, looking like she was about to cry.

"What happened?"

"Ask your brother and boyfriend." She sniffed, before breaking into a run, getting farther and father away from Loralei and the rest of the fifth years.

I'll go see her later. Loralei decided, confused to what could have caused this.

"Who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?" James called.

"James Charles Potter!" Loralei screeched, getting out her wand before letting Severus down, falling into the ground with a grunt before she went to stand between him and her brother and boyfriend.

"Lore, out of the way." James said, a fierce note in his voice. "He called Lily a mudblood!"

"I don't care!" She told him. "Did he by chance do it while you were tormenting him?"

James faltered a bit, before standing, with his wand still pointed at his sister. "Get. Out. Of. My. Way."

She stood tall, but didn't raise her wand at him, she stood with her arms away from her body, shielding Severus' from her brother. "James, walk away." She turned to the crowd surrounding them. "Don't you have something better to do?"

"Loralei, come here." Sirius told her sternly.

"You are not my father," she told him. "Neither of you can control me, and I don't care what anyone did, they don't deserve this. At all."

"This isn't some innocent person." Sirius snarled. "He's a Slytherin."

"So is Regulus! And Andy!" Loralei yelled back. "Just because he is in one house doesn't give you the right to bully them constantly!"

"He's not an innocent!"

"This is exactly what deatheaters are doing, do you want to be like them?" Loralei asked. "If so, curse me." She threw her wand at their feet. "I'm unarmed, and at your mercy. I can't stop you." She watched them, as the crowd watched Loralei face off against the people she loved.

James slowly lowered his wand.

Loralei again turned to the crowd. "Did you not hear me? Piss off." She hissed, then suddenly everyone couldn't get out of there fast enough.

"You're choosing him over us?" Sirius asked, a mix of fury and disbelief on his face. "Over me?"

"I'm choosing what is right." She told him. "Just because no one else here was brave enough to doesn't mean that I won't." She looked at Remus, who looked like he was trying to stay unnoticed "Some Gryffidor you are, how dare any of you call yourselves that if you need to be together to take on one person. It's where the brave at heart dwell, not the cowards."

"Potter, I could've handled this." Severus hissed at her, getting right behind her, still using her as a shield, contradicting what he said.

"Too bad, I'm involved." She told him, before turning back to the Marauders.

"I can't believe this." Sirius said.

Her eyes flashed to him, growing darker in anger. "You and I will talk about this later, same with you James. Oh, and the quiet ones over there, don't think I forgot about you. Your dorm after OWL's, if you're not there it's not gonna help you."

"Why should we care what you think?" Sirius asked.

Loralei smiled the cruelest smile she ever could at them. "Maybe it's because I'm your girlfriend, or maybe it's because you love me? I don't know, you tell me."

Sirius was starting to get red in the face.

She blew them a kiss, and held out her hand, her wand came to her, looks like all that practicing with no wand gave her an advantage. She stormed off to the castle. All five of the boys looking at each other, none of them reaching for their wands anymore.

"We're fucked." Sirius said.

"What the hell were you thinking?" She yelled at them that night, standing in front of them as they all looked like children that knew they did something wrong. "Do you know how wrong that is? You started it-no don't deny it." She said when Sirius opened his mouth. "I know you did, so don't try to bullshit me into thinking he started it, I know you all too well to know what happened."

"Come on Loralei, you know that he deserves it, he's into dark magic." Sirius said.

"Do you think that maybe you had a part of him getting into it?" She replied. "Do you think that tormenting someone will heal quickly, James what would you do if someone did what you're going to him, to me?"

No reply.

"Exactly, but he has no one, so don't you dare try to say that he deserved it, because it's a lie and we all know it." She told them. "It doesn't matter if the wounds you inflict on each other heal, there will always be a scar."

"How do you know?" Sirius replied. "Nothing bad has happened to you."

"I promised myself I wouldn't hit any of you when I came in here, don't make me change my mind. Just because you don't get to see where someone's hurt, doesn't mean they aren't. Should I mention my first three years here? I believe you were quite the bitch to me." She shook her head. "I'm not here about that, back on topic, give me a reason why you should do what you did other than, 'he deserved it' or, 'I wanted to.'"

Sirius chewed on his cheek angrily. "I don't like him."

"Now we're getting to it. Why? Why does that give you the choice to torment him?"

All of them but Sirius refused to look at her.

"You are all in trouble with me, and you all should know how well that usually works in your favor." She sighed. "I have never been more disappointed with any of you. Three of you can go now, I think you can figure out witch one is staying."

Sirius stood up. "Sucks for you James..."

"Sirius Orion Black." Loralei said, her voice dangerous. "Sit down."

He took a deep breath, and sat back down, while everyone else got out of there quickly, looking at Sirius like they might never see him again, for all they knew, Loralei could be the next guest in Azkaban.

After the door was closed there was nothing but silence. Loralei wanted him to speak first, it took him a minute to realize this.

"You weren't supposed to know." No, that was not the right thing to say.

She started to laugh, not her real joyful laugh, this one was cruel.

"Oh, that's great." She said, grimacing. "I wasn't supposed to know. Because that's supposed to make everything better!" She let out a frustrated sound, and ran her fingers through her hair in that frustration. "Do you hear yourself, Sirius? Do you realize how ridiculous this is? Have you done this behind my back before?"

"Come on, Loralei, you know he's no good!" Sirius yelled, getting on his feet.

"That doesn't mean he deserved that!" She shouted back. "You know I don't like when people are treated like that. When anyone or anything is treated like that! We used to be friends, you know that?"

"I don't like him." Sirius said loudly, but not quite a yell.

"Well I don't care, I don't like half the people in this school but I don't hex them!" She shouted back. There was a bump outside the door and she lowered her voice to its normal, but stressed volume. "Look, I don't know what you were thinking, and I don't know how I am going to forgive you."

"What are you saying?" Sirius asked. "Are we-" he moved his hand to gesture to them, "-in jeopardy?"

She nodded. "Yeah, yeah we are."

He groaned. "Loralei...I-I wasn't thinking."

"So you're taking this serious now." She noticed. "Because you realize how serious this is-don't you dare make a pun."

"What can I do?" He asked, giving up.

"Prove to me that you don't do this behind my back." She told him.

"How?"

She closed her eyes and shrugged. "I don't know. All I know is that I don't date people who lie to me."

"You shouldn't go to bed upset." Lily told her after dinner that night. "That's what my parents say and do, and they're still happily married."

Loralei nodded. "That makes sense, I think I'll do that."

"Are you guys still together?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, we haven't technically broken up." Loralei told her, getting up. "After I'm just going to go to our dorm, okay?"

"Okay," she said, watching her friend as she walked to the boys stairs until she was out of sight.

Loralei took a deep breath before knocking on the door.

"Go away, Prongs!" Sirius said.

She opened the door. "It's not James."

"Shit."

That's when she saw it. A brunette girl only in her knickers and bra, underneath her boyfriend, who only had his jeans on, looking towards the door with big eyes.

All of her emotions went away as she smiled at him, the cruel smile she had been wearing all day.

"I didn't think we were broken up, doesn't matter anymore, does it? It's over now."

A/N Look another chapter! Now I won't update in at least a week, but hopefully while I'm gone I'll get some more ideas!

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