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Chapter 19
James Potter & Remus Lupin
James Potter
"You can't put us in detention for yelling at each other!" Screams Mary
"Oh, you bet I can Ms. Macdonald! Now shut your mouth!" McGonagall stares at us with red angry eyes. "When I come back the Great Hall better be cleaned and shining!"
Mary screams in frustration as McGonagall closes and locks the door to the Great Hall.
"Fucking bitch! It's not our fault that the kids decided to go all-"
"Mare." Sighs Evans "Lets just clean this up."
Mary mutters something and I decide this is enough, there is enough drama, too much actually.
Marlene and Sirius are still refusing to look each other in the eyes – or really, no one seems to want to look anyone in the eyes.
"This is enough okay?" I say as I stand up on top of the Gryffindor Table "We have to clean up this mess and we're going to talk to each other and sort all this fucking drama out. OKAY?"
8 hours before.
I force my eyes open lazily and look at the clock its almost twelve' o'clock.
Everyone in the room is fast asleep.
I thank Godric that its Sunday not Monday today.
"Pad, Moony, Wormtail." I groan out as I throw my pillow at Sirius who's in the bed closest to mine.
The pillow comes flying right away back and an annoyed Sirius sits up in his bed. "Yes?" he growls out.
I motion at the clock before throwing my pillow a longer distance this time and hitting Remus straight in the face.
"Oh nice." I say to my self as Remus shoots up in his bed and throws the pillow back so it lands on the floor just below my bed.
Next up is Peter who rolls straight out of his bed and on the floor as the pillow hits the top of his head.
I look at Sirius and see him trying to stifle his laughter (but failing).
"Whagh?" Asks Peter as he tries to get back up in the bed without having to stand up first.
Sirius has started laughing his bark-like-laughter and I can't see else than Remus is also enjoying this.
"We should go and get some lunch." I shrug and start to get dressed.
There has been one day in total since the ball was and yesterday all I did was sleep because I got so tired after the ball and all the drama. I even slept through most of Remus' and Sirius' fight, but woke up soon enough to see them forgive each other or whatever.
Sirius, Remus and Peter are all dressed and ready when I am and we walk together down to the great hall.
When we enter we see that the 6th year Gryffindor girls are already there eating their lunch.
"Should we sit next to them?" I ask and Sirius mutters out something that its impossible for me to hear so I just shrug and plop down in a seat next to Marlene – that I did mostly for Sirius, but for some reason Sirius doesn't seem to happy with it as he takes his seat in front of her.
"Morning." She greets us and I look over the girls, they all seem rather tired but that's when I realize, those aren't all the girls. Marlene, Lily and Alice are the only ones there; Mary and Emmeline seem to be missing.
"Where are Mary and Emmeline?" Asks Remus that also seems to have caught up on this.
Marlene grunts out something not understandable.
Lily sighs and motions to Marlene "They're having a fight."
Marlene puts her glass with water harshly down on the table so water flies everywhere but doesn't comment on what Lily said.
I look at Remus who tells me with his eyes to just drop it.
"So.." Alice says desperately trying to find something to change the subject with. "How did you find the Ball? I didn't see you at all yesterday and couldn't ask you then…"
"We were sleeping yesterday." Sirius rolls his eyes.
"The ball was…fine." I say and avoid the eyes of Evans. The ball wasn't fine; truth be told it was twisted and annoying but I don't want to hurt Alice who planned it all.
"Problematic." Says Marlene and takes a bite from her bread.
"Dramatic." Sighs Remus into his drink.
"Fine." Lily says slowly.
"Weird." Says Sirius and for a swift second I see him look at Marlene.
Alice claps her hands "Well, I hope you had at least some fun..." she laughs nervously.
There is an awkwardly long silence until Lily sighs.
"Marlene, you must talk to Mary, or at least tell us what happened."
Marlene narrows her eyes and looks swiftly at us boys before she answers. "Look, I can't tell you why, but we fought, okay? It was a big fight, I'm not apologizing, I don't know what I'd say."
Lily sighs "Just say you're sorry."
"It's not that easy." Marlene says before standing up with a rather loud noise. "I'm going to go back to the castle, I don't feel like eating anything at the moment." with a swift look at Sirius that I'm not sure anyone but me catches, she's gone.
"What the hell went on?" Sirius surprisingly speaks up once she's gone.
Lily opens her mouth to answer but gets cut off by a loud bang when Peter's face falls into the spaghetti he was eating for lunch.
"Peter?" Alice asks and pokes him, but instead of him shooting up, a loud snore comes from his body causing us all to fall back laughing.
After few minutes of laughing at the sleeping Peter, I turn my attention back at Evans.
"What happened between Mare and Marley?"
"-And Emmeline," says Lily "I have no idea. I just know that after the ball they fought, badly and then Marlene just totally disappeared for the rest of the night and didn't come back until early in the morning, and refused to tell me where she was."
My eyes immediately flutter towards Sirius and Evans seems to notice because she gasps.
I can't stop my self and I kick her under the table and this time she gasps in pain.
"OW!" she turns to glare at me. "What the hell was that for-"
"Sorry, my foot slipped, the wetness from Marlene's glass earlier must be still on the floor." I says smoothly and grabs some bread, her glare doesn't move away as she makes an "Hppmfts!" sound.
I grin secretly at Sirius and wink at him, he grins back with a quiet laugh.
- Hunting For Happiness -
The rest of the day flows fast, really fast and before I know it, we're back at the Great Hall eating dinner, this time the hall is more packed and we're all there, Emmeline and Mary included.
Even Blaire Vandever is there, staring half sadly and half angrily at Remus.
I nudge him. "Still haven't talked to her since the ball?"
He winces, "I don't know what to say."
I shrug "Saying something must be better than saying nothing."
"Maybe." He nods but doesn't go to talk to her, just slips into a seat next to Alice.
"I see Marlene and Mary have still not made up." I say and sit down in front of Remus and then motion at Marlene on Alice's other side and then at Mary that sits like 5 or 6 seats away.
Marlene grimaces and shakes her head.
"May I sit here?" A girlish giggling voice asks behind us and I turn to see a rather small brunette motioning to the empty seat next to Sirius.
Sirius raises her eyebrows but the girl sits down anyway.
"So Sirius," she gives away another giggle. "I was wondering, I know you went with Blaire Vandever to the ball, but you're still single right?"
"Yes?"
I hear a low growl coming from the other end of the table and see that Marlene has her angry looking blue eyes set on the girl.
"I was thinking, if maybe sometime you and I-"
Suddenly the girl screams and I look at her and see that she is covered in pumpkin juice.
She looks around the table for the person that did this but doesn't seem to find the right one. Her eyes set on Marlene.
"You did this!"
Marlene looks at her amused but holds up her almost empty glass that's filled with milk. "I wish I did sweetheart, but no."
The girl screams in frustration and seems not to buy that Marlene did not throw the juice on her. She leans over and grabs some mashed potatoes from Sirius' plate and throws them full force at Marlene, but being the great Quidditch player she knows when to duck, and does so, so instead of the potatoes to hit her in the face the hit the back of the Hufflepuff sitting behind her.
"You are such a bitch!" says the girl still with the some of that mashed potatoes in her hands.
The now rather angry Puffle that got it all over himself has turned around and throws a bread towards our table, but misses and hits the Ravenclaw table behind us and that's when it all breaks out.
Food is thrown everywhere. A Great Hall Food-Fight has just been started.
Like the true Marauder I am, I NEVER pass up a good food fight, and immediately take my plate and throw everything on it into all directions.
Screams. Yells. Laughter. Giggles. Loud noises fill The Great Hall,
It isn't until the dark voice of McGonagall yells "WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN IS GOING ON!" that most of us realize the teachers are mostly all there.
Everything falls dead in silence as we fall back into our seats, eager to make it look like we did not participate in the fight.
I notice Dumbledore is not sitting at the table, and that's probably the reason why Professor McGonagall is the one yelling. She comes almost running down towards the Gryffindor table, and (of course) stops right behind me. "Who started this?"
None of us say anything.
"Tell me now!" She yells out.
"We have no idea Professor" Finally Alice chokes up.
McGonagall narrows her eyes. "Fine, then you will clean this up."
She points from me, to Alice, to Lily, to Remus, to Peter, to Marlene and then to Sirius.
"WHAT?" Sirius's rages and stands up.
I hear a loud snicker coming form few seats away and see Mary throw a victorious smile at Marlene.
Marlene stands up in a total rage and suddenly a giant tomato is flying right at Mary's face.
McGonagall seems about ready to faint as Mary throws a tomato right back at Marlene.
"BITCH!" They both hiss out at the same time.
"SILENCE!" screams McGonagall and then motions at where Mary is sitting. "Miss Macdonald and Miss Vance, you'll also help clean this up. All the others." She looks over the great hall. "Get out of here now!"
- Hunting For Happiness -
When we're the only ones left in the room McGonagall speaks again.
"You will clean this wandless and also come to detention at my office everyday for what's left of this semester. You should call yourselves lucky its ending"
"You can't put us in detention for yelling at each other!" Screams Mary
"Oh, you bet I can Ms. Macdonald! Now shut your mouth!" McGonagall stares at us with red angry eyes. "When I come back the Great Hall better be cleaned and shining!"
Mary screams in frustration as McGonagall closes and locks the door to the Great Hall.
"Fucking bitch! It's not our fault that the kids decided to go all-"
"Mare." Sighs Evans "Lets just clean this up."
Mary mutters something and I decide this is enough, there is enough drama, too much actually.
Marlene and Sirius are still refusing to look each other in the eyes – or really, no one seems to want to look anyone in the eyes.
"This is enough okay?" I say as I stand up on top of the Gryffindor Table "We have to clean up this mess and we're going to talk to each other and sort all this fucking drama out. OKAY?"
They all fall silent, probably no used to me screaming at them.
"So what's up first boss?" Sirius is the first one to break the silence with a smirk.
I roll my eyes and shrug "Did anyone here start the food fight? And by that I mean throw the juice on that girl? We wont get angry, I just want to know… Honestly this was fun."
No one speaks for a moment until there is a sigh and a hand slowly flies in the air, we all turn to look at the owner.
My mouth drops.
Lily smirks back at me and lowers her hand "That bitch was just annoying me." She shrugged.
I stare at Evans with a grin, she even looks hotter to me now, if that was possible.
"Well done Evans." Sirius says and his voice isn't sarcastic.
"Awesome Lills," grins Marlene,
Even Alice smiles.
Mary and Emmeline stay silent as they sit on top of the Hufflepuff table.
"Now," Alice sighs out. "We must get to the bottom of this all. There has been fighting enough around this group." She looks at me. "James, is there anything you want to share with us?"
I shrug, really there isn't anything going on with my life. "Uhm… I don't know? Is there anything you want to know?"
"What's going on with you and Aurelie Bones?" Marlene says right away and I laugh.
"Nothing." I grin. "I have my eyes stuck on another girl, right Evans?"
Evans rolls her eyes at me ad the rest laughs.
"Alright… James, pick someone that has to go all truth on us next." Alice laughs.
"Remus," I say and stare at my friend who sighs.
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you just ask Blaire instead of Dorcas?"
Remus sighs. "Honestly? I wasn't sure how she felt about me so when Dorcas suggested us going together, I just said … yeah." His eyes turn to look at Sirius "But Blaire and I had a spat at the ball, and I'm trying to find the right way to apologize."
"Okay." I nod "I understand."
Remus looks around the group, its obvious we're all avoiding the asking Marlene, Mary and Sirius because we all know the biggest drama is around them. "Lily, anything you want to share? Like… why you went to the ball with Nathan." Remus smiles.
Lily laughs and points at Marlene "She made me! Even though I hate blind dates."
We all laugh again.
Lily looks at Marlene who rolls her eyes in a "Bring it" way.
"Marlene, Mary, what the hell is going on?"
Marlene looks at Mary and shrugs. "I can't say-"
"You have to!" Sirius says and we all nod in our agreement
"Yeah, Mare, Marley, we're all being 100 % honest here."
Marlene sighs and so does Mare, and I notice her eyes have started to water.
Marlene walks over to Mary and takes a seat next to her.
"I'm really angry that you didn't tell me. That you told her-" she motions at Emmeline "before me, your best friend. I'm also angry that you have.. this… even though I'm not angry at you, I'm angry at myself for not noticing, I'm angry for reacting the way I did. I'm sorry." Marlene chokes on her words and tears have started to flow from her eyes.
Mary lays her head on Marlene's shoulder "I know, I'm sorry too." She cries out. "I didn't want anyone to find and I do trust you, this is just nothing I'm proud off." After a moment Mary stands up and she looks over us, the group. "I'm bulimic."
There is a screaming silence until people start realizing what she just said.
There are mixed emotions and reactions.
Lily stands still and stares at Mary.
Alice walks over to her and has already started crying. "I'm so blind!"
We, the boys, can't do anything but just stare.
Lily is also hugging Mary now.
"We'll talk about this later." Says Mary silently. "Is it my turn to pick?"
I nod not really knowing what else to do.
"Alice, anything you want to share?"
Alice shrugs. "Uhm, not really. Anything you want to know?" She smiles, winking at me because we gave the same answer.
"Are you dating Frank?"
Alice sighs "I have no idea. We went to the ball together and he almost sorta invited me to Hogsmeade but.. oh honestly; I've no idea."
She turns and looks over the group. "There are really only just you two left," she motions at Sirius and Marlene.
"We know you don't want to talk about this-" I try
"Your right." Marlene says and stands up from her seat and folds her hands over her chest, ignoring all our eyes.
"But you have to." Says Lily softly.
Marlene narrows her yes. "Why? What is there to say? Sirius and I have started shagging again. We never really stopped, you guys know all there is to know, unless you want all the dirty details which I'm sure you don't-"
"Marlene!" all our voices cut her off even Sirius', we all know when she talks about stuff this way she hurts her self.
"What?" she asks, tears in eyes. "Nothing of this is your business."
No one speaks until Sirius stands up. "Do you want us to stop this? Want a way out? End it?"
"Not really." Marlene says out and grabs a broom that McGonagall left with us and starts sweeping the floor, declaring that this discussion is over. Sirius stares at her opened mouthed but says nothing.
After few minutes of silence I speak again. "My parents are going away for Christmas, you should all come and stay with me. All of us." I give Emmeline a look. "And I mean all no exceptions. Do you think you could get permission?"
Everyone nods, even Emmeline. "Good." I say and then we start cleaning the great hall, silently.
Remus Lupin
The rest of the weekend passes by quickly and before we know it we're all inside the train and on our way home for Christmas.
James has told us a thousand times today that he'll owl us when we're expected to come to his house and it would be a lie to say that I'm not excited.
I sleep almost the whole way home and don't wake up until Sirius nudges me "We're here." He says and we all hurry onto the platform and say goodbye to our friends.
I'm just about to go look for my parents when I see her, standing there in a corner hugging her friend Ariadne goodbye.
I swallow the lump in my throat and approach her.
"I'll write you!" says Ariadne and hugs Blaire again. "Bye deary!"
"Bye!" Smiles Blaire back and turns to walk away but turns right into me and almost stumbles into me. "Remus!" she gasps out and then after a second she narrows her eyes. "Here to yell at me again?"
"No," I breathe out. "Look Blaire, I'm so sorry for how I acted at the Ball, I was just so… I don't know, I know I have no right. I'm sorry, please forgive me? I never wanted to hurt you and I'm sorry for avoiding you-"
"Why couldn't you tell me this sooner?" Blaire sighs. "You waited for almost a week!"
"I know." I bow my head in shame. "I guess I'll go, happy Christmas-"
"Don't go!" she says quickly and grabs my hand to prevent me for leaving.
"Blaire I'm sor-" but she doesn't let me finish, her long hands wrap around my neck and pull me closer to her as she crashes her lips to mine.
I can't even start to describe the feeling; My hands immediately land on her hips as I pull her closer to me and kiss her eagerly back.
Then she suddenly pulls away and kisses me on the cheek. "I must go." She says with a hint of a teasing glint in her eyes and then suddenly, she's gone.
I'm grinning like an idiot when my mum finds me. She hugs me amused
"What did you smoke dear?" she says teasingly but I don't bother answer, I'm probably still in shock. I. Just. Kissed. Blaire. Vandever.
A/N: So yeah… that was a semi long chapter and my characters really wanted to fight, but I kept them pretty calm.. not really.
This chapter did come out just as I had wanted it too.. it was supposed to be more intense, but honestly after the last chapter thats just too hard for me xD
Anyways, next chapter is going to happen mostly at James's house! YAAY! Because guess what…?
IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!
Anyways, I still cannot believe I have over 100 reviews, WOW! That makes me so happy I wanna cry! Seriously! I'm smiling from ear to ear! You guys ROCK! You all deserve a hug AND a cookie! :D This is amazing!
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