I can see Hogwarts nearing, so I purposefully find the compartment where James and the rest of his friends are sitting. If I end up with them, I'll have a high chance of ending up beside Remus or Sirius on the carriages. I slide open their door and find Marlene sleeping, her head on Sirius's shoulder.
Her auburn hair falls down her face like a curtain and her lips are parted slightly.
"We're almost there. I can see Hogwarts already. Let's go first so that we can get good seats in the Great Hall," I suggest nonchalantly.
Translation: Let's go early so that Marlene will have to wake up and get off Sirius's shoulder so that I can sit beside either him or Remus.
My plan did not go as I hoped.
"I dunno, Marlene's sleeping. You all can go ahead. We'll catch up."
For fuck's sake, is he really choosing her over his best friends ever?
"Come on, Maia. Let's go," says Remus softly, tugging at my hand. I take one last look at Marlene's peaceful face and leave with Remus.
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Our dormitory looks the same as it did two months ago. Our names are still carved into the ceiling.
M.R
M.M
E.V
L.E
D.M
How we managed to do that in our first year, I'm not sure. As a tradition, we push our beds together to form one big rectangle. On our first day of school, these fifth-years were telling horror stories of Hogwarts in the Gryffindor Common Room that were apparently true. We were frightened out of our minds and had what was my favourite sleepover ever.
"Have you seen Malfoy's hair? It's almost past his shoulders now," snickers Em.
"It's more luscious than Cissy Black's hair already. What does she do, burn it?" Marlene snorts.
Our dormitory erupts into laughter. We do enjoy gossiping about Slytherins who think they're better than us.
"Yesterday when we ended up in Mank's Tale by accident, I saw dear old Dellie and Dolson," I say excitedly, nudging Marlene.
Em makes a mock pouty face as she cries, "Oh no, our favourite Travers twins?"
"Yeah, those absolute freaks. I reckon it was only them because they don't have any other friends besides themselves," I say with a false sympathetic sigh.
Lily giggles especially loudly at this because their marks challenge hers, so she has a grudge against them.
"Okay, you know Millie, right? Mitch's girlfriend?" smirks Marlene.
Millie's in Marlene's other friend group, but they have some sort of unspoken rivalry because Millie's the type of perfect popular girl with a sweet personality and cheery face while Marlene's the wild one with a hotheaded personality and smug face.
Millie's likeable, but boring. As for Marlene, you either love or hate her.
Anyway, back to Marlene's story.
"Okay, so Mitch told Emily who told Dorcas who told me that he'd sit with someone he actually fancies before hiding because he saw Millie. Any ideas who?"
No way.
Nope.
Not possible.
"No idea. I reckon it's someone in your friend group, Marls," I shrug.
ČTEŠ
the second last ending
Fanfikcebeginning, middle, end. that gets boring over time, don't you think? what if the beginning was the ending, the middle was maia rose falling for sirius black, and you knew what happened after the ending? this is, after all, the second last ending.
