𝓐𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓶 |𝓢𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓾𝓼 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴|

Chapter 1

The final bell rang loudly through the empty corridors signalling the end of the classes for the day. Students started stuffing their belongings in their bags in an outstanding rush. The teachers could not even hear their own voices over the loud commotion. Many students exited the classrooms before the teacher even acquired the chance to assign the day's homework. Professor Bins just sighed and looked at the now virtually empty classroom. He gestured his hand towards the door, signalling the handful of those sincere students who were waiting for the assignation of their homework to leave.

Most students headed to their dorms to get some rest, others to the Great hall to grab some food. Laura however seemed to be heading in an alternative direction than the crowd. She made her way to the library and walked towards her little nook in the corner. Laura loved the library and everything about it. The dimly lit lights, that were comfortable to read in, hundreds of shelves covered in dust, waiting for you to approach them, and the windows which made your heart melt every time you looked out of them, they had the most mesmerizing views and the smells of parchment old and new, white and brown that instantly signalled your brain to feel relaxed.

But what she despised was when a group of loud boys tried to talk in a low voice but failed, and seemed to burst out with silly laughter every other minute. Laura's head shot up from where she was looking for a book, to the source of the noise. There were four boys, who were oblivious to any other presence in the library, Madam Pince the Librarian was probably at lunch. There was a very tall and thin boy with sandy hair, who had his face hidden behind a book whilst shaking with laughter, and there was a short boy who looked younger than the other three who sheepishly giggling. A bespectacled boy who seemed unbothered by the fact that he was in a library and people were trying to read in peace, he was the one cracking the jokes with funny gestures which only made him look dumb, and then there was Sirius Black, son of Orion and Walburga Black, the eldest of the two Black Brothers, the blood traitor.

Laura looked back down at her book trying to ignore the noise in the background but seemed to give up within a minute. There came a howl of laughter, and that was it "It is a library you see, a place where people come to read books, in peace." She said loud and clear, sternly glaring at the lot. They seemed very startled as they looked at her, the tall boy looked very embarrassed and was very flustered as he apologized in a low voice, Laura noticed a red and golden 'Prefect' batch on his robes. It seemed like he was the only one who was going to apologize, so she looked back down at her book trying to concentrate again. Sirius looked at her, for longer than necessary, James nudged him "Mate you're staring" he joked in a whisper and cracked up silently. Sirius rolled his eyes looking down at the blank parchment with only a sentence written on the top.
Time Skip
"....she yelped so loudly, Professor Sprouts almost fell off her chair in surprise," Regules said laughing softly as he looked over at his best friend, who was gripping her stomach as it hurt from all the laughing. Laura started telling him about the incident in the library today " I was planning on finishing my essay in the library, but-" she stopped mid-sentence, looking at the smiling face of her best friend, Regulus Black was not the guy who smiled and laughed just as much as a normal person, she didn't want to kill his mood by the mention of his annoying brother and his friends. "But?" Regulus pressed on confused, Laura thought fast "But I had finished my bottle of ink and didn't have an extra bottle on me." Laura lied with a sheepish smile, that was one of her talents; resourcefulness. She could lie as easily as anyone could breathe. However, Regulus shook his head at his friend's silliness and couldn't help but smile, as he laid down on the couch placing his legs on his friend's lap, who didn't bother pushing them off. Laura went back to writing her essay before glancing at the warm flames dancing in the fireplace of the Slytherin Common Room. Regulus had drifted off to sleep as he was woken up an hour later by his best friend gently shaking his shoulders. He sat straight up "I should go to my dorm, goodnight Laura." He said in a sleepy voice as he stood up and made his way to the staircase that led to the boy's dormitories Laura nodded as she put her books in her bag saying "Goodnight Reg".