Her Single Rose (Remus Lupin)

Forty-Seven

Aries could not get out of bed.

Pain ran through her stomach and a head ache began to start. A groan left her lips as she twisted and turned in her bed.

"Aries, get up, stop whining." Mindy said coming out of the bathroom and tying her tie.

"I'm not getting out of this bloody bed." She snapped, the pain in her stomach increasing as she moved over more.

"Uh-oh, someone's on there ladies day." Marlene sang from in the bathroom. "I'm sure if we get Regulus in here, she'll get forced out in ten minutes." She suggested.

"I will murder you." Aries muttered through her pillow.

"Oh, that's not a good idea. Since I am going on a date with Sirius today, after classes." She announced.

"What about Gideon?" Mindy asked as she took mascara out of her makeup kit.

"We got into a fight yesterday, he said she saw Sirius and I snogging the other day and now he won't talk to me." Marlene explained. She took the lipstick, Mindy had and began to apply it.

"Well, were you?" Mindy asked, pausing her mascara as to not poke her eye out.

"No!" Marlene scoffed.

"I'm so grateful that someone is finally going out with my brother, there, I'm so excited, yay. Now shut up so I can sleep." Aries groaned from her bed.

"I really don't want to shut up now that you've asked me so nicely." Marlene muttered as she finished her makeup and walked over to her book bag, placing it over her neck like a satchel.

"Though we are about to leave so, have a nice time bleeding over the sheets." Mindy called out when the two left.

They shut the door, slamming it in the process making Aries scowl at it.

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Aries found a new pet peeve, when people constantly start banging on someone's door.

She tossed and turned, grumbling to herself, hoping the knocking would go away but it only increased.

Aries grabbed her wand and shot a spell towards it wordlessly. She was glad she had started practicing early to do wordless spells.

The door slammed open as Regulus walked in, followed by Parkinson and Avery.

"I will hit you over the head with a hot log from that fire and put your body in it to burst into flames if you don't leave." Aries muttered.

"Not so friendly, are we, Black." Avery spoke as Parkinson sat on the side of Aries bed, looking at her like she was ill and needed a caring mother.

"Careful, I bite." Aries warned.

"How you doing?" Regulus asked, his hands in his pockets.

"I want to kill the world." She mumbled bitterly.

"I take that as, not great." He chuckled. Whenever Aries was on her ladies week, Regulus made it his job to come into his sisters room every once in a while to check in at home.

She seemed to act like she wanted to set the world on fire all the time. But the fact that she liked to have him sit beside her on the bed made him know she liked his company.

"You brought a squad from the Underworld to check on me, come down here so I can slap you." She huffed.

"Look, Marlene asked me to just see how you were doing. It's nice you have a friend that cares." Regulus shrugged.