Beyond Hope

Entry #2

October 1, 1975

A few days have passed since I won that bet. James has been working hard cleaning the classrooms, but I still haven't used my favor and that seems to have been scaring James quite a bit.

"Why won't you use the favor already?" James complained as he walked next to me.

"Why does it matter?" I rolled my eyes. "I'll use it when I need to."

"Then do it now, I can do anything for you."

"That's a lot of things you're putting on the line."

"I mean it"

"Mean what?" Sirius asked as he walked up to us.

"Potter said that he'll do anything for me if I use the favor I won."

"Really?" Sirius asked as he put his arm over James' shoulders.

James shrugged him off, getting closer to me. "Turn in the bloody favor already, you're driving me insane."

I smiled sarcastically. "You can wait a little more."

I walked away, not wanting to continue to listen to his banter about what he could offer me. I kept walking away and turning away from his attempts for me to call in my favor for the rest of the week until Saturday arrived and I received a letter.

I bursted into the Gryffindor common room, passing all the confused glances looking at my way and marched to James' dorm. Once I arrived, I knocked on his dorm door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me."

"Belle? Come in" James said as he opened the door.

I walked in and sat on his bed.

"What is it?" He asked.

"You know how you have been telling me to call in my favor for the past few days?"

James looked at me and got closer. "Yeah? Have you come to a decision?"

"Sort of."

"Whatever you want, I don't mind." He said as he began to sit next to me.

"I got a letter from my younger brother and-"

"You have a younger brother?" James interrupted, shocked.

"Yeah, haven't I talked about him before?"

"No.. anyhow, please continue." He said after he regained his composure.

"Alright, well his birthday is coming up soon and I can't really go home so he asked me if I could get him a gift for his birthday."

"What did he ask for?" James asked.

"What are you doing here El?"

I looked up to see where the voice had come from.

"Lune? Hi!" I said, getting up to give him a hug.

Remus hugged back. "Hey El. What are you both up to?"

"I just need to call in my favor, and I think I need help from the rest of you as well."

A few minutes passed while we got Sirius and Peter.

"What do you want to do?" Peter asked

"Well I need to get a present and not just any present, my brother is turning 11 and I need to get him a good gift since I haven't seen him in a while."

Sirius replied after a few seconds while I waited anxiously. "Oh, we understand."

"You do?" I asked

"Yep."