Breathe Me ( A Bullied By The Marauders Era Fanfiction / Remus Lupin Love Story)

Chapter 10

Rewritten!

-Chapter 10-

The following day Claire sat in her potions class, staring blankly ahead as she tried, and failed miserably, to concentrate on the lesson taking place. Suddenly, a sharp quick nudge to her waist caused her to flinch and wince upon impact. "Professor! Move Claire to another spot. Her pimples are making me uncomfortable, they're gonna pop all over me!" Joseph Wood complained loudly, throwing his arms dramatically in the air and pushing himself as far as he could away from Claire without falling off of the side of the desk. Slughorn sighed with a small eye roll and turned back towards his lesson, completely ignoring the outburst from one of his top students. All students sniggered at his comments, almost as if what he said was funny, but it wasn't. 

"Now class," Slughorn began while giving a quick clap of his hands as a pathetic attempt to quite the class down. "Now, the questions...who do I choose?....". Claire slowly fell back in her seat, praying and praying that she wouldn't get chose, she didn't want more attention to be on her. "Claire" he spoke again. She cursed in her head, and felt her heart beat fast and loud in her chest. "Could you please tell me the difference between Monkshood and Wolfsbane?" Almost as quick as lightning she answered to get the attention away from her as soon as possible, "They are the same plant, which goes by the name of Aconite." Slughorn knew that she was bright and he saw the potential she held, though he had no guts to tell the students off for bullying her, he wrote her answer in large cursive writing upon the chalkboard. 

The agonizing sound of chalk on the chalkboard was nothing like what she knew was coming, Claire knew someone would say something, they always do. The desk creaks softly and echo's through the room as Joseph leans over closer to her. The proximity was almost unbearable and his venomous voice spit at her "You think you're so special, don't you? No one likes you. No one ever will. Brains will get you no where when you look like that. Honestly your existence is a joke." She choked back a small sob but held herself together staring at the front of the room and focusing on something else, anything else. Bright red hair swished from the corner of her eye and her eyes darted to Lily as she talked to the raven haired boy beside her, his name was Snape? Snape. Severus Snape. Claire saw them together, she thought they seemed sweet, he looked after her well. Of course she'd be lying if she would say that she wasn't the tiniest bit jealous of Lily, her looks, her friends, her brains. She was perfect.

Sitting comfortably in a daydream, Claire felt something hit the back of her neck, a piece of ripped, aged parchment. Though she knew not to read it, she still opened it and winced at the words that were etched infront of her 'Go kill yourself.' Her heart ached and she angrily ripped it up into pieces as hurt coursed  through her veins across her body. Standing quickly, she plucked her bag off of the floor and rushed out of the room. 'Maybe they were right?' she thought, 'maybe I really should kill myself.'