When The Full Moon Rises - {A Remus Lupin Love Story}

You Don't Know Anything About Me

Marlene's P.O.V

Ever since I met the girls in my dormitory, I knew exactly my thoughts on them. Alice was nice, if a bit clumsy, Mary was kind, but a pushover, and Lily was cool, I could tell she would be popular and good to have as a friend. Trinity, on the other hand, I got bad vibes from. She seemed to feel the need to fill every silence, it was unnerving. Also, she stood between me and my Sirius living happily ever after. I mean, why should she get so angry? All I want to do is date her brother! She shouldn't care, anyway, Trinity Black annoyed me.

It was five weeks into the year that I did anything about it though. She had just been telling me off for asking Sirius out (so what if I was only eleven?) when I confronted her.
"Honestly, Trinity, I don't get you, you fill in any silence, just because you can. You just act annoying and hyper all the time, it's aggravating! Why should we sit here and listen to you be wierd, all you do is act freakily alert all the time for no reason, and I'm tired of it!" I ranted, my blonde hair swinging in its ponytail behind me, as I ranted.
I was quite good at reading what other people were thinking, and what Trinity gave to me that day was strange, but at the same time, not strange at all. Her face ran through so many emotions, I almost took a step back. One after the other, she seemed to be thinking along the lines of this: confusion, realisation, worry, fear, haste to cover up all the aforementioned emotions, anger and finally resolution - like she was stepping down to everything that just happened, this was not like Trinity Black. This was more than I thought it would be.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Marlene, I just like talking! It's fun!" She exclaimed, but I could hear the fakeness in her voice, this was wierd. I narrowed my gaze at her, and then let it out:
"There you go again, you're faking, I can tell! Now trust me, Trinity Black, because I know a thing or two about being cool, amd pretending to be someone you're not isn't! So just go away and be your stupid, fake self away from me and my friends."
Then she exploded,
"JUST SHUT UP, MARLENE MCKINNON! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME!" she shouted, trying to hold back tears, then she really did the unexpected.
She jumped on me - punching and kicking for all she was worth. I screamed, only to have her pulled off me by Professor Mcgonagall.

"WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME IS GOING ON HERE? MUGGLE FIGHTING! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! BOTH OF YOU - FOLLOW ME NOW!" both of us stood up and the head of house miserably, glaring at eachother the whole time.

Trinity's P.O.V

I was furious with myself. Why did I punch Marlene? Oh wait, because she deserved it. She didn't know me, but then again, she was right. I did have things to hide. But no one would ever know that. Only Sirius would ever know that.

Anyway, we arrived in Professor Mcgonagall's office, and she gestured for us both to sit down. The look on her face was enough to let us know she wasn't pleased, but I guess we were just punching eachother. She raised her hand, and I was inclined to flinch, but I stayed strong, just like I always did at home. Instead, she placed her hand on the table, and I relaxed slightly, that is until she opened her mouth.
"I am absoloutley disgusted, with the both of you. Fighting, in the common room! How dare you shame us like that? Before you say anything, however, I am going to say one thing: no matter what you say, letters will be sent home because of this."
My head snapped up at her words, she couldn't, I would be in so much trouble.
"No! You can't, Professor. I don't care what you do, but you can't send a letter home! I'll be in so much trouble!"
"I am afraid, Miss Black, that that is the point." Mcgonagall replied, and I was filled with dread of the next morning.

I zoned out of the rest of whatever you're meant to call when you are in a teacher's office beacause you're in trouble - all I could think about was the letter that would be going home. I vaguely picked up the words 'detention' and 'ten points each', but that was all.

When I arrived back in the common room, I barrelled into Sirius's arms, doing my best to hold back the tears.
"Woah, what is it, Trinity?" He asked, looking at me curiously, I never broke down in public.
"They're sending a letter home, Siri, about what just happened with Marlene." I said, holding onto him even tighter.
I heard him inhale sharply, this was going to be bad.
'It's okay, Trin, we'll pull through, just like we always have, and always will."
I could feel confused stares in my back, no one was expecting that.

Siri and I curled up in the common room for the rest of the evening, not really talking, just thinking about the howler that would land in front of me tomorrow morning at breakfast. I just wanged the ground to swallow me up right now.

The situation at home wasn't really all that bad, I guess. Some people would have it worse off. We occasionally got a smack, but that wasn't the bad thing. It was the things they said. Sirius and I were constantly being compared to our younger brother Regulus, and just got tons of verbal abuse thrown in our direction. I hated it at home. So that was why I did what I did. I covered all pain and hurt with cheers and laughter. It was the way I coped. Nothing really ever made it go away, but pretending it wasn't there made it a little less painful.

A/N - Hi again, it's been a while. Woops! So anyways, I'm really not sure about this chapter,  I think it's not really as good as the other ones, but I needed to get in the fact that Trinity and Sirius aren't physically abused, just because I want this story to be more focused on their time at Hogwarts and with their friends. So let me know what you think! I welcome constructive criticism with open arms! My name is not Joanne Rowling (unfortunately - that would be so cool!) so none of this is mine! Hope you all have an epic holiday! If you get a holiday, or is that just where I live? Who knows? Anyway, I'm ranting  byeeeeeeeeeeeee!