Lost Soul - Marauders FanFiction

Chapter One

'My dearest daughter,

I hope that you are having a good time so far in your fourth year, your father and I are proud that you are keeping up with your studies. How are you and little Thomas? I hope he is behaving himself. I'm writing to you about a concern of mine and your fathers that had come to light when we realized that even though it'll take a while, your last year will be coming sooner than we'd like and we'll need to discuss your future. I know it's a bit early, but it's good to keep this in mind! The sooner you have a plan, the better it will be.

I love you very much my litter wanderer, write back to me soon with your thoughts.

Love always, Mum.'

Shelbie sighs as she reached the last part of the letter and runs her fingers through her long blonde hair, her eyes closed with a tired look on her face.

The future... of course. It's always about the future with her family.

Wanderer is what the 3 girls and the Embrose family called the 14 year old blonde ever since she she could remember.

Shelbie Embrose, their Little Wanderer. It was a thing she picked up as she'd wander off doing only Merlin knows what.

Sure, no one in Hogwarts knew where the girl goes when she goes off somewhere on a whim, but Shelbie's friends know.

They knew ever since she came to the school she had always been wandering there to get some peace and quiet for herself and whenever she was no where to be found, they knew she was there.

At first, they were a little worried for her, since everyone knew what was in there, but Shelbie being the way that she was, and telling them that she was playing it safe, they were fine.

Currently, the four girls were in the library together, studying for the test that Candice had oh so fortunately motioned. A Slytherin was with them, who was a close friend of Lily's named Severus Snape. He was a very kind person, and frequently spoke with Lily with a soft tone that only Lily would receive out of the four girls.

Shelbie read the letter from her mother again, a feeling of worry enter her while her friends read their books around her, taking notes as the did. Even though she was happy to see a letter from her, she couldn't help but feel a bit bothered by how her mum urged her to think of her future. She wasn't sure she wanted to.

"They're so cute aren't they?" Candice asks.

"Hm?" Shelblie hums, a bit distracted to hear what she said, but once she looked to where she was pointing the puzzles went together in her head. Shelbie nods.

"Oh yes, definitely."

"You think they'll...?"

"I have a feeling." Shelbie replied, giving a wink to the Ravenclaw. She looked over to Olivia to get her opinion, but she seemed a little distant at the time.

"Olive?"

"Mm?" She asks, getting out of her thoughts as she looks up to the two girls.

"What do you think?"

"Of who?"

Shelbie and Candice both nod their heads discreetly towards Lily and Severus. Olivia instantly had a face of recognition.

"Ooh! Oh." She looks at them and got a hit of a smile on her face. "Yeah, I think they're good with each other, considering they're from houses that don't get along that very well." She remarks.

"Everyone's a little distracted today aren't they?" Candice asks, a look of light humour on her face as she looked at the two girls. Shelbie chuckled and set the letter aside into her satchel for later. She will write back to her mother soon after she was done studying.

"I think I know why Olive is." Shelbie says with a wise smile.

The Gryffindor turned red. "N-no!" Candice nodded.

"Oo yes! You're thinking about--"

"Shhh!" Olivia hissed. "He could be in here!"

It wasn't obvious who Olivia was thinking about; She was thinking about Max O'Brien, a Slytherin who was in the same year as them. She always talked about him when the girls were alone together but never in public, but Shelbie couldn't blame her, she was always the shy little thing.

"Can we please just get back to studying and talk about it later?" Olivia asks. Candice nods.

"Alright alright."

After about an hour of studying, Shelbie had eventually picked up her knitting and started to knit a small sweater for Thomas, following the colours of her house while she chatted idly with Candice and Olivia about each subject their book had, Lily and Severus studying themselves.

However, as they talked her mothers words still emerged in the back of her head, making itself a little home to continue to nag at Shelbie's mind. Her future... her future... 'The sooner you have a plan, the better it will be.'

"You know what, while I'm here I'm gonna go look for a book I'll be right back." Shelbie says eventually after another while, starting to feel restless from studying for an hour and her legs needing a bit of a stretch.

"Okay, don't get lost." Candice teases as Olivia turns back to her books chuckling. Shelbie stuck out her tongue playfully and started to walk off towards a random shelf.

Looking around at each spine of the books, she walks idly as she turned her head up and back down making sure she looked at all of them, trying to see which title would catch her eye. Some boys were hustling around the shelves and muttering to themselves, but that was no matter to her. It was none of her business, just boys being boys.

Stopping once she found a title that interested her, she stopped and bent down to get the book, but a sound stopped her from doing so and she stood back up and looked towards it.

"What is..." She started to walk in the direction where it was until another click was heard. "What the--?"

"WAIT!!"

Shelbie looked towards the voice to see a Gryffindor boy with glasses jump from around the book case as if trying to stop her from something but it was too late when green goo was in Shelbies eyes.

SPLAT!

A/N: Introducing Max O'Brian, and a few other characters like Natalie Hoff, Gwyneth and Jackie Davenson who will be mentioned soon *wink wink*, who are the_jedi 's lovely OC's as she imagined in her books! Olivia Emerson is also one that she imagined. If you haven't read any of her books, YOU HAVE TO RIGHT NOW. They're amazing!! Her books were the ones that inspired me to write this one 😉 SO GO READ THEM NOW. Hope you like it Han!!