Pretty Little Bumble Bea /James Potter/ ❁book 1❁

❁Chapter 10❁

Chapter 10

"Psst."

Bea rolled her eyes, keeping her eyes firmly on McGonagall and not on the boy at the door just waiting to get into a terrible amount of trouble.

"Pssst."

She shook her head, trying her best not to turn her head, though she couldn't deny that she was curious as to what he wanted, and why he would go to such lengths - interrupting Professor McGonagall's ­- to talk to her.

"Psst!"

"Mr Potter!" Professor McGonagall's voice boomed through the classroom, allowing students to interrupt into loud mumbles as they turned to stare at him, seeing him walk sheepishly through the door, and slowly down the pathway to McGonagall.

He quickly looked at Bea, sending her an apologetic smile whilst she watched him go to McGonagall, seeing her eyebrow raised and the intimidated look on her face, James knew he was in for detention, he could only hope it wasn't tonight.

"Ms Lupin, can I help you?" asked McGonagall, resulting in her classmates turning suddenly to look at her as she hurried down to where James stood.

"James was just trying to tell me something, Professor," Bea spoke, patting James' shoulder, and in a hushed voice she said, "you see, Remus wasn't in the best shape this morning when I visited him, so I asked James to tell me how he was no matter what.

If there is anyone here that you should punish, Professor, it's me."

She roughly nudged James when he went to protest, keeping the sad smile on her face whilst McGonagall looked between the two of them, "well, Mr Potter, what is going on with Mr Lupin that you need to get Ms Lupin?"

"He is getting bad headaches, Professor," James choked out after a moment, "he gets them before the moon cause it worries him, Bea being his sister can really calm him down and he's in a lot of pain."

The woman thought for a moment, knowing perfectly well that the two in front of her where lying but she knew that neither of them where stupid enough to lie without a good cause, so with a sigh, she spoke, "very well, you are dismissed from class, Bea, I expect Mr Burns can fill you in."

"Thank you, Professor," Bea nodded, smiling widely and soon grabbing James' arm, pulling him along until she got to her table and grabbed all of her things as quickly as she could, bidding a quick goodbye to Bertie, she rushed out of the class with James behind her.

"Bumb-"

"You complete arse!" she exclaimed as they walked down an empty hallway, smacking his arm ever so slightly, "do you know how bloody terrifying McGonagall is?! That could have gone a completely different way and we would both be in a terrible amount of trouble, what the bloody hell do you need James to interrupt me during bloody McGonagall's class?!"

"Bumble," he laughed softly, stepping closer and opening his arms, "you need to calm down-"

"Calm down?!" she screeched, "I am calm, James Potter you haven't seen me-"

She cut herself off when he wrapped his arms around her, engulfing her in the biggest bear hug she could imagine. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she stood there in the hallway with James towering over her in a giant hug, but soon did she let her arms awkwardly wrap around him.

"Uh - James, what are you doing?" she trailed off, pushing herself ever so slightly onto her tiptoes in order to reach his shoulder.

"You looked like you needed a cuddle," he mumbled into her hair, unable to stop himself from basking in the moment of her being so close to him, he grinned widely at her when he pulled away, patting her head, "I need to talk to you."