Written In the Stars | s.b |

TEN

"I cannot believe you snogged Potter in the Forbidden Forest!" Mary Macdonald squealed.

Ariah was in potions with her group, Mary, Alice and Lily Evans. Professor Slughorn had just released the class to work on their project before he went to his office. He had spent the last hour droning on and on about the perfect way to make Alihotsy Draught.

Ariah fought to pay attention but as her own emotions were hard to conceal after the night she had prior, shutting out others emotions was more difficult than other times. All she wanted to do was stuff her ears with poison to make her go deaf and pour it in her eyes so no ounce of light could get through as her migraine pounded on and on and on.

She wanted someone to dissect her brain and turn off the empathy switch.

She wanted so badly to feel nothing.

"Yeah," Alice said, leaning in. "How was it?"

Ariah looked over at the boys' table where a couple other Gryffindor and Hufflepuff boys stood talking with James.

James had the cockiest look on his face that made Ariah wish to pour a boiling cauldron on his head.

Then again... she was about to brag about her snog session with him too so could she really be angry....

She tried ignoring the miserable emotions flowing off of Sirius.

Ariah shrugged in response to Alice. "It was... nice..."

Mary and Alice giggled. "Well give us more details than just nice!" Mary said. "You got to kiss James Potter!"

"What is wrong with you guys?!" Lily snapped, slamming her hand down on the desk. "I think our education is much more important than talking about kissing some boy!"

Ariah couldn't agree more, which angered her. She decided to speak against Evans on the sheer fact that she hated her.

"You're just mad because no one could ever want to snog a bossy know-it-all like you," Ariah said.

Lily scoffed. "At least I'm passing my classes! And I guess now we know why you're failing all yours!"

Ariah felt her face flush with anger and embarrassment. Everyone in class was now staring at the two.

"Excuse me?"

"Maybe if you stopped snogging every guy you meet and actually picked up a book for once, then you wouldn't be failing!"

Ariah felt too many emotions to identify which were her own.

She felt anger, sadness, embarrassment, shame and much more. Then again, maybe all those were her own emotions.

Unknowing what to do, Ariah picked up the example cauldron of Alohtsy Draught, dunking the contents on Lily Evans.

The class gasped as the blue liquid steamed from Lily's damp red hair.

Lily looked up, her green eyes fuming with rage.

A hand softly touched Ariah's shoulder. "Ariah lets take a walk," Sirius' calm voice said.

Ariah shrugged off his hand, blinded by the rage and pain she felt.

"You know nothing about me Lily Evans!" Tears were slipping down her cheeks. "That was an awful thing to say and none of it is true!!"

"Maybe you should look in the mirror and see yourself the way everyone else does!" Lily screamed savagely. "You're nothing but a bully!"

"Ariah come o—"