Ellie the Marauder | Sirius Black

|6| Just Say No Ellie!

It had been a couple of weeks after the whole "Mary vs the Snakes" incident. In that time I began to take notice of couple of things I hadn't beforehand. First, were my brother's friends. Perhaps I hadn't cared enough to really notice before, but he was almost exclusively friends with Purebloods. I found it odd. Sure we had grown up amongst all that pureblood society stuff, but our family was a lot like the Potters in that we didn't really care about where someone came from, only the character that they possessed.

Another thing I started to notice, that I really hadn't paid much attention to until after Sirius broke me out of the hospital, was just how many girls fawned over my curly haired best friend.

Of course he was stupid handsome and funny, but there was another more broken side to him that people didn't see. These girls didn't know him like I had. They hadn't grown up beside him. They had no idea who he really was. How could they like him, or love him as some would profess, if they didn't even know the first thing about him!? Sirius was completely unbothered by all of this.. actually being the dramatic little attention whore he was, I'm sure he loved it.

But that's the thing about Sirius. He loves positive attention. He craves it. He never had anyone to tell him how important or special or loved he was growing up and now he just takes it where ever he can get it.

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"Hey Elizabeth?" said a Hufflepuff girl as I sat alone in the library one Saturday waiting for Remus.

"Uh... hey uh...?" I had no clue who this girl was.

"Susan." she provided.

"Oh hey Susan!? Er... what's up?" I say awkwardly. I guess the girl named Susan took this as an invitation to join me because she just plopped herself down in the chair beside me.

"Um well.. you're friends with Sirius right?" She probed.

"Uh yeah? He's my best friend," I say maybe a bit more rudely than was entirely necessary.

"Um is that all?" she asked. What else would there be? It was common knowledge that we were partners in crime.

"I'm not sure what you're asking..."

"Oh uh well you two aren't together are you?" she asked. Together?...oh Merlin!

"Oh Merlin!" I exclaimed. Why didn't I say no? Just say no Ellie!

This was about the time when Moony showed up. He walked up looking between my shocked expression and Susan's face which I suppose was just confused, to be honest I wasn't paying attention.

"Erm... you okay Snugs?" Remus asked as he sat down at the table across from me.

"Uh..." I don't know why it was so hard form me to say no again.

"Um... I-I'll just talk to you later Elizabeth..." Susan said once she realized she was no longer welcome.

"What the hell..." Remus said softly as Susan walked out the Library.

"I— um— she asked me... uh..." I stuttered out. I looked around and found several faces swiftly look away from our direction. "Rem. Do you mind if we move this party somewhere else?" I asked. He nodded.

We made our way to a quiet, secluded part of the library where no one would disturb or eves drop on us. "Now will you please tell me what the hell is wrong with you?!" Cranky Moony hissed. Must be getting close to the full moon...