ACT I; SCENE 3

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CALPURNIA ENJOYED SENDING messages in bottles across the black lake. Of course, no one ever received them, because of the fact it was a lake no one touched. She always took tiny pieces of parchment and a muggle pen and wrote out little things she felt and things that happened that day, pinned them in bottles and let them sail away.

What she didn't know is that the messages were all collected by one person who watched her do this, creepy as it may be. The person? Remus Lupin.

He never knew about the girl in all reality until he saw her sailing bottles, and he'd go into the forbidden forest and grab them from the shore, hidden under James' invisibility cloak. Sometimes, they were a bit odd. Little figments of story pieces he'd pieced together as her imagination. A girl with visions who was claimed insane, and knew of great acts of bravery.

So he'd wait for bottles most mornings, and usually, they would come. But every once in a while, they would sink before her reach them, and he wondered where the story was going to go.

Remus had his own routines too, of course. Every night the full moon was due, being a werewolf, he would go down the whomping willow and up the trap door to the shrieking shack, where he spent his night accompanied by his other three friends, who would wait patiently with him.

"Moony, I think I'm going to go right insane. Lily has been avoiding me hardcore this week." James interrupted the boy's thoughts, as he pulled up to the table and sat down, Calpurnia close behind him.

"that's because you've been incessantly hounding her," Calpurnia quietly stated, which made the other boys laugh a little.

"she's not wrong, Prongs." Peter shrugged with a smile, which earned him a soft punch in the shoulder from the distraught boy.

"Well, looking at it logistically, if she likes you, and I don't happen to think she does right now, and she's been seeing Calpurnia follow you around-" Sirius began before being interrupted.

"shit, your right mate." James looked to Calpurnia.

"What do I do?" Sirius and Peter chuckled over the boys' frantic nerves as he set his head in his hands.

"Ask her to do something, do your thing," Remus suggested through small laughter, watching as Calpurnia stared down at him as he freaked out with blanked eyes and a confused expression. The boy stood up and walked over to Lily, who was talking with Marlene and Alice.

"Hello my sweet Lily Pad," James said, and the girl stood to meet his view.

"Shag off, Potter." She flipped him off with both hands.

"Hogsmeade this weekend?" He smiled sweetly, despite her harshness.

"In your dreams. When will you leave me alone, you git? I will never say yes!" She said, and he seemed to tense, sputtering a little before turning and coming back to the table the group was sat at.

"let us go get you some fresh air." Calpurnia stood the boy up and helped him up from the table as he walked a little.

She froze for a moment, stopping to grab her head as she winced slightly.

"you alright Cal-Pal?" James asked, perked up when Calpurnia seemed off, and she stood for a few seconds before opening her eyes, looking around as if to re-establish where she was, when James asked a second time, the group now focused on her.

"fine, fine." she began, and looked over between the redhead and James, "one moment." she dismissed herself and the groups gaze followed her as she sat calmly beside Lily.

"Lily, I think James is a cool guy. If you can't see that, then whatever. But please don't take it out on him for wanting to he your special friend. Thanks." she said, Lily paying attention to the muffled speak Calpurnianused, and walked calmly back over to the group of boys' to lead James outside without a word.

"What did you say?" He asked, and she shook her head wordlessly.

"It doesn't matter." She assured, and she sat him at the shore of the lake, kneeling beside him.

"Are you alright?" She asked, and he nodded.

"Yeah, i don't know why this times getting to me." He sighed, and she pat his back.

"It happens to the best of us, Potter."

"Theres just no point in hating someone you love."

That was the day Calpurnia Carrow decided she didn't like Lily Evans.

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