𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 . . .𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤

007; MAKE UP

↷. 🗽 ঌ ࣪₀ 🦋 .˚ 🎬 ༺ ◛*➶ 。˚
♯ ❝ i'll hold your hand when times get tough.
i'll make you feel like you're enough. ❞ ⁺◟༉ ꜜ

.* ╱ 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑰𝑿 ━ bracelet

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                           "𝓑elieve me, I am not going to cry over Sirius Black," Ariyah swore to her best friend as she walked down the corridor in annoyance, "I mean— who does he think he is? Obviously except from the rude, snobby and rich, cruel, despicable— vile— little boy he is," with every word she got more aggressive with her tone. 

    "Ariyah, don't you think you should let it out?—" Elora suggested, trying her hardest to keep up with the brunette as she stormed as far away as she could get from where she had just heard James and Sirius.

    Suddenly, Ariyah stopped in her tracks and finally turned around, her mascara smudged down her cheeks and her face a stained red. "Why am I like this?— Why do bad things happen to good people," She sighed, furrowing her brows. "I just want to go home."

    Elora looked at her best friend in remorse, pulling her in for a hug as she rested her chin on the girls shoulder dip. "I know, and it won't be long now. Just after The Feast you'll be on that Hogwarts Express back to your family," She whispered.

    "And what about you? Who will your spend your Christmas with?" Ariyah said through her sobs, trying her hardest to contain it whilst it constantly caught her breathe.

    "Don't worry about me," Elora responded and finally pulled away. "Come on, let's go see if Lily's back at the Common Room yet," furthermore, the two girls swung their arms around one another and made their way back, taking as much time in the world as they wanted whilst the snow fell against the grass of the courtyard.

..⃗. [make up] 𑁍ࠜೄ ･ﾟ。·:*:·ﾟ★,。·:*:·ﾟ☆

              Settling down beside Remus, the brunette pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her head on the boys shoulder: the dirty blond confused as to where she had randomly come from. "Have you— have you been crying?" Remus looked down to her, putting his book down as the girl shoved her thumb in her mouth and shook her head. "Ri...your cheeks are painted red. Don't lie to me," He whispered.

    "It's cold outside," She shrugged slightly and kept her eyes heavily tranced on the fire that was lit before them.

    Remus furrowed his brows as his lips downturned, "I've got you a present," He told her as the girl finally looked up at him, her innocent eyes locking with his. "Don't look at me like that— and before you protest you deserve it. I don't expect anything back,"

    Ariyah sighed and began to shake her head before he planted it in her hands, the girl underestimating the strength as she weakly nearly colliding her hands to the sofas bottom, "And I want you to open it now because I won't see you over Christmas," He added.

    "Okay...okay," She whispered under her breathe and smiled down at the moon printed wrapping paper, the girl dug her nail under the sheet and sliced it down the middle, watching as it fell apart and revealed a red book. "Little Women?" She looked up to him.

    "My mum helped me pick it, said a women's liberation person like you deserves to read a book that she knows will become your favourite," Remus shrugged with a smile as Ariyah grinned down at the pages.

    "Thank you, Remus. And thank you to your mum too, tell her I miss her," The girl suddenly launched forward and embraced the boy in a bone crushing hug, knocking the two of them backwards on the sofa. At that moment, Sirius had lazily walked in with a sour look upon his face, glancing at the duo before feeling even worse.

    When letting go and laughing, the brunette girl looked up to see Sirius standing before them, "If you're going to do something that destroys your modesty, a dorm sounds like the right place," He scoffed at the two as Ariyah narrowed his eyes at them.

    "Piss off Padfoot," Remus rolled his eyes and sat up, staring at his best friend who only shared a glance between the two of them.

Ariyah couldn't even look at him, completely furious and full of deject about his words. And even though she had heard worse due to her being a mud blood, Sirius's words stung her in a way she had only felt once before.

The brunette boy opened his mouth to say one more thing, staring at Ariyah has guilt submerged inside of him. But instead of apologising, he decided he ought to not say anything at all in hopes she'd forget about it during the break. "Can I just...can I please talk to you Ariyah?" He whispered.

Ariyah looked up at him slowly, the first time she had seen him look deject and weak. His eyes were already gazed over her as the girl sighed and forced herself up, "I'll speak to you later, Remus," She smiled and watched as the dirty blonde nodded and left. "What do you want." She refused to meet his gaze for any longer and sat back down on the sofa, turning the book over to read the blurb.

"To apologise?" He said matter of factly, listening as Ariyah scoffed and shook her head. Sirius sighed and sat down beside her, rolling his eyes when she shuffled further down so she wouldn't have to sit beside him. "I mean it, Ariyah. I am sorry. I know my words were horrible and deplorable,"

She nodded, "They were," her eyes not lifting from the words.

"And that I have no excuse," He leaned closer towards her as she shuffled further once again, this time crossing her legs over the other and turning to the front page of the book. "And if you don't want to talk to me again after that, I'll understand."

Ariyah didn't say anything for a little while, Sirius had gotten to the point where he had concluded she wasn't even listening and didn't even care. "It's okay, Black. You didn't even say anything bad, but I just spent so many hours trying to teach you where you went wrong and the whole time you learned nothing," She sighed and finally looked to him, a small smile on her face. Sirius grinned at her before pulling her into a hug, the girl gasping swiftly in shock before hugging him back.

He knew why he hadn't contained anything. It was because he was so taken away with her words of knowledge and the way her lips spoke them brushed perfectly against each other slightly when she pronounced things. Sirius didn't say anything, he only picked up her wrist and smiled down at the bracelet. "You must be right if this is still on," He smiled to her.

    "Oh trust me, Black. This will only be coming off when you're completely, truly and utterly dead to me," She raised her brows to him and stood up, "Anyway, i've got to pack for the holidays, i'll see you before we go,"

    And with that, the duo had become friends once again.