THE NEXT MORNING ALL OF THE GIRLS in the dorm woke up in a timely manner. However, like Marlene, some of the girls had a harder time getting up than others. Lily was fully awake, dressed in her uniform, hair brushed thoroughly and books held in her hands she was ready for the first day of school.
Unlike her twin, Iris was still curled up in her bed. Her short ruby hair was in knots, drool dribbled down her chin and her body was strewn across her bed with the covers nearly on the floor. Lily scowled when she noticed the state of her sister. They had to head to the Great Hall in only a few minutes so that they could eat, get their schedules and find their classes for this year. And Lily did not want to be late in the slightest.
Though, Lily should have seen this happening. With the fact that she knows that Iris stayed up quite late and that she isn't a morning person, she should have expected Iris not to be ready yet. And she had the perfect way to wake up her twin.
During the summer, Iris spent most of her time scheming, pranking, eating and sleeping. And whenever she did sleep it was till noon, which pissed Lily off a lot. Since Lily is a morning person and loved to do many different activities during the summertime, she always planned to do them with Iris. And the only way to do that was to wake up Iris, which was a tough job.
Lily could swear that Iris could sleep through an earthquake and not even stir. But there was one way that Lily always knew how to wake up Iris. Of course, she only found out about it once they found out they were witches, but it works perfectly.
Lily grabbed her wand and walked over to stand at the foot of Iris' bed. Wendy and Marlene watched Lily stalk her way to her twins bed like a lion. Each shared a glance with each other as they realized what Lily was going to do. They knew all too well about how Lily likes to wake up people in the morning. Both of them and the other girls in their dorm have been recipients of the treatment in the past. Some more than others.
Lily stared down at her sister with a sinister smile. Despite Iris annoying Lily by not being ready, she loved waking Iris up this way. Iris continued to snore as she dreamed of all the adventures that she would have now that she was attending Hogwarts. However, as she was in the middle of her dream about pranking Severus, she felt a coldness consuming her entire body.
She gasped as she was jolted by a stream of water hitting her face and entire body. She struggled in her bed as she tried to get away from the stream of cold water. Her struggles didn't help her situation as she only ended up falling to the ground in a mess of limbs and wet blankets.
"Good morning, sister dearest," Iris heard her twin say sweetly. She uncovered herself from the soaked blankets and glared up at her smirking sister.
"I hate you."
Lily only giggled, "just get ready, we have to go to the Great Hall in five minutes, and I am not waiting for you." Iris huffed and brushed her wet hair from her face.
In the background, Wendy and Marlene tried to keep their laughter to a minimum as they watched Iris pull at her clingy clothes. Iris turned her irritated glare on the two and sneered slightly. They could tell that she definitely was not a morning person. After a few moments, they ran out of the room once they saw Iris had noticed them about to die of laughter.
Iris stood up and stretched her stiff limbs before heading into the bathroom. But once she finally got into the bathroom and saw her disheveled appearance in the mirror she remembered what she had done last night. The sleepy look in her eyes disappeared and was replaced with mischief and excitement. A smile crawled onto her face as she started to pull a brush through her unruly hair.
"Why do you look so happy?"
Iris turned to see Lily standing in the doorway of the bathroom. Lily's eyes suspiciously rake over her twin. What is Iris up to? She wondered.
Iris shrugged her shoulders as she started to get a few items for her shower. "I just have a good feeling about today is all."
Lily's eyebrows scrunched up as she watched her sister head over to the showers with a bounce in her step. She watched nervously. Whenever Iris was having a good day, someone else was bound to be having a bad day at her expense.
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Wendy and Marlene giggled as they hung onto each other and tried to walk down the narrow stone staircase to the common room. Their suppressed laughter could be heard in the common room itself and a few other students watched as the two girls stumbled their way in. The Marauders watched as the pair finally bursted into full-on laughter. Their faces were maroon as they gasped for breath as if they were underwater.
The boys exchanged confused looks as they watched the girls try to regain their breath. The girls had finally sobered up and calmed down enough to walk straight. Except for Marlene, who kept letting a few giggles slip from her lips.
"Why do you think they're so bubbly?" James asked as they watched to two girls sit together at a table in the corner.
Sirius shrugged his shoulders, "no clue."
"Maybe it has something to do with Iris…?" Peter voiced his hypothesis softly.
"I wouldn't be surprised if it does," Remus scoffed and stuffed his face back into the muggle book he was reading before he was interrupted.
Soon enough, said girl came bounding down the stairs and into the common room with a bright smile. Despite it being the first day of school, she was extremely excited about what was to come during breakfast. She wishes she had her mother's camera to take pictures of it. Perhaps she could find someone in the castle with one.
She saw the Marauders sitting on the couch and chairs in front of the fireplace. She wasn't surprised to find that Remus has his nose stuck in a book (one that Iris actually knew, surprisingly), James and Sirius bickering with each other like siblings and Peter appeared to be quite clueless to what he should be doing. But she noticed that he was fidgeting quite a bit. He must just be a fidgety person, she thought. She hadn't known the boy long, only a day in fact, and she could only think that he was usually like that.
Hopping her way into the common room, Iris plopped herself down on the couch in between Remus and James. "Good morning, boys," she greeted them enthusiastically.
"Morning Iris," Remus hummed as he looked up from his book momentarily before stuffing his face back into it.
"Morning," Peter squeaked causing Iris to smile brightly towards them.
James turned away from Sirius, ending their bickering, and turned to drape an arm over Iris' shoulders. "Good morning, Miss. Evans. You seem very chipper this beautiful morning."
"Yes, very chipper," Sirius mocked James' posh voice as he jumped over to push Remus off of the couch so he could sit on Iris' other side and earned a heated glare. "I could only guess it's because you get to see the most handsome wizard in Hogwarts," Sirius ran a hand through his hair arrogantly with a smirk. Everyone rolled their eyes, and Iris smirked.
"Yes, that is exactly why I'm excited," Iris declared and watched as Sirius' grey eyes widened as he thought she was referring to him. She quickly moved to help Remus up before pushing him to sit on the couch where she previously was. Remus, breathless at the sudden movement, squealed as Iris jumped into his arms and sat on his lap. "So Remus, how are you this wonderful morning?"
Flustered, Remus stuttered with his words, "w-well, f-f-fine, Iris." He stared at her startled as he now focused on the girl sitting in his lap, his book now forgotten about. Iris fluttered her eyelashes at Remus and stared at him as if he was the most interesting person she'd ever met.
Iris giggled girlishly and fluttered her eyelashes flirtatiously, "that's really cool, Remus."
"Okay, okay, we get it. You two can stop now!" Sirius grumbled as he pulled Iris off of Remus and instead into his own lap. His face was slightly red in annoyance as he grumbled under his breath about 'a stupid wolf'. Iris' eyebrows furrowed when she heard him mutter that, but she brushed it off as one of the nicknames the boys have for each other.
"Now as much as I'm enjoying watching you two fight over Iris-" James started.
"We're not-"
James cut Remus off, "but I'd much rather be enjoying a wonderful breakfast with my true love."
"Your true love…?" Iris wondered out loud as the four boys turned to look at her, "you mean Sirius?"
She started to laugh hysterically and had to wrap her arms around Sirius' neck to stop herself from falling onto the ground. Sirius flushed crimson as Iris buried her face into his shoulder and Remus and Peter started to laugh too. Sirius' eyebrows furrowed in slight irritation. Not only were his friends annoying him, but so was Iris. But Merlin, did he love seeing her smile. And her laugh, he could listen to her laugh on repeat.
"What are you lot laughing about?" Lily asked as she descended the stairs from the dorms. She stared with a questioning brow raised as she saw the Marauders (minus Sirius and James) and her sister laughing as if they had heard the funniest joke ever. She also stared at the fact that Iris was hanging onto Sirius' neck, sitting in his lap and her head is buried into his shoulder.
"Ah, Lily. You look ravishing as ever," James flirted as he beckoned her over. "It looks like there aren't any open seats," he patted his lap, "you can sit here."
Lily scoffed as she rolled her eyes and didn't even walk in his direction as she strutted her way over to the table where Wendy and Marlene were. "That was a very lame attempt of a flirt, Potter," Iris stated.
James rolled his eyes, "like you could do better."
Iris smirked with a mischievous glint in her chocolate eyes, "oh, don't challenge me, Potter."
James leaned forward, "I'm challenging you, Evans. I don't think you know anything about flirting."
"After what she just did to Remus?" Peter questioned quietly.
Iris raised a questioning eyebrow with a smirk, "I suppose I just have to prove myself even more." She turned to look at Sirius with large eyes, "you hear that Sirius? James doesn't think I can flirt." She played with his tie and bit her bottom lip. Sirius stared at her with wide eyes as he tried his best to ignore the effect she had on him. "Do you want to help me prove him wrong?" She innocently ran her hand up and down his chest lightly. Each light touch from her gentle fingers set a trail of fire in their wake across his chest. His breath hitched as he sat frozen in his spot.
The other boys watched with surprise painting each of their faces. They knew that Iris was definitely a flirt, but they didn't think they'd see it to this extent. And to have this effect of Sirius Black… "Alright we get it, Iris," Remus commented as he shifted uncomfortably next to the pair.
"Really, because I think Sirius was enjoying that," Iris laughed lightly.
Lily appeared behind the group and pulled Iris off of a flustered and embarrassed Sirius. "Time to head down for breakfast, Iris. We need to get our times tables."
"But Lily," Iris whined like a child as Lily started to drag her towards the portrait hole. "I don't want to go to classes."
Lily huffed but didn't stop pulling Iris out of the common room as Wendy and Marlene followed. "And I don't care."
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Lily was finally able to pull Iris down a few flights of stairs (with Wendy and Marlene's help) til Iris stopped fighting her and walked to the Great Hall. They soon arrived at the Great Hall on time and sat at the Gryffindor table to eat their breakfast.
"Oh, they have french toast!" Iris squealed and plopped down into a seat before beginning to pile her plate with toast.
Wendy grimaced slightly as she sat down in front of Iris. She had to admit that Iris' stomach appeared to be a bottomless pit, and she's barely known the girl a few days. "Slow down, Iris. You're going to choke."
Iris rolled her eyes as she shoved another piece of french toast into her mouth and said sarcastically, "Yes, mum."
"You would think being in France for a long time you'd be sick of french toast," Marlene commented as she sat next to Iris. Copying her new friend, Marlene started to shove as much food as she could onto her own plate and began to scarf down what she could.
Iris hummed in thought as she momentarily stopped eating (to the relief of Wendy, who really thought she was going to choke.). She swallowed the mouthful she had, "not really, come to think of it, they didn't serve french toast at meals in Beauxbatons." Shrugging, Iris continued to scarf down her food to the dismay of both Wendy and Lily.
The girls continued to banter lightly with each other for a few more minutes as the Great Hall started to fill up with more students. Iris watched eagerly as she spotted a few of her trick sweets sitting on a few platters. Untouched, the sweets waited for someone to take a bite out of it. She didn't even notice the Marauders finally enter the Great Hall because of how enticed she was with her sweets.
"You know, you could just eat the sweets and not stare at them longingly," James teased Iris as he sat down next to Lily (to her dismay).
"Hmm? Oh, no. I've already eaten too much," Iris dismissed.
"Has Hell frozen over!?" Lily exclaimed earning a glare from her twin. "I've never heard you say that before," Lily chuckled as Iris' new friends snickered with each other. Iris' eye twitched in irritation as she huffed.
"Well, if you're not going to eat them," Sirius shrugged as he grabbed a few for himself, and the other boys followed after. Iris watched impatiently as she waited for the boys to finally eat her treats.
"They look pretty good," Lily squealed as she picked up one of the sweets. Iris' eyes widened, she didn't want Lily to eat them! It may have been interesting to see Lily with purple hair, or boys clothes, or speaking a different language, but Iris wanted to live more than anything. And Lily would have killed Iris if she was pranked, on the first day too.
She quickly grabbed Lily's hand and stopped her from even touching one of the sweets. The girls looked at her with confused and puzzled looks. "Don't," Iris whispered as she pointed to the boys who were now starting to actually eat the sweets.
They stared at Iris with furrowed eyebrows, and then her eyes narrowed to slits, "why? What did you do?"
Iris' eyes twinkled with mischief as a smirk graced her light pink lips, "just watch." Her vague reply caused Lily's eyes to cautiously stare at her sister's face with worry.
Screams and yelps soon started to fill the air as people started to eat the trick treats. People's hair started to change colors, people started to switch clothes and people's voices were altered drastically.
The room erupted into chaos, just like Iris imagined. She smiled widely as she saw what havoc she was causing. She was immensely proud that her prank worked perfectly.
"Oh, my Godric!" Marlene exclaimed as she watched everyone start to run about the Great Hall in a panic. Iris howled in laughter and had to hold onto Marlene to stop herself from falling onto the ground. The group of girls watched as people ran about trying to get themselves fixed. Girls held out their hair for inspection and found that their once long beautify blonde or brown hair had changed into vibrant, unnatural colors. They all looked like circus clowns. People quickly tried to run out of the Great Hall before they started to be sick all over the place. Some weren't that lucky. And people had a hard time communicating because they suddenly spoke another language.
"Iris!" Lily yelled in a stern voice, but she couldn't help but let a small smile creep onto her pale lips. She had to admit, it was a decent prank. Her sister only looked back at her with a wide smirk and bright brown eyes that nearly blinded Lily with mischief.
She winked at her and laughed gleefully, "admit it, Lil. This is brilliant!"
"Bloody hell!" They heard Sirius exclaim, but once they turned around to the group of boys, they found that it wasn't Sirius who had yelled. Instead, James stared at Sirius with wide eyes as he found that his voice wasn't his own.
Sirius stared back at him with the same amount of surprise. "Prongs? Why do you sound like me!?"
James stared at him with just as much confusion as they heard James' voice when Sirius spoke. Remus sat next to Sirius and looked from one beyond confused boy to the other. He hadn't the faintest idea of what was happening, but if it had to do with the sweets, he was afraid to find out what had happened to him.
"What's going on!?" He exclaimed. Relief flooded him once he found that his voice hadn't changed, but it soon was drained from his body as Iris laughed hysterically while pointing at him. What was wrong!?
The rest of his friends turned to him and joined Iris in laughing, he still had no idea why. He wasn't able to see the fact that his once chestnut brown hair had suddenly changed into a bright neon blue and his eyes were a dark purple. He still stared at them with confusion and worry swimming in his abnormally colored eyes.
"What? What's wrong?"
He didn't get a reply as his two friends continued to laugh, their laughter sounding strange to them because they weren't their own voice.
Gibberish soon sprouted out of the last member of the Marauders. Peter starred in terror at his friends as he heard his own voice was speaking in a different language. He spoke frantically and had no idea what was happening. Honestly, if he hadn't of started to panic out loud, everyone else would have forgotten about him. Poor Peter.
"I must admit," Wendy commented in surprise, "this was actually quite a good prank, Iris."
The boys head snapped in the girl's direction. Their eyes settling on the hysterical redhead who nodded her head in agreement. "You did this?" James asked with amazement.
"Don't be so surprised, Potter," Iris said after sobering up from her giggles.
"I didn't think that you had it in you, love," Sirius said with a large smile. Godric, Sirius was falling hard for this girl, and he's only known her for a day!
Iris smirked and winked at him, "I suppose you know not to underestimate me in the future, darling."
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Breakfast in the great hall soon ended and after the chaos, Iris' prank people were finally getting turned back to normal. People's hair had been changed back to their normal color, voices were restored to the right people, students changed clothes and people were finally able to speak the right language.
After somehow it slipped that Iris was behind it, she was promptly given detention by her head of house, Professor McGonagall. However, as they were leaving the great hall to head to their classes, Iris didn't miss the smile the headmaster had flashed her way as his eye twinkled with amusement.
The group gossiped with each other as they made their way towards the dungeons. The girls had potions with Professor Slughorn first. They scurried into the seats and waited for Slughorn to finally arrive. Lily had to be front and center so that she could see the Professor properly and clearly, like the good student she was. Iris would have rather sat in the back of the class, but seeing as Lily was in her class, she was forced to sit up front with her.
Iris had shivered once she had stepped foot into the potion classroom. "Why is the potions room in the dungeons?" She asked as she sat behind Lily in the second row next to Marlene. Lily turned to her sister and shrugged her shoulders.
"It just is."
Iris hummed in thought, potions wasn't in the dungeons at Beauxbatons. She guessed it was just a Hogwarts thing.
"It's so the snakes can feel right at home," a careless voice said from behind Iris. She turned around to see that Sirius and James had decided to sit behind them. "Don't want them to feel homesick."
"Ha." Iris said lamely, "very funny, Sirius. You must be the funniest wizard I've ever met."
Sirius smirked and ran a hand through his hair while smirking, "and the most handsome."
"Good morning, class," Professor Slughorn's voice halted their conversation and greeted his students as he came into the classroom carrying a variety of books. Everyone in the class reciprocated the greeting in monotone voices. The only one who seemed to be excited about this class was, of course, Lily. "Ah, I hope you are all excited about his coming year, I know I am."
The class stared at him with bored expressions. (Except for Lily, again.) Iris pursed her lips and stared at her new potions professor. She thought he is a very chirpy and enthusiastic teacher. He is obviously very ecstatic about his subject, unlike his students. Even though Iris wasn't as enthused about this class as her sister, she knew that this class was going to be easy for her. Seeing as she was top of her potions class at Beauxbatons, she was going to have no problem with this class. Which means more time messing about with potions for future pranks.
Professor Slughorn continued to speak excitedly about what he would be teaching about this year, but Iris couldn't find the will to listen to the man. She absentmindedly doodled on her parchment and paid no mind to her Professor.
"-and Ms. Iris Evans with Mr. Black." Professor Slughorn's light and airy voice brought Iris back to reality as her head popped up at the sound of her name. She didn't do anything!
She stared dumbfounded as a few people began to move around the room and sat in new seats. Wendy stood up from her seat next to Lily and moved somewhere else while Remus replaced her.
"Good luck, Iris," Marlene muttered to her as she collected her quills and stood from her seat.
Iris' eyebrows furrowed as she watched her friend leave the table, "why?"
With a fleeting apologetic smile, Marlene moved to her new seat next to a fellow Gryffindor name Hannah Beckett. Iris watched her with confusion, and she chastised herself for not paying attention. However, when a head of shaggy black hair and an arrogant smirk sat next to her, Iris groaned internally.
"It appears that we're going to be partners, love."
Iris rolled her eyes at the cocky voice and turned to look at the teenage boy, "I guess we are."
"Don't sound too upset, love, I'm sure we are going to work well with each," the air of cockiness was choking Iris to death. It might end up killing her before she even had the chance to kill Sirius herself.
"For your first assignment," Slughorn brought Iris out of her internal battle over who would die first, "you and your partner must produce Dizziness Draught." The class groaned in frustration. Dizziness Draught! They had barely learned about Dizziness Draught the year prior and now they had to try and make it themselves. Fat chance! "Yes, yes, I know. A moderately difficult brew, but I know you lot are smart enough to do it!" He commented, but everyone knew that he was referring to Lily, who smiled brightly at the professor. "The first pair to finish their brew will gain 10 points for their house each! Now chop, chop!" He exclaimed and urged his students to start on the task, "go now! Start working!"
Iris sighed and opened up her potions book to the correct page. Dizziness Draught was something that was quite simple, in Iris' opinion. She pulled out a cauldron, the necessary ingredients and the correct tools to cut and slice the ingredients.
Sirius watched her start to work silently. She hummed to herself slightly and he could tell that she was in a world of her own. It's obvious that potions was a strong suit of hers. From the way she expertly cut the ingredients and threw them into the cauldron of bubbling liquids, Sirius watched every move she made.
This continued on for a few more minutes. Sirius just sat in his chair and admired Iris work her magic. The other pairs of students had a hard time trying to put it all together and at one point someone's cauldron blew up in their face! But Iris had no trouble at all. She made this look easy. In her moment of bliss and concentration, Sirius grew restless from not doing any work and cleared this throat. The sudden noise startled Iris and she nearly dropped the wrong amount of one ingredient into the cauldron, which would have turned out bad for them.
"Anything I can help with, love?"
Iris sighed out of her nose and didn't even bat an eye in his direction, "no, darling, now do what you do best; sit and look pretty."
Sirius smirked. Iris' comment didn't do anything but help inflate his ego. If anything, she's caused herself more trouble than she would have if she didn't say anything.
"You think I'm pretty?" He arrogantly asked.
Iris rolled her eyes and finally looked up from the ingredient list she was reading. She flashed him a fake smile, "whatever will get you to shut up." And she immediately turned back down to her book and popped another ingredient into the cauldron. She was far too concentrated to slow herself down now, and Sirius is not going to distract her!
Sirius pursed his lips as they once again fell into silence. Restlessly, Sirius began to play with a quill and some parchment. At one point, he decided to annoy Iris. He used the quill to tickle Iris' nose and cheek. At first, she squealed at the light brush of the feather and caused a few of their peers to look over at them in confusion. However, as he continued to do it, Iris grew irritated and plucked the quill from his hands before she threw it on the ground.
The silence between them was once again suffocating Sirius. He has to think of something to say before he dies of boredom. He smirked slyly as he finally thought of a topic that was one he really did want to know about. "This morning was quite a good prank, love."
Iris momentarily paused her brewing to stare at him questioningly. She stared at him for a moment, and Sirius was scared that he had said the wrong thing. She pursed her lips and nodded her head, "thanks."
Sirius swallowed and ran a hand through his hair to hopefully disguise the fact that he was slightly nervous. "I'm just saying," he leaned in closer to as she turned to him with her brow arched, "you pranked some of the best pranksters in the whole school this morning, I'd keep an eye out for any payback."
Iris scoffed, "I guess you're referring to yourself there? Along with the other Marauders?"
Sirius only smirked in reply as the two stared at each other. "Well done!" The two turned away from each other and stared at Professor Slughorn who peered down at their cauldron. With wide, impressed eyes, the professor allowed a smile to stretch across his face. "You two have done an excellent job, this is a perfect brew!"
Iris smiled proudly, "thank you, professor."
"Twenty points to Gryffindor!" The other Gryffindors cheered and congratulated both Iris and Sirius. With a smug smile, Iris gathered her belongings and patted Lily on the head. Her twin rolled her eyes and grumbled under her breath about how impossible and unfair it was that Iris finished first.
Once Professor Slughorn had finished congratulating the pair on their magnificent brew, he allowed the two to leave. Sirius and Iris sauntered out of the room with their heads held high in satisfaction. (Even though Sirius didn't do any work.) Once the door to the classroom shut and the pair were left by themselves in the deserted hallway Iris let out a deep breath and closed her eyes, "finally."
Sirius smirked and reached his arm around Iris' shoulder and drew her into his side. "Yes, love, we can finally spend some time alone together."
Prying herself from under his dangly arm and pushed him away, Iris scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Nice try, darling. However, I would rather spend time alone." With that said, Iris sauntered away from the teenage boy. Sirius watched her go with a longing expression. He sighed dreamily as she watched the ginger sashay down the hallway and rounded the corner.
His red-haired beauty disappeared from his sight as he stared at where she had just gone. He did not move. He only reminisced about the feeling of warmth when her body was pressed up against his only moments ago. It was as if Iris had used a love potion of him. He was completely smitten with Iris Evans. The poor boy was wrapped around her finger. After a few moments of staring, Sirius was finally able to compose himself and started to trot after where Iris had gone.
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Under a large oak tree on the edge of the Black Lake, Iris sat against the tree and sighed contently. She had found a wonderful spot to sit by herself and enjoy the quietness. It had taken her a short time to actually navigate around the school grounds, but it was worth it in the end. Hogwarts had a slightly colder climate than Beauxbatons and a somewhat slightly darker aura, but Iris loved that. Beauxbatons was far too bright and colorful for her taste and she appreciated the change of scenery. Hogwarts just had a sense of mystery that tempted Iris to no end. She could only imagine what secrets lied under the calm waters of the Black Lake or what lurked in the forbidden forest.
But as any good thing, they must come to an end. The quiet was interrupted by the sound of leaves being crunched under someone's feet. Iris looked back towards where she heard the sound as a scowl placed itself on her. All she wanted was some peace, Merlin.
Sirius stalked over towards his red-headed beauty that sat under the large oak tree. His shoulder-length black hair swayed in the light breezes that tickled the both of them with a cool gust of air. He smirked widely and plopped himself down next to Iris. "Like I said, Love, we finally get some alone time."
Iris rolled her eyes and scoffed, "you can't take a hint, can you?"
Sirius' smirk didn't falter, "no."
"Right, okay."
The two of them sat in silence. It wasn't necessarily awkward or uncomfortable, but if Iris had a say in this situation, which it doesn't seem like she did because Sirius will most likely follow her, she would much rather be alone. By alone, she means alone, not Sirius' definition of the word.
"We don't have to sit in silence, you know." Sirius started which caused Iris to huff through her nose. He smirked and leaned back against the tree, "we could… get to know each other more."
Iris chuckled lightly, "I've already heard enough about you to know that getting to 'know each other' just means shagging behind this tree."
Sirius laughed lightly in embarrassment, "not always."
"Fine, what exactly do you want to know?"
Sirius, flustered now that he actually had the chance to get to know her, stumbled over his words. "Well, I mean, I-I just wanted to ask how your first day is so far." He smiled sheepishly as he realized he was becoming flustered and embarrassed.
Iris pursed her light pink lips and thought about it for a minute. Of course, the day was going well, mainly due to only having one class so far and getting to leave it early. She'd just have to see how the rest of the day went for her. "So far? It's okay, I suppose," she started and smiled lightly as she seemed to love how Sirius stumbled over his words. "I've only had one class and got to leave it early… but it's fine. Hogwarts is slightly different than Beauxbatons."
"A good different or…"
Iris giggled lightly, "good different, there are no pompous, bitchy blondes run around the courtyard as they use their veela powers on everyone who would look in their direction."
Sirius laughed as well and relaxed as he calmed himself down. He really needs to control himself when it comes to Iris. Most of the times, when he spoke to girls they were the ones blushing under his stare and having a hard time finding their words. It was completely outrageous to think! At least, for him it was. He had a feeling that Iris knew that too and was enjoying the effect she had on him.
The two of them continued to make conversation which mainly consisted of Iris using her effect on him to her own entertainment. Eventually, they had fallen into a comfortable silence as they leaned against the large tree. She would never have guessed, from the stories that her sister and new friends had told her about Sirius, that he was even capable to stay quiet that long.
Soon enough, the three other Marauders came bounding down the hill and towards the tree the two were sitting at. "There you two are," James teased as they all came to sit around the tree, "we were wondering where you lovebirds went after class."
Iris rolled her eyes and hit the back of James' head. All the while, Sirius began to blush after his comment. "Yes, here we are." She scoffed and smirked and smugly asked, "how was potions after we left?"
"Dreadful," Remus commented, "how did you even finish that potion so fast, Iris?"
Sirius gasped scandalously, "Moony, do you think I didn't help my dear Iris with the potion."
Everyone rolled their eyes at his dramatics. "First off," Iris started, "I'm not yours, and second, I think they know for a fact you didn't have a hand in making our potion."
"I find your lack of faith in my intelligence unbelievable."
"I learned about Dizziness Draught a while back at Beauxbatons, it's honestly really simple." She stated and smirked, "it can be used for some brutal pranks as well!"
James laughed, "simple? Even Remus had trouble making it, and he had Lily helping him!" Remus flushed at the fact that James pointed out he was unable to make the potion. He was the smartest out of their group and he usually hated when his friends teased him about not knowing something.
"Speaking of pranks," Remus coughed, "you did quite well this morning."
James brightened as he was reminded of what Iris had done that morning. "Oh! Yes, that was brilliant!" He was thoroughly impressed with what had happened, despite him being apart of the people who were pranked. He could forgive his 'future sister-in-law', however. Especially if she was willing to help him with pranks in the near future.
"Though, I did mention earlier that she should watch her back," Sirius commented smugly and crossed his arms. "You can't prank the Kings of Hogwarts and expect no consequences." The three other boys nodded their heads and opened agreed with him.
Iris nodded her head sarcastically with wide eyes, "Oh, Merlin, I'm really in trouble now, aren't I? I've crossed the Kings of Hogwarts, please, spare me!" She dramatically stated and clasped her hands together as if she were praying. "Have Mercy!" They all laughed at her. They were definitely going to love being friends with Iris if she is always entertaining like this.
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The rest of the day went by like a flash. Iris went to the rest of her classes for the day, sadly. She and the Marauders had Defence Against the Dark Arts class afterward, and as soon as Iris stepped foot through the doors, Lily had been trying to keep Iris and the boys separated. She was fine with Iris being friends with Remus, she actually was friends with him herself. She thought that if Iris was friends with him, his studious personality could have rubbed off on Iris this year. Lily also didn't have a problem with Peter either, he was just a lost puppy kind of boy who followed what the others did. But being friends with James and Sirius wasn't going to help anyone, in her mind.
Of course, when Lily was able to separate the rambunctious group, she forced Iris to sit with her up front, again. However, Iris was quite fond of DADA. It might have been the challenge the class presented her with or the idea of learning about dark powers that were hard to control that interested her, whatever it was, Iris quite liked it. It's strange to even think of Iris actually liking a class!
Afterward was lunch, there Iris was introduced to some of Lily's other friends. She even took the time to say hello to Severus, while also earning sneers and glares from the other Slytherins at their table. But Severus was happy to speak with her even if it was for only a moment. He was glad that she had been enjoying her first day at Hogwarts.
They had departed the Great Hall when they had finished their lunch and headed to their first Herbology class of the year. This class proved to be quite the bore with just about everyone. Iris could tell that barely anyone really kept close attention to the lesson, even Lily seemed susceptible to the boredom the class provided.
When Herbology ended, the fifth year Gryffindors then headed to their last class of the day; Transfiguration with their head of house, Professor McGonagall. Iris didn't think that the class was complete rubbish, but did get bored when McGonagall would drown on and on about one certain spell. She would have much rather cast the spell and ask questions later. Though that could be why she usually ended up in so much trouble all the time…
Transfiguration ended, to the relief of everyone, and then they all headed to dinner. Just like earlier in the day, Lily had dragged Iris away from the Marauders and any of the other boys who she knew were trouble. Iris had already been thrown out of one school because of a prank, she didn't need to be thrown out of a second. Though without the boys to tease and joke with, Iris found dinner to be completely boring!
But Hell would have frozen over if James Potter hadn't tried to speak with Lily at least once, or four times. "Go out with me, Lily?" He asked with a wide arrogant smirk for the fifth time that night and dinner had only started about ten minutes ago.
At that point, Lily should have just ignored James, but she didn't… "Leave me alone, Potter!" She grumbled and tried to turn away from him, only to face her sister who also loved to bother her.
"Give Potter a chance, Lil!" She quipped, "he kind of looks pathetic with all this begging." Lily rolled her eyes and stood up from the table to find somewhere else to sit without being bugged by anyone. "Aw, don't go, Lil! I love you!" Lily ignored her and the chuckles her exaggerations were attracting while sitting further down the table. She calmed down and shrugged her shoulders, "guess you won't be needing this." She grabbed Lily's forgot plate of food and replaced her empty plate with it. Lily was able to grab the last chicken leg off of the platter and Iris was dying for another one. Sometimes messing with her sister resulted in some wonderful outcomes.
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When dinner ended everyone headed up to their common room and dorms. All of the girls, Iris, Lily, Wendy, and Marlene, were up in the common room around the flickering flames in the fireplace. They were gossiping about their first day back.
"Did you see his hair!" Marlene giggled as she gushed about the seventh year Ravenclaw, William Hanning. She had already gone on and on about the older boy for about thirty minutes. It was starting to get slightly annoying, in Iris' opinion. She would much rather be sleeping at the moment in her bed than forced to listen to her sister and new friends giggle and fawn over a bunch of boys.
"Iris," Wendy dragged Iris out of her thoughts of sleeping and back to their conversation, "we really wanted to know where you and Black disappeared off to after potions."
Marlene turned to her, "yeah, by the way, how did you finish that brew so quickly?"
Iris waved her hand dismissively, "I already learned about it a while back and I don't see why it's so interesting where Sirius and I were."
All the girls seemed to laugh at her perturbed and confused expression, "because the two of you were alone for quite some time…" Wendy raised a suggestive eyebrow which caused the other girls to giggle as Iris to scoff.
"Please!" She yelled out, "I wanted to be alone and Sirius followed me down by the Black Lake."
"When it comes to Black, alone time with him means a quick shag somewhere private." Marlene couldn't help but point out. It was known all around the school that Sirius was a player. He was the heartthrob of the school and just about any girl would fall to their knees for him. Well, everyone except Iris.
Iris grinned cheekily, "you're experienced with this sort of thing, are you?"
Marlene turned scarlet as they once again roared in laughter. Wendy had to hold onto Lily to prevent herself from falling off of the love seat the two of them sat on. Marlene was sat on the chair on the far right near the entrance of the common room and Iris had taken up the entire couch. She was stretched out along the velvety red cushions with the excuse that she was 'far more tired' than any of the others. However, it seemed that she would begin to regret choosing the couch over the chair Marlene was sitting in because only one person could sit there… And multiple people could sit on the couch.
With that being said, as the girl's laughter began to die down, the Marauders came bounding into the common room. The four of them were laughing themselves after they had just come back from tormenting Severus once again. Of course, there was no way that they would tell Iris and Lily that. James and Sirius did not want to upset either girl and they threatened Peter and Remus that if they said anything about that to the girls they would be beaten, badly. They knew that, for some reason they couldn't understand, the girls were friends with the snake-like boy. So if the girls found out that they were, more or less, bullying him, things would not turn out good for any of them.
They then noticed that the girls were all sitting on the chairs and couches around the fireplace. They were quick to fill up any of the available spaces. Sirius was quick to jump onto the couch right next to Iris as was Remus, though he was a tad bit more polite about it. James hopped over to sit on the armrest of the love seat next to Lily, who glared at him with piercing green eyes. Peter… just stood by himself as he didn't have a place to sit. He looked lost.
"Fancy seeing you girls here," Sirius commented confidently as he reached out to wrap an arm around Iris' shoulders. She stiffened at his movement and tried to stop herself from blushing at the contact. Was it just her or was the room getting warmer…
"If you want to keep that arm, I advise you to move it." She grumbled out and pushed him away. She then turned away from him with her nose held high.
Sirius smirked and ruffled his perfectly messy hair, "oh but you love it when I touch you." He once again wrapped his arm around him, this time around her waist as he pulled her into his side. He'd be damned if he allowed himself to melt because of this one beautiful, stunning girl without trying to get some sort of reaction out of her. He was going to try to get a reaction out of her like he would any other girl. Iris didn't seem to be the type of girl to swoon over words, so physical contact seemed to be the way to go.
Lily watched how Iris became irritated (or was she blushing?) with how close Sirius was and cleared her throat. "Sirius, really, if you don't want to die today, I suggest you let my sister go."
After taking a quick glance at his fiery haired woman, Sirius reluctantly let go of her when he saw the murderous look in her green eyes. He chuckled lightly and at least put a couple of inches between them. He might be slightly infatuated with her since he first laid eyes on her, but he was already scared of her.
"Right," Wendy commented and stood up from the love seat, "as lovely as it was seeing Iris threaten Sirius, I think we best be off to bed." To prove her point further, Marlene yawned, which was followed by Remus and then James. It was obvious that everyone was tired from the rigorous first day of classes. "Come on!"
"See you in your dreams, Iris!" Sirius exclaimed as he decided to take a page out of James' book. Said boy winked at Sirius as he realized he had copied his own pick-up line, and he approved of it. Though Iris didn't as she slapped the back of Sirius' head and followed the other girls up the tower to their dorm. Sirius rubbed the back of his head but smiled widely, "Night to you too!"
His friends chuckled and tried to keep them as quiet as they could as the girls ascended the stairs. Once the girls were out of earshot they bursted into laughter. "You are so whipped, Padfoot!" Remus was able to get out through his laughter. Sirius only rolled his eyes and sulked in his seat.