I gently rubbed the cream on Remus's face and sighed. It was quiet, and awkward, especially since 1) I was still mad at them, and 2) They thought it would be more safe for me to go to their dormitory and work on Remus's wounds there.
"So how's Tommy?" I shot a glare at Sirius and he stayed quiet.
"I know I've said this many times..." Remus whispered to me. "But are you sure you're okay to do this?"
"I'm only doing this for your sake." I said to him, rubbing the cream over a cut just below his lip. Remus sighed and nodded.
"I know you're not in the best terms with those three-" I groaned silently and looked down. "Hey, come on now."
"I'm sorry... but that poor guy that they dragged up to my dormitory-"
"I know..." Remus sighed. "Listen, they are sorry Bells, really for everything. You're just not letting them say it."
"I have." I muttered, gritting my teeth.
"No you haven't. I know you're mad at them, because they were being stupid and arrogant." Remus said loudly, shooting James, Sirius and Peter a look. They frowned at him.
"And annoying and idiotic and big-headed and-"
"Okay okay I get it." Remus nodded furiously. "Just, I think, the reason they did it, and by ruining your date with Hunter too-"
"Can we not bring that up?"
"But I think they did it, because deep down, they care about you Bells." I didn't answer and continued rubbing the cream on him.
"You have cuts on your arm, Wolfie." I stated, trying to change the subject. I grabbed his right arm and wiped the blood off.
"Yeah I know. But back to topic. They do care about you-"
"Why? If they did, they wouldn't be ruining my dates and dragging people to my dormitory now would they?"
"They have a weird way of showing it." Remus muttered.
"You can say that again."
"I'm just saying that we all care about you whether you like it or not."
"I don't know..." I said quietly.
"We don't want you to get hurt Isabel," Remus said seriously. I frowned at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Says the boy who has cuts and scars all over him." Remus sighed and smiled softly.
"Alright, but you do-" He stopped, his smile fading as he spotted the faded lines of dried blood on my wrists. He grabbed my hand gently and his eyes widened before looking at me. I refused to meet his eyes by looking down.
"Don't." I stated. "It was hard and-" I was cut off by Remus pulling me into a hug, I sighed deeply and hugged back.
"You only did it once right?" Remus whispered in my ear. I nodded and sighed. He broke the hug and grabbed the antibacterial wipes. He then gently wiped the dried blood off both my wrists. He grabbed the bandages and wrapped both my wrists gently. I sighed and looked down. Once he had finished, I looked at my now bandaged wrists.
"T-Thank you..." I muttered, turning red lightly.
"You're welcome. Promise me one thing though Isabel." I looked up at Remus, seeing a very worried expression on his face. "Please don't ever do it again."
I sighed and nodded. "I promise."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"You better clean up all these chocolate wrappers, you know that right?" Lily said to me, picking up a chocolate frog wrapper that was on my bed. I rolled my eyes and placed the bookmark in my book.
"I will, I will." I stated. "Geez Lily, you might as well become my mother or something."
Lily laughed slightly and smiled. "Yeah, yeah okay."
"Hey Lils." I said suddenly, opening my book.
"Yeah?"
"Have you ever read about a character where they're like the sweetest, the hottest, the nicest, the most adorable boy ever?"
"Well no... but why?" Lily asked.
"Well in this book there's a character like that. But have you ever felt so much hate towards another character who is dating first character but second character is a total b*tch-"
"What?" She started laughing and I sighed.
"No listen to me, I'm not joking. Is it normal to want to punch a character in the face but you can't because they're in a book and that's really frustrating because I really want to punch this person but I can't because they're in a bloody book! Is that normal?! Can you relate?!"
Lily stared at me then shook her head. "Well... no not really... sorry Izzy."
I sighed. "That's okay... Just this book is turning me insane."
"I can see that." I laughed slightly and sighed. "Um... apparently we have another Truth or Dare thing in a few minutes so I'm going to start heading down..."
I frowned slightly and sighed. "Wait, I need to ask you something."
Lily turned back to me. "What's up?"
"Um... say you had a friend, who was a boy-"
"Are you blushing...?"
"No!" I turned red even more and sighed. "Can I talk and explain please?"
"Yeah, sure, but you're blushing-"
"Lily!"
"Right, sorry." She laughed and smiled innocently. I sighed again.
"Okay so say you have a friend, who is a boy, but you have a crush on them... but you don't know if they like you the same way. Would you still ask them out or...?"
"Who's the person?"
"That's not important!" I yelled. "Just, would you ask them out or not?"
"I probably would..." Lily stated after thinking for a moment.
"But the thing is... I don't want to ruin the friendship and make it awkward if I do ask him out..."
"Why do you think he'll say no?"
"Because!! Because he's my friend and he might not see me that way!! And also, how many chocolate bars have I stolen from him?!"
Lily's eyes widened and she gaped at me.
"What?" My eyes widened after I realised I had said.
"Oh my god..."
I quickly turned around and ran off.
"Oh my god." Lily said again. "Oh my god... Oh my god! Isabel!"
I ran to the Gryffindor Common Room. Lily ran up to me and grabbed my shoulders.
"Oh my god!! You have a crush on R-"
"Shut up!" I said quickly, putting my hand over her mouth. She sighed and said something that was muffled. "What?"
Lily groaned and pointed to my hand. I took it off her mouth.
"You need to ask him out now!" Lily said quickly. "And if he doesn't like you then I will personally steal all his chocolate-"
"You wouldn't."
"Maybe... that doesn't matter but please just ask him out!"
"He's going to say no!"
"No he won't!"
"Yes he will! I can't ask Re- him out!"
"You can and you will." Then she grabbed my hand and dragged me to the Room of Requirement. Lily opened the door and we both walked inside. Everyone looked up.
"You're late." James stated seriously and crossed his arms.
"I'm terribly sorry Mr Potter." I stated and rolled my eyes.
"No you're not!"
"You're right I'm not." I said and sat down besides Alice. Lily sat down near Marlene, grinning madly.
"Um... James, Truth or Dare?" Alice asked.
"Dare..." James said slowly.
"I dare you to kiss Isabel."
"Ew ew ew, no no no no!! Alice!!" I screamed in horror. Alice rubbed her ear slightly and I glared at her.
"For at least a minute." Alice added.
"I'm not kissing her!" James yelled.
"I'm not kissing him either!!"
"It's Isabel!!"
"It's James!!"
"Right! Where's the Firewhisky?!" We said in unison. I spotted the Firewhisky and ran towards it, James had the same idea. He ran towards the Firewhisky and we grabbed the bottle at the same time.
"Give it!" I yelled at him and tried to pull the bottle away from him.
"It's not even your dare!!" James shouted and pulled it away.
"Well it involves me and I want to prove a point!"
"Give me the bottle!"
"No!"
We continued fighting for the bottle of alcohol when I kicked James in the stomach. He fell back and let go of the bottle.
I quickly stood up and drank as much of the Firewhisky as I could... Which happened to be the whole thing.
"Ow..." James muttered, holding onto his stomach. The burning sensation filled my mouth and I quickly swallowed it, gagging afterwards. I started to feel dizzy. Mental note: First time you drink Firewhisky, don't drink it all at once.
"And that... is how you drink Firewhisky." I stated slowly and staggered back to my spot, before sitting down.
"Are you okay?" Peter asked.
"I'm fine!!" I yelled in a loud voice, causing them all to jump. "What?!"
"Nothing..." Alice eyed me carefully and took the empty bottle out of my hand. "James, your turn."
"Frank, truth or dare?" James asked, sounding slightly disappointed.
"Dare." Frank said.
"Bad mistake." I stated loudly. Everyone looked at me. "What?! Why does everyone keep looking at me like that?!"
"Because you're drunk." Sirius said with amusement. "Oh it's going to be fun today."
"I am not drunk! Only very few people get drunk by drinking a whole bottle of Firewhisky-"
"And you are one of those people!" James said loudly. "I dare you to not kiss Alice for a whole week."
"And why would I do that?"
"I was talking to Frank, Izzy!"
"Oh..." I gasped in realisation. "That makes sense now, because you were talking to me then-"
"Frank, your turn!!" James yelled quickly, an annoyed expression on his face.
"So I can't kiss Alice for a week?" Frank asked.
"Yep!"
"And just to make sure you don't go hiding in cupboards!" Sirius added with a mysterious smirk. "We'll have Peter watching your every move."
"What?!" Alice exclaimed. "That's not fair!"
"He'll be keeping an eye on you lovebirds 24/7."
Alice glared furiously at Sirius then sighed and crossed her arms angrily.
"You poor child." I said. "Honestly we know how hard that would be so hard for you two-"
"Can someone please put a Silencing Charm on her?!" James suggested.
"Someone should put a Silencing Charm on you because you're a stupid-"
"Silencio."
Arrogant, big-headed, annoying toe-rag. I continued talking but nothing came out. I frowned and glared at James, who sighed with relief.
"Sirius, truth or dare?" Frank asked.
"Dare!" Sirius said instantly. "I'm not afraid of you!"
"I dare you to get Isabel to make you her slave."
Sirius' jaw dropped and his grin faded. "What?"
"Hang on, let me say that so you understand."
"I-"
"I dare you to do whatever Isabel tells you to do for the next three months."
I looked up and smirked evilly. I started rubbing my hands together like a mad scientist. Remus pointed his wand at me and said the counter-curse.
"Oh this is going to be so much fun..." I stated.
Sirius glanced at me then looked around. "You drank all the Firewhisky..."
"Yes I did."
Sirius then stood up and turned to James. "James, please plan my funeral. I have enjoyed the many years with all of you. I would like you all to drink as much Firewhisky as you can at my funeral, because it would be very amusing to see you all drunk as I watch you up in Heaven. Tell the Potters I love them. And tell Ma-"
"But you can't kill him." Frank said, trying hard not to laugh. Sirius looked at him and let out a loud sigh with relief.
"Damn, how disappointing." I muttered under my breath.
"What?!" Sirius yelled.
"Nothing, nothing! And you think I would kill you? I'm not that evil."
Sirius looked at me and faked a laugh before rolling his eyes. "Yeah right."
"Sirius Orion Black did you just roll your eyes at me?"
"No..." Everyone else snickered, probably thinking something like: Hey! Drunk Isabel Fall has to tell Sirius Black what to do, hahahaha.
"Don't lie to me. Bow down to me peasant!" I yelled, grinning.
"What? I'm not a-"
"I just told you to do something!" I said in a sing-song voice. Sirius stared at me and bowed down slowly before standing up quickly. He crossed his arms and sat back down.
"Not cool." Sirius said. I grinned and looked around.
"Also, Sirius, I'm hungry! Can you get me the first chocolate bar you see?"
Remus froze suddenly, glancing down at the chocolate bar in his hand. Sirius spotted and groaned. He moved towards Remus slowly.
"No no no! Not my chocolate." Remus said, standing up.
"I'm sorry Moony..." Sirius said slowly. "Fall made me too. She's an evil person-"
"Well you're right about that."
"Hey!!" I shouted. They ignored me. How rude of them...
"Just give me the chocolate, and no one will get hurt." Sirius stated, causing Remus to bring his chocolate bar closer to him.
"I'm still not giving you the chocolate."
Sirius sighed with defeat. "Well I'm sorry it had to end like this." And before anyone knew it, Sirius tackled Remus to the ground. The two rolled around the floor for ages both yelling things like, 'Just give it here!' or 'Padfoot, it's my chocolate!' Honestly it was quite interesting to watch, but I felt bad for Remus since he was pushed to the ground, but then I felt bad for Sirius when Remus decided to punch him in the face.
"Fall take it!" Sirius shouted and threw the chocolate bar at me. I caught it and quickly started eating it before Remus could take it off me again. I started to feel sick and there was only half of it left.
"Here take the rest." I said and threw it at Remus.
"Thank you." Remus said and sat down, rubbing his shoulder. Sirius was tending to his cheek, which had started to go a bit purple...
"Fall!!" Sirius yelled loudly, with annoyance in his voice. "Dare or dare?!"
I frowned, knowing that I really should of thought before asking the same question to James. "Dare-
"I dare you to ask Remus John Lupin out on a date!!"
I blushed madly and immediately turned to Lily. "LILY!!"
Lily's jaw dropped and she quickly put her hands in the air. "What?! I didn't tell him!"
"Wait what?" Sirius asked.
"What?" Marlene questioned.
"What?" Peter continued.
"What?!" Frank started.
"What?!?" Alice added.
"I KNEW IT!!"
Everyone turned to James, who pointed at Sirius and Peter. "I KNEW IT!! I TOLD YOU SHE LIKED REMUS!! I TOLD YOU!! YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME BUT I TOLD YOU!! I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT!!!!! AND REMUS LIKES HER TOO!! YOU HEARD HIM IN OUR DORMITORY LAST NIGHT HE SAID-"
"James!!" Remus shouted loudly, turning crimson red. "It's a dare! We don't actually know if she likes me or not-"
"Oh no I like you! Marry me! Wait... no! Don't marry me! Go out with me! I said go out with me!! UGH! I hate being drunk!" I yelled and put my head in my hands. Everyone laughed and Remus turned red even more, if that was possible.
"Are you just... saying that because it's a dare?" Remus asked me slowly. I shook my head.
"No of course not! I really do like you, and not just because you look like Tommy from my book but because you're nice, smart, funny, kind - which I think is another word for nice - and also you can really be adorable at times. And I was actually going to ask you out later but someone spoiled that for me so..." I glared at Sirius who grinned.
"You're welcome." Sirius winked at me, causing me to roll my eyes.
"I just asked your best friend out on a date and you-" I sighed then turned my attention back to Remus, who was staring at the floor.
"You actually think that?" Remus said softly.
"Yes! If I could date anyone at Hogwarts, I would choose you. So... yes I like you... a lot."
"I told you so!" James yelled at Sirius and Peter again. "Now give me my money!"
"What?" Remus asked. "Never mind I don't want to know."
"No you don't... and answer the bloody question Wolfie!"
"Hey! Only I call him that!" I yelled. "Unless your name is Isabel Fall-"
"And it's not thankfully." James crossed his arms.
"You are secretly disappointed aren't you Potter?"
"Remus! What's your answer?"
"Yeah... okay." Remus said and smiled at me. "I'll take you out on a date at Hogsmede this weekend-"
"REALLY?!" I squealed. Remus rubbed his ear then smiled, nodding. "Oh wow! I could kiss you! But I won't... because I probably smell like Firewhisky."
Remus laughed, making me smile slightly.
"Yes! It's about time but seriously though, I want my money." James said to Sirius and Peter who both groaned and started emptying their pockets.
"How much did you bet?" Remus asked.
"Quite a lot..." Sirius muttered and gave James at least six galleons while Peter gave probably around seven.
"Wow..."