Chương 26: Chapter Five: Girl’s Day In
"YOU ARE SO FULL OF IT!" MARLENE shrieked in laughter as she nearly fell off of the chair that she was sitting on. Her brown hair swayed in front of her eyes as she seemingly screamed in laughter at the story that Iris was telling her along with the other girls.
The group of witches all sat around Wendy's extremely spacious bedroom as they gossiped with each other. Summer was coming to an end which left them a minimal amount of time to hang out with each other at their homes before school started up once again. Additionally, there was only a short bit of time before Ida and Matilda also had to start up school. Yes, the french couple had come to England to spend time with the girls. It would only be for a short time, but they were determined to make it an exciting visit.
This included joining the twins as they went to the Hunt household. Much like the Potter family, Wendy's family was quite wealthy and respected among the wizarding community. This meant that Wendy's house was quite... exuberant.
Honestly, Iris had questioned whether or not she could move in with Wendy since she lived in a mansion that looked like it could be a hotel. There was also a yard that looked like it spanned for miles! Iris couldn't imagine what it would be like to have a space like this where she could freely run in her animagus form whenever she pleased.
Currently, the group was lounging around Wendy's bedroom enjoying each other's company. Iris laughed along with Marlene with about the same amount of gusto, "I'm not! I swear! She screamed bloody murder and it woke up nearly the whole village!"
"It was quite mean," Lily piped up as she shook her head disapprovingly, "Samantha was terrified, Iris."
Wendy raised an eyebrow as she sat on the small sofa in her room alongside Ida and Matilda, "How can you be terrified about your hair changing color?"
"Not very scary..." Ida tilted her head in consideration, not understanding how it was frightening for your hair to change different colors. The french girl liked her hair just as much as anyone else, but to be scared because her hair changed color, she couldn't understand it. Plus it didn't seem like that bad of a color. Ida would kind of like it if she had died her hair green. Well, not the "ugly" shade that Lily and Iris had described, but maybe a light green or something aesthetically pleasing.
Iris shook her head, "Oh, for Samantha, it is. She loves her precious blonde hair! She's nothing without it, or her makeup, or her expensive clothes."
"She sounds like a bitch," Matilda said bluntly. Her short words earned laughter from all of the other girls, even a small chuckle from Lily though she was quick to suppress it.
Iris laughed and agreed while vigorously nodding her head, "She is!"
"Iris!" Lily exclaimed and nearly jumped from her spot to attack her sister for speaking badly of her friend.
The older twin leaned away from her annoyed sister as Lily tried to hit her. "Ah, ow! Lily, stop!" Her whining didn't get her anywhere with her twin who just continued to hit her sister for talking bad about Samantha.
"Alright, alright," Wendy got over her small laughing fit before making sure to place herself between the twins to get them to stop fighting(even though it was just Lily attacking Iris). "Calm down you two, no fighting in my room!"
Lily finally let up on her smacks before huffing slightly. Though there was a small amused smile on her lips, which showed how she found this kind of funny as well. "Fine, let's talk about something else," She smirked, "I want to hear about Sirius, Iris."
Iris raised an eyebrow, "and I want to hear about you and James, but I don't think you want to talk about that, hm?"
"Oh, you--" Lily almost had half the mind to start hitting Iris again, though she couldn't really do that with Wendy now sitting in the middle of them like a wall to separate them. She kept trying to insinuate that Lily and James would become a couple, which would never happen! Everyone knew that James was in love with her, but Lily would never be in love with him! That's an absurd notion!
"No, I want to hear about it too!" Marlene piped up in her seat.
Ida rapidly nodded her head as well, "Me too!" Besides her, Matilda also nodded her head in agreement.
So now, everyone was interested in hearing about Iris and Sirius's relationship. Well, anyone would want to hear about what a relationship between two of the biggest flirts and troublemakers at Hogwarts is like. What kind of trouble did these two get up to together? Only Merlin would know just what kind of troublesome relationship that those two have.
Iris hummed in contemplation for a moment, "well, there's not that much to say-"
"Not that much? Please!" Marlene exclaimed, "the two of you must cause far too much trouble for your own goods!"
Iris tilted her head as she thought that over, "I guess you're right." The girls all laughed together at her words, "Honestly, it isn't all that much different from any other relationship, I'd say. We pull a few pranks together, maybe a few on each other, but other than that everything is… nice."
"Aw, look at her," Wendy cooed, "she's blushing."
It was true, Iris's cheeks had slowly become a pleasant shade of red as she thought about her and Sirius's relationship. She didn't exactly know the idea of a relationship, yet it was still foreign for her to actually be in one herself. Contrary to popular belief, Iris has never been in a proper relationship. She's only really been on one other date back in France, and it wasn't that good, to be perfectly honest. So yes, she was going to be quite flustered while talking about her boyfriend, it was only natural.
"Have you been on many dates?" Ida asked as she leaned in as far as she could to catch a look at her close friend. It was just as a surprise to her and Matilda to see Iris flustered like this, it's a rare sight. They definitely didn't want to miss seeing that.
Iris shrugged her shoulders while trying to calm down her flaming cheeks, "a few, we mainly just go to Diagon Alley or something."
Matilda tilted her head "You still have fun, right?"
"Oh, yea, yea, course we do!" Iris happily exclaimed, she then spun to her sister, while leaning over Wendy. Her eyes sparkled mischievously, "Now, I wanna hear about you and James!"
Lily then grew to be as red as her hair, if it was in anger or embarrassment that was unknown, "What!?" How had this turned to her?! She isn't even in a relationship, so she would much rather focus on her sister who actually has a boyfriend.
Marlene perked up as well, "Ah, yes. The age old dilemma. The love between Lily Evans and James Potter."
"There is no love between-" Lily's shout was cut off by her sister.
"Denial isn't just a river in Africa."
Lily stared at her with her expression twitching in annoyance. Wendy then also joined in, "Why can't you admit that you may fancy the bloke?"
The younger redhead was basically a tomato at this point, "B-because I don't!"
"Ah, ah, ah," Iris tutted while poking her sister's cheek, "is that a little bit of pink on your face there, sister dearest."
Lily harshly pushed Iris's hand away and looked about ready to pounce on her, "Oh, you little-"
"No fighting!" Wendy pushed herself between the two once again. Merlin, these two really never calm down, do they?
Off to the side, watching as Wendy tried to keep the twins from each other while Marlene laughed at them, the blonde half-veela turned to her girlfriend, "Imagine Lily with that Potter boy, they would look kind of cute together, no?"
"I suppose so," Matilda grunted with a shrug of her shoulders.
Marlene leaned over towards her friend with a teasing smile, "I think you just don't want to admit that you've finally fallen for him."
Lily shook her head vigorously, "No, no. James Potter is one of the most insufferable boys that I have had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting!"
All of the girls shared a knowing glance with each other. Her denial was just proving them right a bit more, at least to them. They then all collectively spoke, "You fancy him."
"What!?" Lily bristled, "But I- I don't fancy James, I would never… I-"
"It would be kind of understandable if she doesn't even realize that she fancies him." Iris commented offhandedly, "Ever since we were little she never knew that Oscar fancies her, even now."
Lily's eyes grew wide at that piece of news, "Oscar?"
Iris turned to her sister with a nod of her head, "Yeah, he's been in love with you since we were about eight." She then placed her hand on her chin in thought, "Not only that, but Sev's had a thing for you since we first met him."
Lily's eyes were wide, obviously this was a new revelation to her. "R-really?"
"You go, Lily!" Iris laughed wholeheartedly, either disregarding or not seeing the crisis she has now brought upon her sister. "Looks like I'm not the only one who steals the hearts of many men!"
"All right, all right," Wendy said as she stifled her own giggles at the sight of her friend's speechless expression, "let's leave Lily to have her own existential crisis, let's move on, shall we?"
"You know, I've been wondering," Ida pursed her lips, "did something happen while at Hogwarts?"
The British girls all shared a look with each other, already knowing what they may be referring to. Though it was kind of surprising that Ida or Matilda had been able to pick up on anything. Iris swallowed thickly but smiled, as if confused, "What do you mean?"
"To you." Ida clarified which caused Iris to flinch ever so slightly, "I'm not sure, but it just seems like you are… different. Not just that you are in a relationship now, but something else."
Of course, neither Matilda or Ida knew about what had happened. Since she had gotten home, Iris hadn't mentioned what had happened to her to really any one. At home, the only one who really knew what had happened is Lily. It's not like she could talk to other people about it because one; she barely has any other friends in their village and two; they're all muggles. Should she have told her parents? Maybe, but she didn't feel like having them fuss over her about it. She knew that they would want to go after Regulus and Lucius for what had happened. However, they were just mere muggles, they couldn't do anything against the likes of the Black and Malfoy families. The privilege and wealth that they had would easily squash any attempt that the Evans may make to get justice for Iris. All she wanted, was for this to go away, to forget about it. Was that healthy? Who knows, but for her right now, she just wanted to move on.
Iris glanced away from them while chewing on her bottom lip, "Ah, well, I suppose something happened."
Matilda eyed her friend closely as her frow seemed to deepen, "I don't think it was anything good..."
"It… wasn't," Iris swallowed.
So, Iris started to tell her french friends about what had happened during her first school year at Hogwarts. She did her best to explain what had been done to her. At times, there were a few parts where she either didn't remember or couldn't really get through it. Obviously, while Iris tried to put up a tough and confident persona, she was just as affected by this as people would suspect her to be. It seemed like she was just trying to hide what mental trauma she had gone through. She needed someone to talk to about this in depth, about her feelings and what was done to her by those horrendous boys.
When her mask of bravery started to falter, one of the other british girls would step in for a moment. Even then, it seemed to be kind of hard for all of them to have to talk about it. While they weren't the one who was taken advantage of like Iris, they still felt guilty. Iris is their friend, one of their best friends, and she had gone through such a horrible thing and they could barely do anything to help her. While they did what they could in the end and helped to get her back to normal, they still had to sit on the side lines and watch those two snakes parade her around like a puppet.
By the end of their explanation, both Matilda and Ida were seething. Matilda was beyond angry, though it was a scary-kind of angry. She was the silent-type, if that wasn't obvious, and an angry Matilda was by no means a good thing. Ida was far more outwardly emotional about what she had heard. She was definitely crying after hearing what had been done to her friend. Though she was just as angry about it just like Matilda.
"How?" Ida cried, "How could something like that happen!?"
Matilda grunted with clenched fists, "Je vais tuer ces garçons!"
Iris jumped up to embrace her two french friends in a tight hug. She was actually kind of happy to know that they were just as upset by this as the others were. It also felt like she had let a heavy weight off of her chest, to actually tell someone else, who wasn't involved in what happened. "It's alright now," She hugged Matilda and Ida tight, who returned the hug just as fiercely, "as much as I enjoy the murderous threats against them, it's over now. I'd… rather just forget that it happened, alright? Can we uh… move on?"
It was silent for a long while. Really the only sound that was really heard was Ida's sniffling into Iris's shoulder. Even the other girls had grown to be misty eyed at the reminder of what those snakes did. Though they slowly started to calm themselves down enough. Ida slowly stopped crying and Matilda had been convinced not to go out murdering any Slytherins just yet. So now, after wiping their eyes, they grew quiet.
Lily then spoke up, "You know, I've always wondered if Wendy was interested in anyone."
"Yeah!" Iris joined in, glad that someone had finally brought up a good distraction. She leaned over towards Wendy who looked as though she didn't want the attention drawing to her now. Iris smirked, "So? Come on Wendy, there must be someone you've fancied at school."
The black-haired girl shook her head slightly, "Oh, no. No, no. I've never really… fancied anyone that much."
There was now way that that was true! Marlene shook her head, "That's a lie. There must have been someone who caught your eye."
"Well, I'm afraid I'm not like you Marlene," Wendy rolled her eyes playfully, "You fall for just about every pretty boy at Hogwarts."
Marlene gasped in offense, "Not true, I would never fancy a Slytherin!" Though everyone else was fair game, to her. Honestly, one week she's fancying a Gryffindor boy in their year, the next week, it's a Hufflepuff in the year above, then a boy from Ravenclaw. Marlene could never just pick one boy. Not only that, but she never actually tried to talk to them beyond a simple greeting.
"Who was she gushing about the other day?" Lily tapped her chin, "That Hufflepuff, uh, Eddie?"
Wendy perked up, "Eddie Caldwell!"
"Ah, yes, her precious Eddie," Iris then cleared her throat and tried to imitate Marlene's voice. "Oh, Eddie looks so handsome today!" The girls all started to laugh at Iris's impersonation, that was surprisingly accurate.
"Eddie is so good at charms!" Lily joined in on the teasing.
Marlene huffed, "So? I like to talk about boys I fancy, what's wrong with that?"
Wendy rolled her eyes, "It can be a bit annoying when you try to talk about them every moment of everyday." It could get annoying when she did try to bring up whatever pretty boy she was obsessed with at the time into nearly every conversation. It was a godsend that she already hadn't started talking about Eddie already.
Lily agreed, "Not only that but you always drag us somewhere to just see a boy."
"All you have to do is talk to them and yet you never do!" Iris exclaimed.
"Merlin, who do you think I am!" Marlene shouted at the absurd idea, "I could never just… talk to Eddie!"
Iris stared at her for a long minute before sighing loudly, "You're hopeless. At least Wendy isn't as hopeless."
"What?" Wendy asked in surprise.
Iris turned to her with a raised eyebrow, "Well, obviously, you and Remus have a thing, yes?"
"Remus?" Wendy gasped at that, "No!" Who would think that she and Remus would ever have a thing? What would give them the idea of that?
Marlene hummed in thought, "Hm, I can see it. You're both extremely smart and like the mothers of our friend group, so it makes sense."
Just about everyone else agreed, including Ida and Matilda even agreed(even though they didn't necessarily know everything). Wendy shook her head, "Whatever you guys say."
There was no way that she would argue with them over this. If she tried, they may just end up taking it as an admission of her feelings for Remus. Which she doesn't have, just like how Remus doesn't have any for her. She really couldn't do or say anything to change their minds, no matter what sort of evidence she showed them that showed she didn't have interest in Remus.
"Ah, but imagine it!" Iris then gushed, "Wendy and Remus would be so cute together, right?!" In turn, everyone else then cooed at the idea as well. Yeah, it didn't seem like they were going to let go of this idea for a while.
So for the rest of the day at Wendy's, the girls all tried to keep the atmosphere light and happy. After having retold what their previous year at Hogwarts entailed, they needed some really good distractions. So they gossiped some more, until they could barely talk, before heading down to get some food. Wendy's father, Edward, was more than happy to get them whatever they needed. Overall, their day was pretty good, except for the small damper in the middle of the day. Still, they made up for it with some more fun things, which was basically just Iris running about pulling a few small pranks here and there on her friends while they all shared a laugh. It was good. They were all glad to have friends like each other to help each other out when they need to lift their moods.
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