The Marauder Stories: Sirius Black

Chapter Thirteen

“I am not bipolar!” I said hitting him with a book

“Fine, let’s go with…” and he trailed off

“Go with what?” I asked confused

“Shh!" he said as if I was disturbing him "I'm thinking of the appropriate word to describe you,” he said still “thinking”

“Thinking?” I said in disbelief “In order to think you need to have a brain, in which I can see you do not have that major organ my friend.”

Black then looked at me smirking “So we’re friends now?”

I groaned “No, don’t push it civil would be the word.”

“Now I got it!” he said as if he just discovered something new “moody, there you are moody.”

“I am not moody.” I said crossing my arms

“It’s either that or bipolar.” He said and I rolled my eyes

“Ah, the rolling of eyes,” he said “that is the first one of the day.”

“Are you serious?” I asked seriously he counts how many times I roll my eyes?!

“Yes, the third to be exact.” He said smirking

And once again I rolled my eyes

“And there goes number two, you know you could set a record for the most number of eye rolling in one day!” he exclaimed

“And might I ask why do you count the number of times I roll my eyes?”

“Nothing, I just wanna see considering you always do whenever I’m around.” He shrugged

I just rolled my eyes, “Number three!” Black exclaimed like a child, as he did Slughorn came and started class.

Slughorn told us to make one vial of Strengthening Solution that was to be submitted on his desk after class. Potions was an easy subject for me, it was one of my favorites really. I took notes throughout the whole class and followed the instructions carefully. I knew I was doing fine since Slughorn was checking the cauldrons as we made the potion, and he smiled and nodded when he saw mine.

I saw Black who was beside me just stirring it, and was about to put something in I stared at what it was,

“It’s the Griffin Claw,” he told me “don’t worry I won’t blow up the room.”

And I nodded and continued brewing my potion “not today though.” I heard him whisper, and as expected I just rolled my eyes

“Number four!” he exclaimed which made me jump

“What?” I said confused

“That was the fourth time you rolled your eyes today, and it’s only first period.” He said smirking

“Whatever.” I said rolling my eyes and going back to brewing

“And there goes the fifth.” I resisted rolling my eyes, it was getting annoying Black counting the times I did. When I was finished (I was the first surprisingly) I submitted my vial to Slughorn and was very pleased that I did it perfectly.

“Very good Ms. Riddle!” he exclaimed “Well done! Perfectly brewed! I can see you got some of the traits of your brother eh?”

I blushed and smiled sheepishly “Thank you Professor.”

“20 points to Gryffindor, for such good work!”

I thanked the professor again and headed for my seat, as I did Jessica who was about to submit her potion was having “difficulty” covering hers bumped me literally, she even gave me a sweet sadistic smile and said “Oops.” I looked down at my hand that the potion had spilled over on, it was obvious Jessica didn’t brew it properly because my hand was boiling; it felt like it was being burned. The whole class saw immediately and Slughorn came to my aid