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Warning: Don't really know the rating yet, so beware it might get hot in here. I'll let you know when I've figured it out though…
Note: Thanks to J.K. Rowling for her wonderful magical world, to Bardlover for her wonderful beta skills and to me because I am the prettiest thing in the world! And I make the world a little more wonderful everyday! –cough– Yes, I know… Big fat ego of mine! Oh, and excuse the lame title, I was going through a temporary braindeath.
Just Another Love Story
By: Julia
Chapter I: Bubblegum, a dangerous creature and my all time favorite cuz.
"Filth! Scum! By-products of dirt and vileness! Half-breeds, mutants, freaks, begone from this place! How dare you befoul the house of my father– " Mrs Black shrieked from one side of the corridor. Sirius came running from the kitchen and helped Remus shut the curtains closed.
"I'm so sorry. So, so sorry. Sirius, I swear that thing is cursed, it appears in front of me every time I walk in!" Nymphadora pointed at the troll-leg umbrella stand that now rolled toward the living room. She caught it and put it on its place in a corner. "Why can't we just stuff it somewhere?"
Sirius shrugged as they managed to hush Mrs. Black. "We don't have another umbrella stand. We need an umbrella stand."
"Why don't they stuff you? So you'll stop giving problems with that cursed clumsyness of yours." A cold, low voice came from the kitchen door. All the eyes went to rest on Snape, who was looking at Nymphadora with an evil grin, his arms crossed over his chest and leaning against the threshold.
"Because," began Remus calmly, "she is the only Nymphadora we have, and we need a Nymphadora."
"Please, Remus…" she said in sort of a pleading tone.
"No, no. Let him come into your defense, lady in distress," said Sirius.
"I was going to tell him not to call me Nymphadora." She rolled her eyes. As if she was going to let Snape get his way--over her dead body!
"Never knew that apart from being a potentially dangerous creature, you were also a smart mouth, Lupin," And with this, Snape conjured his traveling cloak and exited number 12 Grimmauld Place.
"Let's go have a drink, my treat, Sirius cut off the silence that had fallen upon them and smiled, leading them into the kitchen.
Tonks sat on the far corner of the old wooden table and sighed. At times she also thought that her clumsyness was a curse too. She wished that Snape's words hadn't touched that sensitive nerve, but they had, and she just could not hide it. Her mother used to say that it didn't matter, that someday she would learn ,but at twenty-four years of age it was about time that she learnt, wasn't it?
"Come on Tonksie-poo, my all time favorite cuz! You didn't let that greasy git get you?" Sirius placed three empty golden cups on the table and poured some of the content of a firewhiskey bottle inside to each.
"Oh no," replied Nymphadora at once, as her all-time favorite cuz and the potentially dangerous creature sat by either side of her. "It's just that this time I really hit my foot hard with that stand," she lied.
"Don't worry, Nymphadora. Severus was just taking all his pressures on you, it's not like we all think the same way." Remus took a cup and took a sip, not taking his eyes off the bubble-gum pink-haired girl.
"Cheers for that my fair, Moony?" Sirius lifted his cup. As he and the other two brought them to their mouths, Molly rushed in with a dirty towel in one hand and pixies pesticide spray in the other.
"Oh dear." She sighed and stopped in front of them. "Remus, Tonks you two will have to stand guard outside the Ministry tonight."
Nymphadora growled and shook her head in disapproval. "Molly, I can't. I have a report to hand in tomorrow and I-"
"There's no one else to do it ,and it is your responsibility!" The woman replied harshly, as if she was talking to a child that must be taught. "Bill is out of town, Arthur stuckat work, I have to look after the children and with Mundungus on probation? I won't risk it, Tonks. You'll have to do it." With this, Molly went back upstairs and after a little while they heard her hysterical cry asking for Sirius.
"Your home, your cleaning, mate." Remus shrugged as Sirius growled as he went to Molly's aid.
I intend to leave my chapters short, maybe not as short as this one but still…. That way I can update sooner and they are lighter to read. I might even post two chapters at a time… If you lot get lucky! Don't forget, R&R!