The Player or the good guy? by NotWithoutMusik . (epub ebook reader TXT) 📖

walked out of the common room, holding back my tears. Why was I suddenly being so emotional? I have seen him kiss other girls for so many times and I never cared so much as to cry about it. Maybe it was because he was chasing after Marlene for a week now and he had never given a girl more attention than a weekend. 

I slammed the door of the empty classroom behind me and sat on the floor, not being able to hold back the tears anymore. Why did my stupid heart have to have feeling for the one guy in this school who didn't even have any.  

"Scar? Are you in here?", someone asked and then I saw my best friend coming through the door. I wiped my tears away and wanted to get up, but Aya just sat down next to me. "I know it sucks to watch him flirt with other girls, I know it sucks that he doesn't get it. But once he actually sees you, he'll be all over you.", she whispered and hugged me. I  smiled a little and hugged her back. 

"Tomorrow is Quidditch practice, I'll ask him about that mysterious girl again and if that doesn't work you still got the party tomorrow.", I told her, still hugging her. It was just such a great feeling to have her here with me, I loved her more than anything in the world. 

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I had to cover my ears when Remus started screaming. We heard his bones breaking and we saw how fur started covering his body that deformed itself into a werewolf. He was only wearing his underwear, because his clothes would tear every time he turned on a full moon. He did have a good body , even though he wasn't as muscular as James or Sirius. 

"I hate listening to this!", I said, rather to myself, but Peter heard me and hugged me tight, holding his hands over my ears as well. I could still hear Remus scream, but it was nice to be hugged. Aya didn't come to the shrieking shack on full moons, it was too dangerous for her. She was hanging out with the twins, just like every full moon. 

"He is done.", James said and then he and Sirius turned into a majestic stag and a black dog. Peter gave me a kiss on the forehead and then turned into a rat as well. I looked at Remus, he was now trying to get a clear mind, and when he looked at me I could almost see humanity in his wolf eyes. I smiled and turned into the white wolf I loved so much. 

The werewolf jumped out of the window whose glass was already shattered from a year ago when we first started leaving the shrieking shack. We all followed him, making sure that he would run in the direction of the forrest, not the castle. When we were in animal form, we could only communicate through looks, because we all were different animals we couldn't understand what the other was saying. Well, Sirius and I could talk to each other a little, it was like he had a weird accent though. 

'Did you hear that?', Sirius suddenly barked and turned his head to see the cause of the noise he had heard. I didn't hear anything, I was concentrated on Remus who chased after Peter, hopefully not to eat him. James looked stood in Remus way just when he was about to reach Peter and Remus playfully laid on his back to show his defeat. 

'WATCH OUT!', Sirius shouted in a loud bark and everyone turned to Sirius, who growled at something in the dark. Suddenly, a creature came out of the trees and attacked James. It looked like a huge bat with three pairs of wings and very sharp teeth. Without thinking, we all attacked the beast tried to get it off him. James shouted of pain and started to turn himself back into a human without having control over it. Enough pain or death made animagi turn back into their human form. 

"Help me!", a girl shouted with a weak voice, but me and Sirus were too concerned about James, we were still trying to get that thing off James. 

"Petrificus totalus!", Peter shouted and the beast didn't move anymore. Sirius and I looked behind us and there was Peter in his human form, pointing his wand at the bird like animal. 

"No, please!", we heard the whiny voice of a girl again and then we saw that Remus was slowly walking towards her, ready to attack. Sirius and I looked at each other and then started running, tackling our friend down. It was true that he kept a clear mind around us, but with humans it was harder for him to resist his instincts. 

'I take care of Remus, you take care of Peter, James and the girl!', I told Sirius and the big black dog nodded. He let go of the wolf who hurt his right leg when we tackled him down and then returned to the others. When I looked back, I realized that the girl was no other than Isabella Wright . 

Wondering what she was doing here, I walked off with Remus, deeper into the woods, hoping that he would always remember that it was me who accompanied him, but also ready to fight him if necessary. While we were just walking around, looking at the moon or fooling around, I had to think of the beast who attacked us. Normally all the residents of the forrest left us alone. 

'Run, Scar! I can't hold it back!', I heard a deep voice growl when Remus suddenly stopped fooling around with me and instead looked at me with only the eyes of an animal. We had reached a glade and the full moon was big and bright above us, obviously influencing Remus a lot. And right now, I knew it was best to follow his demand. Without looking back, but knowing that he would follow me, I started running. I ran away from the castle, deeper into the woods, careful not to get to close to James, Peter, Sirius and Isabella. 

I had been running for about five minutes when the werewolf slowed down and then stopped. Maybe he had recovered from the moons influence, it was really dark where we were, so I stopped as well. I turned around and looked at the wolf, but still I only saw an animal looking back at me. 

'Moony? Are you there?", I barked, but that had been a terrible idea. The werewolf probably thought it was like a threat, because he growled and then jumped at my throat. Without being able to fight back, I hit the ground hard and my vision got blurry. I winced and showed the werewolf that  gave up, but he bit me in the stomach and threw me agains the next tree, like I was his toy or something. 

Pain shot through my body from the pace that the tree hit me and I had a loud noise in my ears, sounding like thousands of bells ringing at once. I couldn't help it, I felt how I turned back into a human. Without Sirius or James to protect me, I would be dead now. Remus would kill me, the werewolf inside him would kill me. 

Everything was blurred when I saw the werewolf coming towards me. I saw hunger in his eyes, pure hunger. 

"Remus, please! I know you are in there!", I whispered, but when I talked I could taste blood in my mouth. 

The face of the monster was only inches away from me and I could smell his disgusting breath. He showed his sharp teeth and all I could think of was that I never got to kiss Sirius. 

With that, my vision went black and the last thing I noticed was that the bad breath was suddenly gone. 

 

 

Sat- 12. September 1977

 

Slowly I came out of the darkness, being able to think clearly again. The first thing that popped into my mind was Peter, then Aya and then Quidditch. Running through the forest with Sirius, James and Remus, studying at the lake with Remus, sun on my face. But the more awake I became, the more pain I felt. My spine felt like it was on fire and my head felt like somebody used it as pincushion. 

"James, can you hear me?", I heard a girls voice from far away. 

When I slowly opened my eyes, I first saw the ceiling of the hospital wing. The lights were very bright and I saw everything blurry. When I turned my head to the right, I saw James laying in a bed next to me, Lily sitting on a chair next to him. She held his hand and told him to wake up. I had to smile at that picture, this showed how much Lily actually cared about the guy she rejected for so long. 

I closed my eyes again, because the bright lights hurt them. I didn't understand why all the other marauders weren't here as well. Then, while I got used to the pain in my body, I noticed that something laid on my leg. I opened my eyes again and looked to my left now. I saw a blonde girl, laying with her head and arms on my legs while she sat on a chair next to my bed. It was so cute that she had waited here for me to wake up and didn't leave to sleep in her bed. But that's what friends are for, right? 

"Aya, wake up!", I said, but she didn't seem to hear me.

"She was here all night looking after you. She is even missing Quidditch practice right now!", Lily explained and turned to me. I sat up in shock, my eyes wide open. Quidditch practice, how could I forget about that? I had to go now! I tried to get out of the bed, but Aya blocked my legs, so that I couldn't move. 

"What are you doing? You can't go to practice, you need your rest, like James.", Lily energetically said and with all our noise we woke Aya up. "What? I don't like him!", she said and looked around like something was going to attack her. Lily and I looked at each other and then started giggling. Of course I knew exactly who she was talking about and I also knew that she did like him.

"So you have a crush on someone as well?", Lily asked and Aya  flushed, just like she did in Professor Flitwicks class. "Oh, it's okay, you don't have to tell me.", Lily quickly added when she saw how uncomfortable Aya looked. 

"Lily?", a deep and sleepy voice interrupted us and I could see joy and relief appearing on Lily's face: "James! You are okay!" She turned around and then she kissed him on the mouth. First it was a shy kiss, but it then became more and more passionate. Aya cleared her throat: "Uhm, people in the room!"

Lily and James instantly stopped kissing and both turned their heads to us. James had a smile on his face like it was his birthday. 

"I could get used to waking up to that!", he said and Lily playfully punshed him, which made him groan. "Oh, I am so sorry!", she apologized and kissed him on the cheek. 

Two minutes later, the whole Quidditch team and the rest of the Marauders came into the hospital wing. It must have been raining outside, because they were all wet and brought a lot of mud with them into the clean room. 

"Hey, Potter! You are okay!", Fabian shouted and wanted to high five the captain, but James didn't even raise his arm. Fabian didn't look offended and just high fived his twin bother instead.

"I trained them today.", Sirius informed his best friend and sat on his bed, which made James groan again. Remus and Peter came to my bed