Canines Diary

AN: Steffy's gonna killllll me. This chapter is awful. I was too busy eating my lunch to put real work into it. >.> COLLEGE KIDS NEED FOOD, TOO!
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13 Sept
2nd Journal Entry

First off, I'm only writing this because I'm afraid that I'll forget it all once I pass out. It took me awhile to remember the password into the common's room. I'm pretty sure the portrait just felt sorry for me and that's why I was let in.

This is gonna be hard to read lat-[the rest of the word was smeared out with red]. To say the least…I got beat up more than a little girl on the playground who won't give the bully her [smear]-nch money. And trust me when I say that the red drops that are smearing the ink aren't from a fruit drink.

Remus is so worried. I hate it; I feel like I'm letting him down by making him worry. I was so afraid that he'd be mad at me though; he probably thought that I was off under a staircase with some ginger girl. By the time I got to the shack he was gone. That was probably for the best though; I think if I walked in and he was still there, he would've killed me for not showing up when I was supposed to.

So I was heading back to the castle after I decorated the shack, and I saw Regulus and Peter talking. It wasn't just normal Gryffindor-Slytherin talking, either. I mean… they were LAUGHING together, and Regulus looked really smug about something too. So I was watching them, and I failed to notice Snivellus and another little band of Slytherins coming up behind me. I guess they knew about the meeting bet - [there was a larger red smear here] - gulus and Peter, because they also knew that I wasn't supposed to have seen them.

The last thing I remember was insulting Snivelly, and then throwing a punch and breaking Rodolphus Lestrange's nose. Then I woke up. It was dark out, but I just laid there, in the light coming from the windows of the [smeared] Hall, trying to figure out where I was. I guess they tossed me into the bush, because I couldn't come up with any logical reason as to how I'd gotten there, either.

I couldn't even get the nerve to get up for an hour. I mean, what was I supposed to do about Peter? And I was convinced that Remus hated me for not showing up. And James…well…I figured James would just laugh at me for not being able to take on a group of Slytherins.

I went to the shack, just to see if Remus had waited there for me. Not that I expected him to; we're just friends, and he wouldn't wait around for that long even for a friend. I don't even know if he liked the remodeling I did.

I ran into Lily Evans on my way upstairs once I got back to the school - On a normal basis she drives me up the wall, but she actually helped me clean myself up a bit. That and she told me that James and Remus were worried, so at least I didn't have to worry about Remus tearing me a new one as soon as I got back to the dorm…

Side note: The bleeding stopped. I never went to the hospital wing, so I tore up my sheets and used the strips as bandages instead.

It's all a blur for me though; even the walking through the school. When I walked into the dorm, Peter was sleeping in his bed. I guess I'll deal with him tomorrow. Remus hugged me so tight though…I didn't have the heart to push him away and tell him that I think one of my ribs is broken. He's in bed again, and he looks so relaxed now that he's asleep.
Tomorrow is going to be as fantastic as a hole in the head. I don't care if I get detention; I'm not going to class. Maybe I can get Remus to skip with me so I can sleep all day and still have some company.

It hurts to write, so I'm stopping for the night. I'll write more about how Remus reacted to his surprises tomorrow.

P.S. - I can't sleep in this bed. I pretty much destroyed the sheets. I'm gonna go curl up with Moony.