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"Ron! You have to stay on your broom!" Juliet said to him with a look of disbelief as the Weasley boy pulled himself up on it better, "You aren't going to make try outs if you fall off."


"Ouch, Jules." Ron complained as he put his hand to his heart.


"Tough love, baby." she smirked and threw the quaffle his way, groaning in disbelief as she knocked him off his broom once again, "Are you kidding me?"


"You're going to hard on me!" he complained as the pair flew down to the ground again, "You throw so violently."


Juliet held up her arms and flexed her muscles, "What'd you expect?"


Ron huffed as he shoved her arms down, "I'm never going to make try outs."


"You'll get there, I promise." Juliet said as she put a arm around him with a quick kiss to the cheek, "I'm just better."


"Hilarious." Ron said unamused as Juliet grinned with a kiss to the side of his head.


"Juliet." a whisper was heard as she picked her books for potions class, "Hey! Juliet!"


The darker girl turned and saw Theodore Nott peaking through the book shelf. Juliet rolled her eyes as she went to walk off before he hurried around the corner to catch up with her. Theo and Juliet hadn't talked that much, her short time hanging around Slytherin she'd mainly cling to Pansy. Theo was usually flighty, never hanging around for more then a few minutes before hurrying hurrying away, "I have to tell you something."


"Respectfully, no." Juliet said with a huff as she checked out her books, "I'd rather not hear another words from any of you for that matter."


"Cmon, I wasn't the one that fought you in the hallway." Theo said as he grabbed her arm hopefully, "Please?"


"You have thirty seconds, making it count." Juliet said with a huff as she held her books under her arm and tapped her foot, "One-"


"Did you get invited into the Slugclub?" he asked her with curious eyes.


"I did not." Juliet shook her head, "Did you?"


"No, Blaise did though." Theo said back with a minor huff, "I heard they weren't letting me in because my father."


"You just wasted fifteen seconds, I don't know what you want me to do about that." Juliet spoke annoyed. She hadn't had anything against Theo personally, she could see that maybe he'd been a decent guy deep down. But she couldn't help but take a second to realize see who his friends were. Her cousin who hadn't been there for her for anything and let her stay with someone who was nearly a stranger then letting the wizard word known his cousin was a half blood. The same boy who attempted to be her friend then called her horrible names and attempted to knock her down a level. And the girl that was once her friend until a huge fight broke out in the hallway.


"Why didn't you get in?" Theo asked quickly as he followed Juliet into the hallway, "Slughorn likes Hufflepuffs."


"Probably because of last year, I don't know." Juliet huffed in disbelief, "Is there a point to all of this? Because I have to take extra classes for what I missed at the end of the semester last year."


"Huge point." he nodded quickly and grabbed her shoulders to stop her, "A few of us were thinking of sneaking into the christmas party when it comes around. You in?"


Juliet scoffed in disbelief, "Pardon me?"


"It'll be fun." Theo tried to reason with a grin.


"Some definition of fun." Juliet said in disbelief as a glare forced on her face as she took a step closer to him, "Guys like you really have everything fall at their feet, no consequences what so ever. You mess up? Oh, daddy can pay your way out of it. Not all of us have that luxury, not all of us can just have what you call fun. Whatever plan you and your friends are forming, I want nothing to do with it."


With her final words, Juliet stormed off.


"Merlin! My poor lover." Juliet cringed as she sat next to Hermione at quidditch tryouts the next day. Ron had been failing miserably, barely keeping himself on his broom and missing every shot, "Its his nerves, I just know it."


"He can come back from this." Hermione said hopefully as the pair cringed when Ron missed the quaffed and instead was hit. Juliet looked toward Harry who was clearly trying to avoid cutting Ron for the sake of their friendships. Juliet sighed as she glanced to Lavender Brown who was nearly falling off her seat and cheering on Ron. Juliet hadn't thought anything off it, the pair both being in Gryffindor and had been friends some how.


Hermione glanced to Juliet, "Do you suppose he could use a little help?"


Juliets eyes widened in realization, "Hermione, as Hufflepuff captain I am in no way suppose to be encouraged cheating. Therefore, I have no clue about the brilliant plan you have made."


Hermione giggled at Juliets words as she hid her mouth with her jacket, whispering a small something while Juliet pretended not to listen. Nearly immediately after, Ron blocked a shot and hit the quaffle out of the way. Juliet yelling out as she stood up quickly, clapping her hands violently as she cheered on her boyfriend that grinned widely.


"I don't understand why you're so mad, you're being so immature." Juliet complained with a red face as she tried to get away from Ron, already annoyed as was and he'd only been making if worse.


"Don't understand? You've been lying to me and not saying anything." Ron said in disbelief as he pulled on her arm to avoid her storming off, "Explains a lot really."


"Explains a lot? What? That i'm working on how to cure myself? Just because you're okay with having a screaming, psychopath girlfriend doesn't mean I am!" Juliet snapped at him angrily. Ron had found her books and notebooks on how to cure and get the inner banshee out of her, complicated and dangerous. He acted on instinct and yelled at her to express his worry rather then sitting down to talk.


"This is dangerous! You're gonna get yourself killed." Ron said in disbelief her way, "I thought you had it under control, with Remus."


"Under control? You mean physically killing myself just to avoid screaming when someone dies? Yeah, sure do, because that's exact-" Juliet began as she snatched the book from his hand quickly, "How I want to live."


"I should have know." Ron said in disbelief as she put her books away, "You've been so rude lately, I don't know why it didn't click to me that you've been drinking potions."


"Or maybe i've just been rude because I can't do a single thing without you complaining about it." Juliet snapped as him suddenly. The potion she had to drink every day to help conceal and over time kill the banshee within her had horribly side effects, anger and annoying being one of the highest ones, "It's my body, you don't get a say in it."


"You're my girlfriend!" he shouted at her in disbelief, "I have a right to worry about you!"


"Merlin, just leave me alone!" Juliet was mean, she was anger, she hadn't been herself. It wasn't her fault either, truly if hadn't been. The potion was controlling, it brought out a side of its drinker like no other. Ron knew that, Juliet knew that, just he had no clue how to get to her.


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kylie speaks


sadly our sweet
bbg jules has kinda
disappeared bc of
stupid potions and i
miss her! but her being
insecure and hating her
inner banshee is such an
important plot in this
book.


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