Normal POV:

I was trembling. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw
myself leaning over a rail. It was horrid. It was wrong. It was
terrifying. That night, Tony brought me back to the Gryffindor Commen
Room. I could hardly speak, but I said the password. I didn't go back up
to my dormitories, but I lay down on the couch and stared at the fire
until I fell asleep at long last.


"Reg, let her be. She's had
a rough night," Cissy whispered gently. Tony had his arms around me. I
wouldn't let anyone else touch me, I wouldn't speak to anyone else, I
could hardly look at anyone else. But I did catch the eye of a
blue-eyed, black haired, Gryffindor boy. His face wore confusion, his
eyes looked hurt.

"What happened, Rani? Why did you do it?" Lucy growled softly.

"Tell us. It's OK," Yax added. Cissy rubbed my back.

"We're
here for you. You can tell us anything," she said. I wiped away my
tears and sat up straight. Tony's arm was draped around my waist, but no
one really really cared.

"I was…everything was so twisted and
wrong, I felt I had to get away. I didn't know what else to do. Tony
found me at the top of the Astronomy Tower. I told him to leave, but he
didn't. I turned to yell at him, but I fell. He caught me, and I
slipped, hitting my head on the wall. Tony saved me. My judgement was so
clouded with anger, confusion, sadness, and hurt that I could not
think. I did not get much sleep last night, because I was thinking." I
explained.

"What were you thinking about?" Tony asked.

"You.
All of you. I was thinking about why I longed for Evans and Jinx, when I
had you. You guys have saved me so many times, it's hard to count. Reg,
you saved me from the Slytherins last year, Cissy, you did too. Sev
saved me from so much emotional pain, and Tony saved me from death. Yax
and Lucy, you've saved me from not feeling lonely, and Crysa saved me
from being afraid. You guys will dance with me to our hearts content,
just to see me smile. You'll tease me playfully, but it'll remind of the
old times, and you help me through it. You stand by my side, through
thick and thin. Without you, there would be so many occasions where I
would be dead. I would have died last year, halfway through, if not for
Reg. I've realized that I don't need them, because I have you. Since
last night I've decided to fully change. Instead of being shy, I'll be
the Proud Gryffindor I'm supposed to be. I'll stand by my friends and my
family, even to the point of death, I'll be brave, I'll be strong, but I
won't change who I am on the inside. I'll still be a reader, a dreamer,
a writer. I'll still get mostly O's. I'll still be a Wolf and a
Werewolf. Most of all, I'll still love-" I stopped myself, "Nevermind.
The point is, I'll be courageous, but a reader. I'll still be myself,
but I'll be different. I used to have them, but now I have you." I
smiled at my friends.

"You were brave before, Rani. Doing what you did last night was-"

"Cowardly.
I believe that was the only way out. At least I wanted to. I wanted it
to be the only way, because I was afriad of the other possibilities. I
ran and hide," I said, cutting off Cissy, "Before, I had a very thin
shell, that with just a flick, it'd shatter into millions of pieces. And
that what happened. Now, I have a hard shell that'll take so much more
to break. You wanna know who built it?" I smiled at my Slytherins.

"Who?" Reg asked.

"My friends," I beamed.



"You look ghastly, Rani," Cissy gasped. It was three days later, and the day of the full moon. I nodded.

"Full moon," I groaned. She nodded solemnly.

"I
really wish we had some way to help," Cissy sighed. I thought of
Sirius, James, Peter, and Jinxy and how they'd help Remus. They used to
help me. I shook my head and pulled my werewolf journal from my bag.

"What's
that?" Sev asked. We were in the library, partially studying, partially
fainting from exhaustion. That was my part, if you couldn't tell.

"It's my…my…werewolf journal," I stuttered. My head was burning like crazy.

"You seem worse then I've ever seen you. Why?" Reg asked. I shrugged.

"I'm
going to…bed. And sleep," I groaned and walked to the Gryffindor House.
I finally got to my bed, and immediately collapsed into it. I let out a
sigh of relief.



I woke up a couple of hours later. It was getting dark, so I decided to go into the woods.

As
soon as I stepped foot into the dark forest, the full touched my skin. I
screamed in pain as the wolf inside me became the outside of me.

Third Person:

Serena
ran into the forest. Deeper and deeper she went. She soon got tired and
sat down. There was nothing good to eat in the forest, so she just sat
down. She was lonely. She wanted to eat something, attack something, or
just be with something. That one werewolf she attacked the first time
would be a good playmate, but she couldn't catch his sent. The werewolf
put her head on her arms and howled. She hoped another werewolf would
come to play with her. No one came. She was alone. Not a footprint of
any kind to be seen. There were no birds, no bats, no squirrels, no
centaurs, no nothing. The werewolf howled again.



Sirius Black knew that sound. That was a werewolf. But he was with Remus, there weren't any other werewolves. Except River.

She left you. She said you ruined her life.

You sort of did, ruin her life.

Sirius'
mind was arguing with itself. He had to choose, Remus or River? River
didn't want to be around him anymore. Remus always wants to be around
him. Sirius sent a look to James, and ran after the sound of the howl.