Melisende cheered in victory! She quickly descended to the ground as she ran to hug their seeker Regulus Black, who had just caught the golden snitch.

They had won the quidditch match, which was against Gryffindor and had entered into finals which was against Ravenclaw. She soon felt other team mates join in the hug, and she being the captain couldn't be more proud.

Melisende had grown to a beautiful, charming yet a strong woman. She didn't care what the world thought about her, never failed to voice her opinion, and never hesitated to help the ones in need.

And that's what made her different. Despite being a Slytherin she was friends with everyone. No one feared her as they feared the other Slytherins. She never judged a person by their blood type, never participated in bulling. Even though most of her house mates despised muggleborns, they never said anything in front of her. The Slytherins loved her and thus respected her views.

"Congratulations Rowle", she heard a deep voice say.

She turned around only to come face to face with none other than Sirius Black. Since she was one of the most popular girl at Hogwarts, Sirius often found himself flirting with her. No, he didn't had any feelings towards her. It was a bit " A little flirting won't do any bad" kind.

Melisende smirked.

"Fancy accepting defeat huh" she said. He smirked in return.

"Nah! More like fancy seeing you flying on the broom, hair flowing in the air and of course that body of yours", he said wiggling his eyebrows.

"Pervert", she said as she laughed.

James Potter, the caption of Gryffindor team was watching the scene from distance, anger boiling in his stomach. He had often told Sirius not to flirt with Melisende, his Mel. And Sirius kept doing it, even though he knew that James loved her.

Yes love. But no one knew about this except the Marauders.

As soon as Melisende was sorted into Slytherin, he had broken all ties with her, he was still her friend but in his heart. The 11 year old James wanted to make new friends, a new reputation. And somehow his mother knew about their friendship, she had ordered him to immediately break it. It was Melisende or his mom, and he had choosed the later.

Melisende was heart broken, somewhere deep down in her heart she always knew this would happen, yet in bothered her so much. James was everything to her, but she wasn't one of those who weep about their problems. She had proved him along this years that she was not like others! She had proven that he was wrong.

But Melisende couldn't bring herself to speak to him. She didn't knew his side of story and more importantly she had started to have feelings for him.

Both secretly longed for each other, they were made for each other, yet they just couldn't.

Fate loved to play it's game with them, surely they were his favourite pawns.

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Everyone was having a peaceful dinner in the Great Hall, but the peace was soon thrown out of the window as the Marauder's strolled in. And much to everyone's surprise their hair were bright neon pink, except Remus who couldn't help but smirk at the reactions of his fellow hogwartians.

Sirius was fuming as he made his way to the Slytherin table, followed by James who had the same expression and peter, who didn't knew what to say.

"Take it off Rowle", Sirius yelled as he walked in front of her.

"I don't know what you are talking about", she said faking innocence although you could see the slight smirk on her face. 

"For fuck's sake Melisende, you and i both know that this is the payback for our last prank", he hissed. Sirius just loved his hair, so it was not new for people to see him so angry.

"Exactly! If you hadn't changed my uniform into red and gold i wouldn't have done this", she hissed back.

Since third year there had been a prank war between Melisende and the Marauders. No one knew why both parties constantly pranked each other. They  had learnt that it was better to stay out of their business.

"But they changed back into a day", he argued.

"Yes, and your hair colour will go away in a day", she said mocking him.

Sirius just groaned. Almost everyone was snickering in the great hall, the teachers had long given up upon trying to stop this, they were okay with it, as long as they kept others out of it.

"Now if you please excuse me, i have got to finish my dinner", she said calmly turning back to her plate.

"I don't get why you prank her in the first place", they heard Remus say as soon as they sat on the Gryffindor table.

"It's not us Moony! it's him", Sirius said referring to James.

"Prongs here thinks that he will be able to grab her attention by doing such things".

"Why don't you just tell her that you like her?", Peter squeaked.

"It's not that easy wormtail, she hates me for crying out loud. My mum will probably kill me if she hears about it, it's the reason why i broke ties with her", James exclaimed throwing his hands in air.

"I swear this rivalry between your parents is going to be the death of you", Remus mused.

James just signed. He had thought about various ways to tell her about his story, but he just couldn't! He loved his mom dearly, but he loved Melisende as well. He just couldn't bring to his heart all this years to disobey his mother.

He watched silently as Melisende and Levi Parker, a fellow slytherin left the hall together. How much he wished to be in his place!

He banged his head on the table, earning a few weird glances from others but he didn't care.

He had made his mind. He was going to befriend Mel, he was going to tell her the truth, he was going to confess his feelings. He was sure his mom would understand how much he loved Mel, surely it will take lots of time but he was willing to take the risk. He didn't care about their house rivalry, he didn't care about the Dark lord rising to power. He just couldn't mop around, he had to act and that to before someone else stealed her away from him.

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Hello guys! Here comes the second chapter.

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This story focuses on how two people, from different backgrounds find love in each other. It will show their journey about how they protest against the prejudiced beliefs around them and how they stand together and face the world, even though its against them.

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