CHAPTER I:
rumor has it

( February 1978 )

      JAQUELINE CAREW STRUT DOWN THE CORRIDORS OF HOGWARTS, ANGER PULSING THROUGH HER VEINS. Rumor has it, and has had it for the past year, that Jaqueline murdered Micheal Baudelaire and Sersi Hyde, which is a lie. But, Pricilla Danvers can't help but keep spouting her web of lies to the student body of Hogwarts. And Jack was sick of it.

      And so Jack, her ponytail swinging violently behind her, was on her way to finally confront her about it. Don't ask why it took her so long to become confrontational about the matter, she just wasn't the confrontational type. She was more so the gossip and laugh type.

      Then there she was, Pricilla Danvers, annoying laugh echoing as she and her so-called friends gossiped about the Carew heir. They weren't even that fond of Pricilla herself, but couldn't help themselves from choking down the lies she spewed.

      "Hey! Pricilla! I hear you're spreading rumors about me again," the girl seethed as she approached the irritating group.

      "Well, rumor has it, you were last seen leaving into Ravenclaw Tower which is just a hall away from the crime scene." Her pearly white teeth shone in Jack's face which only made her want to rip them out.

      Carew stepped closer to the obnoxiously blonde girl, a glint in her eye that made Pricilla shift in her seat "But you know it isn't true, Pricilla."

      She shrugged trying to shake off the feeling, "it's just a rumor. It isn't like it's hurting you, so go cry about it elsewhere." Her peers laughed at her words while the girl in front of her clenched her jaw.

      "And rumor has it that you're a self-centered bitch who slept with Sersi's boyfriend after they had been together for eight months, and then went on to say how she was in love with someone else so that he could have a valid reason for breaking up with her." Jack smiled as Pricilla's snobby grin fell. The students around them raised their brows appalled with both girls. "But it's just a rumor." She shrugged turning away.

"And what about you, huh?" Danvers stood up, her cheeks red with embarrassment.

Jaqueline turned on her heel, eyebrows furrowed, "what about me?"

"I heard, Sirius Black fucked you." The group beside her looked astonished at the fierce blonde girl standing in front of them. Her eyes flickered to the dark-haired boy in the group beside his friends but they went back to Pricilla.

"Maybe you need to get your hearing checked, you do have a tendency to hear things wrong."

      She opened her mouth to snap back at the girl but Sirius beat her to the spot, "I don't know, I sort of like that rumor. It's very realistic," he smirked at the girl who poked her tongue on the inside of her cheek irritated.

"Keep quiet, lap dog. Your begging for attention is as pathetic as that mop you wear on your head. It's like you've never heard of a haircut."

"Oh, but I thought you liked when I begged?" The students watched as the comments shifted from Pricilla and Jaqueline to Sirius and Jaqueline. Different tensions between each duo had been strong but amusing.

Jack quickly stepped forward to Sirius and grasped his tie and pulled him centimeters away from touching her face. "I prefer when you shut your mouth."

His heartbeat rang through his ears as he found her mannerisms more than attractive, "I heard a rumor you like it to be wide open."

A heat rose within her chest at his daring words as she acted like she were seconds away from either kissing him or making him the next found victim, whether she was the murderer or not.

She let go of him. "And I heard a rumor you left your abusive family to go live with James Potter."

      Sirius furrowed his brows sharing a look with Potter, both confused with what she was getting at. "That's correct."

      "So you admit to leaving your younger brother in said abusive household because you were only thinking of yourself. Some brother you are." She crossed her arms over her chest while he came to a loss for words for the first time. Though her words did stab and twist at the guilt he felt about his brother, he couldn't help but feel a bit more attracted to the girl who had no regard for anyone's feelings.

      Pricilla groaned, annoyed with their banter, "wrap this up or take it to your dorms."

      Jaqueline rolled her eyes gaining an irritable tickle in her fingers that urged her to make the murderer rumors true. "Rumor has it, Pricilla, that you're currently cheating on Mattias Dupont with five other men." The girl's eyes widened, as well as her boyfriend who had been sitting beside her. "And they're all in this group."

"Oh, I hope you throw yourself off the Astronomy Tower!" Her voice echoed down the hall.

Carew shrugged beginning to walk away again, "and I hope you get buried alive!"

"You probably want to do that to me." She shouted like a child having a temper tantrum as her boyfriend stormed off.

"Yes, I really do," she laughed. As she strolled down the hall, she could hear Sirius Black's laugh echo like a hyena from his spot. And at that moment, she really did wish she was the Hogwarts murderer.

NOTE. now why is sirius down bad for this girl 😭 but lmao i love her anyways 😋

and if you saw me publish this once, no you didnt. that notif is a hallucination and not bc i realized i spelt her name wrong this entire chapter 😐