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Chapter 3- Dreams, Hexing, Snogging, and Class
As I walked to Transfiguration, I couldn’t help but wonder if Sirius had learned his lesson from the last Free Period. Well the good thing is that, this time he was alone, James was with me for Transfiguration. We were walking hand-in-hand as we entered the classroom. Liz, James, and I got a table to ourselves. Apparently, the Ravenclaws and some of the Gryffindors were a bit afraid of Liz and I now, since we had yelled at Sirius and James in front of everyone in the Great Hall. I stared up at the new Transfiguration teacher Professor McGonagall. She was also Head of Gryffindor. She wore long emerald robes, and she wore square spectacles that hung off the bridge of her nose. Her light brown hair was in a tight bun at the top of her head. She seemed to be fairly young, maybe in her early 20’s. She fumbled around with some sheets on her desk. She started talking about how she got started. It wasn’t as boring as our first two classes. At least she wasn’t talking about N.E.W.T.S. I turned to my right to look over at Liz. She appeared to be nodding off. I tapped her lightly on the forehead and she blinked surprisingly. Her love coffee was wearing off. I looked to my left, and James seemed distracted.
“James, what’s wrong?” I whispered softly so the teacher didn’t hear. He looked at me, quickly, but once our eyes met, he looked away.
“Nothing….” He muttered. He pulled out his wand and began twirling it in his fingers. I placed my hands over his hands, and lowered his wands.
“James, there is seriously something wrong…its ok you can tell me.” I still continued to whisper. I took my hands off his and blushed. “If this is about the whole underwear scheme….I told you I forgive you. I understand your curiosity.” I said, gave him my just-listen-to-me-already look.
“Ok…you were right. I was worried that you were still mad. But I guess I cant ignore that look. I accept your forgiveness.” He grabbed my hand and kissed it softly. His lips felt warm, against my clammy hands, which I wish weren’t clammy. I heard a cough from behind me, and felt eyes pierced on me. I turned around to see Jordan’s posse giving me cold glares. I wanted to just flip them off, but I didn’t want to cause any trouble with the new teacher, and Head of my House. As the class droned on, I couldn’t help but think of the start of the Quidditch Season. I took many glances at James. His hand was linked with mind underneath the table throughout the whole class. Finally the class ended. I stood up and grabbed my stuff. Liz and James were arguing about Quidditch. Liz was betting that James and I would get distracted on the field, and that would be our downfall of the season. I didn’t want to get into, to make it 2 vs. 1. When I say 2 vs. 1, I am with Liz. Part of my thoughts was that I would get distracted, but I am going to try hard to prove that wrong. We made our way up the stairs to Gryffindor Tower, since it was now Afternoon Break. We walked through the portrait hole, and Sirius was sitting in the chair by the fire. Wait…. I had to take a double take. Was that a book in Sirius Blacks hands? I shook my head and walked all the way through the portrait hole. Alex and Peter were sitting on the couch and still discussing pickles. Or was it cucumbers now? I shrugged my shoulders. By now Liz’s mood was calmed down. Sirius looked happier because of it. I sat down on the couch, James next to me once more. I looked around. Some people were missing. I put my hand to my chin, to look like I was thinking. It seemed everyone knew that Remus and Kat were missing. As if on cue, in came Remus and Kat, seeming to be in an intense discussion on god knows what. Sirius and James got identical grins on they’re faces. James jumped off the couch from next to me, as Sirius jumped up from the love seat next to Liz. They both made a beeline for Kat and Remus. Remus, being used to them doing that, was unalarmed. Kat however, was wide-eyed, and looked a bit frightened. I smiled to myself slightly.
“So where were you two?” Sirius said, his arms around Kat. She was shrugging her shoulders as if to wiggle his arm free from around her.
“We were at the library…..” Kat said quietly, a furious red blush appearing on her face. James was over by Remus badgering him as well.
“Oh, the library, she says, get her to lie for you Remus?” James said, waggling his eyebrows.
“Yeah, is that just an excuse to say instead, that you two were snogging!!” Sirius said, also waggling his eyebrows as James did.
“Come on, James leave them alone. The say they were at the library, that’s where they were.” I said, giggling through my hand. Alex and Peter were laughing as well. Remus and Kat had now settled themselves on the couch, their blushes faded away.. “So we have 10 minutes until class, what do you guys wanna talk about?” I said unfaithfully. Whenever I did that, the quieter our group seemed to become.
“Well frankly, I want to talk about the next big prank we are going to perform!” Sirius chimed in, grinning intently at James. I rolled my eyes.
“As long as your next prank doesn’t involve me….” “And me!” Liz interrupted angrily. “Then I am totally fine with it. As long as you don’t get into too much trouble.” I finished, squeezing James hand in concern giving him my You-better-not-get-your-arse-stuck-in-detention-forever look.
“I promise you Gabby, that this next prank will not include you…or Liz.” Sirius said waggling his eyebrows at Kat and Alex. “But I cant make any promises on you ladies.” Sirius said, his grin getting bigger. I shot James another look.
“Don’t do anything to them either. Why don’t you pick on the Slytherins, they deserve it” I said coldly. “Or Jordan Platt.” I said even more coldly, remembering her comments from earlier. Kat gave me a look of concern.
“What happened in Ancient Runes with you two anyways?“ Kat said getting up from next to Remus and moving to my side. I felt everyones eyes on me.
“Ok, in Ancient Runes today, I got stuck sitting next to Jordan, because I let Remus and Kat sit next to each other.” I paused, waiting for a reaction from them. Not a moment later, the blushes reappeared on both of their faces. I giggled silently and continued. “Well, yeah, I got stuck next to her, and the class started getting really boring, so I started doodling on my paper….” I paused again, but this time, it was my turn to blush. “So anyways, she started talking to me about James and I dating, and everyone knows how obsessed she was with you James….” I said casting a look at him. “So she was making all these little comments, that I tried to ignore…but they just kept building up….and then she called me ugly and said James was better off with her, instead of me…and I just couldn’t take it. If I wasn’t a prefect I would’ve…..” I balled my fists up and slammed them on the sofa. I felt James and Kat place they hands on my shoulders to calm me down. My fists uncurled, and I took a small breath in. “But I am fine now. I really don’t care what she says to me anymore, so if you guys could play some kind of prank on her, that would be great!” I said giving Sirius a thumbs up. I looked around at all my friends. Most of their expressions looked concerned, except Sirius, who looked busy thinking of a new prank, and then Liz and Alex, who looked pretty angry.
“How could she say something like that to you!!” Liz and Alex cried angrily at the same time. They both stood up looking very angry, hands clutching their pockets, where their wands were. “I don’t care that I am prefect, and that she is in my own house!! I want to do bad things to that girl…..” Liz said pulling her wand out.
“I am not a prefect! I don’t care if I have to hex her!” Alex said angrily, standing up as well. I stood up after them.
“Guys, its fine. Please…don’t do anything to get yourselves in detention.” I said calmly. Liz only smirked.
“Well we have Potions next and if she says anything to you, that is even remotely evil, I am so not hesitating to hex her. Prefect, smrefect.” Liz said, stuffing her wand back in her pocket forcefully. Alex did the same. She settled back down next to Peter, before everyone realized that we had Potions to get too. Kat and Liz raced to Ravenclaw Tower to get there things, as we all picked our things up, heading to the dungeons. Along the way, we passed Lily and Severus walking hand in hand. I thought they were kind of cute together, but I would never mention that to James, knowing how much him and Sirius hated Severus. We walked to the entrance of the Potions classroom, and there stood Jordan Platt, and her crew. I glared coldly at them, James gripping my arm in comfort.
“Don’t let her bother you….” He whispered softly, kissing the top of my forehead. This made Jordan glare back. I smiled satisfyingly as me and James walked into the classroom. It was still a bit early. Professor Slughorn wasn’t even in the room yet. And neither was Kat and Liz. James took a seat at a random table, and I sat onto of it, my legs hanging off the sides. Jordan was still outside. Suddenly I heard shouting outside the classroom.
“HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY FRIEND!!” I heard Liz scream angrily. I immediately jumped off the top of the table and rushed outside the classroom. Jordan and Liz had there wands pointed at each other. Jordan’s friends also had their wands out, as did Kat, just in case. Though we knew Liz could handle herself, I mean she was dating Sirius Black.
“What is going on?” I shouted. James, Alex, Peter, Sirius, and Remus had now appeared at my sides. Sirius had a small grimace on his face. His girlfriend was about to be in a duel.
“TAKE IT BACK!” Liz continued screaming angrily. A small group now formed around us.
“Liz, what happened?” I said, sounding concerned, though I didn’t care why she had her wand pointed at Jordan , but obviously, she said something mean to offend Liz.
“She was planning with her little ‘posse’ about a plan to steal James away from you. And when I tried to defend you, she called me a…..a….Mmmuu….” Liz stuttered over the word. I could understand why she had trouble saying it. Sirius’s grimace disappeared and he tried to step forward, but James put his arm out to stop him, shaking his head. The anger was beginning to build inside me again. Alex and I simultaneously pulled our wands out and stood next to Kat and Liz. Remus and Peter stood in shock. Sirius was now enjoying the girl fight, and I really couldn’t tell James expression. He was semi-glaring at Jordan for being in love with him. “TAKE IT BACK!” Liz repeated, moving a few more inches closer to Jordan, who had a smug look on her face, her wand still out. She motioned for her friends to put there wands down, and they listened. Liz did the same us. I took a step back, but kept my wand out. I mean, this was about me too. Liz stepped more forward, as did Jordan. They were inches from each other, at least as close as they could get without poking each others eyes out with their wands, though I am sure all of us would laugh if that happened. Jordan opened her mouth slightly
“Expell…..” Jordan cried but didn’t finish before Liz shouted,
“Rictusempra!” Jordan started laughing uncontrollably, holding her sides. Her friends were gasping behind her. Though I was still angry, this made me laugh. Jordan laughed for a bit, as did everyone else around us. She stopped, and started to regain herself.
“Expelliarmus!” I said from behind Liz. I caught Jordan’s wand in my hand, and smiled to myself. “Nice job Liz!” I said getting ready to give her a high five. She stuffed her wand in her pocket, and walked mindlessly into the Potions classroom. Though I didn’t want to, I threw Jordan her wand back and ran into the classroom after Liz. Sirius beat me too her, and was now hugging her in comfort.
“Don’t worry about what she said….” Sirius said stroking her long silky hair. I went to Liz’s side.
“Thanks for defending me Liz…” I murmured. Professor Slughorn had now entered the classroom. Jordan glared at Liz and I from across the room. “Next time, we need to let Alex and Kat do some fighting.” I said giggling, which made Liz smile. She seemed to cheer up as the class went on. Professor Slughorn discussed N.E.W.T.S. like every other teacher, and he praised Lily as being a Potions prodigy.
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“Hey you know…..” Kat said as we were walking through the portrait hole, “How come we always hangout here. The Ravenclaw Common Room is just as nice.” I pondered over this thought.
“Kat you’re right. Maybe we should hangout there during Free Period.” I said enthusiastically. Kat bent her head down, as did Alex. They were in class all day, all the time. They didn’t have a Free Period. This next Free Period would be James, Remus, Peter, Liz, and I. It would be a Sirius free time! Bad thing for Liz though. Everyone seemed to be talking amongst themselves. Remus was talking quietly with Kat. Maybe they were planning something to do after dinner. James and Sirius were still discussing their next prank, and the whole chick fight before Potions. Alex and Peter, were discussing something, like pickles, or muffins, or something. Alex always had random things to say. Liz was a bit too quiet. I wondered if she was still upset about what Jordan said. Suddenly Liz was smiling and holding something in her hands. I stared at her oddly, as did everyone else. Liz got up and started spinning around the common room, dropping something that looked like confetti. After a while, Liz got dizzy and fell over onto of Sirius. He waggled his eyebrows and bent down to try and kiss her, but she threw confetti in his face, giggling. “Liz, what the heck was that?”
“Oh that, I was twirling and throwing my confetti!” She said smiling brightly. Sirius was brushing confetti off of his face, though he was smiling at Liz’s random goofiness.
“Well are you gonna clean this all up?” I said putting my hands on my hips.
“No, silly. Why do you think I did it here. I wasn’t gonna wait until I got to my own common room. Then I would’ve had to clean it up!” She said still smiling. She threw confetti on my head, and then was soon empty. Liz frowned and scrunched her eyebrows. Sirius laughed and ran up to his dormitory room. He was only gone for a few moments before he came back down with something. He threw it into Liz’s lap, and I watched as her face lit up. “Yay!!!” She shrieked. She threw her arms around Sirius, and planted a huge kiss on him. I stared at the bag that was now on the floor, since she stood up. It was more confetti. I rolled my eyes and smiled.
“You better save that bag Liz.” I said giggling.
“Oh I know!” Liz said releasing from Sirius. She took the bag of confetti and stuck it in her bag. I looked up to see Kat, Sirius, and Alex getting there stuff together. “Have fun in Muggle Studies!” Liz said, giving Sirius another small kiss.
“Yeah, have fun guys!” James sang. He placed his arm around me as they walked out. “So what do you wanna during Free Period?” He said raising his eyebrows. I punched him playfully on the arm. Liz just stared at us, rolling her eyes.
“I am just gonna head to Ravenclaw Common Room now, Peter, Remus, why don’t you come with me, and Gabby and James will catch up later.” Liz was already grabbing her stuff, and the boys things and was trying to get them off the couch and out of the common room. She kept winking at my as she made her, not so orderly exit from the common room, Peter and Remus following reluctantly behind, since Liz had their things. I rocked back and forth on the couch awkwardly.
“I don’t know…what do you wanna do?” I said cutely. He moved closer to me. I leaned my head against his shoulder and smiled at him.
“Hey you wanna know something?” He said shifting his arm to behind my neck. I knew what was coming next. My heart started beating really fast. “You are really cute.” He inched his face closer to his. He used his free hand to tilt my chin up, and he pressed his lips gently against mine. My lips moved with his. I had now shifted my body so that it was facing him. I moved my hands to behind his neck, putting my fingers in his untidy black hair. His hands were on my waist. As I kissed him, I was glad that Sirius wasn’t going to be around to ruin the moment. After a bit, we pulled away from each other, a little breathless. He had a grin on his face, and I stared at him oddly.
“What….?” I said cautiously. I was now back into a sitting position.
“Nothing……” He said still grinning. I punched him in the arm, a little harder that time.
“Seriously. Quit being a git, what are you grinning about?” I said a bit forcefully, seeing as we just got done snogging.
“Well…its just…you’re a great kisser…..” James said blushing. Which made me blush too. I looked at the clock. Free Period was half over.
“Well, maybe we should head to Ravenclaw to meet the others.” I picked up my bags, and signaled for James hand, but it was in mine before I had the time to say or do anything. Looks like I wear the pants in this relationship. I couldn’t help but giggle to myself. We made our way to Ravenclaw Common Room. We stood at the door waiting to hear the riddle. I usually could guess the answer, if not me, someone else would come and help me in.
I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
I pondered this for a moment. I was about to open my mouth to answer, but James stopped me.
“Wait, I wanna try and answer.” He said. I think he wanted to be the man. I rolled my eyes, and gave him the signal to guess. “Thanks. Ummm..piano?” He said cautiously. The door to the blue common room. I skipped in there, to find Remus, Peter, and Liz sitting down. The minute Liz saw me, she jumped off the couch and pulled me aside.
“Soooo….” Liz sang, giving me a mischievously smile.
“Soooo what?” I asked innocently. Though the innocence didn’t work, because I was still flushed.
“Oh Gabby, I love you but you can not lie to me! Look at your face! Your more flushed then Remus and Kat were when we accused them of snogging. So how was it?” She said, with the mischievous smile still on her face.
“It was….well…great actually…” I said still flushed. I smiled and walked back over to the boys.
“My plan worked then!” Liz said, going for her bag confetti. She had it in her hands before she put it back. I wondered if she had some sort of plan to do something important with it. I shrugged and sat down in between Remus and James. Remus was reading as usually. I inched my head over his book to read what he was reading.
“Is that something for Astronomy?” I asked. I didn’t know what the book was, but the page he was on, showed charts of the moon patterns. There would be a full moon three weeks from tomorrow night. I guess that was kind of cool to know.
“Oh no, its not for Astronomy, just for some reading….” He said , his voice trailing off. James looked over my shoulder at the book as well. He gave Remus a grave look, and I whipped my head side to side to see what was going on. Peter just kept quiet, probably wishing Alex was here. She was the only one Peter usually talked to in public, besides his friends. The common room was pretty silent. Classes were over, so Alex, Kat, and Sirius should be back soon. As if on cue, in strolled Sirius, Kat, and Alex.
“How was Muggle Studies guys?” I said happily
“It was radtastic!” Alex replied, just as happy. “Do you know how weird Muggles are. They actually used to worship this guy named Michael Jackson. He like used to be black, and now he is white. And he likes to molest little boys.” Alex grinned. Apparently, she liked this guy. “He is actually a good singer. I am gonna get some of his songs on my Ipod!” Alex continued this conversation with Peter. Sirius had made his way over to Liz, and was whining that the Muggle Studies teacher almost gave him detention for planning to flash the class his boxers. Kat had found her way over to Remus and was looking over his shoulder at the book. They were so cute together. Maybe Liz and I could plan to get them together too. I looked at the clock, and I small grumble emerged from my stomach. James heard and starting laughing.
“Hungry Gabby?” He said still laughing. I held my stomach, I nodded my head
 Misses Prongs · Sun Nov 02, 2008 @ 10:58pm · 1 Comments |
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