Sirius's Problems
Disclaimer: I am not or associated with J K Rowling (All hail!) (sorry, habit) (I go crazy with parenthesis), and everything and everyone belongs to her. Mildred Plotker (though I invented her personality) belongs to the Parent Trap ( the 1 with the red heads) (yes, redheads, I consider her two different characters). They ( the writers) created her name. Well, on with the.. fic!
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"Padfoot, I understand that the Yule Ball is special, but do you HAVE to take 10 years?" asked an impatient James Potter to the closed door with a crooked bronze "5" on it. He was in a hurry to meet his date, Lily Dengle, at the Yule Ball, which is basically a huge Christmas/ Holiday party at his school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Oh, you didn't know he was a wizard? Well, now you do!
"James, James, James" said Sirius Black, emerging from the closed door. " I can be late, because unlike you, I haven't been dating the same person for, what, all your life, it seems." He said this with a smirk on his face. It was true, though. Lily and James were meant for each other. Everyone knew it, even the teachers. "Really though, James, how long was it?"
"Three years," James said, rather annoyed.
"Wow, James. Lily would love your face right now." James had his teeth grit, face red, and looked severely annoyed.
"I don't know how I put up with you for five years!"
"Hold on. What do you mean, you put up with me?! I think it's the other way around, don't you?" Sirius pretended to swoon (a/n what swooning is, I don't know. I think it's fainting only...not). "Oh, Lily. You are as radiant as the sun...Your face is as clear as dawn... Your eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad."
Looking as though he was about to kill Sirius, James said, "I never said her eyes were as green as a fresh pickled toad!"
"I should hope not!" called Lily from the banister of the girls stairway. "If my eyes resembled toads, I'd never hear the end of it from Mildred Plotker." Mildred was, well, a bully. She even gave poor Professor Flitwick a nosebleed once.
"Lily!" said James, "I... uh, see, Sirius..." James ended his so-called 'explaination' to why
Sirius had been so rude by adding in a nervous laugh.
Lily giggled. "James, I think I know Sirius enough to realize what happened. See you in the common room in about five seconds." and she went downstairs.
"See you at the ball, Padfoot." and James went downstairs too. Sirius sighed as he watched the couple exit through the portrait hole. "Ah, young love." he said, then cracked up. He went back into the fifth year boys' dorm room. He tried to fix his dress robes from last year, which were a little too short for him.