Title: Christmas in July
Author's Notes: Minor slashy is you squint your eyes and stand on your head.
Another note: This was originally written for a contest, but I didn't make it long enough, and I found that if I added anything else to it, it kinda sucked. Hence the shortness.
Oh, and this takes place in the marauders first year.
Severus Snape sat on the edge of the lake, staring out at the water.
'I wish it was raining,' he thought to himself. It seemed as though it had been forever since the last rain, when in actuality it had been two months. A two month drought had left water to be desired. Water and vegetaion. Almost overy living thing not human had died weeks before. Everything except a single carnation, growing a few yards away from the recently planted Womping Willow, which was actually not dead, but rather depressed by the lack of rain.
Most of the student and teacher population was confined inside the castle, unwilly to do anyting outside in the heat of day.
"WATCH OUT!" Snape heard someone shout from the distance.
He turned in time to get hit in the face with a fluffy ball of snow and get knocked backwards into tha lake.
Wait a minute. Snow? Where the hell had that come from.
"SORRY!" the voice shouted once more, running to help the black haired boy.
"salve amicus,"(1) the boy greeted happily, reaching out to help Snape. "Sorry 'bout that."
"What the bloody hell were you doing?" Severus said, taking the other boy's hand. The way he said it, it wasn't rude, just a question.
"Trying to have a little fun, this drought is boring," he replied. "Name's Sirius by the way. Sirius Black."
(1) salve amicus. Several notes on this. First off, the competition requested a greeting in another language. Its Latin. It means hello friend. It was intentionally left uncapitalized, thats just the way you do things in Latin, you only capitalize proper nouns. And words that are stressed, which cnfuses the hect out of me. Especially when its like fEcerunt, seems stupid to me. And I've completely gone off topic.