FEAR
It was a chilly, fall morning out on the Hogwarts grounds. Multi-colored leaves teased the first years that were trying, vainly, to snatch them out of the crisp air that held them aloft. Up in the Grffindor Tower there were five, four-poster beds in a cozy, circular room. The clock on the wall read, 8:54. All of the beds were made neatly, except one. this one bed had the hangings enclosed around it in a feeble attempt to block out the morning sunlight.
James Potter, a lean fourth year with hair that refused to lie striaght, hazel eyes covered by thin rimmed glasses, and a very nervous expression on his attractive face was racing up through the Grffindor common room. Ignoring the girlish giggles as he tripped on the third step up to the boy's dormitries he stumbled up the rest of the way. He skidded to a stop and yanked the hangings open on the nearest bed saying, "Sirius!Sirius!Wake up, we have like, what, four minutes to get to our first class!" he said while shaking the sleeping boy inside that lay there.
"Huh?...Wha?"said Sirius groggily, then he shot bolt upright in the bed and moaned,"Oh no...Limpett's gonna kill me!" And with that he bolted out of bed and rushed to get some clothes on, while James was urgently whispering,"Hurry, hurry, hurry..."
Lily Evans and her friends were gigglingas they walked into the Defense AgainstThe Dark Arts classroom. "Good morning, Proffessor Limpett." they all casuaslly called at the old man wiping the blackboard.
"Hello ladies, feel free to sit wherever you feel like, and chat away until the bell." he smiled kindly under thick, square glasses.
Luckily, he didn't hear one of the four girls whisper,"Oh, we will." they all burst into a silent fit of giggles. Lily, Stephanie, Laura, and Katie talked animatedly about their summers until the bell rang. The desks had all gradually filled up, all except for two right in front of the group of girls.
Two boys ran through the long corriders that seemed at that moment to go on forever and ever. As you can guess those two boys were none other than Sirius Black and James Potter. Both of them were in good shape (they were currantly on their last year of learning to become animagi) however young Sirius Black was desperatley trying tobutton uphis thin shirt. From a distance they looked like twins, except Sirius' hair was longer and James was shorter by a few inches. But up close they looked very differant. James had light tan skin, jet black hair that many people thought must have taken hours to make it stand up like that, when in truth it took no more than two minutes of not brushing it. His clothes hung off him a little because he was so skinny and small, but that's not to say he didn't have any muscle. And right now he was tearing down the hall like there was no tommarrow.
Next to him was a lithe figure whose shirt was hanging off his shoulder and was unbuttoned at the top.He had a slightly flushed face , because he was running so fast, and long elegant hair that, even though he didn't brush it looked really smooth.He suceeded in putting on his sweater vest on top of the thin shirtand was trying to pull his pants up, which had begun to slope dangerouslyoff his slender hips as he was running, when James burst through the Defense Against The Dark Arts classroom.
Katie was just telling the group of girls that she was going to be the flower girl for her brother's wedding when the Defense Against The Dark Arts door shot open with a bang. Everyone stopped talking and turned to see what had made the noise. A few of the Slytherins snickered. Lily just rolled her eyes in exasperation. She sighed and twisted around to see what everyone was looking at. Even though she already had a pretty good idea of who it was.
James, who was bent over panting said,"Sorry-we're late-Professor-we...uh..."Sirius whowas blushing and trying to pull his pants up said,"Thought we had Potions first..."he trailed off lamely.
Proffessor Limpet sighed a long weary sigh that ruffled his mustache,"I won't give you detention, but only because it's the first day of term. Take a seat boys, right here." he said, patting the two desks in front of Lily and her friends. Lily groaned inwardly, this was going to be a long class."Oh and Sirius?"he said, with a hint of a smile under his whispy mustache.
"Yes sir?"Sirius asked, looking up from his seat,"Get a Belt." The Slytherins burst into snorts of crude laughter, all the girls giggled and whispered behind their hands, pointing at him. Sirius flushed again and sank down further in his seat as James laughed and clapped him hard on the back.