It was an early September afternoon and four girls stood in a back garden, glasses raised. The garden was large and everywhere you looked, your eyes were met with luscious green foliage and bright flowers. Honeysuckle and ivory climbed up the side of the old shed at the bottom of the garden, hiding it from view. A warm salty, autumn breeze tickled the trees and made their green leaves rustle lazily. The bees hummed and the birds sung cheerfully. It was a rare day in Britain when the sun was out and shining and autumn hadn't yet sunk its chilly teeth into what had been a deliciously warm summer.
The girls stood in the middle of the garden, near the pool. They stood in a little cluster, grinning and laughing. The smallest of the group, Abigail, shouted two words before they clinked their glasses together loudly.
"To us!" They downed their drinks eagerly and Jess, the blonde girl began pouring them more.
"Why are we celebrating again?" Nicola, a girl with dark frizzy hair asked, rolling her eyes as her friend dropped her glass and fell over whilst trying to pick it up again. This was quite obviously not their first drink of the afternoon. Nor their second or third.
"Why not?" Molly, another brunette replied with a grin. "Celebrating is fun." Jess giggled and tapped her glass against Molly's.
"I'll toast to that!"
"I'm not sure you should be doing anymore toasting," Nicola said, sipping her drink. Jess shook her head.
"I- you know what I think?" Jess said, waving her glass around. "I think we should break out the Amarula."
"Your mum and dad are going to get back from London and freak out when they find out they've got no alcohol left," Molly pointed out. Jess shrugged.
"Hey they told me to enjoy myself."
"What's Am- Ama- Amaruly?" Abi asked, having given up on trying to defy gravity and instead opted to sit on the ground, cross-legged.
"Some South African stuff," Jess replied, heading inside to grab it. "It's nice and creamy." A moment later she returned with the bottle and hurried across the tiny bridge over the fish pond.
"Look, look! I found it!" She produced another bottle from behind her back. "And I found Sangria!" The two girls cheered and eventually Nicola gave in and smiled.
"Did I hear the word Sangria?" The girls whipped their heads around –or moved as fast as four girls who were quite obviously off their heads possibly could- at the new male voice. A tall guy with shaggy black hair and a charming smile was climbing from the balcony next door over onto his shed and then down onto the rockery. Three guys followed him, all outstandingly good looking and completely drool worthy.
"I'm Sirius Black," he grinned, holding out his hand to shake. Jess introduced each one of the girls.
"Where did you come from?" she asked, shaking his hand. He gestured at the balcony.
"James great aunt." Jess nodded.
"I see. Well in that case," she winked. "Help yourselves." Jess winked again at the tallest guy. He was stood in the middle, anxiously raking a hand through his sandy brown hair. "You sweetie pie, can have as much sangria as you like." He blushed deeply and coughed.
"Erm hi I'm Remus," he said bashfully. Jess grinned.
"Would you drink it from my mouth?" Jess asked with a giggle. She didn't actually mean it; she was just quoting Ouran High School Host Club, the only anime she would watch. But Remus didn't know that.
"Maybe we should err- go back," Remus suggested, eyeing Jess cautiously. Sirius waved his hand.
"Nonsense Rem, these are my kind of people."
"Alright then pass the booze," another boy said, holding his hand out. He too had dark, unruly hair although it was a little shorter than Sirius'. He wore glasses and was about Sirius' height too. Nicola passed him the remainder of the champagne and he grinned.
"Cheers, you want some Pete?" James took a swig from the bottle and then passed it onto the smallest boy, Peter. He had short, brown hair and braces on both sets of teeth. Peter shook his head.
"No thanks." Nicola went over and stood beside Peter.
"You're the responsible one huh?" she asked.
"It's usually Remus but he seems pretty enamoured-" The glanced at Remus who was still looking shy but was definitely enjoying his conversation with Jess. "So I guess it falls to me to make sure that no one does anything stupid." Nicola and Peter exchanged looks of mutual understanding and exasperation.
"Don't worry, that's my job too. Earlier this year when we were in France, I had to save them from rape." Nicola shook her head. "Silly girls didn't even know they were being chatted up."
"So guys," Jess said loudly, attracting everyone's attention. "When did you boys get here?" she asked.
"Yesterday," James replied. "We moved all our stuff in yesterday afternoon." Jess nodded thoughtfully.
"Where was I yesterday afternoon? I didn't see you guys…"
"Oh!" Molly said suddenly. "You were at mine yesterday weren't you? We were at the park shooting chavs with water guns!" Realisation dawned on Jess' face.
"Oh yeah… chavs."
The wind picked up as the group continued to chat and drink with the occasional person tripping over Abi as she lay sprawled on the grass. Dark clouds had started making their way across the blue sky and the sun disappeared behind a cluster of them. Before they knew it, the sky had gone from a bright blue to an inky purple colour and it started to rain.
"Oh god!" Jess shouted, grabbing the mostly empty bottles and sprinting inside with the others. Molly helped Abi up whose head spun for a moment before the world was clear again and she could move. Abigail was not the world's best drinker.
Once everyone was safely inside and the doors were locked, the group either passed out or fell asleep in the dining room where mattresses had been set up all over the floor.
A/N- Well I probably shouldn't be making another WIP but why the hell not? This one although similar to my Witch Against the World has got nothing to do with it although we do get to see some of the same characters. That's only because I'm choosing to bring my 'Fangirl Dreams' to life!
Oh and Molly and I almost were raped in France. Luckily Nicola saved us from some very drunk men. Thank you NikiBear.
Anyway reviews, favourites and follows are adored! Also I don't own J.K's characters nor Ouran High School Host Club.
~Jess
P.S- I made minor edits.
