Love and Betrayal: Chapter One
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Summary: Christina-Lee Potter is a 16-year-old pure blood Gryffindor, She's the cousin on James Potter, and she has her eyes set one of his best friends. Little does she know that two boys like her, which one will she chose?
(Thoughts in brackets. Please don't hate if I get something's wrong I'm not very good with the marauder time period).
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Chapter one: Truth or Dare.
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'Miss Potter, will you please pay attention, this is the last time I'm going to ask you,' McGonagall snapped as I gazed out the window.
(Last period on Friday is always the most boring why did she choose it? Hold on I better pay attention or I'll get a detention, which wouldn't be so bad because I could be almost alone with Sirius, if it wasn't for my stupid cousin who always seemed to be around.)
I turned back to the front of the class and pretended to be paying attention to whatever McGonagall was saying.
Sirius glanced in my direction. My knees went weak. (Oh my god, Sirius Black is smiling at me), I smiled back.
(Why can't I just tell him I love him) another voice sounded in my head. (Because if you do and he doesn't love you, you'll look like a ditz and he'll hate you forever) The other voice was back, (good point, let's just stick to flirting.)
The bell rang. 'Class dismissed,' McGonagall called. 'Oh, and I'd like to remind you all of the ball that will be coming up next month, and I will again remind you that permission slips must be handed in, if you haven't posted one to your parents yet I should think you'll be doing it soon.'
I packed up my books and hurried to catch up with Lily. 'Lily,' I called, 'Lily.' Lily slowed and turned to see me running up to her.
'Hey, Chris, what's up?'
'So did you hear about the ball? Are you going?'
Lily bowed her head. 'I don't want to go alone.'
'Lily, hello, what about a certain cousin of mine, you know the one who's had a crush on you since the start of time,' Lily rolled her eyes.
'We weren't even alive at the start of time.'
'Does it really matter, he's liked you that long,' I mock rolled my eyes at her (she so hates it when I do this).
'Stop that, I do not look like that,' She hit me softly on the arm.
'Yeah riiiight,' I rolled my eyes again. 'Well anyway I've gotta meet Remus in the library, knowing him he's already there,' I waved and set off at a run.
As always Remus had beaten me to the library. (How does he do this, I bet it's that stupid map). I entered the library; Remus looked up a sat down.
'Alright, cough 'em up,' He said holding out his hand. (I'm so gunna run out of chocolate frogs) I handed over three chocolate frogs.
'You are the biggest chocolate freak.'
'Hey, you made the bet,' he said shoving the chocolate in his mouth. (So doesn't mean he has to take all my chocolate frogs, stupid bet.)
'Yeah, but you've got that stupid map, you know all the short cuts. Why won't you show me, huh?' I made a pout-y face.
'Oh, you're so cute when you look like that,' Remus joked and squished my cheeks.
'Whatever, so what's doing today?'
'Excuse me,' Remus turned to me.
'I said what's doing?'
'If I may correct your English madam, I think you meant to say 'what are we doing today?' am I correct?'
I punched him on the arm. 'You are the hugest smart ass.'
'Oh, you love it,' he said poking his tongue at me. I poked mine back.
(If I didn't know better I'd say Remus was flirting with me, no way this is Remus. He tells me all his secrets, were just best friends.)
'So, what are we doing today?' I asked sweetly.
'Well, I don't know, what subject did you pay less attention to this week?'
'Hmmm...?' I put a finger on my head pretending to think. 'All.'
Remus laughed. 'Imagine your grades if I wasn't here to tutor you,' Remus teased.
'Hey, I pull of good marks at the end of the year, is case you forgot I just two OWL's less than you last year,' I debated.
'Fine, whatever, but I still stand by what I say, imagine if I wasn't here to tutor you.'
'Well then, master tutor, what shall you tutor me in today?' I got up and bowed.
We got some stares from other people in the library. 'Sit down, you are so embarrassing,' Remus said.
'Oh, you love it,' I teased.
'Okay, let's get started, I take it you were paying less attention in Transfiguration as McGonagall yelled at you... what was it? Twenty-three times by my count, but James has twenty-five,' He smiled sweetly.
'You're the boss, you what was old McGonagall going on about today?'
'You mean you didn't even take notes?'
'What's the point? You do,' Remus gave me a "Don't-sponge-off-me-bitch" kinda look and then pulled out his notes.
'Well, first of all, she was showing us how to transfigure and change five rocks at the same time.'
'And what are we transfiguring them into?' I asked my bored expression back on.
'Doves,' he pulled a few rocks he'd knocked off from McGonagall's desk onto the table. 'I'll show you with one,' He pulled out his wand and muttered something softly so no one could hear and the rocks changed into doves and he quickly changed them back.
'Now, you try.'
He showed me exactly what to do and how to say the words and straight away I changed them.
I smiled sweetly and he a little shocked.
'How is it that every time we have to learn something new you get it straight away?'
I shrugged. 'But you see, Remus, there's this thing they have called talent and I'm just oozing with it,' I teased and he returned with a smile.
'Sorry, Miss. Perfect, but you see unlike you, my talent does not ooze it radiates,' I laughed.
'And I thought I was in denial,' we both laughed and continued to study his transfiguration notes.
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SIRIUS' POV!!
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'James, I'm bored,' I laid across my armchair and watched James show off in front of around fifteen Gryffindor girls with his stupid snitch. 'Mate, give it a rest,' I tried to ignore Peter, who was looking just as amazed as all the girls.
James shooed away all the girls and sat down in an armchair. 'So, what do you want to do?'
'I don't know, I'm just bored.'
'Well, what about you, Peter?' He turned to Peter.
'I'm kinda hungry,' He patted his stomach.
'You're always hungry,' I said getting up. 'But then again we are growing boys and a few butter beers and some éclairs wouldn't be too bad,' I turned to the other two, whom nodded and got up.
'What about Moony?' James asked.
'He's too busy "studying" with Chris to want to come, he so has it in for her,' I laughed.
'Okay, I don't really want to think about my best friends crush on my completely not attractive cousin,' James said heading out the portrait hole.
'What are you talking about, man? She's way hott,' I said following him. James put his hands over his ears and hummed loudly.
'Geez man, I know she's your cousin but she still is MAJOR FINE,' I added just as James took his hands off his ears.
'That's like saying Bella or Narcissa are hott, see it's just disturbing,' He said pointing to the look on my face.
We walked down to the kitchens.
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CHRISTINA-LEE'S POV!!
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Her stomach rumbled. It was at least another hour before dinner. She looked up at Remus who had heard her stomach rumble.
'Hungry are we?'
'Well, unless there's been a baby or something yelling inside of me, yeah.'
'Well, let's go get you some food, I think we can finish this later on tonight,' we packed up our quills and parchment and set off for the kitchens.
We always went to the kitchens during study time.
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We entered the kitchen and were almost immediately surrounded by elves. They all curtsied or bowed.
'How may we help you, sir and madam?' said one.
'Just a tad hungry, do you have anything lying around?' Remus asked.
They house elves all set off in different directions and came back a few minutes later carried a medium sized bag full of cakes and other sweets, another group of house elves pushed about 10 bottles of butter beer into my hands.
'Thanks,' I said and we turned to leave. At this moment Sirius, James and Peter turned up.
'What are you doing here?' James said.
I repeated the exact same thing.
(Oh gosh, Sirius is here; oh he's so cute.)
'Well, isn't it obvious we're all here for food,' Remus said. 'Well see ya's,' and we left.
'You know what?'
'What?' Remus said as I pushed the bottles of butter beer into my book bag.
'I'm beginning to get a little annoyed with James. I think he hates the fact that we always hang out.'
Remus shook his head. 'No way, He'd say something. I'll talk to him alright, plus as long as you bring Lily along he does care if you're their or not,' he adjusted the bag on his shoulder.
'Yeah, well I hate that he's always gotta be the center of attention. I mean, geez, he's so big headed, I reckon if you got a dart and threw it at his head all you would find is air,' Remus and I laughed.
'Now, you've gotta give the guy some slack, remember this holidays when you almost fell off your broom, James saved you.'
'Yeah, but he jinxed my broom in the first place. I wish Mum and Dad would stop work for at least two seconds just come and see me, and then maybe I wouldn't have had to spend all summer at his house.'
'Oh, didn't you like seeing Sirius and Me?' He pretended to wipe a tear from his eye.
'Purr lease, we had to put charms on the door to keep you two out, I'm surprised you don't live there already,' we laughed again and then arrived at Gryffindor tower.
Remus gave the password and we hurried up to his dormitory.
We dropped all the food and drink on his bed and began to eat. I was so hungry by now.
'So, 'id ya 'ere 'bout da dance?' I asked through a mouthful of chocolate.
Remus nodded and took a sip of butter beer.
'So, are ya taking anyone?' I swallowed the chocolate.
(I must look like the biggest pig; I hope Sirius doesn't come in.)
'Haven't even thought about it, what about you have you been asked yet?'
I shook my head. (No, Sirius hasn't asked me yet.)
'So wanna get back to transfiguration now?'
'I s'pose so, you take all the fun out of Friday, did ya know that?'
Remus nodded, still smiling. 'Tomorrow, I promise you can do absolutely nothing.'
'Goodie, ok lets get started,' I placed my bored face back on and sat down next to Remus as he started explaining another boring thing I was supposed to be listening to. (Oh his hair smells so yummy. Ok now let's concentrate on transfiguration.)
We'd been studying for about five minutes when Sirius, James, and Peter burst into the room.
'That was so funny Prongs,' Sirius said laughing and falling on his bed.
'Hey, guys what's so funny?' I asked looking up from the book.
'Oh, you should have seen it, what Prongs did to Snivellus. It was so funny,' Sirius said holding his stomach. (Even when he's laughing he's cute.)
'What he do?' Remus asked looking up too.
'Snivellus was greasing up our Gryffindor corridors and we saw him picking on Lily, so Prongs here pull out his wand and we stuck him upside down on the wall, you should have seen his face, it was so funny,' Sirius said, repeating himself, and laughed again.
Peter and James shared a laugh too, I looked at Remus and then we both broke into laughter.
'So where's Lily?' I asked finally.
'Oh, she's just getting something from her room, she'll be here soon,' James said.
And with that Lily appeared at the door.
'Hey, Lils, what's that in your hand?' I pointed to the bag in her hand.
'Well, I've had a great idea,' I looked at her curiously.
'Which is?' Remus asked eyeing the bag.
'We're all going swimming,' she announced loudly.
'How? You don't mean the lake, do you?' I said.
'No, in the prefect's bathroom. Right after dinner ok, so get your stuff ready. Oh and Chris put this on,' She passed me a skimpy pink and white colored bikini.
'Now?'
'Yeah now, I've already got mine under my robes,' she pulled the top of a bikini strap out the top of her robes.
I nodded and went into the boy's bathroom to change.
I came back out and fixed my robes. 'Got it on?' Lily asked.
I pulled the bikini the same as she did to show and dropped my bag that now contained my books, quills and under garments.
'Well, we still have about half an hour before dinner so what we gunna do?' James asked sitting on the edge of Sirius' bed. I sat back down on Remus' bed, which was right next to Sirius'.
'Dunno,' I said.
'Lily, you think of something, you're the smart one here,' Sirius said. Remus opened his mouth to say something. 'Yes, Moony, you're smart too.'
Remus closed his mouth and relaxed. I nudged him and giggled.
'I don't know, James, what about you?' Lily said turning to James.
(They so dig each other, why don't they go for it. Oh, look at Sirius' hair; gosh he's looking at me. Stop staring at him, NOW!' I turned away from staring at Sirius.
'Well, I don't care, let's do whatever,' James said, he was staring at Lily. She turned to him and he turned away blushing.
I giggled. 'What you laughing about?' Remus asked. I pointed to James and Lily and Remus smiled and nodded in agreement.
James glared at me and I just continued to giggle.
We continued to talk about nothing for the next thirty minutes and finally Remus looked at his watch and announced it was time for dinner. We all walked down to dinner in silence, if don't count Peter's stomach continually rumbling, then it was silence.
We passed the wall, which was once extremely greasified by a certain Slytherin.
We reached the Great Hall, the smell reached our noses and Peter and Sirius had taken off for the table at a run, the rest of us merely walked shaking our heads at the other two.
Everyone finished early, even Peter, which was strange, and then we set off for Gryffindor tower.
The boys quickly changed into their boardies and met Lily and I back in the common room. We left the common room and the boys brought their - STUPID - map. (I really hate that map but if I get us to the bathroom without getting detention then it's an okay.)
James pulled out his wand and muttered 'I solemnly swear I'm up to no good,' and the map as it always did filled with ink and mapped out Hogwarts. She saw the six dots that were labeled with our names. There were no names on our path to the prefect bathroom, well expect ours.
We reached the bathroom with no trouble and Lily gave the password. We quickly entered and Lily bolted the door.
We placed our things by the wall and de-robed. Lily was wearing a baby blue bikini that was exactly the same as mine, except the color of course.
'Damn, Lily, Chris, now why you gotta walk around this bathroom looking like that,' Sirius said, eyeing Lily and I.
'You don't like?' I said in a flirty voice.
'I didn't say that,' Sirius flirted back.
James and peter finished filling the pool with just warm water and then came back to stand with us.
'Alright, let's get in,' James said. 'Come on Lil, you first,' he picked her up.
'James Potter, you put me down right now,' she yelled. We all laughed, except Lily, and watched Lily being thrown into the water.
Her head popped back up and she pulled a now hysterical James into the water by his leg.
They were both in a splashing fight now. 'That looks like fun,' Sirius said picking me up.
'No, Sirius, don't,' I yelled. He chucked me in. I popped my head out of the water and looked angrily at Remus and Sirius who were laughing hysterically, just like they had to Lily. 'This means war,' I muttered under my breath.
Remus and Sirius watched Peter jump into the water. (This is my chance.) I got out of the water quickly and stepped behind Remus and Sirius.
They were both looking into the water. 'Hey, where'd Chris go?' they said together.
'Looking for someone boys?' I said and I pushed them both in the water.
James, Lily, Peter, and I laughed as Sirius and Remus fell into the water screaming like girls. They both popped back up and blushed.
'Oh, it wasn't that scary was it?' I mocked.
They both got evil grins on their faces and began splashing me.
I jumped bombed into the water, which sent a splash of water over their heads.
'That's it, let's get her. So if water won't work, let's do the next best thing,' Remus said.
'And what is that my dear buddy?' Sirius asked.
'Let's tickle her.'
'Noooooooo!' I back away from them. (Remus knows now ticklish I am.)
The advanced and then got me. I screamed with laughter. 'Remus, Sirius, stop it,' I yelled through fits of giggles.
'We will, but you have to surrender,' Sirius said laughing.
'NEVER!' I yelled playfully and I broke free of their tickling.
I swam and hid behind Peter.
'I'm not getting in this,' Peter said moving because he knew the boys would do something to him.
'No, Peter, wait, fuck...' they reached me. They began tickling again. 'Ok, Ok, I give in.'
'You gotta say you surrender,' Remus said laughing.
'Fine, I surrender, just stop tickling me,' I pushed with hands off and swam back a bit, trying to catch my breath.
I caught my breath and turned to Remus. 'I'm so going to get you,' I jumped at his bare chest and knocked him under water.
He got me in a bear lock and I couldn't move.
'That is so not fair, you're a boy,' I said trying to break free.
'Nice you noticed,' Remus tightened his grip. I looked toward Lily and mouthed, "Help me".
She came to my rescue, she tickled Remus, and he let me go. Then he turned to tickle her. I jumped at Sirius, who was about to get Lily. He grabbed me around the middle and flung me over his shoulder. I landed in the water and came back up giggling.
He turned to do it again, but Lily had broken free of Remus and together we both dunked him under the water.
Lily and I swum to the edge breathing hard. I lifted myself up so that only the bottoms of my legs were in the water and Lily did the same.
'Ok, let's call a truce,' Sirius said, after recovering from all the water he swallowed.
'Okay,' I said and we shook hands. He hoisted himself up next to me. (Oh my god, Sirius is right next to me; I think I'm gunna faint.) I actually did fall back a bit and Sirius caught me.
'You ok?' He asked, concerned.
I nodded. 'Too much water,' and he kept his arm around me just incase I was gunna fall back again.
(Oh my god, Sirius has his arm around me.) Sirius pushed his hair out of his eyes and smiled at me.
(Oh god he's smile is so cute.)
Everyone swam over to the edge now. 'Hey, so did everyone hear about the dance?' Sirius asked.
'Yeah, Chris and I were talking about it just before, right Chris?' Remus said.
I nodded. 'Yeah, we were.'
'So, is two special people I know gunna hook up,' Sirius looked straight at Lily and James. They both blushed and turned to look in the opposite direction. 'Alright, I'll take that as a yes, what about you Chris? Have you been asked yet?'
I shook my head. 'Mr. lucky hasn't made his move yet,' Sirius laughed.
'Mr. Lucky?'
'Yeah the damn lucky guy that I actually say yes to,' I elbowed him in the ribs lightly.
Sirius pretended it hurt and fell over side ways.
'Quick, if we're lucky we can cut all his hair off before he wakes up,' Remus said joking.
Sirius snapped back up and put a hand on his hair. We all laughed.
'Oh, you know, we'd never cut of ALL your hair,' I said ruffling it, 'Just most of it.'
'You're gunna get for that,' He said fixing his hair. He grabbed me around the middle and pushed me in the water; I got hold of his arm and dragged him in too. It was probably really funny to see as we fell into the water trying to make the other land first.
I won. Sirius fell through the water first me right on top of him. I heard the slap of the water on his bare back. (Ouch painful.)
We both popped our heads out the top. I poked me tongue out at Sirius; he did the same back. It seemed like nothing else around us existed, it was only he and I. Then I saw him move closer. His arms were still around me like they were when we fell, he moved his head closer, and our lips met. (Oh my god, Sirius the biggest hunk ever is touching me, oh my god now he's kissing me, oh my god.)
At this point me brain seemed to melt. He was kissing me and that was the only thing in the world.
His arms tightened and his kiss grew more passionate, my arms that had once been trying to push him off me were now trying to bind him closer. We seemed like one and then it was broken.
'Hem... hem...' James coughed. Sirius and I broke apart. I blushed and looked down.
Sirius merely had a huge grin on him face.
I turned to see everyone's eyes wide and mouths open. Actually James' was more fish-like and was opening and closing and Lily had more of a smile on. Peter and Remus however looked as though they had just detached their jaws and were attempting to drink the entire pool in one gulp.
'Well, didn't see that coming did we?' James said and everyone else shook his or her heads.
I turned to Sirius and a smile broke out on my face. He smiled back at me. No one spoke; the only noise was the occasional slap of water of the side of the pool.
(What just happened? Can anybody tell me? Anyone, anyone? Looks like not.)
'So - um - let's get back to swimming them, ok gang?' Lily was trying to make things go back to normal.
'Yeah let's,' said James and he turned to Remus. 'So did anything interesting happen today?' I knew straight away that James wished he hadn't said that.
'I'm actually not in the mood anymore for swimming,' Remus said getting out of the pool.
'Yeah me too,' I said following.
Everyone else shrugged and decided they'd had enough as well.
We all quickly dried and re-robed then hurried back to Gryffindor Tower. It was of course as I had expected, empty.
'Hey, since its Friday do you girls maybe wanna come up for a bit,' James suggested, his eyes wander over to Lily.
Lily turned to me. 'What you say, Chris?'
James turned to me; his eyes were begging me to say yes. I shrugged. 'Why not. But let's get changed first okay, Lil,' Lily nodded and we ran up to our dormitory giggling.
I changed into a pink tank top and a pair of hot pink butterfly covered track pants.
Lily's were practically the same only in black and her pants had flowers on them. We grabbed our favorite teddies and ran back to the boys' room. I hugged my teddy named Angel; my mother had given it to me for my 10th birthday.
Lily knocked on the door and Peter answered. 'They wanna make sure the room looks perfect,' Peter whispered and we both giggled. (Perfect, we've seen the room a thousand times.)
Finally James appeared at the door. 'Ladies,' he said stepping back so they could enter. I noticed straight away that the room did seem cleaner, actually a lot cleaner.
'Wow, I never knew you guys had a floor in this room,' I teased and Lily giggled.
'Well, it would be cleaner if Padfoot and Prongs cleaned up their things once and a while,' Remus said.
'Let me guess they made you clean it all, right?' I sat on the end of Remus' bed, as usual. Remus nodded.
'Like I was a slave boy,' he said wiping a fake tear from his eye, again. I ruffled his hair in fake sympathy.
'What are you talking about? We only made you do it because you're better at housework charms than us,' Sirius said.
'Well, next time I won't help if you're going to be so ungrateful,' Remus snapped.
'Oh, I'm so sorry master, please forgive him. He is merely a peasant in your wonderful eyes and you are our god,' James knelt down in front of Remus and laid his head down.
'Damn right,' Remus said and Lily and I cracked up. James stood up and sat down on his bed, Lily took a seat on the ground. She looked a little unsure where to sit, as she normally didn't come up to the boys room, just sat in the common room and did homework. I went down and sat next to her.
'So, what we gunna do now?' I asked hugging my knees.
The boy's then joined us in a circle. Remus sat next to me and James next to Lily, Peter insisted on sitting next to James for some reason.
'Don't know,' James said, trying with all his might not to look at Lily.
'Well you guys asked us up here, come up with something,' I snapped mainly at James because I knew he just wanted to have Lily here and didn't really have a plan of something to do.
'I've got an idea,' Sirius said. 'Moony, you brought those muggle cards, didn't you?'
Remus nodded his usual response. 'Yeah they're in my trunk,' He got up and got them.
'How's about a game on Poker?' Sirius said shuffling the cards.
'Sure,' I said and Lily nodded.
Peter nodded too. 'How's about we raise the stakes?' James said with his mischievous grin in place.
'What you have in mind, Prongs?' Sirius said shuffling the cards still.
'Loser has to do a dare,' James said and his smile widened. 'The winner gets to dare; anyone in the middle is safe.'
'Yeah, why not,' I said confident in my Poker skills.
'Sure,' Lily said, being a muggle-born she was probably the most confident. Remus and Peter nodded. (Geez does Peter ever talk, he's been quiet the whole night, except when he talked to Lily and I at the door.)
'Are you sure to wanna do that Prongs? Remember the holidays,' Sirius said laughing.
James blushed. 'I'm a way better player now,' He smiled at lily.
'What happened in the holidays?' Lily asked.
'Oh, Prongs lost in a game of cards and Moony and I dared him to -' Sirius said but was cut off by a warning glare from James.
I remembered it. Remus and Sirius had dared James to run around the outside of the house naked, but when he went to come back inside we had forgotten Aunt Jackie had put lock charms on the door. So if we went out that night she'd know because we wouldn't be allowed back in and James had to wait until she got home the next day before he could get back in. Lucky he took his clothes off outside or he'd have been naked all night.
'Anyway, everyone game?' Sirius said now avoiding James' eyes. Everyone nodded. 'Well then let's play,' He dealt the cards.
The first game passed really quickly and Sirius won, he dared Peter to see how many chocolate frogs he could fit in his mouth. (Ewww, so gross.)
Then next game Lily and James both lost and I won. (Lily is so going to kill me for what I'm gunna make her do.)
'Alright, I dare you and James to full on pash,' I said glancing at Sirius, who smiled at me.
Lily and James did. We all sat there with our mouths wide open and then I felt something moved over to my hand. It was Sirius' hand. I looked up into his eyes and he winked at me and mouthed. 'I'll get you next babe.'
I poked out my tongue and mouth. 'Like to see ya try.'
He smiled and I smiled back. Lily and James broke apart and blushed.
'You know what that is probably going to be the highlight of this game,' Sirius joked, earning the laughs he was going for. 'I have another idea.'
'Which is?' Lily asked, still a little pink.
'Truth or Dare,' Sirius said happily.
James nodded, 'that sounds like fun.'
'Why not,' Remus said and Lily, Peter and I merely nodded.
(Oh no, what if they ask me who I like? I can't exactly sit here and lie, Lily would know, oh god. I'm in deep shit.)
'Ok, Prongs you first, ask whoever you want,' Sirius said.
'Ok, Lily, truth or dare?' James turned to Lily.
'Um – truth,' she spat out after a short wait.
I saw her hands tighten around her teddy bear, Princess.
'Ok, Lily Evan you must tell us who your first kiss was,' James smiled.
'Well, my first kiss was when I was ten and it was Joey Lachlan,' she blushed.
'Now, you have to ask someone,' James said, obviously thinking over this Joey Lachlan thing.
'Right, Sirius, truth or dare?'
Sirius smiled. 'Dare.'
(Dare, dare, dare, gosh that word sure can echo.)
'I dare you Sirius Black to kiss my best friend, Christina-Lee Potter,' Lily turned to me, grinning.
(That devil, she knew I wanted to kiss him, but I did do it to her. Must remember to thank Lily for the rest of my life.)
'Sure,' Sirius said almost excited. He moved over next to me and put a hand on my cheek.
'You planned this didn't you,' I whispered.
Sirius nodded. The he kissed me. For the second time this night. It was beautiful, wonderful, magical, every word that ended in 'l' except the ones like dreadful and awful. (Malfunction danger, over load, over load.) My brain had once again melted.
We broke apart and smiled. 'Ok, that was for like what ten minutes, please I'm getting bored,' James teased, pretending to yawn.
Sirius smiled and sat down next to me, which made Remus have to move, I couldn't help but notice the look on Remus' face. And it wasn't a good one.
Sirius put his arm around me. 'Well, then Moony, truth or dare?'
'Dare,' Remus said almost evilly.
'Alright. I dare you to scull five butter beers,' Sirius said holding up five fingers. Remus almost looked happy, sure it wasn't as good as kissing a chick, but butter beer is, as I knew, his favorite drink.
'Hey, Remus pass us a bottle ok,' I said as Remus got up to his bed and grabbed six butter beers, he passed me one, not looking at me as he usually would.
I smiled, trying to get one back, I didn't. 'Thanks,' I said, kind of hurt.
Remus sat down, readied himself then sculled. It was amazing. (Wow I've never seen anyone drink so fast.)
We all clapped and Remus wiped his mouth. 'Thank you, ladies and losers,' he took a bow then sat back down.
James, Sirius and Peter seemed untouched by his loser comment, but Lily and I had burst into laughter and pointed at the other boys.
The night continued and by the time Lily and I decided it was time to go it was around four am.
'Hey, you don't need to go, stay here,' James said as we got up to leave.
'Huh?' I said turning to him.
'You know stay the night, whose gunna know.'
'Yeah, Prongs, is right, stay with us,' Sirius said coming over and putting his arm around my shoulders.
'I will if Lil will,' I said.
Lily looked at me as if I would answer for her. 'Well, I suppose so, but we're sleeping in sleeping bags,' She said which was mainly pointed at James.
I saw James' mouth droop a bit. (What a perve, I can't believe he's my cousin.)
Lily magicened two sleeping bags and two pillows. 'Ah Lily, you know I can only sleep with two pillows' I said. She magicened another one.
She smiled. 'Happy?'
I nodded. 'Thanks, Lil.'
The boys got in their beds and James turned out the lamp by which gave us our light.
It soon grew quiet, everyone seemed to be thinking over tonight's events, and after about twenty minutes I could hear Peter snoring and Lily breathing heavily next to me. I got a sudden chill and wrapped my arms around myself.
The hangings on Sirius' bed opened and Sirius poked his head out. 'Cold, come in here for a bit, it's really warm,' I nodded. (Oh my god I'm going to get into Sirius the world's hunkiest sixteen-year-old's bed.)
I got out of my sleeping bag and placed it over the now slightly shivering Lily and got under the covers with Sirius.
He put his arms around me, 'Comfy?' he said with his gorgeous smile in place.
I nodded. 'Thanks.'
I rested my head on his pillow and turned to face him. He pulled the hanging shut then turned back and placed a hand on the upper of my leg and gave it a small rub.
(Where does he think he's going with that hand? Oh god he smells so good, I'm gunna have to ask him what after-shave he uses.)
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Totally re-mastered, well edited, and off I go to fix the next one. Hope you new readers like.
- Thai, xox.
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Summary: Christina-Lee Potter is a 16-year-old pure blood Gryffindor, She's the cousin on James Potter, and she has her eyes set one of his best friends. Little does she know that two boys like her, which one will she chose?
(Thoughts in brackets. Please don't hate if I get something's wrong I'm not very good with the marauder time period).
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Chapter one: Truth or Dare.
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'Miss Potter, will you please pay attention, this is the last time I'm going to ask you,' McGonagall snapped as I gazed out the window.
(Last period on Friday is always the most boring why did she choose it? Hold on I better pay attention or I'll get a detention, which wouldn't be so bad because I could be almost alone with Sirius, if it wasn't for my stupid cousin who always seemed to be around.)
I turned back to the front of the class and pretended to be paying attention to whatever McGonagall was saying.
Sirius glanced in my direction. My knees went weak. (Oh my god, Sirius Black is smiling at me), I smiled back.
(Why can't I just tell him I love him) another voice sounded in my head. (Because if you do and he doesn't love you, you'll look like a ditz and he'll hate you forever) The other voice was back, (good point, let's just stick to flirting.)
The bell rang. 'Class dismissed,' McGonagall called. 'Oh, and I'd like to remind you all of the ball that will be coming up next month, and I will again remind you that permission slips must be handed in, if you haven't posted one to your parents yet I should think you'll be doing it soon.'
I packed up my books and hurried to catch up with Lily. 'Lily,' I called, 'Lily.' Lily slowed and turned to see me running up to her.
'Hey, Chris, what's up?'
'So did you hear about the ball? Are you going?'
Lily bowed her head. 'I don't want to go alone.'
'Lily, hello, what about a certain cousin of mine, you know the one who's had a crush on you since the start of time,' Lily rolled her eyes.
'We weren't even alive at the start of time.'
'Does it really matter, he's liked you that long,' I mock rolled my eyes at her (she so hates it when I do this).
'Stop that, I do not look like that,' She hit me softly on the arm.
'Yeah riiiight,' I rolled my eyes again. 'Well anyway I've gotta meet Remus in the library, knowing him he's already there,' I waved and set off at a run.
As always Remus had beaten me to the library. (How does he do this, I bet it's that stupid map). I entered the library; Remus looked up a sat down.
'Alright, cough 'em up,' He said holding out his hand. (I'm so gunna run out of chocolate frogs) I handed over three chocolate frogs.
'You are the biggest chocolate freak.'
'Hey, you made the bet,' he said shoving the chocolate in his mouth. (So doesn't mean he has to take all my chocolate frogs, stupid bet.)
'Yeah, but you've got that stupid map, you know all the short cuts. Why won't you show me, huh?' I made a pout-y face.
'Oh, you're so cute when you look like that,' Remus joked and squished my cheeks.
'Whatever, so what's doing today?'
'Excuse me,' Remus turned to me.
'I said what's doing?'
'If I may correct your English madam, I think you meant to say 'what are we doing today?' am I correct?'
I punched him on the arm. 'You are the hugest smart ass.'
'Oh, you love it,' he said poking his tongue at me. I poked mine back.
(If I didn't know better I'd say Remus was flirting with me, no way this is Remus. He tells me all his secrets, were just best friends.)
'So, what are we doing today?' I asked sweetly.
'Well, I don't know, what subject did you pay less attention to this week?'
'Hmmm...?' I put a finger on my head pretending to think. 'All.'
Remus laughed. 'Imagine your grades if I wasn't here to tutor you,' Remus teased.
'Hey, I pull of good marks at the end of the year, is case you forgot I just two OWL's less than you last year,' I debated.
'Fine, whatever, but I still stand by what I say, imagine if I wasn't here to tutor you.'
'Well then, master tutor, what shall you tutor me in today?' I got up and bowed.
We got some stares from other people in the library. 'Sit down, you are so embarrassing,' Remus said.
'Oh, you love it,' I teased.
'Okay, let's get started, I take it you were paying less attention in Transfiguration as McGonagall yelled at you... what was it? Twenty-three times by my count, but James has twenty-five,' He smiled sweetly.
'You're the boss, you what was old McGonagall going on about today?'
'You mean you didn't even take notes?'
'What's the point? You do,' Remus gave me a "Don't-sponge-off-me-bitch" kinda look and then pulled out his notes.
'Well, first of all, she was showing us how to transfigure and change five rocks at the same time.'
'And what are we transfiguring them into?' I asked my bored expression back on.
'Doves,' he pulled a few rocks he'd knocked off from McGonagall's desk onto the table. 'I'll show you with one,' He pulled out his wand and muttered something softly so no one could hear and the rocks changed into doves and he quickly changed them back.
'Now, you try.'
He showed me exactly what to do and how to say the words and straight away I changed them.
I smiled sweetly and he a little shocked.
'How is it that every time we have to learn something new you get it straight away?'
I shrugged. 'But you see, Remus, there's this thing they have called talent and I'm just oozing with it,' I teased and he returned with a smile.
'Sorry, Miss. Perfect, but you see unlike you, my talent does not ooze it radiates,' I laughed.
'And I thought I was in denial,' we both laughed and continued to study his transfiguration notes.
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SIRIUS' POV!!
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'James, I'm bored,' I laid across my armchair and watched James show off in front of around fifteen Gryffindor girls with his stupid snitch. 'Mate, give it a rest,' I tried to ignore Peter, who was looking just as amazed as all the girls.
James shooed away all the girls and sat down in an armchair. 'So, what do you want to do?'
'I don't know, I'm just bored.'
'Well, what about you, Peter?' He turned to Peter.
'I'm kinda hungry,' He patted his stomach.
'You're always hungry,' I said getting up. 'But then again we are growing boys and a few butter beers and some éclairs wouldn't be too bad,' I turned to the other two, whom nodded and got up.
'What about Moony?' James asked.
'He's too busy "studying" with Chris to want to come, he so has it in for her,' I laughed.
'Okay, I don't really want to think about my best friends crush on my completely not attractive cousin,' James said heading out the portrait hole.
'What are you talking about, man? She's way hott,' I said following him. James put his hands over his ears and hummed loudly.
'Geez man, I know she's your cousin but she still is MAJOR FINE,' I added just as James took his hands off his ears.
'That's like saying Bella or Narcissa are hott, see it's just disturbing,' He said pointing to the look on my face.
We walked down to the kitchens.
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CHRISTINA-LEE'S POV!!
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Her stomach rumbled. It was at least another hour before dinner. She looked up at Remus who had heard her stomach rumble.
'Hungry are we?'
'Well, unless there's been a baby or something yelling inside of me, yeah.'
'Well, let's go get you some food, I think we can finish this later on tonight,' we packed up our quills and parchment and set off for the kitchens.
We always went to the kitchens during study time.
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We entered the kitchen and were almost immediately surrounded by elves. They all curtsied or bowed.
'How may we help you, sir and madam?' said one.
'Just a tad hungry, do you have anything lying around?' Remus asked.
They house elves all set off in different directions and came back a few minutes later carried a medium sized bag full of cakes and other sweets, another group of house elves pushed about 10 bottles of butter beer into my hands.
'Thanks,' I said and we turned to leave. At this moment Sirius, James and Peter turned up.
'What are you doing here?' James said.
I repeated the exact same thing.
(Oh gosh, Sirius is here; oh he's so cute.)
'Well, isn't it obvious we're all here for food,' Remus said. 'Well see ya's,' and we left.
'You know what?'
'What?' Remus said as I pushed the bottles of butter beer into my book bag.
'I'm beginning to get a little annoyed with James. I think he hates the fact that we always hang out.'
Remus shook his head. 'No way, He'd say something. I'll talk to him alright, plus as long as you bring Lily along he does care if you're their or not,' he adjusted the bag on his shoulder.
'Yeah, well I hate that he's always gotta be the center of attention. I mean, geez, he's so big headed, I reckon if you got a dart and threw it at his head all you would find is air,' Remus and I laughed.
'Now, you've gotta give the guy some slack, remember this holidays when you almost fell off your broom, James saved you.'
'Yeah, but he jinxed my broom in the first place. I wish Mum and Dad would stop work for at least two seconds just come and see me, and then maybe I wouldn't have had to spend all summer at his house.'
'Oh, didn't you like seeing Sirius and Me?' He pretended to wipe a tear from his eye.
'Purr lease, we had to put charms on the door to keep you two out, I'm surprised you don't live there already,' we laughed again and then arrived at Gryffindor tower.
Remus gave the password and we hurried up to his dormitory.
We dropped all the food and drink on his bed and began to eat. I was so hungry by now.
'So, 'id ya 'ere 'bout da dance?' I asked through a mouthful of chocolate.
Remus nodded and took a sip of butter beer.
'So, are ya taking anyone?' I swallowed the chocolate.
(I must look like the biggest pig; I hope Sirius doesn't come in.)
'Haven't even thought about it, what about you have you been asked yet?'
I shook my head. (No, Sirius hasn't asked me yet.)
'So wanna get back to transfiguration now?'
'I s'pose so, you take all the fun out of Friday, did ya know that?'
Remus nodded, still smiling. 'Tomorrow, I promise you can do absolutely nothing.'
'Goodie, ok lets get started,' I placed my bored face back on and sat down next to Remus as he started explaining another boring thing I was supposed to be listening to. (Oh his hair smells so yummy. Ok now let's concentrate on transfiguration.)
We'd been studying for about five minutes when Sirius, James, and Peter burst into the room.
'That was so funny Prongs,' Sirius said laughing and falling on his bed.
'Hey, guys what's so funny?' I asked looking up from the book.
'Oh, you should have seen it, what Prongs did to Snivellus. It was so funny,' Sirius said holding his stomach. (Even when he's laughing he's cute.)
'What he do?' Remus asked looking up too.
'Snivellus was greasing up our Gryffindor corridors and we saw him picking on Lily, so Prongs here pull out his wand and we stuck him upside down on the wall, you should have seen his face, it was so funny,' Sirius said, repeating himself, and laughed again.
Peter and James shared a laugh too, I looked at Remus and then we both broke into laughter.
'So where's Lily?' I asked finally.
'Oh, she's just getting something from her room, she'll be here soon,' James said.
And with that Lily appeared at the door.
'Hey, Lils, what's that in your hand?' I pointed to the bag in her hand.
'Well, I've had a great idea,' I looked at her curiously.
'Which is?' Remus asked eyeing the bag.
'We're all going swimming,' she announced loudly.
'How? You don't mean the lake, do you?' I said.
'No, in the prefect's bathroom. Right after dinner ok, so get your stuff ready. Oh and Chris put this on,' She passed me a skimpy pink and white colored bikini.
'Now?'
'Yeah now, I've already got mine under my robes,' she pulled the top of a bikini strap out the top of her robes.
I nodded and went into the boy's bathroom to change.
I came back out and fixed my robes. 'Got it on?' Lily asked.
I pulled the bikini the same as she did to show and dropped my bag that now contained my books, quills and under garments.
'Well, we still have about half an hour before dinner so what we gunna do?' James asked sitting on the edge of Sirius' bed. I sat back down on Remus' bed, which was right next to Sirius'.
'Dunno,' I said.
'Lily, you think of something, you're the smart one here,' Sirius said. Remus opened his mouth to say something. 'Yes, Moony, you're smart too.'
Remus closed his mouth and relaxed. I nudged him and giggled.
'I don't know, James, what about you?' Lily said turning to James.
(They so dig each other, why don't they go for it. Oh, look at Sirius' hair; gosh he's looking at me. Stop staring at him, NOW!' I turned away from staring at Sirius.
'Well, I don't care, let's do whatever,' James said, he was staring at Lily. She turned to him and he turned away blushing.
I giggled. 'What you laughing about?' Remus asked. I pointed to James and Lily and Remus smiled and nodded in agreement.
James glared at me and I just continued to giggle.
We continued to talk about nothing for the next thirty minutes and finally Remus looked at his watch and announced it was time for dinner. We all walked down to dinner in silence, if don't count Peter's stomach continually rumbling, then it was silence.
We passed the wall, which was once extremely greasified by a certain Slytherin.
We reached the Great Hall, the smell reached our noses and Peter and Sirius had taken off for the table at a run, the rest of us merely walked shaking our heads at the other two.
Everyone finished early, even Peter, which was strange, and then we set off for Gryffindor tower.
The boys quickly changed into their boardies and met Lily and I back in the common room. We left the common room and the boys brought their - STUPID - map. (I really hate that map but if I get us to the bathroom without getting detention then it's an okay.)
James pulled out his wand and muttered 'I solemnly swear I'm up to no good,' and the map as it always did filled with ink and mapped out Hogwarts. She saw the six dots that were labeled with our names. There were no names on our path to the prefect bathroom, well expect ours.
We reached the bathroom with no trouble and Lily gave the password. We quickly entered and Lily bolted the door.
We placed our things by the wall and de-robed. Lily was wearing a baby blue bikini that was exactly the same as mine, except the color of course.
'Damn, Lily, Chris, now why you gotta walk around this bathroom looking like that,' Sirius said, eyeing Lily and I.
'You don't like?' I said in a flirty voice.
'I didn't say that,' Sirius flirted back.
James and peter finished filling the pool with just warm water and then came back to stand with us.
'Alright, let's get in,' James said. 'Come on Lil, you first,' he picked her up.
'James Potter, you put me down right now,' she yelled. We all laughed, except Lily, and watched Lily being thrown into the water.
Her head popped back up and she pulled a now hysterical James into the water by his leg.
They were both in a splashing fight now. 'That looks like fun,' Sirius said picking me up.
'No, Sirius, don't,' I yelled. He chucked me in. I popped my head out of the water and looked angrily at Remus and Sirius who were laughing hysterically, just like they had to Lily. 'This means war,' I muttered under my breath.
Remus and Sirius watched Peter jump into the water. (This is my chance.) I got out of the water quickly and stepped behind Remus and Sirius.
They were both looking into the water. 'Hey, where'd Chris go?' they said together.
'Looking for someone boys?' I said and I pushed them both in the water.
James, Lily, Peter, and I laughed as Sirius and Remus fell into the water screaming like girls. They both popped back up and blushed.
'Oh, it wasn't that scary was it?' I mocked.
They both got evil grins on their faces and began splashing me.
I jumped bombed into the water, which sent a splash of water over their heads.
'That's it, let's get her. So if water won't work, let's do the next best thing,' Remus said.
'And what is that my dear buddy?' Sirius asked.
'Let's tickle her.'
'Noooooooo!' I back away from them. (Remus knows now ticklish I am.)
The advanced and then got me. I screamed with laughter. 'Remus, Sirius, stop it,' I yelled through fits of giggles.
'We will, but you have to surrender,' Sirius said laughing.
'NEVER!' I yelled playfully and I broke free of their tickling.
I swam and hid behind Peter.
'I'm not getting in this,' Peter said moving because he knew the boys would do something to him.
'No, Peter, wait, fuck...' they reached me. They began tickling again. 'Ok, Ok, I give in.'
'You gotta say you surrender,' Remus said laughing.
'Fine, I surrender, just stop tickling me,' I pushed with hands off and swam back a bit, trying to catch my breath.
I caught my breath and turned to Remus. 'I'm so going to get you,' I jumped at his bare chest and knocked him under water.
He got me in a bear lock and I couldn't move.
'That is so not fair, you're a boy,' I said trying to break free.
'Nice you noticed,' Remus tightened his grip. I looked toward Lily and mouthed, "Help me".
She came to my rescue, she tickled Remus, and he let me go. Then he turned to tickle her. I jumped at Sirius, who was about to get Lily. He grabbed me around the middle and flung me over his shoulder. I landed in the water and came back up giggling.
He turned to do it again, but Lily had broken free of Remus and together we both dunked him under the water.
Lily and I swum to the edge breathing hard. I lifted myself up so that only the bottoms of my legs were in the water and Lily did the same.
'Ok, let's call a truce,' Sirius said, after recovering from all the water he swallowed.
'Okay,' I said and we shook hands. He hoisted himself up next to me. (Oh my god, Sirius is right next to me; I think I'm gunna faint.) I actually did fall back a bit and Sirius caught me.
'You ok?' He asked, concerned.
I nodded. 'Too much water,' and he kept his arm around me just incase I was gunna fall back again.
(Oh my god, Sirius has his arm around me.) Sirius pushed his hair out of his eyes and smiled at me.
(Oh god he's smile is so cute.)
Everyone swam over to the edge now. 'Hey, so did everyone hear about the dance?' Sirius asked.
'Yeah, Chris and I were talking about it just before, right Chris?' Remus said.
I nodded. 'Yeah, we were.'
'So, is two special people I know gunna hook up,' Sirius looked straight at Lily and James. They both blushed and turned to look in the opposite direction. 'Alright, I'll take that as a yes, what about you Chris? Have you been asked yet?'
I shook my head. 'Mr. lucky hasn't made his move yet,' Sirius laughed.
'Mr. Lucky?'
'Yeah the damn lucky guy that I actually say yes to,' I elbowed him in the ribs lightly.
Sirius pretended it hurt and fell over side ways.
'Quick, if we're lucky we can cut all his hair off before he wakes up,' Remus said joking.
Sirius snapped back up and put a hand on his hair. We all laughed.
'Oh, you know, we'd never cut of ALL your hair,' I said ruffling it, 'Just most of it.'
'You're gunna get for that,' He said fixing his hair. He grabbed me around the middle and pushed me in the water; I got hold of his arm and dragged him in too. It was probably really funny to see as we fell into the water trying to make the other land first.
I won. Sirius fell through the water first me right on top of him. I heard the slap of the water on his bare back. (Ouch painful.)
We both popped our heads out the top. I poked me tongue out at Sirius; he did the same back. It seemed like nothing else around us existed, it was only he and I. Then I saw him move closer. His arms were still around me like they were when we fell, he moved his head closer, and our lips met. (Oh my god, Sirius the biggest hunk ever is touching me, oh my god now he's kissing me, oh my god.)
At this point me brain seemed to melt. He was kissing me and that was the only thing in the world.
His arms tightened and his kiss grew more passionate, my arms that had once been trying to push him off me were now trying to bind him closer. We seemed like one and then it was broken.
'Hem... hem...' James coughed. Sirius and I broke apart. I blushed and looked down.
Sirius merely had a huge grin on him face.
I turned to see everyone's eyes wide and mouths open. Actually James' was more fish-like and was opening and closing and Lily had more of a smile on. Peter and Remus however looked as though they had just detached their jaws and were attempting to drink the entire pool in one gulp.
'Well, didn't see that coming did we?' James said and everyone else shook his or her heads.
I turned to Sirius and a smile broke out on my face. He smiled back at me. No one spoke; the only noise was the occasional slap of water of the side of the pool.
(What just happened? Can anybody tell me? Anyone, anyone? Looks like not.)
'So - um - let's get back to swimming them, ok gang?' Lily was trying to make things go back to normal.
'Yeah let's,' said James and he turned to Remus. 'So did anything interesting happen today?' I knew straight away that James wished he hadn't said that.
'I'm actually not in the mood anymore for swimming,' Remus said getting out of the pool.
'Yeah me too,' I said following.
Everyone else shrugged and decided they'd had enough as well.
We all quickly dried and re-robed then hurried back to Gryffindor Tower. It was of course as I had expected, empty.
'Hey, since its Friday do you girls maybe wanna come up for a bit,' James suggested, his eyes wander over to Lily.
Lily turned to me. 'What you say, Chris?'
James turned to me; his eyes were begging me to say yes. I shrugged. 'Why not. But let's get changed first okay, Lil,' Lily nodded and we ran up to our dormitory giggling.
I changed into a pink tank top and a pair of hot pink butterfly covered track pants.
Lily's were practically the same only in black and her pants had flowers on them. We grabbed our favorite teddies and ran back to the boys' room. I hugged my teddy named Angel; my mother had given it to me for my 10th birthday.
Lily knocked on the door and Peter answered. 'They wanna make sure the room looks perfect,' Peter whispered and we both giggled. (Perfect, we've seen the room a thousand times.)
Finally James appeared at the door. 'Ladies,' he said stepping back so they could enter. I noticed straight away that the room did seem cleaner, actually a lot cleaner.
'Wow, I never knew you guys had a floor in this room,' I teased and Lily giggled.
'Well, it would be cleaner if Padfoot and Prongs cleaned up their things once and a while,' Remus said.
'Let me guess they made you clean it all, right?' I sat on the end of Remus' bed, as usual. Remus nodded.
'Like I was a slave boy,' he said wiping a fake tear from his eye, again. I ruffled his hair in fake sympathy.
'What are you talking about? We only made you do it because you're better at housework charms than us,' Sirius said.
'Well, next time I won't help if you're going to be so ungrateful,' Remus snapped.
'Oh, I'm so sorry master, please forgive him. He is merely a peasant in your wonderful eyes and you are our god,' James knelt down in front of Remus and laid his head down.
'Damn right,' Remus said and Lily and I cracked up. James stood up and sat down on his bed, Lily took a seat on the ground. She looked a little unsure where to sit, as she normally didn't come up to the boys room, just sat in the common room and did homework. I went down and sat next to her.
'So, what we gunna do now?' I asked hugging my knees.
The boy's then joined us in a circle. Remus sat next to me and James next to Lily, Peter insisted on sitting next to James for some reason.
'Don't know,' James said, trying with all his might not to look at Lily.
'Well you guys asked us up here, come up with something,' I snapped mainly at James because I knew he just wanted to have Lily here and didn't really have a plan of something to do.
'I've got an idea,' Sirius said. 'Moony, you brought those muggle cards, didn't you?'
Remus nodded his usual response. 'Yeah they're in my trunk,' He got up and got them.
'How's about a game on Poker?' Sirius said shuffling the cards.
'Sure,' I said and Lily nodded.
Peter nodded too. 'How's about we raise the stakes?' James said with his mischievous grin in place.
'What you have in mind, Prongs?' Sirius said shuffling the cards still.
'Loser has to do a dare,' James said and his smile widened. 'The winner gets to dare; anyone in the middle is safe.'
'Yeah, why not,' I said confident in my Poker skills.
'Sure,' Lily said, being a muggle-born she was probably the most confident. Remus and Peter nodded. (Geez does Peter ever talk, he's been quiet the whole night, except when he talked to Lily and I at the door.)
'Are you sure to wanna do that Prongs? Remember the holidays,' Sirius said laughing.
James blushed. 'I'm a way better player now,' He smiled at lily.
'What happened in the holidays?' Lily asked.
'Oh, Prongs lost in a game of cards and Moony and I dared him to -' Sirius said but was cut off by a warning glare from James.
I remembered it. Remus and Sirius had dared James to run around the outside of the house naked, but when he went to come back inside we had forgotten Aunt Jackie had put lock charms on the door. So if we went out that night she'd know because we wouldn't be allowed back in and James had to wait until she got home the next day before he could get back in. Lucky he took his clothes off outside or he'd have been naked all night.
'Anyway, everyone game?' Sirius said now avoiding James' eyes. Everyone nodded. 'Well then let's play,' He dealt the cards.
The first game passed really quickly and Sirius won, he dared Peter to see how many chocolate frogs he could fit in his mouth. (Ewww, so gross.)
Then next game Lily and James both lost and I won. (Lily is so going to kill me for what I'm gunna make her do.)
'Alright, I dare you and James to full on pash,' I said glancing at Sirius, who smiled at me.
Lily and James did. We all sat there with our mouths wide open and then I felt something moved over to my hand. It was Sirius' hand. I looked up into his eyes and he winked at me and mouthed. 'I'll get you next babe.'
I poked out my tongue and mouth. 'Like to see ya try.'
He smiled and I smiled back. Lily and James broke apart and blushed.
'You know what that is probably going to be the highlight of this game,' Sirius joked, earning the laughs he was going for. 'I have another idea.'
'Which is?' Lily asked, still a little pink.
'Truth or Dare,' Sirius said happily.
James nodded, 'that sounds like fun.'
'Why not,' Remus said and Lily, Peter and I merely nodded.
(Oh no, what if they ask me who I like? I can't exactly sit here and lie, Lily would know, oh god. I'm in deep shit.)
'Ok, Prongs you first, ask whoever you want,' Sirius said.
'Ok, Lily, truth or dare?' James turned to Lily.
'Um – truth,' she spat out after a short wait.
I saw her hands tighten around her teddy bear, Princess.
'Ok, Lily Evan you must tell us who your first kiss was,' James smiled.
'Well, my first kiss was when I was ten and it was Joey Lachlan,' she blushed.
'Now, you have to ask someone,' James said, obviously thinking over this Joey Lachlan thing.
'Right, Sirius, truth or dare?'
Sirius smiled. 'Dare.'
(Dare, dare, dare, gosh that word sure can echo.)
'I dare you Sirius Black to kiss my best friend, Christina-Lee Potter,' Lily turned to me, grinning.
(That devil, she knew I wanted to kiss him, but I did do it to her. Must remember to thank Lily for the rest of my life.)
'Sure,' Sirius said almost excited. He moved over next to me and put a hand on my cheek.
'You planned this didn't you,' I whispered.
Sirius nodded. The he kissed me. For the second time this night. It was beautiful, wonderful, magical, every word that ended in 'l' except the ones like dreadful and awful. (Malfunction danger, over load, over load.) My brain had once again melted.
We broke apart and smiled. 'Ok, that was for like what ten minutes, please I'm getting bored,' James teased, pretending to yawn.
Sirius smiled and sat down next to me, which made Remus have to move, I couldn't help but notice the look on Remus' face. And it wasn't a good one.
Sirius put his arm around me. 'Well, then Moony, truth or dare?'
'Dare,' Remus said almost evilly.
'Alright. I dare you to scull five butter beers,' Sirius said holding up five fingers. Remus almost looked happy, sure it wasn't as good as kissing a chick, but butter beer is, as I knew, his favorite drink.
'Hey, Remus pass us a bottle ok,' I said as Remus got up to his bed and grabbed six butter beers, he passed me one, not looking at me as he usually would.
I smiled, trying to get one back, I didn't. 'Thanks,' I said, kind of hurt.
Remus sat down, readied himself then sculled. It was amazing. (Wow I've never seen anyone drink so fast.)
We all clapped and Remus wiped his mouth. 'Thank you, ladies and losers,' he took a bow then sat back down.
James, Sirius and Peter seemed untouched by his loser comment, but Lily and I had burst into laughter and pointed at the other boys.
The night continued and by the time Lily and I decided it was time to go it was around four am.
'Hey, you don't need to go, stay here,' James said as we got up to leave.
'Huh?' I said turning to him.
'You know stay the night, whose gunna know.'
'Yeah, Prongs, is right, stay with us,' Sirius said coming over and putting his arm around my shoulders.
'I will if Lil will,' I said.
Lily looked at me as if I would answer for her. 'Well, I suppose so, but we're sleeping in sleeping bags,' She said which was mainly pointed at James.
I saw James' mouth droop a bit. (What a perve, I can't believe he's my cousin.)
Lily magicened two sleeping bags and two pillows. 'Ah Lily, you know I can only sleep with two pillows' I said. She magicened another one.
She smiled. 'Happy?'
I nodded. 'Thanks, Lil.'
The boys got in their beds and James turned out the lamp by which gave us our light.
It soon grew quiet, everyone seemed to be thinking over tonight's events, and after about twenty minutes I could hear Peter snoring and Lily breathing heavily next to me. I got a sudden chill and wrapped my arms around myself.
The hangings on Sirius' bed opened and Sirius poked his head out. 'Cold, come in here for a bit, it's really warm,' I nodded. (Oh my god I'm going to get into Sirius the world's hunkiest sixteen-year-old's bed.)
I got out of my sleeping bag and placed it over the now slightly shivering Lily and got under the covers with Sirius.
He put his arms around me, 'Comfy?' he said with his gorgeous smile in place.
I nodded. 'Thanks.'
I rested my head on his pillow and turned to face him. He pulled the hanging shut then turned back and placed a hand on the upper of my leg and gave it a small rub.
(Where does he think he's going with that hand? Oh god he smells so good, I'm gunna have to ask him what after-shave he uses.)
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Totally re-mastered, well edited, and off I go to fix the next one. Hope you new readers like.
- Thai, xox.