HELLO MY LOVELY BUCKETS OF LOVE!
Okay, so I know this is a day early, but I'm thinking that I'm going to have to change my upload day to thursday rather than friday.
High School Football games, they take so much preparation...
Anyway, so as you can see directly below *points to the italicized words right above the actual story*
I'm adding quotes. I decided to add them this chapter, and they're all James and Sirius.
Who doesn't want to see the two greatest non twin twins of the series?
Anyway, here's chapter two of Hello Fascination...
"Hey James."
"Yeah Sirius?"
"Who's that girl over there, the little one, sitting alone?"
"Ah… I think that's Annie or Annette something. She's got a brother over in Hufflepuff... I think."
"Mm."
~~ Sirius Black and James Potter, November, 1st year
Upon reaching the castle, my younger brother quickly made his way to the Great Hall with his friends. I, however, decided to wait for Danny to come. He'd probably be one of the last people in the castle along with the other prefects.
How Danny got to be made into a prefect, I'll never know. The boy was pretty careless, but I could see his redeeming qualities too, he was kind, always helpful, and never intentionally mean. At certain times though, he was a bit forgetful, and sometimes never has any common sense. Case in point, he brought Clarissa home and to the Americas to visit our family after only dating her for a month. AND BROKE UP WITH HER TWO WEEKS BEFORE SCHOOL!
Leaning against the wall, I waited for him. Watching students pass by, some in my year, some older, some younger, some in my house. But none were Danny.
I wanted one of those things Patrick called a "cigarette". They were awful when I'd first tried them, but they grew to be addicting by the end of the summer. I spent a lot of time with my cousin over the summer, and he just so happened to be on the Rock side of the great seventies culture split. Disco versus rock, and most of my family had become a part of the Rock side. Except Kitty…. Kitty adored Disco for some reason…. Weird little thirteen-year-old Muggle…. Patrick was an eighteen-year-old punk rocker who basically took me under his wing while Danny was with Clarissa, Trent was flirting with the bird who ran the Gelato shop on the pier, Jack was learning how the American Aurors did things differently than British ones (or as our muggle cousins thought he did, which was go look at Motorcycle shops), Oliver made new friends at the beach, and Colin hung around with our younger cousins.
It was like a whole other world at the beach my Italian-American family called the "Jersey Shore". It was wild, crazy, I loved it. It was the chaos I loved to thrive in. Parties, concerts, raves, I'd actually lost my virginity there. To some boy named Vinnie… He was a nice bloke, bit too tan for my liking though…
I was a completely different person away from Hogwarts, I might've been thought of as bipolar, but only my immediate family knew why I acted so. School was for being serious and working hard, summer and winter breaks were for relieving stress caused by school's hard work.
I lifted a hand, covering my mouth as I yawned widely, small little tears gathering at the corners of my eyes as they clenched shut.
"Tired, Fey?" I snapped my eyes open at the voice. Finishing my yawn, I stared at the quartet standing before me. It was the Marauders, all four of them this time. Okay, why were they bothering me all of the sudden? I didn't look any different from last year, I'm pretty sure I'm the exact same height as last year, my face looked about the same in that photograph mum took back on the day I got on the train for my fourth year. Albeit I might have gotten a bit curvier, not really noticeable under these robes though, it just made me look like a short vampire.
I stared at the four boys, seeing if they would walk away if I didn't answer.
No such luck.
James' grin seemed to grow wider a bit as Sirius' turned into a sort of scowl.
"Merlin why don't you talk? It's not healthy," he grumbled. I nearly scoffed, he was whining about my not talking? Why the hell did he care if I spoke or not. I spoke to my family, and people I had spent a lot of time with when visiting my relatives in America and Italy. But only my Muggle family, Dad was a bit estranged from his family because of some big argument about getting mum knocked up while still in school. Dad's family was very old school….
"Don't whine, Black. I don't talk to people I don't like, unless I'm forced to," I said monotonously. I then let out a small sigh, exhaling through my nose, and lent my head back against the stone wall as I closed my eyes. Maybe if I imagine them to go away, they actually will. How does Remus put up with them? He's so nice, so studious. And yet, he's one of the notorious pranksters of Hogwarts. Looks can be very deceiving….
Sirius lost his scowl when I started speaking, but his grin didn't return. "So you don't like us?" he asked curiously. I didn't answer; I spoke willingly to Remus on the train, not so to the others. Let them figure it out. I could here my twin's raucous laughter coming towards the castle. I lazily opened my eyes and pushed myself off the wall. I ignored all four of the Marauders as I made my way past them.
Danny was walking up with the Hufflepuff prefect, Dorcas Meadowes. I'd heard about her over the years from Danny, she was a good friend of his, and he was completely in love with her. He didn't realize it yet, though, but I could hear it in the way he talked about her. It hurt in a way, to know that one day I might not be the number one girl in his life, like he'd always be my number one guy. I didn't hold it against him though, Danny didn't have the same clingy personality as I did. He liked to grow and spread his wings, while I liked to curl up against someone and just stay. I bit my lip a bit, unsure of whether or not to interrupt them, but Dorcas saw me.
"Ann! Hey!" she said smiling and waving at me, moving Danny's attention from her to me. I smiled, I knew I somewhat liked her for a reason, she wasn't a twat like all my brother's other previous girlfriends.
"Hi Dorcas, nice holidays?" I asked, stepping up to my brother's other side as I slid my hand into his. As soon as I did, his hand tightened around mine possessively. I smiled and held on just as tight.
"It was alright, much better than yours and Danny's. I can't believe you took Clarissa with you to New Jersey, I've known you for four years and you take that twat? I'm sure Ann's on my side about this," Dorcas said, laughing. I giggled a bit.
"Dorcas I would have loved for you to come, but Danny Boy here thought that Clarissa and her overly lipstick covered gob was, and I quote, "The love of my life, I can't be without her for an entire summer!" and then he started with the whole puppy dog routine, I'm sure you've seen it more than once. In short, I gave in," I said. I reached up with my free hand to pinch Danny's blushing cheek as Dorcas laughed, we walked past the Marauders, who were standing there just staring. I told them, I only talk to people I like, and Danny had adored Dorcas since first year, so of course I like her. Other than his girlfriends, if Danny likes someone, then they must be okay.
"See, I told you that you should take Ann's advice more often! I could have been hanging out in America with you two, but instead I was with my slob of a cousin. I point all the blame towards Clarissa. There are rumors she hypnotizes boys with her mouth," Dorcas faux-whispered. I was trying to smother my laughter in Danny's arm. Dorcas always had some crazy story or excuse, it was a good reason why Danny befriended her in the first place.
"Hey now, is this Make Fun of Danny's Choice of Girlfriends Day or something?" Danny grumbled. Dorcas and I looked at each other, then looked up at Danny.
"Yes," we said at the same time.
"Why do I surround myself with mean people?" he asked, mainly just to himself. I laughed a bit.
"Because you take all the niceness out of your relationships with everyone, all that's left for them is to be a bit mean. Good thing you've learned to be such a forgiving person," I said.
"Well it's a good thing that you don't need forgiveness. Now let's go to the Great Hall, I wanna see where our baby brother goes. Five galleons he's a Hufflepuff." I let out a small bark of laughter.
"In your dreams, my little blighter is no Hufflepuff, he's a Gryffindor all the way. Has too much raw nerve to not be," I said. I sounded so sure of myself, Colin was a little daredevil. Just this summer he did crazy stunts that we heard about over the exceedingly large dinner table, like skateboarding over a burning oil drum, causing mayhem in the stores, even bugging grandma Josephina when she was in the kitchen making her famous eggplant parmigiana. And that was a scary enough feat on its own.
"No, you've told me about Colin, he seems tricky enough to be in Ravenclaw with Oliver. Twenty on that," Dorcas said.
"Alright, fine, losers have to pay the winner twenty galleons each. Might as well pay me now girls, Colin's a destined Hufflepuff," Danny said. I pondered the bet, how sure was I that Colin would be in Gryffindor? I grinned to myself.
"Bet's on."
I watched the firsties walk into the Great Hall being led by Professor McGonagall. I smiled a bit as I saw Colin, walking next to a boy from our Wizarding Village just south of London. He looked amazed at the star studded enchanted ceiling, as me, Danny, and Oliver had been when we first walked through the Great Hall. I waved at him as he looked my way, to which he grinned and waved back.
I politely clapped as first years got sorted into their respective houses, stayed silent for Slytherin sorts, and waited patiently for:
"Colin Fey," McGonagall called. I got quiet, my blue eyes trained on my youngest brother's curly mop of honey blonde hair as he eagerly hopped up to the hat. I watched affectionately, a small smile on my face as I watched the expressions cross his face, disgust, confusion, worry, then him nodding so heavily right before the Hat opened it's wide brim to announce where he'd place Colin.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
I cheered loudly with my fellow housemates, clapping and smiling wildly for my youngest brother as he joined our table. He sat with the other first years, with a grin that seemed to take over his entire face. With his amber brown eyes he searched up the table until he found my pale blue ones, his grin seemed, if possible, to double in size as he waved furiously at me. I flashed him a Rock 'N Roll sign as I smiled back.
Looks like I just got forty galleons.
"Little brother?" I looked up, surprised at the fact that I was actually being spoken too. That is, until I saw who it was. It was Sirius. Again. I actually rolled my eyes at him this time, before focusing my attention back on the sorting.
"Hey, I got a reaction, that's a start. By the way, you might want to start looking for some pants that fit, you flashed us a bit of your lacy knickers as you left the compartment," Sirius said lowly. At this I blushed furiously and glared up at him. I knew that my pants were a bit too loose, but to show my knickers? And those knickers? My cousin Lucinda in Italy had sent me a bunch a lacy bra and panty sets as a gag gift when I wrote that I had lost my virginity (they were actually quite cute and fit me well...). She's my closest girl friend other than Dorcas, and I don't know Dorcas well enough to tell her about Vinnie. She might tell Danny, and I had to be the one to tell Danny. Just... not now...
"Go to hell," I hissed. He better thank Merlin that it was only the opening feast, or else I would have hexed him into next week. Sirius looked proud, like he liked making me embarrassed. Bloody prat.
After the sorting and Dumbledore's speech, mentioning things about the weird things going on lately, with the guy You-Know-Who and his Followers, Colin got up from where he was sitting, and ran to me as everyone else was eating. I smiled and enveloped my (slightly) smaller brother in a hug.
"Hey Baby, what'd I tell you?" I said, moving over on the bench to let him sit next to me. Colin grinned.
"You were right, I'm definitely a Gryffindor. Hat thought differently though, wanted to put me in Slytherin, so I started cursing him out, like Patrick does to Uncle Pauly, so he threatened to put me with Ravenclaws, just so I could suffer. It worried me a bit, but then I dared him to do it. Then he suggested Gryffindor and I told him to put me there with my awesome older sister," Colin said, grinning. I laughed a bit.
"When did you hear Pat yell at Uncle Pauly? I told him to make sure he didn't swear around you, well bollocks to that idea. Alright eat up, Nonna Serafina will chastise you if you go to Italy this Christmas looking like a bean pole," I said, ruffling his hair. Colin started laughing, and curiously, I asked why.
"You get a Jersey accent when you say Pat and Uncle Pauly's name, and an Italian accent when you say Nonna's name," he said. I stared at him, and pondered this. Did I really do that? After spending so many years spending breaks in two different country's, I guess I adopted their accents a bit. I pursed my lips and pointed a finger at my little brother.
"That's weird," I said, tapping him on the nose.
"So're you Annie Bananie," he said, nudging my shoulder with his. I'm happy to say that I'm proud to be taller than him, I'm only 5 feet and a quarter. I smiled to myself as I dug into the food on my plate. I'm glad I finally have a sibling in my house...
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I'm already most of the way done with chapter three!
I'll post it up next thursday!
Love you lovebuckets!
Le Duele La Cabeza!
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