Rachel's P.O.V
The gleam of the eerie moonlight shone too brightly into my eyes keeping me from any more sleep. My body felt exhausted from the previous day, yet my "body clock", I guess you could call it, was telling me to get up.
I finally gave in and got out of bed and slid my feet into my slippers and pulled my sweatshirt over my pyjamas. I crept quietly through the large house in search of the kitchen – I knew that James had told me to wake them up but to be honest, I had no idea where to even begin looking for his room; at least I had a vague idea where the kitchen was.
Finally, after many wrong turns and wrong doors, I found the ki8tchen.
This was only the small kitchen, the main one was somewhere else (no idea where), it had wooden shelves that contained various cereals, wooden bench tops for food preparation and an old sink. The kitchen also had a fridge and freezer for milk, juice and hopefully ice cream as well as a n old table in the middle with chairs that where looking old and worn out.
It may seem a bit peculiar that a family with so much money had a room like this but there was a simple explanation, it felt like a home.
It was the most homely room in the Potter's manor, down to the windows facing the waterfront with stained, frilly curtains or the marks of James and my height from when we were young.
So it wasn't much of a surprise when I saw someone else sitting there,
"Hi Sirius" I said chirpily, even at this ungodly hour.
He looked a little startled, but pleased to see me none the less.
"I love this room" I sighed taking a seat next to him.
He had a bowl of ice cream that looked so tempting I took a spoon and began to dig in. He chuckled at me and let me keep picking at the icecream.
"Don't we all" he said admiring the room, his eyes always on me eating his ice cream, "it very…" he paused to think of a suitable word.
"Quaint" I said shortly.
"Quaint?" he questioned.
"I am trying to come up with a big word a day" I said proudly.
Sirius burst out laughing, unable to control himself much longer.
"But quaint only has…" he began counting on his fingers before giving up. "Not many letters".
I pretended to look outrages "it's the thought that counts," I said with my hand clutching my heart.
Sirius and I laughed until we finally started to settle down leaving the house (if you can call it that) in silence.
"So…" I said, unable to handle the silence much longer, "what's the plan for tomorrow?"
"Probably planning for the party" said Sirius.
"Party?" I questioned.
"I am surprised James hasn't told you about that yet" started Sirius, "He is extremely excited about it"
"I can only imagine," I said grinning.
We sat in a comfortable silence for a few minutes watching the morning light slowly leaking through the windows.
"What are you doing down here?" I asked curiously.
"Thinking" he said shortly, I didn't want to push him because he seemed pretty sure on not expanding his answer.
"About this party" I said, " what is it for?"
He looked at me like I was stupid, "Obviously it is for learning," he said sarcastically.
"Oh fun" I said equally as sarcastic, "are we going to learn about the fall of the Roman Empire, How exciting!"
He laughed quietly causing his body to shake slightly. I decided to take the chance I had in the little amount of light that was available to take a good look at Sirius.
He looked quite tall, even in the casual way he was slumped over the chair. He was wearing a white Singlet that allowed me to easily see his amazing body, his chiselled chest and tanned body made want to drool; it took me every ounce of self-control to stop. His hair hung loosely, slightly ruffed up from the night before although the best feature of him was his eyes.
His eyes were grey, like the sky of a storm and they seemed to have some hypnotic power over me. As I looked into his eyes and his in mine make me want to melt, I forgot everything that I was previously thinking about and just stared into his eyes.
Sirius began to chuckle, snapping me out of my little fantasies.
"Checking me out?" he asked confidently.
"What?" I asked, shocked at how upfront he was, "I was not"
"Don't worry" he said smirking, "I don't blame you, very little can resist"
I gave him a slight glare; "You are too cocky for your own good"
He stared at me, causing my palms to feel sweaty and my heart to beat faster than it should.
"I have to go back to bed," I said a little quickly.
"Ok" said Sirius still smirking to himself.
"'Night" I said.
"Morning" he said nodding out the window to the suns soft rays.
I gave a nervous laugh and walked back towards my room.
Walking back to my room, I felt stupid. Stupid, because James had even told me that Sirius was a flirt, a ladies man but I didn't listen. I just thought that I would be his 'cousin' and I was wrong. He was flirting with me and I fell for it.
Never again though, never again. I would just find myself another boyfriend and hopefully this one will last longer than a week, this would distract me from stupid Sirius and his stupid flirting and would get me one more step closer to finding the one.
And that's all that I have ever wanted.
I collapsed back into my bed feeling a lot less perky than I did before. I would just have to forget that little incident and look forward to the party.
With that last thought I fell back asleep, my eyelids too heavy to keep open.