Chapter Seven - Oblivious to These Boys.
"LINA! Wake Up!" Lily called for the up tenth time. Trying, and failing, to wake up her best friend - who was moaning out incoherent words and snuggling deeper and deeper into her pillow every time Lily call out to her.
"That's it! Lina either you wake up right now or I'm drenching you in water" Lily threatened her friend, her patience with Serelina running thin.
When she got no response from her silver haired friend, Lily pursed her lips and pointing her want at Serelina's sleeping from said 'Augamenti'.
Water shot out of lily's wand and within moment Serelina was drenched. Said girl shot out of bed screaming and toppled out of bed, tangled in her bedspreads and the curtains around her bed.
"LILY!" she screamed at her friends, pulling her bedspread out of her face but not making an effort to move from the awkward heap she fell in.
Lily, anyhow, had gotten started by her friends fall and rushed to Serelina's side. Helping her untangle herself, she helped Serelina up to her feet.
Yawning and stretching her hands sleepily, Serelina looked at the digital clock on her bedside table and groaned.
"Lily, why on Morgana's name did you wake up at this insane hour? Its 7:30 and it's a Sunday" Lina moaned in protest when Lily didn't let her to get back on bed.
"Because you probably don't want to Miss Qudditch tryouts" Lily grinned at her friend, clueless to the fact that Serelina wasn't going to try out at all.
"Why don't I want to miss Qudditch tryouts?" Serelina questioned, stifling another yawn with the back of her hand and rubbing her eyes with her free hand - trying, rather unsuccessfully, to get the sleep out.
"Why don't you want to-?" Lily spluttered, looking at Serelina incredulously. Lily knew all about Serelina's love for Qudditch, which was the reason that she had actually bought it when John had told her that her friend was going to tryout or the team.
"Lina! John said you were going to try out!" Lily exclaimed, thinking that her friend wasn't thinking straight due to her sleepiness and not guessing that John probably lied to her.
"John said..." Lina trailed off seeming lost in thought. Then frowned, glaring at the floor, huffed and stalked into the bathroom without a word to Lily.
Smiling and shaking her head at her friend, Lily started rummaging through Lina's trunk for cloths that Lina could wear for tryouts. She still thought Serelina really was going to try out, whereas the really reason John had put Lily up to wake Serelina dawned only to his little sister.
15 minutes later, after changing into the clothes Lily'd taken out for her, Serelina stormed into the common room. Clearly she was pissed about being woken up 'at this insane hour' as she put it, without a good reason.
Lily, who didn't understand why her friend was so pissed, followed Serelina clueless-ly down to the common room. Lily could tell that something was wrong and as Serelina's best friend' she knew very well what a 'tantrum' Lina could throw when unnessacerily woken up.
With a murderous look, Serelina scanned the common room until she spotted the back of her brother's head. John, unaware of what he had just gotten himself into, was laughing merrily with the Prewett twins and Kate and the Marauders.
Once she was close enough to the couch her brother was currently lounging on, her eyes flicked momentarily to the thick - and possibly heavy - book Remus was reading. Forcing a sweet smile on her face, she approached the unsuspecting boy and just as sweetly asked "hey Remus, can I burrow your book for a minute?"
Lily, who had been watching her friend's sudden change of mood quite suspiciously, understood what Serelina was up to at once and started motioning for Remus to not give Serelina his book.
Unfortunately - for John - Remus merely shot Lily an amused look, not understanding what she was trying to tell, handed Lina the book.
Lily smacked her forehead at the same time that Serelina gave Remus a hearty 'thankx' and nonchalantly strode over to her brother.
She stopped right in front of him and her murderous look returned full force as she brought down the heavy book on top of Johns head a good few times, before the Prewett twins could refrain her.
"Woah! Woah! Calm down there kitten" Fabien said grinning widely and not having all that much trouble refraining Serelina at all.
"What did John do this time, kitten?" Gideon asked draping his arm around her shoulder - they had pulled her to sit in-between them. Serelina glared at him and he quickly backed away, holding his hand up.
"For waking me up at this unearthly hour and telling Lily that I had wanted to try out for the team" she muttered icily glaring at her brother, who shot her a sheepish smile. "And I wasn't about to such a thing. He got me awake. ALL FOR NOTHING!" the last three words she yelled, throwing the book - still in her hand - with dead aim, at John.
"Alright sweetie, clam down" Kate said to Serelina, picking up Remus' book, mending the dent in it and handing it back to its owner. "Really John?" she questioned sarcastically.
Being John's friend and having spent a lot of summers with them, she knew how pissed Serelina gets when she's awoken without good reason.
This was on account of how little sleep she gets due to her nightmares. So she loves a peaceful night of sleep and practically ardours them. That's the reason she gets so pissed when someone wakes her up without a good reason for waking her up. Every one of them knew that - well, everyone except Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"I needed her help and that was the only way I could get Lily to wake Serelina" John said as a way of explaining, which did nothing to help him. It only added another pair of glaring eyes to the one already glaring at him. Lily's.
"Oh! And you didn't care that I'm the one who'll have to face Serelina's wrath?" Lily questioned John, sitting on the arm of the couch James and Sirius were lounging on. She was too intent on glaring at John to notice whose side she sat beside.
"Sorry Lils, but that was the only way to get you to wake up my begrudging sister. Would you have done it any other way?" John said shrewdly looking at Lily, whose glare only intensified at his words.
"Obviously, and you still don't care that I'm the one who almost got killed as long as you get what you want" Lily hissed through gritted teeth. Barely holding herself from pulling a Serelina and cursing John.
"What!? No!" John exclaimed, looking horrified by Lily's scathing words. "Lils I'm really sorry 'kay, but I really need her help."
Whether or not Lily accepted John's apology, he didn't find out as she had just realised exactly who she had been sitting next to. Gritting her teeth, she jumped up to her feet, caught Lina's hand and pulled her out of the common room before James had time to ask her out.
Groaning, Serelina fell into step beside Lily - she had been nodding off to sleep against Gideon's arm when Lily pulled her, waking her up again. Sleepy enough that she was dragging her feet.
Once they entered the Great Hall, Lily spotted Dorace, Mary and Marlene; she dragged Lina over to them.
"What happened to you?" Mary asked Lina incredulously.
She was looking a bit of a mess. Her usual neat and straight silver locks were all tangled up. Even though she bathed, she had forgotten to run a comb through her hair - hence the messy, bed head look. Her eyelids heavy with sleep and dropping heavily over her crystal blue eyes. Not to mention the dark circle under her eyes.
Yep, a definite mess.
Serelina just shrugged her shoulder, slumping against the table.
"John told me that she was trying out for the team and to wake her up. I didn't want her to miss tryouts so I woke her up" it was Lily who explained to their friends.
"But she's not really trying out, is she?" Dorace stated sympathetically.
"I still can't believe you took him seriously" Serelina half-said, half-exclaimed. Forcing herself to not throw her hands up in frustration.
"Someone called?" a smooth familiar voice asked from her right and she looked up to see Sirius standing there with a smirk gracing his handsome, aristocrat features.
A brunette stood on his side, looking desperate to get his complete attention. She gave a tight smile to Lina, but her frown was evident.
Frowning and biting her lips in thought, Lina shook her head.
"She said seriously Black, not Sirius" Dorace told, trying to help her friend out. Knowing for sure that in her sleepy status Serelina wouldn't think of what she was telling them - had she been wide awake, or even just awake - not half awake like she was now - she'd laughed at Sirius' inquiry and said something equally dismissive. Sure, Dorace had a crush on the boy - who didn't? - But she wasn't fazed by that as she talked to Sirius. Unlike Mary, who was trying to stifle her giggles.
"Come on, Sirius. You should eat something before tryouts" the brunette besides standing beside him said in what she thought was a sultry voice, but, which only annoyed Sirius.
Rolling his eyes, he left to sit with the rest of his friends.
Just then John strolled up to the girls and squeezed himself between Lily and Lina. Earning himself a glare from the two.
Ignoring Lily's glare, he draped an arm around his little sister and leaned against Lina. "So... Qudditch tryout are today-" he started to say, but before he could finish, Serelina slammed her hands on the table and whirled around to face her brother.
"For the last time John, I'm not trying out. The next time you ask me that I swear I'll hex you to oblivion. I'm sure 'that'll' make a good impression on you new team. So for the love of Merlin. Leave. Me. ALONE!" she hissed at her brother, standing up to leave in a huff.
Boredly, John caught her wrist. "Chill, I'm not asking you to tryout," he told her nonchalantly, when she reached for her wand. This declaration left her so stunned that her hand froze half-way to her wand and she looked at John confusedly.
Taking advantage of her shocked state, he pulled her down to sit and wrapping his arm around her waist leaned his head on her shoulder.
"I want your lovely help sorting out my team" he whispered, mostly to her neck as his head was leaning on her shoulder.
"Why?" Serelina asked her brother like she couldn't be bothered with it. He looked up at her looking mock-shocked-ly. The two of them were doing a pretty good job at ignoring all the weird looks everyone passing shot them.
They were sister and brother, how awkward do you think it'd seem to anyone who looks? He had his arms wrapped around her waist and seemed - to anyone who looked - like he was coddling her.
"Because you want Gryffindor to win the house cup as well" he told her sounding highly offended.
Rolling her crystal blue eyes, she said, "Not that. What happened to, you said and I quote ' the perfect team' you and Edek worked out during summer?"
"Yeah, well, you disagreed with everyone but Potter, Black and... Who was that other guy?" he told, sheepishly smiling at her.
"Russell Twinge" Serelina sighed, rubbing her forehead.
"Practically the only old players who didn't leave school already" Lily stated, sounding somewhat amused. After all when recalling her summer to the girls, Serelina had mentioned the long talks and arguments concerning Qudditch.
"Actually Lily-flower, us (motioning to himself and Sirius) and Twinge aren't the only old players who didn't leave school" James, who had just walked up to them, informed Lily, ruffling his already messy hair.
"Yeah, Tory Scoffel and Arwen Dilt from fifth and seventh year are still in school too" Sirius added, staring at Serelina - like he was trying to figure her out.
"She doesn't like Arwen because he was flirting with her and didn't stop until she threatened to hex him" Mary informed the table, laughing lightly at the memory.
Serelina scoffed. "If I choose my team that way, I'll barely have male players on my team" she told the matter-of-factly, gracefully tossing her hair behind her shoulder. She didn't even seem to notice how many boys' eyes followed her graceful move lustfully. Something that everyone around her, but she, noticed.
"I don't think Dilt should be on the team because he shows off more than play. I mean I wouldn't care much if he shows off and actually play. Like James and Black" she went on not noticing a thing. Her voice had a no argument ring to it that the boys were all gaping at her. Even Dorace and Mary were doing it. No one beside Lily, John and James knew the extent of Lina's live for Qudditch, hence they hadn't heard her actually talk so passionately about it.
"Plus, if he had played that day on our first year, we might have won the cup. Instead of losing it to Slytherin." she finished in a huff, crossing her arms across her chest, glaring at no one in particular.
"You still remember that?" John asked his sister incredulously, while James burst out laughing.
"Lina, Lina, Lina. You really need to let go of that you know" James laughed as he flopped down on the other side of Serelina and wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
"So what do you say Li?" John asked, giving her a sweet innocent smile.
Frowning, she twisted her lips in thought.
"For chocolate cauldrons?" John quickly added with a pleading look. "And a book. Muggle."
Smiling, she said "you've got yourself a deal. I'll be down in the pitch in... 15 minutes". Then shrugging off both her brothers and James arms she got up to leave, once again, not noticing the many eyes that followed her... Until she was out of eyeshot.
"I don't get it" John stated once she was gone. "How on earth can she be so oblivious about all these boys who'd love to go out with her?"
"Easy. She just likes Moony here. She's not interested" James said with a shrug in reply to John, stuffing his mouth with food.
"Or maybe because she doesn't think like a boy and doesn't have her mind in the gutter" Lily hissed annoyed at James before storming out of the great hall too.
A/N~
Firstly, I wrote the last Chapter from Serelina's P.O.V. Since I originally wrote this from her point of view before writing in third person… I haven't changed when typing. I didn't notice this until after I published it and now I'm too bored to change it, so please don't mind this much, I'll try and change it as soon as I find the inspiration to edit. Really sorry guys.
Secondly, what do you think of this chapter. I know it wasn't all that important, but during fourthey year, nothing really happens, besides Lina getting to know the Marauders a little better, so please bare with me. and don't forget to:
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