A/N- Haha I had to leave it off as a cliffhanger! I haven't really done that yet. Anyways I know you guys are not reading this, but I am having fun just babbling in here…Anyways umm…thanks for the reviews! I got six last Chapter, which fit because it was Chapter six…anyways I know you don't care about this so on with the story…
Chapter 7- What The Hell, Mate?
We were just standing unaware that we had stopped our dance, and I was staring at her. I couldn't stop she was just so beautiful. And I knew that the unmasking was about to begin, so without thinking about it for too long I decided what I had to do. I tilted her head back to look into those bright baby blue eyes, and then all of the sudden we were kissing. It started out innocent enough, but then it suddenly got very passionate very quickly. My hands fell from her face down her arms and landed on the middle of her back. Holding her close. Then I felt her hands running through my hair and I couldn't stifle the moan that formed in my throat. It just felt so right.
I pulled her closer to me, she needed to be closer, and I could feel the smile that was forming on her lips. And I knew that I had to stop. I was never one for stopping, but she had to know who I was before I completely snogged her. I pulled away and whispered her name, looking at the ground. I knew that my mask fell off sometime during that kiss and I was afraid of what she would say. I took a deep breath and looked up into those beautiful eyes and saw her smile. She muttered my name and then we were at it again.
As soon as our lips touched this time, I felt like I was electrocuted, but in a good way. This serge of something filled up inside me and I knew that I needed her. I had snogged a lot of girls but I never felt like this while doing it. I wrapped my arms tightly around her waist, never wanting to let go.
Suddenly she pulled back and grabbed my hand. I was still in a sense of bewilderment as she led me to the back of the party and down a hallway. We stopped before one of the rooms and she opened it and led me over to the bed. But I knew I had to say something. Again normally I wouldn't object, but she was more than someone to just fool around with and I had to let her know. "Marissa, I can't do this." I said looking at my feet.
Marissa turned around to look at the first boy she had every really had feelings for. Sure there were the guys she snogged at Hogwarts, but something was different this time. He wasn't just another good snog and she had wanted to prove that to him. She looked at him intently and noticed that his cheeks were a little red, and he suddenly found his shoes very interesting.
"Sirius," Breathe she told herself, just breathe, you need to say this. "It's not what you're thinking. I don't shag someone after we just snogged for the first time ten minutes ago. I know my reputation at school, but it's not true. I may have snogged a lot of guys, but this…this is different." She finished and looked down embarrassed by the random tears that formed in her eyes.
Sirius just stood there for a minute. At least he knew that she didn't bring him up here just for a shag, but then why did she? Slowly he walked over to her, but she still wasn't looking at him, so he put his arms around her waist and said, "Marissa, I didn't mean that, I just…I don't know. This is different for me too. I've never…I…I just don't want to mess this up. I like you, and I don't want to be just another guy."
Marissa was still looking at the floor when Sirius finished, so he tilted her chin up at him with his finger and then he saw the tears. He felt something catch in his throat as he saw the silent tear fall down her cheek. He kissed it away before kissing Marissa hesitantly on her lips. But this hesitant kiss soon turned into something much deeper. Soon Sirius was sitting on the bed with Marissa on his lap. They were still continuing their kiss, when the door was opened with such force that it hit the wall and closed again. The noise startled the two teenagers, and Marissa jumped up rather pink in the cheeks as Sirius fell onto the floor very ungracefully.
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Peter and Stephanie were really getting at it back downstairs. Stephanie was in Peter's lap, when the door was rudely thrown open.
And none other than James Potter strode in there, with a petite little red head in tow. "…need to talk."
"About what? I have nothing…" At this point the little redhead stopped her rant because, there was Peter Pettigrew lip locked with the blonde she had meet earlier. "Peter?"
At the mention of his name Peter gave a little jolt, which would have put poor Stephanie on the floor, if it weren't for Peter's arms around her waist holding her so tightly.
"Peter? That's all you have to say?" James said before turning around and looking right at Peter. "Oh," he said before he noticed that there was someone in his lap. "Peter, who is that? What is she doing in your lap? Where you snogging her?" He said incredulously, looking back and forth between the two of them.
"Umm, kind of." Peter said looking down at his shoes beat red.
"Kind of? How do you kind of snog someone?"
"Well, he did and he is bloody good at it." Stephanie said, finally joining this conversation.
"What? Who is this? Is this that Steph girl you have been talking about since…ow!" James looked over at Lily who had just hit him upside the head. "What was that for?"
"That was for, 'You need to bloody shut up!'" Lily spat back.
"Yeah, this is Stephanie. Not to be rude, but can you leave now?" Peter said looking James straight in the eye. But all James had time to do was wink before Lily dragged him out of the room.
"So where were we?" Steph asked as she turned back to Peter. Instead of answering her though, Peter just smiled and kissed her with all he had.
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Lily was gliding across the dance floor while trying to figure out who this mystery man was. "Are you going to tell me who you are or do I have to keep guessing?"
"I think that you should guess." He said smiling back at her.
"Ugh, fine. Let's see. You aren't in Slytherin or Hufflepuff. So are you in Gryffindor?"
"No, I am not a Gryffindor."
"Are you still at school?"
"Haha, yes I am still at school, however I am a year ahead of you."
Ok, so he is a sixth year Ravenclaw. Who do I know that is a sixth year Ravenclaw? "Umm, so if you're a sixth year Ravenclaw, then you have to be either Amos, Brian, Jake, or John, and since John is dancing with Jackie, and Brian is dating Becky. Your either Amos or Jake, but Amos is shorter than you, and Jake is blonde. So I'm confused."
"Just because I am dating Becky doesn't mean that I can't dance with a beautiful girl." Brian said as he leaned down to kiss her. But Lily backed away.
"What the bloody hell do you think your doing?" Lily shrieked. "Your freaking dating Becky! You can't go around and try to kiss other girls! What's wrong with you?" She screamed as she tried to back away from him, but he wouldn't let her. He tried to pull her closer, but Lily just slapped him and turned to run away. She had gotten as far as the hallway before a muscular arm grabbed her around her waist and pulled her back. She immediately recoiled when the object touched her stomach and she doubled over, trying to hide her pitiful stomach from view. She really hated it when people touched her stomach.
Lily spun around to face not Brian, but Potter. "What do you want Potter?" she spat. 'I cannot deal with this right now. I just want to go curl up in Jackie's room. Brian was not supposed to be Brian he was supposed to be ...someone else.' Lily thought as she looked into Potter's chocolate eyes.
"What do I want? I want to know what you were doing dancing with Brian! He has a girlfriend you know! I never took you for a girl who would throw herself at a bloke who had a girl!"
"I never threw myself at him! And besides I didn't know who it was! I thought…I thought he was someone else." She finished quietly looking down at her shoes, she was having a hard time admitting it but she wished it had been Potter who she had been dancing with.
"You…you didn't know who he was and you were still dancing with him?" Potter yelled furiously. 'Ok cool it. Merlin, this is not supposed to be happening. I was supposed to dance with Evans. I was the one who should have been holding her close. I was the one who would try to kiss her at midnight. But that stupid Brian ruined it.' His blood boiled as he thought about Brian. He had a girl; he shouldn't be messing with his. Well, technically she wasn't his yet. But she would be. He knew that it wasn't Lily's fault. She honestly didn't know whom she had been dancing with, but the thought of Lily dancing with that bloke made him want to punch something. That should have been him!
"I thought I knew who he was but evidently I was wrong. What's it to you anyways?" She spat back, looking up at him with hard eyes. But once her emerald eyes met his chocolate eyes, her façade started to fade. For a quick instant her eyes lost their cold edge, but only for a moment. And the chocolate eyes didn't miss it. He looked at the emeralds, stunned at the emotion that had flashed in them.
"I…I…I think we need to talk." He said as he opened one of the doors in the hallway. 'Maybe she actually does like me. There was something in her eyes that said she did. Ugh, why do girls have to be so freaking complicated?'
"About what? I have nothing…" And the emerald eyes cut off her rant as she noticed that they had just stumbled in upon a snog session. She was about to leave, when she realized that she knew them. "Peter?"
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Jackie just smiled as she spun around on the dance floor. She was experiencing a moment of bliss and she didn't want to let go. John was just too funny. Her face burned from laughing so much but she didn't care. The smile she was wearing had been on her face all night, but it didn't matter because John was wearing an identical one.
John stared at Jackie and he couldn't keep the smile from stretching across his face. She was just perfect. She was a tough girl. She wasn't a sissy, she could stand up for herself, and she did. She was an amazing friend, she was brilliant, and she had a wicked smile. All of these were things that he loved about her, but most of all he had to love that she was Jackie. She was the girl who would help him pull pranks on Dan. She was the girl that he taught to fly three years ago. Wow, she had changed a lot in those three years. John could not take the smile of off his face as he stared into her dark eyes. They were almost black and they made her eyes look haunted, like they held a secret, they were beautiful.
Jackie and John had to be staring in each other's eyes for at least five minutes before Jackie realized that John was thinking the same thing that she was. And so without a second thought she reached up and pecked John on his cheek. As she pulled back John just looked at her quizzically, afraid that she had misread him, her eyes immediately dropped to the floor. But soon she felt John's hand leave hers as he grabbed her face and tilted it up towards him again. He stared into the mysterious eyes that he loved so much before planting one on Jackie's lips.
Jackie just stood there shocked. The man of her dreams had just kissed her! Sure she had kissed his cheek first, but it didn't matter when it came to how she felt about this kiss, their first. As soon as the initial shock had worn off, she realized that she had just stood there. On impulse she took her hands that were dangling at her sides and threw them up around John's neck holding his face closer to hers. And John reacted immediately sliding his arms around her waist and holding her as close to him as he could.
Before either of them knew what was happening they were walking backwards through the hallway, they still hadn't broken their kiss. John turned to open a door and Jackie, not realizing what he was doing, pushed him against it with such force that the door hit the wall, and shut again. The door smacked John in the back, efficiently ending their snog session. "What the?" John said as he turned to look at the door that most likely gave him a bruise.
"Are you okay?" Jackie asked as she rubbed his back, feeling bad that a door just slammed into him because she had thrust him up against it.
"I am now." He said with a wicked grin as he pulled Jackie closer to him.
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"What the bloody hell was that?" Sirius' muffled voice came from the floor. Marissa looked down at him and laughed. His bum was high in the air, and his arms were sprawled out underneath his body. She couldn't help it, he just looked like a jumbled up mess. Sirius managed to untangle himself and roll over, glaring up at Marissa. "It's not funny! That bloody hurt."
"Oh quit your complaining!" Marissa said looking down at him with a trace of a smirk on her face.
"Your gonna get it." He whispered as he inconspicuously hooked his leg around her ankle and pulled so she landed on top of him.
"Hey!" Marissa shouted not liking the fact that she was suddenly rushing towards the floor, but this thought quickly left her head as she realized just how close they were. "Hey." She said again although much quieter. She stared into his gray eyes for a moment before continuing what they were doing up on the bed. A moment later, the door was thrown open once again, but this time it didn't close. Marissa rolled over off of Sirius to look into the eyes of her best friend.
"Jackie?" She shouted from the floor, causing Jackie and this mystery guy to jump apart. Apparently they had not noticed that the room they had stumbled upon was already occupied.
"Marissa? What are you doing here? On the floor? With Sirius?" Jackie stumbled out, looking anxiously between the two of them waiting for an explanation.
"What are you doing? And who is that?" Marissa called back as she attempted and failed to stand up. Her bell skirt was making it almost impossible to get up. Luckily Sirius noticed this, so he leaned down and pulled Marissa up so she could continue her rant while the two guys just stood there and looked back and forth awkwardly.
"This is John. And don't change the subject! WE were talking about how I just caught you on the floor! With Sirius!" Jackie said, her eyes looked like they were about to pop out of her head.
"Hey what's wrong with me?" Sirius said from his spot on the bed. Confused as to why Jackie was saying his name as if it was revolting.
"I wasn't talking to you." Jackie snapped as she turned back to Marissa. "I know I always stand up for them when Lily goes off on them, but there is a line and you just crossed it." Grabbing John's arm the two left leaving an even more confused Sirius and a bemused Marissa behind.
"What was that about?" Sirius said after awhile looking at Marissa expectantly, but she just walked out of the room with out so much as looking at him.
Sirius sat on the bed for a few more minutes before he realized that Marissa wasn't coming back and he wasn't getting an explanation. He left the room in search of his friends. 'Maybe they can make sense of this' he thought as he walked down the hallway and back to what he thought was the party.
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After their confrontation with Peter and Stephanie, Lily decided it was safer to just talk in the hallway, lest they run into another snogging couple in one of the rooms. Lily noticed that there was definite muscle under his robes. Her hand could feel the indents from the muscles on his arm. 'I wonder how strong he actually is…' Lily thought as she pictured him shirtless. In her mind his biceps were practically bursting and his abs were nice and hard, maybe even a six-pack… 'NO!' she interrupted her own fantasy, 'You do NOT fancy James Potter. You do NOT think of him shirtless!' she scolded herself. She was determined that no one would know what thoughts had just popped into her head as she turned and looked at Potter. But as soon as she saw his eyes, and the look when she removed her hand caused a blush to spread across her cheeks. "What is so important that we need to talk about?" She said harshly, hoping he didn't notice that her cheeks were getting very red, as she could not keep her thought away from how Quidditch did his body some good.
"What's with the blushing Evans? Fantasizing about me again?" He asked with a smirk, completely ignoring her question.
'Oh Merlin,' Lily though as she looked back at Potter, but this time she was ready. "Ha!" she snorted. "As if I would ever do that! Now just tell me what you had to so I can leave." Lily finished in what she hoped was a convincing voice. It sure wouldn't do her any good if Potter knew what she was actually thinking. 'Ahh!' She gasped as her hand flew down to her stomach. It always happened at the worst of times. It knew that she had messed up. It knew that it would be punished.
"Lily? What's wrong?" Potter asked with god-forbid, concern in his eyes. He had apparently had noticed Lily's gasp and sudden clutching of her stomach.
"Nothing!" she shouted back, cursing herself for not holding her composure. "Now just bloody tell me what is so damn important!"
"Wow Evans, never took you for a foul mouth." He smirked as he looked at Lily's cold face.
"I don't have time for this." Lily said as she started to walk back to the party, but that damn muscular arm held her back once more. She flinch involuntarily as the hand touched her stomach, it was extremely sensitive now that it knew what was going to happen once she was alone. But once again this did not go unnoticed by James.
"Lily are you sure there's nothing wrong? Are you feeling okay?" He said as his hand tentatively touched her stomach again.
"I'm fine except that YOU KEEP BLOODY TOUCHING ME!" Lily shouted as she turned to leave and ran smack into Sirius. "Out of my way!" She yelled as a shocked Sirius stepped out of the way to let a livid Lily storm back to the party. Luckily she didn't hear Sirius chuckling as she left, otherwise there would have been serious damage done.
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Sirius had been walking down the hallway for a few minutes before he started to hear voices. 'Good that means I went the right way.' But as Sirius turned the corner he stopped dead in his tracks. He had reached a dead end, and there were two people there, arguing. He started to back away, but then they turned and he realized that it was Lily, and his best mate. So he started to walk over to them, but before he could say anything he heard "YOU KEEP BLOODY TOUCHING ME!" and a very irritated Lily started to head his way. He was shocked from this outburst and didn't comprehend that she was heading for him until she walked right into him. "Out of my way!" she screamed once she got her balance back. Hesitantly Sirius stepped to the side, knowing not to push her once she reached this point. He shuddered as he remembered the last time he did that. He had not been able to sit comfortably for a few days after her spell had hit him. He turned to look at James and chuckled at the look of astonishment on his face.
"I think she doesn't want you to touch her Prongs" Sirius said with a smirk on his face. James however, ignored him.
"What is it with that girl?" James said as he stared at the spot that Lily had been standing a few moments before.
"You're telling me! Get this. Marissa and I were in one of these rooms having a pretty good snog, when Jackie walked in on us and said something about 'crossing the line' and she just left! No explanation! And I haven't seen her since!" Sirius said, looking at James, hoping he could make some sense of it.
"Wait…you snogged Marissa? Man, if Remus got some then I will be the only one who didn't!" James said.
"What are you talking about? Do you mean Peter actually…" Sirius started, but was cut off by James nodding his head and saying,
"Yup, he and that Steph girl from Ravenclaw, she's a year below us."
"Wow." And with that James and Sirius made their way back to the party rather slowly. Sirius was still trying to figure out why Jackie had said they were 'crossing a line'. And James was too occupied with his thoughts as to why Lily was masking her pain, and why she was in pain in the first place.
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As Lily stormed off from her confrontation with James, she went up the stairs, instead of back down to the party where everyone was leaving since it was over in a few minutes. Lily didn't slow down all the way up the stairs and down the corridor to her room. As soon as she entered the room she locked the door and collapsed onto her bed. She thought back to the party that she had once looked forward to with regret. This was supposed to be her night to have fun with her friends. But once again she had found away to screw it up. Somehow she always did, no matter what it was she always managed to ruin it in one way or another. Lily sat on her bed with cold eyes as she realized that she needed to be punished. For dancing with Brian, for wanting him to be Potter, for allowing herself to think about Potter, for letting that stupid blush get on her face, and for almost letting him find out her biggest secret. Each of these things caused a burning sensation to erupt from her stomach. When she was done she collapsed onto the bed in exhaustion. Every time it got worse, but she had to do it, she had messed up so she had to be punished.
A/N- Wow that was a lot of fluff mixed with some seriousness at the end. That was 3,922 words! Not counting my Author's Notes holy crap! And it only took me FOUR days to write! I was inspired by my homecoming and a conversation I had with my one friend! When I am stuck on James I think what he would do. And the whole being concerned in the middle of the argument is so him! Okay anyways back to the story. I'm not sure what exactly to have for Chapter 8 yet so it could take me a few days since I have to come up with a plot and I have a Bio test, and a history paper due soon so I will not really be able to write…sorry, but if you review I will be more motivated to write in between studying!
To answer last Chapter's poll,
Food- Juicy Lucy (it's a cheese-filled hamburger)
Color- Green
Sport- Softball! (To watch would have to be either Steelers or Buckeyes in football, but college Softball my heart is for OSU!)
Chapter 8's Poll-
Favorite Song?
