Chapter 7: Stay Away From Me
A/N:
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See I promised faster updates! Well here is chapter seven.
I was sitting at the library alone making a head start on the homework for the upcoming week. It was one of those extremely dull Sundays were everyone stayed inside the castle. Some studied, some slept in and some pulled pranks like there was no tomorrow. Of course the last one mentioned only refers to the one and only Marauders. This morning they placed paste inside the shoes of every Slytherin in our year and during the afternoon they stole Severus' trousers. I have no idea how they did that one but poor Severus doesn't deserve any of that.
Lily placed her Transfiguration book gently on top of the table and sat next to me. I looked up from my book and gave her a quick smile.
"Hello, Gracie," she told me.
"Hi Lils."
I picked up my quill and continued to write my essay from Transfiguration. I felt eyes on me. Feeling slightly annoyed I looked up to find the emerald eyes of Lily Evans. Her glare scared me. Lily was almost never mad at anyone but James Potter.
"When were you planning on telling me you spent the night with someone?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"I-I – Lily I didn't! I can explain to you what happened!" I said.
"Please do explain," Lily said.
"Well –" i began. I couldn't tell Lily about why I ran away from the Great Hall. No one could know. By the way this wasn't a huge deal. I was just feeling a little confused and I knew that my thoughts would clear in no time. "Sirius and I got into another er... argument and well I became very frustrated with him and his immature behavior. I walked out from the Great Hall and sat at the Grand Staircase for a moment. Before I knew it, I had fallen asleep there so Sirius was kind enough of taking me somewhere safe. His dormitory."
Lily nodded as I told her my explanation for not sleeping in my own bed last night. I felt horrible lying to Lily but I knew I was doing the right thing. I knew that if I told her she would probably think I like Sirius or something. Which is far from true because I like Craig not Sirius.
"Explain to me this, Grace. Why did our hero Sirius Black got you in his bed instead of waking you and telling you to go to your own dormitory?"
Wait – That's true. Why didn't he just wake me and tell me to go to bed? Was this his way of getting me in his bed? I suddenly felt like such a fool. I even thanked him.
"Hmph I'm going to go. Going to see if I find Sirius," I told Lily as I began to pack my things.
"Sirius Black."
Sirius, Remus, James and Peter were sitting down on the floor at the common room. It wasn't hard to find Sirius. Sirius was anywhere James, Remus and Peter were and they were anywhere were food or girls were. The common was filled of gossiping Gryffindor girls on Sundays so of course they were here.
Sirius looked up and met with my eyes. "Gracie," he grinned. "Something wrong?"
"Uh kind of. I need to talk to you about something," I said.
The confusion was clear in his light eyes before he got up on his feet and walked towards me. We sat on some chairs that were slightly separated from everyone else at the common room. I looked up at him to find him looking at me with curiosity.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" I asked with annoyance.
"What?"
"The day of the dance! Why didn't you wake me? I know you were just looking for a reason for me to stay in your bed – "
"Grace! No! God do you think I'm some sort of rapist or something?" he said. I opened my mouth to respond but he quickly added, "Don't answer that."
"Grace I tried to wake you. Believe me I did try for a while but you wouldn't wake up. You can't feel anything when you sleep you know that?" he said.
"Well... it's always very hard to wake me..."
"Well now you know why."
I nodded as I said, "Yeah," softly.
I felt kind of bad for accusing Sirius of trying to get me in his bed but anyone that knew him like I do and knew his reputation would have thought the same thing. Sirius looked very annoyed at the moment and I didn't understand why exactly.
"Sirius, what's wrong?" I wanted to know.
"Nothing," he responded rudely.
"No. Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me damn it!" I told him.
"Fine! Well I don't know what to do with you, Grace! I do something wrong and you yell at me, curse at me and do spells on me! I do something right or at least that I thought was right, you still yell at me and throw a fit at me! What the hell do you want me to do?!" he told me frustrated.
I was a little surprised with his response. I was waiting for him to tell me one of his usual selfish reasons but he wanted to do something that wouldn't bother me. He didn't want to be a bother in my life.
"Well why don't you stay away from me?"
He locked eyes with me for a moment before he sighed and walked away. I turned around to watch him go upstairs ignoring the calls from James.
"Hello Grace," Craig said.
I sat down next to him at The Great Hall as he gave me a quick smile. I pinched a piece of bread and placed it in my mouth. Then, I placed some turkey on my plate to eat. Craig had apologized for disappearing for a moment with his Slytherin friends. He had been worried because he couldn't find me. I told him I had gone upstairs because I was tired. Never mentioned anything about Sirius and the fact that he kissed me and I slept at his bed that night.
"How was your day?" he asked.
"It was fine," I shrugged. "And yours?"
"Good. I haven't seen you all day. What have you been doing?"
"I studied for a while at the library, hung out with Lily and Rose for a while and I spoke to Sirius –"
"Sirius?" he asked. "As in Sirius Black?"
"He's the only Sirius I know," I told him.
"Uh didn't you hate him?"
"I do!" I said.
"Then why were you speaking to him?"
"Because I wanted to clear some stuff up!" I said.
"Oh. Okay then."
We fell into silence as we ate. Craig then turned to me and gave me a shy smile as he asked, "Did you hear about the Hogsmade trip?"
"Yes I did! It's this weekend right?"
"That's right," he said. "Gracie would you go with me? As in... a date?"
I looked up to meet with his blue eyes and smiled. I nodded and watched as his smile grew.
"I really like you, Gracie," he said as he leaned in kissed my cheek lightly. I smiled and he grinned as he got up and walked toward the doors.
Rose, Lily, Craig and I were sitting down at the Common Room. Craig was playing with my fingers as we heard Lily tell us about something "exciting" that had happened to her after lunch today. Craig had now begun to caress the back of my hand and a smile crept at my rosy lips.
"Evans!"
I looked up to see James Potter walking toward Lily. Lily had stopped talking and gave James a annoyed look because he had interrupted her story. Remus said hello to everyone and then began to chat with Rose. Peter and Sirius stood next to me and Craig. My eyes met with Sirius' silver eyes that were glued to my hand that Craig was holding. I suddenly felt rather uncomfortable with Craig holding my hand. I pulled my hand and pretended to fix my hair. My eyes locked with Sirius for a moment before he looked down and walked away with Peter.
I watched as he walked away and sat down at some chairs with Peter. Peter was talking to him now and he was listening intently. I felt slightly bad for being harsh with him earlier about him leaving me alone. He had only helped me but it's not like I needed his help. Sirius smiled at Peter, got up and joined a 5th year redhead with deep blue eyes in a far corner of the Common Room.
While everyone else was listening to Lily's and James' argument I stared ahead to Sirius and the redhead. She smiled and giggled as Sirius spoke to her. Sirius met my eyes for a moment and grinned before he leaned in a pressed his lips against the redhead girl.
A/N:
HAHA. Hmph well there it was! I noticed how easy it is to write about Sirius/Grace... and how hard writing about Craig is.
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