Sorry for not updating sooner! But a lot of stuff's been going on...for one...guess who went to UNIVERSAL STUDIOOOS?
I'll be updating sooner nowadays that everything's calm around here.
:) enjoy!
Potions class had ended and Zoe dreaded going to meet Daniel in the library.
"He better not be there...I will kill him..." Zoe thought as she went up the stairs towards the library. She didn't see him anywhere, "He must have just gone back to the common room."
There weren't many people inside. The students usually waited a month or so before stepping foot in the library and spent the beginning of the school year catching up with friends instead, tonight Zoe was doing a little bit of both.
"Oh...you..." Zoe gritted her teeth as she saw Sirius and Daniel snickering at a table near Madame Pince's desk, she seemed to be growing irritated with the two boys.
"Hey there Hitzig," Sirius said in a whisper and motioned her to sit with them.
She tried to hold back her anger a bit and sat down in front of the pair, "What brings you here, Sirius?"
"Oh you know, studying...things," Sirius said lazily, "Daniel recognized me from the party and we were just talking about...things."
Zoe squinted at him, "Things?"
Sirius nodded innocently.
"He was telling me that you two could help me out with a bit of the homework. It's a bit overwhelming on my first day," Daniel ruffled his blonde hair.
"Two heads are better than one, right Zoe?" Sirius winked at her.
She scoffed, "You're right. Let's get started."
They spent an hour discussing Daniel's transfiguration homework before they decided to call it a night. Daniel had been put into Hufflepuff so he had gone his separate way and left Zoe alone with Sirius.
"I can't believe you're doing this!" Zoe said in an exasperated tone.
"It's for your own good, he could be a murderer!"
"You met him, does he really seem that dangerous?"
"Yeah!"
Zoe groaned, "You're insane!"
"Belladonna," Sirius said to the Fat Lady and they walked into the common room.
Lily and James were seated by a window overlooking the grounds, cuddling. Zoe and Sirius looked at each other and snuck back out.
"You need to stop being so paranoid! I was nearly killed, not YOU," Zoe poked him on the shoulder and went back into the common room.
Sirius stood there collecting his thoughts and went inside after a bit. Zoe was walking up the stairs when she noticed him coming in. She stuck her tongue out at him and disappeared. He chuckled and went to the boys dormitory. The next couple of days went by about the same way. Zoe was meeting Daniel in the library after their last class and Sirius was running out of excuses as to why he was appearing in the library every time Daniel and her were there. Zoe had even caught him spying on them from behind a bookshelf.
One day after a study session, Zoe didn't walk with Sirius back to the common room. He thought he had upset her with his most recent spying antic and let it be. But when she didn't come back after an hour, he went to go look for her. He took out the Maurader's map and tried to be as sneaky as possible since it was past curfew, nothing new for him though. He knew the school like the back of his hand and then some. He saw Filch roaming around the Great Hall, surely cleaning up the mess Peeves had made during dinner. Peeves had started a one sided food fight with the Ravenclaw table.
He finally spotted her on the seventh floor.
"What is she doing there...?" Sirius whispered aloud and went up another flight of stairs towards where the map said she was.
He looked from the map to a wall in front of him but she wasn't there. He looked around and saw nothing, "What the bloody..."
The sound of someone singing was coming from the other side of the wall. He pressed his ear next to it but didn't hear anything else. Sirius was beginning to think he was going crazy. He took out the map once more and saw Zoe's name float towards him, he stepped back and gasped as she appeared from a door that wasn't there a moment before.
They both screamed.
"What are you doing here?" Zoe said as she held her chest.
"What are YOU doing here?" Sirius shot back at her.
"Nothing," they said at the same time.
"Who's there?" A voice asked from nearby.
Sirius looked down at the map and saw that Mrs. Norris and Filch had made their way up from the Great Hall and were walking fast towards them, "Hurry!"
He grabbed Zoe by the hand and ran back down to the Gryffindor Common room. The Fat Lady wasn't too happy about being woken up so late and hesitantly opened for them. They collapsed on the sofa in front of the fireplace.
"That was a close one!" Zoe panted.
Sirius ran his hand through his long black hair, "What were you doing up there?"
Zoe sighed and smiled mischievously at him, "Promise not to tell?"
Sirius pretended to zip his mouth shut.
"Okay...well...hm...I think it's best if I just show you. How's tomorrow for you?"
"Oh come on!" Sirius playfully shook her.
"I've been dying to tell someone about it but never thought I should," she slowly got up, "Good night."
It was Saturday morning and mostly everyone had gone downstairs to eat breakfast. Zoe however had stayed behind with Sirius. She was waiting for James, Lily, and Peter to leave the common room so she could take Sirius to the seventh floor.
"It's okay, we need to finish some stuff but we'll be downstairs soon enough," Sirius called after the group.
"I'll try and save you some pumpkin juice!" Lily said as the door closed.
"Okay let's just wait a few minutes while they get downstairs," Zoe sat down at a chair and looked at the door.
"Is this a plan to assassinate me?" Sirius raised an eyebrow and leaned next to the door.
"If I wanted to kill you, I'd have done it by now," she leaned back fully and laughed to herself.
A couple minutes passed in silence and Zoe rose from her seat.
"Okay, let's go. Get your map thingy out so we can avoid trouble," she opened the door and started going up the stairs to the 7th floor.
Mostly everyone was eating breakfast so they only had a few run ins with a couple of people they knew. Sirius looked curiously at the wall he had been facing the previous night, where Zoe had appeared out of a disappearing door, She paced back and forth a couple of times looking very hard at the wall.
"It looks like your brain is about to cave in," Sirius chuckled and put away the Maurader's map.
She didn't respond, but she did stop in her tracks and a door began appearing in front of them.
"Hurry," she opened the door and waited for Sirius to get in before closing it, "ta-da!"
Sirius looked around and saw a guitar stand in the middle of the well decorated room.
"What is this?" he walked around and saw a piano, guitar, violin, and books upon books about music and musicians.
"One of the house elves in the kitchen told me about this place," she was smiling broadly as she looked around, "She said that all I had to do was think about what I wanted the room to appear as and pace back and forth three times in front of the wall. All I've ever really wanted was to play music so I basically created this."
Sirius was at a loss for words, he had never seen anything like it.
"I come here every chance I get to unwind. I don't think anyone knows about it," Zoe chuckled.
"Why'd you choose me?" Sirius stared at her.
She blushed a little bit, "You look like the kinda guy that can appreciate this kind of place. And also how else would I have been able to explain my shocking appearance out of thin air?"
"I was actually beginning to think you found a way to apparate in the school."
Zoe shook her head, "You can't."
"I know but a genius like yourself would have been able to find a way," Sirius smiled.
Zoe looked down at her watch, "Time for first period so off to class we go."
"I think I'll stay," Sirius was about to sit down when the sofa suddenly disappeared and he fell on his rear end.
Zoe smirked, "Let's GO!"
Sirius dropped off Zoe at her class and headed to his right after. He didn't pay much attention but James was kind enough to write down notes for the both of them. Afterwards, they ran into Lily and Zoe once more.
"Where did you two run off this morning? We missed you at breakfast," Lily asked.
"We went to the library to find a book on...dragons for...Sirius' class," Zoe kept glancing at Sirius to get him to help her but he just looked away every time, smiling at her failed attempt at lying.
"Daniel was asking about you, Zoe," Lily nudged her.
She turned bright pink, "Well, we still have that study session today so I'm sure he'll tell me why there."
Sirius hushed them all and pointed towards a chubby man and woman kissing in the hall, they recognized them right away.
"So Peter wasn't lying after all," James waved his arms over his head, "HEY PETER!"
The girl he was kissing looked at James with a horrified look on her face, Peter turned red. Fenix took him by the arm and dragged him away out of view.
As soon as classes ended, Zoe waited at the library for Daniel. She sat in silence until someone approached her.
"Do you have a minute?" she recognized the voice to be Snape's.
Zoe hesitated, "Sure."
"Have you talked to Dumbledore at all?" his hair was greasier than usual.
"I...haven't had the chance to," she didn't look at him as she spoke, "I'll talk to him soon though."
He sneered, "You better make it as soon as possible, Zoe. You know this is a time sensitive thing."
"I know," she cleared her throat, "I'll contact you as soon as I do. Can you please leave? I'm expecting someone."
He didn't say goodbye, he just simply walked away.
Daniel appeared as soon as Severus was out the door, with a big grin on his face.
"I have good news," he set his bag down, "I was looking for you this morning but you weren't at breakfast."
Zoe smiled, "Caught up with some homework. So what's the good news?"
Daniel reached into his bag and pulled out a paper.
"You aced the quiz! Told you studying would pay off," Zoe looked over the paper and patted him on the back.
"And to celebrate this miraculous achievement, I'd like to invite you to come with me to Hogsmeade next week."
Zoe grinned, "Sure!"
"It's a date," Daniel blurted out, "Uhh...if you wanna call it that...I mean it's not a date...umm."
The rest of the study session went on awkwardly, not in a bad way.
Lily laughed when Zoe told her about Daniel's date idea, "Aw, he's a cutie, I'll give you that. So when is it?"
"Next Hogsmeade visit," Zoe couldn't help but smile broadly.
"Who's going to Hogsmeade?" Lupin asked as he stepped into the common room with Sirius and James trailing after him.
"Zoe and..." Lily was about to say before Zoe covered her mouth with her hand.
"No one, no one's going here," she gave a nervous chuckle and took her hand back from Lily's mouth.
"Where were you all?" Lily got up and kissed James on the cheek.
Lupin looked at James and then at Sirius, "Nowhere."
Zoe narrowed her eyes at Lupin, "Are you sure? Cause it looks to me like you were somewhere."
"How so?" James fidgeted with his robe, trying to be inconspicuous.
"There are tree leaves on all of your heads," Zoe stood and took a leaf out of James' hair.
Remus checked his own hair, "We were just...doing our homework?"
Sirius nodded, "Yeah, we got bored of being in here so we did our homework outside."
Lily leered at James, "Where were you?"
"Uh fine," James caved.
Remus and Sirius groaned.
"We were trying to practice a spell on the Whomping Willow," James shrugged, "That's all."
Lily's eyes grew big, "You could have gotten yourself killed!"
James chuckled, "Oh Lily, I'm fine though. It was just a bit of practice for a test."
Lily seemed to calm down at the mention of a test, "It better have been, James."
Zoe slumped back into her chair and shook her head. She knew James was lying but funnily enough Lily didn't, even though she spent most of her time with him. Sirius lightly kicked her chair and motioned to her to go out of the common room with him. They excused themselves and left.
"What were you guys actualy doing out there?" Zoe squinted at Sirius.
"That's what I was going to tell you. We were finishing up our maintenance to go into the Shrieking Shack. Last time Remus and James did a real number on the tunnel when Remus tried to go back into the school in werewolf form. Luckily, we stopped him in time."
Zoe nodded, "And what else?"
"We might have gone into the Forbidden Forest. And also may have found an amazing new place for hanging out," Sirius winked at her.
"I, for one, do not want to be attacked by centaurs. Also, I already have my own spot," Zoe smiled.
Lupin fumbled out of the common room, "Lily would like to speak with you, Zoe. She went to the dormitory."
Zoe went back inside to meet with Lily.
"So, how'd it go?" Lupin asked.
"She doesn't hate me, but I didn't get a chance to say what I needed to say thanks to you," Sirius punched Lupin's arm.
Lupin sighed, "Ah well, there's plenty of more chances."
They walked back inside only to be pushed out of the way by an angry Zoe. The door slammed behind her. Lily ran down to catch up to her.
"What's going on?" Lupin asked a perplexed looking James.
"I don't know," James answered.
All three of them waited for the girls' return well past midnight. Lily was the first to walk in, looking exhausted, and Zoe came in a couple of minutes later.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Sirius whispered to her.
Zoe shook her head no, "I'll be going to bed. Good night."
Lily stayed behind.
"What was that all about?" James asked.
"Uh...hmm...she received a letter from her mother...letting her know that she'd be accepted back if she joined them...in...you know...they're planning on doing something big." Lily looked slightly nervous as she finished.
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