THE YOUNG LADY AND THE GENTLEMAN

The common room was empty. Everybody had gone to bed and the only sound that could be heard was that one made by the fire.

A week had gone past since Lily and James had had their amazing conversation in the library. Since then they had both been very nice with one another and there had been no more rows and arguments between them. So you could say that now they got on perfectly well with each other, although really they didn't talk much so they couldn't fight much after all. As for the rest of the students…ball-fever(as teachers used to call it)had spread all over the place. You could find giggling girls around every corner and boys were starting to think that women were far more complicated and difficult to understand than what they had thought in the first place. It was only five days till the "IT day" named like that by the gryffindor students after Lulu had said to her friends one afternoon in the common room: "You don't understand the importance of the day. It's the day, it's the moment…It's the…IT. You just don't get it." Only her friends were meant to hear that comment she had just made, but she was so ecstatic that she practically screamed it across the room and everybody there heard her. Since then it was no longer referred to as "the Christmas-ball" but as "the IT day". Nearly every girl in school had been asked to the ball by now, others hadn't and others just kept on turning down boys who summoned up all their courage to ask them. This was what happened with Camila. Some thought she was just too arrogant to go out with any of the guys that asked her and others thought that really her boyfriend was going to appear in school for the "IT day". But the one person who knew her well was sure that there was only one person to whom she would say yes to and it was all around Hogwarts that Sirius Black was going with a girl called Martha so Lily was pretty sure that Camila was planning on going by herself and having a good time both laughing with her friends and making Martha's life miserable. Lily had said yes to Nick Weston, an absolutely gorgeous guy from Ravenclaw. They had gone out on several occasions so it didn't come as a surprise to her friends when she told them he had finally asked her to the ball. What did come as a surprise to everybody was the fact that Remus Lupin had asked Lulu to be his partner. As she very proudly told her friends: "He even had the sense of humour of asking me not to the ball but to the IT. How could I say no to that?"

There was a sound coming from the stairs that led up to the girls' dormitories and a shadow started to come down. Two seconds later the figure of Camila Campbell appeared. Just as she was about to set foot in the common room a voice spoke from the darkness.

-"It's not time for a young lady to be down here and not in bed."

Camila nearly fell to the floor as she had been about to miss the last step. Not only had the voice scared her but her heart had missed one beat when she had identified the voice.

-"Then what are you doing down here too?"- she answered back.

Sirius Black laughed and got up. He just stood there, looking at Camila and deep inside admiring how pretty she was.

-"Shall I consider that an intelligent answer?"-he said.

-"Well… You may consider it an intelligent observation."-she replied

He laughed again and Camila blushed. Why did he always have to make her feel so…little? Every time they argued he made her feel like she was 13 and that was something she could not stand. He spoke again

-"You will have to excuse me but I will have to disagree."

-"Really?"

-"Yeah."

-"And why is that if, of course, I may know the answer."

-"Oh! Of course! It can't be an observation because you can't observe I'm a young lady. Since I'm not."-he added

-"Well your attitude towards many things makes me doubt it."

-"Really?"

-"Yeah."

He grinned.

-"Well I have no problem in making you doubtless."

He walked up to her until he was only one inch away from her face. Camila thought about how lucky she was at that moment that all the light they had was coming from the fire and therefore he could not see her face because she was sure he would have never seen such a red face. Despite the effort it required she managed to speak. To whisper rather…

-"That is so…so…You know? You may not be a young lady, but you're definitely not a gentleman either."

-"And that comes as a surprise to you?"

And without any warning he put his hand on her waist, drew her closer and kissed her full on the mouth. She knew she had to stop it. She knew she must have told him to go and look for his girlfriend. She knew she could have even slapped him. She knew all that and much more, but she just let the minutes go by…