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Chapter 10

Song

Granger Danger

(A very Potter Musical)

How a dress can take a mess

And make her nothing less than beautiful to me

"Guess who's here!" squeezed an annoyingly familiar voice as Specs and Taz entered their room. Specs grabbed her friend's wrist because Taz was about to run away.

"What's she doing here?" Taz hissed towards Specs who shrugged.

February was sitting on one of the tiny beds. "I've finally passed my test and they allowed me to come earlier so that I can help my best friends to get ready for their dance!"

"Best friends?" Taz mouthed and Specs shrugged again.

"I've got two lovely dresses for the two of you!" February said with an annoying giggle while she hugged the two other girls tightly.

And with that she pulled out two dresses and loads of make – up.

oooOOOooo

Up didn't know what to think anymore. He was so confused that it made him feel so strange that Taz was going to that fucking dance with this fucking bastard Junior.

Up got up from his bed and hit the wall. He knew that he had to go to that dance; he had to talk to Commander Sean. But he also knew that he couldn't bear to see Taz with Junior. Up opened the door and walked to the dancehall; there were already several students in it. He searched through the hall with his eyes – Taz was not there.

"Up, I'm glad you came," Commander Sean said and led Up to a table.

"So, what is it you wanna talk about, sir?" Up said as he sat down.

Commander Sean started to talk about something, but Up didn't listen anymore because in this moment Taz and Junior came down the stairs.

She wore a beautiful dark – red dress; black stilettos and her hair was tied back, but she didn't seem very comfortable with it. Up noticed angrily that he was not the only – one who was looking at her. Junior smiled at her, but she was staring at something no – one else could see.

oooOOOooo

Junior had tried to talk to her the whole evening. It was bad enough to dance with him, but Taz hadn't thought that she had to talk to him.

"Taz?" he asked and she had loved to punch him. But his dad was the head of the whole Galactic League what meant that he could get her fired before she'd even gone onto her first mission.

"Yeah?" Taz replied, annoyed.

"You wanna dance?"

Taz didn't respond. She was looking at Up who was returning her gaze. He seemed angry and Taz didn't understand why.

"Yes," she said eventually and forced herself to look at Junior.

He grabbed her hand and led her to the dance floor. He was a … decent dancer, to say the least.

oooOOOooo

Up had left his seat to get himself something to drink.

"Hey," he heard Taz's voice behind him.

"Hey. How's ya Date with Junior going?" Up replied without even turning around.

"Oh. Fine, I suppose," Taz said.

Up felt her hand brushing his, but he pulled it away.

"Up, is something wrong?" Taz asked softly.

"Just go back to 'Hunior'!" Up said with a pathetic adaptation of her accent.

"Jou know what? Maybe I will!" she replied angrily and walked away.

Up turned around just in time to see her grabbing Junior's hands and dragging him towards the dance floor.

That was enough for Up; he left the dance.

oooOOOooo

Just after Taz had realised that Up had gone, she said good-bye to Junior and left, too.

She didn't want to go back to her room, she didn't want to know what Specs and Krayonder were doing there. So Taz decided to go to Up's room, even though he was mad at her for some reason.

oooOOOooo

Of course she wouldn't come. She could spend the night with Junior, so why should she choose him. Taz had already chosen Junior over him.

Why did Up feel like that for her? As he had seen her coming into the dancehall he'd had a strange feeling like there were butterflies flying around in his tummy.

Suddenly he heard a knock on his door – Taz had come. Up almost ran towards the door and opened it.

"What?" he growled.

"Up, I'm sorry!" Taz said while she grabbed his wrists, "I don't know what I've done to jou, but I'm so sorry!"

Up dragged her into his room and closed the door behind her. "No, Taz, I'm sorry! You haven't done anything!" he put his hands around her face and kissed her forehead.

"Why were jou mad at me, Up?" Taz whispered, her eyes were pleading with him.

"Junior is a jerk," Up whispered and kissed her forehead again.

"I know. But no – one else asked me out," Taz replied and looked at him like there would be something that he should understand.

"Come on, let's watch 'The Karate Kid', " Up said, because if he would look in those beautiful eyes for just one second longer he was going to kiss her. And that was not what she wanted him to do.

Taz nodded and took his hands which were still holding her face.

"I'm sorry dat I went to de dance with Junior," she whispered as the two of them were lying on Up's bed and looking into the TV – screen.

"Taz, it's not your fault," Up replied even though he didn't know why he said that.

Taz didn't reply and as he looked at her face, he saw that she'd almost fallen asleep.

"You know that we leave tomorrow? And go on vacation. You need to pack tomorrow. And in case if you didn't know, down on earth is winter," he whispered into her ear.

"I've never seen snow before," Taz said sleepy and looked at him, before she buried her head into his chest.

"And now you will," Up said softly.

He saw Taz smiling slightly before she closed her eyes again. Up turned down the TV's volume and closed his eyes, eventually.

oooOOOooo

As he woke up the next morning, he saw that Taz was running around in his room.

"What ya doing?" Up growled.

"I'm packing," she replied happily.

"In my room?" he asked.

"All my stuff is in here," Taz answered as she closed her suitcase.

Up got up and started packing, too. He didn't really know what he should take with him, because at the academy the weather was always good. Taz sat on her suitcase and watched him with amusement.

"Let's go," Up said eventually and grabbed his suitcase. He'd asked her if he should carry hers, but he knew that she would hit him if he did so.

The two of them got into the drop pod and sat down on the floor.

"What's wrong?" Up asked as he looked over to Taz and saw that she had her eyes closed.

"Nothing," she replied immediately, but refused to open her eyes, "I just don't like to be in such narrow boxes, dat's all"

"You've got claustrophobia?" he asked as he took her hand.

"No – what is dat?" Taz asked.

"That is when ya afraid of narrow rooms," Up replied.

"No, I'm not afraid. I just don't like it, idiota," she said, sternly, "I'm not afraid"

He smiled as he looked out of the drop pod's window. Up was looking forward to come back to earth, he just didn't like winter. It was stupid that the summer holidays were exactly when there was winter on earth.

They didn't fall asleep at the end of this chapter :)!