"SO…want to tell me what the fuck happened earlier?" Emma turned to the group as she finished fastening her bra, and began pulling on her short sequined party dress. Something always matched with the girl's dresses, there was always a theme and this party it was sequins.
"Oh guys, Gracie didn't tell you then?" The sound in Maddie's voice was hard to describe; it was dripping with a harsh sarcasm with an undertone of complete hatred with a forced happiness. " My dear old sister is sleeping with my boyfriend"
"Ex-boyfriend Madds. Come on, you need to talk to him." Grace knew that Maddie was quickly falling into a state of depression. She needed to be reminded of the reality that Sirius, no matter how much they loved each other, was truly her ex. "I'm not defending him babe, but come on. You don't even know if he's happy."
"He's with Riley. There is no happiness there. She is never happy. Ya know I've been looking forward to this party for a while and I'm not going to let them ruin it. How bout we drop it and finish getting ready." The girls knew that when Maddie wanted to end a conversation it ended. Maddie pulled on her golden dress and quickly started rummaging through her trunk for her shoes.
" We need to discuss rules for the night guys." Allie gave up on trying to zipper the back to her pink dress and walked over to Grace. She was referring to the rules of the game that they played at every party. They decided on a set of rules such as only one hookup or at least three hookups, at least thee shots consecutively, a table dance… and the person who did the most rules was the winner. This also stopped the girls from doing anything that they didn't want to do in the beginning of the night such as going off with an ugly stranger who seemed gorgeous to them at the time. They were not allowed to go over or they would lose, and the girls were very competitive.
Grace was the first one done as always, dressed in her black BCBG dress, and happily zipped up her best friend.
"How bout the rules tonight…are that there are no rules. Let's change things up a bit, just be ourselves and go crazy. We could all use it right?" Grace shocked the rest of the room with this idea. She was usually the most conservative of the group, and that was saying something.
"Perfect dear" Maddie needed a pick-me-up, a night to go wild and was glad that her friend had seen it. "I propose a toast."
Maddie picked up the second bottle of wine that had been sitting next to her ignored, while she finished her first bottle as she got ready. The rest of the girls raised their glasses filled with various amounts and looked towards the stunning beauty.
" To you all, the only family I have ever known…may we all get fucked up tonight" The girls downed their drinks and roared with laughter, glad to see that their friend was going to be able to fake a good night. They were the only ones who needed to know how upset she was.
In the Hufflepuff sixth year girls dormitory things were not going as smoothly. The girls had not planned on attending and therefore had nothing to wear. There was only about an hour left until the party and the girls had still not decided on an outfit when a third year came up to the room.
"Hey Riles? There's someone outside who wants to see you."
"Yeah okay I'll be right there." Riley wasn't certain, but she was almost sure that Sirius was waiting for her outside the Hufflepuff common room. She didn't want to get her hopes up to much, so she tried to convince herself that it was a student looking for a tutor.
"Riley, you can't be serious. We're going to be late." Jessica snarled deep from within her suitcase.
"Five minutes Jess, and then I'll devote myself to making you look gorgeous okay?" Riley walked out the door and down the stairs through the common room portrait to see none other than Sirius Black on the other side.
"Hel…" Riley was cut of by Sirius' lips pressed firmly against hers. "Black what are you doing, what if someone sees. What if they tell Maddie?" Riley looked around frightfully.
"Shhh. Baby, she knows. It's fine. Gracie and James talked to her. Everything is going to work out. She's even bringing a date to the party. I just wanted to come make sure you were still coming"
"She knows?" Riley questioned Sirius, but when he nodded she couldn't help but be a little relieved and worried at the same time. "Alright, well that takes care of that then. Yeah we're coming. We're just getting ready now. Meet you there?"
"Nah I'll come get you. How about an hour? Is that long enough?" Sirius wanted everyone to know that this was his new girl, that he was not still stuck on her sister.
"yeah sounds good." Riley couldn't help but be worried. She had never had a serious boyfriend before, especially not one of Sirius' stature. She hoped that she could keep up with his party boy ways. "Now all I have to do is tell Jess."
"Ha good luck. I'll see you soon" Sirius leaned in for one last kiss and took off to get ready for his party.
Jess turned on Riley the second she walked in the room. "So who was it?"
"My boyfriend, I think." She still wasn't sure what their relationship would be defined as. "Black…Sirius Black"
"Get out!" Keira and Chloe both had looks of complete astonishment on their faces while Jess simply looked pissed off.
"Why didn't you tell us" Chloe jumped onto Riley's bed and demanded the details, and she shared. They talked about the letters and meeting over the summer and the kissing, a lot about the kissing. By the time they were ready for the party the group was all up to speed.
"Well I hope that it works out for you, but have you thought about your sister." Jess couldn't believe that Riley had struck such a low-blow. She wasn't upset, just surprised. Riles was usually the one talking Jess and Keira out of doing such upsetting things.
"Yeah, she knows. I guess this just means we'll have to see more of them, or at least I'll have to." Riley hadn't thought about the fact that she was going to have to face her sister and her friends tonight, but the thought of being there with Sirius blew all concerns out of her mind.
"Well as long as you've thought about it, I say screw her and love hard baby girl." Keira jumped up and gave her friend a hug and the girls finished getting ready.
The Debs, minus Riley who was waiting for Sirius, left their common room at ten of 9 wanting to make sure they didn't miss a second of the party. When they arrived to the prefects common room however they noticed that the party hadn't even started. The only person in the room was Remus, who rolled his eyes as soon as the girls walked in with their barley there outfits.
"Remmy dear is the party cancelled?" Jessica batted her eyes and put on a pout that looked more like she had drank a glass of sour milk than cute.
"Ah, no Jess it's only nine. People usually don't show up right when the party starts." Remus hadn't meant to be rude he just wasn't in the mood to deal with the girls' bullshit right now. He knew that tonight was not going to go over well with the two groups there, but all he cared about was that he had tracked Ellie down after the feast and she had agreed to accompany him to the party and would be waiting for him in about an hour.
"Yeah well we just wanted to get her before the others did Remus, so that there wasn't a chance of us coming at the same time. You know avoid confrontation." Keira had pulled the excuse out of her ass and hoped to Merlin that it worked.
Remus was saved from answering when half of the upper-class Gryffindors came through the portrait door ready to party. Remus was thankful when he saw that James was part of the group and quickly excused himself from the girls so that he could go talk to him before Jess caught sight of James.
"Ahh Moony my dear sir." James raised his glass to Remus before taking a quick sip.
"Things seem to be off to a great start eh?"
Glancing around the room Remus saw that James was right. The party had just barley started but people were already drinking, dancing, and socializing. Ravenclaw had a killer DJ who was a second year and was always willing to DJ for free as long as it included an invite for a couple of his friends.
"Yeah Prongs, but listen mate I sure hope you knew what you were doing when you invited Chloe and them. Lily and the girls aren't even here yet and I can already feel the tension.
"It'll be fine. Emma will keep them all under control, and hopefully Keira will do the same over there. As long as they don't bring us into it and don't ruin the party, they can do or say whatever they want." James knew that the boys were obviously going to be brought into it but hoped that maybe saying it out loud would send up a quick little idea to the people above to try to avoid the inevitable.
"Yeah James, you keep hoping that's how it's gonna work out." Remus laughed and patted his friend on the back. "I'm going to go get a drink you want a refill?"
"Nah I'm all set for now, any idea on when Lils is gonna get here? Or Sirius?"
"No idea on the girls, and Sirius went to go meet up with Riley so hopefully they just don't all come at the same time."
James eyes widened. "Why would you even voice that. Go and knock on wood, or spin around three times or something. That can't happen Lupin. It can't. My life depends on that not happening."
"James relax. I'll go hurry the girls along, alright? Where is Peter? Just send him to go get Sirius." Remus looked around for the little rat but couldn't find him anywhere.
James knew that Peter was off somewhere trying to find a girl to bring to the party and instead just pulled out his wand and sent a Patrounus to Sirius saying that the girls were going to be arriving soon, and to hurry up.
The silvery stag made it's way down the stairs and around the twists and turns of Hogwarts corridors until it stopped at Sirius who was standing with Riley outside of the Hufflepuff Common Room's portrait. They both listened and agreed that it was time to get going.
"You look beautiful by the way." Sirius grabbed her hand and started to rub his thumb over the back of it. Riley, who was wearing a light blue dress that accented her blue eyes, blushed and thanked him with a quick kiss on the cheek.
"So you're sure that my sister is ok with this Sirius because a fight with them is not something I need right now." Riley hated that she was as afraid of her sister and her friends as she was, but she knew that they were powerful in more ways than one.
"Stop worrying about them, babe. Just have a good time tonight. Focus on me and your friends not Madds and hers. I'm sure they'll be too drunk by the time they get there to even notice you guys. You've never been to this party, things tend to get a little outta hand trust me you'll be fine."
Riley rested her head against Sirius's shoulder as they walked up to the Prefect's common room. He gave her one last kiss on the forehead before pushing the door open.
"Ah may I announce the presence of Sirius and his fair lady Madeline" James' drunken voice carried over the crowd. He quickly appeared out of no where and placed a kiss on Riley's hand and patted Sirius on the back.
"James you ignorant toerag this isn't Maddie it's…." Sirius was cut off by a seductive voice behind him.
" Riley everyone, my dear sister.." Riley had turned the color of the Gryffindor hangings on the wall as Maddie and her friends entered the portrait hole. Madeline walked up to Riley and looked her up and down before placing a kiss on her cheek that Riley thought was going to burn straight through her flesh. Standing next to her sister always made Riley feel inadequate; Maddie never had to try very hard to look stunning. Riley however had to try to completely drag down her look, then beautify it.
"Ah you seem to be right, my mistake. Carry on people. I'm sure these beautiful ladies will be willing to talk to you all soon, and all you fellas may want to be drunk by the time they do so that you can atleast blame something on the fact that you will most likely look life fools." James downed his drink as if nothing had happened and went on to find the house elf who was acting as bartender.
The party around him though had stopped. The girls had never arrived at a party sober, and seemed to have kept up the tradition. They had more fun drinking alone than with others and this way no matter what they did they could blame it on being drunk. A few of the boys whistled, although none of them cared, they knew they looked better than any of the girls in the room and didn't need a few catcalls to tell them so. They quickly gave one another a kiss on the cheek and agreed to meet in a half hour to check in.
"You look amazing as usual." James had quickly made his way back over to Lily and Emma offering them both a drink, while Grace and Allie made their way to Remus, and Maddie to the bar.
" Why thank you James, but shouldn't you be commenting on Lily's outfit and not mine?" Emma had to laugh at the look on James' face.
"She's kidding Potter, relax. You look pretty good yourself, I see you can clean up nicely." Lily allowed herself to look James up and down. She couldn't deny that he looked hot with his shirt unbuttoned at the top and his tie undone, and couldn't help scowling when he nervously ran his hand through his hopeless hair.
"Oh shit." Emma cut Lily's thoughts and she quickly looked up to see the problem, and noticed it at once. Maddie was at the bar allowing anyone with a drink the opportunity to do body shots off of her. Normally this wouldn't have been a problem except the girls knew that her date was coming, and he probably would not be happy.
Emma grabbed Lily and both took off for the bar but were beat by a very angry looking Andrew Covington who tossed an over excited and in turn very unsuspecting Hufflepuff fourth year off of his dates stomach.
"Madeline what the fuck do you think your doing." Andrew didn't yell at Madeline but that was what worried Lily. His voice was dangerously low and his eyes were glowing with anger. Madeline did not make things any better when she simply looked up at Andrew, laughed a little bit and told him that she was "just trying to have a good time." Andrew ripped Maddie off of the bar and dragged her into the bathroom.
" You are nothing but a God damn embarrassment you know that Madeline."
" Well I'm sorry dear for upsetting you and your moral superiority but I was trying to have a good time at a party that you seemed to be taking your sweet time getting to. You don't leave me waiting Andrew, or I get unhappy. So as far as I'm concerned you can shut the fuck up or leave."
"What leave and have you fuck everything that moves. You being a slut doesn't just affect you anymore Madeline. You are with me now, and that means that you do as I say. You may not give a damn about your reputation but I give a damn about mine and from now on I don't care if I have to handcuff you to my side, your not acting like this anymore."
"Ohhh handcuffs, darling I didn't know you were into that. Can I recommend the pink fluffy ones, they don't leave marks." The party going on outside the bathroom which had stopped to listen to the fight in the bathroom could not help but to laugh at Madeline's way of handling things until they heard a loud smack come from behind the closed door.
"Not so funny now are you, you dumb drunk slut. Let's go your out of here, go say good-bye to your friends."
Everyone had heard the loud smack and looked at one another, and as Maddie and Andrew exited the bathroom and went right towards the door everyone was too stunned to move.
"What the fuck was she doing with Covington?" James turned on Lily and she was sure that the steam that was boiling inside of him was going to soon spill out of his ears.
"James, honestly, no idea." Lily was truly at a loss for words. Andrew was a seventh year Slytherin, and yes he was hot and had the typical bad- boy persona which everyone knew Maddie loved, but he was in with the wrong crowd. It was no secret that he fancied the Dark Arts and that he and his friends called each other "Death Eaters.
"The fuck?" Emma, Grace, and Allie had made their way over to Lily and James. "She tell anyone she was bringing him"
"Me and Allie had no idea, Em. Lily doesn't look like she knew either. Should we try to find her?" Gracie was concerned. Maddie had a mouth when she was drunk, and Andrew had a reputation for having a wild temper.
"I'm going to find her and kick her ass." James was pissed. "I mean the kid just fucking smacked her across the face and she allowed him to drag her out of here. I know she's upset guys, but really.
"James, she's a big girl who can handle herself." Lily placed a calming hand on James' shoulder. "Let's just keep having a good time. Please James."
James had to listen to the girls, they did know her best and if they weren't concerned then he shouldn't be either. He did however exchange a quick look filled with hate towards Sirius, who he knew was avoiding his gaze.