Disclaimer: I still do not own HP.
A/N: Here's the next chapter! Hope you all like it! - Casper
Despite the fact that the truce, or newfound friendship, or whatever it was that James and I had was about 15 minutes old; the silence between us on the walk to the Gryffindor common room wasn't awkward at all. We were walking up the staircases when a thought hit me.
"Ohh!"
James looked at me.
"What?"
I slyly looked at him and smirked. His eyes got really wide and he took a step away from me.
"Oh no, I know that look. Iz has that look. But yours is creepier. I don't want to know."
"But don't you think that Iz and Fred would be super cute together?"
He sighed "Oh thank goodness that's what your grin was about. Well of course, I've thought that for years. They're so stubborn."
"But now you've got me on your side. It's also close to Christmas which means mistletoe…"
He smiled.
"You know Katherine, I think this whole truce thing is going to work just fine."
We walked into the Gryffindor common room and the whole room fell silent when they saw me. James quickly stepped in.
"Oi, nothing to see here. It's not like you lot haven't seen her here before. Now isn't this supposed to be a party?"
I smiled gratefully at him, I wasn't in the mood to answer the questions that would've come. We saw Iz and walked over to her, pulling Fred over when we saw him. Iz looked up at me and smiled.
"Hey! I'm glad you came. How are you?"
"I'm okay. I definitely feel better now."
"I recognize that shirt." Fred chimed in thoughtfully. He continued to look at me until his eyes lit up.
"I've got it. The Holyhead Harpies. Aunt Ginny gave that to James. He loves that shirt, he's never even let Lily borrow that , and she steals his shirts all the time. And wait are those his pants too?!"
Iz got really wide eyed at Fred's announcement and quickly looked at my outfit.
I looked at James and he looked really sheepish.
"Why didn't you tell me this was a favorite shirt. I could've worn what I had!"
"It was soaked from the showers. It's really not a big deal. You needed a shirt. I had a shirt." I could tell that he really didn't want to talk about it so I ended the conversation.
"So Iz, got anything to drink?" She gave me the 'we'll talk about this later' look but obliged with my change of subject.
"Yeah there's some butterbeer over here."
I just looked at her. "Butterbeer really?"
She rolled her eyes "Fine, I'll go grab the firewhiskey. Just please refrain from snogging everybody here this time."
"I didn't snog everybody! We were playing spin the quill. The purpose of the game is to kiss people!"
She ignored me but left to go get me the firewhiskey. Fred was talking to a friend so I leaned up and whispered in James' ear.
"So they're preoccupied. Here's some mistletoe I snagged on the way in. It's already enchanted so just get them both underneath it."
He nodded and took the mistletoe out of my hand.
James and I spent the next half hour trying to figure out how to get them both under the mistletoe. I ended up dancing with Fred, James with Iz and then we shoved them at each other in a switch partner move and they ended up together under the mistletoe. They ended up awkwardly dancing for a few minutes but when they went to leave they both rebounded and fell into each other. I then decided to help the poor confused souls.
"Oh dear, it seems you've stumbled underneath some mistletoe Iz."
She looked up and then glared at me but the look on her face turned into an astonished one when James walked up next to me and we bumped fists. I just waved my hands in a 'get on with it' motion. They both leaned towards each other and touched their lips together. After about a minute I looked at James.
"Do you think they know a peck would've worked?"
"Who cares. This worked didn't it?"
I was stopped from answering when Iz walked up to us. When I noticed that Fred and her were holding hands I almost squealed.
"Don't even start." She warned.
I just looked at her all innocently but shooed the two of them away. They spent the rest of the night together holding hands and talking. Our work now finished, James and I proceeded to start a tournament of drinking games.
I woke up the next morning on a couch with an arm around my waist and my head tucked into the crook of somebody's arm. I manage to turn around and saw Fred and Iz sitting together talking. When they saw me shift they both smirked.
"Good morning sleeping beauty." Fred joked.
I groaned. "Oh please stop speaking so loudly."
Iz laughed as she handed me a potion.
"I'm not surprised. You and James were pretty smashed last night."
I quickly downed the potion, not an easy task lying the way I was. "So I'm assuming that's whose arm is around my waist."
I was proven correct when James just wrapped his arm tighter around me and tucked his head into my arm.
"Katherine. Please stop speaking. My head hurts. Go back to bed."
I put my hand out to Iz and she placed another hangover draught in it. I shoved it into James' hand.
"James, drink this." I then proceeded to whisper in his ear "Also, we've slept together. You should call me Kat."
He almost choked on the potion and I fell off the sofa laughing. He glared at me.
"Oh I'll get you for that one."
I smirked back and taunted him.
"I'm sure you'll try."
