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Chapter 11: Cool Points

I grabbed my hat storming off in the opposite direction of him. Who does he think he is telling me I need to lighten up? The audacity of that man. I held onto the banister of the changing stair case as it flew over to the next landing that's when that stupid hat's words came back to me; letting go of my inhibitions. I didn't realize the staircase had latched to the landing until it lurched again and started going back to the landing I had just come from. I didn't regain myself in time to get off the stairs.

"Having fun?" I jumped at the voice that sounded behind me.
"I got side tracked." I said when I turned to look at him. His silver eyes were slightly bloodshot but amused nonetheless, "Are those my shoes?" I asked eyeing the black boots in his hands.

"Yeah, I noticed that you left them; I was bringing them back to you." He said stepping onto the stairs with me.

"Oh…uh, thanks." I said gripping the banister when the stairs lurched again. I reached out for the boots when I stepped onto the landing but he followed me off the stairs, "What about your party?"

He shrugged, "People are starting to pass out or leave. And plus I took some of the party with me." He pulled out a bottle of Firewhiskey from one of my boots. I chuckled and shook my head. He held the portrait hold open from me with a big smile. I walked over to the girl's stairs and he plopped onto the couch.

"Do you think I can get my shoes?" I asked with a small smirk.

"Of course." He said gallivant before pulling out the bottle of firewhiskey from my boot and tossed them to me as I walked over to him; I froze them because I wasn't prepared for them to be thrown at me.

"That will always be the coolest." Sirius said sitting up and taking a swig from the bottle. I chuckled as I grabbed the frozen boots. He went to take another swing and I shifted the boots in my hands so I could freeze the hand that was holding the firewhiskey.

"Hey, that is not cool." Sirius said, staring wide eyed at his frozen hand and the firewhiskey he couldn't get to.

"Night." I laughed and turned towards the stairs.

"Wait, you can't leave me like this." He called as I bounded up the stairs. I giggled and flicked my hand before I went around the corner. I think he could still here me laughing after I closed my bedroom door.

After I threw my stuff on the floor and changed out that atrocious costume, I plopped down on my bed with a long relaxing sigh and was hit with a great idea.

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I didn't have any classes until after lunch on Monday but I still got up early and spent an hour finding a "cool" outfit; I don't know why I fretted over what I should wear. I hurried down the hall towards the charm's classroom. The door was slightly cracked and I could hear the squeaky voice of the professor and what sounded like books crashing to the floor. I pushed the door open a little more, so I could see in; Sirius and the others were in the front of the class and the professor was running about the room trying to help everyone. I stuck just my hands into the room and flicked my wrists but nothing happened. I scrunched my brow and concentrated harder, closing my eyes to picture the room frozen. I felt a warmth spread through me as I concentrated harder and flicked my wrist.

"What the hell?" I heard a voice say in the room. It worked.

I opened my eyes to see the whole room frozen, except for one in the front of the class with his back to me but I could see him looking around the room and knew that his face was of pure shock and confusion. I stepped into the room with my hands clasped behind my back and bouncing on the balls of my feet.

"Hey." I said with the smile on my face growing bigger. He whipped around quickly and understanding slowly creeping over his face.

"Did you…" He started and I nodded, "Why?" I shrugged my shoulders, slowly regretting even going through with this spur of the moment idea.

"I-I…I was just practicing." I lied and turning on my heel back towards the door, "I'll unfreeze it."

"Wait." I didn't even know he had moved until he was grabbing me by my wrist.

"Well, since you already froze…" He said and continued passed me. I quickly followed him out of the room and once we got around the corner from the classroom I felt my hold on the room disappear. I followed him as he led us out of the castle to the grounds, to relax under a large willow tree; we were hidden from view by the large, weeping branches. He stretched out on his back and light up a cigarette.

"I'm glad you came." He said as he blew out some smoke; I felt my face blush, "Class was really boring." I felt the small amount of hope disappear.

"Yeah, well I was bored sitting around the common room." I said.

"I thought you were just practicing?" He asked with a smirk before bringing his cigarette to his lips; I bit my lip and tried to think of something to say, "I like the clothes, by the way." I just shrugged and laid on my back to stare up at the throngs of branches and birds, "You know I think that power of yours will come in handy this year." He said after putting out the butt of his cigarette; I snorted.

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School was starting to lose its edge; I still feel like I was given this great opportunity but it is starting to feel just like normal school. I don't think it helped that for most of the week I had class about every other day and usually it was just one or two classes a day.

On Wednesday, I was checking my bag to make sure I had everything I needed for potions and didn't even notice him leaning against the wall between the Boy's and Girl's staircases.

"Hey." He said as I walked by him without seeing him.

"Oh, hey." I said to him as I closed the clasp on my bag, "Aren't you going to class?"

"Yeah." Sirius said as he stepped in step with me, "I was just waiting for you. James and Remus are going to save us seats."

A nodded a response because I didn't know what else to say; he had been waiting for me and from the sounds of it he was voluntarily waiting for me. I guess I must of earned myself some major cool points the other day because it became a regular occurrence for Sirius or all of the guys to wait for me before class and invite me to "hang" with them between classes and on the weekends. I could feel them rubbing off on me.

A/n: I know it took me a really long time update; I'm so sorry but this story has my full attention now. I hope I still have my readers and reviewers. I'm going to start on the next chapter right now.