DISCLAIMER: I DONT OWN HP CHARACTERS
Well 1stly I have a few apologies to make! 1 I am sorry there haven't been any updates for about 6 months but I have been away and unable 2 write due to a-level coursework. 2 thank you to everybody if you have given me a review but I have also been to busy to check them so I have no idea who has written and what they have written. However now I will continue but before I do I hope you all have a Happy New Year.
"Oi…Oi… Wake up…Wake…up"
Sirius opened a groggy eye. Someone was violently shaking him desperately trying to wake him from his slumber.
'Well' he thought 'Whoever it is will leave if I just ignore them…now where was i? yes...
"Thank you your majesty it is a great honour to be accepting this Quidditch world cup. I must say that it is all thanks to my best friend James Potter however he isn't Captain so thank you on behalf of the team"
A very loud burst of laughter made him jump. He looked over and saw Elle creased with laughter wiping tears from her eyes. She composed herself.
"You great prat! Why on Earth would the Queen be handing you of all people the Quidditch world cup?" saying her piece she became hysterical again.
Sirius blushed but it didn't show in the dim light of the hospital wing.
"Look you, if you don't hush up you will have Madame Walton in here and she isn't very impressed with you anyway she still hasn't forgiven you for dropping me in the hall, however I didn't mind under the circumstances" he said with a smirk
Now it was Elle's time to blush, she stopped laughing.
"Well my pet, have you come for a repeating performance?" he said as he folded his duvet in an invitation for her to join him.
Elle was not impressed; she folded her arms and supported a frown.
"Listen you just because of that little blip downstairs don't mean we are going out, it doesn't even mean we are seeing each other, I know your reputation and I will not be a fool. So pack it in Casanova." She snapped.
Sirius was hurt but he wasn't going to show it, he never did, always hiding his emotions. A thing he had to learn, a way to cope with his mother whom he detested. She only got pleasure out of his misery so from a young age he developed the art of emotion hiding, no longer was he going to give her the satisfaction of seeing him hurt or angry or even grateful, she didn't deserve it.
However this time he was finding the usually easy task very difficult. The only other time he had ever had a real problem with hiding his emotions, was the Christmas holiday in his first year at Hogwarts. He remembered it clearly, he was hoping that his mother would be impressed with his excellent results, how wrong he was, she was livid at not only his decision to return home for Christmas but how he had totally shredded the family honour by becoming a Gryffindor instead of a Slytherin. He nearly started crying at his mother's reaction to something that wasn't his fault, the rejection of her pride and love.
That was how he felt, rejected and hurt. To him the kiss meant everything, it took alto of balls for him to do it and the fact that he kissed him back just elevated his hopes that she was attracted to him, now he felt that huge balloon of hope had been deflated.
"Yeah well you don't exactly have a squeaky clean reputation either." He was going to far but it was like verbal vomit, he was unable to stop himself, emotion was taking over and clouding his brain.
"In fact your reputation is worse than mine, at least if someone liked me and told me I would be straight and either go out with them or tell them sorry but no"
"Yeah and your definition of 'going out' is kiss and get what you can, a shag with most, then as soon as they thing you really like them, you dump them when someone better comes along."
There were tears in Elle's eyes but still Sirius could not stop.
"Hey that's better then when you figure out that someone likes you. What do you do then? You lead them on and tease them till they have the courage to ask you out then you shit on them by not only saying sorry no, but by telling them that they haven't a hope in hell" somewhere in his brain someone was screaming 'STOP' 'STOP'.
Tears were streaming down her face, Elle made no attempt to wipe them nor hide them from his view.
"Do you know why I acted the way I did? Because I was so totally fucking caught up with you that I could not see black from white," Sirius's heart stopped.
"I have liked you since first year, but trying tot talk to you was like talking to a brick wall. Pointless because you weren't interested in small stupid blonde Elle, but as soon as I grew and developed breasts, that's when you started to take interest. I thought I had a chance so that's why I tried to make you insanely jealous by flirting with other boys in your presence. I see that I got your attention, but now that I know I have got it, I don't want it, you are the arrogant pig that every girl thinks you are and no more." She had stopped crying and her sadness had quickly changed to anger
"So I will tell you why I came here in the first place when I left here I went and got ready for bed and realised that Lily wasn't there, I went to the common room and found Lily and James wrapped in each others arms fast asleep. I just thought you might like to know that, but if I knew that you were going to be such an arsehole then I would not have come, oh and here you go, goodnight and tomorrow don't bother talking to me, I might just hit you for fun." She threw the night bag that James had originally intended to bring at him, it hit him square in the face, but he didn't feel it. Sirius was in shock, he wanted to stop her leaving and to give her a hug anything to stop her from leaving, but he couldn't move a muscle he couldn't even speak. He just stared after her, his mouth slightly open watching her leave and then staring into the space where she stood.
Next day James woke up with a very stiff neck, in fact he was stiff al over. He opened his eyes expecting to see the velvet bed curtains instead he saw Elle's amused but tired face.
"Afternoon Loverboy, had a nice sleep?"
It took only seconds for James to realise what she had said, he looked down to see Lily fast asleep his arm wrapped protectively round her. He smiled and didn't move in fear of waking her. Although James understood the second half of her sentence, the first half baffled him.
"What do you mean afternoon?" he said softly stroking Lily's hair
"What I say, its 2 o'clock James, you have missed all your morning lessons, so has Lily, she will flip however so it is best we let her sleep"
"Shit, was anything said? McGonagall will kill me for missing her lesson." He said with great exasperation.
Elle smiled.
"No actually she was the best one, I told her that you were exhausted after the match last night and to all of Lupin's efforts he could not wake you. I also told her that Lily was overworked and really tired and didn't wake this morning, I told her that last night I heard her in bed tossing and turning unable to sleep, so I left her to sleep. McGonagall to my surprise was ok about it and told me it was the right thing to do, especially since I handed in Lily's homework. She then exploded at the rest of the class by saying that Lily was the hardest worker, and even thought she was not there and was tired but she still managed to hand in her homework."
James smiled and planted a small kiss on top of Lily's head.
"Whatever you do don't tell her I did that, she will accuse me of taking advantage" he said with a sly smile. That disappeared on a closer inspection of Elle.
She was still smiling but it looked strained, she looked upset and tired and he noticed that her eyes were all poofy and red; she looked as if she had not slept and was crying instead.
"Elle what's the matter?" he asked
She looked like she was about to cry at being asked, her eyes welled up she turned away from him and mumbled a distinct 'nothing'
He didn't believe her and was about to press her when Lily awoke, she sat up and stretched.
"That was the best sleep I have had in ages" she mumbled smiling
Her expression changed however when she opened her eyes, she squeaked in surprise then James watched with amusement as understanding and acknowledgement crept across her face.
"Oh shit" she whispered
Lilly looked at her watched and nearly shrieked again, she jumped up from the chair. James grabbed her and pulled her down again trying to soothe her while Elle told her what had happened. She calmed a bit and even smiled when Elle told her the bit about McGonagall.
"Well just shows that hard work pays off"
"More like boredom at the fact that James wasn't around to make you laugh" added Elle, this made James laugh and Lily look bootfaced
"It's got nothing to do with that at all, its just that I thought my grades were slipping so I worked harder, that's all" Lily said in an unusually high voice
"What slipping from an A to an A?" James said still smiling
"Potter don't make me hate you!"
"Now that would be a tragedy Evans" James said leaning toward her, she pushed him away.
"I am going for a shower" she announced
"Can I join you Evans?" James asked hopefully
Lily's look answered his question.
