Denial
Chapter twenty-five - Sirius, the Neglecter of the Inevitable
*****
The afternoon of the ball I returned to Hogwarts (freaky) and spent the afternoon, back where I belonged (Gryffindor Tower), preparing for a spectacular ball, where my Prince Charming would whisk me away from the crapness that is life. Then again it's a two out of three chance that I'm one of the ugly sisters. Hey-ho, I'm sure I'll survive. At least I'll have a lot of money.
What they hell am I talking about?
Anyway, back on the subject of the ball, I was ..... dateless! Yes, it's true. I, the beautiful Chloe Stone, had no date for the evening. Shocking, no?
I would have gone with any of the guy type people, but no such luck. James, and Lily were going together (two years and STILL going out, how do they do it?). Sirius was going with his girlfriend (the one he..... neglected to tell me he had), Remus had been asked by Holly, when Sirius couldn't go with her (and he'd agreed for some foolish reason), and Kira and Peter were going together, because neither of them had dates, and they both lived in Hogwarts, and I didn't.
It sucked really. But at least it meant I didn't have to stick with one person (hehe, slut Chloe emerges from the deep). It was just a question of finding someone to dance with in the first place. Why are there so few people in each year? Answer me that! I may have to dance with Kira.
Two hours before the ball me, Kira, and Lily all started getting ready in their dormitory (now they only had Mya and Ellissa for company. Hah!). Shortly we were joined by none other than..... Mya and Ellissa!
"Should we do hair and make-up first? Or dresses?" Lily asked.
"Well, if we do hair first we might mess it up when we put the robes on." I said.
"But, if we do dresses first they'll probabl;y get messed up." Kira pointed out.
"Yeees. Slight difficulty, that." Lily said, stroking her chin.
"She has an imaginary beard." Kira whispered to me, "I think she picked the habbit up off James."
"James has a beard?" I asked.
"He has an imaginary one too." Kira replied, still whispering.
"Were you talking about me?" Lily asked, taking out her make-up.
"Not at all." Kira said, smoothly.
"So what's the 'hot goss'?" She asked, placing a hand on her hip.
"Well, I heard," Kira began, gathering us into a ring, "that Lily and James, were..... sleeping together!"
"Oh my god! Really?" Lily said, stepping back in mock surprise.
"Yeah. There are rumours all over the school about the size of James's you know what."
"Well, you wanna know what I've heard?" Lily said, joining us again, "Three inches." We laughed for a while before Lily said, "So, what if we do make-up, dress robes, then hair. That way we should avoid as much messing up as possible."
"Good plan." I said, before going over to Lily's bedside table and inspecting the make-up on there. There were three eyeshadow boxes (among others) that caught my eye. Same make, and content, except one was pink, one was blue, and one was brown. "Ok, why don't we do, me brown, Lily blue, and Kira pink." I suggested, positioning each container so it was on the edge of the table by the respective person.
"What about that way round?" Lily said, switching the pink and blue.
"I don't know." I said, "Kira should have pink to go with her dress."
"Good point." Lily said, switching them back.
"But you can have pink as well if you want. I can be the odd one out... AGAIN."
"Good good." Said Lily, putting the pink in the middle of her and Kira, and the blue back with the other stuff. "And if it doesn't work out we can remove it and change it. We have plenty of time for errors."
"Bon idée." I said, taking Lily's arm, and pulling her across the room, along with a chair, to sit her down in the middle. "Right." I said, "You don't get to look until we've finished."
"Oh, but I want to." She whined in a baby voice.
"But it spoils the fun." I said.
"Fine, see if I care." She said, crossing her arms.
Pink and white eye shadow, shiny pink lip gloss, mascara, eyeliner, and foundation. She looked pretty good, if I do say so myself. Of course Kira helped *cough* did most of it *cough*.
I was next, and when I looked in the mirror I saw they'd managed to somehow entwine gothicicity, and easterness, to make me this kind of..... weird, but cool person. Looked better once I had the dress on.
Kira we did with light pink eyeshadow, a light blush, very glossy lipgloss, and general other things. Yeah. Another work of genious.
Hair was just as good. I straightened Lily's, she made mine wavy (hair trade), and Kira had some darker brown dye which we used to make her into a brunette.
And then with our beautiful dresses on we would obviously be the belles of the ball. Or the better-looking Gryffindor girls at least. Mya and Ellissa? Pfff. We were much better than them. They were just in a state of denial. God. Some people.
We left the common room at 8 o'clock (when the ball was supposed to start. Fasionably late, of course). We entered the hall where music was already playing gently, and looked around for the boys. As soon as Lily caught site of James she rushed over, exclaiming over his robes, and good he looked in them. Sirius was standing next to him, holding the hand of his girlfriend (Jessica Simmons, sixth year Gryffindor). She had a rather stunning red dress on, which contrasted greatly with Sirius's simple black robe.
"You look great, all of you." He said. "Like the hair." He grinned and fingered a piece of hair which was swept across my face. I smiled at Jessica politely (I'd never liked sixth years. Not that they'd ever been sixth years before. Last I'd heard they were still fourth years. Suppose that's what come of leaving school). "Is Ruby still fine?" Sirius asked.
"God, Sirius, it's been a week. And I would have told you if she wasn't."
"Ruby?" Jessica asked, raising her eyebrows at Sirius slightly. I grinned.
"What an honest relationship you have Sirius!" I said brightly.
Sirius rolled his eyes at Jessica, "I told you about Ruby. I told you it was Chloe." He said, smiling.
"Oh," she said, "Yeah. God, my memory's terrible." She shook her head. "Wanna dance, Sirius?" She asked.
"Sure." He said, linking arms with her.
"Dance with me later?" I said challengingly.
"Oooooooo." Sirius said thinking. "I may be fully booked, let me check my diary." He paused for a while, thinking, "Yeah, I think I can squeaze one in there, later, all right?"
"Fine." I said, smirking. So full of himself. He took Jessica over to the dance floor, winking at me. I resisted the urge to yell "You haven't got her pregnant as well, have you?" I turned back to Kira, Peter and Remus (Lily and James had disappeared somewhere). "How long have they been together?" I asked, curiously.
"Um..... like six months." Kira said, looking guilty.
"You didn't tell me?" I asked, deflating.
"We were hoping it wouldn't come up." She said, looking down at the floor. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey-ho. Life will go on, I'm sure." I said. "Remus, care for a dance while you wait for your date?"
"Sure." He said, glancing at the door.
"Don't worry, I'll give you up as soon as she comes in." I said, as we began to waltz.
Soon whoever-Remus's-girlfriend-was appeared, and I returned to the edge with Peter and Kira. They were sitting, talking, and drinking stuff.
"Who's going to come with me while I get a drink?" I asked. "No one? Fine, see if I care." I walked round the edge of the hall, looking at all the little fairies lighting it up, till I reached the drinks table. Sirius was dancing nearby with Jessica. I stared at them with what could have been jealousy, and returned to the table to drink my glass of wine.
After at least an hour of talking with Kira, and Peter, and watching people dance I got rather bored, and rather jealous of everyone dancing with people when I wasn't, and because all these people still knew each other, and went to school together, and hadn't just got thrown out two years ago. I almost hated Sirius, but I couldn't find it in me. He was still dancing with Jessica. How can you dance with someone for one hour solid? Eventually they went over to get drinks, and then headed back towards us.
"I promised you a dance, my dear lady." Sirius said, pulling out a seat for Jessica to sit on.
"Oui, Monsieur" I said, standing up and taking his offered hand to follow him onto the dance floor. Luckily for me (but not Jessica, I'm sure) it was a slow song. I put my arms round his neck, and he put his on my hips. We grinned at each other before starting to move round in a small circle. I felt kind of sad. This was badly reminding me of when we had been going out. I stared into space, just above his head (or should I say, spikes).
"You alright, Chloe?" He asked. I shrugged.
"Yeah."
"Oh." He said, drawing me into a hug, but continueing to dance. "Remind you of the old times?" He asked, in a mock-husky voice in my ear. I giggled.
"Kind of." I said, now smiling. He rubbed my back, then drew back again.
"You're sad because Sirius Black is just so sexy, and attractive, and perfet in everyway-"
"That's me." I interrupted.
"Let me finish." He said, "Yes, I'm so sexy, attractive, and perfect, but not as perfect as you," he added quickly, "That you can't bare to be apart from me."
"Dream on." I said, norrowing my eyes. The song finished shortly, and we returned to our table, Sirius for more dancing, and I for another hour's boredom.
Yes, so another hour's bordom later, when I was going to get my fouth drink, I noticed Sirius and Jessica nearby. They were standing in an alcove in the wall. I saw Sirius fumble for something in his pocket, before kneeling down, and taking out a small box. He opened it, and I could see something shining inside, before Jessica gasped. Sirius mouthed something: "Will you marry me?"
*****
AN:Hi.
Well it was YOU who chose eight.
Now you have the consequences.
And I want my slushie (mmm slushie) it's tuesday.
And that review was hilarious, Elfin Child.
Anyway, otherwise my comment to most reviews is basically "All in good time, people, all in good time."
Bye.
(not spell checked).
Chapter twenty-five - Sirius, the Neglecter of the Inevitable
*****
The afternoon of the ball I returned to Hogwarts (freaky) and spent the afternoon, back where I belonged (Gryffindor Tower), preparing for a spectacular ball, where my Prince Charming would whisk me away from the crapness that is life. Then again it's a two out of three chance that I'm one of the ugly sisters. Hey-ho, I'm sure I'll survive. At least I'll have a lot of money.
What they hell am I talking about?
Anyway, back on the subject of the ball, I was ..... dateless! Yes, it's true. I, the beautiful Chloe Stone, had no date for the evening. Shocking, no?
I would have gone with any of the guy type people, but no such luck. James, and Lily were going together (two years and STILL going out, how do they do it?). Sirius was going with his girlfriend (the one he..... neglected to tell me he had), Remus had been asked by Holly, when Sirius couldn't go with her (and he'd agreed for some foolish reason), and Kira and Peter were going together, because neither of them had dates, and they both lived in Hogwarts, and I didn't.
It sucked really. But at least it meant I didn't have to stick with one person (hehe, slut Chloe emerges from the deep). It was just a question of finding someone to dance with in the first place. Why are there so few people in each year? Answer me that! I may have to dance with Kira.
Two hours before the ball me, Kira, and Lily all started getting ready in their dormitory (now they only had Mya and Ellissa for company. Hah!). Shortly we were joined by none other than..... Mya and Ellissa!
"Should we do hair and make-up first? Or dresses?" Lily asked.
"Well, if we do hair first we might mess it up when we put the robes on." I said.
"But, if we do dresses first they'll probabl;y get messed up." Kira pointed out.
"Yeees. Slight difficulty, that." Lily said, stroking her chin.
"She has an imaginary beard." Kira whispered to me, "I think she picked the habbit up off James."
"James has a beard?" I asked.
"He has an imaginary one too." Kira replied, still whispering.
"Were you talking about me?" Lily asked, taking out her make-up.
"Not at all." Kira said, smoothly.
"So what's the 'hot goss'?" She asked, placing a hand on her hip.
"Well, I heard," Kira began, gathering us into a ring, "that Lily and James, were..... sleeping together!"
"Oh my god! Really?" Lily said, stepping back in mock surprise.
"Yeah. There are rumours all over the school about the size of James's you know what."
"Well, you wanna know what I've heard?" Lily said, joining us again, "Three inches." We laughed for a while before Lily said, "So, what if we do make-up, dress robes, then hair. That way we should avoid as much messing up as possible."
"Good plan." I said, before going over to Lily's bedside table and inspecting the make-up on there. There were three eyeshadow boxes (among others) that caught my eye. Same make, and content, except one was pink, one was blue, and one was brown. "Ok, why don't we do, me brown, Lily blue, and Kira pink." I suggested, positioning each container so it was on the edge of the table by the respective person.
"What about that way round?" Lily said, switching the pink and blue.
"I don't know." I said, "Kira should have pink to go with her dress."
"Good point." Lily said, switching them back.
"But you can have pink as well if you want. I can be the odd one out... AGAIN."
"Good good." Said Lily, putting the pink in the middle of her and Kira, and the blue back with the other stuff. "And if it doesn't work out we can remove it and change it. We have plenty of time for errors."
"Bon idée." I said, taking Lily's arm, and pulling her across the room, along with a chair, to sit her down in the middle. "Right." I said, "You don't get to look until we've finished."
"Oh, but I want to." She whined in a baby voice.
"But it spoils the fun." I said.
"Fine, see if I care." She said, crossing her arms.
Pink and white eye shadow, shiny pink lip gloss, mascara, eyeliner, and foundation. She looked pretty good, if I do say so myself. Of course Kira helped *cough* did most of it *cough*.
I was next, and when I looked in the mirror I saw they'd managed to somehow entwine gothicicity, and easterness, to make me this kind of..... weird, but cool person. Looked better once I had the dress on.
Kira we did with light pink eyeshadow, a light blush, very glossy lipgloss, and general other things. Yeah. Another work of genious.
Hair was just as good. I straightened Lily's, she made mine wavy (hair trade), and Kira had some darker brown dye which we used to make her into a brunette.
And then with our beautiful dresses on we would obviously be the belles of the ball. Or the better-looking Gryffindor girls at least. Mya and Ellissa? Pfff. We were much better than them. They were just in a state of denial. God. Some people.
We left the common room at 8 o'clock (when the ball was supposed to start. Fasionably late, of course). We entered the hall where music was already playing gently, and looked around for the boys. As soon as Lily caught site of James she rushed over, exclaiming over his robes, and good he looked in them. Sirius was standing next to him, holding the hand of his girlfriend (Jessica Simmons, sixth year Gryffindor). She had a rather stunning red dress on, which contrasted greatly with Sirius's simple black robe.
"You look great, all of you." He said. "Like the hair." He grinned and fingered a piece of hair which was swept across my face. I smiled at Jessica politely (I'd never liked sixth years. Not that they'd ever been sixth years before. Last I'd heard they were still fourth years. Suppose that's what come of leaving school). "Is Ruby still fine?" Sirius asked.
"God, Sirius, it's been a week. And I would have told you if she wasn't."
"Ruby?" Jessica asked, raising her eyebrows at Sirius slightly. I grinned.
"What an honest relationship you have Sirius!" I said brightly.
Sirius rolled his eyes at Jessica, "I told you about Ruby. I told you it was Chloe." He said, smiling.
"Oh," she said, "Yeah. God, my memory's terrible." She shook her head. "Wanna dance, Sirius?" She asked.
"Sure." He said, linking arms with her.
"Dance with me later?" I said challengingly.
"Oooooooo." Sirius said thinking. "I may be fully booked, let me check my diary." He paused for a while, thinking, "Yeah, I think I can squeaze one in there, later, all right?"
"Fine." I said, smirking. So full of himself. He took Jessica over to the dance floor, winking at me. I resisted the urge to yell "You haven't got her pregnant as well, have you?" I turned back to Kira, Peter and Remus (Lily and James had disappeared somewhere). "How long have they been together?" I asked, curiously.
"Um..... like six months." Kira said, looking guilty.
"You didn't tell me?" I asked, deflating.
"We were hoping it wouldn't come up." She said, looking down at the floor. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey-ho. Life will go on, I'm sure." I said. "Remus, care for a dance while you wait for your date?"
"Sure." He said, glancing at the door.
"Don't worry, I'll give you up as soon as she comes in." I said, as we began to waltz.
Soon whoever-Remus's-girlfriend-was appeared, and I returned to the edge with Peter and Kira. They were sitting, talking, and drinking stuff.
"Who's going to come with me while I get a drink?" I asked. "No one? Fine, see if I care." I walked round the edge of the hall, looking at all the little fairies lighting it up, till I reached the drinks table. Sirius was dancing nearby with Jessica. I stared at them with what could have been jealousy, and returned to the table to drink my glass of wine.
After at least an hour of talking with Kira, and Peter, and watching people dance I got rather bored, and rather jealous of everyone dancing with people when I wasn't, and because all these people still knew each other, and went to school together, and hadn't just got thrown out two years ago. I almost hated Sirius, but I couldn't find it in me. He was still dancing with Jessica. How can you dance with someone for one hour solid? Eventually they went over to get drinks, and then headed back towards us.
"I promised you a dance, my dear lady." Sirius said, pulling out a seat for Jessica to sit on.
"Oui, Monsieur" I said, standing up and taking his offered hand to follow him onto the dance floor. Luckily for me (but not Jessica, I'm sure) it was a slow song. I put my arms round his neck, and he put his on my hips. We grinned at each other before starting to move round in a small circle. I felt kind of sad. This was badly reminding me of when we had been going out. I stared into space, just above his head (or should I say, spikes).
"You alright, Chloe?" He asked. I shrugged.
"Yeah."
"Oh." He said, drawing me into a hug, but continueing to dance. "Remind you of the old times?" He asked, in a mock-husky voice in my ear. I giggled.
"Kind of." I said, now smiling. He rubbed my back, then drew back again.
"You're sad because Sirius Black is just so sexy, and attractive, and perfet in everyway-"
"That's me." I interrupted.
"Let me finish." He said, "Yes, I'm so sexy, attractive, and perfect, but not as perfect as you," he added quickly, "That you can't bare to be apart from me."
"Dream on." I said, norrowing my eyes. The song finished shortly, and we returned to our table, Sirius for more dancing, and I for another hour's boredom.
Yes, so another hour's bordom later, when I was going to get my fouth drink, I noticed Sirius and Jessica nearby. They were standing in an alcove in the wall. I saw Sirius fumble for something in his pocket, before kneeling down, and taking out a small box. He opened it, and I could see something shining inside, before Jessica gasped. Sirius mouthed something: "Will you marry me?"
*****
AN:Hi.
Well it was YOU who chose eight.
Now you have the consequences.
And I want my slushie (mmm slushie) it's tuesday.
And that review was hilarious, Elfin Child.
Anyway, otherwise my comment to most reviews is basically "All in good time, people, all in good time."
Bye.
(not spell checked).