Denial
Chapter 38 - Sirius, the Happy
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Time: 11:23 am. Area: the kitchen. People: Myself and Sirius.
Perhaps we were supposed to be making Christmas dinner, but who am I to resist Sirius when we are alone together, and Ruby is preoccupied.
I am Chloe, who is not one to resist Sirius, that's who I am.
Thus, I had no objections to stopping chopping up beans when Sirius's arms slowly encircled my waist, and he start to softly kiss my neck. I simply turned around, and wrapped my arms around his neck, kissing his chin in return.
"Mmm, you know what?" He mumbled.
"What?" I asked.
"I love you. So very much."
"Well, tough 'cause I don't love you." I muttered, smirking.
He gasped. "How could you? After all we've been through."
"Ok, ok, I love you." I admitted.
"All is well with the world." He said, sighing. Then we started to kiss slowly.
And I felt happy.
And that was good.
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Time: 11:45 am. Area: the hall. People: Kira and Matt (strange young man Kira picked up), and myself, peeping in from the kitchen, while Sirius tried to sort out the beans.
The scene began when the doorbell rang. Kira had answered it - I think she knew who it was, perhaps she saw his car or something - and in walked a man who seemed exactly as Kira had described him. He was very tall, probably nearing 7 foot (luckily Kira was pretty tall too, otherwise they might have looked a bit hilarious together) he had shoulder length medium-brown hair, skin which was a little lighter, and eyes which were a little darker. His face was angular, and his fingers rather long. He was wearing black jeans, ad a black jacket with a khaki green t-shirt underneath.
This was Kira's new man.
They'd met at some party a lot of us had gone to, when he'd asked her for a light. Then he introduced her to those black slash things. And she was teaching him not to smoke weed so much (that was as far as his drug habits went.) . (well apart from alcohol and caffeine, but you know, they're legal).
Anyway, she stared at him for a second (probably lovingly, but I couldn't really see) and then threw are thin arms around his neck, and he wrapped his arms around her and they hugged and rocked for a while. Then he pecked her on the lips, and she turned around, and they put their arms in more comfortable positions to wander into the front room together, at which point I darted back into the kitchen so they wouldn't know I'd been watching them.
And they were happy.
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Time: 3:06 pm. Area: front room. People: Many. Wait. nine I could list them, but you'd get bored. But I suppose the scene taking place was just Lily and James, with me watching, because it was fascinating.
James and Lily were hogging the sofa. James was sitting normally, and Lily was lying over his knee, with her legs taking up the rest of the space. James had his hand resting on her still pretty much flat stomach. They were just kind of staring at each other. That was the first fascinating thing. I was waiting for one of them to move or say something. Eventually Lily sat up on James's lap and they kissed. I decided to avert my eyes at that moment. I didn't need to see them to know what they were doing.
At least neither of them were too ugly (although possibly to someone who didn't know them too well. no, I'm joking, they're both fine).
I mean, no offence, (well, ok, there is offence in this, but I'm choosing to ignore that fact) but I wouldn't want to see Peter get off with anybody. It would just be unpleasant.
And when I looked back at Lily and James they were just sitting there holding each other. And they actually looked really sweet.
And very happy.
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Time: 5:27 pm. Area: front room. People: Ruby, James, Peter, Remus, and me.
While they others were pottering around in the kitchen, drinking wine - well, Lily wasn't - we were in the front room, playing with Ruby. She was wearing James's hat, which he had discarded earlier, and she had picked off one of the rabbits, and was stroking it, and had made an enclosure for it with various presents. James was watching her, ready to intervene if she started being cruel to it, but she was being really quite careful.
Eventually she grew bored of the rabbit, and helped it back onto the hat. Then she picked up a game that James and Lily had foolishly bought her - Kerplunk.
She ordered us all to play - I grouped with James as there were only supposed to be four players. Remus decided to lose on purpose (wisely, because Ruby would have been angry is too many people beat her), Peter wasn't very good, and, unluckily for him, had no choice but to pull out a straw with about five marbles resting on it, near the end, but me and James beat her quite easily.
I used the excuse that two heads were better than one.
Then she demanded that next time I had to be on her team.
And immediately she started to set it up again.
This game she was determined to win. She always looked really carefully for the best straw to pull out, and got annoyed when I found a better one, but I mostly let her pull them out, so she believed that she had made us win really, and she was so happy when we only had three marbles at the end, and everyone else had about fifty.
Well, James had six, but still.
She was happy. That was all that mattered.
*****
AN: That is Christmas.
There will be a time jump next chapter.
About six months.
Which isn't all that shocking.
It's just, nothing much happens in that time.
I'm just sorting out some stuff with new characters suddenly appearing out of the blue (ie. Matt) for future stuffness. But. oh well, I'm writing the next chapter already. I hope you enjoyed this one - thankyou's:
Meanmeg3, zeldagrl436, Captain Oblivious, elvencherry07, Chocolate Taco, Gryffindor-rox, freakyfroggurl22, Angel76, Aalina, magicrules
I understand that this hasn't been the longest of chapters, and not all that much happened, but it was necessary. There are about five sentences - I believe - which may help explain why, and possibly what is to come.
In a way.
Anyway, I'll toodle off now. Tata mushes!
Chapter 38 - Sirius, the Happy
*****
Time: 11:23 am. Area: the kitchen. People: Myself and Sirius.
Perhaps we were supposed to be making Christmas dinner, but who am I to resist Sirius when we are alone together, and Ruby is preoccupied.
I am Chloe, who is not one to resist Sirius, that's who I am.
Thus, I had no objections to stopping chopping up beans when Sirius's arms slowly encircled my waist, and he start to softly kiss my neck. I simply turned around, and wrapped my arms around his neck, kissing his chin in return.
"Mmm, you know what?" He mumbled.
"What?" I asked.
"I love you. So very much."
"Well, tough 'cause I don't love you." I muttered, smirking.
He gasped. "How could you? After all we've been through."
"Ok, ok, I love you." I admitted.
"All is well with the world." He said, sighing. Then we started to kiss slowly.
And I felt happy.
And that was good.
*****
Time: 11:45 am. Area: the hall. People: Kira and Matt (strange young man Kira picked up), and myself, peeping in from the kitchen, while Sirius tried to sort out the beans.
The scene began when the doorbell rang. Kira had answered it - I think she knew who it was, perhaps she saw his car or something - and in walked a man who seemed exactly as Kira had described him. He was very tall, probably nearing 7 foot (luckily Kira was pretty tall too, otherwise they might have looked a bit hilarious together) he had shoulder length medium-brown hair, skin which was a little lighter, and eyes which were a little darker. His face was angular, and his fingers rather long. He was wearing black jeans, ad a black jacket with a khaki green t-shirt underneath.
This was Kira's new man.
They'd met at some party a lot of us had gone to, when he'd asked her for a light. Then he introduced her to those black slash things. And she was teaching him not to smoke weed so much (that was as far as his drug habits went.) . (well apart from alcohol and caffeine, but you know, they're legal).
Anyway, she stared at him for a second (probably lovingly, but I couldn't really see) and then threw are thin arms around his neck, and he wrapped his arms around her and they hugged and rocked for a while. Then he pecked her on the lips, and she turned around, and they put their arms in more comfortable positions to wander into the front room together, at which point I darted back into the kitchen so they wouldn't know I'd been watching them.
And they were happy.
*****
Time: 3:06 pm. Area: front room. People: Many. Wait. nine I could list them, but you'd get bored. But I suppose the scene taking place was just Lily and James, with me watching, because it was fascinating.
James and Lily were hogging the sofa. James was sitting normally, and Lily was lying over his knee, with her legs taking up the rest of the space. James had his hand resting on her still pretty much flat stomach. They were just kind of staring at each other. That was the first fascinating thing. I was waiting for one of them to move or say something. Eventually Lily sat up on James's lap and they kissed. I decided to avert my eyes at that moment. I didn't need to see them to know what they were doing.
At least neither of them were too ugly (although possibly to someone who didn't know them too well. no, I'm joking, they're both fine).
I mean, no offence, (well, ok, there is offence in this, but I'm choosing to ignore that fact) but I wouldn't want to see Peter get off with anybody. It would just be unpleasant.
And when I looked back at Lily and James they were just sitting there holding each other. And they actually looked really sweet.
And very happy.
*****
Time: 5:27 pm. Area: front room. People: Ruby, James, Peter, Remus, and me.
While they others were pottering around in the kitchen, drinking wine - well, Lily wasn't - we were in the front room, playing with Ruby. She was wearing James's hat, which he had discarded earlier, and she had picked off one of the rabbits, and was stroking it, and had made an enclosure for it with various presents. James was watching her, ready to intervene if she started being cruel to it, but she was being really quite careful.
Eventually she grew bored of the rabbit, and helped it back onto the hat. Then she picked up a game that James and Lily had foolishly bought her - Kerplunk.
She ordered us all to play - I grouped with James as there were only supposed to be four players. Remus decided to lose on purpose (wisely, because Ruby would have been angry is too many people beat her), Peter wasn't very good, and, unluckily for him, had no choice but to pull out a straw with about five marbles resting on it, near the end, but me and James beat her quite easily.
I used the excuse that two heads were better than one.
Then she demanded that next time I had to be on her team.
And immediately she started to set it up again.
This game she was determined to win. She always looked really carefully for the best straw to pull out, and got annoyed when I found a better one, but I mostly let her pull them out, so she believed that she had made us win really, and she was so happy when we only had three marbles at the end, and everyone else had about fifty.
Well, James had six, but still.
She was happy. That was all that mattered.
*****
AN: That is Christmas.
There will be a time jump next chapter.
About six months.
Which isn't all that shocking.
It's just, nothing much happens in that time.
I'm just sorting out some stuff with new characters suddenly appearing out of the blue (ie. Matt) for future stuffness. But. oh well, I'm writing the next chapter already. I hope you enjoyed this one - thankyou's:
Meanmeg3, zeldagrl436, Captain Oblivious, elvencherry07, Chocolate Taco, Gryffindor-rox, freakyfroggurl22, Angel76, Aalina, magicrules
I understand that this hasn't been the longest of chapters, and not all that much happened, but it was necessary. There are about five sentences - I believe - which may help explain why, and possibly what is to come.
In a way.
Anyway, I'll toodle off now. Tata mushes!