Chapter Nine: Finding Less and Sirius
"We're waiting," said Saraan dreamily. "Just until every thing calms down. Then we're getting married." She sighed.
"I can't believe we're getting married!" Less said for about the 1000th time.
"Believe it." I giggled. "So Maxis who do you want to marry?"
Less coughed, "Ben."
"Hush." Said Saraan.
"Ben" she went again.
"Shut up." I laughed
Maxis looked at us, "No one," She said. "Except for Ben."
"I knew it." Said Less smugly.
"Where're Sirius and Less?" Remus asked me one night.
I looked around the common room.
"They're not in here." I said.
I ran up to the dorm room, to look for Less. She wasn't there but my Monopoly game was out.
"Where'd that come from?" I asked my self. I folded it up and put it away.
"Have you seen them at all?" I asked James.
"They're probably out running in the woods." He said.
"They've been gone for over six hours."
"Six hours?" James repeated. "Now I'm worried."
"I hope they haven't gotten themselves into to much trouble." I said.
"Knowing those two they're probably in more than too much trouble."
That night I went bed extremely worried, Sirius and Less weren't back yet. I must have been nervous for them because I kept swearing I heard squeaks coming from somewhere in the room.
The next day they still weren't back, and we were now really worried; afraid they were dead or something like that. They didn't turn up for the whole day. Nothing exploded or flooded or even smelled, so every one else knew they were missing. Except for the teachers, they seemed oblivious to the whole thing; and they usually weren't that stupid. Later I ran up to the dorm to check to see if Less was back, and she wasn't. I heard more squeaks and this time some music. I looked around the room carefully trying to see if maybe we had a rat problem. The sounds led me over to my cabinet where I kept books and my Games. I opened it up and saw bright lights coming from the Monopoly game. I jumped back, shocked. Then I stepped forward to pick it up and see what was happening. Taking the game out I could see a party going on around the board. I put my finger on the start square and I was transferred down into the game.
The place looked like Las Vegas.
There was music, and lights all around. Hotels and casinos had sprung up as if over night. People were milling the streets as if it were a normal city and not just a game. I walked towards one of the casinos, and went inside.
"So you decided to join us?" I turned to see who had said that. It was Less!
"Where the hell have you been?" I yelled. People turned to look at me.
"Shh!" she said. "You'll disturb the customers. Come with me. I'll explain every thing."
She led me down the hall way past the game rooms and into a room. Sirius was sitting at a table counting Galleons.
"Hey Lily." He said looking up.
"Where did you get all that money?" I asked in awe.
"We run this joint." He said causualy.
"This whole town?"
"You got it." He stood up and pointed to a map. "The NEWTS are coming up and we needed a break from school. You know to relax."
"You built up this whole board?" I asked again. "We've been so worried and you were here building up a wizarding Las Vegas?"
"That about sums it up."
"I would wring your neck if I wasn't about to ask you for a room in one of these hotels." I admitted.
"Less, show her to the suite." Sirius said in a regal manner.
"Not now!" I said. "It's the middle of the week. Tuesday you know. I'll be back on Friday."
"Sure, we always have those suites open for our friends." Less said. "Oh, and did you know this board has a thing so you can travel to other games. That's where we get all these customers from."
"This is so freaky," I told them. "I can't believe you did this in a day."
"Hey it pays well." she said pointing to the money.
"I take it, that's not money for the real world."
"Right," Sirius scooped some up and walked over to a vault hidden behind a picture. "But we can use it on other game board worlds."
"So, what should I tell the others?"
"That, we're here in the lap of luxury, and they should join us for the weekend."
"What about the teachers?" I asked them.
"You'll think of something." I heard music start up somewhere.
"We've gotta go," they said. "We have a show to put on."
"They have about 20 hotels!" I told my friends. "They're beyond rich, and Less is a show girl."
"And this was all on your Monopoly board?" Remus's eyebrow was raised skeptically, saying clearly that he did not believe me.
"I swear," I said again. "They live in a hotel suite in their biggest hotel."
"Right." Said James slowly. "And we're supposed to go there for the weekend." He and Remus looked at each other and started to laugh.
"I've got proof!" I said firmly. I took out my board and opened it up. My friends looked at it with their eyes raised.
"Damn!" said Maxis.
"They did all that in one day?" Saraan stared. "Look at all those lights. And I can hear the music."
"There's where they live." I pointed to the hotel on the spot where Park Place would have been. "I mean look even Baltic Ave. looks like it's worth at least 2,000,000 galleons."
"I cannot wait, until the weekend." Said James.
"Ditto." Said Remus still looking at the board. "I think I'm imagining things."
"I saw it, they've got so many tourists it's not even funny."
We just sat looking at the Las Vegas board until we were called down to dinner.
(A/N- this chapter has nothing to do with the story, it's just something I felt like writing, only for fun. I mean it is part of the story, but it's kind of like a non-serious part.)
-Kendra Black (AKA-Aphi Black)\
Chapter ?: Our Relaxing Vacation
On Friday night we all went (as weird as it may sound) we all went into the game board for a vacation. Sirius and Less met us in the lobby of the hotel they were living in and took us on a tour. It was indeed a very glamorous place, and by the time we were done I was feeling quite underdressed. They had a lot of gold, and silver around. There were pots of galleons displayed (I guess when you're as rich as they are you can afford to display thousands of galleons). We took and elevator (plated in gold I might add) up to the friend ship suites (as they called them). They were humongous! Each room had two beds and two bathrooms. There were radios and TV's, and a snack bar to die for.
"If you need anything call on the intercom." Sirius told us. "We'll be back in about 45 minutes, but we've got a business meeting. We're trying to buy another hotel. We want to pave over some of those chance card spaces"
Maxis gave me a look that said Those-two-have-crossed-the-line-into-insanity. I totally agreed with her.
When Sirius and Less came back from their "business meeting" they took us to dinner in one of their other hotels. The food was great of course, but Less told me something that totally ruined my appetite,
"Lily guess what?" she whispered to me during dinner.
"What?" I asked her.
She leaned over and whispered something to me that really disturbed me; it had to do with her and Sirius. I am not going to say what it is, because as I write this I am about ready to barf again. All I will say is that when she said it my fork missed my mouth by about a mile and went into Remus's.
"Yuck!" he sputtered. "What was that about."
"Nothing." I said as I tried to forget what Less had told me. "Just forget it."
Less giggled.
"That is not funny!" I whispered harshly. "It's sick!" I looked around. "Don't tell, but me too!"
Less raised her eyebrows at me grinning.
(A/N-Ok I will not tell you what happened between them! As I said before this chapter is just weird and the only reason I wrote it was because I'm grounded!)
-Kendra Black (aka- Aphi Black, aka-Rouge, aka-Jean Grey, aka-Shadowcat.)
Chapter ?
Sirius and Less left their assistant managers detailed instructions and left the game board with us late Sunday night, still rich, but missing jokes. So about fifteen minutes after they got back a Moaning Myrtle's toilet got a surprise stink bomb. We had to explain to Peter (A/N-You can tell how much I hate Peter he's only been mentioned once or twice.) where we'd been and what we'd been doing. Less later told Saraan and Maxis what she'd told me. We had to revive Saraan with smelling salts.
"Professor," Less, Saraan and I were standing in front of Professor Dumbledore. It was late May and we'd finally decided what we were going to do with our lives.
"Professor," Less started again. "We want to be aurors but on the home front."
Dumbledore looked at us, and slowly a smile spread to his face.
"I thought as much. I have two teacher jobs available, and we need a spell breaker."
Ok, I've known it forever but this man is amazing. It was like he just knew we were going to say this and had reserved these jobs for us.
"And," he continued. "Tell your friend Maxis, who by the way is listening out side the door, that she has a job too."
Suddenly the door burst open.
"Thank you!!!!" Maxis yelled. "I knew I wasn't to young."
Dumbledore smiled at her eagerness. "Go see Hagrid, he'll fill you in."
"Yes!" Maxis was all smiles as she left.
"Now back to you three," Dumbledore turned to us. "What sparked this decision?"
"I want to have a family." I answered.
"I want a challenge that doesn't involve chasing people around the country with three wild boys." Said Saraan.
"I have my own reasons," said Less. "You'll know soon enough."
Dumbledore nodded and told us what our positions would be after we graduated.
It was the morning of our graduation, and I woke to hear a sound coming from the bathroom. It sounded like someone was throwing up. Less was the only one out of bed, so I ran in to see if it was her. Sure enough it was.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"No not really." She bent over the toilet and threw up again.
"What's the matter are you sick?"
"You could say that." She stood up and wiped her mouth off on a towel. "I'm going to get dressed." She got ready to leave. "Lily get ready for an emotional breakdown later ok."
I looked at her worried. "Sure. What ever you say."
"We present to you the class of '75!" said the announcer person. We walked onto stage. People in the audience cheered. We were each called down to receive diplomas, and let me tell you that was pretty nerve racking. I kept thinking they would forget to call my name or something like that. But they did call my name and all my friends' names. Then they gave out special awards. Sirius got one for most detentions for a boy, beating James by one. Less got most detentions for a girl still coming in lower than Sirius. James and I got Head Boy and Head Girl awards. We had a special dinner later; this was where the so-called 'emotional breakdown' came. Less and Sirius had a table to themselves that soon became the loudest table in the hall because Sirius was jumping up and down on the table for joy.
Less was pregnant.
Sirius did not take it the way Less thought he would. Instead of being shocked and up set he was shocked and happy. Turns out the throwing up was morning sickness, it's also why Less wanted a teaching job.
"I'm gonna be a daddy!" he yelled later in the common room. People turned to look at him like he was crazy. I think that this was one of the times that they were glad he was leaving tomorrow.
"We'll name her Aphrodite." He told Less.
"For all you know it could be a boy." Less said.
James and I watched them. "So do you want a kid?" he asked.
I pointed to my stomach, "whether you want one or not…"
"It was a rhetorical question." James's eyes went wide. "Not supposed to be answered."
"My question at the casino was rhetorical also, but you answered it." I smiled at him.
James looked at me and grinned.
(A/N-Sorry if it got inappropriate but they are adults)