Just Friends, Right? -- 4
Author: Cattie
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, possibly comedy later
A/N: Fourth Chapter! Sorry for the wait! I finally decided on a title, and i know it's corny, and shockingly over-used. but i like it. so tough.
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I woke up the next morning, and tried to stretch the kinks out of my neck, but found that I couldn't move due to a pair of fairly strong arms in a vice-like grip around my waist.
I blinked wearily, and then turned to see who my 'captor' was.
James Potter.
I settled back down in his arms, yawning sleepily.
'At least he isn't Snape. Infact, he's quite good-looking, and sweet. Not that bad of a person to fall asleep on, in all' I thought, as my eyes drifted shut and I fell back into the peaceful world of dreams.
A few hours later I was woken again by a barking laugh and a boisterous voice shouting;
"Aww, how cute! Mr and Mrs Potter, fast asleep in a chair! Roll up! Roll Up! Come see the cutest couple in Hogwarts asleep in a chair! Only 5 knuts! Roll U- OOF!"
"Shut up! They'll wake up! And what's taking Remus, he should be here with that camera already!"
"Sheesh, for such a little girl you sure hit hard!"
"I am not little! You great oaf, I'll get you for that!"
CRASH!
I rubbed my eyes to rid them of the sleep, then turned towards the noise and tried to stifle my laughter at the sight.
Catalina had Sirius, who was at least a foot or two taller than her, on the floor, and was attempting to strangle him, while he grasped for her robes, to pull her away from his neck, and Remus just stood in the doorway, a camera in his hands, staring open-mouthed at the scene.
A small giggle escaped from my lips, and they all turned to look at me, just as James awoke.
FLASH!
I shrieked slightly as Remus took a picture of me and James, then giggled once more as Catalina simply continued throttling Sirius, who was making wild hand motions at all of us, which probably meant; 'Save me, crazy little girl throttling me!', but we weren't able to decipher, or so we told him.
Eventually Sirius managed to grab a chunk of Catalina's robes, and pulled her off him, shrieking indignantly at us once he regained his breath.
"James! Lily! You two are amazingly useless, you know! I was simply begging for you, either of you, to come and save me, but Nooooo, can't come and save old Sirius, James and Lily are too busy getting comfortable in chair to help their dearest friend!"
"Dearest friend?" I whispered to James, trying to look innocent.
"He's only slightly insane, my guess is that he forgot his medication this morning" he whispered back, as Sirius turned his attentions to Remus, who was still standing in the doorway with a look of shock on his face.
"And you, Moony! Couldn't even help me, when it's your little girlfriend trying to kill me! And Bella and Mundungus are off doing something stupid that only Sixth years are privy to! Some friends you all are. I'm going to ignore you all now. Snape's my new best friend!" he finished, then paused for a second, obviously thinking about what he had just said for the first time.
Then he burst into raucous laughter.
"Oh dear, what an interesting statement that was" Remus assessed from the door, rubbing his cheeks and trying, hopelessly, to hide the blush that had risen on his face when Sirius had screamed the word 'girlfriend'.
"Too true, Moony, too true" Sirius gasped between guffaws.
"Well, maybe some of us should get to classes now. I don't know if you have the lesson off, but I've got 4th year Potions with the Slytherins, I'd better just go and get it over with." Catalina sighed, before grabbing a small mountain of papers and sweeping them into her bag.
"Aww, what's wrong with that, Cat? I thought that class wasn't that bad. After all, the other Gryffindors are usually too busy bothering the Slytherins to bother you" Remus said to her, dropping the camera in his pocket and walking over to where she was still hastily stuffing things into her already over-flowing bag.
"Oh, the Gryffindors aren't that bad anymore, it's those stinky Slytherins. They're determined to make my life a misery, and I'm sure some of them know my secret!" she cried out, close to tears, as Remus moved to hug her, and I asked from James' lap; "Who knows?"
"Jennifer Buckingham and her horrible little fan club! They were all teasing me about this potion we were making, and I just couldn't touch the silver that we had to put in, and she kept making comments about how 'sissy little werewolves can't touch silver', and then told me that I should just 'go back to my freak country'" she sobbed, and I stood up.
"That's horrible! I'm going straight to Dumbledore and telling him!" I shouted indignantly, and stood from James' lap, before yanking him to his feet and dragging him along the corridors with me.
I faintly heard someone exclaiming that it wasn't that big of a deal, but I kept going, my earlier grudge against Jennifer Buckingham growing constantly.
I'd got as far as Dumbledore's door, when I realised that I didn't know the password.
"Jelly Babies" James muttered, as if reading my mind.
"I never asked, but thanks anyway" I answered, before muttering the words and entering the room.
"But you- Never mind, Dumbledore's not here" he said, confusion marring his tone.
Just as he finished the sentence, Dumbledore walked into the office, clutching a small white paper bag, presumably full of some muggle sweet, seeing as he seemed to be obsessed with them.
I quickly explained Catalina's problem to him, and he considered it for a few seconds, then muttered under his breath.
"Yes, that's the only thing for it. She can manage, especially with her friends. Yes, that's the only solution"
He then smiled at us, and waved his dismissal, before offering a sweet, which seemed to be Murray Mints, which we declined and left the room.
As we were strolling back towards the common room, I suddenly round myself pulled, by James, into a side room, and he pressed his lips against mine.
Before I could respond, as I so wanted to, he pulled away, and ran off, muttering sorry, leaving me standing, dazed, in the middle of some room, my fingers touching my tingling lips.
"Wow…"
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