Sirius was feeling very sure of himself. And cocky too. Nothing was going
to go wrong today. EVERYTHING was going to go right. He was going to do
this. Nothing was going to stop him.
Halloween was coming up. There was a costume ball for Halloween this year. He was going to ask Mia to go with him. And he was going to ask her today. James was asking Lily today. He would ask Mia.
Ohh, God. She was looking so damn good today. It was like she was toying with him, begging him to ask her out. Her body looked so sexy in her tight, revealing robes. This is how they dress in Cuba he thought.
Sirius was so busy dreaming up his and Mia's honeymoon in Cuba that he didn't realize he was running into Remus until he heard someone squeal as he stepped on them.
"Oh. Remus. Sorry, man," Sirius helped Remus up. "Why in such a hurry?"
"Oh, uh. I 'm going to go ask Celeste to the Halloween ball," Remus muttered.
Celeste. There was another fine-looking specimen of a girl. He'd have to ask her out sometime. "Good man, Remus. Let me know how it goes."
Sirius seemed to float through all of his classes. As he thought back later it seemed as though a couple girls asked him to the ball, but none of them were Mia, so he ignored them.
Mia finally seemed to be alone after dinner. Sirius ambushed her.
"Hey. Mia. You going to the Halloween ball with anyone?"
"Why do you want to know?" Mia asked teasingly. Seductively.
"Well, I was thinking you might be lonely that night, so I might keep you company. How about it?"
"Sorry, but I can't. I'm already going with someone."
Sirius's jaw dropped. He definitely had not expected that response. How could anyone be better than him, so much better than him that she was not willing to break up with them? Impossible!
"Did I hear you right? Who are you going with?"
"Yeah, Sirius, you heard right. You aren't exactly the only boy in the school that anyone would go out with!"
"So who's my competition?"
"You have lots of competition, Sirius. Not every girl wants a conceited, joking boy who never takes anyone serious. Especially me. I want a guy who understands me, not who says, 'Well, she beautiful so I'll just work my charm on her and she's mine'! You do that, so you aren't my type."
"WHO IS YOUR TYPE, BITCH?" Sirius bellowed. Okay, everything WASN'T going his way today.
"If you must know, Peter Pettigrew," Mia said airily, walking away.
"If you are going out with Peter Pettigrew, you most certainly aren't someone I want to go out with!" Sirius called after her retreating back. "Bitch!"
"You're the one who asked, bastard," Mia shot back.
Sirius stood there, his face all red, for quite a while. Until James came along.
"Hey, Sirius! Lily said yes! I can't believe it! Whoa. What happened to you? Mia say no?"
"She's going with Peter Pettigrew," Sirius gritted simply. He then laughed softly, mirthlessly. "That bitch is going with Pettigrew."
"Hey, man, if she's going with Pettigrew, forget about her! Ask Celeste or something."
"Lupin is."
"Well, she didn't say yes cause I haven't heard anything about it."
"I'm not asking her out again. She tore me up at the beginning of the year when I did."
"Suit yourself. Celeste is deep. Lily told me. And she's single. She'd hardly met you when you asked her out. You couldn't blame her for saying no. You asked Mia!"
"And who's she going with? Damn Pettigrew! Celeste is probably going with Snape!"
"The day Fortuna goes to a ball with Snape is the day we all die. She's a Gryffindor at heart. She told off a Hufflepuff that asked her to the ball. Damn, Sirius, you got nothin' to lose. Just do it! I'd ask her out if Lily wasn't here!"
"Good for you. She's not going to go out with me. I ain't even gonna ask her."
"You're throwing away the perfect girl, Sirius."
"If she's so perfect, you go ask her out."
James sighed and walked back to the Gryffindor common room, leaving Sirius sitting against the wall with tears streaming his cheeks.
~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~
"Ask him out yourself, Celeste," Lily said.
1 "I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because."
Mia walked into the common room at that moment, very red in the face. She sat down with Lily and Celeste.
"Hey Mia. What happened?" Lily asked sympathetically.
"That BASTARD Sirius asked me out, then got all pissed off when I told him I was going out with Peter. I swear. He doesn't even care about what I think. To hell with him, I say."
"Mia, if you don't mind me saying, you're probably the only girl in the school who'd rather go out with Pettigrew than Black," Celeste said harshly.
"Celeste, if you don't mind me saying, you're probably the only girl in the school who isn't going out with anyone!"
"Well, Mia, at least I'm not going out with a guy I don't even like!"
Remus turned beet red in the corner where he was quietly doing Potions homework. James was right. Celeste had said no.
"I could've gone to the Halloween Ball with Remus Lupin. He asked me earlier today." Celeste smacked her head, aware she'd said something wrong. "Not that I don't like Remus. I DO like him, just not like that. You know what I mean."
The room went quiet. Very quiet.
Celeste looked very smug and turned back to Mia. "So it seems I'm better than you. The guy you asked out came running to me after he refused you."
"That doesn't mean that you're better than me," Mia shot back. "I could have just about any guy I wanted in this school."
"It doesn't look like it. You're going out with fucking Pettigrew!" Lily jumped into the dispute.
Everyone turned to stare at her. No one had ever heard her cuss like that.
"My point exactly. If you could have any guy in the school, why the hell did you pick Pettigrew?" Celeste argued. "Why didn't you pick Potter or Black or somebody like that?"
"'Cause they're not my type," Mia mumbled. Obviously she was tiring of the argument and rapidly realizing that accepting Peter's offer was going to ruin her reputation. "I could've had Black if I'd wanted him. I just didn't."
"No, you just didn't want to tell Peter that you changed your mind and then show up at the ball with Sirius while he didn't have a partner. You're too NICE for that." Celeste emphasized 'nice' sarcastically.
Mia stomped up to the dormitory, crying. Thus ended a promising friendship between Lily & Celeste and Mia. Most of the school sided with Celeste, though Mia kept a snug circle of friends throughout her school years, namely Sarah, Esther, Hadassah, and Grace, all Hufflepuffs. Luna, surprisingly, sided with Lily and Celeste. They also befriended Megan, Bethany, and Erica. They remained friends for most of their school lives.
~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~
The Halloween Ball was to last for three days. You were to wear a different costume every night, depending on the theme. The first night it was something you hate. The next night you were to dress up as something you love. The final night you were to dress up in couples or groups.
"What are you guys dressing up as?" Celeste asked idly.
Megan, the practical American, replied automatically. "Well, the first night I'm dressing up as Medusa. Then I'm dressing up as Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. Then the third night I'm going as Juno." Megan was practically obsessed with Roman mythology.
The other five girls stared at her. "If you're going as Juno, who's Jupiter?" Bethany asked tentatively.
"I thought you'd never ask. I'm going to the ball with Travis Quinton!" she squealed. Travis was one of the most popular first-year guys in Gryffindor and was friends with Sirius, James, and Remus. He also happened to be very cute, with bright red hair and gray eyes.
The six girls jumped up and danced around the common room, screaming. "Did he ask you or did you ask him?" Celeste asked after they settled down.
Megan tossed her long blondish-brown hair back. "He asked me!"
Celeste squealed again. The other girls stared at her. "What's the big deal?" asked Luna.
"Our own little Megan has reached the ultimate level of coolness! It would be good if she asked him and he said yes, but it's even better that he asked her! It means that the most popular guy likes our little Megan!"
The girls erupted in cheers once again, watched jealously by Mia and her friends.
"So, what are you going as, Erica?" Lily asked.
"Well, my sister Maria is going to help me with the transfiguration, but the first night I'll be a siren, you know, those bird-people. The next night I'll be an octopus. Then, on Couple Night, me an' my hubby are gonna be a dryad and a satyr."
"Awesome! Who's your hubby?" Lily asked.
"Guess," said Erica's playful spirit.
"Sirius?"
"No."
"Mark?"
"No."
"Blake?"
"No."
"Alex?"
"Which one? Oelker or Thompson?" Erica asked.
"Hmm, how about… Oelker?"
"Yes!"
Alex Oelker was a really cute first year. He had blondish-brownish hair and hazel eyes. He also was friends with Sirius, James, and Remus.
"That's great, Erica!" Celeste said.
"Your turn, Bethany! Who are you going with?"
Quiet, shy, smart Bethany had acquired a date that none of them had assumed she ever would. She was going with-
"Mark Weber!?" all other five girls screamed. Mark was Bethany's secret crush, but he was THE single most popular guy in the school, not to mention being the cutest and one of the nicest. No one had ever even known that he had ever noticed Bethany, let alone been attracted to her.
"Yes. I found he is also a fan of Shakespeare. He saw me reading 'Romeo and Juliet' one day and started talking to me about it. He knew it cover-to-cover. It seems we have more than that together, though. He's Muggle-born too, like me! Did you know that?"
All girls shook their heads amazedly.
"He also gets straight A's. I guess I found my competition. And, you know, he isn't as outgoing as everyone thinks. He confessed to me that he has to force himself to talk to everybody. I shouldn't really be telling you guys this, so clam up, okay?"
"Right…" Celeste said bemusedly. For once she was lost for words. For a moment. "What are you going as?"
"Well, the first night I figured I'd go as Echidna. Then, the next night I'll go as Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice."
"What about the third night?"
"Romeo and Juliet, of course! Their story binds us together, me and Mark!"
"Right… Well, Luna, your turn!"
"Well, I'm going with Andrew Kinsley, the Ravenclaw." Celeste inhaled sharply. She despised the other Houses in Hogwarts. "The first night I'm going to go the first night as a sphinx, the second night as my namesake, Luna, the moon goddess, and the third night me and Andrew are going as Cleopatra and Marc Antony."
"Ohh, interesting," Lily said. "I guess it's my turn. I'm going with James, you all know. The first night I'm going as a devil. Then I'm gonna make a costume to be an angel. Me and James are going as Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, because we're both fans of old Muggle movies."
"Awesome!" exclaimed the also Muggle-born Bethany. Everyone looked at her. "Sorry," she muttered, turning crimson.
"Your turn, Celeste," Megan said eagerly.
Celeste took a moment to think. "Well, on the second night I'm going as Venus, the Roman goddess of love. And on the first night I'm going as a Slytherin bitch- pardon my French- a Slytherin banshee."
"May I ask how you're going to do that?" Erica asked.
"Wear a silver and green robe that's all torn up instead of a black one. And lots of makeup."
"Awesome!"
Next chapter- 'The Halloween Ball'! Very interesting chapter, if I do say so myself. And, yes I introduce myself in this chapter. I couldn't resist. And I also hooked myself up with my crush. One of them… Okay, next chapter. And thanks to my reviewers! More reviews, please!
P.S. I'M NOT OBSESSED WITH ROMAN MYTHOLOGY!!!!! IT DOESN'T EVEN INTEREST ME!!!!!!!!!!
Halloween was coming up. There was a costume ball for Halloween this year. He was going to ask Mia to go with him. And he was going to ask her today. James was asking Lily today. He would ask Mia.
Ohh, God. She was looking so damn good today. It was like she was toying with him, begging him to ask her out. Her body looked so sexy in her tight, revealing robes. This is how they dress in Cuba he thought.
Sirius was so busy dreaming up his and Mia's honeymoon in Cuba that he didn't realize he was running into Remus until he heard someone squeal as he stepped on them.
"Oh. Remus. Sorry, man," Sirius helped Remus up. "Why in such a hurry?"
"Oh, uh. I 'm going to go ask Celeste to the Halloween ball," Remus muttered.
Celeste. There was another fine-looking specimen of a girl. He'd have to ask her out sometime. "Good man, Remus. Let me know how it goes."
Sirius seemed to float through all of his classes. As he thought back later it seemed as though a couple girls asked him to the ball, but none of them were Mia, so he ignored them.
Mia finally seemed to be alone after dinner. Sirius ambushed her.
"Hey. Mia. You going to the Halloween ball with anyone?"
"Why do you want to know?" Mia asked teasingly. Seductively.
"Well, I was thinking you might be lonely that night, so I might keep you company. How about it?"
"Sorry, but I can't. I'm already going with someone."
Sirius's jaw dropped. He definitely had not expected that response. How could anyone be better than him, so much better than him that she was not willing to break up with them? Impossible!
"Did I hear you right? Who are you going with?"
"Yeah, Sirius, you heard right. You aren't exactly the only boy in the school that anyone would go out with!"
"So who's my competition?"
"You have lots of competition, Sirius. Not every girl wants a conceited, joking boy who never takes anyone serious. Especially me. I want a guy who understands me, not who says, 'Well, she beautiful so I'll just work my charm on her and she's mine'! You do that, so you aren't my type."
"WHO IS YOUR TYPE, BITCH?" Sirius bellowed. Okay, everything WASN'T going his way today.
"If you must know, Peter Pettigrew," Mia said airily, walking away.
"If you are going out with Peter Pettigrew, you most certainly aren't someone I want to go out with!" Sirius called after her retreating back. "Bitch!"
"You're the one who asked, bastard," Mia shot back.
Sirius stood there, his face all red, for quite a while. Until James came along.
"Hey, Sirius! Lily said yes! I can't believe it! Whoa. What happened to you? Mia say no?"
"She's going with Peter Pettigrew," Sirius gritted simply. He then laughed softly, mirthlessly. "That bitch is going with Pettigrew."
"Hey, man, if she's going with Pettigrew, forget about her! Ask Celeste or something."
"Lupin is."
"Well, she didn't say yes cause I haven't heard anything about it."
"I'm not asking her out again. She tore me up at the beginning of the year when I did."
"Suit yourself. Celeste is deep. Lily told me. And she's single. She'd hardly met you when you asked her out. You couldn't blame her for saying no. You asked Mia!"
"And who's she going with? Damn Pettigrew! Celeste is probably going with Snape!"
"The day Fortuna goes to a ball with Snape is the day we all die. She's a Gryffindor at heart. She told off a Hufflepuff that asked her to the ball. Damn, Sirius, you got nothin' to lose. Just do it! I'd ask her out if Lily wasn't here!"
"Good for you. She's not going to go out with me. I ain't even gonna ask her."
"You're throwing away the perfect girl, Sirius."
"If she's so perfect, you go ask her out."
James sighed and walked back to the Gryffindor common room, leaving Sirius sitting against the wall with tears streaming his cheeks.
~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~
"Ask him out yourself, Celeste," Lily said.
1 "I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because."
Mia walked into the common room at that moment, very red in the face. She sat down with Lily and Celeste.
"Hey Mia. What happened?" Lily asked sympathetically.
"That BASTARD Sirius asked me out, then got all pissed off when I told him I was going out with Peter. I swear. He doesn't even care about what I think. To hell with him, I say."
"Mia, if you don't mind me saying, you're probably the only girl in the school who'd rather go out with Pettigrew than Black," Celeste said harshly.
"Celeste, if you don't mind me saying, you're probably the only girl in the school who isn't going out with anyone!"
"Well, Mia, at least I'm not going out with a guy I don't even like!"
Remus turned beet red in the corner where he was quietly doing Potions homework. James was right. Celeste had said no.
"I could've gone to the Halloween Ball with Remus Lupin. He asked me earlier today." Celeste smacked her head, aware she'd said something wrong. "Not that I don't like Remus. I DO like him, just not like that. You know what I mean."
The room went quiet. Very quiet.
Celeste looked very smug and turned back to Mia. "So it seems I'm better than you. The guy you asked out came running to me after he refused you."
"That doesn't mean that you're better than me," Mia shot back. "I could have just about any guy I wanted in this school."
"It doesn't look like it. You're going out with fucking Pettigrew!" Lily jumped into the dispute.
Everyone turned to stare at her. No one had ever heard her cuss like that.
"My point exactly. If you could have any guy in the school, why the hell did you pick Pettigrew?" Celeste argued. "Why didn't you pick Potter or Black or somebody like that?"
"'Cause they're not my type," Mia mumbled. Obviously she was tiring of the argument and rapidly realizing that accepting Peter's offer was going to ruin her reputation. "I could've had Black if I'd wanted him. I just didn't."
"No, you just didn't want to tell Peter that you changed your mind and then show up at the ball with Sirius while he didn't have a partner. You're too NICE for that." Celeste emphasized 'nice' sarcastically.
Mia stomped up to the dormitory, crying. Thus ended a promising friendship between Lily & Celeste and Mia. Most of the school sided with Celeste, though Mia kept a snug circle of friends throughout her school years, namely Sarah, Esther, Hadassah, and Grace, all Hufflepuffs. Luna, surprisingly, sided with Lily and Celeste. They also befriended Megan, Bethany, and Erica. They remained friends for most of their school lives.
~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~ * ^ * ~
The Halloween Ball was to last for three days. You were to wear a different costume every night, depending on the theme. The first night it was something you hate. The next night you were to dress up as something you love. The final night you were to dress up in couples or groups.
"What are you guys dressing up as?" Celeste asked idly.
Megan, the practical American, replied automatically. "Well, the first night I'm dressing up as Medusa. Then I'm dressing up as Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. Then the third night I'm going as Juno." Megan was practically obsessed with Roman mythology.
The other five girls stared at her. "If you're going as Juno, who's Jupiter?" Bethany asked tentatively.
"I thought you'd never ask. I'm going to the ball with Travis Quinton!" she squealed. Travis was one of the most popular first-year guys in Gryffindor and was friends with Sirius, James, and Remus. He also happened to be very cute, with bright red hair and gray eyes.
The six girls jumped up and danced around the common room, screaming. "Did he ask you or did you ask him?" Celeste asked after they settled down.
Megan tossed her long blondish-brown hair back. "He asked me!"
Celeste squealed again. The other girls stared at her. "What's the big deal?" asked Luna.
"Our own little Megan has reached the ultimate level of coolness! It would be good if she asked him and he said yes, but it's even better that he asked her! It means that the most popular guy likes our little Megan!"
The girls erupted in cheers once again, watched jealously by Mia and her friends.
"So, what are you going as, Erica?" Lily asked.
"Well, my sister Maria is going to help me with the transfiguration, but the first night I'll be a siren, you know, those bird-people. The next night I'll be an octopus. Then, on Couple Night, me an' my hubby are gonna be a dryad and a satyr."
"Awesome! Who's your hubby?" Lily asked.
"Guess," said Erica's playful spirit.
"Sirius?"
"No."
"Mark?"
"No."
"Blake?"
"No."
"Alex?"
"Which one? Oelker or Thompson?" Erica asked.
"Hmm, how about… Oelker?"
"Yes!"
Alex Oelker was a really cute first year. He had blondish-brownish hair and hazel eyes. He also was friends with Sirius, James, and Remus.
"That's great, Erica!" Celeste said.
"Your turn, Bethany! Who are you going with?"
Quiet, shy, smart Bethany had acquired a date that none of them had assumed she ever would. She was going with-
"Mark Weber!?" all other five girls screamed. Mark was Bethany's secret crush, but he was THE single most popular guy in the school, not to mention being the cutest and one of the nicest. No one had ever even known that he had ever noticed Bethany, let alone been attracted to her.
"Yes. I found he is also a fan of Shakespeare. He saw me reading 'Romeo and Juliet' one day and started talking to me about it. He knew it cover-to-cover. It seems we have more than that together, though. He's Muggle-born too, like me! Did you know that?"
All girls shook their heads amazedly.
"He also gets straight A's. I guess I found my competition. And, you know, he isn't as outgoing as everyone thinks. He confessed to me that he has to force himself to talk to everybody. I shouldn't really be telling you guys this, so clam up, okay?"
"Right…" Celeste said bemusedly. For once she was lost for words. For a moment. "What are you going as?"
"Well, the first night I figured I'd go as Echidna. Then, the next night I'll go as Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice."
"What about the third night?"
"Romeo and Juliet, of course! Their story binds us together, me and Mark!"
"Right… Well, Luna, your turn!"
"Well, I'm going with Andrew Kinsley, the Ravenclaw." Celeste inhaled sharply. She despised the other Houses in Hogwarts. "The first night I'm going to go the first night as a sphinx, the second night as my namesake, Luna, the moon goddess, and the third night me and Andrew are going as Cleopatra and Marc Antony."
"Ohh, interesting," Lily said. "I guess it's my turn. I'm going with James, you all know. The first night I'm going as a devil. Then I'm gonna make a costume to be an angel. Me and James are going as Greta Garbo and Clark Gable, because we're both fans of old Muggle movies."
"Awesome!" exclaimed the also Muggle-born Bethany. Everyone looked at her. "Sorry," she muttered, turning crimson.
"Your turn, Celeste," Megan said eagerly.
Celeste took a moment to think. "Well, on the second night I'm going as Venus, the Roman goddess of love. And on the first night I'm going as a Slytherin bitch- pardon my French- a Slytherin banshee."
"May I ask how you're going to do that?" Erica asked.
"Wear a silver and green robe that's all torn up instead of a black one. And lots of makeup."
"Awesome!"
Next chapter- 'The Halloween Ball'! Very interesting chapter, if I do say so myself. And, yes I introduce myself in this chapter. I couldn't resist. And I also hooked myself up with my crush. One of them… Okay, next chapter. And thanks to my reviewers! More reviews, please!
P.S. I'M NOT OBSESSED WITH ROMAN MYTHOLOGY!!!!! IT DOESN'T EVEN INTEREST ME!!!!!!!!!!
