By: Alicorn and Calicat
Alicorn: Yay! Here's the second part of the angst-fest!
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Disclaimer: you know what's ours. I'm too tired to embellish.
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Amos and Ari had been going out for a week now. Ari was dizzy with happiness, and her eyes were, at the worst, a grey/green.
Sirius, on the other hand, was miserable. He missed having Ariella around him, to plan pranks and laugh with. James and Remus had pulled out of their misery from their experiences to help him out because he was looking REALLY sad.
He had lost his appetite, and had gotten gaunt. He had a sad air about him and Ari didn't seem to notice, at least, not when he was looking. Lily could see that when she looked at him, there was a flicker of brown sadness and longing, but it was clamped down quickly. She had to do something
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"Amos Diggory! Wait up would you! " Lily was running like crazy, trying to catch up with the 6th year.
"What Lily? Is there something wrong? "
"Look Amos, have you seen Sirius? "
"Yeah. I'm pretty happy though, I mean he's stopped his pranks. "
"That's it! He's stopped. He's NOT normal. He's SERIOUSLY in love with Ariella. They've been in love since third year. "
"Then why hasn't he ever asked her out?" asked Amos with a quizzical look.
"I mean, he's gone out with so many other girls for one-night stands and the like. I've seen how Ari was then. SHE'S been suffering too. It's not my fault that he didn't make the right choices."
"(SIGH) Well, I know that you aren't dating Ari just because you love her. "
"Oh? "
"Look, I've seen the way that you look at Erin. I know that you're crushing on her, and just baiting her. She's been pining over you ever since you walked into the Dining Hall with that hickey that Ari gave you. If you break up with Ari, I'll get YOU a date with her. "
" (Blink)(Blink) How did you know about my crush? "
"You've been making moony eyes at each other since the beginning of the year. Is it a deal? "
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Ari had gone on her date half an hour ago, and Remus had kicked Sirius out of the common room, because he had been kissing Maeghan quite busily. So, Sirius was off to send a letter to his parents, to see how his sister was doing.
"Stupid stairs. Why is the owlrey so far away? "
He got in and was about to send the owl, but he heard something.
(Sob)(Hic)(Sob)
"Who's there?"
"(Sniff) It's me. " Came a muffled voice from a corner of the owlrey.
Sirius walked over, cautiously, and her came upon the rumpled, soggy form of Ari. She was sitting with her hands wrapped around her knees, and rocking back and forth. Her eyes were puffy and red from crying.
"What happened? " whispered Sirius.
"Amos broke up with me. He'd been getting bugged about the fact that we're from different houses, so he's going to go out with a-a Hufflepuff girl now. "
Sirius sat down beside the sobbing girl, and put his arms around her.
"Shh, it's OK. He didn't deserve you anyway."
"Hmph. Who does then? " she asked, with a questioning silver look into his eyes.
"Well, umm, I was hoping that I did. Deserve you that is. "
"Really. " Ariella looked at him, and then seemed to make a decision. She kissed him. Hard. Sirius' eyes widened in shock, then he leaned into the kiss, enjoying it.
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(Alicorn: I'd say they were at it for a while, but insert your own timeframe in here.)
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No one was expecting Ari to come back so early, and even fewer people thought that there was any chance of Sirius being with her. But he was.
Sirius and Ari sauntered into the common room quite happily. His arm was around her waist, and her head was leaned on his shoulder.
"So Ari, what happened with Amos? And what have you been doing? " Asked Maeghan with a LOOK on her face.
"None of your business Meggie dearest. But, I do say that Lucius is not going to be happy when he wakes up tomorrow. "
"Why'd you prank him? Other than for the fun of it of course." Maeghan asked, raising her eyebrows.
"OH! You of course luv!"
"I see. What did you do? "
"We just replaced his blow-up Maeghan doll with SG. "
"(Snicker) I see. And where is my double going to turn up? "
"Well, Sirius helped me transfigure it, so it looks like Snape, and we'll put up something in the morning about where it came from. In the meanwhile, I'm going to get changed into something comfortable, and Sirius and I are going to get a Butterbeer at the three Broomsticks. Does anyone want to come? "
Obviously this was a rhetorical question, because Sirius was giving everyone a 'This is only out of politeness because we're going on our first date ever' look. So, no one came, and the two lovebirds had a fun time, first going for a Butterbeer, and then going for a nice hunt in the Forbidden Forest.
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Alicorn: Don't look at me like that! I mean, a big black dog and a raptor, that's a bird of prey for all you dunderheads out there, would have a great time hunting in the Forbidden Forest. They wouldn't kill anything, obviously but still. How did you like it? I tried to make reference to the other events in the chapter, but the events are only loosely tied at best. Not what we had planned but--(Shrug).
Calicat: We'll be doing an L/J chapter next! Yay!
Alicorn: Yeah, and we'll try not to make it too sappy. Because we might introduce Pettigrew.
Calicat: (Mumbles) Stupid f****** b******.
Alicorn: Now, now, you aren't supposed to be saying things like that.
Calicat: (in a baby voice) Don't know, don't care!
Alicorn: @.@ (sigh)
Calicat: Bye folks!!!