Chapter 3-- 3rd year
"SIRIUS!"
Sirius Black grinned from his hideout in a tree.
Taya stomped outside,screeching his name as six-year-old Toby laighed from the door frame. Sirius' grin faded as Taya approached the tree. He held his breath, hoping the small limb he was perched on wouldn't break and that Taya would leave, because his leg was beginning to cramp and a tree branch is not an especially comfortable place to sit for long periods of time.
Sirius had very bad luck. The tree branch broke, and he landed painfully on the ground at Taya's feet, making Toby laugh even harder.
"Go clean up that mess you made!"
"No." Sirius said, stubbornly.
"You made the kitchen a lake. I think Mum will be a little mad if you don't."
"How d'you know I did it?"
Taya held up a slip of parchment. It was a notice from the Ministry of Magic. "You did magic."
"Hey, Tay, thanks for reading my mail."
"Anytime! Now go clean up the kitchen! You're the one responsible for the Underage Wizard's Rule thing anyway."
Sirius grinned. He and James had accidently turned the sky bright purple, and sent an old tool shed flying 1200 feet in the air, almost colliding with a low flying airplane. It had been the result of two hexes gone horribly wrong. The ministry had decided to forbid "Underage" wizards to use their magic over the holidays. James and Sirius hadn't been punished by the Ministry, since it was an "accident." However, their mothers had held very different opinions, but we won't go into that.
"Sirius." Taya said impatiently.
"Eh, go cry me a river and drown in it." Sirius said, nonchalantly.
"Mum!" Taya ran into the house.
Sirius rolled his eyes, held a finger to his lips to signal to Toby not to tell and ran through the backyard to the wooded area. He arrived at a small clearing he had found when he and a 12-year-old Michael were playing hide-and-seek with Heidi (Michael had only agreed to play because he didn't want to be stuck inside with his mother, aunt and Taya and listening to the adults' endless chatter about the Ministry).
The two boys had found a hollow tree; the entrance was hidden by bushes, so the tree was an ideal hideout. Heidi hadn't been able to find them and had given up and went to a friend's house for the rest of the afternoon.
Hiding in a tree wasn't very fun, Sirius decided an hour later, after he had finished writing his name on the inside of the tree with a rock. He slowly wandered back home, to prolong the inevitible,coming punishment.
"Sirius, we're going to Diagon Alley now." his mother said as he opened the door. "You can clean up the kitchen when we get back, and you're grounded from flying and going over to James' house for the rest of summer."
Sirius groaned. Why hadn't it sufficed to only leave the floor covered in water and not the room filled with it?
*
"Vernon, darling, this is my sister. The freak." Petunia said.
Lily rolled her eyes. Yes, the world was, indeed coming to an end. Petunia had a boyfriend. Lily almost felt sorry for her, for only being able to get boyfriends that looked like a not-so-distant relative of the pig family. ALMOST, that is.
"Lily?" Grateful for an excuse to get away, Lily ran into the living room. Heidi was standing near the fireplace, looking somewhat flustered, and trying to get the soot out of her hair without getting any on the white carpet.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lily said.
"Whatsamatter?" Heidi asked, still brushing soot out of her hair.
"Petunia. Boyfriend. Here."
"Oh." Heidi said. "That explains it."
"Yeah, I think we're having a relative of his for dinner. Part of it, anyway."
Heidi stared at her, eyebrow raised.
"You know. Ham. It's part of a pig."
"Oh, ok. Right. Do you want to spend the night?"
"YES! Anything to get away from Piggy."
"Alrighty then."
*
Audrey was bored. Remus was sick- the full moon was tonight. Heidi fell out of the fireplace, Lily landed on top of her moments later.
"I hate Floo powder." Heidi muttered.
"Hullo to you too." Audrey said, eyebrows raised.
"Want to spend the night?" Heidi asked.
"Ok." Audrey said. "MUM! I'M GOING TO HEIDI'S!"
*
"Kayla, where's Cole?" Heidi asked her younger sister.
"In his crib." Kayla answered, not looking up from her book.
Heidi walked up the stairs to Cole's room, picked him up and led Lily and Audrey into her room.
"Have you been to Diagon Alley yet?" Heidi asked, sitting down on her bed and patting Cole's back. Both girls shook their heads.
"We could go tomorrow." Audrey said.
"Ok. Have you heard about the new racing broom? It's a Nimbus...something. I want to go see it, it's supposed to have a bunch of new features." Heidi said.
"Too bad they'd be expensive. We could get one for each team member." Lily replied.
Heidi nodded, still patting Cole's back. Cole then proceeded to spit up all over Heidi's shoulder.
"Aw, Cole..."
*
"IT'S COLE THE MOLE!" Sirius shouted on September 1st. Cole giggled.
"Are you ever going to grow up?" Heidi asked.
"Of course not!" Sirius replied, tickling Cole. "I'm only 13! It's not time to grow up yet! Besides, it's too much fun being immature!" Heidi rolled her eyes. "JAMSIE!" Sirius shouted, picking a new target.
Heidi rolled her eyes again, handed Cole back to her mother, and pushed her trunk on board and finding a compartment. Lily and Audrey soon joined her. The 3 girls were sprawled out on the seats, enjoying the silence they could only get for a couple minutes when the door burst open and James, Sirius, Remus and Peter hurried in and slammed the door shut again.
"Argh! Let me in, let me in!"
James opened the door a little and Isaac squeezed in.
"Phew. They were only a few- thanks for shutting the door on me, Pete." Isaac said, out of breath.
"I thought you were in front of Sirius!" Peter squeaked.
"POTTER! BLACK! I'M GOING TO GET YOU BACK FOR THIS!"
The Marauders burst into laughter.
"What did you do?" Audrey asked.
Sirius grinned. "You don't want to know," he said, and sat down on Heidi.
"SIRIUS!"
"My, that name seems to get yelled a lot."
"GET OFF ME!"
Sirius pondered this command. "You know, I don't think I will. I'm rather tired, I think I'll stay for a little while."
Heidi began screaming at the top of her lungs and hitting Sirius as hard as she could from her awkward position. Isaac stood up, pulled Sirius off Heidi and pretended to punch him. Sirius made the act complete by crying out in pain and falling to the floor in defeat.
Heidi stood up and sat down on (They're sure getting a lot of exercise) Sirius.
"Now you know how it feels to be sat on."
"Oh, you mean you're sitting on me? I couldn't tell, you feel like a feather!" Sirius said.
Heidi glared at him and pulled Isaac down onto Sirius as well.
"We have the weirdest friends." Lily said to Audrey.
"DOGPILE!" Remus shoutend and jumped onto the 3 who were already on the ground.
"OW! GET OFFA ME!" Sirius shouted when everybody had joined the dogpile. "I GET IT! YOU DON'T LIKE TO BE SAT ON!"
"D'you smell something?" Isaac asked as they untangled themselves. The group began sniffing the air.
"Hmm...smells like-"
"Peter!"
Peter blushed. "Sorry, I-er- it was a dungbomb in my pocket."
* Weeks later*
"Why in the world of heckersnickerdoodles are we having a Halloween ball?"
"Dunno."
"Oh, we're having a ball! What should I wear? Who should I ask? Oh, oh, oh!" Heidi said, mocking a group of 4th year Hufflepuff girls nearby.
"I wouldn't do that." Lily muttered, as the girls shot murderous looks at them.
"Oh well." Heidi said. As the 3 girls walked through the halls to History of Magic, they began to notice the not-so-surreptitious glances at the Marauders, who were in front of them.
"You know, " Audrey said, "I'm beginning to think our friends are rather popular with the female population here."
"What d'you mean?" Isaac, who had left the Marauders to join the girls, asked.
"Must we spell it out for you, dear, slow, Isaac?" Heidi asked, as they passed a group of giggling Ravenclaw 2nd years who were watching the Marauders.
"Oh...I get it." Isaac said.
"That-a-boy." Heidi said, patting his head.
"At the risk of being mocked by Heidi, who are you going to take to the ball?" Audrey asked.
"Now why would I mock you?" Heidi asked.
"There's 3 girls and 5 boys here." Remus said. The Marauders had stopped and waited for the girls and Isaac to catch up. "That means two of us will have to ask somebody else." Remus said.
"Heidi, you wanna go with me?" Isaac asked.
"Sure!" Heidi said, grinning.
"Audrey?" Sirius asked. Audrey nodded.
"So, Lil, you been asked yet?" James asked as they entered the classroom.
"No."
"Ok. I'll pick you up at 7." James said, and winked.
Lily grinned. "James, the ball starts at 8. And no thanks, I'm going with Remus."
"You said-"
"I know what I said."
James glared at Lily, who smiled sweetly back.
*
It was the night of the ball. The Gryffindor 3rd year girls dorm was a mess. Alexa, Casey, Audrey, and Lily were running around, frantically looking for misplaced items. And Heidi? Heidi was sitting on her bed, laughing at the girls, saying they looked like chickens in fancy dress robes with their heads cut off.
"What is so funny?" Audrey asked.
"Oh, just the fact that you're shoes are in your trunk, not under your bed, Lil's hair junk is on the table where it's always been and Casey's and Alexa's makeup is on the dresser, not in the shower."
"When are you planning on getting ready?" Lily asked, retreiving her hair "junk," as Heidi put it so eloquently.
"Oh, I'm ready."
The girls all looked at her to see her dressed in simple, silver dress robes and her hair was, for once, brushed and left down.
"Lil, Audrey, are you two ready?"
"Yeah," Lily said, putting the final touches on her hair.
The 3 girls walked down the staircase, met up with the boys, and the group left for the Great Hall. James had asked a 3rd year Hufflepuff, for some bizzare reason, and Peter had gone stag.
Halfway through the ball, Sirius had decided it wasn't fun enough and set off about 50 Filibuster Fireworks on varying locations around the dance floor.
Near midnight, Dumbledore announced that the next song would end the ball and that they were to return to their dormitories after it.
"D'you wanna dance?" Isaac asked, grinning. Heidi smiled and the two walked onto the floor and began to move in time with the music.
"You're a good dancer." Heidi said.
"Oh...thanks. You too."
"Most guys can't dance, so it's crazy when you find somebody who can." Heidi explained.
"Oh."
The two fell into a comfortable silence, enjoying the last song. A bright flash lit up the floor and they saw James and Sirius holding a camera and grinning and laughing hysterically at them.
Before anyone knew it, or was ready for it, the song ended and they were all slowly walking up to their Common Rooms.
Isaac gave Heidi a quick kiss goodnight and ran up to his dormitory, blushing and trying to ignore the whistling from James, Sirius and Remus. Heidi stood still for a moment, grinning at Isaac's retreating back and went to her own dormitory.
Discaimor: None of this is mine except for my characters. Woo.
A/N: So ends this part because my hands hurt from typing and I'm on the verge of being kicked off the computer by my sister. So, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! By the way, this is the last chapter unless I get some reviews. I hate it when people do this, but I'm not going to spend an hour of my time typing up a chapter and stuff if nobody's going to read it. So if you want me to continue, you gotta review. Please. And I know, it's really annoying when people threaten to discontinue their stories, but, well, I gotta do it. Thanks for reading and reviewing, everybody, and please, if you have to, constructive criticism.
"SIRIUS!"
Sirius Black grinned from his hideout in a tree.
Taya stomped outside,screeching his name as six-year-old Toby laighed from the door frame. Sirius' grin faded as Taya approached the tree. He held his breath, hoping the small limb he was perched on wouldn't break and that Taya would leave, because his leg was beginning to cramp and a tree branch is not an especially comfortable place to sit for long periods of time.
Sirius had very bad luck. The tree branch broke, and he landed painfully on the ground at Taya's feet, making Toby laugh even harder.
"Go clean up that mess you made!"
"No." Sirius said, stubbornly.
"You made the kitchen a lake. I think Mum will be a little mad if you don't."
"How d'you know I did it?"
Taya held up a slip of parchment. It was a notice from the Ministry of Magic. "You did magic."
"Hey, Tay, thanks for reading my mail."
"Anytime! Now go clean up the kitchen! You're the one responsible for the Underage Wizard's Rule thing anyway."
Sirius grinned. He and James had accidently turned the sky bright purple, and sent an old tool shed flying 1200 feet in the air, almost colliding with a low flying airplane. It had been the result of two hexes gone horribly wrong. The ministry had decided to forbid "Underage" wizards to use their magic over the holidays. James and Sirius hadn't been punished by the Ministry, since it was an "accident." However, their mothers had held very different opinions, but we won't go into that.
"Sirius." Taya said impatiently.
"Eh, go cry me a river and drown in it." Sirius said, nonchalantly.
"Mum!" Taya ran into the house.
Sirius rolled his eyes, held a finger to his lips to signal to Toby not to tell and ran through the backyard to the wooded area. He arrived at a small clearing he had found when he and a 12-year-old Michael were playing hide-and-seek with Heidi (Michael had only agreed to play because he didn't want to be stuck inside with his mother, aunt and Taya and listening to the adults' endless chatter about the Ministry).
The two boys had found a hollow tree; the entrance was hidden by bushes, so the tree was an ideal hideout. Heidi hadn't been able to find them and had given up and went to a friend's house for the rest of the afternoon.
Hiding in a tree wasn't very fun, Sirius decided an hour later, after he had finished writing his name on the inside of the tree with a rock. He slowly wandered back home, to prolong the inevitible,coming punishment.
"Sirius, we're going to Diagon Alley now." his mother said as he opened the door. "You can clean up the kitchen when we get back, and you're grounded from flying and going over to James' house for the rest of summer."
Sirius groaned. Why hadn't it sufficed to only leave the floor covered in water and not the room filled with it?
*
"Vernon, darling, this is my sister. The freak." Petunia said.
Lily rolled her eyes. Yes, the world was, indeed coming to an end. Petunia had a boyfriend. Lily almost felt sorry for her, for only being able to get boyfriends that looked like a not-so-distant relative of the pig family. ALMOST, that is.
"Lily?" Grateful for an excuse to get away, Lily ran into the living room. Heidi was standing near the fireplace, looking somewhat flustered, and trying to get the soot out of her hair without getting any on the white carpet.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lily said.
"Whatsamatter?" Heidi asked, still brushing soot out of her hair.
"Petunia. Boyfriend. Here."
"Oh." Heidi said. "That explains it."
"Yeah, I think we're having a relative of his for dinner. Part of it, anyway."
Heidi stared at her, eyebrow raised.
"You know. Ham. It's part of a pig."
"Oh, ok. Right. Do you want to spend the night?"
"YES! Anything to get away from Piggy."
"Alrighty then."
*
Audrey was bored. Remus was sick- the full moon was tonight. Heidi fell out of the fireplace, Lily landed on top of her moments later.
"I hate Floo powder." Heidi muttered.
"Hullo to you too." Audrey said, eyebrows raised.
"Want to spend the night?" Heidi asked.
"Ok." Audrey said. "MUM! I'M GOING TO HEIDI'S!"
*
"Kayla, where's Cole?" Heidi asked her younger sister.
"In his crib." Kayla answered, not looking up from her book.
Heidi walked up the stairs to Cole's room, picked him up and led Lily and Audrey into her room.
"Have you been to Diagon Alley yet?" Heidi asked, sitting down on her bed and patting Cole's back. Both girls shook their heads.
"We could go tomorrow." Audrey said.
"Ok. Have you heard about the new racing broom? It's a Nimbus...something. I want to go see it, it's supposed to have a bunch of new features." Heidi said.
"Too bad they'd be expensive. We could get one for each team member." Lily replied.
Heidi nodded, still patting Cole's back. Cole then proceeded to spit up all over Heidi's shoulder.
"Aw, Cole..."
*
"IT'S COLE THE MOLE!" Sirius shouted on September 1st. Cole giggled.
"Are you ever going to grow up?" Heidi asked.
"Of course not!" Sirius replied, tickling Cole. "I'm only 13! It's not time to grow up yet! Besides, it's too much fun being immature!" Heidi rolled her eyes. "JAMSIE!" Sirius shouted, picking a new target.
Heidi rolled her eyes again, handed Cole back to her mother, and pushed her trunk on board and finding a compartment. Lily and Audrey soon joined her. The 3 girls were sprawled out on the seats, enjoying the silence they could only get for a couple minutes when the door burst open and James, Sirius, Remus and Peter hurried in and slammed the door shut again.
"Argh! Let me in, let me in!"
James opened the door a little and Isaac squeezed in.
"Phew. They were only a few- thanks for shutting the door on me, Pete." Isaac said, out of breath.
"I thought you were in front of Sirius!" Peter squeaked.
"POTTER! BLACK! I'M GOING TO GET YOU BACK FOR THIS!"
The Marauders burst into laughter.
"What did you do?" Audrey asked.
Sirius grinned. "You don't want to know," he said, and sat down on Heidi.
"SIRIUS!"
"My, that name seems to get yelled a lot."
"GET OFF ME!"
Sirius pondered this command. "You know, I don't think I will. I'm rather tired, I think I'll stay for a little while."
Heidi began screaming at the top of her lungs and hitting Sirius as hard as she could from her awkward position. Isaac stood up, pulled Sirius off Heidi and pretended to punch him. Sirius made the act complete by crying out in pain and falling to the floor in defeat.
Heidi stood up and sat down on (They're sure getting a lot of exercise) Sirius.
"Now you know how it feels to be sat on."
"Oh, you mean you're sitting on me? I couldn't tell, you feel like a feather!" Sirius said.
Heidi glared at him and pulled Isaac down onto Sirius as well.
"We have the weirdest friends." Lily said to Audrey.
"DOGPILE!" Remus shoutend and jumped onto the 3 who were already on the ground.
"OW! GET OFFA ME!" Sirius shouted when everybody had joined the dogpile. "I GET IT! YOU DON'T LIKE TO BE SAT ON!"
"D'you smell something?" Isaac asked as they untangled themselves. The group began sniffing the air.
"Hmm...smells like-"
"Peter!"
Peter blushed. "Sorry, I-er- it was a dungbomb in my pocket."
* Weeks later*
"Why in the world of heckersnickerdoodles are we having a Halloween ball?"
"Dunno."
"Oh, we're having a ball! What should I wear? Who should I ask? Oh, oh, oh!" Heidi said, mocking a group of 4th year Hufflepuff girls nearby.
"I wouldn't do that." Lily muttered, as the girls shot murderous looks at them.
"Oh well." Heidi said. As the 3 girls walked through the halls to History of Magic, they began to notice the not-so-surreptitious glances at the Marauders, who were in front of them.
"You know, " Audrey said, "I'm beginning to think our friends are rather popular with the female population here."
"What d'you mean?" Isaac, who had left the Marauders to join the girls, asked.
"Must we spell it out for you, dear, slow, Isaac?" Heidi asked, as they passed a group of giggling Ravenclaw 2nd years who were watching the Marauders.
"Oh...I get it." Isaac said.
"That-a-boy." Heidi said, patting his head.
"At the risk of being mocked by Heidi, who are you going to take to the ball?" Audrey asked.
"Now why would I mock you?" Heidi asked.
"There's 3 girls and 5 boys here." Remus said. The Marauders had stopped and waited for the girls and Isaac to catch up. "That means two of us will have to ask somebody else." Remus said.
"Heidi, you wanna go with me?" Isaac asked.
"Sure!" Heidi said, grinning.
"Audrey?" Sirius asked. Audrey nodded.
"So, Lil, you been asked yet?" James asked as they entered the classroom.
"No."
"Ok. I'll pick you up at 7." James said, and winked.
Lily grinned. "James, the ball starts at 8. And no thanks, I'm going with Remus."
"You said-"
"I know what I said."
James glared at Lily, who smiled sweetly back.
*
It was the night of the ball. The Gryffindor 3rd year girls dorm was a mess. Alexa, Casey, Audrey, and Lily were running around, frantically looking for misplaced items. And Heidi? Heidi was sitting on her bed, laughing at the girls, saying they looked like chickens in fancy dress robes with their heads cut off.
"What is so funny?" Audrey asked.
"Oh, just the fact that you're shoes are in your trunk, not under your bed, Lil's hair junk is on the table where it's always been and Casey's and Alexa's makeup is on the dresser, not in the shower."
"When are you planning on getting ready?" Lily asked, retreiving her hair "junk," as Heidi put it so eloquently.
"Oh, I'm ready."
The girls all looked at her to see her dressed in simple, silver dress robes and her hair was, for once, brushed and left down.
"Lil, Audrey, are you two ready?"
"Yeah," Lily said, putting the final touches on her hair.
The 3 girls walked down the staircase, met up with the boys, and the group left for the Great Hall. James had asked a 3rd year Hufflepuff, for some bizzare reason, and Peter had gone stag.
Halfway through the ball, Sirius had decided it wasn't fun enough and set off about 50 Filibuster Fireworks on varying locations around the dance floor.
Near midnight, Dumbledore announced that the next song would end the ball and that they were to return to their dormitories after it.
"D'you wanna dance?" Isaac asked, grinning. Heidi smiled and the two walked onto the floor and began to move in time with the music.
"You're a good dancer." Heidi said.
"Oh...thanks. You too."
"Most guys can't dance, so it's crazy when you find somebody who can." Heidi explained.
"Oh."
The two fell into a comfortable silence, enjoying the last song. A bright flash lit up the floor and they saw James and Sirius holding a camera and grinning and laughing hysterically at them.
Before anyone knew it, or was ready for it, the song ended and they were all slowly walking up to their Common Rooms.
Isaac gave Heidi a quick kiss goodnight and ran up to his dormitory, blushing and trying to ignore the whistling from James, Sirius and Remus. Heidi stood still for a moment, grinning at Isaac's retreating back and went to her own dormitory.
Discaimor: None of this is mine except for my characters. Woo.
A/N: So ends this part because my hands hurt from typing and I'm on the verge of being kicked off the computer by my sister. So, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! By the way, this is the last chapter unless I get some reviews. I hate it when people do this, but I'm not going to spend an hour of my time typing up a chapter and stuff if nobody's going to read it. So if you want me to continue, you gotta review. Please. And I know, it's really annoying when people threaten to discontinue their stories, but, well, I gotta do it. Thanks for reading and reviewing, everybody, and please, if you have to, constructive criticism.