Chapter 5: a makeover and a match up?

As the days rolled on the guys relaxed from their fearful, paranoid reactions, as the girls showed no signs of grudge holding. Things settled down to normal, well as normal as can be when your are a 5th year witch or wizard studying for your OWLs as the most feared dark lord in a century continues to rise. Days were coupled with study, Snape being a prick, visiting Hagrid, Snape being a prick, Trelawney predicting people's deaths, Snape being a prick, constant news of death-eater attacks and did we mention, Snape being a prick? Harry being in dire need of distraction from the dark tidings of the outside world forced the quidditch team into strict training, working to the bone come wind, hail or storm. Of course the added bonus of this being the last year to trample Malfoy to dust did not lessen the manic determination in Harry's and indeed all of the Gryffindors' blood; first match was Nov 2nd the Sunday after Halloween. " The match is in 7 days!" Lyn yelled across at the three grumbling girls. "We need to practise!" Sadly the seriousness of Lyn's statement was lost to the fact that he was standing impatiently in front of the girls bouncing up and down like a toddler that needed to go to the bathroom; the girls were not amused. " Bug off!" whined Saz as Darien and Ashe tried to pull her out of bed, " What the hell are you guys doing in our room anyway?" she muttered slumping back down. " What time is it? Where's the chicken?" Nuna slurred as attempts to wake her failed. " Myst!" Ashe shrieked as he pulled of the covers, still failing to wake her up. Ashe the moved to tickle her feet and was promptly kicked in the head. "Ow!" he muttered rubbing his head and got up to try again, that is until a deep, reptilian growl escaped from behind him. It appeared Emberlynn had a temper like her mistress and did not take kindly for being woken by Ashe landing on her tail. "Uh Oh." The guys chorused dashing out of the room as the minature dragon advanced upon the with sparks flying out of her nose at an alarming rate. Out in the corridor Ember sent a small fireball after the retreating Ashe satisfied as he jumped in the air clutching his scorched behind before grumbling back to sleep next to her mistress. No one would squish her there. The girls including Alyssa, Mione and Gin, slept until noon to the amazement of the house, seeing the girls were usually up at dawn. The quidditch team were very grouchy as they had to practise without their chasers and the whole common room was filled with whispers of what do you think they got up to last night accompanied with naughty winks. (Come on they are teenagers!)

This is what happened~~~~*flashback the night before*~~~

The four girls groaned as they climbed the stairs to their dorm after diner. " Stupid Snape, why did he have to give us that stupid essay on those stupid stupidity potions!" Alyssa whined dropping her books onto her bed. " I'm not even going to mention how many stupid, stupids you said in that stupid sentence, stupid!" Nuna replied getting a little tongue tied. Alyssa flopped onto the bed beside her books, " This is what I mean! We should never have doubles of Potions and History of magic right after each other. I can't even construct proper sentences!" she fumed. " Yes we must write a polite yet strongly worded letter of complaint to whoever's in charge of timetables." Saz replied lazily. "Hmm and stuff it with sneezing powder so they get the point." Myst replied collapsing beside Alyssa on her bed. " You know what we really need though?" she continued propping herself up onto her elbows. " A machete and Snape in a dark alley?" Lyssa suggested, a homicidal gleam in her eyes. Myst laughed before continuing, "Nah! We need a party or something, a girls night in." " Lollies!" Saz squealed hopping onto the bed, " and coridal." " Ice cream!" Nuna added, the others rolled their eyes, "What?" " We can ask Ginny and Mione over, get food from the kitchens, swap stories, plot revenge." Saz's scheming was cut off. " Not revenge with Moine here..unless it involves Malfoy." Myst cut across. "Whatever. It'll be fun, what d'you guys reckon?" Saz suddenly turned to Lyssa and Nuna. " So long as we get icecream." Nuna replied. " Yeah I'm in." Lyssa replied, " and we get Nuna's icecream on one condition." "What?" Nuna asked, her eyebrows knotting together in confusion. " I get one truth question from you when we play truth or dare tonight." She answered with a grin that had Nuna worried. "OK." "YAY!" Myst cried, "I'll go tell Mione and Gin!" " We'll get the food!" Saz and Lyssa called. "Nuna, you can set things up." Saz called as they dashed out before she could retaliate. "Great!" Nuna muttered, along with several unpleasantrys, as she turned a cupboard into a freezer and started to create a circle of cushions to sit on. Meanwhile Myst dashed downstairs to the common room and straight up to the two girls and their significant others, " girls night tonight meet in 10 mins if you wanna come." She whispered in the girls ears, to the confusion of the guys, before she dashed upstairs to fine some tunes to listen to. 10 minutes later found Alyssa, Saz, Ginny and Mione running up to the dorm several times, adding to their growing pile of snack food as Myst and Nuna created a giant 'nest' of cushions, blankets and matresses in the centre of the room. "Ahh!" Saz l;et out a sigh as she dumped the last of the butterbeers into a section of the nest which Nuna had wisely placed a cooling charm. "Let's get this shindig started!" she leaned over and cranked up the stereo before plopping down next to Lyssa and Ginny. " Right. Gin, Mione, spill. Harry, Ron, blackmail material." Nuna grinned deviously. The two older girls shared a glance, "Umm.." " Well Ron likes to pick his nose when he thinks your not looking." Hermione started. " Harry wears polka dotted boxers to bed." Ginny quipped in, " Or he has a pair of boxers with little yellow snitches." " Should we ask?" Nuna asked, taking notes and looking both amused and disgusted. They shook their heads mutely, giggles escaping their hands. "What else." Hermione tapped her chin thinking, " Ron has an obsession with care bears. He came to my house with 20 stuffed in his suitcase. When he opened it he realised he'd forgotten his undies and I had to take him out 2 buy some new ones." At this point the girls were laughing loud enough for the boys in the common room to hear and be curious enough to creep slowly up to their door and listen, meanwhile. " So do you guys have any interesting stories bout the guys?" Mione asked cheekily. " The guys?" Myst asked, "Umm. Well when we were doing boggarts in defence against the dark arts, Ashe, it. Turned. In-into. Into." She fell to the floor in giggles with her sisters. "What?" Mione asked, slightly exasperated. " A teddy bear." Alyssa replied calmly. Mione looked at them blankly. " It chased him around them room, the rest of us were laughing so much it exploded!" Myst continued hiccuping, " It was the size of his thigh and really fluffy!" "It kept saying 'Mr Bobo loves you, give me a hug!'" Nuna added " He screamed like a girl, it was bizarre." " He never said why either." Saz pondered. "Did you guys fet the marshmallows?" Myst asked as the converstion died. "Yup they should be right behind you." Ginny replied, leaning over, "Here we go. I don't know why you needed so many." "Coz we're gonna play chubby bunny!" Nuna cried, grabbing a packet and an empty bowl, just in case, " I go first!" " What's chubby bunny?" Ginny asked. " Well it's a contest." Alyssa started. " You have to stuff as many marshmallows in your mouth as possible." Hermione continued " But each time you put one in." Nuna went on. " You have to be able to say 'chubby bunny'" said Myst. " The one with the most wins." Saz finished. " OK I'll go after Nuna then." Ginny replied. "Yay! Let's play!" cried Myst. " Ok." Annuna picked up a marshmallow and put it in the side of her mouth, " Chubby bunny." The second went in " Chubby bunny." She got another six in before she began to slur " Chwubby bwunnwy." She said as the eleventh marshmallow went in. The rest laughed, " Oh yeah, we forgot, you can't chew." Saz told Ginny as Annuna managed a 20th chubby bunny, throwing up her hands in defeat. " Now Gin it's your turn. "I soo can't fit 20 in my mouth!" Gin whined, "I forfeit!" "Na un. I can barely fit 8 in my mouth!" herm shook her head. "Lyssa?" Saz asked offering the packet. "Nah." She replied sneaking a few anyway. "Myst?" "Hehe. You're going down big sister!" Myst crowed grabbing the packet and bowl. "Ok chubby bunny." She kept going till she gagged on the 12th and had to give up. "Looks like it's just you and me Nuna." Saz said, "Just you and me." She went on a roll, the marshmallows seemed unable to affect her; "11, 12, 13, 14, 15"; she started to slur; "16, 17, 18, 19." At this point the girls were tense with anticipation. The 20th went in and. "Splat!", into the bowl. "I couldn't do it!" Saz wailed as Nuna got up and did a victory dance (and the guys arrived at the door.) "Ok let's play truth or dare." Alyssa said grabbing Nuna, "Or should we forget we forget my free truth question and just talk about hot guys instead?" "You mean like Orlando Bloom!" Nuna pretended to faint. "Or Heath Ledger." Hermione added, Nuna twitched more on the floor grinning at the visions in her head. "Or Lyn." Alyssa put in as Nuna's grin unknowingly deepened till her conscious mind took a jolt. "WHAT!" "Ha ha! You can't deny it!" "We have proof!" her sisters cried as the rest giggled and Lyn's face threatened to be split by a grin. He leaned closer to the door, Daniel just behind. "So.: Ginny cooed, "You like Lyn. Awww. Do you like his looks or personality?" Nuna looked skywards dreamily and sighed "Both." "Details." Hermione probed. "Ok." Nuna snapped up. " Ok personality first umm. well he's actually quite like Lupin; he's smart, funny, cheeky even. Yet he's really warm and compassionate. He's generous and honest and really sweet without being soppy. He thinks about things a lot more than he lets on and deep down I think he's a very caring guy." Outside Lyn blushed, starting to feel a little guilty for eavesdropping. "Ah but you said you liked looks too." Myst chimed. "Well hello! Tall, dark and handsome." She replied, "You all know what they say about tall guys." She cleared her throat to make her point clear, " And he has a quidditch player's bod. Remember at his party in the summer? The pool? Six pac and pecs mmmm." "And, heading up, I like black hair on guys. 'Specially short curls, and his eyes are like chocolate, all warm and brown and deep. Destiny's child got it right," she bagan to sing, "I know that he loves me 'coz it's obvious, I know that he loves me 'coz its me he trust. He's there for me, I know he care for me, and when he looks at me his brown eyes tell his soul." She sighed wistfully "But he'll never like me THAT way and I don't want to ruin our friendship." Outside Lyn felt his stomach plummet and the smile he'd unknowingly been wearing fell. 'If only she knew.' 'But she cares enough for you and your friendship not to follow her heart.' And annoyingly perky voice in his head argued, 'Go and announce you're love.' 'What? And have her know you've been eavesdropping, how honest.' The nasty cinical side of his brain returned. 'Then don't let her know you've been eavesdropping, enter when the topic changes.' 'But you heard her she'll deny it 'coz of our friendship and thin k you've been spying 'coz you've never said before.' 'Fine but we plot ways to woo her.' 'Fine.' The mental dialogue finished as the girls sat back from hugging Nuna. "Don't worry something will work out." Hermione consoled merrily, "And if not you're in a perfect position to perve in quidditch practise." "MIONE!" "Sorry." Outside Lyn motioned the guys away, took them to their dorm and on an oath of secrecy uploaded his dilemma. "You know what!" Saz said. "What?" Nuna asked. "I have exactly the same problem with Daz." Hermione and Ginny pulled mock gasps. "What?!" "Well it's obvious you all like each could be paired up, I'm surprised Myst isn't secretly pining after Ashe." Hermione explained. "Mmm." Myst replied nonchalantly. "It's the eyes." Saz said flatly. "Mind Darien actually flirts with you." Nuna put in. "And the cuddly-ness on the carriage at the start of term." Myst added. "And the longful stares in potions when he thinks no one's looking." Alyssa added. "It's rather dangerous, I swear he almost cut off his finger whilst chopping the toads liver." "Seems all we need is for you to flirt back." Hermione concluded. "And I'll get Harry to investigate the scene and drop a hint about your affections." Gin added, "Just to be sure." "And Saz and Daz live happily ever after." Lyssa carolled. "Ah yes but what about my lovestruck sister?" Saz asked steering conversation away from her love life, "I mean he's kissed you, you've sat in his lap, he gave you his icecream, yet no romance." "The icecream was from friendship, the lap from necessity and he acts like the kiss was nothing." She replied glumly. "He only sees me as a friend nothing else. Just boring old Nuna." "Well we'll just have to change that won't we?" Hermione asked conspirtively, "Nuna how long since you had a new style?" she asked picking up the ponytail of curls that fell to he waist. "MAKE OVER!" the girls squealed and dragged her over to a chair and a mirror. "Shit." she muttered. "Ok first things first. Analysing the original style." Gin picked up scrunchies, headbands and rummaged through Annuna's clothes, "I'd say Tomboy meet schoolgirl. Definite 'No No'. Second step plausible new style. Hmm." Alyssa grabbed the latest copies of witch weekly "Ok. recent styles, punk, retro, cowboy, sporty. Therefore none of those. Umm." "Oh! In my town there's this muggle shop that sells new age clothes that aren't too way out, and everytime I pass I seriously think of you." Hermione cried, " they've got flared sleeves and pants, billowing skirts, bodices, cloaks, saris and stuff. It's this really natural style; I know how much you care about the environment, the toads for example, and coz of the style you don't need your great terror makeup." "Ok." Nuna replied tentatively. 'Hermione's gone bimbo.' "Right." Hermione clapped her hands and moved to the bed where Sazza and Mystic had lined up Nuna's clothes, "Ok. That one, that one, that top, this jumper, that top and those pants." The others grabbed her selection and put them in a pile so she could get to work. "Manicures! Pedicures! Facials!" the other 5th years called. "'Cept Mione coz she's working." "And me." Ginny added. "What?" Nuna asked. "I'm doing your hair, now where are the scissors?" She replied. "WHAT!?!?!?!" "Don't worry I know what I'm doing." "YOU'RE GONNA CUT MY HAIR!?" "Well it's too long a straggly, trust me it'll look good." "Fine." She muttered grabbing her wand, " But I don't wanna look while you're doing it. Onli Virius." About two hours later Nuna muttered the counter charm with a gasp before dashing over to look at her altered wardrobe. "OH My Gosh! OH My Gosh! These are sooo cool, THANK YOU THANK YOU!" she ran around hugging everyone. Ginny grabbed a butterbeer for everyone out of their cooling spot, "Toast for the pursuit of guys!" "YAY!" "Now let's pig out!" Saz cried diving for the food in 'the nest'. "Icecream!" Nuna cried hoping down beside her. The girls continued to sit and chat, and eat, till Mione and Gin decided to return to their dorms at 3am, once the food was finished. "Ok! See ya tomorrow! We won't come out till you come and do up Nuna." The 5th year girls called. "Ok goodnight!" "'Night." The girls turned to the nest and with a flick of Nuna's wand their room was back to normal. They climbed into their beds and said goodnight before falling into dreams.

~~~~*end flashback*~~~ Mione and Ginny had showed up very awake and perky in the girls' room at 11 and succeed in having them all awake and ready for work at 11:30, Ginny did all their hair and showed them a few tricks and Mione altered some more clothes. The girls whined for food the whole time till at noon the girls pronounced them ready and they almost ran to the hall for lunch. As they reached the hall however Mione and Gin stopped them. "You gals realize you missed practice today." Said Ginny smiling as she waited for the fluent outpouring of curses to stop, "And Harry has been rather obsessed, well, I think you'd best wait here while I distract him." Before protest could be made she dashed inside the hall to promptly sit in the shocked and surprised Harry's lap, whispering quickly into his ear. "Come on it's just you and me Lis." Hermione said linking arms and heading over to the Gryffindor table. "Lets go Nuna, let's see if Lewy likes your new look." Saz cried as she and Myst grabbed an arm each and practically dragged their embarrassed sister into the hall. Llewellyn looked up from his breakfast, spoon halfway to his mouth, and froze in shock. 'There she was, his phoenix, parting the crowds like Moses and the Red sea. Since when did I become a poet. Bugger. Wow. Hot. Shit.' His mind was stuck, unable to form anything but monosylabic words. "OY Lyn! You gonna eat that? Lyn, hello?" 'Her hair. She cut it. Looks good. Shoulder length, good, more bouncy.' "Lyn?!" Darien asked removing hi spoon of now cold porridge. ' Like the curves. I mean clothes, bouncy too, shows curves, nice curves.' "What are you looking at! Oh." 'She looks like a princess.' "Talk to her mate." 'Huh? Talk? Talk to her? Yes talk to her, be talking to her, talking to her.' "SNAPE!!" the last word hissed from his mouth with loathing as Leo stepped up to Nuna and blocked his view. "Go get your girl man she needs help." Ashe said noticing the scene, "Don't let that slime ball get her." He nodded in reply and headed over to the squirming girls. "Dar, Smythisson's eying your gal." Ashe said and watched in amusement as Darien jumped up and followed Lyn to the girls. He chuckled, 'lovebirds', and caught Myst's eye as the others reached the sisters. She smiled and headed over, his stomach did a faint flop, 'Hey! I'm not the one in love!' Llewellyn stepped up to the girls and the slytherins, ignoring everyone except Annuna who gave him a relived smile, 'Christ she's even more beautiful close up, you can see those freckles and that blush. She's so cute, no way is Snape gonna get her.' "Nuna you missed practise." He cried, putting an arm around her waist as Darien did the same to Saz, 'Hope she doesn't get offended, hope she doesn't hit me.' He began to lead her away with a perfunctionry nod to Leo, "Snape." "Gwenedd." "Snape." Darien followed suit.
"Tufankian" The boys lead the two over to the table where their sister and a mildly red Ashe sat "You're beautiful." Lyn whispered in Nuna's ears as she sat, her blush deepened and she whispered a barely audible thankyou. "Thank you for rescuing me from Snape, he looked like he was about to propose on the spot! Is there any way I can make it up to you?" she asked shyly, embarrassed by all the stares she was receiving from the male population of the school. "I dunno. Come flying with me this afternoon?" he almost begged. "Ok." She said simply, with a smile that made him feel heaven can come to where she sat. She popped a strawberry in he mouth and he felt the most irresistible urge to kiss those sweet lips. "Nuna?" he whispered breathlessly. "Yes?" She looked into his eyes almost shyly. Emerald and chocolate linked and he felt all his breath disappear from his lungs, 'To hell with it!', "Can I kiss you?" he asked softly. The look in her eyes was all he needed, he leaned down and kissed her softly cherishing her taste and the strawberry smell from her hair. Outside the little private world they'd found themselves in cat calls, wolf whistles and fake tears surrounded the couple and a call of "Finally!" from Ron. They broke apart and noticed the attention they'd created. "Perhaps we should go some where more private to talk." "Perhaps." Nuna giggled. "Why don't we do that?" Darien asked Saz cheekily. "I don't know, maybe because you've never tried?" she teased back "Damn."