Chapter 15
Bored
After three days of mourning, Kayla, Sirius, James and Lily smiled. They had fun. After running after Lily thinking that she was going to drown herself, the trio played and frolicked in the ocean water, happy to be able to laugh again, to have something to laugh about again. But the day after that, everything turned weird again. As if they were only allowed one day to be normal again.
It was now summer, and everyone was stuck at home, too nervous that seeing Lily or Kayla would make the girls cry, or that James and Sirius would become silent and brooding. For some reason, everyone felt weird around one another. Nothing like this had ever happened to the group of friends, and they didn't know what to do about it.
Within four days of the vacation, all four friends were crying out of boredom.
The only two out of the six that weren't bored out of their minds were Aria and Remus, who were spending some time together.
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Sirius stood in his kitchen, looking through the variety of foods that the room contained and tried to decide what he wanted to eat. When he found that he couldn't decide, he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and put a little of everything in front of him to eat.
After he sat down at the Island counter, he put one of his elbows on the table, leaned his head against his hand, and with the other hand, slowly, mechanically, brought his food to his mouth. He never knew that eating could be this boring when you had nothing to do, and probably wouldn't have nothing to do for three whole, long months.
"I feel as if I can go to sleep and never wake up," he muttered to himself as his eyelids started to get heavy.
"Someone has got to be doing something!" he cried in a spurt of energy.
Now, the only problem was, finding out who was doing something.
"Now, should I go and bug people now, or later?" Sirius wondered as he started eating again. This time without the sluggish movements.
"Later," he decided with a sigh, and got up from his seat.
"I might as well go and bug Mum about something again," he sighed as he dragged himself towards the garden.
Walking outside of the house, he had to blink when he saw the sunlight. Those little blue, purple, green, and yellow dots could be amusing to watch sometimes. But they sort of made you dizzy if you tried to concentrate on where they were going. Sirius should know, he's speaking from experience.
"Sirius Black! What in the world are you still doing in your pajama's young man!" Mrs. Black scolded her son as she saw him in his long red and black flannel pants and black wife beater.
"Sorry Mum," Sirius grinned as he plopped down next to his Mother, who was kneeling in front of her rose bushes with a hoe in hand and a big floppy white hat covering her black hair.
Dianna Black snorted at her son in an un-ladylike way. She knew that he wasn't sorry, he just said that so that she wouldn't nag.
"What are you doing today," she questioned as she turned to the gardening at hand.
"Absolutely nothing," he admitted as he leaned on his forearms and crossed his legs at the ankles.
"Why not?"
"Because it's sort of weird talking to anybody right now with what all has gone on," Sirius admitted to his Mother with a shrug of his shoulders.
Dianna shook her head. He's here to bug me about something again, she thought as she attacked a weed with her hoe. God help this poor boy's head if he doesn't find something to do, and fast.
"So, Mum, why is grass green?" Sirius asked suddenly in a childish voice.
"Sirius, honey, what is it with you and your fascination with colors? Yesterday it was 'why is the sky blue' and then the day before that it was, 'why is water clear'. Honestly, Sirius!" Dianna exclaimed with a shake of her head.
"Color's are pretty though!" Sirius cried in a girlish voice and pouted at his Mother.
"Because it is Sirius, because it is," Dianna sighed and hoped that her son would get tired sometime soon.
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Kayla lay on her bed, trying to ignore the fighting that was taking place down the hall. It appears that her Mother has over gone her budget once again, Kayla sighed. This was an annual fight with her parents. It happened at least once every other week, if not more often. Mother could never keep a budget. Not if her life depended on it, Kayla thought with a snicker.
She was bored, and needed something to do, but she had no one at home that she could talk to without getting into trouble for talking to 'those who are lower than you' as her Mother would put it.
She was tired, but she didn't want to go to sleep. She felt like being in a stubborn mood, and as no one was around to listen to her, she had to be stubborn with herself.
God I need someone to talk to! I'm sitting here confusing myself! Kayla groaned. She felt like she was slowly going out of her mind from the solitude.
I wonder what Sirius is wearing right now, she wondered before she could stop herself. There is no way that I just thought that! Her mind cried out frantically as she curled in a ball and pulled the blankets around her body tighter. Her house was freezing, as always. It seemed like the temperature of the house always had to fight the occupants personalities. Because that's what her parents were. Cold.
Kayla's eyes began to get heavy, and she succumbed to the pull of sleep.
Her dreams were filled with longing, and one particular guy. He was tall and strong with midnight black hair, and dark chocolate eyes that were made for making her knee's go weak.
And as he dreamed of calloused hands from Quidditch roaming freely over her body, she moaned. She wanted Sirius Black. In every way possible.
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After two months of never ending boredom passed, the book lists, and customary letters from Hogwarts arrived, indicating the normal things, such as the arrival and departure of the Hogwarts express, and their tickets.
Finally, someone was brave enough to plan a get together, and they all agreed to meet at the Leaky Cauldron so that they could get their school supplies together.
Lily was the first to arrive, looking wonderful as always in her black jeans and white scoop neck sweater with a wizards robe over it. Lily quickly found a booth that would fit everyone in it and took a seat.
Next to arrive was Aria. Her white pants and dark blue turtle neck sweater, along with a matching color of blue robe, brought out her facial features, and her eyes.
Within seconds of spotting Lily, she shouted, "I missed you Hunter," as she embraced her friend.
"I missed you too, Aradriana," Lily chuckled as she pulled out the embrace.
Just then, a scream of "Lily! Aria! James! Sirius! Remus! Any of you here yet?" called out.
Both Lily and Aria turned towards the noise with grins on their faces. "Pouncy!" Lily yelled out, causing Kayla to grin from her place by the door, and the matrons of the room to look at the girls with glowering glances for the disruptions. But the glares went unnoticed by the girls, who were used to such looks from teachers.
Kayla skipped over to her friends happily and sat on Lily's lap, hugged her tightly, then dragged Aria down by the neck and hugged her also. God it's so nice to be with my friends again, Kayla thought with a smile.
It had taken hours for Kayla to decide on the tight red pants and black tank top that she was wearing and she had thought that she was running behind and would be late, but it appeared as if she wasn't.
After scooting off of Lily's lap and laying the black robe that she had brought with her on the leather of the booth seat, Kayla inquired about the girls summers.
Identical shouts of, "Boring" sounded, and Kayla laughed. At least hers wasn't the only boring summer.
Kayla shot a glare at one of the customers who was gazing at her tattoo on her arm. She knew that he was thinking that she was too young to have one, but she didn't give a shit. It was her body, and she could do whatever she wanted to do with it.
"Damn," Kayla muttered. She had wanted someone to be able to tell her about their summer!
Lily looked around, no doubtfully looking for someone to see if they provoked such a comment from Kayla's mouth. Which no one did.
Kayla explained why she said that to Lily, and was rewarded with a male voice saying, "Nope, can't say that I've had any better luck than you."
As a group, the girls turned around to see James standing there with a grin, and Peter looking on grumpily.
"James!" Lily cried in excitement upon seeing her boyfriend again, looking like he always did in dark blue pants and a white shirt and a black robe thrown over his shoulders. Lily got on her knees on the bench and kissed him quickly before pulling back and grinning.
"What, no girls?" Lily asked, and James stuck his tongue out at her while he made his way to the other side of the booth and sat down.
Peter pulled a chair over to the table and sat down towards the corner, not daring to sit across from any of the girls.
Aria, always being the nice one, asked Peter, "And how was your summer?" Peter shrugged and looked at the wall.
Sirius and Remus made their way over to the table and surprised their girlfriends by bending over the sides and kissing their cheeks lightly. Both girls jumped a mile high into the air, not expecting it.
"Don't do that! What are you trying to do, Black, kill me!" Kayla screamed at him.
Sirius grinned then made his way over to the long leather seat that James and Remus were sitting on. "But of course not," he grinned at her, "I wouldn't want to kill you until you gave me at least 2.5 children." Kayla glared very sharp daggers at him and gave him the finger.
"Any time my dear, any time. Just give me the time and place," Sirius said slyly and winked at her.
Kayla looked Sirius over the best that she could considering he was sitting down, and took in his dark green sweater, black pants that she happened to have seen, and the green robe that he tossed over the backing of the seat, and inwardly grinning to herself, she said out loud. "Nah, I think that I'll pass."
Sirius just opened his mouth to speak when Kayla continued.
"I think that I'll go with Remus if you don't mind. He looks so sexy in his black pants and gray sweater and robe," she said with a smile, making Remus blush. Aria, Lily, and James laughed. Sirius was surrendered speechless – for once in his life. Just then –
"What can I get ya's?" the waiter came by and asked, holding up a notebook looking thing and a quill.
"Umm," Lily said, "I'll have a glass of water."
A response of, "Same," went around, since all the Leaky Cauldron had in the middle of the morning to serve was liquor or disgusting gruel. The waiter raised his eyebrows, but neverless, summoned seven waters.
"Hey, look," Peter said after he took a gulp of his water. "I'm meeting some other friends, so I'm going to go okay?" he said and stood up and left without even letting them say goodbye.
Lily looked at the three remaining Marauders and asked, "What was that about?"
They, just as confused, shrugged their shoulders. "Now, how are we going about with all of this shopping?" Remus asked.
Everyone looked at each other, expecting someone to come up with an idea. Finally, after much silence, Lily rolled her eyes and said, "We can either break up into groups for a while then meet up some place and begin school shopping, or we can all herd around together."
As if upon previous agreement, they all said, "Couple splits!"
Lily chuckled and looked at James. "Ready?" she asked. He nodded his head, and Lily looked at the others.
"Okay, it's 11:20 now, so how about we meet up at 12:30 at the book store?" Lily asked. After receiving nods of agreement, Lily elbowed Kayla off the bench so that she could get up and grinned at her. Kayla in return stuck her tongue out at her and laughed. Lily shook her head and linked hands with James.
Kayla snuggled into Sirius' side as he threw his arm around her shoulders and pulled her body into his.
"So, where are we going?" Kayla asked as they wandered around Diagon Ally for a few minutes.
"Candy." Was all that Sirius had to say. Kayla grinned. Nothing got to Sirius like candy did.
After a while, Kayla and Sirius stopped at the Ice cream parlor, and Kayla was trying to decide what flavor she wanted when Sirius suddenly remembered the jewelry store that they had passed by earlier. It wasn't that far down the walkway from where he was, and maybe he could slip off and get what he needed.
"Hey, Kay, I need to go and get something, I'll be right back okay?" Sirius said as he let his hand fall from its' position over her shoulders.
Kayla nodded absently, still trying to find out what kind of flavor she wanted. They shouldn't have every freaking flavor available! Kayla thought with a frown and turned to watch Sirius disappear through the door leading outside. Now what in the world is that guy getting into? She wondered fleetingly.
Sirius walked into 'Magical Day Jewelers', and was shocked to see James in there roaming around the display cases.
"Hey Padfoot." James grinned at him.
Sirius jumped at the sound of his nickname, looked in James' direction, and grinned. "Looks like both of us are doomed for hell at such an early age," Sirius said as he walked over to James.
James chuckled. "Looks like it. I really can't imagine not living my life without her, and I figure the only way to keep her close is marriage, so here I am."
Sirius looked at him with understanding. He knew what James meant, because that was exactly how he felt about Kayla. He thought that if he didn't hurry up and make his move now, that she'd realize that there's something better out there for her. Someone better out there for her. And he already knew that there was no way that he could spend his life without her in it now that he got her where he had been trying to get her for so many years.
"I know what you mean. You know," Sirius said as they began to brose the rings. "I never figured that all those years of secretly loving Kayla would pay off. Hell, I thought that I'd get married and still be hitting on her! Sad as that is. And look at where I am now. You'd think that I was dead and in heaven. Picking out a ring with the right girl's face attached." Sirius ended with a dreamy smile and his eyes starting to get that far away, dreamy look in them.
James, upon seeing this laughed. "Sirius, my friend. If you're anything like me, and how I left Lily, alone, you better snap out of it before Kayla comes looking for you and finds you." James said, and Sirius' eyes automatically cleared. James hid his smile, looks like his buddy was like him after all.
"Hello sirs. Do you know what you are looking for?" asked a clear, strong, male voice from behind the duo.
James turned first and said, "Yes. Or, I do at least." He cleared up, letting the clerk know that they were both shopping for something.
The young man with the shaggy brown hair and dark brown eyes nodded his head and started towards them.
"You don't mind waiting while I deal with him first, do you sir?" the clerk asked Sirius as he slid behind the glass counters by the rings that they were looking at.
Sirius shook his head and continued looking.
"I wanted two diamonds, princess cut, and then two sapphires on the outsides of the diamonds, same cut, and on a white gold band." James said to the clerk, who in turn nodded his head and said, "I have just the thing," and disappeared into the back room.
Sirius turned towards James. "You know, I'm getting almost the same exact thing for Kay, except it'll be rubies instead. What made you think of sapphires?" he asked.
James smiled. "She's my other half. Magically, physically, mentally, and in every other way," he replied. "I take it, that it's the same thing with you and Kay's?" James asked and shot a sly look towards Sirius, who just nodded. James laughed.
"It's creepy you know." James said after he stopped. "We fall for almost two of a kind. Not in personalities necessarily, but in . . . I don't know, spirit, I guess. They are almost freakingly alike. Just like we are." Sirius looked at him, and just laughed.
"Oh, my God, you're right!" Sirius gasped out, just as the clerk came back out. And Sirius realized that James was indeed right. Kayla and Lily were alike in how they handled things. They both had level heads when everything starts to get bumpy, and neither of them stood anyone's shit. They were both independent, and loved it.
The clerk raised his hand to show a light blue box as he stepped out of the back room, and lifted the lid on the box. Inside of it laid a ring, just the way James had wanted it. The stones caught the light that shone through the windows and colorful lights flashed everywhere catching James' attention. It seemed as if it held some kind of power. The magical kind of power.
As if he was reading his thoughts, the clerk said, "This ring connects the giver to the givee. It creates a magical bond between the two, and as long as one is wearing the ring, the can communicate to each other somehow. But, I think there's a catch to this ring or something. I don't know though."
James looked at the ring and said, "I need it in size 4 please."
The clerk nodded his head and held out the box. "That is this size sir." James nodded and asked, "How much."
The clerk then smiled, he was just about to make the deal of a lifetime off of some foolish little boy who was obviously a rich foolish little boy, and very much blinded by some pampered money digger. But oh well, that wasn't his problem. "950 Galleons." James nodded and pulled out a bank draft, filled it out, signed it, took the ring, stuffed it in his pocket, then handed the slip over. The clerk in return smiled gratefully at him as he strolled out with a quick goodbye to Sirius.
Sirius then walked up to the counter. "I want the same exact style of ring that the guy who just walked out had, except this time instead of sapphires, I want rubies," Sirius instructed.
The clerk nodded his head and headed back into the storage room to look for what he needed.
Minutes later, the man showed back up and held up a white ring box and opened the lid to it. Inside, lay the ring that he wanted in a bed of satin, sparkling in the light, and somehow calming him down. He hadn't even known that his stomach was in an uproar with nerves.
"How much?" Sirius asked as he dug in his pocket for a bank draft. "950 Galleons Sir," the clerk replied with a sticky sweet grin.
Sirius knew that he was asking too much, but he didn't care. He'd let it slip. But he wanted that ring, so he nodded his head and filled out the draft. After signing the bottom, the man gave Sirius the ring, and grinned happily after Sirius closed the door.
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Kayla and Sirius were sitting down on a stone bench on the side of the nearly deserted cobbled street, necking. He had came back from the Jewelers in the best of moods, and quickly whisked Kayla off to be . . . kissed senseless.
Sirius slid his hands down from their position in Kayla's hair, and landed on her butt. They then, of their own will – yeah, right! – shifted under her shirt, and slowly traveled up – up- ah, they reached their destination. Her breasts.
Kayla gasped into the kiss, then moaned when his brilliant hands began to knead the flesh. She broke the kiss and leaned her head back. "Sirius," she gasped out as he began to nibble, lick, and suckle on her pulse point. "We're in public."
All of a sudden, the beautiful, wonderful hands, stopped. And the wickedly pleasurable mouth, it also stopped.
Kayla groaned. "I really need to learn how to keep my mouth shut." She muttered. She stood up – abet a little shakily, and linked her hand with Sirius' as they began to walk towards Flourish and Blotts to meet with the rest. The only thing that Kayla didn't notice, besides her own two feet and everything else around her, was her disheveled state, and the stars and moons in her eyes.
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An hour and ten minutes later after emerging from the Leaky Cauldron, James and Lily were standing outside of Flourish and Bolts, having stars in their eyes from the Quidditch store – which they had re-entered moments ago to look around again, and a little disheveled from the quick snog session they had moments ago.
Sirius stopped in front of them with a wide smile on his face, and a completely wrecked looking Kayla, that left it up to no imagination just what brought that slightly dazed, starry look into her eyes.
Lily grinned knowingly and stepped behind Kayla as she took her own hair out of her ponytail. She gently pulled out Kayla's hair tie, and smoothed out all the bumps on Kayla's hair and deftly pulled it all into a tight pony, then did so to herself, and stepped in front of Kayla to see if she looked better.
She did a quick search; 'no make up anywhere, clothes on straight, yep, she's fine,' she checked off mentally.
Aria and Remus came walking up to them; both had grins on their faces, but no signs of dishevelment.
Lily frowned. They had to have done something! She then narrowed her eyes. They already fixed themselves up! Lily quietly huffed out a breath, and then said, "You want to start here, or do any of you need to go pay a visit to the goblins?"
"We can start here." Kayla said, finally falling from her cloud. Lily looked at the rest, and after getting nods from them all turned for the door to the shop, and had it opened for her by James. She smiled at him and walked through, and felt him at her back.
After getting their books, and Lily spending what seemed like millions of dollars there, they continued on to the Apothecary, the cauldron store, and a few others before it started getting dark on them.
As they were all expected home after dark, they all said their goodbyes near the fireplaces, and kissed their respectful partners one last time before they screamed out their destination.
And through all of the goodbyes, no one saw – nor even felt him, her, it, stare at them wearing a black cloak, it stepped from the shadows of the Leaky Cauldron and left, casting the fireplace one more glance before disappearing into thin air, or maybe disapparating to some unknown place.
And no one heard him quietly say, "I'll get those Mages for my Master, and I'll prove my loyalty, and I'll get my payback."
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Authors Note:
I'm sorry about getting this out so late. I've been trying to finish up Forever Yours before I finish this one, but I decided to put one more chapter out before I make you all wait.
LoL. But I want to finish Forever Yours before I try to finish this story. I'm sorry! But I'm almost done with that story, so you don't really have that long to wait. I promise!
Review please! I'll give ya cookies!!
Mistress del Mare