Chapter 20
It seemed as if everything just ganged up on the girls as they realized that Exams were coming up. Every spare second was spent studying. And the Ravenclaw common room seemed to be the quietest place to do so. The looks that Lily and Kayla would give anyone who'd even sniff scared most of the occupants to the library.
It was crazy, the kind of mayhem that went on during the month of exams.
And in Kayla's mind, the craziest thing of all was the proposition that she had received from Christian.
It had been three days before the first test was to start, and Kayla was left alone in the common room going over her notes for History of Magic when Christian walked down from the boys' dormitories and sat next to her on the couch.
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"Hey," Christian said in a soft voice. He was shy. And nervous. He was going to ask Kayla something big, and he was scared of the answer. Actually, he didn't even know why he was down in the common room to ask her the question in the first place. 'Yea, the dorm room would be a much better place for me to be at the moment. Sleeping. That's what I should be doing right now,' he thought as he glanced at Kayla nervously.
"Hello," Kayla replied absently, still concentrating on the notes in front of her.
"Can I uh, ask you an, uh question?"
Kayla nodded her head absently, stopped reading her notes, and looked at Christian politely, but at the same time not paying much attention to him.
'Good,' Christian thought gleefully. 'I have her attention. Maybe this won't go as bad as I thought that it might. Wait, what am I talking about? Of course the plan will go great. She is meant for me after all.'
"Umm… I was wondering if you would marry me. I love you so much Kayla, and I want to be with you," he said confident that he'd get a 'yes' from her.
Kayla shook her head, 'Did he just say what I think that he said?' she wondered as she stared at the blonde with narrowed eyes. "What?" she asked, believing that she was hearing things.
"I just asked you to marry me," he repeated with a smile.
Kayla's jaw dropped. 'Oh my Merlin,' she thought frantically. 'Sirius was right. He does like me!'
"Uhh. . ." Kayla deadpanned, trying to figure out a way to put him down lightly.
"You could just say no, darling, and tell him that you're already engaged," a deep, vibrating voice sounded from behind Kayla, making her jump. That was the voice he used when he was mad.
"Sirius!" Kayla said, eyes wide as saucers as she turned around and looked into the stone cold eyes of the only guy she would ever love.
"I thought that I told you to stay away from her?" Sirius growled as he glared scathingly at Christian.
"What makes you think that I would honestly listen to you?" Christian demanded, standing up from his place on the couch and glaring at Sirius over the back of it.
"I don't know, maybe it's the fact that I'm going to bloody beat you to a pulp!" he yelled. With that, Sirius jumped over the back of the couch and knocked Christian to the ground.
"Sirius! Don't!" Kayla cried. Christian would be no match against Sirius, whose body was strong from all of his Quidditch playing.
Before Sirius could do any serious damage, Lily, Sarah – a sixth year, and many of the boys rushed down the stairs.
"Imobilus!" Lily shouted, pointing her wand at Sirius.
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Ever since that night, Christian has stayed away from Kayla, and avoided going to the common room as much as he could.
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Three days before Graduation, Professor Dumbledore stood up at dinner and announced to the seventh years that there would be a Hogsmeade trip for them tomorrow so that they could buy last minute items for the ceremony.
The next day, Lily, James, Kayla, Sirius, Aria and Remus were all walking down the streets of Hogwarts, the boys somewhat reluctantly, wrapped in their loved ones embrace, trying to figure out where to go first.
"You know what?" Lily asked irritably, stopping and dislodging James' arm from her waist as she turned around so that she could see everyone's faces'. "Why don't we – the girls – go one way, and you guys go another, and we'll meet you in the Three Broom Sticks in three hours okay?" she huffed, tired of the boys' complaining. Lily looked at the girls to see if they agreed.
'Why is it that guys don't like clothes shopping?' Kayla wondered fleetingly.
Kayla and Aria were looking at Lily with relief sketched all over their faces. It was always . . . nerve wreaking to shop with the Marauders. They just had to touch everything! And broke 99.9% of what they touched.
Sirius looked excited. "Do you mean it? Do you really mean that we don't have to go with you girls?" he questioned happily. Sirius would give his hair to someone from the insanity of shopping with these three girls. They were absolutely horrible to shop with! They didn't let him touch anything!
Lily sighed and rolled her eyes. "You three are free for three hours. Now go! Before we change our minds!"
Sirius let go of Kayla's hand and rushed over to Lily, almost knocking her over from the force of the hug that he gave her. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" he chanted happily until James smacked him upside the head.
"Go smoother your own girlfriend Padfoot." James instructed good-naturedly.
Lily laughed and tried to unsuccessfully untangle her body from Sirius'. "Sirius, if you don't let me go this instant I am going to make sure that you go to every freakin' store with us, got it?" Lily practically yelled.
Sirius gulped and backed away. "Right-o! Sorry!"
"Now go!" Kayla demanded.
Sirius grinned at his fiancée. He loved her to death, don't get him wrong, but there was no way that he was going to shop with her if he could avoid it. "Have fun, love." He told her and kissed her on the cheek. It was still hard to imagine that if he was to do that two years ago that he would have ended up injured. Now the only time he ever ended up injured with Kayla was when they were in bed, but those were injuries that he took pride in.
"Yeah, yeah. Now scat." Kayla said lovingly.
Remus turned towards the girl on his arm and gave her a hug. "I'll see you in a few hours, love." He whispered as he let go. "Okay." Aria replied with a smile on her face.
James shifted the few inches that were in between him and his girlfriend and stroked her hair. "I'll see you in three hours beautiful." He whispered as he brushed his lips across hers. Lily smiled. "Count on it." She told him as she backed away.
"Bye!" they all yelled out over their shoulders as they went their own way.
"Now, lets get those dresses that you two just had to pull me out of bed for." Kayla said trying to act gloomy, but her eyes showed her excitement. She wanted to dress up. She wanted to see what Sirius's reaction would be when he saw her looking like an actual girl, with the makeup, the hair done, and a dress.
Lily smiled, and being the shop-a-holic that she was, dragged Kayla into the robes shop by her arm and went straight to the dresses and begun to pile dress after dress into Kayla's arms. "Now, go try those on." Lily instructed as soon as she was satisfied that she had picked out enough selections.
Kayla did as she was told, albeit grumbling her way to the changing stalls.
Kayla tried on a light pink one, and almost died of laughter. She looked like a glob of cotton candy! The skirt flared close to five feet away from her body, and the material was fuzzy! 'God! This one would kill Sirius!' she giggled to herself.
Kayla quickly dispensed herself of the dress and threw it in a pile before picking the next one. This one was gray though, and, as she found out when she put it on, accented her eyes.
"I wonder what Lily and Aria would think of it?" she asked herself as she turned around so that she could see what her butt looked like.
With that in mind, she opened the dressing room door, and went out to where Lily and Aria could see her.
"You know Aria, you would look fabulous in a light blue dress, or maybe even a silver one." Lily told her as she was looking through purple shades. Aria looked into Lily's eyes, startled. "You really think so?" she asked. Lily smiled and nodded. "You always look fab-" she started, but soon stopped, finding it hard to talk.
Kayla had just come out in one of her dresses. It was something like she had never worn before. If Kayla had to wear a dress, it was always long. But this dress, it was short, different from the original Kayla style. It was a white dress with a sheer gray fabric over it that also had glitter running around on the bottom hem. The dress's hem brushed her knee tops, and was held up by thin straps of glittered fabric. The dress showed her legs off to perfection, although you could see two of her tattoos, her body looked magnificent in that dress.
"Kay, you have got to get that dress!" Lily whispered in awe. "Sirius will flip!" she said a little louder.
"What about the tattoos?" Kayla asked. She had noticed them as she was stepping out of the stall, and started to wonder if this dress would have to go. She felt a little uncomfortable with everyone in the school seeing her tattoos.
Lily smiled. "There is a spell that people can use to hide them."
"So," Kayla muttered, "I get the dress? Do you really think that Sirius will like it?" she wondered as she circled.
"Kayla. Sirius will love it!" Aria stuttered in wonder, finally getting her voice back from the shock.
Kayla smiled and returned to the dressing room to change.
"As I was saying, you always look fabulous in light colors." Lily said, directing her words towards Aria. "Now, follow me so that I can pick something out for you."
Aria rolled her eyes at her friend's back, but nothing less followed.
"Now go try this dress on." Lily told her, handing her a dress that was like Kayla's except it was white on light blue.
Lily walked with Aria towards the changing room and got into a stall herself. She tried on the green dresses, but they all looked terrible on her. She then went to one of the white dresses. It the bottom layer of the dress was white silk with a white knitted material over it, and tied around Lily's neck, and stopped an inch above her knee caps. Lily turned around to face the mirror and gasped. She found her dress.
Lily stepped out of the stall to see Kayla and Aria waiting for her. Aria was in her dress, and it complimented every curve in her body. It looked as if it was made for her.
"What do you think?" Lily asked the gaping girls self-consciously.
"James is going to die of a heart-attack when he sees you in that!" Kayla complimented her with a grin.
Lily smiled and walked back into the stall. That was just what she wanted to hear.
After the robes shop, they had to go and get shoes, and then make up. By the time they were done, they were already five minutes late for meeting the boys.
The girls ran down the streets towards the Three Broom Sticks and ran into three impatient boys.
"Oops." Lily mumbled as she stopped in front of James.
James chuckled. "What took you so long?" he asked as he threw an arm around her shoulders and led her inside the pub.
"We forgot the time." Lily replied. Lily looked at his bag, then back up to his face.
"Is that the end of the year prank stuff?" she asked, pointing to the Zonko's bag. James shook his head. "No. This is a little gift for a Mr. Snape and Malfoy."
Lily's ears perked up and the mention of Snape's name. "Ohhh! What is it?" she demanded, only to have James shake his head and tell her with that all so patient tone, "You'll see tomorrow, won't you?" Lily glared at him, and sat down with a thump at a table and crossed her arms across her breasts. "Don't pout Lilsie . . . Please?" James asked with a puppy face. Lily laughed and lowered her arms. "Don't do that face James, it makes you look disoriented." She chuckled.
Kayla sat down next to Sirius, only to have him pull her into his lap. "What'd you get baby?" he asked her softly, nipping on her ear as he pulled his head back to look at her.
"Things."
"Anything sexy? Anything that you'll model for me and only me so that I can get you out of them?" he asked with a glint in his eyes. Having Kayla model for him in under clothing has been his recent fantasy, and then stripping her of them in the slowest way known to man.
Kayla laughed and shook her head. "Guess that you'll just have to wait to find out, won't you?" she teased him before picking up his glass of butterbeer and taking a drink of it.
The rest of the day, the Marauders, and the Marauders' girls' enjoyed the last time they'd ever be students in the pub.
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It took hours for the girls to get ready the morning of Graduation.
Kayla got up at five-thirty a.m. just so that she could beat the others to the shower. By the time she walked out, soaking wet and smelling like a garden, Tiffany was standing by the door glaring at her.
"Learn how to take shorter showers," she glared before stomping pass Kayla and slamming the door shut, waking up the other two occupants of the room.
"What the hell was that for?" Lily yawned as she snuggled deeper into her bed.
"I have no clue. But you might want to get up Huntress, it's already six-fifty-eight," Kayla told her as she made her way over to her wardrobe.
Lily gasped and shot out of the bed. "Cold!" she yelped as her feet touched the stone floor of the room.
For the next two hours, it seemed like the girls continuously bumped into one another, or lost something. It was hectic in that room, that was for sure.
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All of the graduates wear wearing the robes that were issued by the school. The Ravenclaws had black and baby blue ones, the Hufflepuff's had yellow and black ones, the Slytherins had Green and Silver ones, and the Gryffindors had Gold and Scarlet ones.
The Heads made their speeches, and then the house heads, and then, finally Dumbledore made his.
The Slytherin house was called up first, then the Hufflepuffs, and then the Gryffindors, and then, finally, the Ravenclaws.
"I now give you lady's and gentlemen, the class of '82!" Dumbledore yelled, and cheers erupted.
Suddenly, a huge pile of dung-bombs, fireworks, and many other small prank gadgets landed on Snape and Malfoy, along with pictures of their most embarrassing moments that they had had since coming to Hogwarts. Everyone but the Slytherins and their parents were doubled over in laughter. "Good one, Boys!" Mr. Potter yelled over the laughter. James, Sirius, and Remus bowed in recognition and drew their girls off the stage.
After the laughter wound down, Lily and James set out looking for their parents together, while Kayla and Sirius went to look for the Blacks, and Remus and Aria went to look for their parents.
"Why are you so nervous, sweetheart? You've met them a numerous amount of times!" Sirius tried to soothe when he saw his fiancée start to fidget.
"But not as their soon-to-be daughter-in-law!" Kayla shot back.
Sirius exhaled deeply and shook his head. Girls could be so difficult at times.
"Sirius! Kayla!" Diana Black smiled as she saw them walk pass her and her husband.
The couple turned around and faced his parents. "Mummy!" Sirius grinned and enveloped his Mother in a giant hug. "Missed you Mum," he said as he let her go.
"I missed you too baby," she replied. "Come here Kayla," she demanded in a soft tone as she looked at the fidgeting girl.
"Are you sure that you want to enter the insanity that is this family?" she asked with a smile as she hugged the younger girl.
"I believe that living with him has made me just as insane," Kayla said, backing out of the embrace.
Diana threw her head back and laughed. "Yes, that would do it," she said. "Damien, stop bugging Mr. Longbottom and get over here to welcome Kayla to this family, and Sirius, you come along too," she instructed.
Surprisingly enough, the two men listened.
"Sorry, darling," Damien grinned sheepishly.
"It's quite all right," Diana said and turned to her son.
The man who looked exactly like Sirius turned towards Kayla and grinned. The only way you could tell the two apart was the graying hair at the temples, and the creases near his eyes.
"It's good to know that someone is finally going to risk spending the rest of their life with my son, and I'm glad that it's a girl that the whole family can get along with," he smiled as he gave her a light hug, then set her away from his body. "Welcome," was all that he said afterwards.
Kayla sniffed back her tears, then stepped into Sirius's arms, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Well, we'll leave you kids alone now. We'll see you both in a few hours, okay?" Diana said as she began to walk off, dragging her husband along with her.
"Okay," Sirius told her before she was out of hearing range.
"Now, what do you say that we go and dance?" Sirius asked as he looked down at Kayla's face.
Kayla simply nodded her head and walked along with him towards the stage for dancing.
This night, was the beginning of her life with him. He might not be married to her yet, but she was going to start living with him, and she might as well be married to him with how they act.
Authors Note:
Well, how'd you all like it? Good I hope.
I have two or three epilogues coming out. I'm not sure if I want to add the fight with Voldemort here, because there isn't anything that I think that I'd add to it to make it into Kayla or Sirius's perception. So yea. We'll see.
But, in a few more days, another one of my stories will be done. So sad. I'm gonna miss it. And I'm going to miss writing about Sirius too. He's so amusing!
But anyways, hope you liked!
Review please!
Mistress del Mare