A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry that the last chapter took so long. It's really
hard to find a spare moment to type. I get home from school at 4:30 and
have to do my homework, eat, and take a shower all before 9:00, which is my
"bed time"....but anyways, here is the next chapter!! Oh, and I'm trying
something new this chapter, combined point of views. Should be interesting,
no? lol. R&R
Chapter 10-Dates, Dances, and Secrets.
SPOV
Sirius smiled as he walked over to his friends. "I just asked Christy out on our first date!" he said. The others grinned at him. "Why don't we have a group date? I mean, we've never done it before, and it sounds like fun, and we could be there for each other for..ahh...moral support, I guess." James said. Sirius shrugged. He would get some alone time with her anyways, so it didn't matter if his friends came along on the date. "You guys should go ask them, then." he said. They nodded and walked over towards the girls. Sirius leaned back on the wall and sighed. He peeked out of the corner of his eye at his friends. They were talking to Kaitlin, Lindsey, and Lily, while Christy watched smiling sweetly. The former three grinned excitedly at their boyfriends. James, Lupin, and Brent walked back over to where Sirius was standing. "They said okay...we need to work out a good time." James said, lost in thought. "Well me and Christy are going to snag some alone time after the big date in the Room of Requirement." Sirius said. Lupin yawned loudly. "I wish we had snuck after them to watch them take showers, it wouldn't have been hard...." he said. Brent nodded. "Yeah, that would've been amusing." James and Sirius laughed. They looked over at Lupin. He had fallen asleep. James rolled his eyes. "I guess we should all head up to bed, it is-" he checked his watch, "-5:35." They shrugged, and Brent levitated Lupin up to the dormitories.
LPOV
Lindsey, Lily, and Kaitlin smiled happily as they told Christy what the boys asked them. "Wow, our first real date! I'm so excited..I can't wait two whole days!' she thought anxiously. She smiled to herself when she saw the Marauders going to bed, Lupin levitating beside Brent. 'That lazy bum!' she thought. "We should probably head off to bed also, we won't get much sleep though.." she said. She loked over at the notice board for some reason, and noticed that there was a large,decorated sign. She walked over to have a look at it. "Yule Ball Tradition Continues! The Yule Ball is being held again in honor of last years winner of the Triwizard Tournament, Celeste Freemon of Ravenclaw House! This year's theme will be all-Muggle, to raise Muggle awareness. You will be asked to dress in formal Muggle clothing. Muggle music will be played. Date for the Ball is December 14." Lindsey motioned for the other girls to read the sign. Lily laughed. "I'm sure Lucius Malfoy and Snivellus and their crew will be most pleased..." she said, shaking her head. "You do realize this is in about a week, right?" Kaitlin said, frowning at the sign. "I haven't had time to decide what to wear, heck I don't even know if I even have any formal Muggle clothing with me this year! We don't normally need it...we might have to go in that one shop that sells Muggle stuff for Muggle-lovers...." Christy shrugged. "I always bring a formal dress, you never know when stuff like this'll pop up...but I dunno if it's pretty enough..." Lindsey rolled her eyes. "Since when do you care what people think about you? You walked out of the common room without brushing your hair or teeth one day, you didn't even bother to clean your robes off, what with all that cat hair all over them..." Christy frowned. "I was having an off day, I do care what I look like just not to the extent where I have a heart attack if a piece of hair isn't exactly in line with the others..." She bent down suddenly and scooped up a calico cat that had been about to attack her foot. Jasmine, Christy's cat, was very unpredictable in the sense that she would attack you one minute then expect her ears to be scratched the next. She stroked the cat's ears, and it purred happily. "So anyways, honestly I cannot wait two whole freakin' days for the date..." she sighed happily. "And, me and Sirius are grabbing some 'alone time' after the big date in the Room of Requirement." Lindsey snorted. She still hadn't forgotten the incident a few weeks ago-actually, a month, seeing as it was early December-when her and Lupin had raced into Transfiguration after him showing her that room, and her friends sending her a nasty note, that was taken up and read to the class. Christy shot her a glare. "This is going to be after classes, I'm not going to be bounding into Transfiguration all out of breath for some mysterious reason." she said. Lindsey rolled her eyes. "I've told you, we didn't do anything. Anyways, lets get to bed." They shrugged and trudged upstairs. Lindsey couldn't help but compare different styles of dresses in her mind that she thought Lupin would like....
The next day, Friday, the girls drug themselves unhappily out of bed. They knew they were going to regret not going to bed earlier, especially since their insane Quidditch Captain was demanding practice that night, and they had History of Magic first, the most boring class and the hardest when exam time came. Lindsey didn't see why they had to study that anyway, it wasn't going to help many of them when they got jobs. Yawning and stretching, they made their way down to breakfast, Lily almost falling into a wall after she nearly fell asleep. They stumbled onto the bench at the Gryffindor table. They noticed the boys looked tired,too. Lindsey yawned loudly, causing a chain reaction from Christy to Kaitlin to Lily then through the Marauders. It would have been very funny had they not been so tired. Lindsey noted that Brent was sitting where Peter usually sat. She almost laughed out loud. Peter was sitting off to the side farther down the table, glaring at Brent and his most likely ex friends.She never really liked him and thought it highly amusing that he had most likely been kicked from the group. "So wh-wh-what are you guys up to?" she yawned. They yawned in response. "History of Magic first..." Lindsey looked at her watch. "Gee whiz..." She yawned loudly and got up. "I forgot my stuff guys, I'm going to go get it..." The other girls got up, noticing they didn't have their stuff either. "We'll see you guys in Binn's class." Christy said, nodding at them, really Sirius in particular. Lindsey smiled at Lupin and they walked out towards the Gryffindor Common Room. They didn't talk much, just yawned alot. They finally got to the common room, grabbed their stuff, and trudged down to History of Magic. "Good gosh I'm tired. I hope nothing on our exams comes up in this class, cause I'm going to be asleep." Lily said. "I don't even care about the stupid exams, I just need an extra hour or four of sleep.." Christy said. They finally reached the classroom and plopped in their chairs, in front of the Marauders.
Somehow Lindsey made it through the day without falling asleep in the middle of the hallway, though she and the rest of the girls did sleep all through History of Magic, and had to get the homework from Alice, who seemed quite reluctant to let them off the hook so easily for not doing their classwork. Finally the day was over and all that the girls could think about was their beds and the date in two days. Lindsey sighed as she sat on her bed, gazing out of the window. "Why must it be two days? I wish we could just go now..." she said wistfully. "Well this weekend is our Hogsmeade visit. Kinda makes sense." Lily said, checking her watch because they had Quidditch practice shortly. "Oh shut up." Kaitlin said, grinning, throwing a pillow at Lily's head. She shrieked as the pillow thwacked her in the face. "You're always too logical!" Lindsey added, throwing her pillow at Lily too. "You'll pay for that!" she said, leaping to her feet. She aimed a pillow at Kaitlin but instead hit Christy, who was laughing too hard to do anything but fall off the bed and shriek in surprise, which sent them into a huge fit of laughter. Suddenly they heard a loud scream and a thumping noise, and shouts of, "Get off of me!" "You're on my back, geroff!" This threw them into even more hysterical laughter as they walked out of the dormitory to see what happened. "You tried to get into our dormitories?" Lily asked, gaping at the Marauders, who were untangling themselves from each other. Again, Lindsey noticed Brent seemed to be replacing Peter. Sirius finally untangled himself from James and Lupin and stood up. "Well we heard you yelling at each other, we wanted to see what was going on." Lindsey got a great idea and winked at the girls. "We'll show you, just wait right here. And close your eyes, too. It's nothing bad I promise!" she said hastily, noticing the wary look on their faces. "What, you can't trust your girlfriends?" she said, pretending to look offended. They threw them a curious glance but closed their eyes all the same. The girls ran into their room, barely able to stifle their laughter. They each grabbed two pillows, crept silently down stairs. Lindsey held up three fingers. They positioned themselves behind the boys. She put one down. They lifted the pillows above their heads. She put down one more finger. "GO!" she shouted, slamming Lupin's head with a pillow. "AHHHHHHH!!!" they yelled as the girls pummled them with pillows. They beat the boys down with their pillows, almost falling on top of them laughing. "EEK!" Lily yelled. James had finally overcome her and had her pinned against the ground. In her moment of distraction, Lupin managed to do the same to her. "Don't give up Christy!" Lindsey said, noticing her and Sirius strugglig for control of the pillow. After a lengthy struggle in which both of them got hit around the head alot, she wrenched it free of his gasp and whacked him upside the head with it. She pinned him to the ground, but through much lengthy struggle he managed to flip her over and pin her on the ground. "AARGH!!!!" she yelled, thrashing around trying to get out from under him. "Ok you win let us up!" they yelled when Brent finally managed to get Kaitlin down. James looked thougtfuly over at Sirius, who shook his head. "Nah, you'll probably just attack us again." Unwisely, he shot a thumbs up at Sirius, giving Lily the relief she needed to throw him off of her and pin him down. "Ok ok, we're even, now please can we call a truce?" James said, struggling to get out from underneath his captor. "I dunno Prongs, I rather like this." Sirius said mischeviously. Lindsey looked to her right and suddenly noticed how sick that little comment was. He had one leg on either side of his girlfriend so she couldn't get up, and had her arms pinned down. Christy's eyes went wide and she managed to wrench one arm free of his grasp and pushed herself away from him. "You sicko." she said. Lupin laughed, buying Lindsey time to get out from under him. Eventually everyone was standing up, pillows returned to their rightful owners, feeling considerably lighter. "Well that was fun!" Lily said merrily. "You do know we are going to have to get you back for that, right?" James said. The girls smiled innocently. "If it's as fun as this was, I'm actually looking forward to it." Lindsey said. Lupin grinned evilly. "Oh, it'll be fun for us, at the least." The smiled and walked up to their dormitories.
They had Quidditch practice that night. Brooms on shoulders, Lily, Lindsey, Christy, Kaitlin, James, and Brent marched out to the Quidditch field. They took their positions with Robert, who had gotten out there before them, on the field. They took out the Quaffle and praticed a few drills, passing the ball to each other, and trying new techniques to get it past the hoops. After a few minutes of practice in which Brent managed to block all the shots aimed at him, it began to rain. "Oh no." Lindsey grumbled under her breath. "All right, let's get out the Bludgers and practice with those. James, I don't think we'll be using the Snitch this time because if it comes down harder........." As if reacting on Robert's words, the rain went from a drizzle to a small shower. Lindsey grumbled angrily and she and Kaitlin hit Bludgers away from their friends that were trying to score goals. Finally the rain was pounding so hard they could hardly see. After a few more persistent minutes, Robert reluctantly called the team down. Mud was splashing up on them from their feet hitting the ground and the rain beating down on it so hard. They ran into the shower rooms, now drenched and covered in mud. "Great, we are going to have to sneak into the prefects bathroom again." Christy muttered in Lindsey's ear. Lindsey nodded, wiping her face off with a towel. Their pants were splattered with mud, and they had mud on their hands for some reason they couldn't quite work out. Lindsey also felt mud on the side of her face. She rolled her eyes. She couldn't imagine how mud had gotten all over her body, just knew that they had to sneak into the prefects bathroom.
"Bye James, bye Brent." The Unknowns said as they headed up to their dormitories. "We're going to take showers, we are filthy." Kaitlin said. Lindsey felt uneasy as she climbed the stairs; she could've sworn that James had grinned evilly at Brent. They got their pajamas out of their trunks, snuck under Christy's Invisibility Cloak, and snuck out of the portrait hole unnoticed. Or so they thought.
JPOV
James ran up to the dormitory after Kaitlin had told him they were taking a shower in the prefect's bathroom, Brent hot on his heels. "Sirius! Remus! Hurry, quick, grab my Invsibility Cloak!" Sirius scrambled over to the bed next to him, looked under it and quickly grabbed the silvery cloak. "Come on-the girls are going to the prefects bathroom to take showers! This would be a nice revenge, spying on them without them even knowing!" They grinned and threw the cloak over them, reaching the bottom of the stairs just in time to see the portrait hole open. They snuck out right before it closed. James had the secret map he, Sirius, Remus, and Peter had made to make sure they didn't run into the girls, but stayed close behind them. James nudged Remus and mouthed, "Do you have the All Seeing Eyes?" Remus nodded and patted his pockets. When they reached the prefects bathroom, they heard Lindsey's voice say,"Bubble Powder." The door opened, and the girls must've walked through because the door closed almost as quickly as it had opened. Remus quickly handed them All Seeing Eyes, and they looked through the lens. James thought it quite odd;the metal telescope was pressed against the door, but they could see into the bathroom just as clearly as if they were in there. The girls were conjuring up curtains to section off the gigantic pool, each had about 4 bubble taps. They laid their wands, a towel and washcloth, and their pajamas beside the pool. 'The moment we've all been waiting for!' James thought as the girls began to strip down. 'Oh crap!' he thought angrily as he felt himself getting hard when Lily was down to nothing...she had her back to him so he couldn't see her chest. 'Good gosh we are so perverted!' he thought. He noticed Sirius, Remus, and Brent looked slightly uncomfortable. 'They must be as 'excited' as I am' he thought. Lily was washing her self off, washing her hair...he got a very good glimpse of her chest. He stared at her, not really seeing her just thinking about her...'She's so beautiful!' he thought, smiling slightly. After a few minutes, the girls looked ready to get out. James leaned forward slightly.........and realized all too late that the door was slightly cracked. The door shot open and he and the other guys fell inside, the cloak slipping off of them. The girls screamed and grabbed towels and wrapped them around themselves. Lindsey slipped and fell on her butt in her haste to grab her towel. "Ow..." James said, rubbing his eye. The All Seeing Eye had dug into his real eye when he fell. Lily, holding her towel firmly around her, stalked over to them as they were sitting up, and slapped him across the face. He winced. "Exactly how long have you been sitting out there?" she yelled at him. "I think they followed us here, Lil." Lindsey said, blushing furiously and holding her towel snugly around her. Christy blushed too, and Kaitlin mouthed soundlessly like a fish out of water. James rubbed his cheek. "It was our revenge, to spy on you without you knowing...of course you obviously know now..." Lily glared at him. "If you ever.....EVER do that again I'll slap you so hard you won't know which way is up!" Sirius snickered, but that was a mistake. Lily stomped over to him. "You think it's funny do you?" she said, glaring daggers. He shook his head, the small smile dropping from his face. She stalked over to the side of the pool and retrieved her clothing. "Turn away!" she snarled so viciously that the boys immediately obeyed. Christy edged over to Lily. "Don't you think we should give them a break? I mean come on you know if you were in James's shoes you'd do the same." she said with a wink. Lily, though still angry at being discovered in the nude by her boyfriend, smiled. "Yes, I suppose you are right." The girls finished changing into their night clothes. "All right, you can turn around you peeping Toms." Lily said, smiling. James was stunned at how fast she went from an angry demon on the war path to a sweet little angel. "We forgive you, because had we been in your position we garauntee we would've done the same." She smiled again and kissed James's cheek. "Sorry for slapping you, sweetie," she said pleasantly. "That's ok." he said, grinning. "We should have more self control I suppose." he said. They shrugged. Suddenly they heard footsteps. "I heard a scream, I know I did!" they heard the caretaker wheeze. "We'll see soon enough." To their horror, Professor McGonagall was heading up the stair case. The girls gathered their stuff up and threw themselves under the Invisibility Cloak as fast as they could, and the guys closed the door and turned the light off, getting under James's cloak mere seconds before they heard McGongall say the password. James hardly dared to breathe. If they were caught...... "They must've just left, I can smell the bubble's perfume." said McGonagall. "Search the hallways!" she barked, and the caretaker hobbled away, muttering angrily about pesky students. The Professor took one last swift look around, then stalked out of the bathroom.
**NEXT DAY**
CPOV
Christy stood nervously in front of a mirror in the girl's dormitory. It was near time for the date. The boys said to dress somewhat casual, but not completely fancy. Christy was dressed in a navy blue shirt that had a butterfly on it, and a denim skirt with blue slide on shoes. She couldn't do anything with her hair, so she just waved it slightly and left it down. Lindsey gave her already flippy hair extra flip, and put on a light weight maroon sweater, faded boot cut denim jeans, and black converses. Lily dashed frantically around the room, looking for her white slip on Ked's shoes. She was wearing a blue sleeveless turtleneck, with a knee length khaki skirt. Half of her hair was pulled into a brown barette, and the rest fell gracefully around her face. Kaitlin sat on her bed, doing some last minute homework (earning odd stares from her friends), dressed in a plain yellow baby tshirt, blue capris, and black flip flops. Her hair was in a bun. "I think we are just about ready!" Christy said, appearing happy, but inside she was really nervous. Memories of her first date with Zack kept haunting her horribly, alongside memories of when he tried to rape her..."CHRISTY!!!!" She started, hearing her name shouted right in her ear. Lindsey stared at her oddly. "What's your deal?" "Memories. Worries." she said simply, and Lindsey patted her shoulder reassuringly. "Don't worry, I've told you already, Siruis is absolutely nothing like Zack!" Christy nodded, but she still felt somewhat insecure. Eventually they walked downstairs, where the guys were waiting for them.
SPOV
Sirius whistled when Christy walked down the stairs. She was abosolutely stunning to him. He remembered how he felt when he had seen her in the bathroom...he definately needed a cold shower after that. She walked over to him, smiling. "Shall we go then?" she said, taking hold of his arm. "Sure." he said. They all walked out of the common room and headed off towards Hogsmeade. The whole way Sirius was thinking, "What if she doesn't like the restaurant? What if I do something stupid? What if she doesn't like the Room of Requirement?" He was so lost in thought that he was quite surprised by how quickly they were in Hogsmeade. "So where are we going?" Lindsey asked, turning to Lupin. "Over here." he answered, pointing at a little café nearby. They walked inside. The counter was black marble, with a menu on the front of it, designed in wood and framed in green, with vintage wall paper. There were some small, two seater tables.There was a fernace to keep the place warm, and a couch in front of it. There was a door on one side of the café. They walked over to the counter, where a smiling witch stood. "May I help you?" she said. "Yes, we would like to know if we could get a private area?" James said, stepping forward. "Ahhh, yes, of course sir!" she said. "My name is Rosetta, come with me." They went through the door and were on a beautiful patio. There were wrought iron black Victorian gates around the patio. There were small two seater tables, with umbrella-things over them (A/N:How romantic...umbrella things!). The couples sat down at different tables. They ordered their meals and the couples talked quietly to each other.
CPOV
Christy had a heavy sense of guilt in her stomach;she really wanted to tell Sirius about Zack, but couldn't find a way to approach the subject. "Why don't you play Quidditch?" she asked for lack of a topic. "Well, I do now that I live with James, but not on the House Team, no open spots and I'm not that good." He smiled at her. "You live with James?" she asked. 'Well that was unexpected.' she thought, feeling quite shocked. "Yeah, can't stand my parents, they have this crazy idea that Muggle borns, 'blood traitors', or otherwise people who aren't pureblood are filth, so I finally got sick of it and ran away to James's house." "Wow." Christy said softly as their meal came. She had never known that, and thought it very brave of him to run away. They enjoyed their meal very much, occasionally looking over at the other couples enjoying themselves. Christy figured that Kaitlin was chatting away about her favorite things to do, Lindsey was probably letting Lupin talk about who knows what, and Lily was probably talking about Quidditch. "Yeah, it seems amazing but really it wasn't all that hard." Sirius said after a brief silence. Christy drank some of her water. "My dad's an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. My mom's a Muggle." she said. "She finds it absolutely facinating what my dad does, though he's an Unspeakable and can't tell her what he does." Sirius ate some more of his food, then said, "At least you have decent parents. I seriously think mine are possessed or something." he said, rolling his eyes.
Later that evening they strolled around Hogsmeade, looking in the shops and secretly buying presents for each other and poorly hiding them when asked what they were doing. Sirius caught her buying his present. "What've you got there?" he said, making her jump and shove it behind her back quickly. "Nothing!" she said, flashing a grin. He had eyed her curiously but walked back out of the shop to see why James had his face pressed against the window of a store across the street.
Soon they were headed back to Hogwarts, pockets full of candy and presents. When they reached the common room, Lindsey, Lily, and Kaitlin said goodnight to Remus, James, and Brent, kissed them quickly on the cheek, and walked up to their dormitories, giggling. "I'm going with them so I can put my stuff up, okay?" she said. Sirius nodded. "Okay." They walked up to thier seperate dormitories. Christy deposited her stuff on her bedside table. "Be careful in the Room of Requirement, Christy!" Lily said jokingly from beside her. Christy rolled her eyes. "Don't do anything naughty!" Kaitlin chimed in. Christy threw a pillow at her head. "And don't slobber when you kiss him!" Lindsey concluded. Christy took her other pillow and whacked her in the face. "Can we finish this later, you're sweetie is waiting." Lindsey said, grinning. Christy smiled and walked back downstairs, feeling quite nervous indeed.
SPOV
Sirius hit Lupin with a pillow. "Shut up Moony!" he said. When he had gotten upstairs, the boys immediately crowded around him. "Don't do anything bad Sirius, you know how girls don't like it when guys go too fast!" he said with a wink. Now he whacked them all with the pillow and walked back downstairs. Christy was waiting for him, sitting on the couch listening to her CD player. "What'cha got there?" he said, dropping beside her. She took off the headphones. "Evanescence." she said. "A Muggle band. They're really good. The song that's on now is Bring Me to Life." She set it aside. "Well, lets go." Sirius said. He took hold of her hand and felt the familiar tingle he always got up his arm whenever he held her hand. Or was near her at all for that matter. They walked in silence, though not an awkward one, to the Room of Requirement. He passed in front of the wall three times, and a door appeared. They walked in and it looked just as it did on Lindsey and Remus's date.
CPOV
Christy was seriously nervous. 'What if he tries to kiss me? Or anything else? I don't know if I can honestly trust him, I mean I know the Jessica thing was a screw up but still if he does turn out to be like Zack..' Her thoughts were wracking her brain. They sat on the couch. She held his hand again. 'Gosh how can I love him so much but still be so scared of him??' she thought angrily. They got to talking about nonsense stuff like Muggle inventions, music, and then Sirius said,"Christy, I really do love you, you know that right?" Christy smiled and nodded, but inside she was not smiling. 'Oh my gosh...I love him so much....but I'm so scared! Why do I feel like this?' He closed his eyes and moved slowly towards her. 'Oh my gosh, our first kiss!! I'm so excited!! But..' She didn't finish her thought.Their lips met, and she was lost in the passion of their first kiss. She kissed him back, eagerly, wanting to kiss him..'Who cares if I'm scared, this is great!' Sirius finally broke away, much to Christy's disappointment. He smiled. She smiled. She also thought, 'Okay, well, I liked that, but you know still..' "I love you Sirius, always. Even if we were to somehow break up, I'd still love you, no matter what." 'YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT!!' her brain screamed at her, but she didn't care, she knew she loved him, always, no matter what. Their lips met again, then again..."The Yule Ball is in about a week, I haven't asked anyone to go, I guess you'll do." Sirius said jokingly, pulling away from a passionate kiss. She kissed him again, grinned, and said,"Yeah, I suppose I'll just HAVE to go with you." He smiled and put a hand on her waist. They kissed again. She felt his hand wander up her shirt,onto her back. 'That's what Zack did before he..' She leaped away from him as if shot. "DON'T FREAKIN DO THAT!!!!" she yelled, collapsing suddenly in a wave of tears. 'Ok, well, spazzing out was not on my to do list!' she thought, but the tears still came. Sirius, looking utterly shocked and wondering what he could've possibly done to make her act like this, walked over to her and kneeled besider her. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Christy is there something you need to tell me?" he said, genuine concern etched on his handsome face. 'Just tell him....he should know...' So, sobbing hysterically into his shoulder, she told him the whole story, from meeting Zack, to him trying to rape her, to when they broke up in fifth year and he punched her in the stomach, ending finally and still crying on his shoulder. "Christy.......I wish you had told me sooner, I'm so sorry, I swear to you I'd never, ever do anything like that to you, never." he said, hugging her tightly. Still crying, she placed a shaky hand on his chest. "I know." she whispered. "Sirius, I just want you to know I really do love you, always, I swear to God I've never felt this way about anyone before, and nothing not even a break up could stop me from loving you, never, and please never doubt that I love you." she whispered, burying her face in his chest. He stroked her hair. "I know, the same goes for me." She pulled away from him and stood up, so he stood up too. "Sirius.." She took hold of his hands. "I'm sorry to end the night like this...I shouldn't fall apart like this but I can't help it..." A few more tears trickled silently down her face. She took a deep, shuddering breath. "Like I said, I really do love you, but......I need.....time, I guess, to figure out what's wrong with me, why I feel like trash, and I..." Now sobs were escaping her throat. 'Great just act like a child in front of him, ruin your life, good job.' she thought. "We should probably take a.....break from each other." she finally choked out, she kissed him on the cheek, then ran from the room, leaving a shocked Sirius behind her.
SPOV
'What just happened?' Sirius thought. 'One minute we're making out, next minute she's sobbing because I touched her back, then she breaks up with me and runs out...I mean, I get that she is upset....who wouldn't be after a jerk like Zack? But...according to her, she still loves me, and is just trying to sort out her life...' He sighed and turned around. 'I need to be able to do something for her to make her feel better..' A CD player suddenly appeared on the table in front of him. He picked it up and listened to the song, the only song on it, grinned to himself,and walked out of the still open door.
LPOV/LEPOV/KPOV/CPOV/SPOV
Lindsey gasped. Christy had just hurtled into the Common Room and told her, Lily, and Kaitlin exactly what had happened in the Room of Requirement. "Oh no Christy, are you all right?" Lindsey asked. Sirius suddenly came into the room, looking quite upset. He glanced at them, then walked up the stairs, probably to tell his friends. Lindsey turned back to Christy, who was sobbing quietly. "Christy..." "No! Please, don't tell me it'll be ok or I'll get over it, 'cause I love Sirius, I really do, but...I just can't work out my feelings...but I do love him, and KAITLIN STOP GIVING ME THAT LOOK!" she yelled. Kaitlin jumped;she had been rolling her eyes. "Well sorry, it just seems to me that if you loved him so much you wouldn't break up with him!" she said. Christy gaped at her. "I can't believe you! I've told you that I am just trying to take a break so I can think about everything! One of my best friends doesn't even understand what I'm going through? I can't believe that!" she said. Kaitlin looked somewhat sorry. "I'm sorry I can't help it, it's just it doesn't seem like you love him very much, I mean you've broken up twice!" "Kaitlin I've explained those situations, they didn't change our love for each other, now please guys, let me go to bed." she said, and truthfully she did look like she needed a bit of sleep. Christy walked up stairs. Lily looked at her sadly. "Poor girl." she said, shaking her head. "Yeah." Kaitlin didn't know what to think. She didn't mean to get on her like that, but...what was with her?
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It was the day of the Yule Ball. Christy stood sullenly in front of the mirror. 'I'm supposed to be enjoying tonight.' she thought bitterly. She glanced over at Lindsey, who was gliding around happily, dabbing a little bit of makeup on. Lindsey had her hair up in a bun with a few curly pieces coming down, and though the others thought it was a tad much, she had a small silver tiara perched on her head. She was wearing a light pink strapless dress with a bottom that swished around,and black sandle high heels, and black gloves. Lily walked quickly over to her and snuck the blush out from under the mirror and hummed happily as she applied it. She was wearing a bell sleeved silk dress that was emerald green that reached her knees and swished out also, like Lindsey's. Her hair was curled with jewels in it and she had a gold emerald choker on, and she was also wearing black sandle high heels. Christy turned, not feeling very happy. It had been about a week since she broke up with Sirius, but they had remained on friendly terms. They smiled and talked to each other, but really Christy wanted to scream and repair their relationship, tell him everything was ok, though it really wasn't. A tornado of emotion whirled within her heart, and she didn't know how to stop it. She looked at her own reflection. Spaghetti strap light blue dress, black sandle shoes like Lindsey and Lily's, and a sapphire necklace. She thought she was quite ugly, but that could be the pessimistic part of her brain talking, because everyone insisted she was beautiful. Lindsey, who had chosen their outfits, said it was probably just because of Sirius, which didn't improve her mood much. Christy fixed her bun, and glared at Kaitlin, who had just flounced into the room, with her hair half up and half down, curly, a maroon sleevless dress with a train, and the same shoes that the other 3 had. Christy sighed as she applied a tiny bit of eyeshadow that matched her outfit.She didn't know why she was still mad at Kaitlin, but she felt in her heart of hearts that she was. She put on some blush and then walked down the stairs with the others to where the guys were waiting. Lindsey seized Remus's arm, grinning. Kaitlin latched onto Brent, and Lily to James. Christy and Sirius just stood by each other. Christy slapped a fake smile on her face. "Ready to go." she said, her heart melting at the sight of him. He smiled, and they walked to the Great Hall together. Instead of champions leading in this year, the Head Boy and Girl walk in together. They seemed to not like this arrangement, since the Head Boy was a Slytherin and the Head Girl a Gryffindor.
For that whole week leading up to the Yule Ball, Sirius had been feeling both anxious and lonely. He really wished Christy would realize he was nothing like that Muggle jerk, and he didn't understand why her confused feelings would be powerful enough to make her break up with him,even if it was reluctantly that she did so, but apparently they must've been. He couldn't help but stare at her in their classes, blushing when she caught him. James was beginning to worry about him. "Sirius, she's just a girl. Come on get over her, or at least stop losing sleep at night, its not good for you." Sirus had turned viciously on him. "She's not just a girl, I love her more than anything, so shut up ok???" he said. James looked taken aback that his best friend was so snappish. Sirius sighed. "Sorry Prongs. I'm just really lonely and sad, ok?" James nodded. Sirius really wished the Yule Ball would hurry up........and finally it did. As he waited at the foot of the stairs for Christy and her friends to come down, he ran through the words in his head just to be absolutely certain they all pertained to the situation...his thoughts were interrupted when they finally descended the stairs. 'Whoa she is so beautiful.' he thought, looking at her in her spaghetti strap dress. They walked out together, Sirius trying to not just burst out and tell her what he had planned..
Lindsey smiled at Remus. 'So handsome!' she thought. They entered the Great Hall, and Christy threw Lindsey a sad look. Lindsey gave her a weak yet somewhat encouraging smile, and they waited for the first dance, between the Head Boy and Girl, to end. They didn't seem to enjoy the dance too much, being of rival houses, but did it anyway. When the music ended, they left each other for opposite sides of the room. A fast tune that sounded awfully like Muggle rap to Lindsey started playing, and lots of couples rushed out on the dance floor. Christy hung back while Lily dragged James out. Lindsey didn't really want to dance to rap. When the song finished, a slow song came on. Christy was petrified. She looked at Sirius to see what he wanted to do. He smiled at her. "Only if you want to." he said. Lindsey looked over at them. 'C'mon girl dance with him!' she thought. Luckily, she did. She nervously took his hand and he led her onto the dance floor. Christy really wished she could be enjoying their first dance, and truthfully she sort of was, but it could've been better. Less nerve wracking, less tense. They danced, occasionally saying something, sentences trailing off into nowhere. Finally the song ended. Christy sighed, and went to get herself some punch. A rosy cheeked Lily walked up to her. "I didn't know Muggles had such exuberent music!" she said. Christy laughed and drank some punch. She realized that was the first time she had smiled and meant it in a week. It shocked her that she had gone so long without real happiness. From then on out, she promised to have a better time that night and not wallow in self pity.
Christy and Lindsey almost twisted their ankles spinning each other around later that night. "I'm glad you feel better!" Lindsey said after they stopped. Christy saw Sirius walk over to the DJ and say something, but she brushed it out of her mind. "Yeah." she said with a smile. Suddenly, Sirius walked over to her. "I just asked the DJ to play us a song. It should come on any minute." he said. "Us?" she asked. "Yeah, us." he said, smiling. Suddenly the notes of a vaugely familiar song came on...kinda fast kinda slow...Christy couldn't place her finger on what song it was. Some couples danced to it as a fast song, others as a slow, but apparently Sirius wanted it to be their slow song. "I truly dedicate this song to you." he said. The words began:
You say you've turned it off
Hid your heart up on a shelf
Scared of what it might cost
To take it down for someone else
'Cause lovin him you lost
Too much of yourself
Baby can't you see that he's not me and...
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
I'll follow any road anywhere to get to you
I'll open up my soul
If that's what you need me to do
But now baby it's your move
All you've got to do
Is believe in love, just believe in us now...
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
Just believe in love
Just believe in us
Baby....
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
Christy hugged Sirius and tears fell from her eyes. "I'm so sorry, how could I have been so..so...stupid?? And blind?? I know you are nothing like him, I love you so much, please forgive me and go out with me again!" she sobbed. He nodded. "Of course. You know, you owe me for all the lonliness I endured for that week, ok?" She giggled. "Of course." They kissed, and there was applause from their friends. Christy turned red in the face and glared at Lily, Lindsey, Kaitlin, James, Brent, and Remus. "Oh shut up." she said, grinning, walking back over to them, hand in hand with Sirius.
A/N:So what did you think? Sorry it took so long it was such a long chapter.Part One is coming to a close, with some big surprises in store! Part Two is mostly going to be before Lily and James's death during Voldemort's reign. I'm debating on wether or not to have only 3 or 4 parts to this little series.Please please please review!!
Chapter 10-Dates, Dances, and Secrets.
SPOV
Sirius smiled as he walked over to his friends. "I just asked Christy out on our first date!" he said. The others grinned at him. "Why don't we have a group date? I mean, we've never done it before, and it sounds like fun, and we could be there for each other for..ahh...moral support, I guess." James said. Sirius shrugged. He would get some alone time with her anyways, so it didn't matter if his friends came along on the date. "You guys should go ask them, then." he said. They nodded and walked over towards the girls. Sirius leaned back on the wall and sighed. He peeked out of the corner of his eye at his friends. They were talking to Kaitlin, Lindsey, and Lily, while Christy watched smiling sweetly. The former three grinned excitedly at their boyfriends. James, Lupin, and Brent walked back over to where Sirius was standing. "They said okay...we need to work out a good time." James said, lost in thought. "Well me and Christy are going to snag some alone time after the big date in the Room of Requirement." Sirius said. Lupin yawned loudly. "I wish we had snuck after them to watch them take showers, it wouldn't have been hard...." he said. Brent nodded. "Yeah, that would've been amusing." James and Sirius laughed. They looked over at Lupin. He had fallen asleep. James rolled his eyes. "I guess we should all head up to bed, it is-" he checked his watch, "-5:35." They shrugged, and Brent levitated Lupin up to the dormitories.
LPOV
Lindsey, Lily, and Kaitlin smiled happily as they told Christy what the boys asked them. "Wow, our first real date! I'm so excited..I can't wait two whole days!' she thought anxiously. She smiled to herself when she saw the Marauders going to bed, Lupin levitating beside Brent. 'That lazy bum!' she thought. "We should probably head off to bed also, we won't get much sleep though.." she said. She loked over at the notice board for some reason, and noticed that there was a large,decorated sign. She walked over to have a look at it. "Yule Ball Tradition Continues! The Yule Ball is being held again in honor of last years winner of the Triwizard Tournament, Celeste Freemon of Ravenclaw House! This year's theme will be all-Muggle, to raise Muggle awareness. You will be asked to dress in formal Muggle clothing. Muggle music will be played. Date for the Ball is December 14." Lindsey motioned for the other girls to read the sign. Lily laughed. "I'm sure Lucius Malfoy and Snivellus and their crew will be most pleased..." she said, shaking her head. "You do realize this is in about a week, right?" Kaitlin said, frowning at the sign. "I haven't had time to decide what to wear, heck I don't even know if I even have any formal Muggle clothing with me this year! We don't normally need it...we might have to go in that one shop that sells Muggle stuff for Muggle-lovers...." Christy shrugged. "I always bring a formal dress, you never know when stuff like this'll pop up...but I dunno if it's pretty enough..." Lindsey rolled her eyes. "Since when do you care what people think about you? You walked out of the common room without brushing your hair or teeth one day, you didn't even bother to clean your robes off, what with all that cat hair all over them..." Christy frowned. "I was having an off day, I do care what I look like just not to the extent where I have a heart attack if a piece of hair isn't exactly in line with the others..." She bent down suddenly and scooped up a calico cat that had been about to attack her foot. Jasmine, Christy's cat, was very unpredictable in the sense that she would attack you one minute then expect her ears to be scratched the next. She stroked the cat's ears, and it purred happily. "So anyways, honestly I cannot wait two whole freakin' days for the date..." she sighed happily. "And, me and Sirius are grabbing some 'alone time' after the big date in the Room of Requirement." Lindsey snorted. She still hadn't forgotten the incident a few weeks ago-actually, a month, seeing as it was early December-when her and Lupin had raced into Transfiguration after him showing her that room, and her friends sending her a nasty note, that was taken up and read to the class. Christy shot her a glare. "This is going to be after classes, I'm not going to be bounding into Transfiguration all out of breath for some mysterious reason." she said. Lindsey rolled her eyes. "I've told you, we didn't do anything. Anyways, lets get to bed." They shrugged and trudged upstairs. Lindsey couldn't help but compare different styles of dresses in her mind that she thought Lupin would like....
The next day, Friday, the girls drug themselves unhappily out of bed. They knew they were going to regret not going to bed earlier, especially since their insane Quidditch Captain was demanding practice that night, and they had History of Magic first, the most boring class and the hardest when exam time came. Lindsey didn't see why they had to study that anyway, it wasn't going to help many of them when they got jobs. Yawning and stretching, they made their way down to breakfast, Lily almost falling into a wall after she nearly fell asleep. They stumbled onto the bench at the Gryffindor table. They noticed the boys looked tired,too. Lindsey yawned loudly, causing a chain reaction from Christy to Kaitlin to Lily then through the Marauders. It would have been very funny had they not been so tired. Lindsey noted that Brent was sitting where Peter usually sat. She almost laughed out loud. Peter was sitting off to the side farther down the table, glaring at Brent and his most likely ex friends.She never really liked him and thought it highly amusing that he had most likely been kicked from the group. "So wh-wh-what are you guys up to?" she yawned. They yawned in response. "History of Magic first..." Lindsey looked at her watch. "Gee whiz..." She yawned loudly and got up. "I forgot my stuff guys, I'm going to go get it..." The other girls got up, noticing they didn't have their stuff either. "We'll see you guys in Binn's class." Christy said, nodding at them, really Sirius in particular. Lindsey smiled at Lupin and they walked out towards the Gryffindor Common Room. They didn't talk much, just yawned alot. They finally got to the common room, grabbed their stuff, and trudged down to History of Magic. "Good gosh I'm tired. I hope nothing on our exams comes up in this class, cause I'm going to be asleep." Lily said. "I don't even care about the stupid exams, I just need an extra hour or four of sleep.." Christy said. They finally reached the classroom and plopped in their chairs, in front of the Marauders.
Somehow Lindsey made it through the day without falling asleep in the middle of the hallway, though she and the rest of the girls did sleep all through History of Magic, and had to get the homework from Alice, who seemed quite reluctant to let them off the hook so easily for not doing their classwork. Finally the day was over and all that the girls could think about was their beds and the date in two days. Lindsey sighed as she sat on her bed, gazing out of the window. "Why must it be two days? I wish we could just go now..." she said wistfully. "Well this weekend is our Hogsmeade visit. Kinda makes sense." Lily said, checking her watch because they had Quidditch practice shortly. "Oh shut up." Kaitlin said, grinning, throwing a pillow at Lily's head. She shrieked as the pillow thwacked her in the face. "You're always too logical!" Lindsey added, throwing her pillow at Lily too. "You'll pay for that!" she said, leaping to her feet. She aimed a pillow at Kaitlin but instead hit Christy, who was laughing too hard to do anything but fall off the bed and shriek in surprise, which sent them into a huge fit of laughter. Suddenly they heard a loud scream and a thumping noise, and shouts of, "Get off of me!" "You're on my back, geroff!" This threw them into even more hysterical laughter as they walked out of the dormitory to see what happened. "You tried to get into our dormitories?" Lily asked, gaping at the Marauders, who were untangling themselves from each other. Again, Lindsey noticed Brent seemed to be replacing Peter. Sirius finally untangled himself from James and Lupin and stood up. "Well we heard you yelling at each other, we wanted to see what was going on." Lindsey got a great idea and winked at the girls. "We'll show you, just wait right here. And close your eyes, too. It's nothing bad I promise!" she said hastily, noticing the wary look on their faces. "What, you can't trust your girlfriends?" she said, pretending to look offended. They threw them a curious glance but closed their eyes all the same. The girls ran into their room, barely able to stifle their laughter. They each grabbed two pillows, crept silently down stairs. Lindsey held up three fingers. They positioned themselves behind the boys. She put one down. They lifted the pillows above their heads. She put down one more finger. "GO!" she shouted, slamming Lupin's head with a pillow. "AHHHHHHH!!!" they yelled as the girls pummled them with pillows. They beat the boys down with their pillows, almost falling on top of them laughing. "EEK!" Lily yelled. James had finally overcome her and had her pinned against the ground. In her moment of distraction, Lupin managed to do the same to her. "Don't give up Christy!" Lindsey said, noticing her and Sirius strugglig for control of the pillow. After a lengthy struggle in which both of them got hit around the head alot, she wrenched it free of his gasp and whacked him upside the head with it. She pinned him to the ground, but through much lengthy struggle he managed to flip her over and pin her on the ground. "AARGH!!!!" she yelled, thrashing around trying to get out from under him. "Ok you win let us up!" they yelled when Brent finally managed to get Kaitlin down. James looked thougtfuly over at Sirius, who shook his head. "Nah, you'll probably just attack us again." Unwisely, he shot a thumbs up at Sirius, giving Lily the relief she needed to throw him off of her and pin him down. "Ok ok, we're even, now please can we call a truce?" James said, struggling to get out from underneath his captor. "I dunno Prongs, I rather like this." Sirius said mischeviously. Lindsey looked to her right and suddenly noticed how sick that little comment was. He had one leg on either side of his girlfriend so she couldn't get up, and had her arms pinned down. Christy's eyes went wide and she managed to wrench one arm free of his grasp and pushed herself away from him. "You sicko." she said. Lupin laughed, buying Lindsey time to get out from under him. Eventually everyone was standing up, pillows returned to their rightful owners, feeling considerably lighter. "Well that was fun!" Lily said merrily. "You do know we are going to have to get you back for that, right?" James said. The girls smiled innocently. "If it's as fun as this was, I'm actually looking forward to it." Lindsey said. Lupin grinned evilly. "Oh, it'll be fun for us, at the least." The smiled and walked up to their dormitories.
They had Quidditch practice that night. Brooms on shoulders, Lily, Lindsey, Christy, Kaitlin, James, and Brent marched out to the Quidditch field. They took their positions with Robert, who had gotten out there before them, on the field. They took out the Quaffle and praticed a few drills, passing the ball to each other, and trying new techniques to get it past the hoops. After a few minutes of practice in which Brent managed to block all the shots aimed at him, it began to rain. "Oh no." Lindsey grumbled under her breath. "All right, let's get out the Bludgers and practice with those. James, I don't think we'll be using the Snitch this time because if it comes down harder........." As if reacting on Robert's words, the rain went from a drizzle to a small shower. Lindsey grumbled angrily and she and Kaitlin hit Bludgers away from their friends that were trying to score goals. Finally the rain was pounding so hard they could hardly see. After a few more persistent minutes, Robert reluctantly called the team down. Mud was splashing up on them from their feet hitting the ground and the rain beating down on it so hard. They ran into the shower rooms, now drenched and covered in mud. "Great, we are going to have to sneak into the prefects bathroom again." Christy muttered in Lindsey's ear. Lindsey nodded, wiping her face off with a towel. Their pants were splattered with mud, and they had mud on their hands for some reason they couldn't quite work out. Lindsey also felt mud on the side of her face. She rolled her eyes. She couldn't imagine how mud had gotten all over her body, just knew that they had to sneak into the prefects bathroom.
"Bye James, bye Brent." The Unknowns said as they headed up to their dormitories. "We're going to take showers, we are filthy." Kaitlin said. Lindsey felt uneasy as she climbed the stairs; she could've sworn that James had grinned evilly at Brent. They got their pajamas out of their trunks, snuck under Christy's Invisibility Cloak, and snuck out of the portrait hole unnoticed. Or so they thought.
JPOV
James ran up to the dormitory after Kaitlin had told him they were taking a shower in the prefect's bathroom, Brent hot on his heels. "Sirius! Remus! Hurry, quick, grab my Invsibility Cloak!" Sirius scrambled over to the bed next to him, looked under it and quickly grabbed the silvery cloak. "Come on-the girls are going to the prefects bathroom to take showers! This would be a nice revenge, spying on them without them even knowing!" They grinned and threw the cloak over them, reaching the bottom of the stairs just in time to see the portrait hole open. They snuck out right before it closed. James had the secret map he, Sirius, Remus, and Peter had made to make sure they didn't run into the girls, but stayed close behind them. James nudged Remus and mouthed, "Do you have the All Seeing Eyes?" Remus nodded and patted his pockets. When they reached the prefects bathroom, they heard Lindsey's voice say,"Bubble Powder." The door opened, and the girls must've walked through because the door closed almost as quickly as it had opened. Remus quickly handed them All Seeing Eyes, and they looked through the lens. James thought it quite odd;the metal telescope was pressed against the door, but they could see into the bathroom just as clearly as if they were in there. The girls were conjuring up curtains to section off the gigantic pool, each had about 4 bubble taps. They laid their wands, a towel and washcloth, and their pajamas beside the pool. 'The moment we've all been waiting for!' James thought as the girls began to strip down. 'Oh crap!' he thought angrily as he felt himself getting hard when Lily was down to nothing...she had her back to him so he couldn't see her chest. 'Good gosh we are so perverted!' he thought. He noticed Sirius, Remus, and Brent looked slightly uncomfortable. 'They must be as 'excited' as I am' he thought. Lily was washing her self off, washing her hair...he got a very good glimpse of her chest. He stared at her, not really seeing her just thinking about her...'She's so beautiful!' he thought, smiling slightly. After a few minutes, the girls looked ready to get out. James leaned forward slightly.........and realized all too late that the door was slightly cracked. The door shot open and he and the other guys fell inside, the cloak slipping off of them. The girls screamed and grabbed towels and wrapped them around themselves. Lindsey slipped and fell on her butt in her haste to grab her towel. "Ow..." James said, rubbing his eye. The All Seeing Eye had dug into his real eye when he fell. Lily, holding her towel firmly around her, stalked over to them as they were sitting up, and slapped him across the face. He winced. "Exactly how long have you been sitting out there?" she yelled at him. "I think they followed us here, Lil." Lindsey said, blushing furiously and holding her towel snugly around her. Christy blushed too, and Kaitlin mouthed soundlessly like a fish out of water. James rubbed his cheek. "It was our revenge, to spy on you without you knowing...of course you obviously know now..." Lily glared at him. "If you ever.....EVER do that again I'll slap you so hard you won't know which way is up!" Sirius snickered, but that was a mistake. Lily stomped over to him. "You think it's funny do you?" she said, glaring daggers. He shook his head, the small smile dropping from his face. She stalked over to the side of the pool and retrieved her clothing. "Turn away!" she snarled so viciously that the boys immediately obeyed. Christy edged over to Lily. "Don't you think we should give them a break? I mean come on you know if you were in James's shoes you'd do the same." she said with a wink. Lily, though still angry at being discovered in the nude by her boyfriend, smiled. "Yes, I suppose you are right." The girls finished changing into their night clothes. "All right, you can turn around you peeping Toms." Lily said, smiling. James was stunned at how fast she went from an angry demon on the war path to a sweet little angel. "We forgive you, because had we been in your position we garauntee we would've done the same." She smiled again and kissed James's cheek. "Sorry for slapping you, sweetie," she said pleasantly. "That's ok." he said, grinning. "We should have more self control I suppose." he said. They shrugged. Suddenly they heard footsteps. "I heard a scream, I know I did!" they heard the caretaker wheeze. "We'll see soon enough." To their horror, Professor McGonagall was heading up the stair case. The girls gathered their stuff up and threw themselves under the Invisibility Cloak as fast as they could, and the guys closed the door and turned the light off, getting under James's cloak mere seconds before they heard McGongall say the password. James hardly dared to breathe. If they were caught...... "They must've just left, I can smell the bubble's perfume." said McGonagall. "Search the hallways!" she barked, and the caretaker hobbled away, muttering angrily about pesky students. The Professor took one last swift look around, then stalked out of the bathroom.
**NEXT DAY**
CPOV
Christy stood nervously in front of a mirror in the girl's dormitory. It was near time for the date. The boys said to dress somewhat casual, but not completely fancy. Christy was dressed in a navy blue shirt that had a butterfly on it, and a denim skirt with blue slide on shoes. She couldn't do anything with her hair, so she just waved it slightly and left it down. Lindsey gave her already flippy hair extra flip, and put on a light weight maroon sweater, faded boot cut denim jeans, and black converses. Lily dashed frantically around the room, looking for her white slip on Ked's shoes. She was wearing a blue sleeveless turtleneck, with a knee length khaki skirt. Half of her hair was pulled into a brown barette, and the rest fell gracefully around her face. Kaitlin sat on her bed, doing some last minute homework (earning odd stares from her friends), dressed in a plain yellow baby tshirt, blue capris, and black flip flops. Her hair was in a bun. "I think we are just about ready!" Christy said, appearing happy, but inside she was really nervous. Memories of her first date with Zack kept haunting her horribly, alongside memories of when he tried to rape her..."CHRISTY!!!!" She started, hearing her name shouted right in her ear. Lindsey stared at her oddly. "What's your deal?" "Memories. Worries." she said simply, and Lindsey patted her shoulder reassuringly. "Don't worry, I've told you already, Siruis is absolutely nothing like Zack!" Christy nodded, but she still felt somewhat insecure. Eventually they walked downstairs, where the guys were waiting for them.
SPOV
Sirius whistled when Christy walked down the stairs. She was abosolutely stunning to him. He remembered how he felt when he had seen her in the bathroom...he definately needed a cold shower after that. She walked over to him, smiling. "Shall we go then?" she said, taking hold of his arm. "Sure." he said. They all walked out of the common room and headed off towards Hogsmeade. The whole way Sirius was thinking, "What if she doesn't like the restaurant? What if I do something stupid? What if she doesn't like the Room of Requirement?" He was so lost in thought that he was quite surprised by how quickly they were in Hogsmeade. "So where are we going?" Lindsey asked, turning to Lupin. "Over here." he answered, pointing at a little café nearby. They walked inside. The counter was black marble, with a menu on the front of it, designed in wood and framed in green, with vintage wall paper. There were some small, two seater tables.There was a fernace to keep the place warm, and a couch in front of it. There was a door on one side of the café. They walked over to the counter, where a smiling witch stood. "May I help you?" she said. "Yes, we would like to know if we could get a private area?" James said, stepping forward. "Ahhh, yes, of course sir!" she said. "My name is Rosetta, come with me." They went through the door and were on a beautiful patio. There were wrought iron black Victorian gates around the patio. There were small two seater tables, with umbrella-things over them (A/N:How romantic...umbrella things!). The couples sat down at different tables. They ordered their meals and the couples talked quietly to each other.
CPOV
Christy had a heavy sense of guilt in her stomach;she really wanted to tell Sirius about Zack, but couldn't find a way to approach the subject. "Why don't you play Quidditch?" she asked for lack of a topic. "Well, I do now that I live with James, but not on the House Team, no open spots and I'm not that good." He smiled at her. "You live with James?" she asked. 'Well that was unexpected.' she thought, feeling quite shocked. "Yeah, can't stand my parents, they have this crazy idea that Muggle borns, 'blood traitors', or otherwise people who aren't pureblood are filth, so I finally got sick of it and ran away to James's house." "Wow." Christy said softly as their meal came. She had never known that, and thought it very brave of him to run away. They enjoyed their meal very much, occasionally looking over at the other couples enjoying themselves. Christy figured that Kaitlin was chatting away about her favorite things to do, Lindsey was probably letting Lupin talk about who knows what, and Lily was probably talking about Quidditch. "Yeah, it seems amazing but really it wasn't all that hard." Sirius said after a brief silence. Christy drank some of her water. "My dad's an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. My mom's a Muggle." she said. "She finds it absolutely facinating what my dad does, though he's an Unspeakable and can't tell her what he does." Sirius ate some more of his food, then said, "At least you have decent parents. I seriously think mine are possessed or something." he said, rolling his eyes.
Later that evening they strolled around Hogsmeade, looking in the shops and secretly buying presents for each other and poorly hiding them when asked what they were doing. Sirius caught her buying his present. "What've you got there?" he said, making her jump and shove it behind her back quickly. "Nothing!" she said, flashing a grin. He had eyed her curiously but walked back out of the shop to see why James had his face pressed against the window of a store across the street.
Soon they were headed back to Hogwarts, pockets full of candy and presents. When they reached the common room, Lindsey, Lily, and Kaitlin said goodnight to Remus, James, and Brent, kissed them quickly on the cheek, and walked up to their dormitories, giggling. "I'm going with them so I can put my stuff up, okay?" she said. Sirius nodded. "Okay." They walked up to thier seperate dormitories. Christy deposited her stuff on her bedside table. "Be careful in the Room of Requirement, Christy!" Lily said jokingly from beside her. Christy rolled her eyes. "Don't do anything naughty!" Kaitlin chimed in. Christy threw a pillow at her head. "And don't slobber when you kiss him!" Lindsey concluded. Christy took her other pillow and whacked her in the face. "Can we finish this later, you're sweetie is waiting." Lindsey said, grinning. Christy smiled and walked back downstairs, feeling quite nervous indeed.
SPOV
Sirius hit Lupin with a pillow. "Shut up Moony!" he said. When he had gotten upstairs, the boys immediately crowded around him. "Don't do anything bad Sirius, you know how girls don't like it when guys go too fast!" he said with a wink. Now he whacked them all with the pillow and walked back downstairs. Christy was waiting for him, sitting on the couch listening to her CD player. "What'cha got there?" he said, dropping beside her. She took off the headphones. "Evanescence." she said. "A Muggle band. They're really good. The song that's on now is Bring Me to Life." She set it aside. "Well, lets go." Sirius said. He took hold of her hand and felt the familiar tingle he always got up his arm whenever he held her hand. Or was near her at all for that matter. They walked in silence, though not an awkward one, to the Room of Requirement. He passed in front of the wall three times, and a door appeared. They walked in and it looked just as it did on Lindsey and Remus's date.
CPOV
Christy was seriously nervous. 'What if he tries to kiss me? Or anything else? I don't know if I can honestly trust him, I mean I know the Jessica thing was a screw up but still if he does turn out to be like Zack..' Her thoughts were wracking her brain. They sat on the couch. She held his hand again. 'Gosh how can I love him so much but still be so scared of him??' she thought angrily. They got to talking about nonsense stuff like Muggle inventions, music, and then Sirius said,"Christy, I really do love you, you know that right?" Christy smiled and nodded, but inside she was not smiling. 'Oh my gosh...I love him so much....but I'm so scared! Why do I feel like this?' He closed his eyes and moved slowly towards her. 'Oh my gosh, our first kiss!! I'm so excited!! But..' She didn't finish her thought.Their lips met, and she was lost in the passion of their first kiss. She kissed him back, eagerly, wanting to kiss him..'Who cares if I'm scared, this is great!' Sirius finally broke away, much to Christy's disappointment. He smiled. She smiled. She also thought, 'Okay, well, I liked that, but you know still..' "I love you Sirius, always. Even if we were to somehow break up, I'd still love you, no matter what." 'YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT!!' her brain screamed at her, but she didn't care, she knew she loved him, always, no matter what. Their lips met again, then again..."The Yule Ball is in about a week, I haven't asked anyone to go, I guess you'll do." Sirius said jokingly, pulling away from a passionate kiss. She kissed him again, grinned, and said,"Yeah, I suppose I'll just HAVE to go with you." He smiled and put a hand on her waist. They kissed again. She felt his hand wander up her shirt,onto her back. 'That's what Zack did before he..' She leaped away from him as if shot. "DON'T FREAKIN DO THAT!!!!" she yelled, collapsing suddenly in a wave of tears. 'Ok, well, spazzing out was not on my to do list!' she thought, but the tears still came. Sirius, looking utterly shocked and wondering what he could've possibly done to make her act like this, walked over to her and kneeled besider her. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Christy is there something you need to tell me?" he said, genuine concern etched on his handsome face. 'Just tell him....he should know...' So, sobbing hysterically into his shoulder, she told him the whole story, from meeting Zack, to him trying to rape her, to when they broke up in fifth year and he punched her in the stomach, ending finally and still crying on his shoulder. "Christy.......I wish you had told me sooner, I'm so sorry, I swear to you I'd never, ever do anything like that to you, never." he said, hugging her tightly. Still crying, she placed a shaky hand on his chest. "I know." she whispered. "Sirius, I just want you to know I really do love you, always, I swear to God I've never felt this way about anyone before, and nothing not even a break up could stop me from loving you, never, and please never doubt that I love you." she whispered, burying her face in his chest. He stroked her hair. "I know, the same goes for me." She pulled away from him and stood up, so he stood up too. "Sirius.." She took hold of his hands. "I'm sorry to end the night like this...I shouldn't fall apart like this but I can't help it..." A few more tears trickled silently down her face. She took a deep, shuddering breath. "Like I said, I really do love you, but......I need.....time, I guess, to figure out what's wrong with me, why I feel like trash, and I..." Now sobs were escaping her throat. 'Great just act like a child in front of him, ruin your life, good job.' she thought. "We should probably take a.....break from each other." she finally choked out, she kissed him on the cheek, then ran from the room, leaving a shocked Sirius behind her.
SPOV
'What just happened?' Sirius thought. 'One minute we're making out, next minute she's sobbing because I touched her back, then she breaks up with me and runs out...I mean, I get that she is upset....who wouldn't be after a jerk like Zack? But...according to her, she still loves me, and is just trying to sort out her life...' He sighed and turned around. 'I need to be able to do something for her to make her feel better..' A CD player suddenly appeared on the table in front of him. He picked it up and listened to the song, the only song on it, grinned to himself,and walked out of the still open door.
LPOV/LEPOV/KPOV/CPOV/SPOV
Lindsey gasped. Christy had just hurtled into the Common Room and told her, Lily, and Kaitlin exactly what had happened in the Room of Requirement. "Oh no Christy, are you all right?" Lindsey asked. Sirius suddenly came into the room, looking quite upset. He glanced at them, then walked up the stairs, probably to tell his friends. Lindsey turned back to Christy, who was sobbing quietly. "Christy..." "No! Please, don't tell me it'll be ok or I'll get over it, 'cause I love Sirius, I really do, but...I just can't work out my feelings...but I do love him, and KAITLIN STOP GIVING ME THAT LOOK!" she yelled. Kaitlin jumped;she had been rolling her eyes. "Well sorry, it just seems to me that if you loved him so much you wouldn't break up with him!" she said. Christy gaped at her. "I can't believe you! I've told you that I am just trying to take a break so I can think about everything! One of my best friends doesn't even understand what I'm going through? I can't believe that!" she said. Kaitlin looked somewhat sorry. "I'm sorry I can't help it, it's just it doesn't seem like you love him very much, I mean you've broken up twice!" "Kaitlin I've explained those situations, they didn't change our love for each other, now please guys, let me go to bed." she said, and truthfully she did look like she needed a bit of sleep. Christy walked up stairs. Lily looked at her sadly. "Poor girl." she said, shaking her head. "Yeah." Kaitlin didn't know what to think. She didn't mean to get on her like that, but...what was with her?
* * *
It was the day of the Yule Ball. Christy stood sullenly in front of the mirror. 'I'm supposed to be enjoying tonight.' she thought bitterly. She glanced over at Lindsey, who was gliding around happily, dabbing a little bit of makeup on. Lindsey had her hair up in a bun with a few curly pieces coming down, and though the others thought it was a tad much, she had a small silver tiara perched on her head. She was wearing a light pink strapless dress with a bottom that swished around,and black sandle high heels, and black gloves. Lily walked quickly over to her and snuck the blush out from under the mirror and hummed happily as she applied it. She was wearing a bell sleeved silk dress that was emerald green that reached her knees and swished out also, like Lindsey's. Her hair was curled with jewels in it and she had a gold emerald choker on, and she was also wearing black sandle high heels. Christy turned, not feeling very happy. It had been about a week since she broke up with Sirius, but they had remained on friendly terms. They smiled and talked to each other, but really Christy wanted to scream and repair their relationship, tell him everything was ok, though it really wasn't. A tornado of emotion whirled within her heart, and she didn't know how to stop it. She looked at her own reflection. Spaghetti strap light blue dress, black sandle shoes like Lindsey and Lily's, and a sapphire necklace. She thought she was quite ugly, but that could be the pessimistic part of her brain talking, because everyone insisted she was beautiful. Lindsey, who had chosen their outfits, said it was probably just because of Sirius, which didn't improve her mood much. Christy fixed her bun, and glared at Kaitlin, who had just flounced into the room, with her hair half up and half down, curly, a maroon sleevless dress with a train, and the same shoes that the other 3 had. Christy sighed as she applied a tiny bit of eyeshadow that matched her outfit.She didn't know why she was still mad at Kaitlin, but she felt in her heart of hearts that she was. She put on some blush and then walked down the stairs with the others to where the guys were waiting. Lindsey seized Remus's arm, grinning. Kaitlin latched onto Brent, and Lily to James. Christy and Sirius just stood by each other. Christy slapped a fake smile on her face. "Ready to go." she said, her heart melting at the sight of him. He smiled, and they walked to the Great Hall together. Instead of champions leading in this year, the Head Boy and Girl walk in together. They seemed to not like this arrangement, since the Head Boy was a Slytherin and the Head Girl a Gryffindor.
For that whole week leading up to the Yule Ball, Sirius had been feeling both anxious and lonely. He really wished Christy would realize he was nothing like that Muggle jerk, and he didn't understand why her confused feelings would be powerful enough to make her break up with him,even if it was reluctantly that she did so, but apparently they must've been. He couldn't help but stare at her in their classes, blushing when she caught him. James was beginning to worry about him. "Sirius, she's just a girl. Come on get over her, or at least stop losing sleep at night, its not good for you." Sirus had turned viciously on him. "She's not just a girl, I love her more than anything, so shut up ok???" he said. James looked taken aback that his best friend was so snappish. Sirius sighed. "Sorry Prongs. I'm just really lonely and sad, ok?" James nodded. Sirius really wished the Yule Ball would hurry up........and finally it did. As he waited at the foot of the stairs for Christy and her friends to come down, he ran through the words in his head just to be absolutely certain they all pertained to the situation...his thoughts were interrupted when they finally descended the stairs. 'Whoa she is so beautiful.' he thought, looking at her in her spaghetti strap dress. They walked out together, Sirius trying to not just burst out and tell her what he had planned..
Lindsey smiled at Remus. 'So handsome!' she thought. They entered the Great Hall, and Christy threw Lindsey a sad look. Lindsey gave her a weak yet somewhat encouraging smile, and they waited for the first dance, between the Head Boy and Girl, to end. They didn't seem to enjoy the dance too much, being of rival houses, but did it anyway. When the music ended, they left each other for opposite sides of the room. A fast tune that sounded awfully like Muggle rap to Lindsey started playing, and lots of couples rushed out on the dance floor. Christy hung back while Lily dragged James out. Lindsey didn't really want to dance to rap. When the song finished, a slow song came on. Christy was petrified. She looked at Sirius to see what he wanted to do. He smiled at her. "Only if you want to." he said. Lindsey looked over at them. 'C'mon girl dance with him!' she thought. Luckily, she did. She nervously took his hand and he led her onto the dance floor. Christy really wished she could be enjoying their first dance, and truthfully she sort of was, but it could've been better. Less nerve wracking, less tense. They danced, occasionally saying something, sentences trailing off into nowhere. Finally the song ended. Christy sighed, and went to get herself some punch. A rosy cheeked Lily walked up to her. "I didn't know Muggles had such exuberent music!" she said. Christy laughed and drank some punch. She realized that was the first time she had smiled and meant it in a week. It shocked her that she had gone so long without real happiness. From then on out, she promised to have a better time that night and not wallow in self pity.
Christy and Lindsey almost twisted their ankles spinning each other around later that night. "I'm glad you feel better!" Lindsey said after they stopped. Christy saw Sirius walk over to the DJ and say something, but she brushed it out of her mind. "Yeah." she said with a smile. Suddenly, Sirius walked over to her. "I just asked the DJ to play us a song. It should come on any minute." he said. "Us?" she asked. "Yeah, us." he said, smiling. Suddenly the notes of a vaugely familiar song came on...kinda fast kinda slow...Christy couldn't place her finger on what song it was. Some couples danced to it as a fast song, others as a slow, but apparently Sirius wanted it to be their slow song. "I truly dedicate this song to you." he said. The words began:
You say you've turned it off
Hid your heart up on a shelf
Scared of what it might cost
To take it down for someone else
'Cause lovin him you lost
Too much of yourself
Baby can't you see that he's not me and...
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
I'll follow any road anywhere to get to you
I'll open up my soul
If that's what you need me to do
But now baby it's your move
All you've got to do
Is believe in love, just believe in us now...
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
Just believe in love
Just believe in us
Baby....
I need you to know you can fall into me
That my arms are wide open
And will always be
Right here waiting, staying strong
Come and fall into me
Christy hugged Sirius and tears fell from her eyes. "I'm so sorry, how could I have been so..so...stupid?? And blind?? I know you are nothing like him, I love you so much, please forgive me and go out with me again!" she sobbed. He nodded. "Of course. You know, you owe me for all the lonliness I endured for that week, ok?" She giggled. "Of course." They kissed, and there was applause from their friends. Christy turned red in the face and glared at Lily, Lindsey, Kaitlin, James, Brent, and Remus. "Oh shut up." she said, grinning, walking back over to them, hand in hand with Sirius.
A/N:So what did you think? Sorry it took so long it was such a long chapter.Part One is coming to a close, with some big surprises in store! Part Two is mostly going to be before Lily and James's death during Voldemort's reign. I'm debating on wether or not to have only 3 or 4 parts to this little series.Please please please review!!