A/N: boo!! Life goes on. Where's that unwishing well.. Lal al all.. hard
to keep up? . oh, well, sorry. Enjoy the read.
Sirius comes into the picture in this chapter. I think I should be able to choose at least four characters from the list. Oh, well. I guess they don't think that anyone would write such a lame story as this one. ;)
I have written a description of the characters which was supposed to come before anything else, but since it was completely irrelevant I decided not to post it here. But if you two readers I have had would like to read it please tell me.
And as you have seen, I suck at summaries, so you could write one for me!! I am such a cheat. Maybe we could hold a small contest! Hmmm.
(This is reconstructed also. I added a 'scene' with Hagrid but I have no idea how to do his accent. So if I ever find a willing beta-reader they could give me a few precious hints.)
Disclaimer: as before only BIGGER.. ok. I'll calm down now. I mean I own nothing. I've eaten swedish candy. or actually choclate.. mmm. chocolate
Night
If you would have walked past the Gryffindor tower that night, you would have most probably, noticed a very faint trembling around. Most witches and wizards would have just gone on their way not wondering about it too much. This was Hogwarts anyway, weird things happen.
But no witches or wizards were around at that time of the night. (Even the ministry wizard had gone to sleep already realising how useless he was.) None were there to witness the very small tinkering of the glass cabinet doors or how all the paintings had mysteriously emptied.
Causing all this commotion, breaking the nightly peace at Hogwarts was the biggest party ever since 1902 when William McMillian had finally after twelve hard working years graduated from the school. And that party had been held by the teachers!
Life was all rosebuds for the four boys we all know so well by know. Well, at least it had been today. The winning of this seasons probably most challenging game, (against Ravenclaw) the praises they got, the fun they had, and the beautiful spring day were certainly enough reason for that too.
The party had been going on non stop for five hours now, and being in the center of attention can be very exhausting. So, one of the very fortunate boys had decided to take a break. Leave for a minute.
He squeezed himself through the crowd trying to get to the portrait hole.
" And where do you think your going young man? Not escaping for your own little bash are you now?" it was Edna a seventh year Gryffindor, and head of their quidditch team.
James sighed in despair,
"No, no, never! How dare you accuse me of such felany! I was just going to retrieve some more of that lovely pumpkin juice from the kitchens to moisturize your lovely throat", the boy bowed, acting suddenly very handsome.
But Edna couldn't be surprised. She was in the game at once,
"Aah! Very well then, you have my permission to go, this time, but only because of your proper reasons", she bowed too and pushed the portrait open.
"Right behind you James!" came a loud shout from behind them. Sirius ran towards them with a herd of girls trying to reach him, only finding themselves on the floor giggling, hard.
"G'day Edna", said Sirius and leaped out of the room. James followed quickly behind him, after kissing the girl's hand.
The two boys closed the portrait behind them and stepped into total quietness. The fat lady was sleeping,an empty bottle of wine beside her.
"Aah! The bliss!" Sirius stretched and walked along full of energy. James just hum a small tune and followed a dreamy look in his eyes. He was feeling very calm and tired, just then. Though even his thoughts could not stop him from noticing, the small wavy red dot in the distance down below.
"Oh fuck", he mouthed, snapping back to reality.
"What now?" asked Sirius, who had noticed the boy's sudden leaning over the window sill.
"nothing, nothing", James said turning slowly, but keeping his eyes on the dot as long as he could.
"Ummm, Sirius", James hesitated.
"Yeees?", the boy asked lifting one eyebrow patiently.
"Something came up, you go to the kitchens alone. We'll meet back in the common room, soon".
"Fine, whatever", Sirius shrugged and went on.
***
Now the story devides into two.
Here comes James.
***
James took the opposite direction as Sirius. He waited until the other boy had turned around the corner, and started running like crazy. He flew down the three flights of stairs remaining and smashed into the great doors.
"fuck fuck fuck", the door seemed heavier than usual. Finally after two hard minutes of pushing the door with all his might, he yanked and fell, exhausted, out to the grounds.
"Lily!" he cried, fearing the worst, and ran towards the red dot. The dot rolled around a couple of times and started giggling, it was surrounded by bright little lights that were dancing around happily.
When James finally reached the girl, he realised just what had happened. He started laughing. A laughter of great relief and maybe even a bit of hysteria. He fell on to the ground next to the girl. The girl sat up bewildered and asked:
" What's wong Jamsie-Wamsie? Why awe you laughing?" James sat up, still laughing, hugged the girl tightly and said:
"It was the faeries! The faeries! C'mon now Lily we have to run!" James stood up and started running almost dragging Lily behind him.
"But I don't want to gooo, the tinkerbells are so pweeeeeetty."
"No buts now, young lady. It's way past your bedtime" , James said grinning broadly.
They reached the stairs to the castle in no time, and James agreed to stop. Lily started dancing around falling down once or twice. James still breathing heavily said: "Calm down now Lily, you'll be fine in a sec." Lily sat down beside James on the steps obediently. She yawned and put her head on the boy's shoulder. James smiled:
"I guess you weren't listening in class".
"What do you mean?" asked Lily in a moment of soberness.
"The faerie dust, it works a lot like alcohol, it'll dissolve into the fresh air in a few minutes time".
"Oh, that, yeah. But what if I don't want it to dissolve?" James frowned, this sounded like a bad case of dustism was evolving.
The girl let out a series of supressed giggles. James smiled and fell down on his back. Lily calmed down and said:
"Of course I've been listening. Fool! They caught me by surprise". The two were staring at the stars.
"So, what were you doing out here?" James asked trying to sound casual.
"Umm, well, you see I'm not very fond of the parties held up there, I find them very boring sometimes, and well, I thought I'd be out of the way, Hagrid promised me a place to sleep for tonight." Lily said this in one breath, obviously embaressed: "You?".
"Actually I was getting more pumpkin juice when I saw you and I thought something had happened and.." James's voice trailed away. Lily looked anguished and stared at her own feet. James thought he could see a little blush on her face. He explained it as wishful thinking and took a deep breath, saying and rescuing himself:
"Well, I guess we'd better start leaving" , James stood up helping the girl by her hand.
"Let's go see Hagrid before we go up. I bet he would be delighted to offer us some tee", Lily said already heading for the cabin. After a few steps they noticed they were still holding hands and smiled at each other akwardly letting go.
Hagrid opened the door quickly obviously waiting for Lily. When he saw that James was with her he stopped and stared at the couple for a long while. James found this weird, but Lily didn't seem to notice anything.
"Evening Hagrid, I'll be sleeping in my dorm after all. We just came to pay a visit", Lily explained. " I hope you don't mind".
"No no, not at all. Come on right in", he said snapping out of it and moving out of the way.
The two sat down at the table as Hagrid went to heat up some water.
"I talked to the centaurs tonight", he said: "they were rejoicing about something. They said that the dark lord wouldn't be long anymore". He was still staring at the two with his hands on his hips, his forehead wrinkled. It was obvious to James that that hadn't been the only thing the centaurs had told him.
"That's great news. You didn't happen to come across my trans books while at it did you?", James asked hoping to change the subject into something that wouldn't give him the creeps.
"Nope, sorry boy", Hagrid answered turning to the kettle again.
Lily looked at him questioningly.
James just shrugged and said: "Snape's revenge".
Lily grinned and said: "Good for him!"
James looked shocked and threw a napkin at her.
Lily laughed and had her own revenge.
After some tee and quite a while the two were ready to leave. They said their goodbyes to Hagrid and left leaving him once more staring at the two.
"You didn't notice anything strange about Hagrid did you?" James asked Lily while holding the castle doors open for her.
Lily looked at him and said: "As a matter of fact yes I did. But I thought he was just tired or wondering why you were with me in the middle of the night". Lily looked away when saying the last part of the sentence and started her way to the stairs.
"Your probably right", James agreed and closed the door quietly behind them
In the middle of their journey James heard something from behind them. He stopped and listened carefully. Yes, it was definitely footsteps.
"Shit" he whispered and threw the girl and himself behind a suit of armour. Lily standing back against the wall, knew that now was not the time to question.
Both listened intently, breathing. James noticed suddenly how close he was to Lily. He could feel her heart beating in her chest. He looked at the girl who had closed her eyes frightened. He wanted so much to just hug her, let her know that this was really nothing. Lily opened her eyes and caught the boy's stare. She didn't let go of it.
The footsteps came closer and interrupting the teenagers, a voice said calmly: "This is not like that", it was Sirius.
*** Back in time
Here comes Sirius
***
Sirius shrugged and went on. When James got something in his mind, you just couldn't do anything about it.
He turned the corner, heard running behind him, smirked a little to himself, wondered for a while if he should go after the boy, decided not to, and noticed the white figure in front of him.
He quickly dove for shelter behind an old statue, praying that it wasn't Peeves. The figure was moving away from him quietly. He stared for a little while after it and decided, relieved, it was human.
A girl in a bathrobe actually, walking calmly and steadily.
In his own little Sirius way he thought "oh, what the heck", and ran to the girl.
"Hi, I'm Sirius", he said holding out his hand.
The girl jerked, breathed deeply, looked at him from head to toe and finally said calmly: "I know very well who you are" and started walking again.
Sirius could not be put off that easily.
"So, what brings you here at this time of the night?"
The girl sighed, and in her own little way she thought: "oh, what the heck", and said:
"I was actually taking a nice warm bath, since I can't take the sulking of my roommates" she was still walking, more rapidly now: "Congratulations by the way".
Sirius took a fake blush on to his face (one of his trademarks): "Oh, it was nothing".
The girl didn't even glance at him. By now, even though the girl wasn't exceptionally beautiful, but looked utterly normal, Sirius the world famous womanizer was determined to get her.
"So, you're in Ravenclaw, nice house. Very nice girls actually", Sirius went on casually. The girl simply looked at him, shortly, and said nothing.
"Oh, come on, I was only kidding", he said skipping in to the front of the girl, facing her, making her stop. The girl tried to go round him, but Sirius made it impossible.
"Look let's start all over again. Hi, I'm Sirius, Sirius Black. And you are?" he questioned, one eyebrow raised adorably. He put his hand out and waited. The girl, seeing that she had no other option, took his hand gently and said:
"Anoesis, Anoesis Bridge. Pleas. um, bye" , she made a dive under Sirius's arm. But two years of hard training in quidditch had made Sirius a lot quicker than you could guess by the outside.
"Not so fast. Just walk with me a sec. It can't be that terrible. Look I'll escort you back to your house. Assuming that you were going there?"
Anoesis looked extremely frustrated, but nodded: "Fine if that'll help me get rid of you".
"Ooo, mean", Sirius looked offensed. He soon realised that this tactic wouldn't go for the girl. She wasn't the boyish humor kind of type.
He decided to try tactic number two and said:
"So, your parents sound like nice people".
Anoesis looked at the boy puzzled. She smiled to herself for an almost unnoticable period, like remembering something good, safe.
"How so?", she finally asked.
"Your name, I love it", Sirius explained as if it were obvious. The girl smiled again:
"Yes, it is quite eccentric isn't it?"
"That's the good part", Sirius said.
"Your name isn't exactly normal either, to tell the truth", Anoesis reminded him.
"No, but it's a name for something else, it's not really mine, really" Sirius said as they came to a stairwell.
"Let's sit for a while", he suggested.
Anoesis looked at him for a while, shrugged and sat down.
"But all words are names for something", she continued.
Sirius couldn't deny that: "Yes, but not so obviously. So what does your name mean?"
"It was some kind of feeling, I can't quite remember", Anoesis said
"That's exactly what I mean. Some kind of feeling, I mean that's so great", Sirus said enthusiastically.
Anoesis smiled and looked at the boy again. She didn't want to be naïve and believe every little gesture of the boy, but he seemed nice enough.
"Ah yes, but Sirius, the famous dog star. It's remarkable, believe it or not. It seems to work on most girls", she said matter-of-factly.
Sirius smiled and and looked at the girl eyes sparkling: "But it won't work on you?", he asked with a hint of flirt in his voice.
Anoesis stared at him and his straight nose for a long while. She could see why girls fell for a guy like this one. Heck, she was almost doing it herself right now.
"Nah. I need a bit more effort", she finally said.
"Well then, may I ask you for a dance?" Sirius said rising up and bowing holding out his hand.
Anoesis looked at the boy smiling: "How could I refuse?"
Sirius lifted her up and was soon twirling her around the hallway full- speed. The two were having a great time as Anoesis dipped Sirius on her knee and he fell to the floor with a crash. He smiled and wiped his forehead with the sleave of his robes.
"Maybe we could go to the shower of the famous prefect's bathroom you've just come from", Sirius said with a wink of an eye.
Anoesis smiled helping him up. Sometimes it felt good to be an object, even an object for a player like this one. But she knew who she was and what she was about. "I dare say you're not going to live to see that day Sirius", she said causing Sirius to give her the puppy eyes.
She laughed but didn't give up. "I really have to be going now. My friends will think I drowned", they had taken almost two hours.
Sirius changed his expression reluctantly. To his surprise he noticed that he had enjoyed the girl's company.
"Maybe we could meet again some time. Like how about next weekend at Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked suprisingly shily.
The girl looked like she had just seen a cat get run over by a car. He had become serious too suddenly. It almost made her think that he was for real:
"Sirius, I know your reputation, and even though you're a really nice guy, I just, you know".
Sirius didn't know. No one had ever refused his invitation before.
"This is not like that", he said truthfuly. They passed a suit of armour.
Anoesis looked at the boy with great disbelief: "Yes, it is", she said so sure of herself.
A/N:Please review! It means a lot to me. I mean just look at that cute little box down there.. don't you just have the sudden urge to click it?
Sirius comes into the picture in this chapter. I think I should be able to choose at least four characters from the list. Oh, well. I guess they don't think that anyone would write such a lame story as this one. ;)
I have written a description of the characters which was supposed to come before anything else, but since it was completely irrelevant I decided not to post it here. But if you two readers I have had would like to read it please tell me.
And as you have seen, I suck at summaries, so you could write one for me!! I am such a cheat. Maybe we could hold a small contest! Hmmm.
(This is reconstructed also. I added a 'scene' with Hagrid but I have no idea how to do his accent. So if I ever find a willing beta-reader they could give me a few precious hints.)
Disclaimer: as before only BIGGER.. ok. I'll calm down now. I mean I own nothing. I've eaten swedish candy. or actually choclate.. mmm. chocolate
Night
If you would have walked past the Gryffindor tower that night, you would have most probably, noticed a very faint trembling around. Most witches and wizards would have just gone on their way not wondering about it too much. This was Hogwarts anyway, weird things happen.
But no witches or wizards were around at that time of the night. (Even the ministry wizard had gone to sleep already realising how useless he was.) None were there to witness the very small tinkering of the glass cabinet doors or how all the paintings had mysteriously emptied.
Causing all this commotion, breaking the nightly peace at Hogwarts was the biggest party ever since 1902 when William McMillian had finally after twelve hard working years graduated from the school. And that party had been held by the teachers!
Life was all rosebuds for the four boys we all know so well by know. Well, at least it had been today. The winning of this seasons probably most challenging game, (against Ravenclaw) the praises they got, the fun they had, and the beautiful spring day were certainly enough reason for that too.
The party had been going on non stop for five hours now, and being in the center of attention can be very exhausting. So, one of the very fortunate boys had decided to take a break. Leave for a minute.
He squeezed himself through the crowd trying to get to the portrait hole.
" And where do you think your going young man? Not escaping for your own little bash are you now?" it was Edna a seventh year Gryffindor, and head of their quidditch team.
James sighed in despair,
"No, no, never! How dare you accuse me of such felany! I was just going to retrieve some more of that lovely pumpkin juice from the kitchens to moisturize your lovely throat", the boy bowed, acting suddenly very handsome.
But Edna couldn't be surprised. She was in the game at once,
"Aah! Very well then, you have my permission to go, this time, but only because of your proper reasons", she bowed too and pushed the portrait open.
"Right behind you James!" came a loud shout from behind them. Sirius ran towards them with a herd of girls trying to reach him, only finding themselves on the floor giggling, hard.
"G'day Edna", said Sirius and leaped out of the room. James followed quickly behind him, after kissing the girl's hand.
The two boys closed the portrait behind them and stepped into total quietness. The fat lady was sleeping,an empty bottle of wine beside her.
"Aah! The bliss!" Sirius stretched and walked along full of energy. James just hum a small tune and followed a dreamy look in his eyes. He was feeling very calm and tired, just then. Though even his thoughts could not stop him from noticing, the small wavy red dot in the distance down below.
"Oh fuck", he mouthed, snapping back to reality.
"What now?" asked Sirius, who had noticed the boy's sudden leaning over the window sill.
"nothing, nothing", James said turning slowly, but keeping his eyes on the dot as long as he could.
"Ummm, Sirius", James hesitated.
"Yeees?", the boy asked lifting one eyebrow patiently.
"Something came up, you go to the kitchens alone. We'll meet back in the common room, soon".
"Fine, whatever", Sirius shrugged and went on.
***
Now the story devides into two.
Here comes James.
***
James took the opposite direction as Sirius. He waited until the other boy had turned around the corner, and started running like crazy. He flew down the three flights of stairs remaining and smashed into the great doors.
"fuck fuck fuck", the door seemed heavier than usual. Finally after two hard minutes of pushing the door with all his might, he yanked and fell, exhausted, out to the grounds.
"Lily!" he cried, fearing the worst, and ran towards the red dot. The dot rolled around a couple of times and started giggling, it was surrounded by bright little lights that were dancing around happily.
When James finally reached the girl, he realised just what had happened. He started laughing. A laughter of great relief and maybe even a bit of hysteria. He fell on to the ground next to the girl. The girl sat up bewildered and asked:
" What's wong Jamsie-Wamsie? Why awe you laughing?" James sat up, still laughing, hugged the girl tightly and said:
"It was the faeries! The faeries! C'mon now Lily we have to run!" James stood up and started running almost dragging Lily behind him.
"But I don't want to gooo, the tinkerbells are so pweeeeeetty."
"No buts now, young lady. It's way past your bedtime" , James said grinning broadly.
They reached the stairs to the castle in no time, and James agreed to stop. Lily started dancing around falling down once or twice. James still breathing heavily said: "Calm down now Lily, you'll be fine in a sec." Lily sat down beside James on the steps obediently. She yawned and put her head on the boy's shoulder. James smiled:
"I guess you weren't listening in class".
"What do you mean?" asked Lily in a moment of soberness.
"The faerie dust, it works a lot like alcohol, it'll dissolve into the fresh air in a few minutes time".
"Oh, that, yeah. But what if I don't want it to dissolve?" James frowned, this sounded like a bad case of dustism was evolving.
The girl let out a series of supressed giggles. James smiled and fell down on his back. Lily calmed down and said:
"Of course I've been listening. Fool! They caught me by surprise". The two were staring at the stars.
"So, what were you doing out here?" James asked trying to sound casual.
"Umm, well, you see I'm not very fond of the parties held up there, I find them very boring sometimes, and well, I thought I'd be out of the way, Hagrid promised me a place to sleep for tonight." Lily said this in one breath, obviously embaressed: "You?".
"Actually I was getting more pumpkin juice when I saw you and I thought something had happened and.." James's voice trailed away. Lily looked anguished and stared at her own feet. James thought he could see a little blush on her face. He explained it as wishful thinking and took a deep breath, saying and rescuing himself:
"Well, I guess we'd better start leaving" , James stood up helping the girl by her hand.
"Let's go see Hagrid before we go up. I bet he would be delighted to offer us some tee", Lily said already heading for the cabin. After a few steps they noticed they were still holding hands and smiled at each other akwardly letting go.
Hagrid opened the door quickly obviously waiting for Lily. When he saw that James was with her he stopped and stared at the couple for a long while. James found this weird, but Lily didn't seem to notice anything.
"Evening Hagrid, I'll be sleeping in my dorm after all. We just came to pay a visit", Lily explained. " I hope you don't mind".
"No no, not at all. Come on right in", he said snapping out of it and moving out of the way.
The two sat down at the table as Hagrid went to heat up some water.
"I talked to the centaurs tonight", he said: "they were rejoicing about something. They said that the dark lord wouldn't be long anymore". He was still staring at the two with his hands on his hips, his forehead wrinkled. It was obvious to James that that hadn't been the only thing the centaurs had told him.
"That's great news. You didn't happen to come across my trans books while at it did you?", James asked hoping to change the subject into something that wouldn't give him the creeps.
"Nope, sorry boy", Hagrid answered turning to the kettle again.
Lily looked at him questioningly.
James just shrugged and said: "Snape's revenge".
Lily grinned and said: "Good for him!"
James looked shocked and threw a napkin at her.
Lily laughed and had her own revenge.
After some tee and quite a while the two were ready to leave. They said their goodbyes to Hagrid and left leaving him once more staring at the two.
"You didn't notice anything strange about Hagrid did you?" James asked Lily while holding the castle doors open for her.
Lily looked at him and said: "As a matter of fact yes I did. But I thought he was just tired or wondering why you were with me in the middle of the night". Lily looked away when saying the last part of the sentence and started her way to the stairs.
"Your probably right", James agreed and closed the door quietly behind them
In the middle of their journey James heard something from behind them. He stopped and listened carefully. Yes, it was definitely footsteps.
"Shit" he whispered and threw the girl and himself behind a suit of armour. Lily standing back against the wall, knew that now was not the time to question.
Both listened intently, breathing. James noticed suddenly how close he was to Lily. He could feel her heart beating in her chest. He looked at the girl who had closed her eyes frightened. He wanted so much to just hug her, let her know that this was really nothing. Lily opened her eyes and caught the boy's stare. She didn't let go of it.
The footsteps came closer and interrupting the teenagers, a voice said calmly: "This is not like that", it was Sirius.
*** Back in time
Here comes Sirius
***
Sirius shrugged and went on. When James got something in his mind, you just couldn't do anything about it.
He turned the corner, heard running behind him, smirked a little to himself, wondered for a while if he should go after the boy, decided not to, and noticed the white figure in front of him.
He quickly dove for shelter behind an old statue, praying that it wasn't Peeves. The figure was moving away from him quietly. He stared for a little while after it and decided, relieved, it was human.
A girl in a bathrobe actually, walking calmly and steadily.
In his own little Sirius way he thought "oh, what the heck", and ran to the girl.
"Hi, I'm Sirius", he said holding out his hand.
The girl jerked, breathed deeply, looked at him from head to toe and finally said calmly: "I know very well who you are" and started walking again.
Sirius could not be put off that easily.
"So, what brings you here at this time of the night?"
The girl sighed, and in her own little way she thought: "oh, what the heck", and said:
"I was actually taking a nice warm bath, since I can't take the sulking of my roommates" she was still walking, more rapidly now: "Congratulations by the way".
Sirius took a fake blush on to his face (one of his trademarks): "Oh, it was nothing".
The girl didn't even glance at him. By now, even though the girl wasn't exceptionally beautiful, but looked utterly normal, Sirius the world famous womanizer was determined to get her.
"So, you're in Ravenclaw, nice house. Very nice girls actually", Sirius went on casually. The girl simply looked at him, shortly, and said nothing.
"Oh, come on, I was only kidding", he said skipping in to the front of the girl, facing her, making her stop. The girl tried to go round him, but Sirius made it impossible.
"Look let's start all over again. Hi, I'm Sirius, Sirius Black. And you are?" he questioned, one eyebrow raised adorably. He put his hand out and waited. The girl, seeing that she had no other option, took his hand gently and said:
"Anoesis, Anoesis Bridge. Pleas. um, bye" , she made a dive under Sirius's arm. But two years of hard training in quidditch had made Sirius a lot quicker than you could guess by the outside.
"Not so fast. Just walk with me a sec. It can't be that terrible. Look I'll escort you back to your house. Assuming that you were going there?"
Anoesis looked extremely frustrated, but nodded: "Fine if that'll help me get rid of you".
"Ooo, mean", Sirius looked offensed. He soon realised that this tactic wouldn't go for the girl. She wasn't the boyish humor kind of type.
He decided to try tactic number two and said:
"So, your parents sound like nice people".
Anoesis looked at the boy puzzled. She smiled to herself for an almost unnoticable period, like remembering something good, safe.
"How so?", she finally asked.
"Your name, I love it", Sirius explained as if it were obvious. The girl smiled again:
"Yes, it is quite eccentric isn't it?"
"That's the good part", Sirius said.
"Your name isn't exactly normal either, to tell the truth", Anoesis reminded him.
"No, but it's a name for something else, it's not really mine, really" Sirius said as they came to a stairwell.
"Let's sit for a while", he suggested.
Anoesis looked at him for a while, shrugged and sat down.
"But all words are names for something", she continued.
Sirius couldn't deny that: "Yes, but not so obviously. So what does your name mean?"
"It was some kind of feeling, I can't quite remember", Anoesis said
"That's exactly what I mean. Some kind of feeling, I mean that's so great", Sirus said enthusiastically.
Anoesis smiled and looked at the boy again. She didn't want to be naïve and believe every little gesture of the boy, but he seemed nice enough.
"Ah yes, but Sirius, the famous dog star. It's remarkable, believe it or not. It seems to work on most girls", she said matter-of-factly.
Sirius smiled and and looked at the girl eyes sparkling: "But it won't work on you?", he asked with a hint of flirt in his voice.
Anoesis stared at him and his straight nose for a long while. She could see why girls fell for a guy like this one. Heck, she was almost doing it herself right now.
"Nah. I need a bit more effort", she finally said.
"Well then, may I ask you for a dance?" Sirius said rising up and bowing holding out his hand.
Anoesis looked at the boy smiling: "How could I refuse?"
Sirius lifted her up and was soon twirling her around the hallway full- speed. The two were having a great time as Anoesis dipped Sirius on her knee and he fell to the floor with a crash. He smiled and wiped his forehead with the sleave of his robes.
"Maybe we could go to the shower of the famous prefect's bathroom you've just come from", Sirius said with a wink of an eye.
Anoesis smiled helping him up. Sometimes it felt good to be an object, even an object for a player like this one. But she knew who she was and what she was about. "I dare say you're not going to live to see that day Sirius", she said causing Sirius to give her the puppy eyes.
She laughed but didn't give up. "I really have to be going now. My friends will think I drowned", they had taken almost two hours.
Sirius changed his expression reluctantly. To his surprise he noticed that he had enjoyed the girl's company.
"Maybe we could meet again some time. Like how about next weekend at Hogsmeade?" Sirius asked suprisingly shily.
The girl looked like she had just seen a cat get run over by a car. He had become serious too suddenly. It almost made her think that he was for real:
"Sirius, I know your reputation, and even though you're a really nice guy, I just, you know".
Sirius didn't know. No one had ever refused his invitation before.
"This is not like that", he said truthfuly. They passed a suit of armour.
Anoesis looked at the boy with great disbelief: "Yes, it is", she said so sure of herself.
A/N:Please review! It means a lot to me. I mean just look at that cute little box down there.. don't you just have the sudden urge to click it?