Halloween, Snakes, Alienation
Over the next month, Sirius and Ev continued their banter. One would insult the other and back and forth. They also continued to hate each other. Or so they said.
Ev became fast friends with the girls and guys, although James was also included in the childish banter.
Finally, it was the night before Halloween. After a late night in the kitchens, during which they all had desert, Sirius and Ev with no bakes, they all crept back to the common room and went to bed.
Ev was finally having a good sleep when she woke up to screams in the morning. She sighed, not opening her eyes. Finally, after the screams continued and Lily ran over and started shaking her, she sat straight up in bed and opened her eyes..only to see a rather large snake on the foot of her bed.
Hmm, she thought.
"Get out of bed slowly," Lily instructed, staring at the snake, "it might bite you.
Ev rolled her eyes. "It's a constrictor, it won't bite." She pulled back her covers and got out of bed.
Taking a careful look around the room she grinned. Someone did a good job about this.
"I can't believe the guys did this," Ara wailed. She was standing in the middle of the room, avoiding the bats, spiders, and snakes that freely roamed the room. Suddenly a spider hit her in the face and she screamed. Running around the room, she shook her head as if the spider was touching her. The others ran to her to help. Ev just laughed.
As if on cue for this hilarious sight, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter burst into the room. Peter snapped pictures as the others laughed.
The girls grunted, running up to them and hitting them.
"I can't believe you, James," Lily screeched.
"A spider touched me, you asshole," Ara yelled above the din.
"Poor Ev woke up with a huge snake in her bed." Rae told them angrily, meanwhile beating Remus in the chest. He just laughed at her feeble attempts.
The guys turned to look at Ev for her reaction to what they'd done. They really wanted to scare her.
Boy, were they disappointed.
Her face was alight with mirth, and a corner of her mouth was turned up in amusement. Abruptly, Ev started clapping loudly. "Bravo, bravo. I salute you all." She bent over laughing.
"You weren't scared?" Sirius asked sadly.
Ev shook her head. Picking up the snake from her bed, she allowed it to curl around her hands and arms. She brought it close to her face, grinning.
Suddenly Rae and Lily screamed as a bat flew toward them. "Kill it, kill it," they shrieked, running to the bathroom and hiding behind the door.
"Get rid of them," Ara ordered them sternly. "Remus, you should know better."
"Yeah, yeah, I should," Remus said, then grinned.
The girls scowled at him.
James, Peter, and Sirius were still staring at Ev. "Snakes don't scare you?" Peter asked.
"Hell no," Ev responded, "I used to own five myself."
Lily ran up to James. "Make them disappear, James, now!" She yelled this loudly. People from other rooms were now staring in. James backed up, looking scared.
"Okay, it's okay, breathe. I'll take care of it."
He raised his wand, intending to get rid of the beasts, but Ev suddenly yelled, "Wait! Don't! Not this one. Can I keep it?" She looked at the snake fondly.
Sirius shook his head dejectedly. "I can't believe you like snakes. You're a freak. Did you know that?"
"I tell myself that every day actually," Ev answered, grinning broadly.
James muttered something and suddenly all the animals were gone, even the snake.
"Why'd you do that?" she posed.
He rolled his shoulders, "I hate snakes. You have no idea how hard it was to put them in here and you're not even scared. At least you girls were though," he grinned suddenly, "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" he yelled, imitating the girls. The guys laughed and the girls looked murderous.
"Asshole!"
"Bastard!"
"F-ing gits!"
The guys laughed, walking over to lay on various beds. Ara, Rae, and Lily stayed huddled together, their arms crossed.
"So, what do you want to do today?" James asked from Lily's bed.
"Get the hell out, we have to change." Lily ordered.
"You can do that with us in here." Sirius grinned, looking the girls over in their school pajamas. He then side longed a look at Ev. His moth fell open. "Why aren't you wearing the pajamas they provide you with."
"Because they are an abomination to fashion." Ev responded crossly. She sat at the foot of her bed, along with Sirius.
He looked her over, taking in her pajamas. They were black and silk. Dayummm. The bottoms were just regular old bottoms that went to her anles.
But the top. Ah, bless the top. A spaghetti strap tank top that showed her oh-so-perfect tan and long torso and tan neck. She had a great neck. Damn. Not a sufficient amount cleavage to get a good look, but they weren't bad. Using strength he didn't know he had, Sirius turned his eyes from the delicious sight.
"Besides," Ev added, "I'm sleeping in it, do they really care?"
"I guess not," Sirius mumbled.
"Now leave so we can change."
"We don't have to leave for that." Sirius suggested. Ev glared at him.
"Don't MAKE me open up a can of whoop ass." Ev warned.
Believing her the boys all left.
Ev went into the bathroom and changed into a pair of blue jeans and a white tee shirt. She pulled her leather jacket on over this.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she muttered, "Okay, Ev, it's tomorrow, you know it is, but you won't freak out. You'll be good. No crying, no freaking out." She nodded at herself, brushed her teeth, and walked out. The other girls went in there to do makeup.
Ev leaned against the doorframe. "Lily, do you like James?"
"No!" Lily answered too quickly that even Zaphod Beeblebrox wouldn't have been able to follow. (HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY read it).
"Oh, that's right. You just love him." Ara said, giggling as she applied mascara.
"That is so very much in no way true." Lily said forcefully. The others just nodded at each other in a she's-lying-out-her-ass way. Lily growled in response.
"Why are you dressing yourself up for him then and flirting with him constantly, hitting him like that and such?" Ev said triumphantly, as if she had won a race to the end of the universe and now could go eat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (again from that book)
Lily didn't respond. She just changed the subject. "Why don't you wear makeup?"
"Who says I don't?" Ev responded.
"Why not?" Lily asked seriously.
"Why should I?" Ev asked wisely.
"Just.cause," Ara said.
"Oh, well, you've convinced me," she responded sarcastically.
The girls giggled, except for Ev. She didn't giggle.
Meanwhile in the boys dormitory.
"Weren't they great!" Sirius said loudly as they walked into their dorm.
"Hell, yeah," James answered, knowing full well what he was talking about.
"They are so round and soft looking," Peter said.
"And warm and lush and." Remus trailed off wistfully, stooping to their level.
"She is hot, there is no denying it."
"Did you see the pajamas she wore? Silk. Black. Tiny."
"And she's so tan. And hot!"
"I didn't get enough of a look, but I liked 'em."
"I know. DAMN bras. Damn all the bras."
"Speaking of bras," Sirius said, "remember on the train, "we saw her bra then. How do bras make em look so good?"
"I don't know. They make em so round and.juicy." Everyone looked at James for this comment. He just shrugged. "Sorry. I'm horny."
Sirius plopped onto his back on his bed.
"Don't you think bras are actually better than the things themselves? I mean they come in lace, silk, colors, see-through." Sirius trailed off, picturing Ev's black bra.
Remus cleared his throat. "Man, have you ever seen a pair of em without the bra?" He looked at Sirius, tight-lipped.
Sirius looked up, red. "Of course I have."
"Besides your mothers," Peter retorted.
Everyone, but Sirius, laughed.
Later on in the day, at dinner, everyone was talking. Ev, in between Sirius and Rae, was thinking to herself about the upcoming day. She was going to freak out. She just knew it. She had last year. It was tomorrow. At least there was no school and she could freak out in silence, without anyone witnessing it.
I have long feared that my sins would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could bear, Ev thought, then smiled. That totally applied to her.
Just then an owl swooped in to deliver a late letter. Ev was quite shocked when it came right up to her and dropped the letter in her hand. Puzzled, she looked at the name on it and gasped. Okay, she was gonna start freaking out early.
Slowly, she opened the letter as the others continued to talk around her.
Dear Miss Rhyahnnon,
I'm sure you know whom this is from, so I won't be clearing it up it to you. You'll remember me. I just sought out.
The letter continued on from there. After she finished, Ev sat there gazing at the paper clutched in her hand. Her eyes started to water, but still she didn't blink.
"Who's that from?" Sirius asked, looking at the letter in her hands.
Ev turned her head to him, not truly seeing him. A tear rolled down the side of her face and a strangled sob tore out of her throat. Blinking, she stood up and bolted out of the great hall. The guys and girls (that's what I call the Marauders and Rae, Ara, and Lily so I don't have to type it all out. The same as typing this but whatever.) looked after her.
"I wonder what happened," Rae said, sounding concerned.
"I don't know," Sirius said quietly. "I'll go see if she's all right." He stood up.
"I thought you hated her," James said slyly, but Sirius ignored him. He had seen something in her eyes: pain, that cry, something happened.
He quickly walked out of the hall after taking a few last bites of his dinner.
He first went into the common room. Walking up into the girl's dormitories, he realized that she wasn't there. Where could she be? Outside? She's talked before about how she felt at peace outside.
He started toward the door to the grounds.
Ev ran outside, intending to get onto the top of the tower again-, which she did. Not even the pouring rain stopped her. Once up there she gazed at the grounds hundreds of feet below her.
Tears poured down her face, mingling with the sweet rain. Ev couldn't even enjoy the rain. She loved rain. Summer rain. When it's warm out and yet the rain in pouring. You can hear the water dropping onto the leaves and the air is clear. Winter rains. Just coming down, straight and wet and cold. She loved em both.
But now she was disheartened. Depressed. Life just did too much with this young girl. She was sixteen, just sixteen. How could she know the things she knew? See the things she saw?
Ev slid down the parapet that surrounded the tower, sitting on the concrete ground with the cool rain pouring onto it. Her clothes were quickly getting soaked through.
With a sigh Ev slid her cloak off her shoulders. Dejectedly, her arms fell limply to her sides. After a second, she started to undo the buttons on her black shirt and slid this off her shoulders, too. Then she slid the white shirt from underneath off and slowly stood up to take off her blue jeans.
Everard was left in just her black bra and panties.
She thought about the letter and fresh tears poured down her face.
Feeling bile come up her throat, she leaned over the edge of the parapet and let out her dinner.
Over the next month, Sirius and Ev continued their banter. One would insult the other and back and forth. They also continued to hate each other. Or so they said.
Ev became fast friends with the girls and guys, although James was also included in the childish banter.
Finally, it was the night before Halloween. After a late night in the kitchens, during which they all had desert, Sirius and Ev with no bakes, they all crept back to the common room and went to bed.
Ev was finally having a good sleep when she woke up to screams in the morning. She sighed, not opening her eyes. Finally, after the screams continued and Lily ran over and started shaking her, she sat straight up in bed and opened her eyes..only to see a rather large snake on the foot of her bed.
Hmm, she thought.
"Get out of bed slowly," Lily instructed, staring at the snake, "it might bite you.
Ev rolled her eyes. "It's a constrictor, it won't bite." She pulled back her covers and got out of bed.
Taking a careful look around the room she grinned. Someone did a good job about this.
"I can't believe the guys did this," Ara wailed. She was standing in the middle of the room, avoiding the bats, spiders, and snakes that freely roamed the room. Suddenly a spider hit her in the face and she screamed. Running around the room, she shook her head as if the spider was touching her. The others ran to her to help. Ev just laughed.
As if on cue for this hilarious sight, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter burst into the room. Peter snapped pictures as the others laughed.
The girls grunted, running up to them and hitting them.
"I can't believe you, James," Lily screeched.
"A spider touched me, you asshole," Ara yelled above the din.
"Poor Ev woke up with a huge snake in her bed." Rae told them angrily, meanwhile beating Remus in the chest. He just laughed at her feeble attempts.
The guys turned to look at Ev for her reaction to what they'd done. They really wanted to scare her.
Boy, were they disappointed.
Her face was alight with mirth, and a corner of her mouth was turned up in amusement. Abruptly, Ev started clapping loudly. "Bravo, bravo. I salute you all." She bent over laughing.
"You weren't scared?" Sirius asked sadly.
Ev shook her head. Picking up the snake from her bed, she allowed it to curl around her hands and arms. She brought it close to her face, grinning.
Suddenly Rae and Lily screamed as a bat flew toward them. "Kill it, kill it," they shrieked, running to the bathroom and hiding behind the door.
"Get rid of them," Ara ordered them sternly. "Remus, you should know better."
"Yeah, yeah, I should," Remus said, then grinned.
The girls scowled at him.
James, Peter, and Sirius were still staring at Ev. "Snakes don't scare you?" Peter asked.
"Hell no," Ev responded, "I used to own five myself."
Lily ran up to James. "Make them disappear, James, now!" She yelled this loudly. People from other rooms were now staring in. James backed up, looking scared.
"Okay, it's okay, breathe. I'll take care of it."
He raised his wand, intending to get rid of the beasts, but Ev suddenly yelled, "Wait! Don't! Not this one. Can I keep it?" She looked at the snake fondly.
Sirius shook his head dejectedly. "I can't believe you like snakes. You're a freak. Did you know that?"
"I tell myself that every day actually," Ev answered, grinning broadly.
James muttered something and suddenly all the animals were gone, even the snake.
"Why'd you do that?" she posed.
He rolled his shoulders, "I hate snakes. You have no idea how hard it was to put them in here and you're not even scared. At least you girls were though," he grinned suddenly, "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" he yelled, imitating the girls. The guys laughed and the girls looked murderous.
"Asshole!"
"Bastard!"
"F-ing gits!"
The guys laughed, walking over to lay on various beds. Ara, Rae, and Lily stayed huddled together, their arms crossed.
"So, what do you want to do today?" James asked from Lily's bed.
"Get the hell out, we have to change." Lily ordered.
"You can do that with us in here." Sirius grinned, looking the girls over in their school pajamas. He then side longed a look at Ev. His moth fell open. "Why aren't you wearing the pajamas they provide you with."
"Because they are an abomination to fashion." Ev responded crossly. She sat at the foot of her bed, along with Sirius.
He looked her over, taking in her pajamas. They were black and silk. Dayummm. The bottoms were just regular old bottoms that went to her anles.
But the top. Ah, bless the top. A spaghetti strap tank top that showed her oh-so-perfect tan and long torso and tan neck. She had a great neck. Damn. Not a sufficient amount cleavage to get a good look, but they weren't bad. Using strength he didn't know he had, Sirius turned his eyes from the delicious sight.
"Besides," Ev added, "I'm sleeping in it, do they really care?"
"I guess not," Sirius mumbled.
"Now leave so we can change."
"We don't have to leave for that." Sirius suggested. Ev glared at him.
"Don't MAKE me open up a can of whoop ass." Ev warned.
Believing her the boys all left.
Ev went into the bathroom and changed into a pair of blue jeans and a white tee shirt. She pulled her leather jacket on over this.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she muttered, "Okay, Ev, it's tomorrow, you know it is, but you won't freak out. You'll be good. No crying, no freaking out." She nodded at herself, brushed her teeth, and walked out. The other girls went in there to do makeup.
Ev leaned against the doorframe. "Lily, do you like James?"
"No!" Lily answered too quickly that even Zaphod Beeblebrox wouldn't have been able to follow. (HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY read it).
"Oh, that's right. You just love him." Ara said, giggling as she applied mascara.
"That is so very much in no way true." Lily said forcefully. The others just nodded at each other in a she's-lying-out-her-ass way. Lily growled in response.
"Why are you dressing yourself up for him then and flirting with him constantly, hitting him like that and such?" Ev said triumphantly, as if she had won a race to the end of the universe and now could go eat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (again from that book)
Lily didn't respond. She just changed the subject. "Why don't you wear makeup?"
"Who says I don't?" Ev responded.
"Why not?" Lily asked seriously.
"Why should I?" Ev asked wisely.
"Just.cause," Ara said.
"Oh, well, you've convinced me," she responded sarcastically.
The girls giggled, except for Ev. She didn't giggle.
Meanwhile in the boys dormitory.
"Weren't they great!" Sirius said loudly as they walked into their dorm.
"Hell, yeah," James answered, knowing full well what he was talking about.
"They are so round and soft looking," Peter said.
"And warm and lush and." Remus trailed off wistfully, stooping to their level.
"She is hot, there is no denying it."
"Did you see the pajamas she wore? Silk. Black. Tiny."
"And she's so tan. And hot!"
"I didn't get enough of a look, but I liked 'em."
"I know. DAMN bras. Damn all the bras."
"Speaking of bras," Sirius said, "remember on the train, "we saw her bra then. How do bras make em look so good?"
"I don't know. They make em so round and.juicy." Everyone looked at James for this comment. He just shrugged. "Sorry. I'm horny."
Sirius plopped onto his back on his bed.
"Don't you think bras are actually better than the things themselves? I mean they come in lace, silk, colors, see-through." Sirius trailed off, picturing Ev's black bra.
Remus cleared his throat. "Man, have you ever seen a pair of em without the bra?" He looked at Sirius, tight-lipped.
Sirius looked up, red. "Of course I have."
"Besides your mothers," Peter retorted.
Everyone, but Sirius, laughed.
Later on in the day, at dinner, everyone was talking. Ev, in between Sirius and Rae, was thinking to herself about the upcoming day. She was going to freak out. She just knew it. She had last year. It was tomorrow. At least there was no school and she could freak out in silence, without anyone witnessing it.
I have long feared that my sins would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could bear, Ev thought, then smiled. That totally applied to her.
Just then an owl swooped in to deliver a late letter. Ev was quite shocked when it came right up to her and dropped the letter in her hand. Puzzled, she looked at the name on it and gasped. Okay, she was gonna start freaking out early.
Slowly, she opened the letter as the others continued to talk around her.
Dear Miss Rhyahnnon,
I'm sure you know whom this is from, so I won't be clearing it up it to you. You'll remember me. I just sought out.
The letter continued on from there. After she finished, Ev sat there gazing at the paper clutched in her hand. Her eyes started to water, but still she didn't blink.
"Who's that from?" Sirius asked, looking at the letter in her hands.
Ev turned her head to him, not truly seeing him. A tear rolled down the side of her face and a strangled sob tore out of her throat. Blinking, she stood up and bolted out of the great hall. The guys and girls (that's what I call the Marauders and Rae, Ara, and Lily so I don't have to type it all out. The same as typing this but whatever.) looked after her.
"I wonder what happened," Rae said, sounding concerned.
"I don't know," Sirius said quietly. "I'll go see if she's all right." He stood up.
"I thought you hated her," James said slyly, but Sirius ignored him. He had seen something in her eyes: pain, that cry, something happened.
He quickly walked out of the hall after taking a few last bites of his dinner.
He first went into the common room. Walking up into the girl's dormitories, he realized that she wasn't there. Where could she be? Outside? She's talked before about how she felt at peace outside.
He started toward the door to the grounds.
Ev ran outside, intending to get onto the top of the tower again-, which she did. Not even the pouring rain stopped her. Once up there she gazed at the grounds hundreds of feet below her.
Tears poured down her face, mingling with the sweet rain. Ev couldn't even enjoy the rain. She loved rain. Summer rain. When it's warm out and yet the rain in pouring. You can hear the water dropping onto the leaves and the air is clear. Winter rains. Just coming down, straight and wet and cold. She loved em both.
But now she was disheartened. Depressed. Life just did too much with this young girl. She was sixteen, just sixteen. How could she know the things she knew? See the things she saw?
Ev slid down the parapet that surrounded the tower, sitting on the concrete ground with the cool rain pouring onto it. Her clothes were quickly getting soaked through.
With a sigh Ev slid her cloak off her shoulders. Dejectedly, her arms fell limply to her sides. After a second, she started to undo the buttons on her black shirt and slid this off her shoulders, too. Then she slid the white shirt from underneath off and slowly stood up to take off her blue jeans.
Everard was left in just her black bra and panties.
She thought about the letter and fresh tears poured down her face.
Feeling bile come up her throat, she leaned over the edge of the parapet and let out her dinner.
