Fifth Year
Landon walked onto Platform 9 3/4, Ginger and Chris trailing behind him, Greg grinned to Landon then looked down the platform to see Lily, Raymond and some girl, she had wavy brown shiny hair down to just below her shoulders, her eyes sparkled in the light, he couldnt tell the color from this distance. She wore a white tank top, a pair of jean hip-huggers with an inch gap between the bottom of her tank top and her waist line of her jeans, she had a black adidas jacket over the white tank top with two white stripes down the top of each sleeve and she seemed to be laughing. Landon, Greg, Chris and Ginger walked over to see Lily like they did every year. "Hey Lils" Landon said looking around, "Where's Uncle Harry and them?" he asked, "They left about 5 minutes ago.." Lily said as Landon handed her a small box, "What is it?" she asked, "your birthday present" he said nodding, then looked down the tracks to see Nezemiah Malfoy torturing some poor first year. "Malfoy Alert 6 o'clock" he said to Greg who sighed, following Landon down the platform, but someone beat them to it the girl he saw with curly brown hair stomped up snatching Malfoy's wand from him. "Hey" he snapped, then saw the girl and was confused. "Nezemiah.. behave yourself.." she snapped simply placing the wand back in his hand flashing her prefect badge that was on her right hip. "Cassie!!" Lily called running up to the girl, "Cassie.. where do I recognize that name?" Nezemiah asked himself, "No way Cassandra Sanderson what the hell happened?" he asked looking her up and down, "Please refrain from undressing me with your eyes" she said, she had developed over the summer curves in all the wrong places. Landon looked around some more, trailing the length of the train with his eyes, when Malfoy shoved him he was about to aim his wand at Malfoy when it was snatched by Cassandra, as Lily snatched Malfoys. "Both of you knock it off.." Lily snapped, "See you in Astronomy Lupin" Cassandra said shoving the wand at Landon's chest and walking off to get on the train Lily and Raymond trailing behind her. Landon looked after her, she was the only girl that could be a geek, mysterious, hot and smart at the same time. Of course he'd never admit to anyone that she was any of those.. anymore.
"Okay today we will examine the stars.. and since your the only two in this class you might as well work together on it" Professor Skye said, it was midnight their first night there and they already had class "Also I shall be in a meeting with Dumbledore at 1 you may go back to your tower" Skye said walking out. Cassandra grabbed her star map and began glancing through the telescope up at the stars, "So why did you choose to take astronomy?" Cassandra asked glancing at Landon who was looking up at the sky with his naked eye trying to map out stars. "Astronomy's always interested me for some reason ever since I was a little kid.." he said looking to her, she nodded not expecting that response and went to map out the star she saw on her own map, Landon was about to look when she grabbed his star map, then looked at hers. "How did you get Sirius all the way over here?" she asked pointing them out, Landon leaned against the rail beside her, "Because my father always told me Sirius was also called the north star and the brightest star in the sky.. also its south of Orions belt.. you've got it east.. of it" he said pointing to the sky, she looked up "Your right.. thanks" she said looking to him and smiled slightly then erased the star she had marked and fixed Sirius' location. She sighed slamming her quill down, at quarter of one. "I'll never get this right" she said tucking her hair behind her ear, Landon grabbed it up and looked at the sky and began making adjustments as he passed them both in. "But half that work isnt mine" she said looking to where Landon set the assignments on Professor Skyes empty desk. Landon shrugged, "You have class tommorow you can stay up here all night" he said glancing to her, "and when did you become so worried about a geek like me?" Cassandra asked curiously, as her and Landon walked down the hall. "I see the carrots finally worked I went to the eye doctor and supposedly I never needed them" she said sarcastically, Landon winced "Ouch that was Harsh" he muttered. Cassandra glanced up at him "Tell me about it" she said smirking as they walked down the hall where Filch called them, "Students out after hours.." he growled, "No actually.." Landon began, when Cassandra cut in "No Sir, we had astronomy.. We're sorry we dont have a pass or something" she said leaning down and scratching Ms. Norris behind the ears who purred, "It's Okay, I know you.. but what about him?" Filch sneered towards Landon, "Uh he's in class with me sir" Cassandra said picking up Ms. Norris and handing her to Filch who grinned, "Okay well hurry back now you have classes tommorow" he said, "See you Mr. Filch" she said as they walked toward the fat lady, "Carpe Diem" she said as the photo hole swung open, Landon was amazed at how nice Filch was when you were nice to him and his cat, "Goodnight Lupin" Cassandra said heading up the girls dorm stairs, "Night Cassie.." he said, she was halfway up the stairs and grinned.
"What are you doing up so early?" Lily asked Cassandra the next morning seeing her blow drying her now wavy brownish shiny hair, she was wearing a grey 'sweat materialed' tank top, and a pair of tight light blue hip huggers, she slid on a matching zip up hoodie that said 'Princess' across the front in blue sparkly print, and pulled her hair up in a neat pony tail. "You look nice" Lily said and went over to the mirror washing her face then began to put makeup on. Lily looked to Cassandra, "sit" she said pointing to the bench, Cassandra sighed and sat down as Lily went to work on her make-up.
"Where is Lily!?" Landon growled, "Woah Man.. temper" Greg said laying a hand on his friends arm, "We're about to be late and your warning me about temper.." Landon said his eyes flashing with anger, Greg removed his hand "I see your point" he squeaked in a scared voice, as Lily came downstairs in a yellow tee-shirt, pig tail red braids, and a jean skirt. "Sorry I'm late.. had some last minute adjusts" she said, as she stepped out of the way as Cassandra walked out between them and stood beside Lily, she had pale skin, black eye liner, mascara and light blue eye shadow accenting her hazel eyes and the blue of the princess on her zip up hoodie, she then wore pink shiny lip gloss and some blush. "Sorry I made her Late Lupin.." she said simply, then her and Lily began walking to class "Any Idea who the other gryffindor prefect is.. whoever he is isnt doing his darn job" Cassandra said simply, "That would be me" Landon said flashing his badge that was on his black hoodie that had a red star in a circle representing wizards and witches on the front of it and a pair of dark blue baggy jeans, the new dress code said they could wear muggle clothes to class. "Uh.." Cassandra said then nodded, as Lily stiffled a laughter. "Oh Hush it Lils" Landon and Cassandra said in unison, Greg whispered to Lily who giggled, and they both sang loudly "LANDON AND CASSANDRA SITTING IN A TREE.." as they skipped down the hall, Cassandra looked at Landon he was looking at her and they both nodded running after Lily and Greg to get revenge.
Two Weeks Later
Landon was wandering toward the lake when he spotted a figure leaning against a tree hugging their knees toward them, and walked over to see Cassandra there her face spotted with tears as she held a letter in her hand. "What's wrong?" he asked confused kneeling down infront of her, "No-thing" she began as he got her up and hugged her too him, she hugged him sobbing, and handed him the letter her read it. "Those.." he began growling then noticed her still sobbing and hugged her tighter to him, "Shh its okay I'm here.. nobody will hurt you" he said stroking her hair. "I'm an orphan" she whispered finishing her sobs, he shook his head using the pads of his thumbs to wipe her remaining tears away, "No.. your not.." he said offering her a hand "Want to go see Dumbledore about it?" he asked truly concerned, she nodded tears coming down again, as she took his hand. "Shh.." he said because she was sobbing by the time they got to Dumbledore's office, "Its okay no one can hurt you now.. they'll have to go through me first" he said looking to her, "Thats what I'm afraid of" she said through sobs, "What? Me?" he asked, "No.. them hurting you" she said sniffling silent tears still streaming down her cheeks. "They cant hurt me.. plus why would you be afraid of that?" he asked confused, she sighed "No reason" she said about to tell him about her nightmare last night, but didnt dare to.
"Mr. Lupin?" Dumbledore asked as Landon was about to escort Cassandra back to gryffindor tower, "Watch over her.. she needs you" the headmaster said a glint in his eyes, Landon nodded and caught up with Cassandra who was leaning against the wall at the bottom of the stairs all her tears gone but her sadness welling up inside. "Come here.." Landon said opening his arms and bringing her to him as he hugged her to him, "You heard Dumbledore.. we'll get those nasty traitors" Landon said grinning, she laughed through her tears "He didnt say that.." she said, looking to Landon, "No I did.." he said smiling and planted a kiss on her forehead, "Now come on Lily and them must be worried out of their skins.." he said taking her hand and leading her back to the Gryffindor commons room in silence, both confused about to kiss on the forehead.
The Next Day
Landon walked up behind Cassandra who was silently doing her potions essay, and hugged her from behind "You okay?" he asked, she nodded smiling "Much better" she said then glanced at the Potions essay, "Snape wont be much better though when he reads this" she said grinning, "The works of greasy hair" he read bursting out laughing, "You have to wonder where Cassie thinks of these things" Lily said from across the table, "The Ugly Professors Hand Book.. the 21st edition of course" Landon said cheekily, "I'll lend you my copy sometime Lils" he said tossing his own Potions essay now, "Exactly how gay a Potions Professor can get" Lily read then gasped, "You cant hand this in you'll get detention! or even expelled!" She said. "Gotta carry on the Marauders tradition" Landon said grinning politely. "Marauders?" Cassandra asked raising an eyebrow, "His dad's group he still thinks he's reliving their lives.." Lily said "when I'm the one named after one of them!" she said as they had a fake sword battle with their quills. "En Garde!" he hollared. "Landon?" Ginger asked coming up, "Huh?" Landon asked still having a quill battle. "Oh Hey Ginger.." he said stopping, "Um what are you doing with these geeks?" Ginger asked snootily. "Chilling.. isnt that what those cool kids call it?" Cassandra asked sarcastically, Lily chuckled. "When did Lupin become such a geek?" Greg asked snickering, "Since the latest trend was to be complete assholes.." Landon said simply stomping out of the commons room, Cassandra grabbed her books following him out. "You okay?" she asked, he nodded but she saw an odd glitter in his eyes, "Hey..." she began then cursed to herself, "Late for Astronomy" she said simply, he swore running after her as they huried up to the astronomy tower.
Christmas Holidays -- 2 days later
"Hey are you staying for christmas?" Landon asked walking over to Cassandra who was scratching away on parchment examining a page of a thick text book, "I dont really have anywhere else to go do I?" she snapped, the sighed putting her hand to her forehead "Sorry.. I shouldnt have snapped on you.." she muttered, Landon sighed "Its okay" he said sitting down beside her "What are you working on?" he asked, "Potions essay.." she said. "We had a potions essay?" Landon asked, "No its extra credit I'm going to get bored over Christmas Holiday so I decided to do some extra credit.." She said looking to him and tucked her hair behind her ear tucking her quill behind it and shut the book. "Want to go for a walk?" she asked, he nodded as they walked out of the commons room walking around the school. "So are you going home for Christmas?" She asked him, as they walked side by side down the hall, her messing with her orange glittery nail polish, as he had his hands tucked in his the pockets of his baggy jeans. "Nah.. I asked my mom and dad to stay but I have to go home for easter" he said nodding, "Any Idea who else is staying?" she asked looking at the list in the lobby of the school, "Greg and Ginger.. thats it.." she said, "That's all the Gryffindors?" Landon asked, Cassandra nodded "Looks like Its three to one on the popular ranking huh?" she said as they headed back up the stairs just wandering around. "2 to 2.." he said, "And we're the popular ones" he said grinning, she rolled her eyes "where do you come up with these things?" she asked smiling. He handed her a thick small book and she looked at it, "What is this?" she asked flipping through the flimsy black book, "The guidelines on how to get the girl" he said grinning and walked off, she looked after him shaking her head then down at the book.
She was up in her room that night, she had just said good-bye to Lily and Raymond who left to go home for the christmas vacation, she was the only one in her dorm now, and sat in her bed, her grey tabby cat on her lap, She soon realized the book was Landon's journal, "Why would he let me see this?" she wondered to herself laying in a pair of pink pajama pants with black polka dots, and a black tank top her hair up in a loose pony tail as she read through the book:
December 19th
Dear Journal,
Sorry to bug you so much lately, I've just had so many thoughts I want to share with you because I dont like sharing my thoughts with other people. So I normally only tell them to you and I've been thinking alot more especially lately. Since I met Cassandra -- its a shame for me and her to get to know each other it had to be when she got a letter saying her parents died. I dont even feel safe writing my following thought in this journal -- I'll see if I can work up the guys to write it soon.
-- Landon
It was yesterdays entry, what was so embaressing he couldnt even write it in his journal? She turned to the next page:
How to get the girl
1. Be as sweet as possible
2. Get the guts to tell her how you feel
3. Open up your heart
4. Help her out at any opportunity possible
5. Make her smile more..
6. Always be there to talk to her if she has a problem
she read this confused, "Win what girl?" she asked aloud shaking her head and grabbed the diary walking down to the commons room, Greg and Landon were playing chess, as Ginger lay on the couch reading a 'which witch teen' magazine. She walked over to Landon and took one of his pieces moving it, "Check Mate" she said to Greg, who slammed his fists down on the board, "Thats cheating" he said, Landon grinned as Cassandra handed him the book "How to get the girl handbook?" she whispered grinning and looking to ginger, "Just ask her.." she whispered as Greg got up and stomped up to the boys dorms. She expected him to ask Ginger out, when he turned to her "Okay.. Cassandra will you go to the next hogsmeade with me?" he asked, "What?" Her and Ginger asked in unison both confused. "Cassandra.." he snapped looking at Ginger, who went back to her magazine then looked to her, as she shrugged "Sure.. I'll go with you, it'll be fun" she said, he grinned "Okay" he said, she nodded then looked down at her pajamas. "Well good night" she said saying goodnight to him and ginger and walked upstairs to her dorm.
The Next Hogsmeade Weekend.. 2 days later
Cassandra was up in her room getting dressed she put her long brown hair in a top half, and changed into purple tank top, and long blue jean skirt down to her knees, with black knee high healed boots. Then she headed down the stairs, Lily had already applied her make up for her and chosen out the outfit she wore, all she did was put it on. Lily was talking to Landon in the commons room when Cassandra came down the stairs, "Ready to go?" Landon asked her she looked down at her outfit then to Lily who nodded, and said "mhm" as she walked out with him. "Lily made you dress like that didnt she?" Landon asked once they were in a carriage, she had crossed her ankles resting her hands on her knees then smiled politely "That obvious huh?" she asked teasingly, "Nah just not something Cassandra Sanderson would wear" he said grinning and running a hand through his short brown hair (think Landon in a walk to remember). She smiled, when he returned it then looked out the window as she studied his face, his rough features etched into his face like stone, high delicate cheek bones, with tanned smooth skin on them his brown eyes glinting in the light as he looked out at the small cottages lining the road to hogsmeade, he turned to look at her and smiled slightly "What?" he asked confused, she shook her head looking out the far window. When they got to hogsmeade he got out first offering a hand to help her out, "So where do you want to go first?" he asked her, she shrugged "I've never been here before.." she said, "You havent?!" he asked shocked, "I was always too busy.." she said shrugging, "Well then I have to show you every single cool shop" he said grinning offering her his hand, which she took as he led her to Honeydukes. They walked in, Cassandra looked around tons of kids and tons of chocolate and candy, the aroma of chocolate and peppermint, cherry and bubblegum overwhelmed her senses. She looked to Landon who was looking at her, then he led her down the first aisle which was lined with tons of chocolate products, Landon began looking through the shelfs and found a chocolate bar that was about a foot long, "These are the best.. I promised to get Lily one" he said explaining it to her, Cassandra nodded as they went to the next aisle which had a shelf of every flavor lollipops, Cassandra was about to get one to pay for, when Landon got it "My treat" he said grinning, she looked at him confused but shrugged. By the time they left, Landon had bought Lily a chocolate bar, two boxes of bernie botts beans for himself and greg, and two chocolate frogs, and Cassandra's Lollipop. "What flavor is that?" he asked curiously, "Warm Apple Pie.. Want a taste?" she asked, "Would you mind?" he asked confused, she shook her head and handed him the lollipop which he licked then handed it back, "Its okay.." he said hesitantly, she giggled as he winced from the taste. "You have very unique taste Ms. Sanderson" he said teasingly, "Yes thats why I'm here with you Mr. Lupin" she said grinning, "Oh you will pay for that" he fakely threatened then chased her as she ran trying to tickle her. "Landon Orion Lupin!" a voice rang out, as Landon and Cassandra turned to see Remus and Jessica walking over from the dress shop, Remus arms full of bags. "Yes Mom?" he asked, "Wait.. what are you two doing here?" Landon asked confused, Jessica blushed, "Buying clothes" Remus said as he dropped the bags to the pavement snickering. "Oh yeah well umm.. Mom, Dad this is Cassandra Sanderson from school.." he said, Cassandra took her lollipop out and shook each of their hands with her other hand "Nice to meet you" she said politely, "You two.. Landon never told us about you" Remus said grinning to his son, "Oh Hun stop it your embarressing them.. well we better get going" Jessica said hugging her son, "It was nice meeting you Cassandra" she called as her and Remus walked off. Landon snickered as soon as they were out of earshot, at Cassandra's gaping face "Are they always like that?" she asked, "Worse" he said grinning as they started off to different shops to look around. Finally they headed to three broomsticks for a butterbeer, "Your going to like these.. their the best" Landon said as they sat down, Cassandra smiled she was already subconsious because of the fact Landon had bought her a lollipop, and a snow globe of Hogwarts....
*So will Cassandra and Landon hook up?* Its up to you the reviewers!!
Landon walked onto Platform 9 3/4, Ginger and Chris trailing behind him, Greg grinned to Landon then looked down the platform to see Lily, Raymond and some girl, she had wavy brown shiny hair down to just below her shoulders, her eyes sparkled in the light, he couldnt tell the color from this distance. She wore a white tank top, a pair of jean hip-huggers with an inch gap between the bottom of her tank top and her waist line of her jeans, she had a black adidas jacket over the white tank top with two white stripes down the top of each sleeve and she seemed to be laughing. Landon, Greg, Chris and Ginger walked over to see Lily like they did every year. "Hey Lils" Landon said looking around, "Where's Uncle Harry and them?" he asked, "They left about 5 minutes ago.." Lily said as Landon handed her a small box, "What is it?" she asked, "your birthday present" he said nodding, then looked down the tracks to see Nezemiah Malfoy torturing some poor first year. "Malfoy Alert 6 o'clock" he said to Greg who sighed, following Landon down the platform, but someone beat them to it the girl he saw with curly brown hair stomped up snatching Malfoy's wand from him. "Hey" he snapped, then saw the girl and was confused. "Nezemiah.. behave yourself.." she snapped simply placing the wand back in his hand flashing her prefect badge that was on her right hip. "Cassie!!" Lily called running up to the girl, "Cassie.. where do I recognize that name?" Nezemiah asked himself, "No way Cassandra Sanderson what the hell happened?" he asked looking her up and down, "Please refrain from undressing me with your eyes" she said, she had developed over the summer curves in all the wrong places. Landon looked around some more, trailing the length of the train with his eyes, when Malfoy shoved him he was about to aim his wand at Malfoy when it was snatched by Cassandra, as Lily snatched Malfoys. "Both of you knock it off.." Lily snapped, "See you in Astronomy Lupin" Cassandra said shoving the wand at Landon's chest and walking off to get on the train Lily and Raymond trailing behind her. Landon looked after her, she was the only girl that could be a geek, mysterious, hot and smart at the same time. Of course he'd never admit to anyone that she was any of those.. anymore.
"Okay today we will examine the stars.. and since your the only two in this class you might as well work together on it" Professor Skye said, it was midnight their first night there and they already had class "Also I shall be in a meeting with Dumbledore at 1 you may go back to your tower" Skye said walking out. Cassandra grabbed her star map and began glancing through the telescope up at the stars, "So why did you choose to take astronomy?" Cassandra asked glancing at Landon who was looking up at the sky with his naked eye trying to map out stars. "Astronomy's always interested me for some reason ever since I was a little kid.." he said looking to her, she nodded not expecting that response and went to map out the star she saw on her own map, Landon was about to look when she grabbed his star map, then looked at hers. "How did you get Sirius all the way over here?" she asked pointing them out, Landon leaned against the rail beside her, "Because my father always told me Sirius was also called the north star and the brightest star in the sky.. also its south of Orions belt.. you've got it east.. of it" he said pointing to the sky, she looked up "Your right.. thanks" she said looking to him and smiled slightly then erased the star she had marked and fixed Sirius' location. She sighed slamming her quill down, at quarter of one. "I'll never get this right" she said tucking her hair behind her ear, Landon grabbed it up and looked at the sky and began making adjustments as he passed them both in. "But half that work isnt mine" she said looking to where Landon set the assignments on Professor Skyes empty desk. Landon shrugged, "You have class tommorow you can stay up here all night" he said glancing to her, "and when did you become so worried about a geek like me?" Cassandra asked curiously, as her and Landon walked down the hall. "I see the carrots finally worked I went to the eye doctor and supposedly I never needed them" she said sarcastically, Landon winced "Ouch that was Harsh" he muttered. Cassandra glanced up at him "Tell me about it" she said smirking as they walked down the hall where Filch called them, "Students out after hours.." he growled, "No actually.." Landon began, when Cassandra cut in "No Sir, we had astronomy.. We're sorry we dont have a pass or something" she said leaning down and scratching Ms. Norris behind the ears who purred, "It's Okay, I know you.. but what about him?" Filch sneered towards Landon, "Uh he's in class with me sir" Cassandra said picking up Ms. Norris and handing her to Filch who grinned, "Okay well hurry back now you have classes tommorow" he said, "See you Mr. Filch" she said as they walked toward the fat lady, "Carpe Diem" she said as the photo hole swung open, Landon was amazed at how nice Filch was when you were nice to him and his cat, "Goodnight Lupin" Cassandra said heading up the girls dorm stairs, "Night Cassie.." he said, she was halfway up the stairs and grinned.
"What are you doing up so early?" Lily asked Cassandra the next morning seeing her blow drying her now wavy brownish shiny hair, she was wearing a grey 'sweat materialed' tank top, and a pair of tight light blue hip huggers, she slid on a matching zip up hoodie that said 'Princess' across the front in blue sparkly print, and pulled her hair up in a neat pony tail. "You look nice" Lily said and went over to the mirror washing her face then began to put makeup on. Lily looked to Cassandra, "sit" she said pointing to the bench, Cassandra sighed and sat down as Lily went to work on her make-up.
"Where is Lily!?" Landon growled, "Woah Man.. temper" Greg said laying a hand on his friends arm, "We're about to be late and your warning me about temper.." Landon said his eyes flashing with anger, Greg removed his hand "I see your point" he squeaked in a scared voice, as Lily came downstairs in a yellow tee-shirt, pig tail red braids, and a jean skirt. "Sorry I'm late.. had some last minute adjusts" she said, as she stepped out of the way as Cassandra walked out between them and stood beside Lily, she had pale skin, black eye liner, mascara and light blue eye shadow accenting her hazel eyes and the blue of the princess on her zip up hoodie, she then wore pink shiny lip gloss and some blush. "Sorry I made her Late Lupin.." she said simply, then her and Lily began walking to class "Any Idea who the other gryffindor prefect is.. whoever he is isnt doing his darn job" Cassandra said simply, "That would be me" Landon said flashing his badge that was on his black hoodie that had a red star in a circle representing wizards and witches on the front of it and a pair of dark blue baggy jeans, the new dress code said they could wear muggle clothes to class. "Uh.." Cassandra said then nodded, as Lily stiffled a laughter. "Oh Hush it Lils" Landon and Cassandra said in unison, Greg whispered to Lily who giggled, and they both sang loudly "LANDON AND CASSANDRA SITTING IN A TREE.." as they skipped down the hall, Cassandra looked at Landon he was looking at her and they both nodded running after Lily and Greg to get revenge.
Two Weeks Later
Landon was wandering toward the lake when he spotted a figure leaning against a tree hugging their knees toward them, and walked over to see Cassandra there her face spotted with tears as she held a letter in her hand. "What's wrong?" he asked confused kneeling down infront of her, "No-thing" she began as he got her up and hugged her too him, she hugged him sobbing, and handed him the letter her read it. "Those.." he began growling then noticed her still sobbing and hugged her tighter to him, "Shh its okay I'm here.. nobody will hurt you" he said stroking her hair. "I'm an orphan" she whispered finishing her sobs, he shook his head using the pads of his thumbs to wipe her remaining tears away, "No.. your not.." he said offering her a hand "Want to go see Dumbledore about it?" he asked truly concerned, she nodded tears coming down again, as she took his hand. "Shh.." he said because she was sobbing by the time they got to Dumbledore's office, "Its okay no one can hurt you now.. they'll have to go through me first" he said looking to her, "Thats what I'm afraid of" she said through sobs, "What? Me?" he asked, "No.. them hurting you" she said sniffling silent tears still streaming down her cheeks. "They cant hurt me.. plus why would you be afraid of that?" he asked confused, she sighed "No reason" she said about to tell him about her nightmare last night, but didnt dare to.
"Mr. Lupin?" Dumbledore asked as Landon was about to escort Cassandra back to gryffindor tower, "Watch over her.. she needs you" the headmaster said a glint in his eyes, Landon nodded and caught up with Cassandra who was leaning against the wall at the bottom of the stairs all her tears gone but her sadness welling up inside. "Come here.." Landon said opening his arms and bringing her to him as he hugged her to him, "You heard Dumbledore.. we'll get those nasty traitors" Landon said grinning, she laughed through her tears "He didnt say that.." she said, looking to Landon, "No I did.." he said smiling and planted a kiss on her forehead, "Now come on Lily and them must be worried out of their skins.." he said taking her hand and leading her back to the Gryffindor commons room in silence, both confused about to kiss on the forehead.
The Next Day
Landon walked up behind Cassandra who was silently doing her potions essay, and hugged her from behind "You okay?" he asked, she nodded smiling "Much better" she said then glanced at the Potions essay, "Snape wont be much better though when he reads this" she said grinning, "The works of greasy hair" he read bursting out laughing, "You have to wonder where Cassie thinks of these things" Lily said from across the table, "The Ugly Professors Hand Book.. the 21st edition of course" Landon said cheekily, "I'll lend you my copy sometime Lils" he said tossing his own Potions essay now, "Exactly how gay a Potions Professor can get" Lily read then gasped, "You cant hand this in you'll get detention! or even expelled!" She said. "Gotta carry on the Marauders tradition" Landon said grinning politely. "Marauders?" Cassandra asked raising an eyebrow, "His dad's group he still thinks he's reliving their lives.." Lily said "when I'm the one named after one of them!" she said as they had a fake sword battle with their quills. "En Garde!" he hollared. "Landon?" Ginger asked coming up, "Huh?" Landon asked still having a quill battle. "Oh Hey Ginger.." he said stopping, "Um what are you doing with these geeks?" Ginger asked snootily. "Chilling.. isnt that what those cool kids call it?" Cassandra asked sarcastically, Lily chuckled. "When did Lupin become such a geek?" Greg asked snickering, "Since the latest trend was to be complete assholes.." Landon said simply stomping out of the commons room, Cassandra grabbed her books following him out. "You okay?" she asked, he nodded but she saw an odd glitter in his eyes, "Hey..." she began then cursed to herself, "Late for Astronomy" she said simply, he swore running after her as they huried up to the astronomy tower.
Christmas Holidays -- 2 days later
"Hey are you staying for christmas?" Landon asked walking over to Cassandra who was scratching away on parchment examining a page of a thick text book, "I dont really have anywhere else to go do I?" she snapped, the sighed putting her hand to her forehead "Sorry.. I shouldnt have snapped on you.." she muttered, Landon sighed "Its okay" he said sitting down beside her "What are you working on?" he asked, "Potions essay.." she said. "We had a potions essay?" Landon asked, "No its extra credit I'm going to get bored over Christmas Holiday so I decided to do some extra credit.." She said looking to him and tucked her hair behind her ear tucking her quill behind it and shut the book. "Want to go for a walk?" she asked, he nodded as they walked out of the commons room walking around the school. "So are you going home for Christmas?" She asked him, as they walked side by side down the hall, her messing with her orange glittery nail polish, as he had his hands tucked in his the pockets of his baggy jeans. "Nah.. I asked my mom and dad to stay but I have to go home for easter" he said nodding, "Any Idea who else is staying?" she asked looking at the list in the lobby of the school, "Greg and Ginger.. thats it.." she said, "That's all the Gryffindors?" Landon asked, Cassandra nodded "Looks like Its three to one on the popular ranking huh?" she said as they headed back up the stairs just wandering around. "2 to 2.." he said, "And we're the popular ones" he said grinning, she rolled her eyes "where do you come up with these things?" she asked smiling. He handed her a thick small book and she looked at it, "What is this?" she asked flipping through the flimsy black book, "The guidelines on how to get the girl" he said grinning and walked off, she looked after him shaking her head then down at the book.
She was up in her room that night, she had just said good-bye to Lily and Raymond who left to go home for the christmas vacation, she was the only one in her dorm now, and sat in her bed, her grey tabby cat on her lap, She soon realized the book was Landon's journal, "Why would he let me see this?" she wondered to herself laying in a pair of pink pajama pants with black polka dots, and a black tank top her hair up in a loose pony tail as she read through the book:
December 19th
Dear Journal,
Sorry to bug you so much lately, I've just had so many thoughts I want to share with you because I dont like sharing my thoughts with other people. So I normally only tell them to you and I've been thinking alot more especially lately. Since I met Cassandra -- its a shame for me and her to get to know each other it had to be when she got a letter saying her parents died. I dont even feel safe writing my following thought in this journal -- I'll see if I can work up the guys to write it soon.
-- Landon
It was yesterdays entry, what was so embaressing he couldnt even write it in his journal? She turned to the next page:
How to get the girl
1. Be as sweet as possible
2. Get the guts to tell her how you feel
3. Open up your heart
4. Help her out at any opportunity possible
5. Make her smile more..
6. Always be there to talk to her if she has a problem
she read this confused, "Win what girl?" she asked aloud shaking her head and grabbed the diary walking down to the commons room, Greg and Landon were playing chess, as Ginger lay on the couch reading a 'which witch teen' magazine. She walked over to Landon and took one of his pieces moving it, "Check Mate" she said to Greg, who slammed his fists down on the board, "Thats cheating" he said, Landon grinned as Cassandra handed him the book "How to get the girl handbook?" she whispered grinning and looking to ginger, "Just ask her.." she whispered as Greg got up and stomped up to the boys dorms. She expected him to ask Ginger out, when he turned to her "Okay.. Cassandra will you go to the next hogsmeade with me?" he asked, "What?" Her and Ginger asked in unison both confused. "Cassandra.." he snapped looking at Ginger, who went back to her magazine then looked to her, as she shrugged "Sure.. I'll go with you, it'll be fun" she said, he grinned "Okay" he said, she nodded then looked down at her pajamas. "Well good night" she said saying goodnight to him and ginger and walked upstairs to her dorm.
The Next Hogsmeade Weekend.. 2 days later
Cassandra was up in her room getting dressed she put her long brown hair in a top half, and changed into purple tank top, and long blue jean skirt down to her knees, with black knee high healed boots. Then she headed down the stairs, Lily had already applied her make up for her and chosen out the outfit she wore, all she did was put it on. Lily was talking to Landon in the commons room when Cassandra came down the stairs, "Ready to go?" Landon asked her she looked down at her outfit then to Lily who nodded, and said "mhm" as she walked out with him. "Lily made you dress like that didnt she?" Landon asked once they were in a carriage, she had crossed her ankles resting her hands on her knees then smiled politely "That obvious huh?" she asked teasingly, "Nah just not something Cassandra Sanderson would wear" he said grinning and running a hand through his short brown hair (think Landon in a walk to remember). She smiled, when he returned it then looked out the window as she studied his face, his rough features etched into his face like stone, high delicate cheek bones, with tanned smooth skin on them his brown eyes glinting in the light as he looked out at the small cottages lining the road to hogsmeade, he turned to look at her and smiled slightly "What?" he asked confused, she shook her head looking out the far window. When they got to hogsmeade he got out first offering a hand to help her out, "So where do you want to go first?" he asked her, she shrugged "I've never been here before.." she said, "You havent?!" he asked shocked, "I was always too busy.." she said shrugging, "Well then I have to show you every single cool shop" he said grinning offering her his hand, which she took as he led her to Honeydukes. They walked in, Cassandra looked around tons of kids and tons of chocolate and candy, the aroma of chocolate and peppermint, cherry and bubblegum overwhelmed her senses. She looked to Landon who was looking at her, then he led her down the first aisle which was lined with tons of chocolate products, Landon began looking through the shelfs and found a chocolate bar that was about a foot long, "These are the best.. I promised to get Lily one" he said explaining it to her, Cassandra nodded as they went to the next aisle which had a shelf of every flavor lollipops, Cassandra was about to get one to pay for, when Landon got it "My treat" he said grinning, she looked at him confused but shrugged. By the time they left, Landon had bought Lily a chocolate bar, two boxes of bernie botts beans for himself and greg, and two chocolate frogs, and Cassandra's Lollipop. "What flavor is that?" he asked curiously, "Warm Apple Pie.. Want a taste?" she asked, "Would you mind?" he asked confused, she shook her head and handed him the lollipop which he licked then handed it back, "Its okay.." he said hesitantly, she giggled as he winced from the taste. "You have very unique taste Ms. Sanderson" he said teasingly, "Yes thats why I'm here with you Mr. Lupin" she said grinning, "Oh you will pay for that" he fakely threatened then chased her as she ran trying to tickle her. "Landon Orion Lupin!" a voice rang out, as Landon and Cassandra turned to see Remus and Jessica walking over from the dress shop, Remus arms full of bags. "Yes Mom?" he asked, "Wait.. what are you two doing here?" Landon asked confused, Jessica blushed, "Buying clothes" Remus said as he dropped the bags to the pavement snickering. "Oh yeah well umm.. Mom, Dad this is Cassandra Sanderson from school.." he said, Cassandra took her lollipop out and shook each of their hands with her other hand "Nice to meet you" she said politely, "You two.. Landon never told us about you" Remus said grinning to his son, "Oh Hun stop it your embarressing them.. well we better get going" Jessica said hugging her son, "It was nice meeting you Cassandra" she called as her and Remus walked off. Landon snickered as soon as they were out of earshot, at Cassandra's gaping face "Are they always like that?" she asked, "Worse" he said grinning as they started off to different shops to look around. Finally they headed to three broomsticks for a butterbeer, "Your going to like these.. their the best" Landon said as they sat down, Cassandra smiled she was already subconsious because of the fact Landon had bought her a lollipop, and a snow globe of Hogwarts....
*So will Cassandra and Landon hook up?* Its up to you the reviewers!!
