"Ashleigh, your mother is completely different from me and you know that.
We only have each other now and I promise nothing will happen." He said.
"You can't promise that. Besides, aren't you the one who taught me not to make promises that I couldn't keep?" I said. My anger was easing up. I was just freaking out because he was all that I had.
"Don't worry about me. I will be fine. I am heavily guarded and only Dumbledore knows where I am so I know I will be safe. Go have some fun with your friends and behave." He said winking. I couldn't help but laugh because deep down inside I knew that he was safe in Dumbledore's hands, just like I am.
"Ok, I will but you be careful... I mean it and we better spend Christmas together... it's a tradition." I said in a firm tone. He smiled and kissed my fore head.
"Of course and listen to Dumbledore, he is in charge of you..." He said leaving. I nodded as I watched him go. I knew that he would be ok. Of course he would because he was in Dumbledore's hands and my mom was watching over him. Dumbledore motioned for everyone to settle down and listen to him.
"By the way, I have a new student that has recently come from the states and I need you guys to show her around the castle. She is in the Gryffindor house and she will be bunking with you two." He said pointing at Lily and I. I was pretty excited because there would be someone else besides Jordan from the States and I would be able to room with her. Lily and I could adopt her into the group and show her all the tricks. Smiling, I nodded eagerly.
"Good, she should be waiting with Professor McGonagall at the bottom of the stairs. Show her around and be nice." He said. We all left as he finished his last sentence and dismissed us. I was in front of everyone because I wanted to get to know this girl.
We walked to the bottom of the stairs and I saw a blonde head and then a body. She was awfully thin and beautiful. She made Pamela Anderson look ugly. I felt a tinge of jealousy as she turned around and saw us. She smiled sheepishly at us. I got to the bottom and returned the smile and shook her hand.
"Hi! I'm Ashleigh, this is Lily and James, Sirius, and Remus." I said. She said hello to each and every one of us with such confidence that it made me feel shy.
"Hi, I'm Gabrielle." She said in an accent that I didn't understand. It sounded like New York.
"What part of the states are you from?" I asked her.
"New Jersey." She stated.
"I was close I guessed New York. By the way, I am from California." I said. She smiled.
"Awesome, another American. I was hoping that I wouldn't be the only one." She said.
"I thought the same thing when I started here but all of these people are really nice and I have grown to love this place more than ever." I said.
We went to the common room again because it was close to curfew and Flinch was checking the halls for victims. We explained to Gabrielle how everything worked and gave her a tour around the common room.
"The Boys' dorms are off limits to us and vice versa. You are allowed to date but you can't display much PDA." I said. The others looked at me like I was speaking another language.
"PDA means Public Display of Affection." I said to them and they all nodded. I couldn't help but laugh.
"What about that?" She asked looking at Jordan and Alyssa.
"Well, they seem to get around the Prefects and the Professors every now and then. A new couple you know. Always on each other." I said. She nodded. I checked my watch and realized that we had been talking for an hour and I was getting tired.
"I'm going to head up to bed. Do you want me to show you where you sleep?" I asked her. The common room was slowly empting out. She shook her head no.
"No, I think I am going to stay down here and write for a bit. You go ahead though. I am sure I can find it. The sixth door up right?" She said. I nodded and said good night.
"Good night guys." I said. Lily said good night too.
"I guess I'll be heading to be too." James said and Remus nodded. Sirius sat there for a few seconds.
"I'm going to stay down here and study for tomorrows transfig. Test." He said. We all left and went to bed.
***Authors note: I am going to have some one Sirius' POV and other characters' POV in here***
Sirius sat in one of the fluffy chairs with his Transfiguration book on his lap. He had to admit he was attracted to Gabrielle at first glance but it was nothing more than a physical attraction. He loved Ashleigh with all his heart and he wasn't going to screw it up. Besides she was way too confident and beautiful to have any attraction or interest in him. He noticed her walking toward him.
"I just wanted to thank you for helping in showing me around school and giving me a warm welcome." She said sitting down next to him. He felt his little friend stiffen and he scooted over to get farther away from her and put his textbook in between them.
"No problem, it was my pleasure." He said. She smiled.
"I can't show you more pleasure." She said in a seductive voice. He swallowed and gave a weak smile. No one else was in the common room and she was advancing toward him until she was almost on top of him. He almost lost his mind and gave in but he got up real fast.
"W...W...wait, I have a girlfriend. One who I love and cherish and I'm sorry... I mean you are very attractive, BUT so is my girl and I love her... did I mention that I love her?" He said. Gabrielle laughed but she nodded.
"Ok. Your loss." She said pulling off her jacket. It revealed a very low cut shirt and he had to get out of there fast. He ran up to his dorm room. James and Remus were just about to get into bed.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked.
"Mate, She came onto me!" Sirius said. James propped himself up on his elbows and gave Sirius a confused look. Remus stopped brushing his teeth and some of the toothpaste was dripping down his chin.
"What are you talking about?" James asked.
"Gabrielle, she came on to me while I was studying..." He couldn't finish that sentence because there was a knock at the door. Sirius answered the door and Gabrielle pushed her way into the room with ease. She smiled at him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"You forgot this down there." She said handing him his book. He looked down at the book and nodded.
"Thanks." He said. She gave him another kiss on the cheek and walked out blowing kisses at him. He turned to James with a desperate look and an astonished Remus chocked on his toothpaste.
"Mate, I have to break it to you but you're going to have to tell Ashleigh." Remus said after he spit his toothpaste into the sink.
"But... but... she'll kill me. Things just started to get good again. I'm telling you mates, every time things get good between her and me something always seems to mess it up. I am seriously starting to have doubts about me and her." Sirius said sitting on the edge of James' bed with Remus.
"Padfoot, that's silly talk, I have never seen so much love and adoration between two people. You guys are perfect together; you keep her out of trouble and vice versa. Don't ruin something so pure." Remus said. Sirius nodded but he still had his doubts about their relationship.
"You should really talk all this over with Ash, not your mates." Jordan's voice came from his four-poster bed. Sirius felt rage surge through him. Ever since Jordan went out with Ashleigh. But he couldn't show it because Ashleigh never said anything about Jezebel or any of the other girls he went with. Besides, he couldn't admit that he was jealous of Jordan it would make him look bad.
"Well, I am... going to, but right now I can't get to her room. Now can I?" He said.
"I know a way you can..." Jordan said and he pulled out a mirror and whispered something into it.
"Ok, she'll be down in the common room in a few minutes." Jordan said. Sirius gave him a bad look. He wanted to tell Ashleigh everything but he was afraid that she might get bad at him or things might become rocky once more. Nevertheless he knew what he had to do and that was to go downstairs.
**Ashleigh's POV**
"Oh please Lily... I told you once already I am not going to wear that outfit." I said. Lily had been trying to force me into an old outfit of mine that she thought was cute but I disagreed.
"Oh fine!" Lily said crossing her arms. She held it up against her to see if it might look good and I thought that it did. She had the right color of hair and the right figure.
"Maybe I'll borrow it..." She said.
"You can have it." I said. Gabrielle came into the dorm room and smiled. I knew that smile it was a sheepish smile.
"You know, I think that guy, Sirius has the wrong ideas in his head." She said. I stopped sorting through my clothes and looked at her.
"What do you mean?" I said a little too defensively.
"Oh, nothing just I was thinking about my boyfriend back home and I guess I was just in a little lovey-dovey mood and he was the only one in the common room and I just wanted to ask a few questions about the school." Gabrielle said. I laughed. Just like Sirius to jump to conclusions.
"So... he thought you were hitting on him?" I asked.
"Yeah, he said he had a girlfriend and that he loved her very much and all this other junk about me not being able to have him and stuff... Like I would want him. I have a steady boyfriend at home." She said. I laughed. It sounded like Sirius. Alyssa came out of the bathroom and squealed with delight.
"What?" I asked her. She pulled a mirror out of her pajama pocket. I saw Jordan's face appear in it and she started to whisper into the mirror and then she turned to me.
"Ashleigh, Sirius needs to see you ASAP." She said. I nodded and went down to the common room. I saw him there walking back and forth.
"Sirius... is something wrong? Alyssa told me that you wanted to...." He kissed me with such passion that it knocked the wind out of me. And then he kept kissing me and he moved his hands up my shirt to touch the small of my back with his hand holding me closer and closer to him. I pulled away after a minute and stared at him.
"What was that for?" I asked him. He looked deep into my eyes and gave me a small soft promising kiss.
"Have I told you how much I love you lately?" He asked me. I smiled.
"I don't think you have... maybe I need to hear it again." I said shyly smiling and tracing my finger along his hairline.
"Well, I love you a whole lot Ashleigh Corrine and I never want to let you go. That's why I need you to keep an open mind while I tell you something." He said. I stopped smiling.
"I already know." I said. His jaw dropped open and he looked amazed.
"What? You mean she told you?" Sirius asked. He looked at me with wide eyes and then he looked to the floor and put his hand through his hair. Then he looked back at me with horrified eyes.
"I... I mean... You know that it wasn't... I didn't..." He couldn't get the words together.
"Its ok... don't worry about it... it was just a simple misunderstanding." I said to him.
"Misunderstanding? Ashleigh, she came on to me." He said. I laughed.
"That's so like you. She didn't come onto you... you just think she did..." I said.
"What? No I don't think she did... I mean no she kissed me..." He said.
"Where?" I asked him.
"My cheek... I'm not playing... James and Remus saw it." Sirius protested.
"Baby, she probably just thought your reaction was cute." I said.
"But Ash..." He started. I kissed him before he could finish and I said my good nights. It was time to go to bed.
"You can't promise that. Besides, aren't you the one who taught me not to make promises that I couldn't keep?" I said. My anger was easing up. I was just freaking out because he was all that I had.
"Don't worry about me. I will be fine. I am heavily guarded and only Dumbledore knows where I am so I know I will be safe. Go have some fun with your friends and behave." He said winking. I couldn't help but laugh because deep down inside I knew that he was safe in Dumbledore's hands, just like I am.
"Ok, I will but you be careful... I mean it and we better spend Christmas together... it's a tradition." I said in a firm tone. He smiled and kissed my fore head.
"Of course and listen to Dumbledore, he is in charge of you..." He said leaving. I nodded as I watched him go. I knew that he would be ok. Of course he would because he was in Dumbledore's hands and my mom was watching over him. Dumbledore motioned for everyone to settle down and listen to him.
"By the way, I have a new student that has recently come from the states and I need you guys to show her around the castle. She is in the Gryffindor house and she will be bunking with you two." He said pointing at Lily and I. I was pretty excited because there would be someone else besides Jordan from the States and I would be able to room with her. Lily and I could adopt her into the group and show her all the tricks. Smiling, I nodded eagerly.
"Good, she should be waiting with Professor McGonagall at the bottom of the stairs. Show her around and be nice." He said. We all left as he finished his last sentence and dismissed us. I was in front of everyone because I wanted to get to know this girl.
We walked to the bottom of the stairs and I saw a blonde head and then a body. She was awfully thin and beautiful. She made Pamela Anderson look ugly. I felt a tinge of jealousy as she turned around and saw us. She smiled sheepishly at us. I got to the bottom and returned the smile and shook her hand.
"Hi! I'm Ashleigh, this is Lily and James, Sirius, and Remus." I said. She said hello to each and every one of us with such confidence that it made me feel shy.
"Hi, I'm Gabrielle." She said in an accent that I didn't understand. It sounded like New York.
"What part of the states are you from?" I asked her.
"New Jersey." She stated.
"I was close I guessed New York. By the way, I am from California." I said. She smiled.
"Awesome, another American. I was hoping that I wouldn't be the only one." She said.
"I thought the same thing when I started here but all of these people are really nice and I have grown to love this place more than ever." I said.
We went to the common room again because it was close to curfew and Flinch was checking the halls for victims. We explained to Gabrielle how everything worked and gave her a tour around the common room.
"The Boys' dorms are off limits to us and vice versa. You are allowed to date but you can't display much PDA." I said. The others looked at me like I was speaking another language.
"PDA means Public Display of Affection." I said to them and they all nodded. I couldn't help but laugh.
"What about that?" She asked looking at Jordan and Alyssa.
"Well, they seem to get around the Prefects and the Professors every now and then. A new couple you know. Always on each other." I said. She nodded. I checked my watch and realized that we had been talking for an hour and I was getting tired.
"I'm going to head up to bed. Do you want me to show you where you sleep?" I asked her. The common room was slowly empting out. She shook her head no.
"No, I think I am going to stay down here and write for a bit. You go ahead though. I am sure I can find it. The sixth door up right?" She said. I nodded and said good night.
"Good night guys." I said. Lily said good night too.
"I guess I'll be heading to be too." James said and Remus nodded. Sirius sat there for a few seconds.
"I'm going to stay down here and study for tomorrows transfig. Test." He said. We all left and went to bed.
***Authors note: I am going to have some one Sirius' POV and other characters' POV in here***
Sirius sat in one of the fluffy chairs with his Transfiguration book on his lap. He had to admit he was attracted to Gabrielle at first glance but it was nothing more than a physical attraction. He loved Ashleigh with all his heart and he wasn't going to screw it up. Besides she was way too confident and beautiful to have any attraction or interest in him. He noticed her walking toward him.
"I just wanted to thank you for helping in showing me around school and giving me a warm welcome." She said sitting down next to him. He felt his little friend stiffen and he scooted over to get farther away from her and put his textbook in between them.
"No problem, it was my pleasure." He said. She smiled.
"I can't show you more pleasure." She said in a seductive voice. He swallowed and gave a weak smile. No one else was in the common room and she was advancing toward him until she was almost on top of him. He almost lost his mind and gave in but he got up real fast.
"W...W...wait, I have a girlfriend. One who I love and cherish and I'm sorry... I mean you are very attractive, BUT so is my girl and I love her... did I mention that I love her?" He said. Gabrielle laughed but she nodded.
"Ok. Your loss." She said pulling off her jacket. It revealed a very low cut shirt and he had to get out of there fast. He ran up to his dorm room. James and Remus were just about to get into bed.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked.
"Mate, She came onto me!" Sirius said. James propped himself up on his elbows and gave Sirius a confused look. Remus stopped brushing his teeth and some of the toothpaste was dripping down his chin.
"What are you talking about?" James asked.
"Gabrielle, she came on to me while I was studying..." He couldn't finish that sentence because there was a knock at the door. Sirius answered the door and Gabrielle pushed her way into the room with ease. She smiled at him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"You forgot this down there." She said handing him his book. He looked down at the book and nodded.
"Thanks." He said. She gave him another kiss on the cheek and walked out blowing kisses at him. He turned to James with a desperate look and an astonished Remus chocked on his toothpaste.
"Mate, I have to break it to you but you're going to have to tell Ashleigh." Remus said after he spit his toothpaste into the sink.
"But... but... she'll kill me. Things just started to get good again. I'm telling you mates, every time things get good between her and me something always seems to mess it up. I am seriously starting to have doubts about me and her." Sirius said sitting on the edge of James' bed with Remus.
"Padfoot, that's silly talk, I have never seen so much love and adoration between two people. You guys are perfect together; you keep her out of trouble and vice versa. Don't ruin something so pure." Remus said. Sirius nodded but he still had his doubts about their relationship.
"You should really talk all this over with Ash, not your mates." Jordan's voice came from his four-poster bed. Sirius felt rage surge through him. Ever since Jordan went out with Ashleigh. But he couldn't show it because Ashleigh never said anything about Jezebel or any of the other girls he went with. Besides, he couldn't admit that he was jealous of Jordan it would make him look bad.
"Well, I am... going to, but right now I can't get to her room. Now can I?" He said.
"I know a way you can..." Jordan said and he pulled out a mirror and whispered something into it.
"Ok, she'll be down in the common room in a few minutes." Jordan said. Sirius gave him a bad look. He wanted to tell Ashleigh everything but he was afraid that she might get bad at him or things might become rocky once more. Nevertheless he knew what he had to do and that was to go downstairs.
**Ashleigh's POV**
"Oh please Lily... I told you once already I am not going to wear that outfit." I said. Lily had been trying to force me into an old outfit of mine that she thought was cute but I disagreed.
"Oh fine!" Lily said crossing her arms. She held it up against her to see if it might look good and I thought that it did. She had the right color of hair and the right figure.
"Maybe I'll borrow it..." She said.
"You can have it." I said. Gabrielle came into the dorm room and smiled. I knew that smile it was a sheepish smile.
"You know, I think that guy, Sirius has the wrong ideas in his head." She said. I stopped sorting through my clothes and looked at her.
"What do you mean?" I said a little too defensively.
"Oh, nothing just I was thinking about my boyfriend back home and I guess I was just in a little lovey-dovey mood and he was the only one in the common room and I just wanted to ask a few questions about the school." Gabrielle said. I laughed. Just like Sirius to jump to conclusions.
"So... he thought you were hitting on him?" I asked.
"Yeah, he said he had a girlfriend and that he loved her very much and all this other junk about me not being able to have him and stuff... Like I would want him. I have a steady boyfriend at home." She said. I laughed. It sounded like Sirius. Alyssa came out of the bathroom and squealed with delight.
"What?" I asked her. She pulled a mirror out of her pajama pocket. I saw Jordan's face appear in it and she started to whisper into the mirror and then she turned to me.
"Ashleigh, Sirius needs to see you ASAP." She said. I nodded and went down to the common room. I saw him there walking back and forth.
"Sirius... is something wrong? Alyssa told me that you wanted to...." He kissed me with such passion that it knocked the wind out of me. And then he kept kissing me and he moved his hands up my shirt to touch the small of my back with his hand holding me closer and closer to him. I pulled away after a minute and stared at him.
"What was that for?" I asked him. He looked deep into my eyes and gave me a small soft promising kiss.
"Have I told you how much I love you lately?" He asked me. I smiled.
"I don't think you have... maybe I need to hear it again." I said shyly smiling and tracing my finger along his hairline.
"Well, I love you a whole lot Ashleigh Corrine and I never want to let you go. That's why I need you to keep an open mind while I tell you something." He said. I stopped smiling.
"I already know." I said. His jaw dropped open and he looked amazed.
"What? You mean she told you?" Sirius asked. He looked at me with wide eyes and then he looked to the floor and put his hand through his hair. Then he looked back at me with horrified eyes.
"I... I mean... You know that it wasn't... I didn't..." He couldn't get the words together.
"Its ok... don't worry about it... it was just a simple misunderstanding." I said to him.
"Misunderstanding? Ashleigh, she came on to me." He said. I laughed.
"That's so like you. She didn't come onto you... you just think she did..." I said.
"What? No I don't think she did... I mean no she kissed me..." He said.
"Where?" I asked him.
"My cheek... I'm not playing... James and Remus saw it." Sirius protested.
"Baby, she probably just thought your reaction was cute." I said.
"But Ash..." He started. I kissed him before he could finish and I said my good nights. It was time to go to bed.