Sakura: Muchas gracias para el apoyo! Si usted continua revisar,
continuare escribir!
And don't worry, I wanted to kill that puta, tambien . . . pero arruinaria
el cuento! *guino* Hablare a usted luego!
Blonded: Glad you enjoyed it . . . LOL! There should be more of that to come! *wink*
Mercury: I just had to laugh when I read your review! You've got to stop predicting things, or no one will want to read my story anymore!!! *grin* Thanks for the awesome compliment! I'm trying to really set a certain feeling for each of the characters . . . good to hear it's working!!!
Jenstarz: I know! I hate Catrina too! And don't get me started on Weald . . . but I have a feeling about where I'm taking this story, and I think it'll be interesting . . . at least I *think* . . . LOL!!! (p.s. Make sure to tell me how you liked the movie!)
Sweet intentionz: *evil cackle* Yes, yes!!! Life a living hell if she steps out of line again . . . well, I'm gonna have to live up to the threat, I guess . . . haven't quite figured out what I'm gonna do with that, yet . . . but guess both of us are just going to have to see where my crazy typing fingers take me!!!
SiriusLvr: Glad you enjoyed the little brawl!!! *grins evilly* I'm sure they'll be more of that to come . . . Bwahahahaha! *clears throat; straightens self out* Yes, well, thanks for the flattering remarks! You've made me blush! *wink*
Greenfairie: Way ahead of ya, babe! *wink* Hehehe! (actually, the word is 'lycanthropy,' . . . it has an *R* in there . . . but I'm sure you knew that ; ) But don't worry, those . . . *issues* will present themselves soon enough *grin*
Emmah-Leah/ marauder-luver-forever: Yeah . . . well, as a matter of fact, I really *was* considering off-ing Catrina after she pissed Joey off like that . . . *nervous laughter* But, you know . . . that would just ruin the rest of the story, huh?! *grin* And I really liked your fic!!! Lily and James stories are so much fun to read, and I like your plot line . . . can't wait to see your story really develop into something!!! Sorry about the extrememly, overly long review I wrote you! *embarrassed giggles* I can't really control how much I like to talk . . . it's a strength and a weakness, I guess . . .And thanks so much for telling me about your story!!! I love it when ppl recommend fics to me! ( p.s. Hope you enjoyed your camping trip! ; )
Dana Whelks: Glad you like it! I'm just totally in love with Joey's character, and I think that Sirius and her make the perfect couple!!! *giggles* I love Sirius, and I really wanted to create a story where he ends up w/ a girl who he really deserves! Thanks for the compliment! Means a lot!
Fantasy4: *blush* Stop it, you're embarrassing me! LOL. Thanks a bunch . . . hope you like this next one!
Casco: Glad you feel that you're getting to know Joey better!!! I feel the same way!
Annoriel: Hehehehe! Hope you don't know too many people like Catrina . . . that would REALLY suck! But I am glad that you liked the chapter, even if my malicious streak is beginning to rub off on you . . . *wink*
Kiwi: Hahaha! If I had or even KNEW a guy like Sirius . . . *phew*!!! I would not even let him out of my sight! *sniggers* He's *way* to cute for his own good! *purrr* He's my puppy dog . . . at least I love to write him like that . . . Tall, dark, handsome . . . killer abs, a broad chest, and never ending sea of black, tousled hair. Not to mention intelligent and as fun as hell to play with . . . *sigh* sounds like I'm ordering a pizza! LOL! Hope you enjoy this chapter . . .
*Cheers to all us girls who need a guy like Sirius!!! Hahahaha!*
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I'm goin' to Disney Land and Universal Studios for a little while. . . won't be here to update for a few days . . . but I'm sure you'll survive! LOL! I'll try to write you a long chapter . . . we'll see how it goes!
This chapter is going to be full of Sirius/Joey mush! *giggles* I really like this chapter just because I've gotten to talking a bit about where Joey comes from, and you really get a sense of where Joey's and Sirius' relationship was before this story began. Then there's also the more intimate parts that I always like writing . . . so we'll just see what you guys think of it, I guess!
Hopefully I will come home to a lot of reviews! I love you all sooooo much for reviewing my work . . . I seriously thrive off of your comments . . . whether they're good or bad. *wink* Hope you will all consider writing me a nice looonnnggg review so that I can sit in front of my computer when I come back and satisfy the severe fanfiction withdrawal I will experience while I'm gone . . . LOL. It's true! I don't know how I'll survive w/out fanfiction while I'm gone *tear* . . . pretty sad, I know! But hope you will wish me a good trip! Thanks, friends! = ]
-Sara (a.k.a. Sportzjunkie)
You love simply because you cannot help it.
Kim Anderson
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Joey climbed the steps up to the boys' dorms really slowly. She felt like shit. Though there was still adrenaline pumping through her system from the nasty right hook she popped in Catrina's nose, the blond slut's last words were still ringing in her ears:
"You know it's inevitable . . . I've stolen your man once . . . and I sure as hell am going to do it again."
What the fuck was the bitch playing at?! Joey knew for damn well that Sirius would never cheat on her . . . but those words stung in the back of her mind like a strong shot of fire whiskey feels on the back of the throat. The emotions were too much, and Joey could feel the all too familiar tears burning at the back of her eyes again. She stopped on the stairs and leaned up against the wall. She was clear out of view of the common room, so she didn't have to worry about anyone (mainly Catrina) seeing her. She pressed her eyes closed and just tried to catch her breath. There was no way she was going to let what Catrina had said get to her. That bitch just didn't deserve her tears.
With a deep breath, Joey managed to calm down and open her eyes back up before any tears fell. She hiked her book bag up on her shoulder and continued up the stairs. Stopping just outside Sirius' dorm, she smoothed down her half-dried hair and patted her cheeks to get rid of the redness that had built up during her little brawl in the common room.
Without knocking, she pushed the heavy door open and stepped into the brightly lit dorm room. Sirius was sitting at a desk in the corner of his room, books sprawled all over the floor around him, and papers messily laid out on the desk before him. He was attentively scribbling on the sheet of parchment in front of him while periodically glancing down at the text book on his lap. Flam was sitting cheerfully at the corner of his desk, gingerly nibbling at the edge of the silvery-eyed boy's parchment.
Sirius seemed to not have noticed the door opening, and Joey just stood there and smiled at the sight of him in front of her. His hair was thoroughly tousled, and he heaved a sigh as he glanced down at the text book on his lap again. He bit the edge of his bottom lip and ran a hand through his dark coffee hair before continuing to write the long essay he was obviously trying to finish. Joey practically had to stifle a laugh at the fact the Sirius was so wrapped up in his essay that he didn't even notice her standing there. She could have stood there and stared at him all night. In her eyes, this messy, unkempt boy in front of her was the most attractive thing she could have asked to look at.
Before delaying any longer, Joey pushed door shut. Sirius suddenly looked up from his essay with a rather startled look across his face. The expression quickly went from startle to pleasantly surprised when he saw who it was that came to visit him.
"Joey!" he said as he practically jumped out of his chair and hurried over to pull her into a hug. "I was hoping you'd come by . . . I was hoping to spend some time with you tonight considering you have to tutor tomorrow night! It's only a quarter to nine . . . we can finish our homework together if you'd like!"
When he pulled her out of the hug, he looked down into her eyes and gave her a warm smile. "I'd like that . . ." she said before taking a step closer and pulling her face in closer to his. A pleasant smirk pushed up the sides of his face as he leaned his head in closer, too. Joey's eyes pulled shut as she could practically feel his warm breath brush past her lips.
There was a pause long enough that caused Joey to crack her eyes open in curiosity to see what the hell Sirius was doing instead of finally kissing her. She opened her eyes to meet his gaze that was fixed dreamily on her face. He was merely admiring her beauty while she impatiently waited for him to push his lips to hers. When he realized that her expression was telling him that she was getting impatient, a broad grin crept over his handsome features as he continued to swim through the splendor of her sparkling jade tinted eyes.
She shook her head slowly and her eyes narrowed as she tried to suppress the smile that was infecting her features, as well. Impatience getting the best of her, Joey wrapped her right arm around his neck and forcefully pulled his lips to hers. Sirius' smirk was completely consumed as he was drawn into a strong, passionate kiss. Exhaling through his nose, he deepened the kiss and wrapped his arms affectionately around her petite waist.
There was so much emotion in the kiss, Joey let out a soft moan as he bent his head in the other direction and continued to roam his tongue around her mouth. Slowly moving his hands from her waist, he cupped her jaw with them before sliding his hands along her neck and running his fingers through her silky hair.
Joey allowed herself to get completely lost in the kiss. Sirius' caring devotion to her was her best outlet to try and forget all her problems and just get wrapped up in the moment. As all of the emotions raced through her heart and mind, however, the pang of upset that Catrina had caused earlier cast a sudden shadow over Joey's nerves when she remembered what the whore had said to her. Joey closed her eyes tighter and pressed herself even harder into the kiss as she let out a faint whimper that she figured would go unnoticed. Wrong!
Sirius hesitantly pulled out of the kiss and looked apprehensively into her eyes for a moment. Very perceptively, he could sense the certain upset of emotions running through her mind, and the tears that were now burning at the back of her eyes were a dead give away to his suspicions.
"Joey, what's wrong?" he asked worriedly as he stared thoroughly into her eyes looking for some clue. He moved his hands down to grip both of her shoulders firmly, yet gently. Feeling as though he was reading her mind through her eyes, Joey broke his eye contact and stared at the floor. She didn't want him to know that the thing that was bothering her had to do with what another girl had said about him.
Still keeping her eyes on the floor, she shook her head firmly as if to convince herself more than him that nothing was wrong. "I'm fine," she lied quietly. "Really, I am."
"Joey . . ." Sirius was using the tone that he only reserved for James when he was trying to coax some information out of him. "Come, on . . . you can tell me! I want you to tell me." She finally pulled her eyes up to meet his gaze, and gave him a weak smile. But she still refused to tell him anything.
"Really, Sirius. Nothing is wrong!" she pulled out of his grasp, walked over, and plopped herself down on the edge of his bed. Trying desperately hard to choke down the tears she was trying to hide, she continued, "No one said anything to upset me!" She suddenly scrunched up her face as she realized that she should have chosen her words a little more carefully. Now he really knew something was bothering her.
"Oh, shit," he breathed to himself more than aloud as he walked over and popped a squat right in front of her. He looked up into her face that was trying to focus on the floor of his dorm. "Was it something Weald said?! Because I swear to God if that fucking dick weed even looks at you funny, I'll punch him so hard he'll have to stick a toothbrush up his ass just to brush his teeth!"
Joey coughed on her tears as she started laughing. She impatiently brushed away the tear that started to roll down her cheek and tried to sniff away any others that threatened to fall. Whether Sirius ever meant to be funny in a depressing situation, he certainly always could make her feel somewhat better just by being himself. He looked into her eyes and gave her a feeble smile as she continued to laugh.
"Please tell me . . ." he whispered as he pulled himself up and sat on the bed next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "Am I going to have to hunt down Weald for you?" he tried to coax more laughing out of her, which he was successful in doing.
"No, no . . . that's not exactly why I'm upset," she admitted. "Although Weald was a major prick in practice today, I think it'll get better . . ."
"Then why are you crying?" he asked in a very soothing tone. Joey leaned over and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Sirius, do you remember that one blond girl that we caught Amos snogging with at the ball?"
"The one that freakishly resembled an over-done Barbie doll?"
"Yeah, that's the one. She's the new chaser on our quidditch team." Sirius was now rubbing her back slowly, giving her his complete attention. "She's really nasty to me whenever she talks to me . . . I just can't even stand to be near her." Joey heaved a sigh and continued on. "Well, I ended up planting a right punch squarely into her nose." Sirius let out a burst of surprised laughter when she said this, and when Joey still seemed rather serious, he quickly sobered himself and continued to listen.
"Alright . . . so then what was it she said that made you give her a nasty taste of your knuckles?" he asked with an amused tone that he didn't even bother to cover.
"She said . . . she said . . ." Joey lifted her head off his shoulder and bit her lip. She couldn't bring herself to tell Sirius what the bitch had said to her! Joey was mostly worried about how Sirius would take it. If he wouldn't be angry with the fact that Joey was actually feeling uncertain about his commitment, then would he be insulted . . . or hurt, even?
Sirius bent over and planted a soft kiss on Joey's temple. She sighed deeply and pressed her eyes closed. 'Damn me' she thought. He was too good for her. How could she have even been worried that Sirius wouldn't be loyal to her?! . . . There was no way that he would ever cheat on her, let alone with someone like Catrina Strumpet, and Joey knew that. So why was she getting so damn worked up about this? She took another deep breath and decided to just go for it, and get it out in the open.
"She said that it was inevitable that she was going to steal you away from me," she sputtered out so quickly she was worried that Sirius hadn't even caught all of it.
There was a long pause before Sirius did the very thing that Joey least expected him to do. He broke down laughing. Actually, "broke down" is probably an understatement. What Sirius did was slowly deteriorate as the laughing spasms took control of him. He was laughing so hard, that eventually his fits of laughter became silent as he continued to gasp for air between spasms. Joey just sat their in shocked silence at his reaction, and remained that way as she stared at her boyfriend, who was now clutching his sides cracking up.
"Why is that funny?" she asked with a rather exasperated tone. Sirius was now regaining composure, and he was resting his arm on Joey shoulder as he caught his breath.
"Because . . ." he said gasping for another lungful of air. "Here I was expecting you to tell me that she insulted your muggle father or something like that . . . I never expected it to be about some pathetic little threat having to do with me!" he took another deep breath before continuing. ". . . but never the less, I'm glad you socked her . . . that girl needed to get laid into . . . and I mean that in the sense that she's *not* used to, seeing by how many guys she's been with!"
Joey cracked a smile. She was so relieved that he wasn't angry. It just made her realize how much of an easy going guy Sirius was. "So you aren't mad?" she asked hesitantly.
"Mad?! Why on earth would I be mad? You should know by now that that bitch is all talk, Joey. And why would I even take a notice in her? . . . I'm the luckiest guy in the school!" Joey's smile broadened, as she gave him a teasingly smug look.
"And why might you be the luckiest guy in the school?" she asked good- naturedly, well aware of the fact that he was about to say "because you're my girlfriend." But Sirius was going to have some fun first.
"Because . . . I have nice teeth . . ." he joked, stating the most random thought that popped into his head. " . . . and sweet, mysterious eyes . . . and sexy, dark hair." His smile was now reaching up towards his ears. Joey narrowed her eyes at him.
"You mean *messy* dark hair, my friend. I'm not quite sure who you think you're talking about when you say 'sexy'!" she laughed.
"But you know the *real* reason I'm so lucky?" he asked with a very serious expression on his face as he got off the bed and stood up in front of her.
"Why's that?" she asked, the smile on her face widening a little.
"Because I have *you* to tickle, of course!" he laughed before lounging at her on the bed. But Joey was too quick for him. Letting out an excited scream, she did a quick backwards roll off the opposite side of his bed and ran across the room. Sirius came after her, so she jumped up onto Remus' neatly made bed and grabbed one of the pillows that was sitting lightly up against the headboard.
Quickly noticing the new weapon she gripped tightly to, Sirius grabbed a fluffy pillow off of James' bed and held it poised to strike. Joey was now standing unbalanced on Remus' bed, holding the pillow over her shoulder like she was ready to belt him one, as well. Sirius charged forward and got a sharp smack in the face with the feather pillow Joey had swung at him. Laughing joyfully, he gripped tighter to his pillow and started beating her wildly on the butt with his pillow.
Both of them were laughing uncontrollably as soft feathers flew all around the room in a blizzard of white fluff. Joey dropped down to her butt and rolled off Remus' bed before running over and jumping up to a standing position on Peter's bed. Once again, she got the first cheap blow to Sirius' head before he took the base attack and went for her legs. Joey was screaming gleefully every few moments as the fight went on, and she kept getting whapped playfully with the feathery pillows. She successfully continued to mess Sirius' hair up even worse, and Sirius continued to keep knocking her off her feet to lay flat on her back before she would roll off again and hop onto someone else's bed.
This pattern continued for a while before both Joey and Sirius collapsed onto his bed laughing and gasping for air. "You scream so much!" he chuckled. "People are going to be wondering what the hell we are doing in here!" Joey gave a very loud contemptuous laugh, and, gripping the pillow she still had in her hands, she wound up one more time and smacked him forcefully in the face before getting up off the bed, leaving the pillow on his head.
"You are such a guy, sometimes!" she laughed before walking over and picking up her school bag and plopping down on the chair at his desk. Sirius pulled the pillow off his face and sat up, a cheesy grin still plastered to his well defined features.
"And you, my dear, are such a spaz sometimes! Look what you've done to our room!" he laughed as he glanced around at all of the beds Joey had jumped on and messed up.
"Hey!" she giggled. "Remus' bed was the only one that looked nice enough for it to be obvious that I messed it up! James' bed was so messy before the fight, my jumping on it probably made it look tidier!" Sirius chuckled at the thought and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah . . . you're right. James really should make more of an effort to clean up after himself." Sirius ironically said this as he sat on his own bed that hadn't been voluntarily made since the first day of school.
"Speak for yourself!" Joey teased. Sirius gripped the pillow that was still on his lap from when Joey had hit him with it, and he chucked it across the room at her.
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The evening continued without any more pillow wars, and Sirius and Joey had decided to get some homework done together. They had spent the time working on their charms papers, offering information and ideas to each other when either one of them would get stuck on a certain part. Sirius was particularly good at charms, considering he was the best charms student in their class, so Joey found it rather helpful to be working with him.
When they had finally finished their charms homework, they moved onto transfiguration. Though they didn't have the class at the same time together, they still took the same course, and received the same homework. They were about halfway done when Sirius tossed down his quill down on the table and heaved an annoyed sigh.
"God! I refuse to do any more of this tonight! It just never seems to end! I wish there was no such thing as homework! Don't our teachers realize we have lives outside of school work?! It's ridiculous!" he ranted. Joey just smiled at the all too familiar temper tantrum. She went through them about every Thursday night when she was aching for it to finally be the weekend.
"Don't worry," she soothed as she put her quill down as well. "We can quit for tonight and finish it up again another evening. And don't worry about it. Before we know it, it'll be winter break, and we'll have two weeks to do nothing but relax." Sirius nodded at her confidence and allowed himself to smile. Joey was always so much more relaxed when it came to doing school work.
"Speaking of winter break, what are you planning on doing over the holidays?"
"Oh . . . well, I'm probably going to visit my family at home for a few days and then we're going to the U.S. for the remainder of the vacation." Sirius smiled and nodded at her plans. He had spent lots of time over at Joey's house over multiple summers, and knew her family very well. "What'll you be doing?"
Sirius gave an unconcerned shrug and glanced down at the parchment that sat before him. "Probably spend it in my room hiding from my cold- blooded parents. Not like Christmas means anything to them outside of fancy parties and more excuses to ignore me." Joey gave him an understanding rub on the shoulder. She knew how much Sirius despised his parents for how they ignored him.
"Well, maybe that's a good thing, then. Would you want to spend the holiday with my family and me?" she asked as she gave him a hopeful smile. "Your parents wouldn't care, would they?"
"It's not a matter if *my* parents care or not. In fact, I don't think they could care less if I suddenly dropped dead with pneumonia. The matter is, would *your* parents cared if I intruded on your family vacation?" Joey gave him a 'you have got to be kidding me' look.
"Oh, pulease, Sirius. You've got to be joking!" Joey confuted haughtily. "My family thinks of you as more part of family than they think of me! Lord knows you fit in better!" Sirius gave a laugh that showed he knew she spoke the truth. "You're like the fourth son my parents never had!" she joked.
Joey was born into a family with three older brothers: Josh, Brian, and Sam. Sam had just graduated from Hogwarts the year before then, so he was nineteen, while Brian was twenty-one and Josh was twenty-four. Joey was the only girl in her family besides her mother, and she was also the baby, at just seventeen years old. Since Sirius had been one of her best friends since the very first day of their very first year of Hogwarts, he too had grown up with her brothers and became like a sibling to them. Especially since Sirius was really the only one of Joey's friends who had a terrible relationship with his family, her parents had taken to seeing him as more like one of their own sons rather than just as a buddy who visited every once and a while.
"Oh, alright!" he conceded, causing Joey to beam back at him. "I guess it would be a lot of fun to see your brothers again. It's been a while, hasn't it?!" Joey suddenly narrowed her eyes at Sirius when he said this.
"Don't you guys *dare* pick on me again!" she snapped with a hint of amusement in her voice. "It's no fun when your three older brothers and best friend gang up on you!" Sirius just laughed and shrugged.
"Well, we'll have to get a game of rugby going again, just like old times!" he planned. Joey nodded in agreement. She remembered all those late summer nights that she had spent out in some deserted muggle park playing a rough game of rugby with the four other boys and her father.
As the only girl of the group, she was always placed as the 'extra player' on one of the teams. She was always considered the runt due to the fact that she was more delicate, and obviously weaker than the others. This, however, was somewhat an advantage . . . Joey could always beat the pants off any of the other boys in a sprinting contest, and due to the fact that she was much smaller and more agile then them, it was easy for her to swerve past them without being tackled. In respect to her sneak attack, often times the guys that were on her team would use a play they liked to call the 'Joey funnel,' where they would try their best to create a clear path for her to just run straight past the goal line.
The game would go late into the warm summer night until it was either too dark to see even a foot in front of their faces, or they were too pooped- out to even grip the ball tight enough to run with it. Then they would stagger home, huge cheesy grins plastered across their sweaty faces, to a nice large tray of chocolate and butterscotch chip cookies that Joey's mother had baked while they were out.
Those were the summers they lived for, and those memories would never fade even as they all got older.
"Well, I guess I'll just owl my parents and tell them the plan. You can come to the United States with us, as well. Omigod, this is going to be so exciting! I'm going to bring you to all the muggle attractions and give you a real taste of what it's like in the non-magical world!" Joey was so excited, buy Sirius was looking rather nervous at the idea of being around so many muggles at a time.
"Uhhh . . . Joey? Is that such a good idea? I mean . . . I've never really . . . been around so many . . ."
"Oh, it'll be so much fun, Sirius! I'll take you in my car, and we'll go to the movies and . . ." Sirius' eyes were now wide with something that quite closely resembled panic. "What?!" she asked splenetically.
He just laughed and shook his head. "You're too much!" he chuckled. "I've never been to America before, let alone around a whole bunch of . . . non-magical people . . . and now . . ." he paused for a moment as the shock began to sink in, ". . .now I'm going to be stuck in a place where they're all around me?! What if I catch some foreign disease? I'm sure muggles can't be *that* clean, can they?" Joey started laughing.
"God, Sirius! Get over it! I promise you'll at least enjoy yourself at least a little bit . . ." She started laughing to herself as the next thought popped into her head, ". . . and I'm pretty sure that you aren't going to contract some deadly foreign disease . . ." Sirius started laughing too. Joey quickly grabbed a tiny slip of parchment and scribbled a note across it with her quill. She rolled it up and handed it into Flam's beak before he took off out the window and made a loop, heading downwards to the school's grounds.
"Hey, where's he going with that? Shouldn't he be heading towards your parents?"
"No, of course not!" Joey laughed as if the thought was ridiculous. "He's just taking it to the owlery for me." Sirius furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
"You realize you just sent an *owl* to the *owlery* to send a message for you?" Joey nodded at him.
"I never send Flam to deliver messages anywhere besides the owlery, where he gets another owl to deliver the message for him."
"But why would you do that?" he laughed, still with confusion clearly hinted in his voice.
"Because! You realize it takes owls multiple days at a time to just deliver the message to its destination, and then it takes them another few days just to return from the trip?" Sirius nodded. "Well, How could I *possibly* live without my baby for so many days?!" Joey asked as if the idea was preposterous. Sirius just shook his head and laughed.
"No wonder that bird acts so chubby and spoiled!" he laughed. "The thing never gets any proper exercise or authority!" Joey shook her head in protest.
"He's one of my best friends, and has *always* been there for me. And as for the exercise thing, he . . . hunts . . . sometimes . . . when he feels like it . . ." Sirius couldn't suppress his grin, and he let out a very derisive laugh.
"You really are a weirdo, sometimes, you know that?" he teased. Joey's eyes narrowed at him, but a smile played at her rosy lips.
"Well, I happened to have learned it from the best," she retorted playfully as she stood up and nonchalantly sauntered over to him.
"And who might have you learned it from?" he asked, trying desperately to keep his voice steady as she advanced towards him.
"Oh . . . I can think of a few people . . ." she said lightly as she crawled onto his lap, causing Sirius' eyebrows to shoot up on his forehead.
"Will you show me?" he practically whispered as she gave him a tiny smirk and leaned her half-parted lips in to meet his. The kiss started out slow and gentle, as if they were almost hesitant to make a move. Joey was slowly running her delicate fingers along Sirius' jaw line as she gently grazed his bottom lip with both of hers and continued to suck on it affectionately. Sirius had his arms wrapped around her waist, holding her to him, and he was delicately caressing her upper lip with the gentle tracing of his tongue.
As they both played around tentatively with their tongues, they grew hungry for more emotion in the kiss. Joey found herself pressing impatiently into him, causing his back to arch against the hard-wooden chair as it dug into the middle of his spine. He let out a groan, and Joey pulled the weight off his chest, making a motion to pull out of the kiss. Sirius still had his arms around her waist, however, and didn't allow her to pull her lips away.
Sensing his feelings to want to maintain the kiss, Joey gripped the front of his shirt in her fists and hauled him up with her as she stood up. He willingly allowed her to jerk him forcefully around and push him back onto his bed.
They broke apart as he fell back flat onto his bed, but Sirius wasn't complaining once Joey hastily crawled on top of him and resumed the passionate kiss. She was in control now, and she ran her tongue along his bottom lip before scattering warm, amorous kisses down his jaw and neck. Sirius pulled his eyes shut tight and bit his lip as he could feel her warm breath exhale from her nose in a fervent pant, brushing along his neck, and mixing rousingly with her trail of kisses.
Feeling uncomfortably vulnerable to be lying on his back with her on top of him, Sirius flipped onto his left side, causing Joey to fall over next to him on his right. He simply turned his head in the opposite direction and continued to trace his tongue along the inside of her mouth as he pulled his right leg over both of hers and positioned himself so he was on top of her, propped up with one of his arms that was rested next to her.
Sirius continued to explore Joey's mouth and tickle her lips with his tongue. She let out a slight moan, and he responded by slowly lowering himself on top of her and gently pressing his hips into her. She let out a sudden whimper in protest, and his eyes flew open as he quickly pulled off of her, propping all of his weight up on his arms.
"What?" he asked, the sound of pure worry streaked through his voice. Joey smiled mischievously and looked down at the waistline of his pants as she moved her hands to the same spot her gaze was focused on. Sirius' eyes were two huge black marbles as Joey's hands fingered his belt for a moment before unlatching it, stripping it from his pants, and tossing it carelessly to the floor. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and brought his body lowered onto hers. He achingly pressed his hips into hers, and she, partially muffled by his kiss, let out a faint moan in yearning.
Moving her hands from around his neck, she drew them around his waist, under his thin shirt, and up his bare back. Her gentle touch along his smooth back caused so many sensory nerves to go off along his spine, which made it near impossible for him to keep from giving an impulsive shiver. Smiles crept along both of their lips as they continued to be enveloped in the deepening kiss. Before Sirius knew it, Joey had run her hands completely all the way up his back, bringing the base of his shirt with them, and pulling it up over his head. She casually discarded the shirt on the floor along with his belt and resumed teasing his tongue with her own.
Getting restless with all of his weight on top of her, Joey tucked her left leg around his right one, and vehemently flipped him over, allowing him to pull her along so she was now on top, straddling his hips. She then slid herself down his body a little ways so her head was level with his firmly packed abs. Starting at the base of his breast bone, she began planting a path of slow, seductive kisses all the way up the middle of his broad chest to the base of his neck. Then she traced her tongue along the center of his throat, feeling him shudder against the sensation.
Sirius was trying frantically to control his canine instincts in the situation, but Joey found herself on her back once again as he began kissing her with even more exigency than before. His hands were softly and slowly sliding up along her waist towards her ribs, and she could sense the apprehension in his touch as it drew farther up her torso. She kissed him harder as if giving him her consent to go on, and he did so willingly.
Before they got any further, there was a sudden and extremely loud 'hoot' from out side the window as the beautiful brown and white speckled owl flew through the window. When Flam saw the scene that was before him, he wasted no time to rushing over and pecking Sirius relentlessly on top of the head while in mid-flight.
He pulled off of Joey quickly enough before the next blow of pecks met with his head, and he ducked irritably as the bird swooped again.
"Couldn't *possibly* live without your baby, eh?" he asked jeeringly. Joey gave him a playful poke in the ribs and laughed. Just then, there was a knock on the door. Sirius and Joey exchanged looks.
"Probably for the better, then, that Flam came in when he did? Impeccable timing, I'd say!" she laughed, swatting Sirius playfully on the bum as he got up to open the door. In walked James Potter, carrying his book bag and most of his clothes in his arms, and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers. He glanced around the room when he entered it and noticed the scattered papers, the messed up beds (well, Remus' for that matter), and, of course, Sirius' belt and shirt lying abandoned on the floor.
His eyes eventually wandered over to Sirius, who was now standing before him, hair a complete mess, and pants sitting loosely on his hips. James just shook his head and smiled as his gaze finally made its way over to Joey who was still lying back on Sirius' bed, shirt half-ridden up on her torso. He quirked an eyebrow at her, and she glanced down sheepishly before yanking her shirt down to her waistline so quickly, she was lucky she didn't tear it.
Stifling a laugh, James strolled over to his bed, threw his clothes in his trunk, and dropped his book bag down on the floor. He casually went about his business getting ready for bed, as Joey took the hint and began gathering her things together. It took her a matter of minutes before she had all of her papers packed up in her book bag, and Flam on her shoulder as she headed out. Before leaving, she planted a long, soft kiss on Sirius' lips, and then sauntered out the door.
Sirius' expression was still dreamy as he pushed the door shut with a click. A few moments later, James wandered out of the bathroom, holding a toothbrush in his mouth and having toothpaste dribbling carelessly down his chin. Sirius glared at his friend as the smile broadened on James' face. James pulled the toothbrush out of his mouth.
"Sorry, mate . . . Lily wanted to get some rest this evening. I had to go *somewhere*, and excuse me if my dorm was the first thing that came to my mind!" Daggers were still being shot at him through the penetrating stare. "Alright, alright . . . I guess I should have stayed down in the common room." He gave a long pause before a smile started creeping up his face at what he said next. "And I *did* give you a few hours . . . I'd expected you would've been a little farther along. . ." James' smile was now stretched full across from ear to ear. ". . . but all you managed was to slide her shirt up, like, what, an inch or two?"
Sirius grabbed a pillow off the nearest bed and chucked it full force at James' head. James, of course, dodged the pillow expertly, and strolled right back into the bathroom, still chuckling to himself. Sirius then wandered over to his bed and collapsed on it, dreamily staring up at the curtains that created the canopy above his four-poster. Well aware of the fact that Joey's irresistibly sweet scent was still attached to himself, he breathed in deeply at the heavenly aroma.
He wasn't bothering to suppress the ridiculously broad grin that well complimented his adorable features. And that smile would refuse to leave him for the rest of the night.
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*Giggles* I love Sirius so much! LOL! And I just had to add James' little sense of humor at the end, there! Hehehe! Too funny! I thought I would try to capture the true sense of humor of the typical male . . . w/e! hahaha! Hope you guys liked this chapter! I would reread it again to fix any errors, but it's already 1:30 and I promised my mum I'd go to bed two hours ago . . . oh, well! Good night, all! Well, actually, for a lot of you in Europe, it's probably late morning write now . . . but who cares?! Hehehe! Please write me a nice long review! I won't be able to update for awhile, and I'd be sooo special for you ppl to tell me what you're thinking! Thanks! Much luv! = ]
p.s. I'll say hi to Pluto for you all! (He's my favorite Disney character . . . hehehe! He's so cute! How can you possibly resist his scrawny little legs, big nose, and enormous smile?!)
Blonded: Glad you enjoyed it . . . LOL! There should be more of that to come! *wink*
Mercury: I just had to laugh when I read your review! You've got to stop predicting things, or no one will want to read my story anymore!!! *grin* Thanks for the awesome compliment! I'm trying to really set a certain feeling for each of the characters . . . good to hear it's working!!!
Jenstarz: I know! I hate Catrina too! And don't get me started on Weald . . . but I have a feeling about where I'm taking this story, and I think it'll be interesting . . . at least I *think* . . . LOL!!! (p.s. Make sure to tell me how you liked the movie!)
Sweet intentionz: *evil cackle* Yes, yes!!! Life a living hell if she steps out of line again . . . well, I'm gonna have to live up to the threat, I guess . . . haven't quite figured out what I'm gonna do with that, yet . . . but guess both of us are just going to have to see where my crazy typing fingers take me!!!
SiriusLvr: Glad you enjoyed the little brawl!!! *grins evilly* I'm sure they'll be more of that to come . . . Bwahahahaha! *clears throat; straightens self out* Yes, well, thanks for the flattering remarks! You've made me blush! *wink*
Greenfairie: Way ahead of ya, babe! *wink* Hehehe! (actually, the word is 'lycanthropy,' . . . it has an *R* in there . . . but I'm sure you knew that ; ) But don't worry, those . . . *issues* will present themselves soon enough *grin*
Emmah-Leah/ marauder-luver-forever: Yeah . . . well, as a matter of fact, I really *was* considering off-ing Catrina after she pissed Joey off like that . . . *nervous laughter* But, you know . . . that would just ruin the rest of the story, huh?! *grin* And I really liked your fic!!! Lily and James stories are so much fun to read, and I like your plot line . . . can't wait to see your story really develop into something!!! Sorry about the extrememly, overly long review I wrote you! *embarrassed giggles* I can't really control how much I like to talk . . . it's a strength and a weakness, I guess . . .And thanks so much for telling me about your story!!! I love it when ppl recommend fics to me! ( p.s. Hope you enjoyed your camping trip! ; )
Dana Whelks: Glad you like it! I'm just totally in love with Joey's character, and I think that Sirius and her make the perfect couple!!! *giggles* I love Sirius, and I really wanted to create a story where he ends up w/ a girl who he really deserves! Thanks for the compliment! Means a lot!
Fantasy4: *blush* Stop it, you're embarrassing me! LOL. Thanks a bunch . . . hope you like this next one!
Casco: Glad you feel that you're getting to know Joey better!!! I feel the same way!
Annoriel: Hehehehe! Hope you don't know too many people like Catrina . . . that would REALLY suck! But I am glad that you liked the chapter, even if my malicious streak is beginning to rub off on you . . . *wink*
Kiwi: Hahaha! If I had or even KNEW a guy like Sirius . . . *phew*!!! I would not even let him out of my sight! *sniggers* He's *way* to cute for his own good! *purrr* He's my puppy dog . . . at least I love to write him like that . . . Tall, dark, handsome . . . killer abs, a broad chest, and never ending sea of black, tousled hair. Not to mention intelligent and as fun as hell to play with . . . *sigh* sounds like I'm ordering a pizza! LOL! Hope you enjoy this chapter . . .
*Cheers to all us girls who need a guy like Sirius!!! Hahahaha!*
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I'm goin' to Disney Land and Universal Studios for a little while. . . won't be here to update for a few days . . . but I'm sure you'll survive! LOL! I'll try to write you a long chapter . . . we'll see how it goes!
This chapter is going to be full of Sirius/Joey mush! *giggles* I really like this chapter just because I've gotten to talking a bit about where Joey comes from, and you really get a sense of where Joey's and Sirius' relationship was before this story began. Then there's also the more intimate parts that I always like writing . . . so we'll just see what you guys think of it, I guess!
Hopefully I will come home to a lot of reviews! I love you all sooooo much for reviewing my work . . . I seriously thrive off of your comments . . . whether they're good or bad. *wink* Hope you will all consider writing me a nice looonnnggg review so that I can sit in front of my computer when I come back and satisfy the severe fanfiction withdrawal I will experience while I'm gone . . . LOL. It's true! I don't know how I'll survive w/out fanfiction while I'm gone *tear* . . . pretty sad, I know! But hope you will wish me a good trip! Thanks, friends! = ]
-Sara (a.k.a. Sportzjunkie)
You love simply because you cannot help it.
Kim Anderson
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Joey climbed the steps up to the boys' dorms really slowly. She felt like shit. Though there was still adrenaline pumping through her system from the nasty right hook she popped in Catrina's nose, the blond slut's last words were still ringing in her ears:
"You know it's inevitable . . . I've stolen your man once . . . and I sure as hell am going to do it again."
What the fuck was the bitch playing at?! Joey knew for damn well that Sirius would never cheat on her . . . but those words stung in the back of her mind like a strong shot of fire whiskey feels on the back of the throat. The emotions were too much, and Joey could feel the all too familiar tears burning at the back of her eyes again. She stopped on the stairs and leaned up against the wall. She was clear out of view of the common room, so she didn't have to worry about anyone (mainly Catrina) seeing her. She pressed her eyes closed and just tried to catch her breath. There was no way she was going to let what Catrina had said get to her. That bitch just didn't deserve her tears.
With a deep breath, Joey managed to calm down and open her eyes back up before any tears fell. She hiked her book bag up on her shoulder and continued up the stairs. Stopping just outside Sirius' dorm, she smoothed down her half-dried hair and patted her cheeks to get rid of the redness that had built up during her little brawl in the common room.
Without knocking, she pushed the heavy door open and stepped into the brightly lit dorm room. Sirius was sitting at a desk in the corner of his room, books sprawled all over the floor around him, and papers messily laid out on the desk before him. He was attentively scribbling on the sheet of parchment in front of him while periodically glancing down at the text book on his lap. Flam was sitting cheerfully at the corner of his desk, gingerly nibbling at the edge of the silvery-eyed boy's parchment.
Sirius seemed to not have noticed the door opening, and Joey just stood there and smiled at the sight of him in front of her. His hair was thoroughly tousled, and he heaved a sigh as he glanced down at the text book on his lap again. He bit the edge of his bottom lip and ran a hand through his dark coffee hair before continuing to write the long essay he was obviously trying to finish. Joey practically had to stifle a laugh at the fact the Sirius was so wrapped up in his essay that he didn't even notice her standing there. She could have stood there and stared at him all night. In her eyes, this messy, unkempt boy in front of her was the most attractive thing she could have asked to look at.
Before delaying any longer, Joey pushed door shut. Sirius suddenly looked up from his essay with a rather startled look across his face. The expression quickly went from startle to pleasantly surprised when he saw who it was that came to visit him.
"Joey!" he said as he practically jumped out of his chair and hurried over to pull her into a hug. "I was hoping you'd come by . . . I was hoping to spend some time with you tonight considering you have to tutor tomorrow night! It's only a quarter to nine . . . we can finish our homework together if you'd like!"
When he pulled her out of the hug, he looked down into her eyes and gave her a warm smile. "I'd like that . . ." she said before taking a step closer and pulling her face in closer to his. A pleasant smirk pushed up the sides of his face as he leaned his head in closer, too. Joey's eyes pulled shut as she could practically feel his warm breath brush past her lips.
There was a pause long enough that caused Joey to crack her eyes open in curiosity to see what the hell Sirius was doing instead of finally kissing her. She opened her eyes to meet his gaze that was fixed dreamily on her face. He was merely admiring her beauty while she impatiently waited for him to push his lips to hers. When he realized that her expression was telling him that she was getting impatient, a broad grin crept over his handsome features as he continued to swim through the splendor of her sparkling jade tinted eyes.
She shook her head slowly and her eyes narrowed as she tried to suppress the smile that was infecting her features, as well. Impatience getting the best of her, Joey wrapped her right arm around his neck and forcefully pulled his lips to hers. Sirius' smirk was completely consumed as he was drawn into a strong, passionate kiss. Exhaling through his nose, he deepened the kiss and wrapped his arms affectionately around her petite waist.
There was so much emotion in the kiss, Joey let out a soft moan as he bent his head in the other direction and continued to roam his tongue around her mouth. Slowly moving his hands from her waist, he cupped her jaw with them before sliding his hands along her neck and running his fingers through her silky hair.
Joey allowed herself to get completely lost in the kiss. Sirius' caring devotion to her was her best outlet to try and forget all her problems and just get wrapped up in the moment. As all of the emotions raced through her heart and mind, however, the pang of upset that Catrina had caused earlier cast a sudden shadow over Joey's nerves when she remembered what the whore had said to her. Joey closed her eyes tighter and pressed herself even harder into the kiss as she let out a faint whimper that she figured would go unnoticed. Wrong!
Sirius hesitantly pulled out of the kiss and looked apprehensively into her eyes for a moment. Very perceptively, he could sense the certain upset of emotions running through her mind, and the tears that were now burning at the back of her eyes were a dead give away to his suspicions.
"Joey, what's wrong?" he asked worriedly as he stared thoroughly into her eyes looking for some clue. He moved his hands down to grip both of her shoulders firmly, yet gently. Feeling as though he was reading her mind through her eyes, Joey broke his eye contact and stared at the floor. She didn't want him to know that the thing that was bothering her had to do with what another girl had said about him.
Still keeping her eyes on the floor, she shook her head firmly as if to convince herself more than him that nothing was wrong. "I'm fine," she lied quietly. "Really, I am."
"Joey . . ." Sirius was using the tone that he only reserved for James when he was trying to coax some information out of him. "Come, on . . . you can tell me! I want you to tell me." She finally pulled her eyes up to meet his gaze, and gave him a weak smile. But she still refused to tell him anything.
"Really, Sirius. Nothing is wrong!" she pulled out of his grasp, walked over, and plopped herself down on the edge of his bed. Trying desperately hard to choke down the tears she was trying to hide, she continued, "No one said anything to upset me!" She suddenly scrunched up her face as she realized that she should have chosen her words a little more carefully. Now he really knew something was bothering her.
"Oh, shit," he breathed to himself more than aloud as he walked over and popped a squat right in front of her. He looked up into her face that was trying to focus on the floor of his dorm. "Was it something Weald said?! Because I swear to God if that fucking dick weed even looks at you funny, I'll punch him so hard he'll have to stick a toothbrush up his ass just to brush his teeth!"
Joey coughed on her tears as she started laughing. She impatiently brushed away the tear that started to roll down her cheek and tried to sniff away any others that threatened to fall. Whether Sirius ever meant to be funny in a depressing situation, he certainly always could make her feel somewhat better just by being himself. He looked into her eyes and gave her a feeble smile as she continued to laugh.
"Please tell me . . ." he whispered as he pulled himself up and sat on the bed next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "Am I going to have to hunt down Weald for you?" he tried to coax more laughing out of her, which he was successful in doing.
"No, no . . . that's not exactly why I'm upset," she admitted. "Although Weald was a major prick in practice today, I think it'll get better . . ."
"Then why are you crying?" he asked in a very soothing tone. Joey leaned over and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Sirius, do you remember that one blond girl that we caught Amos snogging with at the ball?"
"The one that freakishly resembled an over-done Barbie doll?"
"Yeah, that's the one. She's the new chaser on our quidditch team." Sirius was now rubbing her back slowly, giving her his complete attention. "She's really nasty to me whenever she talks to me . . . I just can't even stand to be near her." Joey heaved a sigh and continued on. "Well, I ended up planting a right punch squarely into her nose." Sirius let out a burst of surprised laughter when she said this, and when Joey still seemed rather serious, he quickly sobered himself and continued to listen.
"Alright . . . so then what was it she said that made you give her a nasty taste of your knuckles?" he asked with an amused tone that he didn't even bother to cover.
"She said . . . she said . . ." Joey lifted her head off his shoulder and bit her lip. She couldn't bring herself to tell Sirius what the bitch had said to her! Joey was mostly worried about how Sirius would take it. If he wouldn't be angry with the fact that Joey was actually feeling uncertain about his commitment, then would he be insulted . . . or hurt, even?
Sirius bent over and planted a soft kiss on Joey's temple. She sighed deeply and pressed her eyes closed. 'Damn me' she thought. He was too good for her. How could she have even been worried that Sirius wouldn't be loyal to her?! . . . There was no way that he would ever cheat on her, let alone with someone like Catrina Strumpet, and Joey knew that. So why was she getting so damn worked up about this? She took another deep breath and decided to just go for it, and get it out in the open.
"She said that it was inevitable that she was going to steal you away from me," she sputtered out so quickly she was worried that Sirius hadn't even caught all of it.
There was a long pause before Sirius did the very thing that Joey least expected him to do. He broke down laughing. Actually, "broke down" is probably an understatement. What Sirius did was slowly deteriorate as the laughing spasms took control of him. He was laughing so hard, that eventually his fits of laughter became silent as he continued to gasp for air between spasms. Joey just sat their in shocked silence at his reaction, and remained that way as she stared at her boyfriend, who was now clutching his sides cracking up.
"Why is that funny?" she asked with a rather exasperated tone. Sirius was now regaining composure, and he was resting his arm on Joey shoulder as he caught his breath.
"Because . . ." he said gasping for another lungful of air. "Here I was expecting you to tell me that she insulted your muggle father or something like that . . . I never expected it to be about some pathetic little threat having to do with me!" he took another deep breath before continuing. ". . . but never the less, I'm glad you socked her . . . that girl needed to get laid into . . . and I mean that in the sense that she's *not* used to, seeing by how many guys she's been with!"
Joey cracked a smile. She was so relieved that he wasn't angry. It just made her realize how much of an easy going guy Sirius was. "So you aren't mad?" she asked hesitantly.
"Mad?! Why on earth would I be mad? You should know by now that that bitch is all talk, Joey. And why would I even take a notice in her? . . . I'm the luckiest guy in the school!" Joey's smile broadened, as she gave him a teasingly smug look.
"And why might you be the luckiest guy in the school?" she asked good- naturedly, well aware of the fact that he was about to say "because you're my girlfriend." But Sirius was going to have some fun first.
"Because . . . I have nice teeth . . ." he joked, stating the most random thought that popped into his head. " . . . and sweet, mysterious eyes . . . and sexy, dark hair." His smile was now reaching up towards his ears. Joey narrowed her eyes at him.
"You mean *messy* dark hair, my friend. I'm not quite sure who you think you're talking about when you say 'sexy'!" she laughed.
"But you know the *real* reason I'm so lucky?" he asked with a very serious expression on his face as he got off the bed and stood up in front of her.
"Why's that?" she asked, the smile on her face widening a little.
"Because I have *you* to tickle, of course!" he laughed before lounging at her on the bed. But Joey was too quick for him. Letting out an excited scream, she did a quick backwards roll off the opposite side of his bed and ran across the room. Sirius came after her, so she jumped up onto Remus' neatly made bed and grabbed one of the pillows that was sitting lightly up against the headboard.
Quickly noticing the new weapon she gripped tightly to, Sirius grabbed a fluffy pillow off of James' bed and held it poised to strike. Joey was now standing unbalanced on Remus' bed, holding the pillow over her shoulder like she was ready to belt him one, as well. Sirius charged forward and got a sharp smack in the face with the feather pillow Joey had swung at him. Laughing joyfully, he gripped tighter to his pillow and started beating her wildly on the butt with his pillow.
Both of them were laughing uncontrollably as soft feathers flew all around the room in a blizzard of white fluff. Joey dropped down to her butt and rolled off Remus' bed before running over and jumping up to a standing position on Peter's bed. Once again, she got the first cheap blow to Sirius' head before he took the base attack and went for her legs. Joey was screaming gleefully every few moments as the fight went on, and she kept getting whapped playfully with the feathery pillows. She successfully continued to mess Sirius' hair up even worse, and Sirius continued to keep knocking her off her feet to lay flat on her back before she would roll off again and hop onto someone else's bed.
This pattern continued for a while before both Joey and Sirius collapsed onto his bed laughing and gasping for air. "You scream so much!" he chuckled. "People are going to be wondering what the hell we are doing in here!" Joey gave a very loud contemptuous laugh, and, gripping the pillow she still had in her hands, she wound up one more time and smacked him forcefully in the face before getting up off the bed, leaving the pillow on his head.
"You are such a guy, sometimes!" she laughed before walking over and picking up her school bag and plopping down on the chair at his desk. Sirius pulled the pillow off his face and sat up, a cheesy grin still plastered to his well defined features.
"And you, my dear, are such a spaz sometimes! Look what you've done to our room!" he laughed as he glanced around at all of the beds Joey had jumped on and messed up.
"Hey!" she giggled. "Remus' bed was the only one that looked nice enough for it to be obvious that I messed it up! James' bed was so messy before the fight, my jumping on it probably made it look tidier!" Sirius chuckled at the thought and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah . . . you're right. James really should make more of an effort to clean up after himself." Sirius ironically said this as he sat on his own bed that hadn't been voluntarily made since the first day of school.
"Speak for yourself!" Joey teased. Sirius gripped the pillow that was still on his lap from when Joey had hit him with it, and he chucked it across the room at her.
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The evening continued without any more pillow wars, and Sirius and Joey had decided to get some homework done together. They had spent the time working on their charms papers, offering information and ideas to each other when either one of them would get stuck on a certain part. Sirius was particularly good at charms, considering he was the best charms student in their class, so Joey found it rather helpful to be working with him.
When they had finally finished their charms homework, they moved onto transfiguration. Though they didn't have the class at the same time together, they still took the same course, and received the same homework. They were about halfway done when Sirius tossed down his quill down on the table and heaved an annoyed sigh.
"God! I refuse to do any more of this tonight! It just never seems to end! I wish there was no such thing as homework! Don't our teachers realize we have lives outside of school work?! It's ridiculous!" he ranted. Joey just smiled at the all too familiar temper tantrum. She went through them about every Thursday night when she was aching for it to finally be the weekend.
"Don't worry," she soothed as she put her quill down as well. "We can quit for tonight and finish it up again another evening. And don't worry about it. Before we know it, it'll be winter break, and we'll have two weeks to do nothing but relax." Sirius nodded at her confidence and allowed himself to smile. Joey was always so much more relaxed when it came to doing school work.
"Speaking of winter break, what are you planning on doing over the holidays?"
"Oh . . . well, I'm probably going to visit my family at home for a few days and then we're going to the U.S. for the remainder of the vacation." Sirius smiled and nodded at her plans. He had spent lots of time over at Joey's house over multiple summers, and knew her family very well. "What'll you be doing?"
Sirius gave an unconcerned shrug and glanced down at the parchment that sat before him. "Probably spend it in my room hiding from my cold- blooded parents. Not like Christmas means anything to them outside of fancy parties and more excuses to ignore me." Joey gave him an understanding rub on the shoulder. She knew how much Sirius despised his parents for how they ignored him.
"Well, maybe that's a good thing, then. Would you want to spend the holiday with my family and me?" she asked as she gave him a hopeful smile. "Your parents wouldn't care, would they?"
"It's not a matter if *my* parents care or not. In fact, I don't think they could care less if I suddenly dropped dead with pneumonia. The matter is, would *your* parents cared if I intruded on your family vacation?" Joey gave him a 'you have got to be kidding me' look.
"Oh, pulease, Sirius. You've got to be joking!" Joey confuted haughtily. "My family thinks of you as more part of family than they think of me! Lord knows you fit in better!" Sirius gave a laugh that showed he knew she spoke the truth. "You're like the fourth son my parents never had!" she joked.
Joey was born into a family with three older brothers: Josh, Brian, and Sam. Sam had just graduated from Hogwarts the year before then, so he was nineteen, while Brian was twenty-one and Josh was twenty-four. Joey was the only girl in her family besides her mother, and she was also the baby, at just seventeen years old. Since Sirius had been one of her best friends since the very first day of their very first year of Hogwarts, he too had grown up with her brothers and became like a sibling to them. Especially since Sirius was really the only one of Joey's friends who had a terrible relationship with his family, her parents had taken to seeing him as more like one of their own sons rather than just as a buddy who visited every once and a while.
"Oh, alright!" he conceded, causing Joey to beam back at him. "I guess it would be a lot of fun to see your brothers again. It's been a while, hasn't it?!" Joey suddenly narrowed her eyes at Sirius when he said this.
"Don't you guys *dare* pick on me again!" she snapped with a hint of amusement in her voice. "It's no fun when your three older brothers and best friend gang up on you!" Sirius just laughed and shrugged.
"Well, we'll have to get a game of rugby going again, just like old times!" he planned. Joey nodded in agreement. She remembered all those late summer nights that she had spent out in some deserted muggle park playing a rough game of rugby with the four other boys and her father.
As the only girl of the group, she was always placed as the 'extra player' on one of the teams. She was always considered the runt due to the fact that she was more delicate, and obviously weaker than the others. This, however, was somewhat an advantage . . . Joey could always beat the pants off any of the other boys in a sprinting contest, and due to the fact that she was much smaller and more agile then them, it was easy for her to swerve past them without being tackled. In respect to her sneak attack, often times the guys that were on her team would use a play they liked to call the 'Joey funnel,' where they would try their best to create a clear path for her to just run straight past the goal line.
The game would go late into the warm summer night until it was either too dark to see even a foot in front of their faces, or they were too pooped- out to even grip the ball tight enough to run with it. Then they would stagger home, huge cheesy grins plastered across their sweaty faces, to a nice large tray of chocolate and butterscotch chip cookies that Joey's mother had baked while they were out.
Those were the summers they lived for, and those memories would never fade even as they all got older.
"Well, I guess I'll just owl my parents and tell them the plan. You can come to the United States with us, as well. Omigod, this is going to be so exciting! I'm going to bring you to all the muggle attractions and give you a real taste of what it's like in the non-magical world!" Joey was so excited, buy Sirius was looking rather nervous at the idea of being around so many muggles at a time.
"Uhhh . . . Joey? Is that such a good idea? I mean . . . I've never really . . . been around so many . . ."
"Oh, it'll be so much fun, Sirius! I'll take you in my car, and we'll go to the movies and . . ." Sirius' eyes were now wide with something that quite closely resembled panic. "What?!" she asked splenetically.
He just laughed and shook his head. "You're too much!" he chuckled. "I've never been to America before, let alone around a whole bunch of . . . non-magical people . . . and now . . ." he paused for a moment as the shock began to sink in, ". . .now I'm going to be stuck in a place where they're all around me?! What if I catch some foreign disease? I'm sure muggles can't be *that* clean, can they?" Joey started laughing.
"God, Sirius! Get over it! I promise you'll at least enjoy yourself at least a little bit . . ." She started laughing to herself as the next thought popped into her head, ". . . and I'm pretty sure that you aren't going to contract some deadly foreign disease . . ." Sirius started laughing too. Joey quickly grabbed a tiny slip of parchment and scribbled a note across it with her quill. She rolled it up and handed it into Flam's beak before he took off out the window and made a loop, heading downwards to the school's grounds.
"Hey, where's he going with that? Shouldn't he be heading towards your parents?"
"No, of course not!" Joey laughed as if the thought was ridiculous. "He's just taking it to the owlery for me." Sirius furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
"You realize you just sent an *owl* to the *owlery* to send a message for you?" Joey nodded at him.
"I never send Flam to deliver messages anywhere besides the owlery, where he gets another owl to deliver the message for him."
"But why would you do that?" he laughed, still with confusion clearly hinted in his voice.
"Because! You realize it takes owls multiple days at a time to just deliver the message to its destination, and then it takes them another few days just to return from the trip?" Sirius nodded. "Well, How could I *possibly* live without my baby for so many days?!" Joey asked as if the idea was preposterous. Sirius just shook his head and laughed.
"No wonder that bird acts so chubby and spoiled!" he laughed. "The thing never gets any proper exercise or authority!" Joey shook her head in protest.
"He's one of my best friends, and has *always* been there for me. And as for the exercise thing, he . . . hunts . . . sometimes . . . when he feels like it . . ." Sirius couldn't suppress his grin, and he let out a very derisive laugh.
"You really are a weirdo, sometimes, you know that?" he teased. Joey's eyes narrowed at him, but a smile played at her rosy lips.
"Well, I happened to have learned it from the best," she retorted playfully as she stood up and nonchalantly sauntered over to him.
"And who might have you learned it from?" he asked, trying desperately to keep his voice steady as she advanced towards him.
"Oh . . . I can think of a few people . . ." she said lightly as she crawled onto his lap, causing Sirius' eyebrows to shoot up on his forehead.
"Will you show me?" he practically whispered as she gave him a tiny smirk and leaned her half-parted lips in to meet his. The kiss started out slow and gentle, as if they were almost hesitant to make a move. Joey was slowly running her delicate fingers along Sirius' jaw line as she gently grazed his bottom lip with both of hers and continued to suck on it affectionately. Sirius had his arms wrapped around her waist, holding her to him, and he was delicately caressing her upper lip with the gentle tracing of his tongue.
As they both played around tentatively with their tongues, they grew hungry for more emotion in the kiss. Joey found herself pressing impatiently into him, causing his back to arch against the hard-wooden chair as it dug into the middle of his spine. He let out a groan, and Joey pulled the weight off his chest, making a motion to pull out of the kiss. Sirius still had his arms around her waist, however, and didn't allow her to pull her lips away.
Sensing his feelings to want to maintain the kiss, Joey gripped the front of his shirt in her fists and hauled him up with her as she stood up. He willingly allowed her to jerk him forcefully around and push him back onto his bed.
They broke apart as he fell back flat onto his bed, but Sirius wasn't complaining once Joey hastily crawled on top of him and resumed the passionate kiss. She was in control now, and she ran her tongue along his bottom lip before scattering warm, amorous kisses down his jaw and neck. Sirius pulled his eyes shut tight and bit his lip as he could feel her warm breath exhale from her nose in a fervent pant, brushing along his neck, and mixing rousingly with her trail of kisses.
Feeling uncomfortably vulnerable to be lying on his back with her on top of him, Sirius flipped onto his left side, causing Joey to fall over next to him on his right. He simply turned his head in the opposite direction and continued to trace his tongue along the inside of her mouth as he pulled his right leg over both of hers and positioned himself so he was on top of her, propped up with one of his arms that was rested next to her.
Sirius continued to explore Joey's mouth and tickle her lips with his tongue. She let out a slight moan, and he responded by slowly lowering himself on top of her and gently pressing his hips into her. She let out a sudden whimper in protest, and his eyes flew open as he quickly pulled off of her, propping all of his weight up on his arms.
"What?" he asked, the sound of pure worry streaked through his voice. Joey smiled mischievously and looked down at the waistline of his pants as she moved her hands to the same spot her gaze was focused on. Sirius' eyes were two huge black marbles as Joey's hands fingered his belt for a moment before unlatching it, stripping it from his pants, and tossing it carelessly to the floor. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and brought his body lowered onto hers. He achingly pressed his hips into hers, and she, partially muffled by his kiss, let out a faint moan in yearning.
Moving her hands from around his neck, she drew them around his waist, under his thin shirt, and up his bare back. Her gentle touch along his smooth back caused so many sensory nerves to go off along his spine, which made it near impossible for him to keep from giving an impulsive shiver. Smiles crept along both of their lips as they continued to be enveloped in the deepening kiss. Before Sirius knew it, Joey had run her hands completely all the way up his back, bringing the base of his shirt with them, and pulling it up over his head. She casually discarded the shirt on the floor along with his belt and resumed teasing his tongue with her own.
Getting restless with all of his weight on top of her, Joey tucked her left leg around his right one, and vehemently flipped him over, allowing him to pull her along so she was now on top, straddling his hips. She then slid herself down his body a little ways so her head was level with his firmly packed abs. Starting at the base of his breast bone, she began planting a path of slow, seductive kisses all the way up the middle of his broad chest to the base of his neck. Then she traced her tongue along the center of his throat, feeling him shudder against the sensation.
Sirius was trying frantically to control his canine instincts in the situation, but Joey found herself on her back once again as he began kissing her with even more exigency than before. His hands were softly and slowly sliding up along her waist towards her ribs, and she could sense the apprehension in his touch as it drew farther up her torso. She kissed him harder as if giving him her consent to go on, and he did so willingly.
Before they got any further, there was a sudden and extremely loud 'hoot' from out side the window as the beautiful brown and white speckled owl flew through the window. When Flam saw the scene that was before him, he wasted no time to rushing over and pecking Sirius relentlessly on top of the head while in mid-flight.
He pulled off of Joey quickly enough before the next blow of pecks met with his head, and he ducked irritably as the bird swooped again.
"Couldn't *possibly* live without your baby, eh?" he asked jeeringly. Joey gave him a playful poke in the ribs and laughed. Just then, there was a knock on the door. Sirius and Joey exchanged looks.
"Probably for the better, then, that Flam came in when he did? Impeccable timing, I'd say!" she laughed, swatting Sirius playfully on the bum as he got up to open the door. In walked James Potter, carrying his book bag and most of his clothes in his arms, and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers. He glanced around the room when he entered it and noticed the scattered papers, the messed up beds (well, Remus' for that matter), and, of course, Sirius' belt and shirt lying abandoned on the floor.
His eyes eventually wandered over to Sirius, who was now standing before him, hair a complete mess, and pants sitting loosely on his hips. James just shook his head and smiled as his gaze finally made its way over to Joey who was still lying back on Sirius' bed, shirt half-ridden up on her torso. He quirked an eyebrow at her, and she glanced down sheepishly before yanking her shirt down to her waistline so quickly, she was lucky she didn't tear it.
Stifling a laugh, James strolled over to his bed, threw his clothes in his trunk, and dropped his book bag down on the floor. He casually went about his business getting ready for bed, as Joey took the hint and began gathering her things together. It took her a matter of minutes before she had all of her papers packed up in her book bag, and Flam on her shoulder as she headed out. Before leaving, she planted a long, soft kiss on Sirius' lips, and then sauntered out the door.
Sirius' expression was still dreamy as he pushed the door shut with a click. A few moments later, James wandered out of the bathroom, holding a toothbrush in his mouth and having toothpaste dribbling carelessly down his chin. Sirius glared at his friend as the smile broadened on James' face. James pulled the toothbrush out of his mouth.
"Sorry, mate . . . Lily wanted to get some rest this evening. I had to go *somewhere*, and excuse me if my dorm was the first thing that came to my mind!" Daggers were still being shot at him through the penetrating stare. "Alright, alright . . . I guess I should have stayed down in the common room." He gave a long pause before a smile started creeping up his face at what he said next. "And I *did* give you a few hours . . . I'd expected you would've been a little farther along. . ." James' smile was now stretched full across from ear to ear. ". . . but all you managed was to slide her shirt up, like, what, an inch or two?"
Sirius grabbed a pillow off the nearest bed and chucked it full force at James' head. James, of course, dodged the pillow expertly, and strolled right back into the bathroom, still chuckling to himself. Sirius then wandered over to his bed and collapsed on it, dreamily staring up at the curtains that created the canopy above his four-poster. Well aware of the fact that Joey's irresistibly sweet scent was still attached to himself, he breathed in deeply at the heavenly aroma.
He wasn't bothering to suppress the ridiculously broad grin that well complimented his adorable features. And that smile would refuse to leave him for the rest of the night.
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*Giggles* I love Sirius so much! LOL! And I just had to add James' little sense of humor at the end, there! Hehehe! Too funny! I thought I would try to capture the true sense of humor of the typical male . . . w/e! hahaha! Hope you guys liked this chapter! I would reread it again to fix any errors, but it's already 1:30 and I promised my mum I'd go to bed two hours ago . . . oh, well! Good night, all! Well, actually, for a lot of you in Europe, it's probably late morning write now . . . but who cares?! Hehehe! Please write me a nice long review! I won't be able to update for awhile, and I'd be sooo special for you ppl to tell me what you're thinking! Thanks! Much luv! = ]
p.s. I'll say hi to Pluto for you all! (He's my favorite Disney character . . . hehehe! He's so cute! How can you possibly resist his scrawny little legs, big nose, and enormous smile?!)