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She smiled at them all and lifted herself up onto the pillow to watch them better. There was a long and uncomfortable silence where everyone stared at her and she stared back. Aislynn lifted a thin brow and brushed her fingers through her hair uncertainly then put a hand to her mouth with wide eyes.
"Do I have something in my teeth?"
"No, no... we're just surprised that you're up, is all." Lily smiled, looking relieved that someone had finally spoken.
"You've been asleep for quite a while, Ais," Remus sat down at the foot of her bed and watched her. She looked at the four and laughed, "you guys are good jokers. Moving me out of my bed last night and bringing me here. I didn't feel a thing. All right, all right... move so I can get dressed or I'm going to be late for breakfast."
"Do you even know what day it is?" Rhiane tilted her head to the side and smiled a little sadly.
"Of course I know what day it is! It's Saturday. Now move it, Remus or I'll boot you off myself," she smiled and looked at them questioningly. Her brows furrowed in confusion and her smile fell slowly.
"It's Wednsday afternoon..." Molly looked at the bed railing and traced small figure eights. Her face went expressionless.
"I see... Wow. I'm sorry if I worried you. I..." She lowered her eyes and almost hid her face away.
"Nah, we know that you're tough. You'd better be ready for Quidditch on Saturday, Stellar. So, er, Lily... Molly, don't we have someplace to be?"
Lily blinked over at Rhiane and mouthed silently, "what?"
"Yeah! The library!" She grabbed Lily's and Molly's arms and began to drag them away. "Later, Stellar... Lupin." They left, closing the door after themselves.
Aislynn played with her sheets, twisting them in her hands softly. She'd hoped that this wouldn't happen in school. She'd managed to go five years without it happening. She exhaled and looked up at Remus, ashamed at what had happened. He watched her and slid closer to determine her emotions better.
"Want to tell me what's the matter, Ais?" He looked down at her very wisely and his voice was soft and comforting.
"Just exhausted." Her answer came out quickly. She felt his eyes boring in deeper, trying to figure out what was going through her mind.
"What's going on? No one just drifts asleep for four days and tries to hide by telling someone that they were 'exhausted'. I'm really worried, here."
"I don't want to talk about it. Just leave it alone okay, Remus?" She averted her eyes to the left and stared at the window. She honestly didn't want to tell him anything about her that would shadow all she had done to try and get in the spotlight with him.
"What is it, damn it?! I can't stand to see you like this! You look like someone has broken your spirit into a million peices! All I could do was watch the clock while you were in bed, sleeping away the time."
She lifted her face to him, eyes filled with angry tears. "You want to come here and tell me about your sad story? Someone HAS broken my spirit! I'm normally a strong person... until you came along. A lot of people had hurt me before any of my witchcraft began. Did you know my parents abandon me? All three of them? Did you know that I have issues with my grades because I'm a freakin' perfectionist? DID YOU KNOW that I LOVED Sirius and it broke my heart to see him go out with one of my good friends?! AND did you know, Remus J. Lupin, that I love you with all my heart but no matter what I do, you won't notice me?! You were the last factor that broke me into millions of peices, Remus! Just you! Not anyone else... I could handle that!" Tears fell freely down her cheeks as she flushed and shook angrily.
He looked at her with surprise, "Ais... I had no idea..."
"No one does! I kept everything a secret! My sickness... my love for you... my hate for my parents and witchcraft!"
"You love me, Aislynn?"
She sniffled and stopped herself, still trembling now more with fright than anger. She lowered her face so that her hair would curtain her. He knew... What had she gotten herself into? Sobbing quietly, she brought her knees up to her chest.
"J-just leave m-me alone, Remus.."
He reached for her and wrapped his arms around her. He stroked her hair softly. Aislynn could only stared wide-eyed at the wall.
"I won't leave you alone. I'm in too deep now... and I like it that way." He moved her back at arms length to look in her eyes and smiled very lightly then leaned in and brushed his lips across hers. Her eyes seemed to close automatically at the soft touch of his warm lips and she leaned into his kiss, deepening it. They both savored the moment in each others arms.
THUD. They broke the kiss and the embrace to look up and see James and Sirius talking happily to each other. She wiped the remains of her tear stains and tears away, blushing slightly.
"Hey Aislynn! How ya feeling?" Sirius greeted her with a smile.
"M-much better. Thank you... Did I miss anything?" She looked at Remus, who was blushing slightly but looking at her with a wide grin.
"Nope! You're just in time for the Quidditch practice. So get dressed and grab your broom!" James' eyes lightened up at the thought of showing off to Lily in the match on Saturday.
"Hey, Lupin... You going to come and watch the practice?" Sirius glanced at him then to the window. He nodded slowly and left with the other two so that Aislynn could get dressed and they all headed down to the Quidditch field. Remus and Molly took their places in the bleachers to watch their friends and talked every now and then about spells and books they had read.
Captian and Seeker of the Gryffindor team was James Potter. The three Chasers were Rhiane Westwaters, Aislynn Stellar and non other than Lily Evans. Beaters consisted of Arthur Weasley and Frank Longbottom. The Keeper was possibly the cockiest of them all besides James... Sirius Black. Combined, this team was almost undefeatable where no one could pull them asunder. Through rain and sun, they practiced as hard as they could. Weaving in and out from each other, shooting glances to show what they wanted or what was happening. They all moved as one in a fluid like motion so that winning any match was a breeze.
"Keep together, Lily and Rhiane!" James yelled out while keeping an eye out for the golden snitch.
"Pipe down! We're only a few feet apart!" Rhiane yelled back and turned with the rest of the Chasers. This formation, a flying 'v', was to keep beaters and other Chasers away from the Quaffle. They performed two figure eights then proceeded to split apart. Remus leaned to Molly and explained their tactics to her as they did them, also remarking how much it looked like a ballet.
"Aislynn, be more aggressive! Bump into her if you have to!" James, yet again, barked out commands. She glared up at him and lightly bumped against Rhiane to keep her away from the Quaffle. Zig-zagging was one of her favorites to keep oppents away from her prize, she also kept it tucked close to her stomach rather than just holding it on her side where it was more out in the open. This allowed her to keep both hands on her broom stick which had less percentage of falling or losing control. She weaved in and out of the towering stands with Lily and Rhiane hot on her tail, she approached Sirius and smirked. With a lift of her arm, she readied to throw it... she faked the throw to get him out of the way and threw the Quaffle through the top most hoop.
"YES!" Aislynn did a little disco move on her broom with a big grin on her face. "Yeah baby! Look who got past 'The Wall'... More like 'stepping stone'.." She laughed and gave Rhiane a high-five.
He shot her a menacing glare and grit his teeth, shouting, "just lucky!"
James beamed and looked as if he could have hugged her for the move she had just pulled. He glanced at Sirius who looked even more sour at his smile, he flew down next to him, "just work on your balance/eye coordnation and you should get it, all right?"
Sirius nodded and puffed his chest out slightly.
"All right! Let's try it again, this time with more emotion, people!" He flew higher up to try and get a glimse of the golden light that caught his eye so easily.
"FORE!" Arthur yelled with a grin and swatted a Bludger away from Lily. She gave him a two-fingered salute in her thanks and shot after Rhiane beside Aislynn. Rhiane gave them a good chase for their money but Lily flew under her and tapped the Quaffle away with her palm. Aislynn was there to catch it and slowed her broom down to lose the two and dodge a Bludger.
"Yeeeeiii Haaw," Rhiane cried enthusiastically. She raised a hand in the air like she was holding a laso and made a complete 'u' to turn the chase around. Lily turned slightly on her broom to dodge Frank and leaned down to fly faster. Aislynn glanced up at James and grinned a little, he nodded and she threw the Quaffle into the air, twenty feet away from the goal hoops. When it came down she turned quickly and swatted it away from her with the tail of her broom. Sirius, who mis-calculated, missed it by inches as it fell into one of the lower goals.
"Black! What's the matter with you today? Someone tugging on your heart strings?" Lucius Malfoy called up from the bleachers. All of the players stopped, except for the occasional 'whack!' from the Beaters.
"What are you doing here, Malfoy?" Arthur glared and readied to aim the bludger at him as soon as it came his way.
"Came to watch your... ahem... practice. It's more like a riot to me." He drawled on, inspecting his finger nails. James grit his teeth and adjusted his glasses, clenching his broom.
"We'll see what's a riot on our first game together, Malfoy!"
The rest of the Slytherin team laughed or cackled. Lucius chuckled deep in his throat and called up, "the only one that I'm worried about... is Stellar... She seems to be the only one that has some sort of tactic or class... or even talent."
"How dare you?! I couldn't be what I am today without any of my team or friends around to help me out! I wouldn't want to be anywhere but with them! We're a team! Better than yours and you're just sore about it!" Aislynn fumed and spat in his general direction. He grinned and gave a little wave of his hand so that the rest of his team left, muttering to themselves about her talking back to him so hautily. Lucius winked at her and blew a kiss, turned and walked back to Hogwarts.
She shuttered and grimaced, "I feel so dirty now."
"He really has a thing for you, Aislynn..." Lily blinked and lifted a brow, "I don't know why. You're about as mean as he is." She glanced over to Aislynn who was about ready to kick her off her broom.
"Only to him! Only to him!"
Down in the bleachers, Molly was raising her hands to sit Remus down who seemed to be very distraught and angry.
"He wants to kiiiiss you!" Rhiane yelled out to Aislynn.
"I want him to kiss me about as much as I need a big, painful boil on my ass," she leaned forward to make a soft landing back to earth. They all followed after her lead, James had caught the snitch shortly before the inturruption of the Slytherins. The team made their way to their Gryffindor locker room to change into their normal robes. They sat down and had a short discussion about the practice before going off and snarfing down some food.
"It was a really good practice... however... we're a tad rusty." James cleaned his glasses on his robes. "Stellar, you were all right today, if I see that on the feild during the matches... well... it'd be great. Evans, need to work on your agility on your broom.. speed is the key but otherwise good work. Weasley, your aim is spectacular as is Longbottoms just follow through when you swing for a further and harder blow. Westwaters, you're pretty fast but you need to keep a look out on where you're going and who's coming at you, all right? And Black... we just need to work a little harder on your broom/eye coordnation as well as balance and I'm sure that you'll be as great as everyone knows you are.... All right! Let's go and get some food!" He smiled and they herded out toward Hogwarts where they were waited for by Molly and Remus.
They all sat down at their table and began to eat like horses with huge appitites. Lily was getting a little more affectionate with James, Aislynn noticed. Sirius and Rhiane weren't talking to each other, however, Rhiane was smiling sweetly toward Serverus' direction. Arthur and Molly kept glancing at each other then looking down to their food with a blush. Peter was watching a pretty girl from Hufflepuff and Remus was darting glances between Lucius and herself.
"I've missed a lot, haven't I?" Aislynn mutter to Remus.
"Yeah. You were really great out on the feild today, Ais." He smiled a little and put his fork down, "I dare say that Lucius is right about your talent."
"Everyone on the team has talent. Everyone off the team has talent... He just decided to notice me, even though I'd prefer that he didn't." She sipped at some water and glanced around the table.
"Really," he smiled wider and perked up slightly.
"Really. He's so pompous and... snobby."
"Hear hear!" Lily lifted her goblet to the air as did the rest, Peter being the last. They all drank to Malfoy being a prat and laughed the dinner away. Mostly, two by two's they headed up to Gryffindor Common Room to sit and talk, digesting their food and what had happened that day. Then, slowly they all went into their dormitories to get some rest. The six boys and four girls all talked quietly as they got ready for sleep.
"So, you're all right now, Aislynn, right?" Molly asked and smiled at her.
Aislynn nodded and smiled back, happy that she was a little concerned for her health... she always seemed to be very caring.
"Love seems to be in the air..." She thought aloud.
"Yeah! Lucius loves you... you love Remus and Remus loves books!" Rhiane giggled and slipped under her covers.
"Oh yeah, like you can talk, Westwaters." Lily brushed out her hair, "Sirius loves you, you love Sirius but Severus loves you too." She grinned at Rhianes guilty silence.
"Let's not forget about you, Lily, dear!" Molly laughed and bat her lashes to imitate Lily, "'Oh Potter... I hated you once but now I can't stop thinking of you! I love you!'" Lily threw a soft pillow at her and laughed, nodding in admittance.
"And yet..." Aislynn gave her a sly side-glance. "I see you writing 'A.W.' everywhere on your spare parchments. Could it stand for.... Arthur Weasley?!"
"Why, yes! It could, Aislynn!" Rhiane laughed and turned on her side, comfortable in her bed. They all giggled every now and then and eventually said their good nights.....
"I don't get it!" Sirius paced back and forth in his pajamas.
"Well, you were flirting with another girl while she was there... The least you could've done was be discreet about it." Arthur streched and yawned loudly. Sirius became silent and sat on his bed to think in silence on how to get Rhiane back.
"I'm going to take Lily everywhere she wants to go next time we go to Hogsmeade... She loves flowers so I'm gonna get her a potted flower so she can keep it and it won't die on her." James smiled and looked at the ceiling.
"What a fine job she's done in whipping you..." Frank grinned.
"Wanna talk about whipping? Look at Remus. He's sick in love. Did you see the way he was going to launch at Malfoy and beat him to a pulp?" Arthur laughed and whipped out his wand, immitating Remus out on the bleachers.
"Yeah? Well at least I don't have to write love letter to a certain Molly." Remus shot back with a wide smile on his face. "And I quote... 'My Dearest Molly... How do I love thee? I love your beautiful eyes that slice through the darkest clouds to lighten up my day... I love your hair that shines so elegantly in it's red splendor... and your lips... how I long to kiss them.' GAH!" He rolled over as Arthur tried to pounce on him. They all laughed and settled down into their beds after a while and said good night then drifted to sleep.*~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter five! @_@ Running out of ideas....
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She smiled at them all and lifted herself up onto the pillow to watch them better. There was a long and uncomfortable silence where everyone stared at her and she stared back. Aislynn lifted a thin brow and brushed her fingers through her hair uncertainly then put a hand to her mouth with wide eyes.
"Do I have something in my teeth?"
"No, no... we're just surprised that you're up, is all." Lily smiled, looking relieved that someone had finally spoken.
"You've been asleep for quite a while, Ais," Remus sat down at the foot of her bed and watched her. She looked at the four and laughed, "you guys are good jokers. Moving me out of my bed last night and bringing me here. I didn't feel a thing. All right, all right... move so I can get dressed or I'm going to be late for breakfast."
"Do you even know what day it is?" Rhiane tilted her head to the side and smiled a little sadly.
"Of course I know what day it is! It's Saturday. Now move it, Remus or I'll boot you off myself," she smiled and looked at them questioningly. Her brows furrowed in confusion and her smile fell slowly.
"It's Wednsday afternoon..." Molly looked at the bed railing and traced small figure eights. Her face went expressionless.
"I see... Wow. I'm sorry if I worried you. I..." She lowered her eyes and almost hid her face away.
"Nah, we know that you're tough. You'd better be ready for Quidditch on Saturday, Stellar. So, er, Lily... Molly, don't we have someplace to be?"
Lily blinked over at Rhiane and mouthed silently, "what?"
"Yeah! The library!" She grabbed Lily's and Molly's arms and began to drag them away. "Later, Stellar... Lupin." They left, closing the door after themselves.
Aislynn played with her sheets, twisting them in her hands softly. She'd hoped that this wouldn't happen in school. She'd managed to go five years without it happening. She exhaled and looked up at Remus, ashamed at what had happened. He watched her and slid closer to determine her emotions better.
"Want to tell me what's the matter, Ais?" He looked down at her very wisely and his voice was soft and comforting.
"Just exhausted." Her answer came out quickly. She felt his eyes boring in deeper, trying to figure out what was going through her mind.
"What's going on? No one just drifts asleep for four days and tries to hide by telling someone that they were 'exhausted'. I'm really worried, here."
"I don't want to talk about it. Just leave it alone okay, Remus?" She averted her eyes to the left and stared at the window. She honestly didn't want to tell him anything about her that would shadow all she had done to try and get in the spotlight with him.
"What is it, damn it?! I can't stand to see you like this! You look like someone has broken your spirit into a million peices! All I could do was watch the clock while you were in bed, sleeping away the time."
She lifted her face to him, eyes filled with angry tears. "You want to come here and tell me about your sad story? Someone HAS broken my spirit! I'm normally a strong person... until you came along. A lot of people had hurt me before any of my witchcraft began. Did you know my parents abandon me? All three of them? Did you know that I have issues with my grades because I'm a freakin' perfectionist? DID YOU KNOW that I LOVED Sirius and it broke my heart to see him go out with one of my good friends?! AND did you know, Remus J. Lupin, that I love you with all my heart but no matter what I do, you won't notice me?! You were the last factor that broke me into millions of peices, Remus! Just you! Not anyone else... I could handle that!" Tears fell freely down her cheeks as she flushed and shook angrily.
He looked at her with surprise, "Ais... I had no idea..."
"No one does! I kept everything a secret! My sickness... my love for you... my hate for my parents and witchcraft!"
"You love me, Aislynn?"
She sniffled and stopped herself, still trembling now more with fright than anger. She lowered her face so that her hair would curtain her. He knew... What had she gotten herself into? Sobbing quietly, she brought her knees up to her chest.
"J-just leave m-me alone, Remus.."
He reached for her and wrapped his arms around her. He stroked her hair softly. Aislynn could only stared wide-eyed at the wall.
"I won't leave you alone. I'm in too deep now... and I like it that way." He moved her back at arms length to look in her eyes and smiled very lightly then leaned in and brushed his lips across hers. Her eyes seemed to close automatically at the soft touch of his warm lips and she leaned into his kiss, deepening it. They both savored the moment in each others arms.
THUD. They broke the kiss and the embrace to look up and see James and Sirius talking happily to each other. She wiped the remains of her tear stains and tears away, blushing slightly.
"Hey Aislynn! How ya feeling?" Sirius greeted her with a smile.
"M-much better. Thank you... Did I miss anything?" She looked at Remus, who was blushing slightly but looking at her with a wide grin.
"Nope! You're just in time for the Quidditch practice. So get dressed and grab your broom!" James' eyes lightened up at the thought of showing off to Lily in the match on Saturday.
"Hey, Lupin... You going to come and watch the practice?" Sirius glanced at him then to the window. He nodded slowly and left with the other two so that Aislynn could get dressed and they all headed down to the Quidditch field. Remus and Molly took their places in the bleachers to watch their friends and talked every now and then about spells and books they had read.
Captian and Seeker of the Gryffindor team was James Potter. The three Chasers were Rhiane Westwaters, Aislynn Stellar and non other than Lily Evans. Beaters consisted of Arthur Weasley and Frank Longbottom. The Keeper was possibly the cockiest of them all besides James... Sirius Black. Combined, this team was almost undefeatable where no one could pull them asunder. Through rain and sun, they practiced as hard as they could. Weaving in and out from each other, shooting glances to show what they wanted or what was happening. They all moved as one in a fluid like motion so that winning any match was a breeze.
"Keep together, Lily and Rhiane!" James yelled out while keeping an eye out for the golden snitch.
"Pipe down! We're only a few feet apart!" Rhiane yelled back and turned with the rest of the Chasers. This formation, a flying 'v', was to keep beaters and other Chasers away from the Quaffle. They performed two figure eights then proceeded to split apart. Remus leaned to Molly and explained their tactics to her as they did them, also remarking how much it looked like a ballet.
"Aislynn, be more aggressive! Bump into her if you have to!" James, yet again, barked out commands. She glared up at him and lightly bumped against Rhiane to keep her away from the Quaffle. Zig-zagging was one of her favorites to keep oppents away from her prize, she also kept it tucked close to her stomach rather than just holding it on her side where it was more out in the open. This allowed her to keep both hands on her broom stick which had less percentage of falling or losing control. She weaved in and out of the towering stands with Lily and Rhiane hot on her tail, she approached Sirius and smirked. With a lift of her arm, she readied to throw it... she faked the throw to get him out of the way and threw the Quaffle through the top most hoop.
"YES!" Aislynn did a little disco move on her broom with a big grin on her face. "Yeah baby! Look who got past 'The Wall'... More like 'stepping stone'.." She laughed and gave Rhiane a high-five.
He shot her a menacing glare and grit his teeth, shouting, "just lucky!"
James beamed and looked as if he could have hugged her for the move she had just pulled. He glanced at Sirius who looked even more sour at his smile, he flew down next to him, "just work on your balance/eye coordnation and you should get it, all right?"
Sirius nodded and puffed his chest out slightly.
"All right! Let's try it again, this time with more emotion, people!" He flew higher up to try and get a glimse of the golden light that caught his eye so easily.
"FORE!" Arthur yelled with a grin and swatted a Bludger away from Lily. She gave him a two-fingered salute in her thanks and shot after Rhiane beside Aislynn. Rhiane gave them a good chase for their money but Lily flew under her and tapped the Quaffle away with her palm. Aislynn was there to catch it and slowed her broom down to lose the two and dodge a Bludger.
"Yeeeeiii Haaw," Rhiane cried enthusiastically. She raised a hand in the air like she was holding a laso and made a complete 'u' to turn the chase around. Lily turned slightly on her broom to dodge Frank and leaned down to fly faster. Aislynn glanced up at James and grinned a little, he nodded and she threw the Quaffle into the air, twenty feet away from the goal hoops. When it came down she turned quickly and swatted it away from her with the tail of her broom. Sirius, who mis-calculated, missed it by inches as it fell into one of the lower goals.
"Black! What's the matter with you today? Someone tugging on your heart strings?" Lucius Malfoy called up from the bleachers. All of the players stopped, except for the occasional 'whack!' from the Beaters.
"What are you doing here, Malfoy?" Arthur glared and readied to aim the bludger at him as soon as it came his way.
"Came to watch your... ahem... practice. It's more like a riot to me." He drawled on, inspecting his finger nails. James grit his teeth and adjusted his glasses, clenching his broom.
"We'll see what's a riot on our first game together, Malfoy!"
The rest of the Slytherin team laughed or cackled. Lucius chuckled deep in his throat and called up, "the only one that I'm worried about... is Stellar... She seems to be the only one that has some sort of tactic or class... or even talent."
"How dare you?! I couldn't be what I am today without any of my team or friends around to help me out! I wouldn't want to be anywhere but with them! We're a team! Better than yours and you're just sore about it!" Aislynn fumed and spat in his general direction. He grinned and gave a little wave of his hand so that the rest of his team left, muttering to themselves about her talking back to him so hautily. Lucius winked at her and blew a kiss, turned and walked back to Hogwarts.
She shuttered and grimaced, "I feel so dirty now."
"He really has a thing for you, Aislynn..." Lily blinked and lifted a brow, "I don't know why. You're about as mean as he is." She glanced over to Aislynn who was about ready to kick her off her broom.
"Only to him! Only to him!"
Down in the bleachers, Molly was raising her hands to sit Remus down who seemed to be very distraught and angry.
"He wants to kiiiiss you!" Rhiane yelled out to Aislynn.
"I want him to kiss me about as much as I need a big, painful boil on my ass," she leaned forward to make a soft landing back to earth. They all followed after her lead, James had caught the snitch shortly before the inturruption of the Slytherins. The team made their way to their Gryffindor locker room to change into their normal robes. They sat down and had a short discussion about the practice before going off and snarfing down some food.
"It was a really good practice... however... we're a tad rusty." James cleaned his glasses on his robes. "Stellar, you were all right today, if I see that on the feild during the matches... well... it'd be great. Evans, need to work on your agility on your broom.. speed is the key but otherwise good work. Weasley, your aim is spectacular as is Longbottoms just follow through when you swing for a further and harder blow. Westwaters, you're pretty fast but you need to keep a look out on where you're going and who's coming at you, all right? And Black... we just need to work a little harder on your broom/eye coordnation as well as balance and I'm sure that you'll be as great as everyone knows you are.... All right! Let's go and get some food!" He smiled and they herded out toward Hogwarts where they were waited for by Molly and Remus.
They all sat down at their table and began to eat like horses with huge appitites. Lily was getting a little more affectionate with James, Aislynn noticed. Sirius and Rhiane weren't talking to each other, however, Rhiane was smiling sweetly toward Serverus' direction. Arthur and Molly kept glancing at each other then looking down to their food with a blush. Peter was watching a pretty girl from Hufflepuff and Remus was darting glances between Lucius and herself.
"I've missed a lot, haven't I?" Aislynn mutter to Remus.
"Yeah. You were really great out on the feild today, Ais." He smiled a little and put his fork down, "I dare say that Lucius is right about your talent."
"Everyone on the team has talent. Everyone off the team has talent... He just decided to notice me, even though I'd prefer that he didn't." She sipped at some water and glanced around the table.
"Really," he smiled wider and perked up slightly.
"Really. He's so pompous and... snobby."
"Hear hear!" Lily lifted her goblet to the air as did the rest, Peter being the last. They all drank to Malfoy being a prat and laughed the dinner away. Mostly, two by two's they headed up to Gryffindor Common Room to sit and talk, digesting their food and what had happened that day. Then, slowly they all went into their dormitories to get some rest. The six boys and four girls all talked quietly as they got ready for sleep.
"So, you're all right now, Aislynn, right?" Molly asked and smiled at her.
Aislynn nodded and smiled back, happy that she was a little concerned for her health... she always seemed to be very caring.
"Love seems to be in the air..." She thought aloud.
"Yeah! Lucius loves you... you love Remus and Remus loves books!" Rhiane giggled and slipped under her covers.
"Oh yeah, like you can talk, Westwaters." Lily brushed out her hair, "Sirius loves you, you love Sirius but Severus loves you too." She grinned at Rhianes guilty silence.
"Let's not forget about you, Lily, dear!" Molly laughed and bat her lashes to imitate Lily, "'Oh Potter... I hated you once but now I can't stop thinking of you! I love you!'" Lily threw a soft pillow at her and laughed, nodding in admittance.
"And yet..." Aislynn gave her a sly side-glance. "I see you writing 'A.W.' everywhere on your spare parchments. Could it stand for.... Arthur Weasley?!"
"Why, yes! It could, Aislynn!" Rhiane laughed and turned on her side, comfortable in her bed. They all giggled every now and then and eventually said their good nights.....
"I don't get it!" Sirius paced back and forth in his pajamas.
"Well, you were flirting with another girl while she was there... The least you could've done was be discreet about it." Arthur streched and yawned loudly. Sirius became silent and sat on his bed to think in silence on how to get Rhiane back.
"I'm going to take Lily everywhere she wants to go next time we go to Hogsmeade... She loves flowers so I'm gonna get her a potted flower so she can keep it and it won't die on her." James smiled and looked at the ceiling.
"What a fine job she's done in whipping you..." Frank grinned.
"Wanna talk about whipping? Look at Remus. He's sick in love. Did you see the way he was going to launch at Malfoy and beat him to a pulp?" Arthur laughed and whipped out his wand, immitating Remus out on the bleachers.
"Yeah? Well at least I don't have to write love letter to a certain Molly." Remus shot back with a wide smile on his face. "And I quote... 'My Dearest Molly... How do I love thee? I love your beautiful eyes that slice through the darkest clouds to lighten up my day... I love your hair that shines so elegantly in it's red splendor... and your lips... how I long to kiss them.' GAH!" He rolled over as Arthur tried to pounce on him. They all laughed and settled down into their beds after a while and said good night then drifted to sleep.*~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter five! @_@ Running out of ideas....