Mishmash
Chapter Six – Flying Text Books, the usual The next morning Lily actually woke up on time. She managed to get completely ready before breakfast was over, which was a big achievement for the pretty redhead. Smart, yes. Dedicated, yes. Studious, yes. Punctual, no. Lily, Stephanie, Dallas and Michelle all made their way to the Great Hall for a quick breakfast and it took all the sense that Steph had not to tell everyone about their plan yet. Of course, Michelle and Dallas knew the general drift, but they didn't know it had been discussed further. They did not know it had turned partially into a plot to rid Dallas of the evil that was consuming her.
"What do you have first again, Michelle?" Lily asked her best friend, Stephanie.
"Divinition. Ugh!" Steph said disgustedly. "I should have dropped it like you, Lils. You're my hero!" She added dramatically, pretending to cry.
"Oh Stephie, you are so silly." Lily said, imitating a bossy mother. They both started to go into fits of giggles, as it was an inside joke about the mother/Lily thing.
"What's so funny?" Peter asked, bewilderment playing across his face. The others were just as unknowing, but shrugged and continued on. It wasn't uncommon for them to start laughing for no apparent reason.
"Nothing Pete." Lily told the boy. "It's an inside joke. Conversation between A and B. Me – A, Steph – B, you – see ya later." They both went into more hysterics as the joke sat on Peter's nose, not sinking in. They rushed to catch up with the others and Steph pursued conversation with her other best friend, Michelle.
"Hey Michie." Steph said, intertwining her arm with Michelle's. (In a nice way! Like friends...!) She then whispered in Michelle's ear, "I have a surprise for you guys later. Don't tell anyone! Lily wouldn't even let me tell you, but it is good!"
"What is it?" Michelle asked curiously.
"I can't tell!" Steph assured her in a quiet voice. "But you will find out!" They walked the rest of the way to the Great Hall and ate without much interruption; all the while Michelle had a curious look on her face. She sat there thinking and by the time her, Steph and James started towards Divinition she had it.
"The plan." She told Stephanie with triumph as soon as they were out of the others earshot. Stephanie gave her a proud look that clearly said she had wanted her friend to figure it out all along, and they happily entered the Divinition room.
The three took their usual puffs at the back of the room and looked at their crystal balls. Professor Kum gave her lesson and they started to try and find Hope Omens in the mist.
"Ooooh!" Michelle exclaimed quietly. "I see some hope that tonight will be misty!"
"Very funny, Seabrook." Kum told her quietly as well. "Try to stay focused, please."
"Well can you help me please, Professor?"
"Of course!" Kum told her and she sat down next to the blonde-haired girl.
"I see lots, my dear." She started. "Oh! There it is! The otter. That means something will go as planned...hmmm...I wonder..."
"Wonder what?" James asked bluntly, although Steph was quite keen to hear more. "Don't you know everything because you are a seer?"
"No. One would like to say they no everything but even one very skilled with the inner eye knows not all." Steph let out a breath of relief, and Kum continued. "Do you have something planned?" She asked Michelle.
"Maybe." Michelle told her. "But you don't know because you don't see everything, do you?"
"I see enough." She got up and walked around the other tables, giving Michelle dirty looks when she had the chance.
"Risky, Mich. Risky." James told her, grinning. She smiled back and continued her search for omens.
"I hope that is our plan, Michelle, or have you been planning something else?"
"Maybe." Michelle said, feeling her face grow hot as she remembered dinner last night. Her plan to make Sirius jealous. But is that really what it meant? 'I thought that was over.' She pondered to herself. 'It must be OUR plan she's talking about. Or maybe both...?'
"Michelle!" Steph was shaking her. "Come out of dream land! The bell went!"
"Oh!" Michelle cried with a start. "Let's hurry then! We have Defense Against the Dark Arts!"
"I know!" Steph cried exasperatedly. "And James is almost out the door!" she added in a whisper. They both giggled and followed in hot pursuit of him.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Steph asked him playfully, tugging at his arm. He looked a little shocked and then said, in a hurry, "Oh no where." He hung back to walk with Michelle and her, but was constantly looking around for something. All of a sudden he stopped for a second, and stopped looking. Michelle looked over and saw Dallas with Sirius, and Dallas was practically drooling on his feet.
"Look, Steph." Michelle whispered, giving a small point. Steph looked away disgustedly to James who was now openly staring at them.
"Something wrong, James?" Steph asked with a bit of an edge in her voice.
"No." He answered sharply and he rushed them into the DADA room. James made Steph sit beside him, which was unusual as he always sat beside Sirius. Michelle looked at Dallas and saw that she was forcing Sirius to sit beside her. A sudden thought struck Michelle – James was trying to use Steph to make Dallas jealous, and Sirius sorry for sitting next to her.
She watched as Steph and James sat there joking and talking, and she watched as Sirius stared at them in disbelief as Dallas tried to gain his attention. For some reason, it gave Michelle a sudden burst of happiness that Sirius didn't seem interested in Dallas. But then she caught herself and told herself to stop acting stupid and Sirius was one of her bestest friends and friends want each other to be happy, not to have each other staring at other friends with nasty looks on their faces.
She took a seat beside Lily and they took out their wands, ready to work on more patronuses. Just then, Professor Grum walked in and the laughter and talking stopped.
"Alright everyone." She began. "We are going to use the same format as yesterday. I'm sure you all remember? Let's Go! Wands out!" And so they all continued with patronuses. Most of the class managed to at least produce some smoke, but yet again Remus and Michelle were the only ones to produce the real thing.
"Cool class." Peter said as they went for lunch.
"Yeah. Uber cool." Dallas told him. "Too bad we didn't make a patronus, though."
"Yeah." Peter said uncertainly. "Bet mine would be a mouse." He muttered.
"Well a lot of help that'd be!" Dallas teased him.
"Yeah." Peter said. "A lot of help."
They all sat down in the same arrangements as before, except Avery wasn't across from Michelle so Michelle couldn't feel bad. She instead looked over at Sirius who was looking bored as Dallas chatted away to him.
'She thinks she's charming?' Michelle thought to herself, inwardly mocking Dallas. She immediately felt guilty. 'Why do I keep thinking horrible things about Dallas when she is with Sirius? It isn't like me at all to be mean or cruel!' she thought to herself angrily. 'I don't... NO.' she pushed the thought away to the back of her head again, as she had been doing a lot lately. 'Act normal.' She told herself as Sirius turned to her.
"So are you going to tell me yet what you could tell me?" He asked her, grinning. Michelle looked at his face and started to melt. 'OMG! Stop!' She commanded.
"Hmmmm...." She said mock thinking-ly. "Maybe." She said at last.
"Maybe?" He repeated.
"Maybe." She repeated.
"Is that a yes or a no?" He finally asked.
"Hmmmm..." Michelle said. "Maybe."
"Maybe?" He repeated.
"Maybe." She said.
"Well, what is it?!" He asked exasperatedly.
"I'll think about it, but you probably already know." She told him matter- of-factly.
"Already know what?" Dallas asked, finally cluing in that Sirius wasn't paying her any attention.
"I don't know!" Sirius yelled and got up from his seat, leaving the Great Hall. Dallas gave Michelle a dirty look and Michelle smiled back at her. They both burst out laughing and Dallas said, "Well, that sure is the way to get the man of my dreams to like me!" They started laughing so hard that James looked over, concerned.
Meanwhile, Steph was upset that James took his attention away from her to see Dallas. For the last ten minutes they had been having a good time talking with each other and Stephanie thought she was finally getting the 'I am better than Dallas' message across. Until now. The same as before, in Defense Against the Dark Arts – James was totally focusing on her, and she liked it. But now, now he was back to Dallas.
"Something wrong, Dally?" James asked her, using, ('uggg! Steph thought) a nickname.
"Y-Yeah!" Dallas choked. They finished lunch and Dallas, James, Peter, and Lily set off towards Muggle Studies.
"So you really like Sirius?" Lily questioned Dallas uncertainly. Dallas looked at her for a moment, and said, "Yes."
"Well what about James?" She asked her again.
"Oh Lils I don't know! Can't I have them both?" She asked, quietly, of course.
"NO!" Lily screeched impatiently, and as the others stared at her curiously she added in a whisper, "Think of Steph. Be fair and choose, or you will ruin your friendship."
"I know." Dallas moaned, really, truly unsure, and they continued on to a very boring Muggle Studies lesson.
Meanwhile, Steph, Remus, Michelle, and Sirius all entered Herbology, easily the dirtiest lesson of all.
"I love getting dirty." Sirius joked and they all laughed at his childishness.
"You are so juvenile, sometimes." Michelle told him, like a mother would a naughty child. For some reason, it bothered Sirius to have Michelle treat him as an inferior, even if only as a joke. 'Maybe...' he thought to himself, and then immediately scolded himself-'NO! Michelle is one of your best friends – don't even think it.'
He turned to her and smiled his most charming smile. "Oh I am so sorry to have come off a bit childish," he said in a mock British voice. They all giggled and Steph told him he sounded like the queen.
"So I am a woman now?" he asked incredulously.
"Might as well be." She told him, and he gave her a nasty glare.
"Well I don't see you with anyone, either." He hissed in her ear, so that only she heard. "I wasn't the one who wanted to break up!"
"I know!" She spat back. "Let's drop it, 'k?" He nodded and they got to work replanting their bright red plants with long, snaky tentacles.
"What're these things called again?" Steph mumbled, as a tentacle started creeping up her arm.
"Tentala Horidda" Remus said promptly, while smacking the tentacle so that it recoiled from her arm.
"Thanks!" She told him, turning to look at him. "I didn't even see that tentacle!" She meant to turn away and continue her repotting, but her gaze was somehow glued with Remus. They stood there for a minute, and Steph noticed again how blue-grey his eyes were. Remus, who had noticed the tentacle creeping up her arm again, suddenly slapped her out of her trance. Shocked for a moment she stood there, not realizing what he had done.
He finally stuttered, "The tentacle-your arm..."
"Oh! Thank you!" Steph said, and with her cheeks flushing a deep crimson she turned back to her Tentala Horidda.
"What in Hell's name was that?" Michelle asked her, clearly clueless for once in her life.
"Ummm... don't ask me!" She muttered, still a little self-conscious after what had just happened.
"Do you like Remus?" She asked in a disbelieving voice.
"In a friendly manner, you know he's my friend!" She whispered in a voice that spelled obvious.
"No, you donut! Like more than that?" Michelle pursued.
"OH!" Steph exclaimed, and everyone looked at her. "Sorry." She mumbled and everyone went back to their activities. "No." She continued in a whisper. "I like James, remember? Mr. Hotshot Quittich player?"
"Dreamy prankster?" Michelle supplied. They both burst into fits of laughter and were asked to leave until they could calm down.
"I guess we'll see you never!" Steph screeched to Professor Plum as they left greenhouse number five. They slump down behind a large oak tree a few metres away and continued to giggle, making jokes out of simple things.
"How typical is this?" Michelle asked Steph, wheezing for air.
"As typical as James looking damn fine?" Steph guessed. Of course this sprouted more laughter. They only managed to calm down when Sirius and Remus came out and hoisted them onto their shoulders, praying for them to stop. Wait, did I say calm down? I meant they laughed even harder. Stephanie managed to catch her breath long enough to say to Sirius, who was holding her hostage, "Wow Sirius, have you been working out? If I only remembered you had an ass like that I wouldn't have broke up with you!"
The two girls burst into new sets of giggles and Michelle joked, "Oh, he has a nice ass? Let me see!" For some reason this made Sirius blush and he shifted Steph to a position where she could not see his lower body.
"Awww." She complained, still laughing, but just then Lily and James joined them, as usual, bickering.
"You are missing the point entirely, James Potter!" Lily screeched.
"Well as usual you don't have a point, Evans!" He shot back. Lily ran her hand through her flaming hair and screamed in agony.
"You make me so angry, Potter!" She screeched, but then noticed Remus. "Hi Remmy." She said exasperatedly, as though relieved to see someone sane, in her opinion. Remus, still holding his ex-girlfriend, blushed and quickly dropped her.
"Umph! Very graceful, Remus." Michelle complained sorely while getting up from the heap she had been dropped in.
"Are you okay?" Sirius asked quickly, giving her a hand up. 'Why do I feel weird giving my friend a hand?' He wondered to himself, as Michelle asked herself, 'Why do I feel weird getting a hand up from my friend?' 'There is something wrong with me.' They both thought at the same time.
"Thanks." Michelle said, grimacing. "Man! That hurt Remus! You may have broke up with me but are you trying to kill me too?"
"Uh-.." He stuttered, clearly not paying attention.
"Say 'no'." Lily hissed in his ear.
"Say no." Remus told Michelle, and then realized his mistake. "I mean, uh, NO!" He said while turning red. They all started to laugh merrily.
"Please not this again." Sirius sighed.
"Not what?" James asked, curious.
"Like you would even care, Potter." Lily snapped angrily, but Michelle filled them in none-the-less, although she didn't say why they were laughing so hard.
"Well what were you laughing about?" James asked.
"Like we'd tell you!" Michelle said, giggling. James just stood there for a moment wondering what he had done as the others entered the charms class.
"Today we will be reviewing summoning charms." Professor Fum told them. "As this IS review, I expect you all to be good with it. It has been a while....I know. So start with these cushions over here, and in a while we can move on!"
They all started to practice the summoning charm. As the teacher said, most of them were fine. Most.
"Aaaaaahhhoooow!" Michelle screeched as she was hit over the head with a text book, being knocked to the floor. "Steph, w-what-you-do?" Michelle mumbled, as she felt a lump forming on her forehead.
"Oh! I am so sorry!" Steph screeched. "I don't know why-how-what! Oh I knew I should've practiced this one more! It's my entire fault! Call an ambulance! Get a doctor! Mediwizard! SOMEBODY!" Stephanie was totally losing her head. She was running around the room yelling at everyone to calm down.
"Miss PANDERSUN!" Professor Fum bellowed. "Calm down!" But she didn't. Finally Remus caught her by the arm. He turned her around and looked at her tear-streaked face.
"Calm down." He told her gently. "Michelle is fine! Sirius has seen to that! (Sirius blushed at this as he was helping her up.) It is okay. You didn't mean to, okay?" He asked her. She nodded her head and buried it deep into his neck, sobbing passionately. Remus gave Lily a look of question, and Lily mouthed, 'It's okay, she is your friend. I am not jealous.' She laughed inwardly that Remus could think she would be, but then saw the look on his face as he ran his hand through her hair. She felt a twinge of jealousy, but then logically asked herself. 'What do you have to be jealous of? Do you want to be crying hysterically in front of the whole class? No.' Lily felt a lot better.
"Are you alright?" Sirius asked Michelle quietly. Michelle went to nod her head, but suddenly let out a cry of pain.
"What is it?" Sirius asked quickly.
"My head. It hurts." She mumbled, very dazed indeed.
"Professor, can she go to the hospital wing?" Remus asked, being the one to take action.
"Oh yes indeed!" He exclaimed, quickly cut short by Sirius saying, "I'll take her, professor."
"Yes. Go!" Fum said and Sirius led her from the room and into the hall. He was practically dragging Michelle as she was too dazed to walk fast, and he slowed down to match her pace.
"You are sure you are okay?" He asked, dearly concerned for his good friend.
"I think so. Thank you." She mumbled, and they walked the rest of the way in silence.
"What happened?" asked an alarmed Madam Daisy Pomfrey.
"Oh, you know." Sirius said, who could make a feeble joke out of anything. "Flying text to the head, the usual."
"Not funny, Black." The matron told him sternly.
"I'm sorry." He apologized. She looked him in the face, saw his _expression, and forgave him.
"You may go now." She added to him, but he protested.
"No! Let me stay with her till the bell, please?" He asked, but was cut short by Madam Pomfrey's shout of surprise. Michelle fell to the floor.
"She fainted!" Pomfrey said, stating the obvious. "Too much drama, I suppose. Well, get her on the bed!" She ordered Sirius, and he obeyed. He picked the limp form up gently and placed her on the bed. He pulled the blanket over her and smoothed it out, tucking her in.
"Fine." Madam Pomfrey told him. "You can stay until the bell, but Miss Seabrook is here until tomorrow."
"Thank you." Sirius said, taking a seat beside Michelle's bed. Madam Pomfrey placed a potion and a slab of chocolate beside him and told him to give it to her if she wakes up. Sirius sat there for a couple minute holding her hand. He felt her stir, and saw her open her eyes.
"Hey Sirius!" She said brightly, and tried to get up.
"Oh no you don't!" Sirius told her sternly, while gently pushing her back down. "You have to drink this and eat this." He said, indicating the potion and chocolate.
"Can you pass them to me?" Michelle asked feebly.
"Anything." Sirius told her, smiling.
"Why are you here?" Michelle asked him, suddenly. "Where is Steph? Lily?"
"Steph is probably off crying somewhere." Sirius told her, and then added, "and I am here because you are my friend, is that a problem?"
"No." She said, smiling, "Not at all." She drank the potion and instantly fell into a dreamless sleep. Just then the bell rang and Sirius stood up, bent down, quickly gave Michelle a peck on the forehead, and rushed out for dinner.
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Hey hey hey. I know it is short, but I am balancing this with my schoolgrades that are dropping with my failure to complete homework.^_^* So if anyone is actually reading this please review!
Raw~Bean
Chapter Six – Flying Text Books, the usual The next morning Lily actually woke up on time. She managed to get completely ready before breakfast was over, which was a big achievement for the pretty redhead. Smart, yes. Dedicated, yes. Studious, yes. Punctual, no. Lily, Stephanie, Dallas and Michelle all made their way to the Great Hall for a quick breakfast and it took all the sense that Steph had not to tell everyone about their plan yet. Of course, Michelle and Dallas knew the general drift, but they didn't know it had been discussed further. They did not know it had turned partially into a plot to rid Dallas of the evil that was consuming her.
"What do you have first again, Michelle?" Lily asked her best friend, Stephanie.
"Divinition. Ugh!" Steph said disgustedly. "I should have dropped it like you, Lils. You're my hero!" She added dramatically, pretending to cry.
"Oh Stephie, you are so silly." Lily said, imitating a bossy mother. They both started to go into fits of giggles, as it was an inside joke about the mother/Lily thing.
"What's so funny?" Peter asked, bewilderment playing across his face. The others were just as unknowing, but shrugged and continued on. It wasn't uncommon for them to start laughing for no apparent reason.
"Nothing Pete." Lily told the boy. "It's an inside joke. Conversation between A and B. Me – A, Steph – B, you – see ya later." They both went into more hysterics as the joke sat on Peter's nose, not sinking in. They rushed to catch up with the others and Steph pursued conversation with her other best friend, Michelle.
"Hey Michie." Steph said, intertwining her arm with Michelle's. (In a nice way! Like friends...!) She then whispered in Michelle's ear, "I have a surprise for you guys later. Don't tell anyone! Lily wouldn't even let me tell you, but it is good!"
"What is it?" Michelle asked curiously.
"I can't tell!" Steph assured her in a quiet voice. "But you will find out!" They walked the rest of the way to the Great Hall and ate without much interruption; all the while Michelle had a curious look on her face. She sat there thinking and by the time her, Steph and James started towards Divinition she had it.
"The plan." She told Stephanie with triumph as soon as they were out of the others earshot. Stephanie gave her a proud look that clearly said she had wanted her friend to figure it out all along, and they happily entered the Divinition room.
The three took their usual puffs at the back of the room and looked at their crystal balls. Professor Kum gave her lesson and they started to try and find Hope Omens in the mist.
"Ooooh!" Michelle exclaimed quietly. "I see some hope that tonight will be misty!"
"Very funny, Seabrook." Kum told her quietly as well. "Try to stay focused, please."
"Well can you help me please, Professor?"
"Of course!" Kum told her and she sat down next to the blonde-haired girl.
"I see lots, my dear." She started. "Oh! There it is! The otter. That means something will go as planned...hmmm...I wonder..."
"Wonder what?" James asked bluntly, although Steph was quite keen to hear more. "Don't you know everything because you are a seer?"
"No. One would like to say they no everything but even one very skilled with the inner eye knows not all." Steph let out a breath of relief, and Kum continued. "Do you have something planned?" She asked Michelle.
"Maybe." Michelle told her. "But you don't know because you don't see everything, do you?"
"I see enough." She got up and walked around the other tables, giving Michelle dirty looks when she had the chance.
"Risky, Mich. Risky." James told her, grinning. She smiled back and continued her search for omens.
"I hope that is our plan, Michelle, or have you been planning something else?"
"Maybe." Michelle said, feeling her face grow hot as she remembered dinner last night. Her plan to make Sirius jealous. But is that really what it meant? 'I thought that was over.' She pondered to herself. 'It must be OUR plan she's talking about. Or maybe both...?'
"Michelle!" Steph was shaking her. "Come out of dream land! The bell went!"
"Oh!" Michelle cried with a start. "Let's hurry then! We have Defense Against the Dark Arts!"
"I know!" Steph cried exasperatedly. "And James is almost out the door!" she added in a whisper. They both giggled and followed in hot pursuit of him.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Steph asked him playfully, tugging at his arm. He looked a little shocked and then said, in a hurry, "Oh no where." He hung back to walk with Michelle and her, but was constantly looking around for something. All of a sudden he stopped for a second, and stopped looking. Michelle looked over and saw Dallas with Sirius, and Dallas was practically drooling on his feet.
"Look, Steph." Michelle whispered, giving a small point. Steph looked away disgustedly to James who was now openly staring at them.
"Something wrong, James?" Steph asked with a bit of an edge in her voice.
"No." He answered sharply and he rushed them into the DADA room. James made Steph sit beside him, which was unusual as he always sat beside Sirius. Michelle looked at Dallas and saw that she was forcing Sirius to sit beside her. A sudden thought struck Michelle – James was trying to use Steph to make Dallas jealous, and Sirius sorry for sitting next to her.
She watched as Steph and James sat there joking and talking, and she watched as Sirius stared at them in disbelief as Dallas tried to gain his attention. For some reason, it gave Michelle a sudden burst of happiness that Sirius didn't seem interested in Dallas. But then she caught herself and told herself to stop acting stupid and Sirius was one of her bestest friends and friends want each other to be happy, not to have each other staring at other friends with nasty looks on their faces.
She took a seat beside Lily and they took out their wands, ready to work on more patronuses. Just then, Professor Grum walked in and the laughter and talking stopped.
"Alright everyone." She began. "We are going to use the same format as yesterday. I'm sure you all remember? Let's Go! Wands out!" And so they all continued with patronuses. Most of the class managed to at least produce some smoke, but yet again Remus and Michelle were the only ones to produce the real thing.
"Cool class." Peter said as they went for lunch.
"Yeah. Uber cool." Dallas told him. "Too bad we didn't make a patronus, though."
"Yeah." Peter said uncertainly. "Bet mine would be a mouse." He muttered.
"Well a lot of help that'd be!" Dallas teased him.
"Yeah." Peter said. "A lot of help."
They all sat down in the same arrangements as before, except Avery wasn't across from Michelle so Michelle couldn't feel bad. She instead looked over at Sirius who was looking bored as Dallas chatted away to him.
'She thinks she's charming?' Michelle thought to herself, inwardly mocking Dallas. She immediately felt guilty. 'Why do I keep thinking horrible things about Dallas when she is with Sirius? It isn't like me at all to be mean or cruel!' she thought to herself angrily. 'I don't... NO.' she pushed the thought away to the back of her head again, as she had been doing a lot lately. 'Act normal.' She told herself as Sirius turned to her.
"So are you going to tell me yet what you could tell me?" He asked her, grinning. Michelle looked at his face and started to melt. 'OMG! Stop!' She commanded.
"Hmmmm...." She said mock thinking-ly. "Maybe." She said at last.
"Maybe?" He repeated.
"Maybe." She repeated.
"Is that a yes or a no?" He finally asked.
"Hmmmm..." Michelle said. "Maybe."
"Maybe?" He repeated.
"Maybe." She said.
"Well, what is it?!" He asked exasperatedly.
"I'll think about it, but you probably already know." She told him matter- of-factly.
"Already know what?" Dallas asked, finally cluing in that Sirius wasn't paying her any attention.
"I don't know!" Sirius yelled and got up from his seat, leaving the Great Hall. Dallas gave Michelle a dirty look and Michelle smiled back at her. They both burst out laughing and Dallas said, "Well, that sure is the way to get the man of my dreams to like me!" They started laughing so hard that James looked over, concerned.
Meanwhile, Steph was upset that James took his attention away from her to see Dallas. For the last ten minutes they had been having a good time talking with each other and Stephanie thought she was finally getting the 'I am better than Dallas' message across. Until now. The same as before, in Defense Against the Dark Arts – James was totally focusing on her, and she liked it. But now, now he was back to Dallas.
"Something wrong, Dally?" James asked her, using, ('uggg! Steph thought) a nickname.
"Y-Yeah!" Dallas choked. They finished lunch and Dallas, James, Peter, and Lily set off towards Muggle Studies.
"So you really like Sirius?" Lily questioned Dallas uncertainly. Dallas looked at her for a moment, and said, "Yes."
"Well what about James?" She asked her again.
"Oh Lils I don't know! Can't I have them both?" She asked, quietly, of course.
"NO!" Lily screeched impatiently, and as the others stared at her curiously she added in a whisper, "Think of Steph. Be fair and choose, or you will ruin your friendship."
"I know." Dallas moaned, really, truly unsure, and they continued on to a very boring Muggle Studies lesson.
Meanwhile, Steph, Remus, Michelle, and Sirius all entered Herbology, easily the dirtiest lesson of all.
"I love getting dirty." Sirius joked and they all laughed at his childishness.
"You are so juvenile, sometimes." Michelle told him, like a mother would a naughty child. For some reason, it bothered Sirius to have Michelle treat him as an inferior, even if only as a joke. 'Maybe...' he thought to himself, and then immediately scolded himself-'NO! Michelle is one of your best friends – don't even think it.'
He turned to her and smiled his most charming smile. "Oh I am so sorry to have come off a bit childish," he said in a mock British voice. They all giggled and Steph told him he sounded like the queen.
"So I am a woman now?" he asked incredulously.
"Might as well be." She told him, and he gave her a nasty glare.
"Well I don't see you with anyone, either." He hissed in her ear, so that only she heard. "I wasn't the one who wanted to break up!"
"I know!" She spat back. "Let's drop it, 'k?" He nodded and they got to work replanting their bright red plants with long, snaky tentacles.
"What're these things called again?" Steph mumbled, as a tentacle started creeping up her arm.
"Tentala Horidda" Remus said promptly, while smacking the tentacle so that it recoiled from her arm.
"Thanks!" She told him, turning to look at him. "I didn't even see that tentacle!" She meant to turn away and continue her repotting, but her gaze was somehow glued with Remus. They stood there for a minute, and Steph noticed again how blue-grey his eyes were. Remus, who had noticed the tentacle creeping up her arm again, suddenly slapped her out of her trance. Shocked for a moment she stood there, not realizing what he had done.
He finally stuttered, "The tentacle-your arm..."
"Oh! Thank you!" Steph said, and with her cheeks flushing a deep crimson she turned back to her Tentala Horidda.
"What in Hell's name was that?" Michelle asked her, clearly clueless for once in her life.
"Ummm... don't ask me!" She muttered, still a little self-conscious after what had just happened.
"Do you like Remus?" She asked in a disbelieving voice.
"In a friendly manner, you know he's my friend!" She whispered in a voice that spelled obvious.
"No, you donut! Like more than that?" Michelle pursued.
"OH!" Steph exclaimed, and everyone looked at her. "Sorry." She mumbled and everyone went back to their activities. "No." She continued in a whisper. "I like James, remember? Mr. Hotshot Quittich player?"
"Dreamy prankster?" Michelle supplied. They both burst into fits of laughter and were asked to leave until they could calm down.
"I guess we'll see you never!" Steph screeched to Professor Plum as they left greenhouse number five. They slump down behind a large oak tree a few metres away and continued to giggle, making jokes out of simple things.
"How typical is this?" Michelle asked Steph, wheezing for air.
"As typical as James looking damn fine?" Steph guessed. Of course this sprouted more laughter. They only managed to calm down when Sirius and Remus came out and hoisted them onto their shoulders, praying for them to stop. Wait, did I say calm down? I meant they laughed even harder. Stephanie managed to catch her breath long enough to say to Sirius, who was holding her hostage, "Wow Sirius, have you been working out? If I only remembered you had an ass like that I wouldn't have broke up with you!"
The two girls burst into new sets of giggles and Michelle joked, "Oh, he has a nice ass? Let me see!" For some reason this made Sirius blush and he shifted Steph to a position where she could not see his lower body.
"Awww." She complained, still laughing, but just then Lily and James joined them, as usual, bickering.
"You are missing the point entirely, James Potter!" Lily screeched.
"Well as usual you don't have a point, Evans!" He shot back. Lily ran her hand through her flaming hair and screamed in agony.
"You make me so angry, Potter!" She screeched, but then noticed Remus. "Hi Remmy." She said exasperatedly, as though relieved to see someone sane, in her opinion. Remus, still holding his ex-girlfriend, blushed and quickly dropped her.
"Umph! Very graceful, Remus." Michelle complained sorely while getting up from the heap she had been dropped in.
"Are you okay?" Sirius asked quickly, giving her a hand up. 'Why do I feel weird giving my friend a hand?' He wondered to himself, as Michelle asked herself, 'Why do I feel weird getting a hand up from my friend?' 'There is something wrong with me.' They both thought at the same time.
"Thanks." Michelle said, grimacing. "Man! That hurt Remus! You may have broke up with me but are you trying to kill me too?"
"Uh-.." He stuttered, clearly not paying attention.
"Say 'no'." Lily hissed in his ear.
"Say no." Remus told Michelle, and then realized his mistake. "I mean, uh, NO!" He said while turning red. They all started to laugh merrily.
"Please not this again." Sirius sighed.
"Not what?" James asked, curious.
"Like you would even care, Potter." Lily snapped angrily, but Michelle filled them in none-the-less, although she didn't say why they were laughing so hard.
"Well what were you laughing about?" James asked.
"Like we'd tell you!" Michelle said, giggling. James just stood there for a moment wondering what he had done as the others entered the charms class.
"Today we will be reviewing summoning charms." Professor Fum told them. "As this IS review, I expect you all to be good with it. It has been a while....I know. So start with these cushions over here, and in a while we can move on!"
They all started to practice the summoning charm. As the teacher said, most of them were fine. Most.
"Aaaaaahhhoooow!" Michelle screeched as she was hit over the head with a text book, being knocked to the floor. "Steph, w-what-you-do?" Michelle mumbled, as she felt a lump forming on her forehead.
"Oh! I am so sorry!" Steph screeched. "I don't know why-how-what! Oh I knew I should've practiced this one more! It's my entire fault! Call an ambulance! Get a doctor! Mediwizard! SOMEBODY!" Stephanie was totally losing her head. She was running around the room yelling at everyone to calm down.
"Miss PANDERSUN!" Professor Fum bellowed. "Calm down!" But she didn't. Finally Remus caught her by the arm. He turned her around and looked at her tear-streaked face.
"Calm down." He told her gently. "Michelle is fine! Sirius has seen to that! (Sirius blushed at this as he was helping her up.) It is okay. You didn't mean to, okay?" He asked her. She nodded her head and buried it deep into his neck, sobbing passionately. Remus gave Lily a look of question, and Lily mouthed, 'It's okay, she is your friend. I am not jealous.' She laughed inwardly that Remus could think she would be, but then saw the look on his face as he ran his hand through her hair. She felt a twinge of jealousy, but then logically asked herself. 'What do you have to be jealous of? Do you want to be crying hysterically in front of the whole class? No.' Lily felt a lot better.
"Are you alright?" Sirius asked Michelle quietly. Michelle went to nod her head, but suddenly let out a cry of pain.
"What is it?" Sirius asked quickly.
"My head. It hurts." She mumbled, very dazed indeed.
"Professor, can she go to the hospital wing?" Remus asked, being the one to take action.
"Oh yes indeed!" He exclaimed, quickly cut short by Sirius saying, "I'll take her, professor."
"Yes. Go!" Fum said and Sirius led her from the room and into the hall. He was practically dragging Michelle as she was too dazed to walk fast, and he slowed down to match her pace.
"You are sure you are okay?" He asked, dearly concerned for his good friend.
"I think so. Thank you." She mumbled, and they walked the rest of the way in silence.
"What happened?" asked an alarmed Madam Daisy Pomfrey.
"Oh, you know." Sirius said, who could make a feeble joke out of anything. "Flying text to the head, the usual."
"Not funny, Black." The matron told him sternly.
"I'm sorry." He apologized. She looked him in the face, saw his _expression, and forgave him.
"You may go now." She added to him, but he protested.
"No! Let me stay with her till the bell, please?" He asked, but was cut short by Madam Pomfrey's shout of surprise. Michelle fell to the floor.
"She fainted!" Pomfrey said, stating the obvious. "Too much drama, I suppose. Well, get her on the bed!" She ordered Sirius, and he obeyed. He picked the limp form up gently and placed her on the bed. He pulled the blanket over her and smoothed it out, tucking her in.
"Fine." Madam Pomfrey told him. "You can stay until the bell, but Miss Seabrook is here until tomorrow."
"Thank you." Sirius said, taking a seat beside Michelle's bed. Madam Pomfrey placed a potion and a slab of chocolate beside him and told him to give it to her if she wakes up. Sirius sat there for a couple minute holding her hand. He felt her stir, and saw her open her eyes.
"Hey Sirius!" She said brightly, and tried to get up.
"Oh no you don't!" Sirius told her sternly, while gently pushing her back down. "You have to drink this and eat this." He said, indicating the potion and chocolate.
"Can you pass them to me?" Michelle asked feebly.
"Anything." Sirius told her, smiling.
"Why are you here?" Michelle asked him, suddenly. "Where is Steph? Lily?"
"Steph is probably off crying somewhere." Sirius told her, and then added, "and I am here because you are my friend, is that a problem?"
"No." She said, smiling, "Not at all." She drank the potion and instantly fell into a dreamless sleep. Just then the bell rang and Sirius stood up, bent down, quickly gave Michelle a peck on the forehead, and rushed out for dinner.
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Hey hey hey. I know it is short, but I am balancing this with my schoolgrades that are dropping with my failure to complete homework.^_^* So if anyone is actually reading this please review!
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