Chapter 3
The next morning when Akasha awoke and peeked through her curtains she saw that only Lily Evans, the red haired girl the she shared a room with, was awake. So in hopes to avoid the other two girls, she decided to get up. She was sharing a room with Lily Evans, Maria Martin, and Angie Ackland, there was one empty bed, and Akasha wasn't surprised in the lest, it was between her and the other girls. She slowly dragged herself up and pulled across the curtain. Lily who had been packing away some books glanced up at her and gasped "OH MY GOD!" and then in a lower whisper said "your ears". Akasha grabbed her hat quickly and pulled it down over her head, but the damage had been done.
Akasha and Lily heard a moan coming from behind a set of curtains that belong to Maria Martin. Akasha was stricken with sudden panic, she muddered "no, please, no" while shaking her head.
Maria pulled her curtain open a little and looked out. "What was that?" she yawned.
"Ah," said Lily and glanced at Akasha, "I thought I saw a pixie."
"What time is it?" Maria asked still asleep.
"It's still early," Lily said still eyeing Akasha.
"Okay," Maria mumbled and she disappeared behind the curtain again. Akasha pulled her cloths on and stood up, nodding to Lily to follow her. They started down over the empty stairs together.
"I'm half Veela," Akasha said blankly all of a sudden.
"You are?" Lily asked blinking.
"Yeah, my mom was a Veela. Not even James knows, please don't tell," Akasha said in a hurry as they reached the bottom of the stairs.
"I won't tell," Lily said and smiled.
"Thank you," Akasha said now also smiling.
"No problem," Lily said.
"Oh, there's James," she said seeing him wave her over, "I better go, we'll talk later if you want."
"Sounds good to me," Lily said smiling at her and walked toward the exist. Akasha made her way over to James, who was sat with the boy Remus Lupin.
"What are you doing up so early?" Akasha directed at James as she sat next to him, "I figured you boys would be up all night and stay in bed this morning."
"You knew that I was up, that's why you're here," James said, an evil smile crossing his lips, "you missed me."
"sure I did," Akasha said sarcastically , laughing a little. James put his arm around the back of the chair where she was.
"The girl you were talking to..." James started but obviously didn't know how to finish.
"Yeah, that's Lily Evans," she said not knowing where he was going with this.
"Yeah, I think she's pretty, do you think she'd want to hang out with me some time?" James finish this looking down at his knee.
"Why wouldn't she James, you're great," she said smiling. He now looked at her and smiled. He couldn't help but look passed her at Lupin, though, who seem to be glancing contentedly at Akasha and distastefully at James' hand. When he noticed James looking at him he looked back at the book.
"I'm going to go get Sirius up," James said, "Lupin stay here with Akasha."
"Okay," Lupin said shyly and James left, "you two seem really close."
"Huh," she said looking at him as if he were an alien.
"You and James," he said in an off handed way.
"He's like a brother to me," she said, "he's the only person I have here in this house."
"He's not the only one you have, you have me..." he said and she looked at him again but this time with a look of shock, "and Sirius. We are your friends."
"But I barely know you," she said looking down.
"What do you want to know?" he said shocking her again.
"You can always tell a lot about a person by what their greatest wish is," she said as James walked up with Sirius and another young boy, " what's yours?"
"Ah," Remus said looking from Sirius to James and then back to Akasha, "to be liked."
"You are liked," Sirius said yawning and Remus smiled.
"What's your wish Sirius?" Akasha asked giving him an evil smile.
"What's yours?" Sirius directed back at her.
"I don't want to be forgotten," she said and looked at him, "your turn."
"I want everyone to know my name," Sirius said a smile on his face.
"What about you James?" Lupin asked noticing how quiet James had gotten.
"Um ah," James started but stopped, he didn't want everyone to know his true wish.
"James is speechless," Akasha laughed, "not often that happens"
"We got to get downstairs," Lupin said and everyone went off through the exist. Lupin and James lagged behind.
"Thank you," James said so that only lupin heard.
"What are friends for," lupin said smiling. This was the first time lupin had used the word friends and meant it.
