Faith yawned widely as her face hit the book that was in front of her.
"Tired?" Lily asked looking up from her book.
"This...is the...yawn...6th Transfiguration essay, and the...yawn...11th Potions this year." Faith groaned and rubbed her eyes. Lily finished reading her book and saw that Faith had fallen asleep.
"Hello!" Sarah's bright and cheery voice rang out. Faith's head jerked up violently and she let out a string of curse words.
"Just got out of muggle studies." Sarah said sitting down and pulling out her hot pink quill. She watched absent mindly as Lily's light blue quill scratched against the parchment.
"Why do you take that class?" Lily asked.
"Honestly your not a muggle so why?" Faith asked playing with the end of her light green and blue quill.
"Well, forone, muggles have all these interesting inventions and another I don't know all that much about things like Pelpatones like you and Faith." Sarah said taking out her Potions essay.Faith made a face at Lily and Lily mouthed the word 'telephone'. Faith was pureblood but she was always either at Lily's house or Lily was over at hers all summer. So needless to say she learned quite a lot about muggle tools. Also her father worked with a guy named Arthur Weasley and they were both obsessed with muggles. So there house was filled with muggle 'toys'.
"Do you know what today is?" Sarah said smiling as she continued to scratch out her essay.
"Thrusday?" Lily asked.
"Another day of torture in hell." Faith said groggily.
"Noooo...well yes; but that's not the answer I'm looking for." Sarah said still a large grin on her face.
"Its Thanksgiving!" Sarah said smiling noticing that they were done guessing. Lily raised an eyebrow while Faith just looked at her with a tired expression.
"What is that?" Lily said rubbing her temples.
"Yes, what the bloody hell is that?" Faith said covering her mouth as another yawn escaped her.
"It's a holiday. Celebrated in America, what we do is we eat a big feast and then talk and end up passing out from all the food we ate." Sarah said smiling and remembering Thanksgiving.
"That sounds like Christmas at Lily's house." Faith smiled. Lily jabbed her in the ribs. The girls giggled and got back to their essays.
"Ugh If I have to write more potions essay." Faith mumbled cramming her essay into her bag.
"Which you will." Lily said neatly rolling hers up and carrying it under her arm.
"I've gotta finish my astronomy charts." Sarah said as Faith and Lily stood up.
"I'm going to dump my essay off." Lily said running a hand through her hair. Faith caught a fewSlytherian boysstaring at Lily and she gave them awful glares.
"I've gotta go outside before my head implodes." Faithsaid sarcasticallyas she headed for the grounds.
Lily walked through the halls carefully trying not to drop the large number of books she was carrying. Of course she tripped over the first set of stairs and her books went flying. Lilylooked up to the ceiling and heaved a heavy sigh.She bent down to pick up her books. A hand shot out and grabbed one of her books.
"Here." James said handing Lily her book. 'Ugh! Why does he have to pop up everywhere. Can't he just leave me alone?'
"Thanks." Lily muttered grabbing her books and piling them high again.
"Need help?" James offered as she continued to walk up the stairs.
"No...I got...it." Lily said but stumbled and the top book went flying backwards. James caught it and waved it at her as she looked back at him. She sighed.
"Ok. come on." She said and gave him a handful of books. 'Oh My God. Oh My God. Did I really just let James help me carry my books. I'm a witch! Couldn't I have just leviated them there!' She thought, practically kicking herself in the face for lbeing so dumb.
"Common room?" he asked. Lily nodded and the twobegan the long walk to the Gryffindor common room.
"You look tired." James said shifting his fingers. 'Well, awkward silence, isn't this lovely?' He thought sarcastically.
"Well that's because I am." Lily snapped.'God why does he have to make chit chat?'
"Sarah snore or Faith talk in her sleep? God knows she talks enough awake." James said smiling.She tried not to smile at the joke but it was true. Faith did talk a lot andLily knew it (as does Faith).
"No. Just studying that's all. Remus or Sirius snore?" Lily replied. 'Wait? Am I actually engaging in coversation with him?'
"Remus talks in his sleep... A lot. Mostly nonsense stuff though. But he's told a few secrets in his sleep." James said smiling a secretive smile.
"Like?" Lily asked as the began to climb the final staircase.
"Well...just between you and me...he likes Sarah." James whispered and wrinkled his nose in a feeble attempt to move his glasses higher up.
"You're kidding?" Lily said skeptically.
"I'm really not." James said as they walked into the common room.
Sarah closed all the books and carefully put them away. She began to browse for: Understanding the Skies. She found the book and heaved a sigh while thinking 'Just my luck. It just happens to be on the highest shelf.' .She bit her lower lip and looked around for something to stand on. She pulled a chair and carefully stood tiptoed and grabbed the book. Sarah lost her balance and was thrown backwards. Lucky enough Remus happened to be standing there and caught her. He caught the book too.
"Thanks." She mumbled.
"Your welcome."He said handing her the book with a smile. Sarah blushed.
"I guess I should let you down." Remus said laughing, realizing he was still holding her.He set her on the ground and she hugged the book to her chest.
"Astronomy? Don't we have that tonight? Procrastinator." Remus smiled charmingly.
"Yeah. well, that's me." Sarah smiled.
Remus returned the smile with a brighter one.
"I'm working on my star chart too." He said pointing at his table with a star chart layed out on it.
"Do you need any help?" Sarah asked hopefully.
"Yeah I could always use the help." He said pulling out a chair for Sarah as she sat down. Sarah began to look at Remus's star chart. Remus wasn't looking at the star chart though, he was staring straight at Sarah and her baby blue shirt (Sarah loves baby blue if you haven't figured it out by now) . Sarah looked up athim and blushed.
"You know you're awfully cute when you're a cat." Remus said. "I mean not that you're not cute all the time. Its just...I'm going to be quiet now."He said looking down. Sarah smiled at him and began to point out the different constellations again.
Faith walked silently outside and noticed a half a foot of snow on the ground. Sheshivered and realized she had stupidly put on her light summer robes instead of her much thicker winter robes. 'Blast! I don't want to go all the way upstairs just to get my sodding robes.' She decided that it wasn't that bad and walked towards her tree. The tree had stopped a lot of the snow from getting to the ground so Faith had a dry spot to sit.She leaned back on her hands and looked at the nearly frozen lake. Faith shivered and plucked up a blade of grass. Suddenlyshe felt something being draped on her shoulders. She looked up and saw Sirius placing his robes on her.
"Cold?" He asked with a small smile.
"Well you see there is this stuff called snow on the ground. And it is frozen." Faith said jokingly. Sirius smiled widerand sat down next to her.
"They saw there's a squid out there." She said looking at the lake.
"Maybe we can feed Professor Putgis to it." Sirius said chuckling. Faith had a wide smile.
"I don't think the squid would want to eat him." Faith joked and looked at Sirius.He wanted to do two things at the moment: He wanted to tell her how he felt about her, and he wanted to make a joke about Serverus soooo bad. But Sirius remembered the idea they all had. 'Talk today, change after Christmas.' He thought.
"We should be heading back to the castle. "Faith said getting up. Sirius smiled and said slyly.
"Aren't you going to help me up?" he said extending his hands in the air. Stood in front of him and grabbed his hands pulling him up. When he stood up his face was in inch from Faith's. The two just stood there, Faith still holding Sirius's hand unknowingly.She looked at Sirius and he held her gaze for a minute longer until a loud splash from the lake causedher to let go of his hand in shock.
"We should beheading back to the castle." Faith repeated. Sirius nodded and watched asshe started to walk to the castle.He stared at the lake angrily and mouthed a very sarcastic "Thanks a lot" before running after her.