For Me This Is Heaven
Chapter 10
Hello! Well it's holidays for the crew, in California. Their vacation will probably be 2 or 3 chapters long, depending on how long I want it to be, so enjoy!!
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Susie sat in the airplane, talking to Lily, who was sitting on one side of her. Sirius was sitting on the other side, by the window. Vicky and Remus had volunteered to take the middle seats, sitting right by Lily, Susie and Sirius. Susie went over Ronnie's instructions in her head.
"You'll be meeting Cherie's parents over outside of the terminal. Wait for them there, don't go anywhere else away from that area." He had looked around and then given her an envelope, stuffed with money. "Here's some muggle, American dollars. Have fun."
Susie patted her pocket absentmindedly, and then zeroed in on Lily's conversation, which was a bombardment of questions. Susie finally told Lily she was tired and drifted off to sleep on Sirius' shoulder.
A few hours later, Sirius shook Susie. She slowly opened her eyes, blinking. She yawned, stretching out. The flight attendant was standing there, a snappy blonde, popping some bubble gum. That's a true American, Susie thought.
"Can you please buckle your seatbelt?" She batted her eyes at Sirius, who took Susie's hand at that moment and kissed it. The blonde walked on, popping her gum. Susie began to worry as they made their descent into LAX. There were a lot of other girls here, girls who were just willing to grab Sirius and kiss him. She tightened her grip on his hand. He looked at her and smiled.
Vicky glanced at Susie and Sirius, who seemed to be in their own little worlds. She sighed. She wished she could have that kind of relationship with somebody, but so far she hadn't found the person that she really wanted to have that kind of relationship with. She could tell that Sirius was totally crazy about Susie and Susie loved Sirius.
They got off the plane, picking up their luggage from the cart. Susie felt herself blending in with the familiar surroundings of Los Angeles. She looked around the terminal for Cherie's parents.
"Susie over here!" she heard someone calling. She looked and spotted Cherie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Williams. With a grin, she rushed over there, followed by her friends.
"Susie! How are you? How's London?" Cherie's dad asked.
"Oh it's great!" She gave each of Cherie's parents a hug and then turned back to her friends.
"These are my friends Lily, Vicky, Remus and Sirius." They all shook hands and eventually got back to their car, a large purple Yukon. Susie chuckled, many memories flooding her mind as she sat in the familiar car.
"What's so funny?" Sirius asked her. She didn't say anything.
"Oh just a bunch of memories," she said after a while. He took her hand.
"Well you're gonna see your friends right?" Susie nodded. She turned to her friends in the backseat.
"Okay guys, the girl you're gonna meet, she was my best friend at school and the guy, Dylan, he's one of my close friends but," she looked at Sirius, "he's my ex boyfriend." Sirius just looked at her.
"Your ex boyfriend, but I have nothing to worry about right?" She smiled and nodded.
"Of course not, don't even worry about that." He put an arm around her and she smiled, noticing Mr. Williams looking at them from the rear view mirror.
30 minutes later, they pulled off the freeway. Lily and Vicky were talking and Remus was strangely quiet. They pulled in front of a large beach house and Susie threw the door open, running to the beach house next door. She came out a second later, slightly red.
"We're on the other side dear," Mrs. Williams told her. "Cherie's gone out with Dylan, I think to the pier, they should be back later." Susie nodded and proceeded to get her stuff. She had left her wand at home, instructing the rest of her friends to do so. No magic, there were too many muggles, plus they were still underage wizards. Mr. and Mrs. Williams helped them with their luggage and left the group alone.
"We have to decide on rooms," Susie declared.
"Well how many rooms are there?"
"4," Susie answered, staring at the notice on the door about partying and such.
"So, me, Remus and Lily get our own rooms, and our premium couple over here get to share a room," Vicky laid out the rules for them.
"Vicky, you've become sort of an authoritative figure for us wild teenagers," Sirius joked. Vicky just sat back, pleased that everything was settled. Susie got up, looking in the fridge.
"Guys, problem, we have no food except there's some ketchup, mustard and cereal."
"Ewwww! I hate cereal!" Lily exclaimed.
"I have a solution," Remus said. "Why don't we just go out to eat tonight?"
"Hey good idea Moony," Sirius said.
"Everyone has money right?" Susie asked. Everyone responded with a 'yes'. "Great, I know this great place," Susie grinned.
Later, everyone was getting settled in their rooms. Vicky walked into Remus'. He was putting his clothes up when he heard Vicky come in. She sat down on his bed with a sigh.
"Vicky, that night, I didn't really mean for that to happen."
"So it didn't mean anything to you?" Vicky asked, tears in her eyes. Remus just couldn't take this, here were two girls, driving him wild in the same house. One was taken, the other was practically throwing herself at him.
"I think we just need to wait till break is over before anything happens," he told her. Vicky stood up and with quiet dignity, left the room. Remus heaved a sigh and lay down on his bed, his face in the pillow.
You're so stupid he screamed at himself in his head. Here was the girl that you've been in love with since forever and you just told her that you're not ready to have a relationship with her yet. He groaned.
"Ugh I'm so stupid!" he said out loud. Susie came into his room.
"Why are you so stupid?" she asked him, sitting down on the bed.
"I made a mistake," he simply said. Susie gave him a hug.
"Don't worry about it Remus. You'll truly realize what you need to do when the time is right." She stood up and exited Remus' room, quietly closing the door. Susie's words echoed through his head.
Susie came into the room she shared with Sirius. Sirius was sitting on the bed, shirtless.
"I've been waiting for you," he told her with a sly grin.
"Yeah but we're leaving for dinner in an hour," she said, sitting on the bed next to him. He pulled her down and looked at her.
"That's enough." After a few minutes of snogging, Susie reluctantly broke away from Sirius, who trailed kisses down her neck.
"Sirius, I have to get dressed." She pushed him off her and stood up, looking through the closet where she had hung up both hers and Sirius' clothes. She pulled out a black t- shirt and a pair of jeans that belonged to Sirius and threw them at him.
"Wear these," she instructed.
"Yes dear," he answered back, grabbing the clothes. Susie laughed and pulled out a pair of shorts and a white halter top. Pulling her shirt off, she put the halter top on, tying it up.
"Isn't it funny how we can just change in front of each other?" Sirius commented.
"Yeah, well it's not like you haven't seen me without my clothes on." She pulled her jeans off, revealing a pair of boy short underwear with hello kitty on them. Sirius grinned and grabbed her by the waist.
"Cute knickers, can I take 'em off?" Sirius asked, throwing her on the bed and pulling her underwear off.
"Sirius, stop, we're leaving in like 20 minutes!"
"It'll be a quick shag! I need to settle my needs you know." Indeed it was true, she could feel it against her leg. Susie smiled at that, pulling his jeans off.
"But I just got dressed," he whined.
"Keep your shirt on, this was your idea."
"Oh stop it, you know you wanted this as much as I did." he said. "But then again," he added thoughtfully, "How could I resist the sight of you in your underwear? It just turned me on," he said with a grin. She was pulling his boxers off when she stopped.
"Sirius, no magic remember?"
"What the hell does shagging have to do with magic?" he asked, frustrated.
"We can't use protection."
"Susie, Susie, do you take me for someone who isn't prepared?" He pulled a condom out of the drawer next to the bed.
"When'd you get those?" she asked.
"Oh when we stopped at that drug store, I bought like 2 boxfuls, I'm sure that'll last us till vacation is over." Susie grinned and pulled his boxers off.
Lily knocked on Susie and Sirius' door. Everyone was ready to go and Vicky and Remus had sent Lily to go get the two. She didn't dare burst in, she didn't want to even catch the sight of them shagging or anything. She knocked harder.
"Sirius, Susie! We're ready to leave!!" she yelled through the door. She heard Sirius groan and then curse. Susie started yelling at him, something about the time. The door came flying open, revealing Susie, who looked kind of mad and Sirius who was struggling to zip up the fly of his jeans.
"Susie! Don't deny you didn't want that!! Don't blame me!" he yelled down the hall as she walked to the front where Remus and Vicky were waiting. Lily frowned.
"I didn't need to hear that Sirius," she told him. Sirius just scowled. The three were waiting outside when Lily and Sirius came out.
"Let's go," Remus said, a bit irritated. Susie walked ahead of the group, her purse slung over her shoulder. Sirius went up to her, putting an arm around her waist. She looked up at him.
"I'm sorry for getting mad at you," she said.
"It's okay," he said, leaning down and giving her a kiss on the cheek. Susie led them towards a small seafood restaurant.
"This place is hidden, but good. Me and my friends discovered it." They sat down at a table and picked up their menus. Lily looked over it.
"I don't know what to order," she told Susie. Susie looked at the menu.
"How about I just order stuff and then we get plates and eat it like that?" Everyone agreed and Susie turned to the waiter.
"Hey, I remember you. You and Cherie dated for a little bit last summer." The waiter, whose name was Jay, nodded.
"And you're Susie, her gorgeous friend. You know that waiter over there, he wanted to date you." Susie shrugged.
"I kind of have a boyfriend," she said.
"Kind of? I'll be sure to tell the waiter about your 'kind of' boyfriend. So what'd you want?"
"Well, can you just bring me 5 crabs, 4 orders of French fries and 2 large cups of Clam chowder?"
"Got it, say I saw Cherie walking around the pier with that guy that you two are always with. They'll probably come here for dinner." Susie smiled her thanks and turned back to her friends.
"Did that guy just call you gorgeous?" Sirius asked suspiciously.
"Sirius! Stop being so jealous! I spend almost every summer here and winter holiday here, so I know a lot of guys."
"Sirius, don't even worry about Susie, she simply adores you," Vicky told Sirius. Susie blushed. The waiter brought the food back, setting down 5 plates. He winked at Susie and gave them their food. Sirius growled and put his arm possessively around Susie. She giggled as she spooned some food onto her plate.
"Am I gonna have to brand my name on you? There are too many guys here after you!"
"Sirius just eat, your food is gonna get cold." Susie was sipping some water when she glanced at the door. When she saw who had walked in, she squealed and jumped up, pushing Sirius' arm off her and climbing over his lap to get out of the booth. She ran over to the girl she had seen and hugged her, the two girls squealing.
"Cherie!!" she said, tears in her eyes.
"Oh my god Sus, I can't believe it. You look great!" Just then, a boy came in. He looked at the two girls.
"Susie?" he asked. She turned to him.
"Oh my god, Dylan! I can't believe it!" She gave him a tight hug. "Look at you, you look great!!"
"You don't look so bad yourself Susie." Remus recognized the guy from the photo that Susie had sent him.
"I bet you anything that's Susie's ex. What luck, he's a total babe," Lily pointed out.
"I know, just look at that tan and that bod. And he's got tousled Surfer hair!" Vicky sighed. Sirius and Remus hadn't said anything so far. Susie came over to the booth, the two people in tow.
"Guys, this is my best friend here, Cherie. And this is my really good friend Dylan." Lily gave them all a look that said 'I told you so'. Vicky and Lily stood up.
"Nice to meet you," Lily told Cherie as they shook hands.
"Vicky, Vicky Lafayette," Vicky told Dylan as she shook his hand. Susie turned to Remus and Sirius who were still sitting in the booth.
"Oh Cher, Dyl, this is Remus one of my best friends, and this is Sirius, my boyfriend." Cherie's eyebrows went up and a visible frown was apparent on Dylan's face. Remus politely shook hands with Cherie, and gave Dylan a handshake. Susie shot Sirius a glare, which made him reluctantly get up and meet Cherie and this Dylan guy, Susie's ex boyfriend. He already didn't like this guy, noticing the looks he threw at Susie.
After dinner, Cherie and Dylan walked the rest of the group back to their beach house.
"You guys can come in if you want," Susie told them. They obliged, following her into the large beach house.
"Geez, I never noticed how big this place is," Cherie commented.
"Yeah it is."
"Give us a tour," Dylan said.
"Sure." She led them around the beach house, pointing whose room was whose.
"That's Remus', that's Lily's room, that's Vicky's and that's me and Sirius' room."
"Oh sharing a room eh?" They had stopped in front of Susie's room, unaware that Sirius could hear them from inside.
"Yeah, we've been dating since like the middle of September. It's been a wonderful 3 months."
"Oh, well I'm glad you found someone. He's a hottie." Susie grinned.
"I know, but he's mine, back off." Cherie laughed.
"Oh don't worry; I'm not a boyfriend stealer. Besides, your friend Remus is cute."
"Oh boy," Susie chuckled. "You should get to know him," she said smiling. Cherie laughed and left, meaning to go talk to Vicky and Lily, whom she'd taken an immediate liking to. That left Dylan and Susie alone.
"Susie you have no idea how much I've missed you. And then I find out you're dating this other guy."
"Dylan, we broke up okay? Months ago, I made it clear that I wanted to only be friends. I'm just more comfortable as your friend then your girlfriend."
"Yeah, but still, I haven't dated anyone while you were gone. I've been perfectly miserable without you here."
"Look Dyl, I'm with Sirius now, and I love him. Why can't you just be happy for me?"
"Yeah, I'm really happy to find out that you're also best friends with that Remus guy."
Susie frowned. "What do you have against Remus?"
"Well, he's the one who-," Susie stopped him.
"Look, none of my friends know about that. Me and Remus have kept it to ourselves so far and I don't need you going and telling everyone. I wanna ask that you don't talk about that with any one of my friends. If they really needed to know, I'd tell them."
"Susie, how do you know this guy just isn't out for, you know?"
"Dylan! Please stop getting in my business. I'm going to bed okay? I'll see you tomorrow or something." She opened up her door, noticing Sirius sitting in a chair by the door.
"So what was that all about?" he asked.
"It's nothing. Just Dylan being weird."
"Well what was that secret you two were talking about?"
"Sirius, you were eavesdropping on my conversation?? I can't believe you! Of all the sneaky and deceitful things!"
"Hey, let's not even start on you. You're the one with the big secret that no one knows about. Oh wait, it's between you and Remus that you two decided to not tell anyone!" Sirius argued back.
"I don't want to talk about it!" Susie yelled. "It's none of your business!" She gave off a frustrated growl and threw herself on the bed, pulling her shirt off and covering herself with the covers.
"Leave me alone, I'm going to bed. Go sleep on the couch or something!" She turned over and turned off the light.
Sirius sighed. He hated fighting with Susie. But what's this secret that she can't even tell me? He pulled his shirt off, throwing his pants off in the process. Getting in bed next to Susie, he sighed again, and closed his eyes.
Lily and Cherie were talking, while Remus, Dylan and Vicky were engaged in conversation.
"Where'd Susie go?" Cherie asked. They heard yelling, which sounded like Susie. Remus put a finger to his mouth, indicating for everyone to be quiet.
"I don't want to talk about it! It's none of your business!" they heard her scream. Remus' heart sped up. What could they possibly be talking about it? He hoped it wasn't about...
"Looks like their having trouble in paradise," Vicky said. They all went back to their business. Remus noticed Dylan giving Vicky a smile and Vicky blushing and throwing him flirtatious glances.
With an inward groan, he decided to go.
"I'm going to bed," he announced.
"Night Remus," Vicky told him.
"Yeah, see you later Remus," Cherie said, winking at him. Remus headed back to his room, walking past Susie's room. He heard the door open and Sirius came out.
"Hey Moony," he said quietly.
"So Susie's mad at you?" Sirius nodded. "Why is she mad?"
"Cause she was talking to Dylan about some secret that she couldn't tell her friends, that her and you haven't told anyone and that no one really needed to know." Remus felt his breathing become unlabored. "Say Moony, you don't know anything about this do you?" Sirius asked sarcastically.
"Look mate, if Susie decides to tell you, it's up to her." He got away from Sirius as fast as he could, shutting his door quickly. There was no way he would tell Sirius. Sirius would probably hate him.
Later that night, Susie woke up. She was breathing hard and there was sweat all over her. She noticed Sirius sleeping next to her, his arm wrapped around her in a habitual movement. Getting up, she placed a kiss on his brow and went to the door, pulling her robe on. She was still kind of mad, but that didn't stop her from giving him a kiss that he didn't know about. When she came back from sitting on the beach outside of the house, Sirius was awake, waiting for her.
"I was wondering when you'd come back," he said quietly.
"Yeah well I was sitting on the beach," she said rather coldly. She could be quite the ice queen when she was mad.
"Sus, please, don't be mad."
"And why should I not be?" she asked.
"Look, I'm sorry," he stopped and frowned. "Now wait just a minute here, I shouldn't be the one apologizing to you. You should be apologizing to me!" This angered Susie greatly. And here she was about to forgive that ignorant jerk.
"Excuse me? You're the one getting into business that's not really yours and listening in on conversations that don't involve you and I should apologize for that?"
"You're the one who keeps secrets from me! I've told you everything! You're my freakin girlfriend; you're not supposed to keep secrets from me."
"This is none of your business Sirius; it has nothing to do with you!" That's where I'm wrong, Susie thought. It has everything to do with him. "I don't need to apologize to you!"
"Fine!" he yelled, "then don't apologize!"
"Alright, then get out of here!" she said, picking up the pillows he had been sleeping on and throwing them out the open door. "Go sleep with Remus or something!" she yelled angrily, shoving him out the door and slamming it in his face. Sirius groaned, beating on the door.
"Susie! Let me in!" She ignored him, going back to bed. Tears sprung into her eyes as she heard him yelling at her to open the door. She put a pillow over her head and fell asleep.
Sirius finally stopped his assault on the door. It was useless; she was never going to let him in. Remus poked his head out of his door, staring groggily at Sirius.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" he asked.
"Look Remus, can I sleep in your room for tonight?" Remus' eyes narrowed.
"And why would that happen? I mean, you're the one who's angry at me."
"Moony, c'mon. Susie is angry at me and kicked me out of the room." Remus sighed, running a hand through his hair.
"Fine," he said, opening his door and going back to his bed. "You're sleeping on the floor," he told Sirius before shutting his eyes. Sirius later woke up. It was early, about 6 AM. Getting up, he groggily went to the window, rubbing his eyes. Once he woke up, he'd never get back to sleep so he decided to go see if Susie was awake. He had lain awake long into the night, thinking over why he should be angry at Susie. The only lame thought that had come into his mind was that she was keeping a secret from him. But if it really wasn't his business, or didn't have an inkling to do with him, then why she couldn't tell him? He also realized that she had every right to be extremely angry with him.
He had been listening when he wasn't supposed to, but that still didn't give her a right to keep something from him. He frowned and went out of Remus' room, carefully shutting the door behind him. Turning the knob on Susie's room, he carefully opened it. Susie must've unlocked it. Quietly going in, he took a pair of shorts out of the closet and a white t-shirt. Changing into that, he looked over at the bed. Susie was still there, sleeping on her side, her black hair sprawled onto her pillow.
He stroked the top of her head and gave her a kiss on the forehead. She would never let him do that while she was awake and mad at him. He saw her smile in her sleep and he wished she wasn't mad at him. She looked like an angel when she was asleep. With a sigh, he left the room. Susie opened her eyes at the moment. She had been awake the entire time, just with her eyes closed. She had felt Sirius give her a kiss. With a sigh, she turned back over, shutting her eyes.
Sirius came into the kitchen. Lily was in there, looking in the fridge.
"It looks like we don't have any breakfast," she said. "There are pots and pans and dishes but no food."
"Well we can always walk down to that small grocery shop. I saw it on the way over here."
"Okay," she said, reaching over and pulling a pair of sandals on. Sirius put his shoes on and they left. Lily giggled as they left.
"I heard Susie is mad at you." Sirius sighed.
"Yeah she is. How do you know?"
"Oh I heard her yelling at you. I also heard her kick you out of the room in the middle of the night. It kind of woke me up." Sirius heaved another sigh.
"I miss her," he said simply.
"Did you think of apologizing?" Lily asked gently. She didn't want to hurt Sirius' pride by shoving the obvious in his face.
"Well, I don't know." He didn't divulge the reason for her being mad at him. "I suppose after tomorrow, if she's still mad, I'll apologize. Right now she refuses to talk to me."
"Maybe you should swallow your pride," Lily told him, a little more harshly. Sirius just shrugged. At the store, Sirius sulked the entire time Lily was picking out their breakfast stuff. So far she had 2 dozen eggs, 2 packages of sausage and bacon, 2 gallons of orange juice, and 2 loafs of bread. She had also thrown some butter in and some jelly. She picked up some dishwashing soap and a sponge, tossing it in.
"I think this is fine for now. We can just go out and eat for lunch." Sirius just shrugged.
"Fine, "he said sulkily. He went into the cereal aisle, picking up a box of Cocoa Puffs. He tossed it into the cart.
"There, that's fine." He realized he needed milk and headed where they picked up the orange juice and got a gallon of milk.
"Sirius, this is gonna be expensive," Lily told him as he put the milk in there. "And we have to walk off with it all."
"I'll pay for half," he said, shrugging. They walked over to the counter. Lily started setting the stuff on the rolling strip. The cashier looked at them.
"Hey you guys were with Susie right?" He stuck his hand out and Lily shook it. "Jay," he told her. He looked at Sirius. "Ah, you must be Susie's 'kind of' boyfriend. I figured that much," he said with a smirk. Sirius frowned but shook the guy's hand anyways.
"Your total is 28.53." Sirius handed over 10 bucks and dug 3 quarters out of his pocket. Lily paid the 18 dollars and Sirius took the change, as small as it was.
"So do you guys have a car or something?"
"Nah, we walked."
"Hey that's a killer," he glanced at his watch. "Well I have a break now. If you'd like, I'll walk you back and help you with these groceries." Sirius wanted to tell this guy to bug off, but he didn't think he'd be able to carry the 6 bags that they would have to carry back to the beach house.
Lily smiled. "Thanks a lot," Jay just grinned, picking up the bags and leaving. She looked over at this guy. He was pretty good looking, with beach blonde hair and green eyes.
"Do you surf?" she asked him.
"Oh yeah, sometimes, I don't really find good waves here in Santa Monica. Too much activity at the pier, but when I'm not working I drive up to Zuma or something."
Sirius sulked the entire walk back, thinking of how he was going to apologize to Susie. This was sort of getting to him; he had never been separated from her like this. When they got to the beach house, Sirius took all the bags in while Lily stayed outside, talking to Jay. Then he went back to Remus' room. Walking in, he found Remus awake. Susie was sitting on his bed, talking quietly.
Sirius noticed her and turned around. "I'm leaving," he said, shutting the door. He went back into his room and sat on the bed.
"Ugh, this is killing me," he said to himself.
"What is?" Vicky asked as she walked in.
"Haven't you people heard of knocking?" he asked, irritated. Vicky ignored that.
"I was looking for Susie, but I found you in here talking to yourself."
"Well, I'm fine."
"No you're not. Stop trying to be macho, I know you're hurting because Susie refuses to talk to you."
"Well I just need to be alone okay?" Vicky got up and left.
"Whatever," she mumbled as she left. Sirius sulked in the bedroom till Lily called them all to breakfast.
Haha okay, kind of a lame ending, but I had to end this chapter, it's like 12 pages long. Anyways, I made Sirius all sulky and sad in this chapter. Poor Siri ( Anyways, things are looking up, don't worry. He'll stop being a drama queen.