Sirius smiled as he entered his dormitory. He had a new girlfriend. And she wasn't like the other ones. The others were boring, and obsessed with fashion. But Whinny. She was something else.
"Where have you been," someone said in the dark, but Sirius knew it was Remus.
"What are you? My mother?"
"Sirius, really where were you?"
"What does it matter?" Sirius asked, dropping James's cloak next to his bed.
"You were out with Whinny huh?" Remus asked.
"No, I was swimming in a frozen lake. Duh I was out with Whinny! She sure is something." Sirius fell backward onto his bed. After a few minutes of silence Sirius finally blurted out, "I kissed her."
Sirius could her Remus sit up in his bed.
"You kissed her?" Remus hissed.
"Yep, and she kissed me back. Boy was she good." He licked his lips.
James lay in his bed wide-awake; hours after Sirius had come back from his "adventure" with Whinny. After he had heard Sirius say that he had kissed her, a pang of hurt hit his heart. He had thought Whinny liked him. Not Sirius. They had hit it off so well at breakfast the previous morning. And he had told his friend this, but Sirius just went crawling around behind his back. James felt like Whinny had ripped open his chest and pulled his heart out.
It was one o'clock in the morning and Ginny had not slept a wink after she had gotten back with Sirius. She was the only one in the dormitory. She got up to take a shower. It was in her fourth shower where Ginny thought, Oh God, Lily! Lily fancied Sirius and now Sirius thought Ginny was his girlfriend. Ginny turned the shower knob to cold. She stayed in the shower for ten minutes, the cold air pounding down on her. When she got out she brushed her teeth for the seventh time and washed her hands and face for the fifteenth. When Ginny was upset or paranoid, she always made sure she was extra clean.
She did not like Sirius the way he liked her. She had feelings for James. Sure Sirius made her smile a lot, but James made her want to be a better person. James made her heart skip three beats every time they made eye contact. James. James. James, she thought. She liked saying his name.
When Ginny stepped into the common room Sirius was there. "You look beautiful," he said and tried to kiss her. She ducked underneath him.
"Thank you," Ginny replied. "Are we going down to breakfast?"
"Yes, of course!" Sirius said then took her arm and dragged her out of the common room. James and Remus followed them.
"Did he really kiss her?" James asked Remus quietly.
"I'm not sure, but I think so. I mean look at the way he is acting." James nodded. He had tried to kiss her.
"But did you see her refuse him? I don't think she really likes him. She doesn't like him. She can't."
"Did she tell you that?" Remus said stating the obvious.
"Well, no, but its so obvious she doesn--"
"James you don't know that," Remus cut him off.
"I know but we hit it off so well," James said. "I met her first."
"Well you, know Sirius," Remus said, "He'll probably move on to the next girl in few days."
"I think I am going to go for a walk, and skip breakfast," James said.
"Sure, go ahead." James walked out of the castle. Remus made his way to the table.
"Tomorrow's Christmas, huh?" Sirius said with a mouthful of hotcakes to Remus.
Ginny raised her eyebrows with a disgusted look on her face, but as soon as Sirius looked at her, she quickly put on a fake smile.
"So what do you want, baby?" Sirius said after he had swallowed.
"Oh, I don't know," Ginny said playing with her food.
"I'll get you something real nice," Sirius said, this time with a mouthful of eggs.
"Thank you. I think I am going to go for a walk," Ginny announced.
"Let me go with you," Sirius started swallowing hard.
"No!" Ginny said. "I mean, no I think I want to be alone for a while, if that's ok?"
"Anything for you, darling," Sirius said in a mushy way Ginny did not like.
"Err right," she said and quickly hurried out of the Great hall.
Remus watched her leave and wondered if she knew James was out there. He shook his head, and started back on his meal.
Ginny wrapped her scarf around her neck and walked out of the castle. As soon as she stepped outside, someone threw a snowball at her head. The snowball had caught her off guard and made her stagger sideways. As soon as she caught her balance, she looked to see who the attacker was. She was a head with messy black hair behind a wall of snow. She knew that was James, but then she saw another head of long red hair in a pony tail that she didn't recognize. It looked smaller. Then a first year popped up.
"Now," she heard James hissed. The first year pelted another snowball at her head. But she ducked grabbing some snow and formed it into a ball shape. She tried to throw it at James but it ended up hitting their wall and the wall crumbled. Ginny ran behind the small hut on the grounds in front of the Forbidden Forest for shelter.
"Hey," she heard the first year say, "you said this wall would never fall." The first year then picked up a snowball and threw it at James's legs. He then hopped all the way to where Ginny was standing. Ginny laughed at how stubborn first years could be. The boy came towards them with daggers in his eyes, but she could tell that he had a hard time trying to keep a straight face. He came towards them.
"Go, go, go," James said nudging her ahead of him into the forest. She ran into the forest with James close behind her. They made twists and turns in the forest. They finally stopped when they were sure that the boy had gone. They both panted.
"Whew," James said gasping for breath. Ginny laughed. "Bill's one tough cookie."
"Yeah, seriously. Wait. Did you see Bill?" James nodded. "Bill Weasley?"
"Yeah do you know him?" Ginny's jaw dropped. It was Bill! Her brother! She smiled and laughed. I guess Mom was right when she said bill wanted to pony tail ever since he was baby.
Ginny sighed. "I need to sit down," she said. Ginny plopped down on the ground, to rest. She bent backward and she was then lying on the ground in the snow. James did the same next to her. Ginny stared up at the trees above them. They were each quiet a couple minutes.
James finally worked up the nerve to ask Ginny if she had really kissed Sirius.
"Whinny did you really kiss Sirius?" he asked quickly. She didn't respond. He heard her constant breathing. After a couple minutes Ginny rolled on her side and cuddled up next to James. She was sleeping, of course. James slipped his arms around her and kissed her forehead.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. J.K. Rowling owns the characters, and I did not make up the plot. It's been done like a thousand times before.
A/N: Aww, I think that's sweeeet. Ahh. I can't believe I put bill in there! Sorry if you think it is very "unrealistic" but this is fanfiction, isn't it? OK I want to thank all my reviewers! Eekaa, BelindaBlackfalcon, lord of the potters, and a special thanks to Babyjayy because she reviewed every chapter! Thank you! Ok I think I am going to have Snape and Malfoy in the next chapter.