Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls

Chapter 24 – Birds and Bees

By: Samantha, Julie and Megan with help from Heidi

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Heidi and her parents arrived home late that afternoon.
While Jeff lugged all of Heidi's Hogwarts belongings upstairs her mother lightly put a hand on her shoulder.

"Heidi can we have a talk please it's been a long time I don't want you to go all stranger like on us." Her mother asked.

"Um, I guess so," Although Heidi had a very good idea where this talk was going to go and was not looking for to it at all.

"I'll make a drink and meet you in your room if you like," she called.

"Thanks mum I'd really like a hot chocolate." She called back.

Ten minutes later Heidi was all unpacked and her mother was just walking in with two steaming cups of hot chocolate.
She put them down on the table and sat down next to her daughter.

"We have missed you, sweetie," Her mum said eyeing her daughter.
"You're growing up and we don't want you to grow up and forget about us."

"Oh, Mum, That's not going to happen." She hated when mum got like this.

"I know sweetie but when I saw Will today at the train station, my view changed. You're not going to be our little girl forever are you?" Her mother said sounding a little too hopeful that her daughter would say yes.

"Unfortunately, no sorry mum, I need to grow up." She replied while taking a small sip of her drink.

"Oh well, in that case I guess our talk really starts here doesn't it." Her mother asked not looking Heidi in the eyes.

"You want to know if me and Will have had sex," Heidi replied calmly.

Kim was shocked at how her daughter was so blunt.

"Well …" Her mother was finding this harder to talk about than Heidi.

"No mum, it's okay although we do love each other nothing has past the belt," Heidi smiled at her mother making her mother look up at her for the first time.

"Past the belt," Her mother asked confused.

"Well to be honest there has been a lot of kisses, but that is as far as it has gone. We won't to go right now."

"Oh, well then, if you ever do you know you can come and talk to me don't you?" Her mother replied calmly.

"Yes mum, I know, they teach us all this at Hogwarts anyway."

"Teach you what?" she asked sounding more nervous.

"All about potions and sex and stuff, we have a nurse up there who is very honest and very helpful.

"Oh, well, that's okay, I guess. But, I would like you to talk to us too," Her mother replied

"Will do mum. Oh by the way …" Heidi Trailed off.

"What is it, Dear?" She searched her daughters face.

"Will would like me to visit him for a couple of days is that okay you can meet him properly if you wish?" Heidi pleaded with her eyes.

"I'll talk to your father, no doubt he will want to interrogate him as will I," she said.

And with that her mother turned around and walked out the door off to make a late dinner.

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Shannon looked into the mirror in front of her and smoothed out the wrinkles in her clothes nervously. Finally satisfied her clothes couldn't get any flatter she nervously swept at her bangs instead. She looked over her appearance once more while she wrung out her hands in front of her.

She was supposed to floo over to Rick's house today. Clenching and unclenching her fists at her sides she took in a deep breath and walked down the stairs onto the main floor. She walked swiftly across the living room towards their grand marble fireplace. She stacked up a fire, before throwing in some Floo powder.

"Master Manor," she said to the tickling emerald flames. Her muscles tightened instinctively as she squeezed her eyes shut. She felt herself spinning faster and faster until finally the rushing fireplace stopped and she tumbled out.

"There you are Shan!" came a voice near her. She shook her head lightly, trying to shake off the soot from the fire. She felt two strong arms lift her up off the floor and pull her upright. She stumbled slightly, leaning into the one who pulled her up.

"Sorry i'm late," said Shannon, grinning slightly.

"For a minute or two i thought you weren't coming," he said, wrapping his arms around her.

"Don't be a fool Rick; you knew I would come."

Rick laughed and leaned down. The pair kissed sweetly, but Rick pulled away quickly. "Urg, you taste like ash."

Shannon laughed as she hit Rick in the shoulder. She swept at her clothes, brushing the ash off of herself.

"There, I'm all better. Happy?" she said, looking up into his cute smile.

"I'm always happy with you," he said, pulling her into a hug.

"Am I still meeting your parents today?" said Shannon, her voice muffled by his shoulder.

"Naw, change of plans. They had to go out for the day, so we are here, all alone," Shannon pulled back and looked up at him. "If that's okay with you that is."

"'Course its okay," said Shannon, reaching up and kissing him lightly.

"Come on, I'll give you your Christmas present now," said Rick, taking her hand and leading her out of the room.

"Rick Christmas isn't for three more days!" said Shannon, laughing slightly. "Plus i didn't bring yours for you!"

Rick heaved a dramatic sigh, but was betrayed as the corners of his lips were rising into a smile. "Well if that's how you want to be, I'll just owl it to you on Christmas."

"Come here," sad Shannon tugging on his hand and pulling him into a kiss.

They stood there making out in his hallway for a while longer.

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Sam tucked her feet in underneath her as she lay down onto Severus' lap. He grinned a little as she rested her head in his lap. He ran his fingers through her hair lovingly.

"What would I do without you Samantha?" he asked, his finger trailing her jaw line.

"Simply cease to exist," she joked, dropping him a wink.

"I think so too," he purred, reaching down to rest his forehead on hers.

"Sev, how long did you say your parents were out for?" asked Sam, taking his hand subtly.

"A few hours at least. Why, what going through that ravishing mind of yours right now?" he asked, smirking.

"Oh I think you know," said Sam, pulling him up to his feet. She led him into his bedroom and closed the door behind them.

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Julie crept slowly through the halls with a chilled bottle of wine to visit her man she'd only been apart from him for a couple of hours but it just seemed far to long to her

Slowly and quietly she crept upstairs and whispered the password to the fat lady ("Trinkets,").

She ran quickly across the Common room to the tables and chairs found two candle holders and transfigured them into elegant wine glasses

Even more quietly (if that were possible as she was so happy) she made her way across the Gryffindor Common room and towards the boys staircase.

She came to rest upon the 5th year boys door quickly pushing it aside and darting in while closing it soundlessly she went to stand at the foot of Remus' bed where she started to hum tunes to favourite old lullabies she had sung to her as a child.

She peeked inside the crimson curtains to her lover boys sleeping figure she whispered a chilling charm on the wine and placed the wine and glasses down on the bed side table.

Climbing into bed soundlessly she realised Remus wasn't wearing a shirt.

She subconsciously ran her hands over his chest as she climbed into his bed and nuzzled into his neck.

Remus turned in his sleep but continued to sleep on oblivious to the gorgeous girl sharing his bed.

She started to giggle which bought a warm smile to the sleeping form so she decided to lean over and kiss him.

She started at his neck and trailed up to ear where she spent two minutes devoting attention to the lobe before trailing back down to his chest she kissed along his chest and down to his stomach when his hand came up to cup her chin and bring her back to his awaiting mouth.

She smiled into his mouth as she heard him moan.

She started her exploration of his body again trailing her fingers over his mouth which he dragged his hot tongue around to pull into his mouth into his hot mouth creating a moan somewhat like his own.

She then trailed her fingers down his chests where she left hot wet trails of kisses behind.

She lifted her head to gaze into his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Morning, babe," She grinned at him "Sleep well?" she continued as she kept kissing his chest.

"Wow," Remus replied somewhat out of breath. "I like waking up like this," He smiled.

"But wait, there's more," She grinned sitting up on his legs.

"Julie, are you sure? Anymore of this and I won't be able to control myself," He flushed red with guilt.

But she gave him a quick kiss and climbed off of him reaching for the wine and glasses pouring two glasses and handing one to her half naked boyfriend.

"To us," Julie smiled

"To us," Remus replied as he intertwined his arm with hers and shared a beautiful drink in the morning sunshine.

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Heidi felt rather awkward around her mother that night at dinner. She hadn't lied to her, but she had been unusually open. Heidi normally didn't talk to her mother about guys. She was very close with Kim in other ways, but guys were off-limits. Well, they had been. By the way Jeff was acting at the table; Heidi knew her mother had informed him about their talk. She was expecting him to pull her out later and talk to her; Jeff was very protective of his youngest daughter.

Just as Heidi had predicted, as soon as she had cleared off the table, her father asked for a word.

Heidi followed her father into the office, which was his own little sanctuary. Bookshelves lined one wall, a large desk and several filing cabinets filled up the far wall, and along the west wall was a large, plush couch with a poster of the Falmouth Falcons, Heidi's favorite Quidditch team above it. Jeff gestured for her to sit down and Heidi wordlessly obeyed as he closed the door behind her. He pulled the desk chair out to sit directly in front of her and watched his daughter for a few minutes.

Unnerved by the silence, Heidi shifted uncomfortably. "You wanted to talk to me?" she prompted.

Breaking out of his reverie, Jeff sighed. "Yes. You're growing up, Heidi. You're off on your own at school and you've done decently on your schoolwork, I suppose."

Heidi rolled her eyes at this. She'd always done well in school without having to work hard. But, typical of her father, he had never seemed to notice this and thought she slacked off too frequently. "Please tell me you didn't bring me in here to talk about my grades, which you know are fine," she said quietly.

"No, that's not what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about your boyfriend. How old is he, where's he from, what's his family like, how does he do in school, what are his plans in life?"

Heidi took a deep breath. She should have known this was coming. "He'd sixteen, I don't know where he's from but he's a pureblood, I've never met his family, he does well in school, and I don't know what he plans to do," Heidi rattled off. "We've got plenty of time to decide, Dad."

"You'll be surprised how quickly time goes by," he said. "You have so much potential, Heidi. Don't do anything stupid."

"Stupid like what?" Heidi asked, although she knew the answer.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't throw your life away by sleeping around with any guy you happen to lay your eyes on and think you love. You don't know what love is at this age. You have so much potential. Don't throw it all away on a boy."

Heidi was outraged and had used all the self control she possessed to keep from screaming at her father and storming out. "We have not slept together." Heidi said slowly.

"And it better stay that way."

At this Heidi stood up. "You can't control me! You don't know Will! I know you think I'm too young for this, you don't think I can handle a relationship and school. You don't think I'm responsible and anything new and exciting could break me down and I'll fail. You've never given me credit for anything! I play Quidditch, I'm in the Charms club, I'm in the Dueling club, I do all of these things and I still have good grades but you refuse to accept that!" Heidi said furiously.

"Don't take that tone with me, young lady!" Jeff said angrily, standing up.

"I'm not your little girl anymore!" Heidi said. "You don't realize that! I'm not the little girl who would sit on your lap all the time. And contrary to what you think, I'm not sleeping around! I'm still a bloody virgin, I told mum that! Why won't you just let me be free to make my own mistakes? I can't learn from my mistakes if you won't let me live to make any!" Heidi spat and stormed up to her room.

Jeff remained where he was and knew that when he had watched her storm out of the room, heard her stomp up the stairs, slam her door shut and blast her music, he had just lost his youngest daughter. Possibly forever.

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Julie and Remus had nothing to do. They'd already spent most of the morning snogging, and only stopped at quarter till eleven because Remus insisted he was hungry. Since then, they had slowly wandered the halls, with no destination in particular. Although they both knew the halls of Hogwarts like the back of their hands, it was still fun to explore a bit.

"Look at the snow," Julie said, glancing out the window.

Remus raised an eyebrow. "Looks too perfect there, doesn't it?" he asked.

Julie smiled, but nodded. "I think we need to go fix that."

They quickly ran to their dormitories, bundled up, and ran outside. Julie made it outside first since the Ravenclaw dormitories weren't as high up as the Gryffindor's. Julie quickly hid behind a patch of trees in sight of the door and began packing snowballs. As soon as Remus stepped out the door, she grabbed several, threw them at him and yelled, "Snowball fight!"
All three snowballs hit Remus and he stared in shock at her for a moment, recovered and went running after her. Avoiding her wild throws in her rush, he chased her around the grounds until he finally caught her and they both collapsed into the snow laughing. Remus swiftly kissed her and said quietly, "I love you Julie."

Julie smiled back at him. "I love you too, Wolf boy."

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Heidi collapsed onto her bed, trying not to cry. She couldn't let herself cry. She wasn't a crying person. She hadn't cried when she was knocked off her broom and broke numerous bones when she hit the ground. Of course she had passed out before she hit the ground and hadn't felt the pain until she woke up in the hospital wing, and by then Madame Pomfrey had mended most of her broken bones. She couldn't cry after a little argument with her dad. That would be silly. Sighing, Heidi rolled over and pulled down the teddy bear she'd had for years. When she felt down or she couldn't sleep, she would hug the bear tightly and it brought a sense of comfort to her. But tonight the bear wouldn't suffice. She just kept thinking about her father thinking she was one of those girls who slept with a different guy every night. How dare he think that? She wasn't like that! If she loved somebody, like she loved Will, maybe, but not somebody new every day! Maybe it'd be worth sleeping with Will just to make her dad angrier...but that wouldn't be right, sleeping with Will just to make her father furious. Will was worth more than that, he deserved better.

Her mother came up twenty minutes later. "Heidi?" she asked, gently knocking on the door.

"What?" Heidi said, not moving from her position facing the wall.

"Want to talk?"

"Not really."

"Just listen then," Kim said, sitting on the bed next to Heidi. "Your father didn't mean anything by what he said. He's just trying to protect you and now that you're away all the time, he doesn't know how to protect you anymore."

"I don't need him to protect me," Heidi said. "I can take care of myself."

"He's your father. Despite how much you've grown up, you're always going to be his little girl," Kim said, kissed her daughter's forehead and left quietly.

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It was raining. In her rush, she hadn't bothered to grab a cloak, just her broom, and because of that, she was now thoroughly soaked. Quickly, she spotted the house she had left for and landed, running swiftly to the door. She pounded on it, looking behind her as if he had somehow followed her here. The door opened a moment later and Will stared speechlessly at Heidi, who was soaked to the bone.

"Heidi?" he asked in shock. "What're you doing here?"

Heidi smiled slightly. "I, er, had a bit of an argument. Can I come in? I'm freezing!"

Will nodded silently and stepped aside to let her in.

--End Chapter 24