Chapter 5
Once all five were in the compartment, Ria started the introductions.
"Everyone, this is Lirael..." She began.
"I go by Rae..." Lirael said, interrupting her.
The guys rolled their eyes, and Ria continued. "Right... Rae.... Meet Tommy, Tarina and Malcolm." Pointing at each in turn, "Rae here is also a part of the dreams..."
"Is it safe to talk so openly about this?" Malcolm asked, in a suspicious tone.
"It's not like..." started Tommy, who was interrupted by Ria's "No."
They all looked at her.
"It isn't safe. We're too diverse a group, for one." She continued. "A Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw, a Slytherin, a Gryffendor, and a... umm... We need a time and place to meet. And a code to talk in, when in front of others."
"Isn't that a little overboard?" Tari had to ask.
"No. She's right." Lirael commented.
"Yeah. I can't be caught being civil to all of you." Malcolm agreed.
"Ok. I know of a hidden room, up in the east tower. It becomes whatever you need it to be. The time will be right before lights out. First meeting, tonight, will be to work on the code. Alright?" She said in practically one breath. "I can show you how use the room tonight."
"Fine." Tommy approved.
"Well... Alright." Tarina, too.
"Fine." Malcolm also.
"Then it's settled." Rae finished. "Tonight we meet."
"Oh! We're there." Tarina exclaimed, suddenly. "I can see Hogsmead!"
Rae looked out the window. "Nothin too special." She commented, though she looked a little excited. She had a fairly large group of friends already. As well as some really weird dreams. This is gunna be one weird year... She decided mentally.
Ria led Rae to these carriages that were pulled by nothing. At least it seemed to be nothing. They got one with Tarina and Tommy. Malcolm had gone to another carriage, with a group of Slytherins.
Rae looked around the group, before suddenly bursting out in laughter.
"Hey, Ri. Forget somethin?"
"Huh?" Ria confusedly replied, before looking at Rae, and Tari, then herself. She slammed her head back and hit it on the back of the carriage. "Dang it!"
In all the confusion, she forgot to change! She had to get into her school robes before she could go in the Great Hall. How could a brain like her forget something so simple?
"Now I have to sneak to the dorm to change," she complained.
"Your own fault, Ria." Rae teased, grinning.
Rianna sighed. "I hope I don't miss the sorting! Especially since your being sorted tonight!" Ria added another painful smack against the carriage wall to the last.
"Ri, dear, your gunna put a hole through it, if you keep hitting it like that..." Rae again teased, just in a sincere tone.
"Ha. Ha. Ha." Ria replied, dryly.
Rae just grinned again.
"Ok... So I'll hurry with that, you head for the Great Hall, K?"
"And that is... where?"
"Hard to miss. Big room, everyone in the school is headed for it."
"Riiight..."
That's when the carriage stopped.
"Ok... So, if you sit by your brother, I'll be able to find you, K?"
"K."
"Seeya." She gave a quick hug to Tommy, and took off from the carriage.
Ria dashed for the school, inside, up the many staircases, and to the Gryffendor tower. Luckily she had the password.
Then she dashed up the stairs to her room. She stripped, till all she had on was her pure white bra and panties. She grabbed her robes out of her trunk, and, knowing no one else was here, as well as it being a little cold in her room, started down the stairs, to put the clothes on by the fire.
At the bottom of the stairs she went towards the fire, and froze. Something, in the corner of her eye, had moved.
She spun, the braid holding back her long black hair curling slightly around her body as she did so, then falling back in place, perfectly in the center of her back.
There she saw none other than Sirius Black, clad in nothing but his boxers. Loose, black, rimmed in gold. They had some design on them, looked like... an animal of some sort......
She turned beet red... no... definitely redder than that...
Oh my god! Her mind screamed.
She quickly spun back around, and covered her face.
Siri, on the other hand, stared. He was, as she is, very red.
Wow... Was in his jumble of thoughts, Who knew little Ria was so... developed...
He quickly shook his head. BAD THOUGHTS!
"I... sorry!" He heard come from Ria.
"No... I am..." He replied.
"I didn't think anyone would be here." They said, very close to being in unison.
Though Ria had her back turned, her hands clasped on her robes, and was very tense, Siri just couldn't stop looking at her.
He was snapped out of it when she pulled part of her robes over her head, it falling and covering most of her skin.
Much too baggy, he found himself thinking, No wonder it was hard to see her... He paused, mid-thought. James is gunna kill me! I know it.
She had begun to pull the rest of her clothing on.
He began to do the same.
Once she finished, she did not turn around. Instead she waited until she heard him leaving.
Neither spoke as they headed for the Great Hall.........
Meanwhile...
Rae just shook her head, and stepped out of the carriage. She looked around, as Tommy and Tari took off on their own. She saw James walking away from the school, instead of towards it like everyone else, and went over to him.
"Hey!" she all but shouted in his ear, startling him. "Where you off to?"
"The lake... You haven't seen it yet, have you?" Then, without waiting for an answer, he grabbed her arm and took off, to what she assumed was toward the lake.
Once there he stopped.
"Wow." Breathed Rae.
"Yeah. Kinda cold, but fun to swin in, too!"
The water was completely still. It was as if nothing would, or even could, destroy its calm.
James turned away, after they had been staring for a while.
"There's the Giant Squid, the Mermaids, and a Ghost usually seen in there... as well as some other stuff."
"Neat. I'll have to take a swim sometime." Rae said, smiling.
"Oh!" James, quite suddenly, exclaimed.
"Huh?"
"We have to get to the castle! You have to be sorted, right?" He continued.
"Ph yeah..." Not sounding as excited as him.
He grinned suddenly, "Don't wanna be late..." and took out his wand. "But, I can get us there in no time though..." And he cast a summoning spell.
A broom zoomed to them.
He mounted, then looked at Rae. "Come on..."
When she looked as if she wasn't going to, he added, "I could A) leave you here, B) grab you and drag you, or C) not go at all, instead."
"Fine." she said, going toward him. Glaring, just slightly.
Once she was on, he went really fast. Looping, twirling, and going upside down.
Finally they landed, and began to walk inside.
