TWISTED HEARTS
Author: changed the summary yet again, but don't worry, same storyline. Oh yeah, and this story is going to be pretty long. I have it all planned out. And this story was also created/written/helped by Naoko-san.
"You
guys line up alphabetically by height."
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Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach
Chapter four: Conversations
Lynn gasped and hurriedly closed the sketchbook. She turned around. "Oh….Sirius…. you frightened me!"
He cocked an eyebrow. "You frightened? I come downstairs to sneak out for a date and there you are, on the couch. I thought you were Professor Mcgonagall or something."
"Gee thanks. Mcgonagall? You're a real charmer."
Sirius chuckled. "You were the one who was hunched over like an old woman."
"Mcgonagall isn't that old."
"To you grandma, maybe, but to us young folk she's ancient."
"Hardy harr harr."
"What were you doing down here at three in the morning anyway?"
"Uh…. Nothing…." She tried unsuccessfully to hide the sketchbook. He spotted her doing so and grabbed it.
"What's this?" Sirius opened in and started flipping through it. Lynn immediately tried to get it, clawing at him.
Being taller than her, he held it up out of her reach. "What were you drawing?"
"Just…something…" Lynn jumped up and snatched at it, but he jerked it out of reach.
He turned from her, facing the fire and opened it. "Hey… you draw pretty good. That's Lily and James right?"
Lynn breathed a sigh of relief. Of course…if he was the one who opened it he wouldn't see the drawings she had tapped with her wand thanks to that spell Lily had given her. She had come up with the excuse that she was going to use it for her diary since the kids back home kept looting her room and reading it. She hadn't lied; she was using it for her diary too.
She sighed and sat back on the couch. "Fine, look through it. It's just that I suck at drawing."
Sirius snorted. "If you think this sucks you must think Van Go died poor."
"He did."
"Oh yeah…." Once he was done he threw the book back at her and glanced at his watch. "Aw man, now I'm twenty minutes late!"
"You're the one who wanted to destroy my privacy." Sirius didn't comment as he ran out of the Common Room. Lynn sighed again. "And I know I'm not the only one who thinks this when I say Jenny is the luckiest girl in the school." She muttered to herself. She flipped back to the page she had been drawing on.
She finished Sirius' hair and eyes and started on the face when she glanced at her watch and yelped. It was almost five in the morning! After a second of wondering when Sirius was going to get back, she went up to her dormitory and collapsed onto her bed after muttering at how oblivious boys were.
"Up up up!" Stephie shouted into Lynn's ear, pulling off her blankets. She groaned and pulled her pillow over her head.
"Five more minutes…" She mumbled.
"Uh-uh-uh! It's late enough. Time to rise and shine!" Stephie said in a chirpy, perky voice. She grabbed Lynn's pillow from her.
Lynn sighed and rolled out of bed. "Christ, you're annoying. Can you ever not be happy?"
"I'm just an optimistic person."
"Screw being optimistic, I'm a pessimist."
"Now, now Lynn. Get off your lazy bum and get ready. I will not allow tardiness!" Lynn had forgotten that Stephy was a control freak as well as an optimist.
With another groan, Lynn dressed and went down for breakfast. Lily was there. She took one look at her and grinned. "A Stephy wakening?"
"Yes." She said grumpily. She wasn't a morning person.
Lily chuckled again but stifled it when the Marauders sauntered down, sitting by and across from them. She busied herself with her toast as Lynn snickered. She had been saying some interesting things last night. Lily shot her a be-quiet-or-you're-gonna-die look. Lynn raised a brow, but didn't say anything on the matter. She nodded and Lynn and left.
"Did anyone else know that Lynn likes to stay up at three in the morning drawing?" Sirius said, breaking the sleepy silence.
Remus shook his head, yawning. "And you would know this because-?"
"Because he was going out to be with Jenny." James answered for him, snickering. "So, did you two hit it off last night?"
Sirius shook his head. "Nah… just a small make-out session. Nothing more." He looked a bit disappointed. "Over and week and nothing. This is defiantly a two-week dropper. Too bad…she's a knock out…."
Lynn rolled her eyes. "Not every girl is willing to throw all they got at you. That would be considered sluttish, and not all of us are sluts."
He pretended to pout. "Aw, why now."
She gave him a glare. "Because some of us don't want to throw it all away for a two week fling. Ever heard of taking it slow?"
"Hm…" He pretended to think. "I think that was mentioned before…but that's before my time."
She sighed. "You're so full of yourself."
Just then the mail came in and at least a thousand love letters landed in front of Sirius. Lynn pushed off the ones that had landed on her plate. "Honestly Siri, can you have your little fan service deliver to your room? Some of us are trying to eat."
Sirius shrugged. "I can't help it if I'm popular with the ladies." He saw a few looking at him from the Ravenclaw table and smiled charmingly. They squealed and began talking amongst themselves excitedly.
Remus blushed as about ten letters landed in front of him, looking very meager compared to Sirius. James pouted. "Oh sure, they get letters and I get nothing."
Lynn ignored James and grinned at Remus. "Aw Remy, you got a wittle fan club! How cute." Remus' blush deepened as he took one and opened it. His eyes widened and he threw it down immediately, looking frightened and disturbed. Lynn picked it up. "What's wrong?"
She snickered as she began to read it. "What is it?! Read it aloud!" James cheered. Peter looked at the letter curiously.
"Yeah." He said. Sirius was still pouring over his own letters, throwing about ten in his bag reading one and repeating the process.
"Okay, okay! It says:
Remus, love
Why is it you look away when I look at you? You know very well I like you. I need to know if you like me back. I long for you and daydream about you all the time. Please, tell me what you think of me! I can't go on if not!
-Hannah-" James was howling with laughter once Lynn was done.
Remus looked intimidated. "I don't know what to do!" He said anxiously.
"Do you like her?" Sirius asked.
"Oh no, you're not giving him advice!" Lynn said, putting a silence spell on him. Sirius glared at her, saying things angrily but due to the spell, they didn't know what he was saying.
"…..no…." Remus said after a moment's thought.
"Then turn her down easy. She'll get over it. Don't do it in poetry format or in a letter, that will screw you over. Make sure to do it to her face too, not go tell her friends."
Remus blinked. "Okaaaaay…"
Peter snickered. "All of these letters are from Hannah."
Sirius was making gestures with his hands, most of them rather rude. "Oh fine, you can speak." Lynn muttered the counter-spell and Sirius growled.
"Finally!" Lynn merely grinned. "Remus, if the girl likes you, go for it. You may find you might like her too."
Lynn shook her head. "Oh brother Sirius, that's why I put the spell on you."
"I don't know Sirius….I'm not sure a relationship will help me in my condition."
Sirius blinked. "Oh yeah….maybe it'll be better for you."
James shook his head. "Talk about it later." He murmured, looking at Lynn.
"What condition?" She asked suspiciously.
"Nothing!" They all said in unison.
"You know that makes you even more suspicious."
"Sorry, top secret Ministry business. We've said too much. If we say anymore we'll have to kill you." James joked. Peter laughed hysterically in his weird little way.
Lynn raised a brow. "Is that so?"
Sirius also raised a brow, but in a much sexier fashion. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
Lynn almost felt herself blush, but she easily managed to fight it down. She had learned to control herself a long time ago when she had wanted to stop crying. "I'll get it out of you eventually."
Remus looked a bit worried, but it was replaced by his usual mildly amused expression. "Maybe we'll tell you when you're old and on your death bed."
"Which'll be soon." Sirius added, laughing.
"But don't worry, I'll buy you a heart monitor." Peter butted in, laughing at his own joke. No one else did but he didn't seem to notice.
"You guys should be comedians." She said sarcastically.
"Why thank you." James said, getting up and taking a bow.
She rolled her eyes and got up, slinging her bag over her shoulder. "I'm going to class now, you clowns. Ciao." She waved and left.
Sirius sighed and slumped in his chair once she was out of sight. James looked at him with a grin. "What's wrong?" He raised a brow. "You don't like ol' Lynn do ya?"
"And what if I did? You have Lily."
Remus blinked. "You like Lynn?"
"I thought you guys were brother and sister." Peter said stupidly.
"You don't listen much, do you Wormtail?" James said disgustedly. Peter only shrugged.
"What's it to you Moony?"
"Nothing. Just surprised is all."
Sirius shook his head. "And to answer the question, I don't. She's not the kind of girl I go after."
"That's why I was surprised."
The bell ran just then and they packed up, walking to class, not picking up the subject again.
Author: That took me a bit ; All well. Please review!
