Chapter 14: What's it going to be?
A/N: Long chapter, I know…I stayed up extra late writing it!! You don't wanna know what time it is right now… (wipes sleep from eyes…) ok, im so excited about this chapter so I'm just gonna shut up and let you read! Btw, sorry if some stuff (ie hangover stuff) is inaccurately described…I don't drink and wouldn't really be familiar w/ any of that stuff…just guesswork here…im a good girl, see.. :) newhos:
CH. 14
Dominique lay awake in her bed, staring at the ceiling. It was now 2 a.m. 'Stupid James...urgh...I am too sensitive...' Dominique thought, as she turned over on her side to face Kierra, whose bed was across from hers.
Kierra was sleeping on her stomach, giving muffled coughs every few minutes. Suddenly, Kierra's fits of coughs grew violent, and soon she was sitting up, awake, trying to breathe.
"You alright?" Dominique asked softly, getting out of her bed and going over to Kierra, who was pressing her hands against her head.
"Sick...(Kierra gave another loud cough)...bathroom...puke..." Kierra slurred.
"Come on.." Dominique pulled Kierra up and led her to the bathroom, grabbing her wand on the way. She quickly illuminated the bathroom and shut the door behind her. She looked over at Kierra, who was kneeling over the toilet and vomiting.
"Oh dear..." Dominique quickly went to Kierra's side, pulled off her own hair tie and fastened Kierra's hair with it. She patted her firmly on the back a few times. "There you go...get it out of your system..." Dominique said softly, hoping that Alice and Lily would not wake up. "You ok now?"
Kierra nodded, and with great effort she pulled herself up and went to the sink to clean her mouth. "I hate Remus..." she said wearily as she dried her face with a towel. "Stupid Remus...and his stupid Morgan..."
"I think it's Megan..."
"Oh yea..." Kierra muttered as she slumped against the bathroom floor. Dominique went over and slid down next to her.
"Just give it time..."
"I'm not sure why I'm so pissed...did he do something to me...?" Kierra asked, rubbing her head again.
"You...saw him making out with Megan, as I understand...from what you told us over dinner..."
"Oh that's right...pair of sluts..."
"Kierra..."
"I thought he liked me!"
"He does! ...he probably doesn't realize he does...or maybe...he just doesn't know what he wants...just give it some time, would you?"
"Yea, ok..." Kierra said as she tried getting up, but only stumbled backwards. Dominique reached in time to pull Kierra back up and steady her on her feet.
"Come on, you need some sleep."
"Yea...I had a weird dream..." Kierra said rather loudly, apparently not aware that Alice and Lily were sleeping and that it was night time.
"Did you?" Dominique asked in a whisper as she helped Kierra into her bed.
"Yea...You cut Sirius's hair...and he was crying...and...James...he yelled at you or something...and you started crying...I don't remember...something like that...Wait...did that happen?"
Dominique smiled slightly. "Yea..sort of...only I didn't cut Sirius's hair...a stylist did...and he wasn't really crying, though he was upset...James did yell at me..but I didn't cry...so...you got some of it..."
Kierra shrugged and rested her head against her pillow and pulled her covers up to her chin. "Well...thanks D...night.."
"Anytime..." Dominique said as she made her way to her own bed, suddenly realizing that her James problem wasn't as big as she had thought it was...seeing it in another light.
Kierra's head was buzzing. And she could hear annoying chatter somewhere in the background. She heard her name...something about breakfast. Kierra moaned and pulled her covers over her head, which was throbbing with pain. 'Never...drinking...again...' she thought as she curled into a ball, finally realizing that it was morning and the girls were trying to wake her up.
Minutes later, she heard someone say "let her sleep, she'd had a long night..." It sounded like Dominique. Then she heard someone else, possibly Lily, saying "Alright, but let's come back and check on her if she's not downstairs in an hour..." and with that Kierra heard the door slam, causing the pain in her head to only double in magnitude,
Kierra thought about yesterday. It seemed quite fuzzy. She remembered being bored....stepping on Snape's foot in Zonko's...seeing Remus and Megan make out...she remembered quite a bit of firewhiskey...and yelling...Then she remembered throwing up in the toilet late at night...someone was with her...Dominique...Everything was hazy.
Kierra gave a loud sigh and sat up in her bed. "I need a shower..." she said out loud... "A nice cold shower..." and with that, Kierra stumbled out of bed and hit the bathroom.
Dominique was telling Alice and Lily about Kierra throwing up and being lovesick over Remus, when they were joined by Sirius, Peter and Remus. "Morning boys" Dominique said to them as she glanced up at Sirius to see if he was mad at her. He didn't look at her when he sat down, but he didn't look upset either. Dominique cleared her throat quietly to get Sirius's attention. "You alright?" she asked.
Sirius glanced up at her and looked at her with his grey, unblinking eyes through wisps of black hair that fell over his face. Dominique thanked her lucky stars that she was already sitting, as her knees had gone weak and wouldn't have been able to support her if she were standing. He looked absolutely irresistible when he looked at her like that...it simply melted her heart and made her legs turn to putty. Something of her thoughts must have shown on her face, as Sirius gave her a half smile, and said "I'm alright...are you?"
Dominique smiled and leaned closer to him and said quietly, "yea...it's just that...you look sexy like that..."
"How sexy?"
"very..."
"Really?"
"yea..."
"Enough that you want to"-- Sirius stopped talking, as James had appeared and took a seat next to him. "talk later on then?" Sirius asked.
"Sure..." Dominique said, looking down at her breakfast. Suddenly James cleared his throat and looked at Dominique, who glanced back up at him in surprise.
"Erm...sorry...about...yesterday...." James said slowly.
Dominique looked thoroughly surprised and accidentally swallowed a large chunk of toast without chewing it adequately, but she quickly recovered. "Me too." she said.
"I do look sexy after all..." Sirius said, running his fingers through his hair.
"Seems as though others share that view..." James said, nudging Sirius and indicating at a group of 4th year Ravenclaws who kept ogling at Sirius, and falling into a fit of giggles.
Just then, Kierra came down to join them and sleepily took a seat between Lily and Dominique, not noticing that students giggled as she walked passed them.
"Um...Kierra honey..." Lily said quietly as she leaned closer to her, "your fly's open..."
"Ugh..." Kierra muttered as she tried most discretely to zip up her jeans.
"Someone likes early morning action!" a blonde ravenclaw 7th year said as he passed by, laughing.
"Oh shut up..." Kierra said to her friends, and the marauders, who had all started to laugh as well.
"So, who'd you do?" James asked casually.
"Shut up James" Kierra said, flicking a piece of burnt toast at him.
"Someone's a Miss Cranky pants this morning..." he retorted, picking up the scrap Kierra threw and popping it into his mouth.
"Stop talking so loud!" Kierra snapped.
"I'm not!"
Kierra groaned at James's words, as if he had yelled into her ears. She rubbed her head wearily and took a sip of orange juice.
"I at least thought the cold shower would help...." Kierra muttered.
"How many drinks did you have anyway?" Sirius asked.
"Er...I don't remember...not that many, I don't think..."
"Three..." Remus said without thinking. Everyone looked at him. "You left your bottles lying around..."
"Oh..."
"Just three?" James scoffed.
"I could've had more if I wanted..."
"Good thing you didn't...or you would've been kneeling over the toilet longer last night..." Dominique said in a disapproving tone.
"Three firewhiskeys did you in? Just three? geez Nakofsky, I know you're a girl and all, but I thought at least you were built tougher..." James laughed.
"James!" Lily scolded, but Kierra interrupted.
"You trying to say girls are weak?? I bet any of us could take on any of you...any time..."
"but I don't like to drink..." Alice interrupted.
"Me neither..." Lily chimed in.
"Well, if only three drinks can do you in," James continued, ignoring Alice and Lily, "shoot, even Remus could beat you..."
"Should I be offended?" Remus asked aloud.
"I think you're supposed to be...but I dunno..." Peter said.
"Tell ya what...we'll see how long you all can last..." James said, "end of midterms, we'll have ourselves a little party...see how much you can handle..."
"A party? In the common room?" Alice asked.
"Yea...nice way to end the term..." Sirius said.
"I love it..." Dominique said excitedly.
"I hate it..." Lily said, "James! We are head boy and girl!! We cannot go around having a party!! What about the younger students?? And um, WE'RE not supposed to be having alcohol either!!"
"We could make it VIP..." Dominique suggested, "invite...I dunno...4th year and above? And only invite the ones we know won't rat us out...we can havem sign their names on a jinxed parchment....just to seal them in?"
"Brilliant!" James exclaimed.
"I don't think"--
"Oh come on, loosen up Lily!" Dominique protested.
Lily sighed in defeat. "Fine..."
"Did someone say something about a party?" Kierra asked, rubbing her temples.
"You're a quick one..." Sirius said. "Boy...only three drinks...and it did that much to ya..."
"I'm heading out guys, I've got arithmancy!" Lily announced as she rushed out of the great hall with Alice.
"Speaking of which, we should head to care of magical creatures." Kierra said as she grabbed her bag.
"Well, somebody's getting back into their senses" James laughed.
"Thank God...I'll need them to get through today's lessons..." Kierra muttered as she walked out with Dominique, with James, Peter, Sirius and Remus following close behind.
Later that day, Kierra sat in Ancient Runes, doodling flowers around the edges of her notebook. She usually enjoyed Runes, but today they were just reviewing for their upcoming exam...she knew the stuff for this class backwards and forwards and quickly lost her interest in the lecture. Besides, her head was still pounding.
Suddenly Kierra noticed a shadow that lay on her notebook. It was someone's silhouette. She recognized it immediately. Kierra turned to an empty page in her notebook and began to trace it. She sighed quietly as she traced the shadow's neck. It wasn't too long...nor too short...it was the perfect length....she would kill to be able touch the real version.
Just then, Kierra felt a scrap of parchment wiz by her. She glanced at where it came from-it was Snape, sending a note to James. Kierra glanced over at James and craned her neck over to see what Snape had written to him. It was a drawing of a girl, with bright red hair, and underneath the picture were the words 'Potter's mudblood girlfriend'.
Before Kierra realized what was going on, James was standing over Snape and holding him by the collar.
"Do NOT call her a mudblood!! And she is NOT my girlfriend either!!" James shouted.
"Mr. Potter!!" Professor Montrell exclaimed.
"Oh that's right, you wish she was…" Snape replied, reaching desperately in his robes for his wand. However, James threw Snape on the floor and pulled out his own wand.
"Mr. Potter!! NO"—
Too late. There was a loud eruption from James's wand, and a second later, Snape was running around in circles screaming frantically; his hair was on fire.
Professor Montrell knocked James out of the way and tried to put out the fire with water from his wand, but the fire remained burning in Snape's hair.
"Everlasting flamer…" Sirius muttered in awe, "nice one Prongs…"
"Come with me to the hospital wing, Mr. Snape…You Potter! Detention!! Rest of the week!! None of you move until I get back!!" Professor Montrell shouted as he escorted Snape out of the classroom.
"That was wicked…" Sirius exclaimed, extending his hand out to give James a high five, but James did not return it. He was shaking with anger. "Oy, you alright there?"
"Bloody coward…stupid…pathetic….no good coward…" James muttered as he grabbed his things.
"James, where are you going?" Remus asked, getting up.
"For a walk…needa cool down…" and with that, James left the classroom.
"That was something…wasn't it…" Dominique said, glancing at Sirius.
"Yea…a bit dangerous though…he could've killed ol Snivellus…I mean…he's so greasy…there could've been an explosion or something…." And with that the whole class burst into laughter, except for the small group of Slytherins that sat in the back of the classroom.
Soon the amusement of James's hex wore away, and everyone in the class began chatting with his or her friends, while they waited for Professor Montrell to return. Sirius, Dominique and Remus were discussing the upcoming post-midterm party. Peter, who sat next to Kierra, tried to engage conversation with her, but failed as he saw that she preferred to doodle than to talk to him. Thus he abandoned his attempts and joined his friends in the party planning, leaving Kierra alone with her drawing.
Kierra had returned to her silhouette. Though the shadow was gone, she had traced the entire shape, and had just begun to retrace over the lines to make them more distinct, when suddenly a hand swooped down in front of her and snatched her notebook up.
"Well…not only are you a little quidditch star…but you're an artist too!" Lucius Malfoy exclaimed.
"Give it back…" Kierra said quietly, determined to keep this between her and Malfoy.
"Isn't it lovely?" Lucius said, holding the notebook of out Kierra's reach and waving it to Mark Crabbe and Lewis Goyle, fellow Slytherins, who laughed at the drawing.
"Hmm…this silhouette looks so familiar…whose could it be?" Lucius asked with a smirk.
"What is he doing?" Kierra could hear Dominique whispering to Sirius.
"Give it back…" Kierra repeated, making a grab for her notebook but Lucius once again pulled it out of her reach.
"No, no…let's see who this is…she's done it so perfectly…looks like a boy…someone you fancy, I bet…"
"Give it back to her, Malfoy!" Sirius ordered, striding over to Lucius with an arm out.
Lucius looked back at the notebook. "Well, it's not Black…his nose is too sharp…" he said smiling, ducking down just in time to miss a punch from Sirius. He quickly went to the other side of the room.
"Well…it's definitely not Peter…his chin is too round…."
"Give it back to me!!" Kierra shouted, lunging towards Lucius, who backed up against the wall, right next to Remus. Lucius glanced up at him and back down at the silhouette. "Ah! We have a match!" Lucius announced, holding Kierra's notebook up to Remus's face, only to show that the profiles matched exactly. "What an artist!" Lucius said, smiling evilly at Kierra as he pushed the notebook back into her hands.
Kierra's eyes were rimmed with tears. "You asshole…" she said. Wanting nothing more than to hurt Lucius Malfoy, and getting as far away from Remus as possible, Kierra did the only thing she could think to do. She kicked her leg up, shoving her knee in right between Malfoy's legs. Lucius gasped in pain, and holding his crotch he collapsed to the ground. Without looking at anyone else, Kierra bolted out of the classroom.
The class stood in awkward silence for a moment, with the exception of Lucius's moaning, and the Slytherins trying to help him up. Immediately though, Dominique stepped forward and began to march out of the classroom in search of Kierra, but someone pulled her back.
"No, let me…."
Dominique nodded and stepped back as she watched Remus sprint out of the classroom.
(a/n: hats fly up and everyone cheers…hold on, there's more!!)
Remus looked to his left, then to his right. There was absolutely no one in the halls.
"Kierra!! Kierra!!!" Remus called as he walked down the empty corridors. 'Of course..' he thought, as he ran to the portrait hole.
"hodgepodge!" he shouted at the fat lady. Remus ran up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and collapsed at James' trunk. He quickly opened it and found at the top what he was looking for.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Remus said quickly as he tapped the piece of parchment. Remus quickly scanned the map and stopped when he saw a dot labeled "Kierra" outside. She was heading towards the quidditch field. Remus folded up the map and tapped it again, "Mischief managed" he muttered and he tossed it back into James's trunk.
By the time Remus got outside, he was out of breath. He scanned the field, and quickly spotted Kierra, trudging along the pitch, notebook in hand. Remus quickened his pace to catch up with her.
"Kierra!! Wait!!"
Kierra whirled around, her eyes widening slightly in surprise to see Remus.
"Hey…." Remus breathed as he finally caught up to her.
Remus glanced up at the sky. It had started to rain. "Maybe we should go inside…" he said slowly, not being able to think of anything else to say.
"You go on…I'm alright…" Kierra replied quietly, looking at the grass. It blew gently against the winds, tickling her ankles. Remus stepped closer to her. His brain seemed to have jammed up…he didn't know what to say now...
"You like me?" he blurted out before he realized what he had said.
If Kierra was surprised by him, she did not show it. She continued to stare at the grass. "yea…" she said automatically, but she looked up at him quickly and retracted what she said, "no…no…not anymore…I mean…um…"
As Kierra stammered, trying to take back her 'yes', Remus's stomach did a backflip, but then seemed to turn to jello. Megan. He was with her now. "Now you tell me…" he accidentally muttered out loud. "I mean"—
"scuse me?"
"I…um…" It was too late. There was no use of going behind Megan's back. He did not want to hurt her. "I'm with Megan now…I like her…we're having fun"—
"Oh yea, you made that quite obvious when you were feeling her up in Hogsmead!" Kierra snapped.
"You saw that??" Remus said hotly. It was raining harder outside, winds blowing harder. It was freezing, but Remus seemed to be feeling very warm at the moment.
"Yea…well…it was hard to miss…right in a public place you know…next time, get a room!"
"You know…I came down here to be nice to you, comfort you"—
"I don't need your comfort!" Kierra retorted.
"I wanted to tell you I liked you too!!" Remus shouted over the clap of thunder that had just struck.
"What's the point if you're gonna talk about Megan?!" Kierra yelled without thinking.
"I just thought"—
"Oh I doubt you were doing that!" Kierra's tongue seemed to move on its own accord.
"You know what?? Don't get mad at me about this! It's not my fault!"
"You think it's mine??" Kierra asked.
"If you liked me, you could've said something! You only had this whole school year!! But no…instead, you go off with that Kyle…what am I supposed to do? While you were running around having fun with him, I had to sit around and bid my time, and wait for you to break up with him…and now when you do, I've landed myself another girl…I can't just go break up with her…"
"Fine!!!"
"It's too late now…you should've said something! Then we wouldn't have been in this mess!"
"It's just your mess, Remus!" Kierra exclaimed, hugging herself from the cold. "I am perfectly content!"
"Fine, I don't know why I bothered then!" Remus shouted back as the howling wind swallowed his words.
"I don't know either!! What are you doing?!"
Remus stepped up closer, and pulled Kierra up against his body and pressed his trembling lips against hers. Bolts of lightening lit up the sky and thunder stuck yet again; the two seemed oblivious to it all.
Remus pressed forcefully against her lips, as if to make a statement, but soon he found himself clinging to Kierra's mouth as if holding on for dear life. His want for her only increased when she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him even closer to her. Remus desperately explored her mouth with his tongue, which she allowed with equal anticipation. As his fingers slid up her shirt, he felt her icy cold skin. He immediately reached on either side of him his cloak and wrapped it around the two of them.
At long last, they pulled away from each other, panting for air.
It was nearly 7 o' clock. The great hall was slowly beginning to empty out, and Dominique, Sirius, and Peter were recounting the entire incident in Runes to Lily, Alice and James.
"I always knew that Kierra liked him…" James said boastfully. "Kept it to myself of course…teased her all the time…but kept it a secret all the same…"
"You don't have to be a butt hole about it" Lily said with a tone of annoyance. James looked up at Lily with surprise at first, but his curious look turned into a frown, and he quickly got up and walked away, leaving Lily to stare after him in disbelief.
"Did I…actually…push the right buttons?" Lily asked, raising her eyebrows.
"You know what Evans, I think you did…" Sirius said. "Well, makes sense that he'd get mad, seeing as how he got detention because of you…"
"Me?? How??"
"In runes…before this whole Kierra/ Remus fiasco, James got detention for defending you…" and Sirius proceeded to explain Snape's crude drawing and James's hex.
"You mean, he actually…honestly…told someone I wasn't his girlfriend??" Lily asked in disbelief, turning to Dominique and Peter for confirmation, which they nodded to.
"Wow.." Lily murmured, deeply impressed. She snapped back into her senses quickly though, getting up and running out of the great hall. Minutes later she reappeared with James by her side.
"I'm sorry…" Lily said as she and James sat back down, "I didn't know about Snape…thanks for…defending me…and…well, being honest about not being your girlfriend…I'm so sorry about you got detention…"
Immediately, James's face lit up and a grin covered his beet red face. "I don't mind…" he said in a floaty voice…he seemed to have reached the highest heavens.
"Er…so do Kierra and Remus really like each other?" Peter asked in a disappointed voice.
"Dude, were you not listening?" Sirius asked with disbelief. "Of course they do! Why do you think Remus went and ran after her?"
"Which reminds me" Dominique interrupted, glancing around the great hall, "where are they??"
Everyone exchanged mischievous grins around the table. "Remus…that dog!!" James laughed.
Dominique rolled her eyes. "They've been gone for like almost an hour! Something's not right…maybe we should go look for them…"
"Yea, ok…" Sirius said, and they all got up and headed towards the door.
Just then, Kierra and Remus appeared at the door, soaked to the bone and shivering.
"Oh my!! You guys were out in that weather the whole time??" Dominique exclaimed.
"Y-y-yea…" Kierra said through chattering teeth.
"Let's get you a change of clothes…" Lily said, taking Kierra by the arm with Alice.
"I'll go get you some dinner…" Dominique said as she headed back to the great hall.
"Yea…you could do with a change as well…" James said to Remus. "Come on, Sirius and I will take you up. Peter, wanna get him some dinner?"
"Sure!" Peter said as he quickly followed Dominique back into the great hall.
Half an hour later, after a warm shower, Kierra felt revived and she bounded out the bathroom.
"Amazing what a warm shower can do…" Alice said, offering Kierra some dinner.
"I know…" Kierra smiled as she took her plate from Alice.
"Ok…so is this story gonna be good or bad??" Dominique asked anxiously.
"Good…" Kierra replied.
"Excellent! I've got butterbeers!" Dominique shouted, reaching into her trunk and passing each girl a bottle.
"Ok, ok!! Tell us what happened!!" Lily said excitedly.
"You better now?" Sirius asked, tossing Remus a clean t-shirt.
"Yea…much better, thanks…" Remus replied, pulling the t-shirt over his head.
"So you like her back?" James asked as he took a piece of chicken from Remus's dinner.
Remus nodded.
"Did you guys kiss?" Peter asked.
Remus nodded again.
"And then…out of nowhere…he just grabbed me….and kissed me…" Kierra sighed.
Lily, Alice, and Dominique sat on the edge of Lily's bed, staring at Kierra wide eyed. "wow…" the three murmured in unision.
"How was it?" Dominique asked excitedly.
Kierra closed her eyes and smiled dreamily. "I dunno how you describe a kiss like that….he just…forced it on me…it was angry, you know? But then he softened up a little…and then went….I dunno…needy…you know? Ahh…it was just so nice…."
"Did he"—
"tongue? Yes…"
The four girls lifted their butterbeers and cheered.
"How was it?" James asked.
Remus looked at him, Peter and Sirius thoughtfully. After a moment of consideration, he said, "pretty hot…"
"Niice…" the three boys said in unison.
"Tongue?" Sirius asked.
Remus nodded.
"Double nice…" the boys said together.
"I can't believe it….you two are finally together!!" Lily exclaimed as she drained the last of her butterbeer.
"It seemed like only yesterday you were running around, stalking him…" Alice laughed.
"Ok…that was last year!" Kierra laughed.
"I know, I know, I'm teasing…well…I'm really glad you two are finally together," Alice said.
"Yea, I know…finally…" Kierra sighed.
"So what about Megan?" Sirius asked.
"I dunno…" Remus replied. "I like her too…"
"You can't have two girlfriends, mate…" James said.
"I know," Remus sighed. "It would make things a helluva lot easier if I could…"
"More fun too" Peter said thoughtfully.
"Please don't interpret that" Remus said, causing Sirius and James to laugh.
"So who's it gonna be?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know."
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A/N: Long chapter, I know…I stayed up extra late writing it!! You don't wanna know what time it is right now… (wipes sleep from eyes…) ok, im so excited about this chapter so I'm just gonna shut up and let you read! Btw, sorry if some stuff (ie hangover stuff) is inaccurately described…I don't drink and wouldn't really be familiar w/ any of that stuff…just guesswork here…im a good girl, see.. :) newhos:
CH. 14
Dominique lay awake in her bed, staring at the ceiling. It was now 2 a.m. 'Stupid James...urgh...I am too sensitive...' Dominique thought, as she turned over on her side to face Kierra, whose bed was across from hers.
Kierra was sleeping on her stomach, giving muffled coughs every few minutes. Suddenly, Kierra's fits of coughs grew violent, and soon she was sitting up, awake, trying to breathe.
"You alright?" Dominique asked softly, getting out of her bed and going over to Kierra, who was pressing her hands against her head.
"Sick...(Kierra gave another loud cough)...bathroom...puke..." Kierra slurred.
"Come on.." Dominique pulled Kierra up and led her to the bathroom, grabbing her wand on the way. She quickly illuminated the bathroom and shut the door behind her. She looked over at Kierra, who was kneeling over the toilet and vomiting.
"Oh dear..." Dominique quickly went to Kierra's side, pulled off her own hair tie and fastened Kierra's hair with it. She patted her firmly on the back a few times. "There you go...get it out of your system..." Dominique said softly, hoping that Alice and Lily would not wake up. "You ok now?"
Kierra nodded, and with great effort she pulled herself up and went to the sink to clean her mouth. "I hate Remus..." she said wearily as she dried her face with a towel. "Stupid Remus...and his stupid Morgan..."
"I think it's Megan..."
"Oh yea..." Kierra muttered as she slumped against the bathroom floor. Dominique went over and slid down next to her.
"Just give it time..."
"I'm not sure why I'm so pissed...did he do something to me...?" Kierra asked, rubbing her head again.
"You...saw him making out with Megan, as I understand...from what you told us over dinner..."
"Oh that's right...pair of sluts..."
"Kierra..."
"I thought he liked me!"
"He does! ...he probably doesn't realize he does...or maybe...he just doesn't know what he wants...just give it some time, would you?"
"Yea, ok..." Kierra said as she tried getting up, but only stumbled backwards. Dominique reached in time to pull Kierra back up and steady her on her feet.
"Come on, you need some sleep."
"Yea...I had a weird dream..." Kierra said rather loudly, apparently not aware that Alice and Lily were sleeping and that it was night time.
"Did you?" Dominique asked in a whisper as she helped Kierra into her bed.
"Yea...You cut Sirius's hair...and he was crying...and...James...he yelled at you or something...and you started crying...I don't remember...something like that...Wait...did that happen?"
Dominique smiled slightly. "Yea..sort of...only I didn't cut Sirius's hair...a stylist did...and he wasn't really crying, though he was upset...James did yell at me..but I didn't cry...so...you got some of it..."
Kierra shrugged and rested her head against her pillow and pulled her covers up to her chin. "Well...thanks D...night.."
"Anytime..." Dominique said as she made her way to her own bed, suddenly realizing that her James problem wasn't as big as she had thought it was...seeing it in another light.
Kierra's head was buzzing. And she could hear annoying chatter somewhere in the background. She heard her name...something about breakfast. Kierra moaned and pulled her covers over her head, which was throbbing with pain. 'Never...drinking...again...' she thought as she curled into a ball, finally realizing that it was morning and the girls were trying to wake her up.
Minutes later, she heard someone say "let her sleep, she'd had a long night..." It sounded like Dominique. Then she heard someone else, possibly Lily, saying "Alright, but let's come back and check on her if she's not downstairs in an hour..." and with that Kierra heard the door slam, causing the pain in her head to only double in magnitude,
Kierra thought about yesterday. It seemed quite fuzzy. She remembered being bored....stepping on Snape's foot in Zonko's...seeing Remus and Megan make out...she remembered quite a bit of firewhiskey...and yelling...Then she remembered throwing up in the toilet late at night...someone was with her...Dominique...Everything was hazy.
Kierra gave a loud sigh and sat up in her bed. "I need a shower..." she said out loud... "A nice cold shower..." and with that, Kierra stumbled out of bed and hit the bathroom.
Dominique was telling Alice and Lily about Kierra throwing up and being lovesick over Remus, when they were joined by Sirius, Peter and Remus. "Morning boys" Dominique said to them as she glanced up at Sirius to see if he was mad at her. He didn't look at her when he sat down, but he didn't look upset either. Dominique cleared her throat quietly to get Sirius's attention. "You alright?" she asked.
Sirius glanced up at her and looked at her with his grey, unblinking eyes through wisps of black hair that fell over his face. Dominique thanked her lucky stars that she was already sitting, as her knees had gone weak and wouldn't have been able to support her if she were standing. He looked absolutely irresistible when he looked at her like that...it simply melted her heart and made her legs turn to putty. Something of her thoughts must have shown on her face, as Sirius gave her a half smile, and said "I'm alright...are you?"
Dominique smiled and leaned closer to him and said quietly, "yea...it's just that...you look sexy like that..."
"How sexy?"
"very..."
"Really?"
"yea..."
"Enough that you want to"-- Sirius stopped talking, as James had appeared and took a seat next to him. "talk later on then?" Sirius asked.
"Sure..." Dominique said, looking down at her breakfast. Suddenly James cleared his throat and looked at Dominique, who glanced back up at him in surprise.
"Erm...sorry...about...yesterday...." James said slowly.
Dominique looked thoroughly surprised and accidentally swallowed a large chunk of toast without chewing it adequately, but she quickly recovered. "Me too." she said.
"I do look sexy after all..." Sirius said, running his fingers through his hair.
"Seems as though others share that view..." James said, nudging Sirius and indicating at a group of 4th year Ravenclaws who kept ogling at Sirius, and falling into a fit of giggles.
Just then, Kierra came down to join them and sleepily took a seat between Lily and Dominique, not noticing that students giggled as she walked passed them.
"Um...Kierra honey..." Lily said quietly as she leaned closer to her, "your fly's open..."
"Ugh..." Kierra muttered as she tried most discretely to zip up her jeans.
"Someone likes early morning action!" a blonde ravenclaw 7th year said as he passed by, laughing.
"Oh shut up..." Kierra said to her friends, and the marauders, who had all started to laugh as well.
"So, who'd you do?" James asked casually.
"Shut up James" Kierra said, flicking a piece of burnt toast at him.
"Someone's a Miss Cranky pants this morning..." he retorted, picking up the scrap Kierra threw and popping it into his mouth.
"Stop talking so loud!" Kierra snapped.
"I'm not!"
Kierra groaned at James's words, as if he had yelled into her ears. She rubbed her head wearily and took a sip of orange juice.
"I at least thought the cold shower would help...." Kierra muttered.
"How many drinks did you have anyway?" Sirius asked.
"Er...I don't remember...not that many, I don't think..."
"Three..." Remus said without thinking. Everyone looked at him. "You left your bottles lying around..."
"Oh..."
"Just three?" James scoffed.
"I could've had more if I wanted..."
"Good thing you didn't...or you would've been kneeling over the toilet longer last night..." Dominique said in a disapproving tone.
"Three firewhiskeys did you in? Just three? geez Nakofsky, I know you're a girl and all, but I thought at least you were built tougher..." James laughed.
"James!" Lily scolded, but Kierra interrupted.
"You trying to say girls are weak?? I bet any of us could take on any of you...any time..."
"but I don't like to drink..." Alice interrupted.
"Me neither..." Lily chimed in.
"Well, if only three drinks can do you in," James continued, ignoring Alice and Lily, "shoot, even Remus could beat you..."
"Should I be offended?" Remus asked aloud.
"I think you're supposed to be...but I dunno..." Peter said.
"Tell ya what...we'll see how long you all can last..." James said, "end of midterms, we'll have ourselves a little party...see how much you can handle..."
"A party? In the common room?" Alice asked.
"Yea...nice way to end the term..." Sirius said.
"I love it..." Dominique said excitedly.
"I hate it..." Lily said, "James! We are head boy and girl!! We cannot go around having a party!! What about the younger students?? And um, WE'RE not supposed to be having alcohol either!!"
"We could make it VIP..." Dominique suggested, "invite...I dunno...4th year and above? And only invite the ones we know won't rat us out...we can havem sign their names on a jinxed parchment....just to seal them in?"
"Brilliant!" James exclaimed.
"I don't think"--
"Oh come on, loosen up Lily!" Dominique protested.
Lily sighed in defeat. "Fine..."
"Did someone say something about a party?" Kierra asked, rubbing her temples.
"You're a quick one..." Sirius said. "Boy...only three drinks...and it did that much to ya..."
"I'm heading out guys, I've got arithmancy!" Lily announced as she rushed out of the great hall with Alice.
"Speaking of which, we should head to care of magical creatures." Kierra said as she grabbed her bag.
"Well, somebody's getting back into their senses" James laughed.
"Thank God...I'll need them to get through today's lessons..." Kierra muttered as she walked out with Dominique, with James, Peter, Sirius and Remus following close behind.
Later that day, Kierra sat in Ancient Runes, doodling flowers around the edges of her notebook. She usually enjoyed Runes, but today they were just reviewing for their upcoming exam...she knew the stuff for this class backwards and forwards and quickly lost her interest in the lecture. Besides, her head was still pounding.
Suddenly Kierra noticed a shadow that lay on her notebook. It was someone's silhouette. She recognized it immediately. Kierra turned to an empty page in her notebook and began to trace it. She sighed quietly as she traced the shadow's neck. It wasn't too long...nor too short...it was the perfect length....she would kill to be able touch the real version.
Just then, Kierra felt a scrap of parchment wiz by her. She glanced at where it came from-it was Snape, sending a note to James. Kierra glanced over at James and craned her neck over to see what Snape had written to him. It was a drawing of a girl, with bright red hair, and underneath the picture were the words 'Potter's mudblood girlfriend'.
Before Kierra realized what was going on, James was standing over Snape and holding him by the collar.
"Do NOT call her a mudblood!! And she is NOT my girlfriend either!!" James shouted.
"Mr. Potter!!" Professor Montrell exclaimed.
"Oh that's right, you wish she was…" Snape replied, reaching desperately in his robes for his wand. However, James threw Snape on the floor and pulled out his own wand.
"Mr. Potter!! NO"—
Too late. There was a loud eruption from James's wand, and a second later, Snape was running around in circles screaming frantically; his hair was on fire.
Professor Montrell knocked James out of the way and tried to put out the fire with water from his wand, but the fire remained burning in Snape's hair.
"Everlasting flamer…" Sirius muttered in awe, "nice one Prongs…"
"Come with me to the hospital wing, Mr. Snape…You Potter! Detention!! Rest of the week!! None of you move until I get back!!" Professor Montrell shouted as he escorted Snape out of the classroom.
"That was wicked…" Sirius exclaimed, extending his hand out to give James a high five, but James did not return it. He was shaking with anger. "Oy, you alright there?"
"Bloody coward…stupid…pathetic….no good coward…" James muttered as he grabbed his things.
"James, where are you going?" Remus asked, getting up.
"For a walk…needa cool down…" and with that, James left the classroom.
"That was something…wasn't it…" Dominique said, glancing at Sirius.
"Yea…a bit dangerous though…he could've killed ol Snivellus…I mean…he's so greasy…there could've been an explosion or something…." And with that the whole class burst into laughter, except for the small group of Slytherins that sat in the back of the classroom.
Soon the amusement of James's hex wore away, and everyone in the class began chatting with his or her friends, while they waited for Professor Montrell to return. Sirius, Dominique and Remus were discussing the upcoming post-midterm party. Peter, who sat next to Kierra, tried to engage conversation with her, but failed as he saw that she preferred to doodle than to talk to him. Thus he abandoned his attempts and joined his friends in the party planning, leaving Kierra alone with her drawing.
Kierra had returned to her silhouette. Though the shadow was gone, she had traced the entire shape, and had just begun to retrace over the lines to make them more distinct, when suddenly a hand swooped down in front of her and snatched her notebook up.
"Well…not only are you a little quidditch star…but you're an artist too!" Lucius Malfoy exclaimed.
"Give it back…" Kierra said quietly, determined to keep this between her and Malfoy.
"Isn't it lovely?" Lucius said, holding the notebook of out Kierra's reach and waving it to Mark Crabbe and Lewis Goyle, fellow Slytherins, who laughed at the drawing.
"Hmm…this silhouette looks so familiar…whose could it be?" Lucius asked with a smirk.
"What is he doing?" Kierra could hear Dominique whispering to Sirius.
"Give it back…" Kierra repeated, making a grab for her notebook but Lucius once again pulled it out of her reach.
"No, no…let's see who this is…she's done it so perfectly…looks like a boy…someone you fancy, I bet…"
"Give it back to her, Malfoy!" Sirius ordered, striding over to Lucius with an arm out.
Lucius looked back at the notebook. "Well, it's not Black…his nose is too sharp…" he said smiling, ducking down just in time to miss a punch from Sirius. He quickly went to the other side of the room.
"Well…it's definitely not Peter…his chin is too round…."
"Give it back to me!!" Kierra shouted, lunging towards Lucius, who backed up against the wall, right next to Remus. Lucius glanced up at him and back down at the silhouette. "Ah! We have a match!" Lucius announced, holding Kierra's notebook up to Remus's face, only to show that the profiles matched exactly. "What an artist!" Lucius said, smiling evilly at Kierra as he pushed the notebook back into her hands.
Kierra's eyes were rimmed with tears. "You asshole…" she said. Wanting nothing more than to hurt Lucius Malfoy, and getting as far away from Remus as possible, Kierra did the only thing she could think to do. She kicked her leg up, shoving her knee in right between Malfoy's legs. Lucius gasped in pain, and holding his crotch he collapsed to the ground. Without looking at anyone else, Kierra bolted out of the classroom.
The class stood in awkward silence for a moment, with the exception of Lucius's moaning, and the Slytherins trying to help him up. Immediately though, Dominique stepped forward and began to march out of the classroom in search of Kierra, but someone pulled her back.
"No, let me…."
Dominique nodded and stepped back as she watched Remus sprint out of the classroom.
(a/n: hats fly up and everyone cheers…hold on, there's more!!)
Remus looked to his left, then to his right. There was absolutely no one in the halls.
"Kierra!! Kierra!!!" Remus called as he walked down the empty corridors. 'Of course..' he thought, as he ran to the portrait hole.
"hodgepodge!" he shouted at the fat lady. Remus ran up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and collapsed at James' trunk. He quickly opened it and found at the top what he was looking for.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Remus said quickly as he tapped the piece of parchment. Remus quickly scanned the map and stopped when he saw a dot labeled "Kierra" outside. She was heading towards the quidditch field. Remus folded up the map and tapped it again, "Mischief managed" he muttered and he tossed it back into James's trunk.
By the time Remus got outside, he was out of breath. He scanned the field, and quickly spotted Kierra, trudging along the pitch, notebook in hand. Remus quickened his pace to catch up with her.
"Kierra!! Wait!!"
Kierra whirled around, her eyes widening slightly in surprise to see Remus.
"Hey…." Remus breathed as he finally caught up to her.
Remus glanced up at the sky. It had started to rain. "Maybe we should go inside…" he said slowly, not being able to think of anything else to say.
"You go on…I'm alright…" Kierra replied quietly, looking at the grass. It blew gently against the winds, tickling her ankles. Remus stepped closer to her. His brain seemed to have jammed up…he didn't know what to say now...
"You like me?" he blurted out before he realized what he had said.
If Kierra was surprised by him, she did not show it. She continued to stare at the grass. "yea…" she said automatically, but she looked up at him quickly and retracted what she said, "no…no…not anymore…I mean…um…"
As Kierra stammered, trying to take back her 'yes', Remus's stomach did a backflip, but then seemed to turn to jello. Megan. He was with her now. "Now you tell me…" he accidentally muttered out loud. "I mean"—
"scuse me?"
"I…um…" It was too late. There was no use of going behind Megan's back. He did not want to hurt her. "I'm with Megan now…I like her…we're having fun"—
"Oh yea, you made that quite obvious when you were feeling her up in Hogsmead!" Kierra snapped.
"You saw that??" Remus said hotly. It was raining harder outside, winds blowing harder. It was freezing, but Remus seemed to be feeling very warm at the moment.
"Yea…well…it was hard to miss…right in a public place you know…next time, get a room!"
"You know…I came down here to be nice to you, comfort you"—
"I don't need your comfort!" Kierra retorted.
"I wanted to tell you I liked you too!!" Remus shouted over the clap of thunder that had just struck.
"What's the point if you're gonna talk about Megan?!" Kierra yelled without thinking.
"I just thought"—
"Oh I doubt you were doing that!" Kierra's tongue seemed to move on its own accord.
"You know what?? Don't get mad at me about this! It's not my fault!"
"You think it's mine??" Kierra asked.
"If you liked me, you could've said something! You only had this whole school year!! But no…instead, you go off with that Kyle…what am I supposed to do? While you were running around having fun with him, I had to sit around and bid my time, and wait for you to break up with him…and now when you do, I've landed myself another girl…I can't just go break up with her…"
"Fine!!!"
"It's too late now…you should've said something! Then we wouldn't have been in this mess!"
"It's just your mess, Remus!" Kierra exclaimed, hugging herself from the cold. "I am perfectly content!"
"Fine, I don't know why I bothered then!" Remus shouted back as the howling wind swallowed his words.
"I don't know either!! What are you doing?!"
Remus stepped up closer, and pulled Kierra up against his body and pressed his trembling lips against hers. Bolts of lightening lit up the sky and thunder stuck yet again; the two seemed oblivious to it all.
Remus pressed forcefully against her lips, as if to make a statement, but soon he found himself clinging to Kierra's mouth as if holding on for dear life. His want for her only increased when she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him even closer to her. Remus desperately explored her mouth with his tongue, which she allowed with equal anticipation. As his fingers slid up her shirt, he felt her icy cold skin. He immediately reached on either side of him his cloak and wrapped it around the two of them.
At long last, they pulled away from each other, panting for air.
It was nearly 7 o' clock. The great hall was slowly beginning to empty out, and Dominique, Sirius, and Peter were recounting the entire incident in Runes to Lily, Alice and James.
"I always knew that Kierra liked him…" James said boastfully. "Kept it to myself of course…teased her all the time…but kept it a secret all the same…"
"You don't have to be a butt hole about it" Lily said with a tone of annoyance. James looked up at Lily with surprise at first, but his curious look turned into a frown, and he quickly got up and walked away, leaving Lily to stare after him in disbelief.
"Did I…actually…push the right buttons?" Lily asked, raising her eyebrows.
"You know what Evans, I think you did…" Sirius said. "Well, makes sense that he'd get mad, seeing as how he got detention because of you…"
"Me?? How??"
"In runes…before this whole Kierra/ Remus fiasco, James got detention for defending you…" and Sirius proceeded to explain Snape's crude drawing and James's hex.
"You mean, he actually…honestly…told someone I wasn't his girlfriend??" Lily asked in disbelief, turning to Dominique and Peter for confirmation, which they nodded to.
"Wow.." Lily murmured, deeply impressed. She snapped back into her senses quickly though, getting up and running out of the great hall. Minutes later she reappeared with James by her side.
"I'm sorry…" Lily said as she and James sat back down, "I didn't know about Snape…thanks for…defending me…and…well, being honest about not being your girlfriend…I'm so sorry about you got detention…"
Immediately, James's face lit up and a grin covered his beet red face. "I don't mind…" he said in a floaty voice…he seemed to have reached the highest heavens.
"Er…so do Kierra and Remus really like each other?" Peter asked in a disappointed voice.
"Dude, were you not listening?" Sirius asked with disbelief. "Of course they do! Why do you think Remus went and ran after her?"
"Which reminds me" Dominique interrupted, glancing around the great hall, "where are they??"
Everyone exchanged mischievous grins around the table. "Remus…that dog!!" James laughed.
Dominique rolled her eyes. "They've been gone for like almost an hour! Something's not right…maybe we should go look for them…"
"Yea, ok…" Sirius said, and they all got up and headed towards the door.
Just then, Kierra and Remus appeared at the door, soaked to the bone and shivering.
"Oh my!! You guys were out in that weather the whole time??" Dominique exclaimed.
"Y-y-yea…" Kierra said through chattering teeth.
"Let's get you a change of clothes…" Lily said, taking Kierra by the arm with Alice.
"I'll go get you some dinner…" Dominique said as she headed back to the great hall.
"Yea…you could do with a change as well…" James said to Remus. "Come on, Sirius and I will take you up. Peter, wanna get him some dinner?"
"Sure!" Peter said as he quickly followed Dominique back into the great hall.
Half an hour later, after a warm shower, Kierra felt revived and she bounded out the bathroom.
"Amazing what a warm shower can do…" Alice said, offering Kierra some dinner.
"I know…" Kierra smiled as she took her plate from Alice.
"Ok…so is this story gonna be good or bad??" Dominique asked anxiously.
"Good…" Kierra replied.
"Excellent! I've got butterbeers!" Dominique shouted, reaching into her trunk and passing each girl a bottle.
"Ok, ok!! Tell us what happened!!" Lily said excitedly.
"You better now?" Sirius asked, tossing Remus a clean t-shirt.
"Yea…much better, thanks…" Remus replied, pulling the t-shirt over his head.
"So you like her back?" James asked as he took a piece of chicken from Remus's dinner.
Remus nodded.
"Did you guys kiss?" Peter asked.
Remus nodded again.
"And then…out of nowhere…he just grabbed me….and kissed me…" Kierra sighed.
Lily, Alice, and Dominique sat on the edge of Lily's bed, staring at Kierra wide eyed. "wow…" the three murmured in unision.
"How was it?" Dominique asked excitedly.
Kierra closed her eyes and smiled dreamily. "I dunno how you describe a kiss like that….he just…forced it on me…it was angry, you know? But then he softened up a little…and then went….I dunno…needy…you know? Ahh…it was just so nice…."
"Did he"—
"tongue? Yes…"
The four girls lifted their butterbeers and cheered.
"How was it?" James asked.
Remus looked at him, Peter and Sirius thoughtfully. After a moment of consideration, he said, "pretty hot…"
"Niice…" the three boys said in unison.
"Tongue?" Sirius asked.
Remus nodded.
"Double nice…" the boys said together.
"I can't believe it….you two are finally together!!" Lily exclaimed as she drained the last of her butterbeer.
"It seemed like only yesterday you were running around, stalking him…" Alice laughed.
"Ok…that was last year!" Kierra laughed.
"I know, I know, I'm teasing…well…I'm really glad you two are finally together," Alice said.
"Yea, I know…finally…" Kierra sighed.
"So what about Megan?" Sirius asked.
"I dunno…" Remus replied. "I like her too…"
"You can't have two girlfriends, mate…" James said.
"I know," Remus sighed. "It would make things a helluva lot easier if I could…"
"More fun too" Peter said thoughtfully.
"Please don't interpret that" Remus said, causing Sirius and James to laugh.
"So who's it gonna be?" Sirius asked.
"I don't know."
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