6th May, 1995
Bedroom, 12 Grimmauld Place
3: 21 PM
Am starving.
Haven't eaten in fifteen-odd hours.
Haven't had anything with chocolate in it for fifteen-odd hours.
Will go crazy if I don't get my required chocolate intake.
3:48 PM
Well, Sirius just had a nice talk with me. Yes. I suppose it was more like a lecture.
Anyway, I was having a lovely time trying to concuss myself so I wouldn't think of (drool) triple-layer black forest cake with dark chocolate icing. Drool. Drool. Droooool.
Ahem. So, there I was, merrily banging my head away on my mahogany headboard, when I decided it wasn't hard enough for concussing me. Therefore I moved on to my bedside drawer. Then I decided that wasn't hard, nor thick or big enough. So I felt that my closet would suffice.
Just so you know, my closet is a hard, thick affair, with a double layer of wood, laminated and polished very highly. It's made of slightly aged beech. Very tough against wear and tear.
Had I just been another normal girl, I would have been knocked out after the bedside drawer. But noooo, I'm an Auror, so I've been trained to withstand physical pain. Bloody trainers, they just have to do it all right.
There I was, knocking away on my closet, when all I get is a splitting headache, resulting in double vision. Before I know it, two Siriuses (and I thought one was hard enough to deal with) and two giant beady-eyed Hippogriffs come barging into my room, and the left Sirius drags me away from my very timely demise, the right Sirius gives me a bar of chocolate, and the left Sirius asks me a few questions, which sooner or later evolves into a full-fledged argument, which went something along the lines of this:
"So, Nymphadora, my dear cousin, how are you?"
"Fine, Murderer, besides the fact that I've a raging headache, I see two of everything, and you gave me a bar of fruit and nut, which I hate."
"Alright then, 'Dora, I'll get you a nice dark chocolate next time, okay?"
"That's fine by me, Pain-In-The-Rear."
"Nymph."
"Crybaby."
"Dung-head!"
"Idiot!"
"Child who can't get out!"
"At least I didn't snog someone I pretend to like in front of someone I've fallen head-over-heels for, prat!"
"Who the hell told you about that?"
...And so on.
Turns out Sirius had a talk with Remus last night about the Incident (yes, the Incident has earned itself a capital letter). Two-faced traitorous man. Anyway, Left Sirius (my double vision hadn't quite cleared up yet) told me that Remus actually does like me (Merlin, I swear I'll faint if I write that one more time, the last page of this book's covered it "Remus likes me"s from several minutes of doodling after Sirius left) but he reckons Idon't like him at all. Ha! If only he knew.
He loves me, he loves me, he loves me, he loves me...
..And yeah, I haven't made up with Remus yet. Maybe at tonight's Order meeting...?
Ooh, I forgot, John's going to be there. He said he'd try be there, to see what it would be like.
Crap.
Attic, 12 Grimmauld Place
10:03 PM
Well, the Order meeting ended fairly quickly, so it's soon evolved into a party. Arthur had been cleaning up in the cellars a few days ago and found a whole load of illicit alcohol, then Dung pinched the whole lot off him, and so now everyone's drinking and stuff downstairs, that is, when Molly isn't watching. The things Molly's made are being really quickly consumed, too, like her famous chocolate brownies, apricot cookies, pigs in blankets, and these awesome miniature bread puddings that are baked with honey and dusted with icing-sugar. Mmm.
This meeting was fairly short, probably because John was there (the Order's always careful with new members). Minerva (since she's taken over the Order's responsibilities since Dumbledore disappeared) said a piece on what we'll all be doing over the next few weeks, and she quickly finished the meeting. A few people left after that, but most members sort of lingered, then started eating, then drinking, and so on.
I came all the way up here because I wanted to write in you. I've had quite a few shots of some strange 90-percent alcohol drink, so excuse me if I'm a little tipsy!
Anyway, John struck up a conversation with me after the meeting, told me he really liked the Order. I said that was really good, but when he tried to kiss me, I wouldn't let him again. After looking rather confused, puzzled, and slightly annoyed, he kissed me on the cheek, gave me a mock lecherous wink, then went off to chat with Emmeline. Soon I started to look for Remus, but I couldn't find him, even when I checked in the library, his favourite spot. Nobody was in there except a pair of indistinguishable people in a rather... ahem... suggestive position. I left shortly after I spotted them. And figured out who they were. And damn, how exactly does a thirty-seven-year-old ex-convict on the run catch a woman?
I guess I'll go to find Remus again.
10:27 PM
Well! Finally found Remus. He was with Buckbeak. I tried talking to him, but he just quietly and emotionlessly told me to go off and have some fun downstairs. Of course, he had to add in the pleading eyes look, so before I knew it, I was downstairs striking up a conversation with Dedalus Diggle.
Why must I be such a weakling to those bloody lovely eyes of his? I swear, if a Death-Eater had those eyes, I'd be telling him all about the Order.
10:41 PM
Why, of course I'm being influenced so easily by those eyes! Because it's that bloody time of the month! After I'd finished having a nice talk and another shot of alcohol with Charlie and Bill, I became very aware of a reddish stain on the kitchen seat I was sitting on. Gah. Excused myself very speedily, rushed upstairs, and found the dreaded, evil, and very out-to-get-me, feminine cause of iron loss all over my very new, very clean, and very white three-quarter pedal pushers, and also on my still very new, very pale green, and very long tunic-like shirt.
Bah.
I hate my life.
A/N: Ah, a bit of a boring chapter this time around. I promise, though, that more interesting things will be coming soon!
Thanks to my reviewers for chapter seven: Unforgettable, LilypEoVtAtNeSr, Phillippa of the Phoenix, mercutio-rane (your stories take the cake, by the way), Carnivalgirl, crazy turtle, Auramistealia, madamwolf, siriuslover25, FCK all that's missing is U, MAEday, iamari, and lookingforlupin! A special thanks to all the people who've reviewed all the way from chapter one of the story!