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Ch. 11It was late at night, but the girls' couldn't sleep. Erin set up a hazing charm and cast a silent bubble spell, at least that's what she called it, and she came up with it. Well her and Hermione came up with it when they wanted to talk late at night and didn't want to bother Lavender and Parvati. So the girls' were sitting on Xenia's bed with a circle of light around. If any of the other girls' woke up they wouldn't see or hear a thing, just the air was a little hazy and just as dark. But on the bed it was light and they could talk as loud as they wanted. And Erin could be visible, which was definitely a plus.
What Erin, Xenia and Lily did not know was that just behind the wall that was behind Xenia's bed was Sirius' bed. They had no idea that the two dormitories were back up against each other and that was the wall that the bubble rested against. Erin hadn't thought to make the wall imperturbable and with how they were carrying on the wide-awake Sirius had heard this with his extremely honed ears. "Hey, guys," He whispered.
Harry, James and Remus all sat up in bed and looked at him, it appeared only Peter, who was snoring rather loudly, was asleep. "What?" Remus asked.
"I can hear the girls and they're talking about us." He said pushing back the curtain at the head of the bed and using his wand to make a small hole in the wall between the stones. Instantly the voices could be heard quite distinctly. The boys got out of bed and all sat on Sirius' bed curious about this new turn of events.
"Ok," Xenia said. "First crush. Lily?"
Lily blushed red. "Remus." There was squealing from the other two girls and something inaudible from Erin. "Well, I was attracted to him because he was nice and sweet and shy and he's very cute."
"So what happened?" Erin asked keenly.
"James happened." Lily said groaning. "No matter what I do and no matter how I fight against it he's there and it's obvious we're going to end up together, but you know he is so annoying! Always messing up his hair because he thinks it makes him look cool…" James had a look on his face halfway between 'Now she tells me' and 'Yeah, right, I am cool'. "And he's always cursing people! For the fun of it! He's such an arrogant little ponce so I don't see why I'm so attracted to him." She sighed. "Erin?"
Erin giggled. "Harry." Harry was blushing from his seat as he listened. "Ever since the first time I met him I just had this crush on him…it was just like fate or destiny that we should end up together. I mean he's cute, nice and he isn't afraid to break the rules or the law for that matter if it means doing the right thing. I just love him, he's the only one I can ever see myself with." She grinned. "Mum?"
Xenia laughed. "Guess." She said.
"Sirius!" Lily said at once.
"Nope, guess again. I doubt you'll ever guess, I'm appalled now, but that's how it is."
"Snape." Erin said jokingly.
"Right."
"WHAT?" No one heard the gasp from the boys' side because Lily and Erin had yelled in disgust.
"Snape?" Erin asked. "That greasy, slimeball with a great honker of a nose and the most rudest disposition in the history of wizarding kind?"
"Yes." Xenia said. "I met him on the train to Hogwarts. I was sitting with my brothers and sisters, it was Xenus' last year here and he sat with us in the compartment. It was Xenus, Selena, Xena, and I. Xena is my twin sister." She explained in case Erin didn't know. "Severus sat in the compartment with us and he was charming and said all the right things. Xena was also smitten with him, she's going with Evan Rosier now, though."
Lily and Erin were just looking at her. "That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard." Erin said.
"I know." Xenia said. "I'm just glad Sirius doesn't know about it, he'd most likely try to kill him just because I once had a harmless crush."
"Tomorrow, during break, by the lake." Sirius whispered to James. "He is so dead."
"Ok, first kiss!" Xenia said. "Erin, you first!"
Erin blushed. "Harry, of course. Hermione, Ron, Harry and I were going down to Hagrid's hut to see him and during it we got into a race. I won, Harry came in second, Ron in third and Hermione in fourth. Well, we told Hermione that as consequence she had to kiss Ron. She said she would, but only if I kissed Harry. I agreed and Hermione kissed Ron…on the cheek and made the idiot act like a mindless twit for a while afterward. And then I kissed Harry." Erin grinned. "It was a few minutes long and well… Hermione said she never even saw the older students kiss like that. It was an interesting experience I can tell you that."
Sirius hit Harry on the back. "She had to kiss you?" He whispered. "That's my daughter."
"There was never any doubt." James said. "No one else could have produced her."
Sirius just grinned like a fool at that and they continued listening. Xenia was next. "My first kiss…" Sirius turned to the others nodding to them. "My first kiss was with James."
Sirius' head whipped around to glare at his best friend. "What?" He whispered loudly.
"It was on like the second day of first year and it was a bet. Sturgis bet me that I wouldn't kiss him, so I did. It wasn't really a kiss, you know, it was my first kiss and I kind of wish now I had cornered Sirius, but James was there and well, you know." She finished a little lamely.
Sirius was still glaring at James who was putting his hands out in front of him. "Wasn't my decision, mate."
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked all the madder.
"I forgot." James said weakly. "Ok, ok, I just didn't know what to say to that."
Sirius wasn't ready to forgive James yet, but they went back to Lily, who was talking at the moment. "My first kiss…uh…I haven't kissed anyone." She said blushing.
"It's ok." Erin said. "You're not missing much."
"Liar." Lily said smiling a little.
"I am," Erin admitted. "I love kissing Harry, you'd never know he never kissed anyone else. He's just really good and I love the feeling I get when I am close to him. It's kind of electric and just really pure and nice all at the same time. Harry isn't one to be very passionate or forward, not like Dad," Xenia grinned. "And even if I have to initiate it most of the time, well, I don't mind. It's just nice to have someone that you know it's always ok to kiss him, or touch him, or talk to him. I really love Harry and I just can't imagine loving anyone else."
"Ahh!" Lily said. "That's so sweet. Yeah, Harry does seem to be a lot like James, the bloke wouldn't know how to start something like that even if he took lessons."
There was a general outpouring of snorts here with Remus, Sirius and Harry laughing at James. The other boy just had a look on his face of wondering why on earth they were even listening to this stuff. "Well, Harry can start it pretty well." Erin said. "Like the last time we were on a broom…man that was some liplock and then afterward," Erin sighed. "Harry can kiss and that's all I'm saying."
Apparently, thought Harry, Erin has said quite a bit already. He was blushing still, but he really didn't mind Erin talking about him. It was obvious that it made her happy to and he wasn't about to stop anything that made her happy. "You know what I've often wondered?" Xenia said. "Do guys do this too? I mean do they sit around with each other and just talk about the girls in their lives or ones they like?"
"Yes." Erin said. "They do. I know Harry told me that he and Ron do it all the time. Harry is the only one that Ron will tell this stuff too, but Harry won't always talk about me, because Ron can be a little ponce when it comes to girls. Like, for instance, this past year was when he found out I liked him, and oh, this story is horrible, but I can laugh now." Harry put his head in his hands; it was a truly horrible story. "We were in Defense Against the Dark Arts and we were facing a Boggart! Well, my greatest fear is seeing Harry dead and that is the image that appeared. No one saw who it was though, thankfully. But when I tried to think of something funny I did think of something, but a second before I said, 'Riddikulus' another image popped into my mind, one of Harry and I kissing. Well, you can imagine how well that went over." Erin sighed. "It was truly embarrassing and I ran out of the room. Well, Harry told me afterward that while he was thinking about it that the idea of kissing me wasn't all that terrible." The girls shrieked with laughter at that. Harry groaned thinking about it. "And we finally talked about it… we really never got the chance until months later and he told me that he felt the same way as I did, he just didn't know how to tell me." Erin smiled. "Harry is so wonderful that sometimes I can't believe that he's mine." She leaned back against the headboard. "I love him so much and I have since that first day…and he admitted to me that he was in love with me too, since the beginning, he just never realized it. I faced two Mountain Trolls for that boy, in our first year and he never realized it! And then in second year I pushed him out of the way of a rockslide and was buried myself and he didn't realize it! Harry can be a bit oblivious when it comes to this stuff, but I wouldn't have him any other way."
"HOW COULD YOU NOT REALIZE THAT?" The girls' were silent and on the other side of the wall the boys' were silent.
"Sirius, you idiot!" James suddenly said.
"What? It's my fault!" Sirius defended. "Harry's the one that couldn't realize that a girl facing a mountain troll and certain death means she likes him!"
"You're the one that yelled!" Remus argued.
"Yeah, well, tell me you wouldn't have!" He said. "Even you aren't that oblivious!"
"Dad, Remus is that oblivious." Erin joined in.
"Erin, stay out of this!" Remus said.
"You guys were the ones listening to us!" Lily called back. "How much did you hear?"
"Well…" Harry said, "What did you start with?"
"First crushes…" Xenia spoke up a little hesitantly.
"Then we heard everything." James said.
The girls' shrieked and jumped off the bed. "Close the door!" James yelled. "They're gonna kill us!"
The girls' were faster though, it was probably because the books got all tangled as they tried to get off Sirius' bed and fell to the floor. Before one of them could crawl his way out of the mess the girls' were on them hitting with pillows and yelling at them for spying and whatnot and how all four of them were rude gits. The fight ended with a prefect coming in and telling them it was too late to be killing the four of them and that they should go to bed. The prefect was actually quite amused with the goings on. Unsurprisingly, it was Frank Longbottom, Neville's father.
