Chapter 9 - Christmas time!

Dedicated to a yet another lovely reader of mine, Lady Cantara:)

On Christmas morning I woke up late, long after everybody had opened up their gifts.

I rolled out of bed and put on a robe and my soft white slippers, and finally stomped down the stairs with my big bunch of presents in my arms.

Almost every Slytherin had a big family and had to go home.

Me and Cissa however both hate our families, my father is a boring man, I don't think he has feelings at all, he would spend Christmas with the only person he cares about, his brother, Godfrey.

Cissa's parents live in a big residence in London, with silver forks and mahogany staircases, but she hates them. They keep blabbering about getting married, and the Blacks are close friends to the Malfoys, their families even meet in the holidays to go to some luxury cabin in the highlands.

"Crys baby, hey!" Cissa jumped up to hug me.

"Happy Christmas honey!"

"Happy Christmas yourself!"

I looked around in the warm common room to see that there were only four more students staying for Christmas, all fourth year boys.

"Well, so what do you want to do today, now the castle is asshole free? I have a certain blonde evil asshole in mind."

"Yeah, me too. You sure he left?" I giggled.

"Who left'" A voice drawled behind us. My heart sank and I saw Cissa's eyes widen.

"Everybody. You see the common room is practically empty!" I said quickly before Cissa could say anything.

"Now how about those presents of yours?" Cissa asked me, ignoring the blonde boy standing behind me.

"Yeah! I think I'll open them now, and then we can go down for breakfast Cissa."

"Sure!" she smiled, and I guess we both had the same thought in our minds.

We would enjoy Christmas, we would simply have to block Lucius.

I reached for a gift; I read it was from dad.

When I unwrapped it a smile spread over my face, he had bought me brand new Quidditch gloves, and a small lovely silvery watch. I made a mental note to send an owl with a cute letter to him.

"I like that watch!" Cissa said happily and tried it on her wrist.

The next present was wrapped up in green shiny paper, and it had a card that said:

To my love. From James.

I unwrapped excitedly, and revealed a small box. When I opened it I saw a beautiful necklace, with a small light blue pearl.

"Awwww…" I heard Cissa moan next to me. I simply yelped and felt warmth fill my body from inside out.

I grabbed the next present, it was soft, and marked from Cissa. She opened her mouth.

"Oh, I put the present you gave me aside, so we could open them together, you could open the one from me, I would open yours."

She got the present from me and we opened.

I gasped. When the paper was unwrapped, lovely blue satin nightgown slid out, short with a lovely lacy V-neck. Aside she had put some shower gel, and some body lotion, witch both smelled the same sugary candy smell.

Cissa was very happy about the underwear, and the candy I had put in too.

"I love these Crys!"

"Thank you. I love the gown, it's so soft, and the smell of these things, is just great!"

We hugged tight and left Lucius on the sofa, Cissa didn't look at him, and later we heard he took the first train home after that.

We galloped up the stairs, out of the dungeons and up to the great hall.

The smell in there was delicious, and on the table was a selection of tasty things, chocolate mousse, fruit and berries, cinnamon rolls, tea and juices, peanut butter- chocolate chip cookies, and some sliced turkey with potatoes, mashed potatoes, rice, gravy and everything.

A few teachers were still sitting by the table, as were a few Hufflepuffs, and we sat down with stuffed plates, Cissa only allowed herself to eat properly a few times of the year, Christmas was one of these times, so now her two plates (one for the desert and one for the meal) were loaded and she was enjoying every bite, chewing slowly and had a satisfied look on her face.

After the meal, we ran back down to the dungeons, Cissa was actually more like stomping, holding her full stomach.

"Crys wait…" She finally said.

I laughed. "Fine. Are you full or what?"

"Oh I'm full." She giggled.

"Yeah…"

"So…" She began as she sat down in the stairs. "How are things doing with you and Jamesykins?"

I tilted my eyebrows. "We're cool."

"Are you a couple now?"

"Erm.." I thought for a while. Were we? He said he hoped I was his girl. I said I was all his. Not to forget our snogging session.

"I guess." I heard myself say dreamily.

"Awesome."

"I know." I squeked.

"Let's go down these stairs lovebird. I think I have to puke."

"You really shouldn't have eaten that fourth dish of chocolate mousse." I grinned.

"No I shouldn't have." She smiled weakly and stood up with great effort.

"So…" She spoke when we stood in the front of the statue.

"Cheers." I muttered to the statue and it moved aside.

I heard a small familiar tap on the window and ran towards it. James' grey owl, Dusters, was about to break the window in fury.

When I slid it open, the owl squeezed itself into the warmth, and sat on the owl stand near the fire.

This stand was made for tired owls delivering mail to Slytherins, and it had a bowl of water and another one with bird food on it.

I untied the letter from Duster's leg and read:

Dear Crys,

I have great news. When I came home two days ago, my mother and father informed they were getting back together. They are so in love all the time now, can't take their hands off each other (gross), Sirius and I sometimes have to run off to not be harmed for life. He's staying here for Christmas, and he says hey to you and Cissa.

Hope you liked the necklace, I am getting very excited about what said in your note.

Lots of love

James

I giggled when I read the note part. I had put a note in a box and wrapped it up, marked it to James and sent it with a school owl. The note from me said:

Hey James.

I have good news and bad news. The bad news are you're not going to get your present now. The good ones are that it's a good present, it's not a thing it's more of a meeting…

Love

Crystal

"What does it say!" Cissa asked excitedly.

"Oh...lots of things."

"Can I see it?"

"Maybe." I waved the parchment in front of her. She tried to grab it but I have a good reflex, and moved aside, just a moment before she grabbed it.

In the end she flipped and tossed herself onto me.

"Ouiii. That hurt." I said flabbergasted.

She, so much bigger than me, could grab it from my hands in seconds.

She read it over in a few seconds; her purple-ish eyes had a hint of tease in them.

"Well, who's getting all lovely dovey?"

I smirked. "I am."

"Good. Good."

"How about you Cissa? You dating?"

"Oh nooo… I'm just. You know. Sort of. Dating Greg. Zabini."

"Oh. He's so cute. And so evil." I answered.

"I like evil guys. Except Lucius. There was a time I liked him though."

"Yeah. I know." I hugged her.

"He was so nicely evil. Such a gentleman. Now he's a rapist."

"Oh stop thinking about him would you? It's Christmas. We're supposed to be doing something fun!" I exclaimed, patting her on the shoulder in a hush-hush manner.

"Fine," She looked up. "What's fun?"

"I don't know." We thought for a while.

"Let's just be lazy. Okay?"

"Yeah. I like that! Go get your penguin pyjamas."

"I don't have no penguin pyjamas…"

"Hey that's not my problem, what are you complaining to me about? I'm going to wear mine."

She grinned.

"But I do have these awesome ones with the carrots."

"Good."

We spent the evening in front of the fire, on two big soft sofas, chatting and eating candy, having some quality friend time.

Gosh, I'm suffering the biggest writer's block EVER! Sorry it sucks and it's short…haha… I just wanted to post something… :S

Lots of love from the Lady!