A small twinkle of light was playing across his face; he could feel it, almost see it through his eyelids. Waving his arm a little above his head he tried to push it away and was rewarded with the sound of laughter.
Quicker than he should have he sat up in his bed and felt his head connect with someone else's and a screech of pain. James finally opened his eyes to see Sirius rubbing his bumped head with one hand while holding James' glasses in the other.
"What you doing, Sirius?"
"Waking you up I thought, but if I had known you'd head butt me I'd have woken Remus up instead."
James rubbed his head again lightly as he took his glasses, Sirius he noticed was fully dressed; he had on a red T-shirt and black trousers. As he pulled his shoes on James remembered why they were up so early on a Saturday and threw himself out of bed.
He was in the bathroom scrubbing at his teeth before Sirius had noted he was moving.
"I'll meet you downstairs, okay Jamie boy?"
"My name isn't…"
He didn't finish the sentence as Sirius had already fled to the common room. So looking around he found a decent T-shirt, which after a quick sniff he noted wasn't too bad, and threw it on followed by a pair of jeans.
Then as quietly as he could he left the room although he wondered why he bothered since Sirius and he had already made enough noise so if Peter and Remus were going to wake they would already have done so.
"Oh, so you're ready, are you? About time, too!"
James just smiled as they left for the Great Hall. They were slightly late and thought that Christian would kill them, but he was busy making faces towards the Ravenclaw table. The two boys took their seats and Frank leaned straight over.
"Kathy bumped into Morgan this morning, went all giggly and she even blushed, and apologised. He smiled and helped her up and asked her if she wanted to join him for breakfast."
"Is that why Christian looks ready to kill?"
Frank just nodded at James as he again took to his breakfast. Christian looked away with a grim look on his face and looked around the table. Ted was sat next to him munching on toast and James could see Christian's eyes flying around the room.
"Where's Dixon?"
As if a summoning she appeared at the door to the main hall with Alice. James heard the gasp that came from Alice's lips as she saw the Ravenclaw table but it was quickly silenced as Amanda grabbed her hand and led her to the table.
"Sorry I'm late, Alice asked me to wait for her."
The pair sat down, Amanda choosing to sit next to Christian; she leaned in closer to the captain and rested her arm on his back.
"So what I miss, Tom?"
"What did you call me?"
"Tom. You know as in short for Thomas, which is your first name, if you want I can just call you Christian but that would mess up Kathy's plan. So what I miss?"
"Kathy's plan?"
Amanda rolled her eyes and looked at the others causing Frank to speak up.
"She came in the hall on her own just after Ted and I came in. She sort of stood in the doorway for a while and then when Morgan arrived she managed to bump into him, making it look like a complete accident."
Amanda grinned and nodded at him to continue. So Frank did.
"She apologised for it saying something that sounded a lot like her head was elsewhere and then she blushed as he helped her up. Then she joined him at the Ravenclaw table and wow, she's shooting you daggers with her eyes, mind so is Morgan."
"Yes it's working!"
This time Alice smiled too and leaned over to give her friend a high-five but Sirius' eye's narrowed as he looked closely at the girl.
"What exactly is going on Mandy?"
"Well after you all went to bed Kathy and I sat in a corner to discuss how this was going to work and we figured that since Billy hates me maybe he'd like her more if she hated me too. Also we had the little problem of everybody knowing that Kathy and Tom here are together so we came up with this plan."
James caught on rather quicker than the others and smiled slightly himself.
"She told him that you had come between her and Christian didn't she, Mand?"
The girl nodded
"Yep and that she broke up with Tom because he was two timing her with me. That way Billy will really believe he has a chance and will like her all the more for hating me!"
"YOU DID WHAT!"
Everybody jumped back a little from Christian who was going red in the face and Sirius noticed Amanda was giggling slightly from his side.
"Calm down, Christian"
This was the first time Ted had spoken and he looked a little bemused.
"You said you'd do anything to win the game and now he's going to let Kathy have an easy time so calm down the plans working."
"Oh, and I don't see you letting Andromeda do this sort of thing with other guys."
"Yes I do, because I trust her, she goes to all those pure things and always comes back to me because she loves me, and Kathy loves you so stop panicking."
This did the trick and they all sat together eating their breakfast quietly. Soon the hall was beginning to fill up and everyone made some comment about Kathy being at the Ravenclaw table especially since she was playing them later.
Amanda also noticed the looks she was getting; she had her arm intertwined with Christian's and he kept leaning over towards her and whispering things in her ear and she'd smile and nod. He seemed to now really be into the part and was even stealing food from her plate.
The rest of the team were just giving them funny looks and when the remaining third years came in it was more shocking at some of the things they shot at Amanda. Ginny being the roughest of the lot.
"Mand, what the hell are you doing?"
"Having breakfast."
"Oh no don't even try that one, I mean look at you you're all over Christian and why's Kathy sitting with Billy Morgan?"
Frank was laughing now and Alice tapped him slightly but he looked up at Ginny beating Amanda with his answer.
"Christian and Kathy broke up because Mand and Christian here have been sneaking around with each other for a couple of weeks now. So Kathy is being comforted by Morgan."
Ginny's eyes fleered with anger and Amanda knew this was going to be trouble. But nothing more was said as she stormed over to the other end of the table quickly followed by Lily and Branwen. Joseph though took the seat next to Alice.
"I don't think she's happy with you, Mand."
"Oh it's alright, she's only annoyed that I didn't tell her before, but I'll sort it out after the game."
With the mention of the game Christian looked at his watch. Sirius looking at his own saw it was nine-thirty; time they were heading down to the changing rooms. The team stood and Christian moved to head to the Ravenclaw table but Amanda held him back.
"Don't you go over there Tom, it'll just cause problems! Let Ted go tell Kathy and we'll start heading down now."
So while Ted went to get Kathy the rest of the team headed down to the changing rooms and as they were leaving all eyes were on them and the gossip about what was happening between the team mates started.
Okay so its late here, like passed midnight and since I'm sitting at the computer I thought I'd post now since I'm working all week and I'm not sure when I'll get back on here. Haven't got much to say the next post will probably be next weekend possibly the Monday as I'm now having to read books for next years Uni course and trying to work on year 4 of this story in my spare time.
Karen he is really cute but you've seen the picture. I'm glad you're enjoying knowing what's to come when those on the board don't, got some twists coming up soon.
Jess Strongest Magic that's stupid I can't believe they took it, I loved that story.
Firewalker Don't worry if you can't review right away just take as much time as you can the chapters aren't going anywhere. Yeah Amanda some fun coming up with her, this year is like really focused on her isn't it, but it's shifting for fourth year.
Yep the bitchiness will show a different side but I'm not sure what you'll make of it. I think year five might be the bitchy year, that's when hormones are going to kick in for everyone (already got a great scene between Ginny and Alice planned)
HBP took me 13 hours to read mainly because I work Saturdays and Sundays so had to read it around the book. I loved it got some real out there theories didn't see bits coming, there were parts I didn't like (a certain romance and I'm not talking Won Won) but on the whole it was great.
Taylin I think there's going to be a lot of twists and turns and a lot of relationships that people won't see coming and people won't like but most of them won't be important relationships and James and Amanda, there's something there but what it is well that's for another year.
Alice and Frank, they're relationship is based on one of my friends ones, I don't want to give it away but there's a major reason for their break up and an even better one for them getting together. It's all about strengthening friendship.
Okay that's all I've got to say for now, more post like I said next week, unless I can get on around work, but not sure I'll be able to this week at all.
Kris xx