Chapter 3
Sirius sat down collapsed down on the common room sofa and spread his legs over the arms and lay flat. He sighed
"I can't take school" he moaned. Nadia took her bag of and flung it on the floor, she looked at Sirius and rolled here eyes
"Look at you! Taking up the whole sofa…budge up will you?" she asked with her strong accent. Sirius made an inaudible groan. "Fine" said Nadia "If you won't move for me, you can stay where you are!" Nadia flicked her hair and span around. She then sat on Sirius' legs.
"Ow!" he grumbled
"Your fault! Move now, if you want to live" she said pompously. Sirius kicked her off quickly, she laughed
"You know you're really heavy. You don't look it!"
"I'm not fat I'm…well perhaps… muscular"
"You're not either Nadia you're just heavy!"
"Either that or you're weedy…oh hi James"
James just entered the room and threw his bag down next to Nadia's
"Whats happening?"
"We're debating whether I'm fat, muscular or Sirius is weak"
"Mixture of the latter two"
Sirius scowled as Nadia laughed
"How did it go with Lily?" asked Sirius, remembering how James took it as a ritual to ask Lily out every day.
"Great! She said she'd rather go out with a hippogriff!" said James brightly.
"Wow!" said Sirius
"Sorry, is this a good thing?" asked Nadia
"You bet" said James missing the sarcasm "Last time it was the 'giant squid' I must be growing on her"
Nadia laughed.
"So Sirius do you have a girlfriend?" Nadia asked. James answered for him
"Sirius has a new girlfriend every week, its hard to keep track though…Sirius, which one are you dating at the mo'?"
"Er…Allison Barnette…I think"
"So Nadia, I know you're not interested but has anyone chatted you up yet?"
"Not chatted up exactly…but I have had a few wolf whistles and flirting glances"
"Cool" said Remus entering
"Yeah but what can be expected…I'm hot" she said waving a hand
"I love this girl" said James laughing "She's like a female version of me"
"Look James I can do without the insults" she laughed; she kissed his cheek in a friendly manner. "Hey Peter" said Nadia waving at Peter who entered. Peter looked delighted to have been singled out by Nadia.
"Did you get your time table Nads?" asked James
"Yeah I…Potter, what the hell is Nads?" she sniggered
"Nads is your new nickname! Now why are you calling me Potter?"
"Because it make me laugh" she said simply "Oh yeah I got my time table…first lesson: Potions!" she punched the air
"Please don't tell me you like potions" said Sirius pulling a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans from his pocket
"Love it" she said scanning the time table
"Why?" asked Peter taking one of Sirius' beans without asking
"Because I don't do anything in it…it's a whole lesson of messing about!" she said
"Well I never thought of it like that" said James nodding "Guess we'll make it through old Sluggy's class…Hey Lily" said James as Lily entered, she scowled at James and walked over to Nadia
"We're sharing a dormitory" said Lily coldly
Nadia's jaw dropped and she whined
"Can't I share with these guys?" she pointed to the Marauders. "No offence or anything"
"None taken but you can't…they're boys if you hadn't noticed…we're not allowed to share dorms with boys…its against the rules"
Nadia snorted
"Talk about sexism and segregation…okay Lily when's bed time?"
"There's no set time…but it's an early start tomorrow, so I'm off to bed, goodnight Nadia…good night Remus" she ignored the other Marauders and went to the girl's dormitory.
At Potions next day: ---Nadia stifled a laugh. Sirius put a hand over her mouth to stop her. James was ladling large spoonfuls of their badly made potion he then leaned forward and began to pour it down a greasy haired boy nicknamed – Snivellus.
The boy gave a sudden shudder and screamed shrilly as the liquid poured down his back.
Narcissa, James and Sirius burst out laughing
"What is wrong Snape?" asked Professor Slughorn turning around from the blackboard
But Snape could not talk, his body was inflating and he had begun to float slightly from his chair. "Who made their potion wrong?" asked Slughorn coldly. Nadia was shaking with trying to stop laughing. Professor Slughorn seemed to notice this "Well I'd better deflate him before he hits a candle and blows up.
"Oh please don't sir" whispered Sirius under his hand. Slughorn took out a antidote from his desk, pulled (a rather large and floating) Snape down by the hand from the ceiling. He then poured the potion onto his head. Snape began to deflate. He hit the ground with a slight thud.
"You'd better go to the Hospital wing Snape…off you go, Miss Black, go with him will you?" Slughorn said to Snape and Narcissa. He then turned to Sirius, James and Nadia "Detention you three, my office straight after dinner, half past seven!"
"But sir" Nadia put on a puppy dog face "We're innocent" she practically had a halo popping out of her head and wings sprouting from her back.
This did not seem to fool Slughorn, most likely McGonagall told him about Nadia detention.
Later at Lunch: ----"She's so cool," said James looking over at Nadia who was chatting to gang of Slytherins, she was wearing her blue Italia cap again
"Yeah said Sirius" strangely dreamily. James looked at him
"Do you like her?" asked James grinning
"What! No she's my friend…why the hell is she talking to Slytherins though"
"I don't blame you," said James "She looks great, she acts great and she has a really cool accent"
"I don't like her like that…but yes I shall admit she is pretty…very pretty…okay stunningly sexy, but that's not the point!" said Sirius
"You know you've never hidden your feelings about a girl before Sirius, you must really fancy her"
"I don't! And even if I did she already said she didn't want a boyfriend"
"Ah, but she also said she couldn't say no"
"She never said that Prongs"
"No but she seemed to imply it"
"Yeah and she also said she would leave if she got a boyfriend…We don't want her to leave now do we?" said Sirius biting on a breadstick.
"True" said James
Sirius looked over at Nadia. It was true she was amazing. Everything Sirius thought an ideal girl should be. Sexy, witty, funny, interesting and clever! She was not shy or naive and she was not slutty. Perhaps she would go out with Sirius. He was the best looking guy in school so it was a possibility she would not want to leave him. If he thought the relationship was not going anywhere, he could dump her. He was not scared.
Sirius decided to try his luck as soon as they finished dinner. He watched sourly as Nadia was engrossed in a conversation with Lucius Malfoy.
"So after we finish lunch we have some free time?" asked Nadia who had sat back at the Gryffindor table. She was smiling excitedly and her eyes were glittering with a weird happiness
"Yeah, the quicker we eat, the longer we have?" said James
"Really?" asked Nadia wide eyed. She began shovelling food into her mouth with very little etiquette.
Sirius looked at James bemusedly
"Something happened?" asked James
Nadia, who had a large wad of bread stuffed in her mouth, simply shrugged.
"Mamy Fum mot ma wmatch?" came her full mouth
"Eh?" asked James
Nadia swallowed
"Any one got a watch" she repeated.
"Yeah, James held out a his watch arm"
Nadia grinned. She pulled out a mint from her pocket and stuffed it in her mouth
"I gotta go! Love the watch Potter" she got up from the table and ran out of the room.
"Whats up with her?" asked Sirius
James shrugged