Previously: He slowly climbed onto the bed. It felt great after this horrible Wednesday. He closed his eyes, and slipped into sleep without even realizing he wasn't in the right bedroom…
Chapter 8: Masks
Thursday morning. Harry woke up with someone's arms wrapped around him. He, and this person happened to wake up at the same time.
"Whoa!" Coco exclaimed scooting back from Harry. "I wondered why my pillow had a heartbeat. I'm still tired though." She said, and yawned.
"I am too. Wanna go back to sleep?" Harry asked.
"You don't care about the hug thingy?" Coco asked surprised.
"I liked it actually. It's nice to know someone still thinks I'm worthy of affection." Harry replied bitterly.
"In that case," Coco said eagerly, and wrapped her arms around Harry. They both fell asleep almost instantly. At 2:00 p.m. Apocalypse walked into the room.
"Coco rise, and shine mija. Whoa! Harry what are you doing in Coco's room!" she exclaimed. Harry sat up.
"It's ok. Nothing happened." He wasn't wearing a pajama top, just pajama bottoms. Coco was wearing a big t-shirt, and pajama bottoms.
"That's not what it looks like," Apocalypse said accusingly and turned to Coco, "See mija. He just wants to cuddle all the time."
"And this from the girl who fantasizes about cuddling with Lu…" Coco began.
"SHUT UP!" Apocalypse interrupted.
"I don't have a problem with cuddling", Harry said.
"Me neither. He's like the perfect size to cuddle with." Coco added. Albus Dumbledore strolled in.
"Here's the Daily Prophet Coco. Tell Harry I can tell he's hiding under the sheets. Professor Snape, and I went looking for Harry last nightand found him in here. Which is ok, because there wasn't enough bedrooms for the new visitors so you two would've shared anyway except we would have brought in another bed, but cuddling works too."
Snape came in, "You don't look very lonely Potter." Harry groaned, and put the blanket over his head.
Professor McGonagall walked in."Albus may I borrow your Daily Prophet? Mr.Potter! What in the world were you doing with Miss Frijoles?" Apocalypse burst out laughing.
"Frijoles!" Coco stuck her tongue out at Apocalypse as she (Apocalypse) roared with laughter.
"Sleeping", Harry said coolly. McGonagall gasped.
"No no no! Not that type of sleeping. Actual sleeping, like resting," Coco explained.
"FRIJOLES!" Apocalypse laughed hysterically.
Fred, and George walked quickly into the room, and then cheered, "Harry scored! WOO HOO!"
"No he didn't!" Coco protested.
"Frijoles!" Apocalypse laughed again.
"Harry scored! YAY! Harry scored! WOO HOO!" Fred, and George kept repeating as they ran down the hallway. Dumbledore began shooing the other professors out of the room.
"I'll just leave you two lovebirds alone," he said closing the door.
"Yeah, just forget me!" Apocalypse said annoyed. Coco was already up, and dressed.
"You're fast", Apocalypse commented.
"Yeah, let's go eat something. C'mon Harry," Coco said. All 3 of them walked down the stairs where they met Ron.
"Is it true Harry? Did you score with Coco?" Ron asked eagerly.
"No Ron," Harry said annoyed.
"But the professors saw you two in the same bed", Ron reasoned.
"Yes we slept in the same bed, but nothing happened. Nada. Zippo. Zilch." Harry explained.
"Riiiiiiight" Ron said and winked.
"I'm 14, what 14 year old does that?" Cocoasked annoyed.
"I was the one who woke them up, and they were both dressed", Apocalypse said sourly.
"Ok", Ron squeaked. He was kind of scared of Apocalypse and abig spider was crawling along the wall. Apocalypse turned, screamed, and hid behind Coco.
"Arana! Arana!"
"SPIDER!" Ron screamed, and ran. Coco, and Harry laughed at the both of them.
"It's just a daddy long leg", said Coco gently.
"Kill it", whispered Apocalypse. Instead, Coco took the spider outside, and set it free.
"I still say you should have killed it", Apocalypse pouted. Coco laughed.
"Harry is it gone?" Ron whispered.
"Yeah," Harry said, and Ron came out.
"I hate spiders! Did you guys kill it?", Ron asked.
"No. I set it free.", Coco said.
"WHAT!" Ron hid behind Harry again.
"I told her not to" Apocalypse said.
"I'm hungry, let's eat."
The four of them went down to the kitchen. Luckily, the others didn't know about the 'scoring' that Fred, and George won't shut up about. For lunch, it was a really really weird looking pizza.
"Mum, what is that?" Ron asked when they all sat down, (he didn't know about pizza).
"Well, I tried to make a muggle food called 'pizza.'" Mrs. Weasley. "I don't think it turned out well though," she added worridly.
"Oh, but Mrs. Weasley, it looks delicious!" Coco lied, but she knew looks can be decieving. Behind Mrs. Weasley's back she whispered to Ron, "Not a word about the pizza." They all ate quietly. 'At last, quiet,' Harry thought, 'Peace and quiet.'
"Una arana!" Apocalypse screamed. Harry looked down and saw, not one spider, but three daddy long legs. Ron froze with fear and gave a large gulp. "Kill it," Apocalypse whispered to Coco.
"Sorry, I can't. It's not my fault you and Ron have the same stupid fear of spiders!" Coco said, getting revenge on her friend.
"Make them go away," Ron pleaded still frozen.
"Spiders are popping everywhere, dears," Mrs. Weasley said, "I'm afraid we'll have to clean this place, again."
Ron gave a moan, "But muuumm."
"No whinning. Today we can't clean. We need to get ready for tonight. It's a special Order meeting and everyone must wear fancy apparel. You can either wear fancy muggle or wizard/witch clothing. Best of all, we'll be wearing decorative masks!" Mrs. Weasley announced happily.
"You mean a masquerade," Coco chuckled.
"What's that?" Ron asked.
"Costume Ball," Coco said.
"The Order was able to buy everyone an outfit, unfortunately, they picked it for you, so it may be a little, well, ugly," Mrs. Weasley continued.
Coco took a bite of the pizza finally and exclaimed, "Hey! This tastes pretty good!"
"Thank you Coco," Mrs. Weasley beamed. Out of the corner of one of the kitchen cabinents, Mrs. Weasley took out 4 boxes and handed each box to the person whose name was on it. She then gave each person about 15 more boxes. "Give these to the people written on the box. It also has directions on how to find the rooms. Now hurry up, we haven't got all day!"
Harry secretly hoped that he got a full face mask. He also hoped that the outfit wasn't ridiculous. Harry stood up with his boxes and began to deliver them. One went to Johanon Lipschitz on the 2nd floor, the second went to Daniella Smockey also on the 2nd floor, 3rd went to Fleur Delacour on the 4th floor, 4th went to, Hermione Granger and the 5th, went to Draco Malfoy. They were sharing a room. Harry knocked on the door but there was no answer so he opened it. Malfoy and Granger were laughing, (Granger was giggling) and sitting on a couch cuddled together inder a blanket.
"Leave the boxes where you are standing Harry," Granger said calmly but bitterly.
"It's Mr. Potter, Miss Granger," Harry replied coldly.
"Very well, Mr. Potter," Hermione sneered. Harry simply dropped the 2 boxes and stomped out of the room. He then finished delivering the other boxes angrily. Most of the people didn't evenrecognize him. Which was a plus.
Harry went to his and Coco's room to see his outfit. Coco had already tried on hers and she was still wearing it. Mask and all. Even though she didn't do her hair or make-up yet, she looked stunning. The dress was strange, but Harry had come to expect abnormal from her. She wore a sleeveless red gown, that had a black sash, black lace bell-sleeves, a velvet-black hooded cloak, the half beneath the sash was very flowy and had some gold designs on the hem. The mask was black with gold beadds and red around the rims. "How did I look?" Coco asked.
"A lot better than I ever will," Harry joked and she chuckled.
Harry put on his and looked in the mirror. His pants were black, his knee-high boots were black, his leather gloves were black, his poofy button-up blouse was black, but he also wore a red traditional general jacket that at the bottom flowed out like a cape. the jacket had golden embroidery on on the cuffs, hems, pocket covers, and neck cuffs. To Harry, this jacket screamed Gryffindor pride, so naturally, hewanted it. The mask was white and would cover the burned part of his of his face, but only that part. No more, no less. It was perfect.
"Let me look at you," Coco said encouragingly. "You look like you you just ran out of a fairy tale.," Coco complimented and then added, "May I fix your hair?"
"Sure, of course," Harry sat down on a chair and Coco went to work. When finished, the mask no longer looked like a mask. It looked like it belonged there. Harry, personally, did not like masks. They always seemed to him just tools to hide from your fears.
Coco were just finished getting ready when there was a knock on their door.
"You two lovebird done?" Apocalypse opened the door.
"You're going too?" Harry asked.
"I was forced to," ahe replied angrily.
Apocalypse wore a blackmask that framed her honey/coffee brown eyes. Her corset was black with gold lacing and borders. Her skirt was extremely poofy, black, and had agold embroidered hem. Ron on the other hand wasn't so simple. He wore an almost black purple jacket (like Harry's) that had golden embroidery on the cuffs, hems, pocket covers, and neck cuffs. Around his neck was a rather large yellow ascot. As for his legs, his pants were yellow and his boots were black. He too had a black mask that framed his eyes.
"Well, Ron," Coco said trying not to laugh, "you look...spiffy."
"You look nice Coco," Ron said shyly.
"You do too Ron," Coco replied, not being entirely truthful.
Harry put out his bent arm, "Shall we?" Coco smiled, nodded, and hooked her arm through his.
Ron tried to do the same. "I don't think so," Apocalypse snapped. Everyone headed toward the main staircase. Harry and Coco were told that they were going last so they went to the back of the line. Then it began (the ceramony).
Definitions:
mija: 2nd term of affection; "my daughter" not literal!
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