A/N- Hey all Its Jmac here. I hope you guys like this chapter, and Im offically handing out 20 invisible cookies to those of you who reveiw.

Chapter Fifteen-Nikki: ACrazy Day

October 2nd 2004,

I swear. I don't know what in the hell is up with Sara, but its really beginning to bug me. I love the girl, but god, is it really imperative that she run around like a long tailed pussycat in a room full of rocking chairs all the damn time? No worries though, ill just go Nancy Drew on her ass and super sleuth around until I figure it out. Give me fifteen minutes, and this case will be closed.

She was sitting in the common room, reading like she would never lay her hands on a book again. I plopped down on the couch beside her, smiling like an idiot at the memory of waking up with Harry on that very couch just a few short weeks ago. Since then my life has been a vacation in heaven. Well, until now. I HATE it when Sara makes a point to be all stand-offish, and distancy twords me. I just cant figure out why she'd be doing this, unless...Mother of Pearl! She's jealous of me and Harry.

"Sara Kendal" I called her name seriously, and fixated her with one of my best This-is bull-crap-and-you-know-it looks, im apparently so good at.

"Nikki Campbell" Her reply was bitter, and she only gave the teeniest of glances over the top of her book. Damn it. Im so gonna need more than fifteen minutes this time.

"What's with you hun? Why are you all "ice queen" on me all o f the sudden?" My vision quickly became blurry with my hot withheld tears. It hurts when she gets like this, especially since I need her as much as I do.

" Nothing Nik, Im just tired of seeing you lovebirds making out all over the place. If you think Im gonna be the third wheel all of the time, than maybe its time you had your eyes checked." She inched farther away from me, and resumed her reading as if I never existed.

"Sara, please don't do this. Don't crash my happiness now. Im here, right here, and I promise you im not going anywhere. Just give me a break ok?"

" Yeah, you say you're here, say everything's gonna be alright, until Harry Comes around and you leave me lying in the dust again" I was surprised to find that the flood of tears had broken free, spilling unmercifully down my cheeks.

"Sara, do you remember what it felt like when you won that scholastic award, back at Salem?" she nodded and I continued shakily. " well, multiply that by about a billion, and that's what it feels like when Harry kisses me. He's the first guy that's ever called me beautiful, the first brave enough to stand up to my great bitchiness. Im so sorry that Hunter broke up with you girl, but please don't ice me because I found someone. I swear to you ill never leave, Harry or no Harry, because I love you too much to hurt you intentionally."

Tears brimmed in her hazel eyes as she looked back at me intently.

" I feel so stupid now. I should've known that you'd never walk out on me, but please for the love of all things holy, try not to blind me with the PDA every time I look Yall's way."

"Gosh, I don't know if I can promise you that, but ill do my best." A smile made its self visible through the veil of sadness that shrouded around me. It never fails, Sara and I cant possibly stay mad at each other longer than five minutes in a row.

"Im so glad I wasn't ever that bad with Hunter."

"Holy Hell Sara, who are you kidding? That ass always had his tongue shoved so far down your throat, I made bets on the exact moment you would choke to death on it."

Man It felt good to be sarcastic again. It felt even better to know Sara was sitting a foot from me, a foot that I could easily close, if things got crazy and I needed my beautiful best friend to depend on.

"Sara" I called quietly

"Yeah"

" I promise. Im always here."

"Good, and Nik?"

"Yeah?"

"Me too"

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That night, Sara and I sat by the fire with Ron and Hermione putting the final touches on our potions essays. Hours went by before Hermione was satisfied with her work, and though all of us had finished long before, we felt obligated to make her feel special by letting her think she finished first. Everyone headed off to bed, except me. Harry had a late detention with Umbridge, so I decided to stay up and wait for him.

Forty five minutes later the Fat Lady's Portrait swung open, and Harry appeared through it looking tired, and mad as hell. He hated Umbridge, almost as bad as he hated Snape, and it showed.

" Hey Sexy" I called as he took the seat next to me by the fire.

"Hey yourself" His smile lit up the room effortlessly, and the kisses he dropped easily upon my lips made my head spin.

"You know, I've been told we do this too much." I couldn't help but laugh as I watched his belittled expression. " But you know, if your weren't so damn irresistible we wouldn't have this problem" I kissed him again to prove my feeble point.

"And if you weren't so beautiful, I wouldn't want to snog you within an inch of your life every time I see you." his arms where wrapped around me tightly, holding me closer to his warm body as we continued to argue between sessions of heated kissing.

The intensity between us built, disorienting me further. My heart raced, and my breathing came in sporadic gulps that deprived my brain of the oxygen it craved. I pulled away, fighting with all I had to keep some shred of composure. Hisfingers where nowtracing Intracate patterns on my back. as he looked into my eyes.I so hate it when he does that, It drives me crazy, and he only does it because he loves to watch me squrim.

"Ok, Harry I give. Now stop before I hurt you."

I dont really remember untangling myself from his arms, or howI ended up in my bed. Harrys kissing expertise had fogged my brain and ruined its thinking ability. My eyelids are getting heavy, I guess I have no choice now but to surrender myself to sweet sleep.

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