The sun coming through that big ass window woke me up. It was one of those
good waking up though, where you drift comfortably out of sleep, not wake
up with a start. I looked around the room Amy must already be downstairs.
"I'm surprised she didn't wake me up." I said out loud to no one in
particular. Getting up I surveyed the room. She really did do an amazing
job on the mural. And it had all been done without magic, well for the most
part I had the strangest feeling that the constellations were placed with
magic, but besides that the painting was all her.
Big difference between her room and mine, mine has white walls with Quidditch posters covering most of the wall space, on almost every wall but the one by the bed. The wall by the bed was covered with parchment scraps detailing all the plays. That way I fell asleep thinking about them and would maybe dream up better ones.
"Maybe they are right, maybe I do need a new hobby." and now I'm talking to myself, good thing there's no one around to hear me.
I got up and made my way to the door, pulling the t-shirt over my head that I had disguarded in the middle of the night. I could hear people in the kitchen, and I could smell breakfast. What time is it anyway?
Emily emerged from her room in front of me, hair sticking up in every direction, and falling out of the ponytail. Her pajamas on the other hand, perfectly matched.
"Nice look." I said trying not very hard to suppress a laugh. She spun around with this look of horror in her eyes; she must have forgotten that other people were spending the night.
"If you tell another sole about this back at school" She said her eyes narrowing on me "I will curse you so bad, you won't be able to play for years." And with that she stormed off into the bathroom.
'She probably could' I thought, but no matter it would be something to hold over her head all year long. Could be fun.
I rounded the corner into the kitchen, and there stood Amy, at the stove while her mother bounced busily around the kitchen. Everything in this house was normally done without magic, so that the neighbors didn't get suspicious. So it was always interesting to see how the other half lived. It also smelled a lot better.
"Your parents are out on in the garden dear." Autumn said without looking up. It was amazing how similar, her and Amy are in personality. But Emily definatly looked more like her mom.
"Anything I can do to help." I asked
"Yes dear, can you grab the Orange juice off the counter, and just put it out on the garden table."
"Alright." I said grabbing the container. I walked over the counter next to Amy just in time to see her turn a sausage link with her fingers in the pan. Now normally most people would think, that's just stupid, who touches a hot pan, or better yet hot greasy food in the pan. Well you see boys and girls, Amy was born with this unique gift, and no its not stupidity. She can heal herself, Its one of the most rare gifts in the wizarding community, and no one in her family was quite sure where she had gotten the gift from, Because none of them had it.
"What?"
"Nothing still freaks me out is all." I said turning away with the Orange Juice
She hadn't ever told anyone that was until her third year, in potions. She was working on one with a Slytherin 3rd year who thought it would be funny to splash some onto her hand while she was adding more ingredients. When the liquid splashed up on her hand, it burned into her skin, and the Girl, started to laugh. Snape was coming over to see what had happened and most likely to deduct some points, but when he reached Amy and grabbed her hand, It had already started to bubble the stuff out of her skin, and her body was already replacing it with new skin. Snape stood there absolutely dumbfounded, along with the rest of the class 'How long have you known you could do this?' he asked her 'Since I was about 3 or 4' 'Can you heal others?' 'I don't know sir I've never tried' 'Class dismissed,' he then turned to her 'Not you, you are to come with me' I saw them leave his classroom together, and decided that it couldn't be good, so I followed them, about ten feet in front of Dumbledor's Office, Snape turned to me 'This does not concern you Mr. Wood. 5 points will be deducted for being a snoop' 'Professor, its ok let him come with, he knows about this' I remember feeling my heart sink, I knew exactly what she was talking about, and I had seen it with my own eyes when I was about 10 'Very well,' he said the password, and we followed him up the winding stairs, and stood at the back of the room, waiting to be acknowledged.
'Albus, may I have a word with you.' Snape was staring up onto the balcony waiting for him to appear 'What can I do for you Severus' He smiled down at the two of us. 'Were you aware that our young Ms Snow, has the ability to heal herself instantaneously' What was that tone I detected, was ornery Professor Snape actually, impressed by something a Gryfindor could do.
'Is that correct, Ms Snow,?' he asked grinning from ear to ear 'yes sir' you could tell this wasn't something she was proud of, it was something she couldn't hide out in the muggle world. She had told me before, if she was ever hurt while out there she would risk exposing the entire world and there was nothing she could do about it.
'Well then, you will have to be trained to control it.' he said almost reading my mind. 'It's not a very common gift, but it is one of them that is highly regarded. Once your trained up a bit, you may even be able to heal others my dear.'
She nodded in agreement 'go back to your classes, I will explain to your teachers where you have been.'
'Thank you sir.' We never spoke of it again
Although I was pretty sure that she was coming along nicely in her training, because last year Emily tripped up the stairs on her way to the common room, and split her head open, blood everywhere. No one had seen it but me. She was fine by the next day and hadn't spent a minute in the hospital wing.
I made my way out onto the garden patio, Kevin and my parents sat around reading the Daily Prophet
"No news is good news, or so they say, He hasn't attacked anyone, that can only mean good things." My mom always the optimist.
I set the Orange Juice down on the table, and walk around to the bench. When my father looks up and says, "Did you owl the recruiters yesterday like I asked you to?" Oh great this argument again
"Dad, I can't owl them until there is something for them to see. Practice hasn't even started yet. I need to have someone to play against for him to see me." I say rolling my eyes
"We could set up a private audition. Maybe if you asked Kevin nicely then he would play against you for the recruiter." he said looking at Kevin hopefully
"Ya, Oliver of course I'll help you." said poring himself some juice "when I was your age, had my brother around to help with my recruiter."
"I would rather them see me in an actual game Dad." I said picking up a disguarded paper "That way they can't say that old Kevin Snow was going easy on me."
"Old Kevin Snow, tread lightly boy." Kevin said smiling "Or I might not let you stay in my little girls room anymore."
Wow did this just get awkward, he's kidding of course but the jokes he used to make when I was 13 take on a whole new meaning when your 17.
"Hey, Kevin, I have class. I have nothing but the utmost respect for your daughter." and trying to keep a straight face was becoming very difficult, and then I burst out laughing.
Just as we were getting into this, is when all of the ladies from the kitchen came out with the meal. Pancakes, sausage, bacon, omelets, anything you could possibly imagine for breakfast was being brought out into the garden.
We all started to load up our plates, mine was heaping full of all this good stuff, when I heard a noise from over by the fence. Autumn at once had everything magical in her hands, wands weren't allowed out here. But the papers, well moving pictures seemed to confuse some people.
"Hello Kelly." I heard Amy say, "want to come over we are just sitting down to breakfast."
Aww now why did she have to go and do that I groaned inwardly
"I told you, you shouldn't have slept with her, that it would just be weird." Amy said softly enough that I only heard her. "She's one of my best friend and she lives next door, did you actually think you would never run into her again."
"NO, but I was hoping it would be longer than this." I said looking at the grass
"She's going to want to do it again, you're all she's talked about for months Oliver," she whispered sympathetically
"It was a dumb idea the first time, and its not going to happen again." I said firmly. Kelly is a pretty girl and all but she is a muggle, and it is strange to have to hide who you are when you are so intimate with someone.
It had been a bad idea.
Amy had thrown herself a party last year after school ended, to reconnect with all of her friends that she hadn't seen in ages. She invited me, and a few other people from school, but we were under strict rules that if we came we were not allowed to do any magic, or even talk about anything magical. I had spent most of the evening with Katie Bell, and her boyfriend Jamie Majors, because the twins were up to something and Percy had been chasing them around, making sure that they didn't do anything too destructive.
Katie and Jamie had gone off somewhere to do god knows what. I'd only been alone for seconds, when Kelly and her friend Val had walked over. We started talking and she seemed like a nice enough girl, but I wanted to find Amy, I needed to get out of there. Amy of course was nowhere to be seen, probably in the house getting something, or as I found out later changing the music.
So Kelly and I chatted, I was in the middle of a sentence about how I knew Amy, when she said 'I've seen you over here before are you two an item.' 'uh no, just friends' And then she leaned over and kissed me, we started making out and one thing led to another, she led me around the side of the house, and we had sex up against the brick wall. When it was over I pulled up my pants and went to find Amy, I couldn't believe I had just done that. When I finally did find her, Kelly all ready had, and boy was she pissed. She wouldn't even look at me. I tried for about 20 minutes to get her to talk to me, and finally just got the hell out of there. Which I found out later pissed her off more because she was still mad when I left, and she hated to leave things like that.
So here I sit in her mothers garden, trying to plan my escape, when Amy did the strangest thing, we were sitting on a bench pretty well into the garden, She pushed all the food onto one plate and pulled me up over to the hammock. She sat me down, sat down practically on top of me and started to eat, so I did what any guy would do if a pretty girl was sitting that close to them, you put your arm around them. Kelly walked into the garden and straight over for us, and then stopped dead in her tracks, composed herself and then kept walking.
She walked right over to the hammock grabbed Amy by the arm and yanked her off over to her.
"What do you think you are doing?" Kelly demanded
"Um eating breakfast," Amy said as earnestly as possible
"You know how much I like him, Amy how could you."
"How could I what Kelly, he's been my friend forever" Amy then looked her directly in the eye "Besides you knew I didn't want you to hook up with him and you did it anyway, That's why you waited till I went inside. And then came running to me when he was done with you."
Ouch, that was kind of harsh Am. Wait a second, she had told her friends not to hook up with me, why? Why would it matter to her? She probably just didn't want to hear about it afterwards, thinking of your best friend having sex is not something every person wants to hear. I'll ask later.
"You just want him all for yourself. And that's not fair Amy because you aren't ever going to make a move on him anyway."
"That's completely not true Kelly, I've had no problems with the girlfriends he's had in the past, I just don't like the idea of one of my best friends sneaking around behind my back, and seducing my best friend. Now if we are done with this argument than you can stay. If not you know the way out."
I had never seen Amy like this before, all protective, it was kind of sexy. What did I seriously just think that, she's my best friend; she can't be my best friend and be sexy. Kelly just huffed and left the yard.
"Wow, that was intense." I said laughing
"Its not funny Oliver, I probably just lost one of my best friends." She said sitting down on the ground in front of me.
"Then why did you do it," I asked surprised by the attitude I was getting
"Because she's one of my best friends, and you are my best friend, and it would hurt a lot more to loose you than her." she said staring at the ground
"Your not going to loose me, I was an asshole with her, It shouldn't have happened in the first place, I would totally understand if you just let her attack me for that." I didn't like seeing her like this
"Ya ok whatever, I'm going to shower, I'll be back in a little while, I bet if you asked nicely my parents would let you use their shower." she said while getting up
"Are you trying to tell me something?" I said as she started to walk away
She spun around walked right over to me and sniffed "You stink, take a shower."
As she walked past her parents she stopped, "Mom Oliver is going to use your shower ok." more telling then asking
"Amy the shower in our room is broken, let him use yours and Emily's and you can use the Jacuzzi in our room."
She nodded and entered the house. I should probably follow; I jogged into the house, up the stairs to Amy's door, knocked, and entered. She threw a towel at me, and I backed out of the room.
I stopped at Emily's door. "Em" I knocked
"What?" she came to the door
"I will be using your shower for awhile, Amy is going to be in your parents bathroom, ok."
"Ya ok whatever," and she shut the door on me
Such a strange girl, one minute she's my buddy next she can't stand me I don't know what the hell to think. Oh well shower time.
I entered the bathroom, Girly, Emily must have gotten to pick the theme.
I pulled off my shirt, and my pajama pants
"Wait, wait, wait, are you decent?" It was Amy
"Clothes wise" She opened the door,
"Sorry forgot you have all my stuff," she reached into the shower, grabbed a razor, some spongy thing, and some really fruity body wash. "Use the stuff on the top shelf, otherwise Emily will freak out."
"Ya ok out, before you see more then you want to." She stuck her tongue out and left the room.
I turned on the shower, and let the steam fill the bathroom; I dropped my boxers and stepped into the shower, letting the hot water take me over.
Big difference between her room and mine, mine has white walls with Quidditch posters covering most of the wall space, on almost every wall but the one by the bed. The wall by the bed was covered with parchment scraps detailing all the plays. That way I fell asleep thinking about them and would maybe dream up better ones.
"Maybe they are right, maybe I do need a new hobby." and now I'm talking to myself, good thing there's no one around to hear me.
I got up and made my way to the door, pulling the t-shirt over my head that I had disguarded in the middle of the night. I could hear people in the kitchen, and I could smell breakfast. What time is it anyway?
Emily emerged from her room in front of me, hair sticking up in every direction, and falling out of the ponytail. Her pajamas on the other hand, perfectly matched.
"Nice look." I said trying not very hard to suppress a laugh. She spun around with this look of horror in her eyes; she must have forgotten that other people were spending the night.
"If you tell another sole about this back at school" She said her eyes narrowing on me "I will curse you so bad, you won't be able to play for years." And with that she stormed off into the bathroom.
'She probably could' I thought, but no matter it would be something to hold over her head all year long. Could be fun.
I rounded the corner into the kitchen, and there stood Amy, at the stove while her mother bounced busily around the kitchen. Everything in this house was normally done without magic, so that the neighbors didn't get suspicious. So it was always interesting to see how the other half lived. It also smelled a lot better.
"Your parents are out on in the garden dear." Autumn said without looking up. It was amazing how similar, her and Amy are in personality. But Emily definatly looked more like her mom.
"Anything I can do to help." I asked
"Yes dear, can you grab the Orange juice off the counter, and just put it out on the garden table."
"Alright." I said grabbing the container. I walked over the counter next to Amy just in time to see her turn a sausage link with her fingers in the pan. Now normally most people would think, that's just stupid, who touches a hot pan, or better yet hot greasy food in the pan. Well you see boys and girls, Amy was born with this unique gift, and no its not stupidity. She can heal herself, Its one of the most rare gifts in the wizarding community, and no one in her family was quite sure where she had gotten the gift from, Because none of them had it.
"What?"
"Nothing still freaks me out is all." I said turning away with the Orange Juice
She hadn't ever told anyone that was until her third year, in potions. She was working on one with a Slytherin 3rd year who thought it would be funny to splash some onto her hand while she was adding more ingredients. When the liquid splashed up on her hand, it burned into her skin, and the Girl, started to laugh. Snape was coming over to see what had happened and most likely to deduct some points, but when he reached Amy and grabbed her hand, It had already started to bubble the stuff out of her skin, and her body was already replacing it with new skin. Snape stood there absolutely dumbfounded, along with the rest of the class 'How long have you known you could do this?' he asked her 'Since I was about 3 or 4' 'Can you heal others?' 'I don't know sir I've never tried' 'Class dismissed,' he then turned to her 'Not you, you are to come with me' I saw them leave his classroom together, and decided that it couldn't be good, so I followed them, about ten feet in front of Dumbledor's Office, Snape turned to me 'This does not concern you Mr. Wood. 5 points will be deducted for being a snoop' 'Professor, its ok let him come with, he knows about this' I remember feeling my heart sink, I knew exactly what she was talking about, and I had seen it with my own eyes when I was about 10 'Very well,' he said the password, and we followed him up the winding stairs, and stood at the back of the room, waiting to be acknowledged.
'Albus, may I have a word with you.' Snape was staring up onto the balcony waiting for him to appear 'What can I do for you Severus' He smiled down at the two of us. 'Were you aware that our young Ms Snow, has the ability to heal herself instantaneously' What was that tone I detected, was ornery Professor Snape actually, impressed by something a Gryfindor could do.
'Is that correct, Ms Snow,?' he asked grinning from ear to ear 'yes sir' you could tell this wasn't something she was proud of, it was something she couldn't hide out in the muggle world. She had told me before, if she was ever hurt while out there she would risk exposing the entire world and there was nothing she could do about it.
'Well then, you will have to be trained to control it.' he said almost reading my mind. 'It's not a very common gift, but it is one of them that is highly regarded. Once your trained up a bit, you may even be able to heal others my dear.'
She nodded in agreement 'go back to your classes, I will explain to your teachers where you have been.'
'Thank you sir.' We never spoke of it again
Although I was pretty sure that she was coming along nicely in her training, because last year Emily tripped up the stairs on her way to the common room, and split her head open, blood everywhere. No one had seen it but me. She was fine by the next day and hadn't spent a minute in the hospital wing.
I made my way out onto the garden patio, Kevin and my parents sat around reading the Daily Prophet
"No news is good news, or so they say, He hasn't attacked anyone, that can only mean good things." My mom always the optimist.
I set the Orange Juice down on the table, and walk around to the bench. When my father looks up and says, "Did you owl the recruiters yesterday like I asked you to?" Oh great this argument again
"Dad, I can't owl them until there is something for them to see. Practice hasn't even started yet. I need to have someone to play against for him to see me." I say rolling my eyes
"We could set up a private audition. Maybe if you asked Kevin nicely then he would play against you for the recruiter." he said looking at Kevin hopefully
"Ya, Oliver of course I'll help you." said poring himself some juice "when I was your age, had my brother around to help with my recruiter."
"I would rather them see me in an actual game Dad." I said picking up a disguarded paper "That way they can't say that old Kevin Snow was going easy on me."
"Old Kevin Snow, tread lightly boy." Kevin said smiling "Or I might not let you stay in my little girls room anymore."
Wow did this just get awkward, he's kidding of course but the jokes he used to make when I was 13 take on a whole new meaning when your 17.
"Hey, Kevin, I have class. I have nothing but the utmost respect for your daughter." and trying to keep a straight face was becoming very difficult, and then I burst out laughing.
Just as we were getting into this, is when all of the ladies from the kitchen came out with the meal. Pancakes, sausage, bacon, omelets, anything you could possibly imagine for breakfast was being brought out into the garden.
We all started to load up our plates, mine was heaping full of all this good stuff, when I heard a noise from over by the fence. Autumn at once had everything magical in her hands, wands weren't allowed out here. But the papers, well moving pictures seemed to confuse some people.
"Hello Kelly." I heard Amy say, "want to come over we are just sitting down to breakfast."
Aww now why did she have to go and do that I groaned inwardly
"I told you, you shouldn't have slept with her, that it would just be weird." Amy said softly enough that I only heard her. "She's one of my best friend and she lives next door, did you actually think you would never run into her again."
"NO, but I was hoping it would be longer than this." I said looking at the grass
"She's going to want to do it again, you're all she's talked about for months Oliver," she whispered sympathetically
"It was a dumb idea the first time, and its not going to happen again." I said firmly. Kelly is a pretty girl and all but she is a muggle, and it is strange to have to hide who you are when you are so intimate with someone.
It had been a bad idea.
Amy had thrown herself a party last year after school ended, to reconnect with all of her friends that she hadn't seen in ages. She invited me, and a few other people from school, but we were under strict rules that if we came we were not allowed to do any magic, or even talk about anything magical. I had spent most of the evening with Katie Bell, and her boyfriend Jamie Majors, because the twins were up to something and Percy had been chasing them around, making sure that they didn't do anything too destructive.
Katie and Jamie had gone off somewhere to do god knows what. I'd only been alone for seconds, when Kelly and her friend Val had walked over. We started talking and she seemed like a nice enough girl, but I wanted to find Amy, I needed to get out of there. Amy of course was nowhere to be seen, probably in the house getting something, or as I found out later changing the music.
So Kelly and I chatted, I was in the middle of a sentence about how I knew Amy, when she said 'I've seen you over here before are you two an item.' 'uh no, just friends' And then she leaned over and kissed me, we started making out and one thing led to another, she led me around the side of the house, and we had sex up against the brick wall. When it was over I pulled up my pants and went to find Amy, I couldn't believe I had just done that. When I finally did find her, Kelly all ready had, and boy was she pissed. She wouldn't even look at me. I tried for about 20 minutes to get her to talk to me, and finally just got the hell out of there. Which I found out later pissed her off more because she was still mad when I left, and she hated to leave things like that.
So here I sit in her mothers garden, trying to plan my escape, when Amy did the strangest thing, we were sitting on a bench pretty well into the garden, She pushed all the food onto one plate and pulled me up over to the hammock. She sat me down, sat down practically on top of me and started to eat, so I did what any guy would do if a pretty girl was sitting that close to them, you put your arm around them. Kelly walked into the garden and straight over for us, and then stopped dead in her tracks, composed herself and then kept walking.
She walked right over to the hammock grabbed Amy by the arm and yanked her off over to her.
"What do you think you are doing?" Kelly demanded
"Um eating breakfast," Amy said as earnestly as possible
"You know how much I like him, Amy how could you."
"How could I what Kelly, he's been my friend forever" Amy then looked her directly in the eye "Besides you knew I didn't want you to hook up with him and you did it anyway, That's why you waited till I went inside. And then came running to me when he was done with you."
Ouch, that was kind of harsh Am. Wait a second, she had told her friends not to hook up with me, why? Why would it matter to her? She probably just didn't want to hear about it afterwards, thinking of your best friend having sex is not something every person wants to hear. I'll ask later.
"You just want him all for yourself. And that's not fair Amy because you aren't ever going to make a move on him anyway."
"That's completely not true Kelly, I've had no problems with the girlfriends he's had in the past, I just don't like the idea of one of my best friends sneaking around behind my back, and seducing my best friend. Now if we are done with this argument than you can stay. If not you know the way out."
I had never seen Amy like this before, all protective, it was kind of sexy. What did I seriously just think that, she's my best friend; she can't be my best friend and be sexy. Kelly just huffed and left the yard.
"Wow, that was intense." I said laughing
"Its not funny Oliver, I probably just lost one of my best friends." She said sitting down on the ground in front of me.
"Then why did you do it," I asked surprised by the attitude I was getting
"Because she's one of my best friends, and you are my best friend, and it would hurt a lot more to loose you than her." she said staring at the ground
"Your not going to loose me, I was an asshole with her, It shouldn't have happened in the first place, I would totally understand if you just let her attack me for that." I didn't like seeing her like this
"Ya ok whatever, I'm going to shower, I'll be back in a little while, I bet if you asked nicely my parents would let you use their shower." she said while getting up
"Are you trying to tell me something?" I said as she started to walk away
She spun around walked right over to me and sniffed "You stink, take a shower."
As she walked past her parents she stopped, "Mom Oliver is going to use your shower ok." more telling then asking
"Amy the shower in our room is broken, let him use yours and Emily's and you can use the Jacuzzi in our room."
She nodded and entered the house. I should probably follow; I jogged into the house, up the stairs to Amy's door, knocked, and entered. She threw a towel at me, and I backed out of the room.
I stopped at Emily's door. "Em" I knocked
"What?" she came to the door
"I will be using your shower for awhile, Amy is going to be in your parents bathroom, ok."
"Ya ok whatever," and she shut the door on me
Such a strange girl, one minute she's my buddy next she can't stand me I don't know what the hell to think. Oh well shower time.
I entered the bathroom, Girly, Emily must have gotten to pick the theme.
I pulled off my shirt, and my pajama pants
"Wait, wait, wait, are you decent?" It was Amy
"Clothes wise" She opened the door,
"Sorry forgot you have all my stuff," she reached into the shower, grabbed a razor, some spongy thing, and some really fruity body wash. "Use the stuff on the top shelf, otherwise Emily will freak out."
"Ya ok out, before you see more then you want to." She stuck her tongue out and left the room.
I turned on the shower, and let the steam fill the bathroom; I dropped my boxers and stepped into the shower, letting the hot water take me over.