BAN: Wow, to all of those who actually read my story, thank you for being so patient with me! I'm always really busy, but I have off this week! Yays! So, I'll try to update as much as I can. Also, I'm going to try and finish this, and work on my Full Metal Alchemist story too, before I finish the others. I actually want to have a complete story, and I've still got a ways to go! Well, thank you for listening, and enjoy!
Disclaimer: Damn, still got to put one of these in, huh…? Well, I don't own the rights to the book Harry Potter, unfortunately, otherwise Sirius wouldn't die… Nor do I own any affiliated characters of the book. I also don't own Amanda Riddle (She belongs to Prongsy, or Autumn Lily, who once again, changed her penname… she'll be putting up her stories soon…), Josie Paul (Paddy, Lone Metal Alchemist, and she's changed hers too…), and Matt Mulder (belongs to Wormtail, Wormtail91, he at least has stayed the same). Sam and Adrian are mine, along with any other characters you don't recognize… wow, that was a long disclaimer, enjoy the story!
The first day of Christmas break rose bleak and snowy. Sam woke up and sleepily looked around before getting up. It was a little cold in the room, since the fire from the night before had died down. She rubbed her eyes as she walked over to the nightstand by the window that held a pitcher of water and glasses. Shivering slightly she picked up the pitcher and glanced out the still dark window, then took a double-take.
"SNOW!" Sam screamed, all signs of sleepiness gone from her, waking Amanda and Josie, at six in the morning.
"Snow?" Amanda asked, yawning and sitting up in her bed on her elbows . "We should go play in it… AFTER we eat! Food…" Amanda looked off into space, a dreamy look on her face as she thought of food.
"Whatever," Josie muttered, pulling her pillow out from under her head and getting ready to throw it at Sam, "Was it really that important that you had to wake me up AT SIX IN THE MORNING!"
Sam smiled cheerily and answered, "Yup! Of course! It's snow!" She emphasized this by jumping into the air and waving her arms about.
Josie groaned and turned over, putting her pillow down, ready to go back to sleep.
Amanda and Sam looked at each other and grinned, Amanda being with Sam in not feeling tired anymore.
Sam began to sing a Christmas song. "Oh, the weather outside is frightful!"
"Oh, no…" Josie groaned and pulled her pillow out from underneath her head again, this time putting it over her head to cover her ears.
"But the fire is so delightful. And since there's no place to go, Let it snow, Let it snow, LET IT SNOW!" Sam yelled out the last line, much to Josie's dismay.
"Ow, my ears…" Josie moaned. "All right, all right, I'll get up! Just please, STOP SINGING!" Josie yelled at Sam sitting up a little, her pillow falling to the floor.
Sam and Amanda grinned, the mission accomplished. Sam ran over to Josie's bed and started pulling the covers off of Josie.
"Padfoot, it's snowing! La la la!" Sam sang.
"Listen, I like snow as much as the next girl, but at least I don't go singing about it, especially not at six in the morning!" Josie said angrily, trying to pull the covers back up again as she felt the cold, regretting saying she'd get up.
"I like snow. A lot. Especially when it's in my tummy… Food…" Amanda said, smiling to herself and still imagining about food.
"Relax, Prongs, we'll get you food… later," Sam smirked as she started to fight with Josie over the covers.
Amanda's eye twitched and she stood up on her bed, her head skimming the top of the canopy.
"What…? No… food… now? WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Amanda pretended to wail, trying to get Sam to see some sense, since Amanda hated the thought of waiting for food.
"Ow, my ears… again…" Josie groaned and fell back onto her bed, letting go of the covers, and about to pull the pillow back over her head to realize it was on the floor, making her groan again.
Sam laughed as she fell back onto the floor with Josie's covers, triumphant in her battle. "Relax, I just meant we should get changed first!"
"Ooh… okay, that works!" Amanda smiled and sat down on her four-poster bed.
As Amanda sat down, the door burst open and two girls came in, looking furious.
"WHAT is going on in here?" one of the girls, who, according to the badge she was pinning on her robes, was the head girl, growled.
"We heard screaming, or wailing, or something!" the other girl, pinning on a prefect badge, clarified, looking slightly calmer than the head girl, but still looking pretty mad.
"Oh, that… That was just Amanda yelling that she wanted food" Sam told them from her position on the floor, grinning sheepishly.
The head girl looked at all of them sternly, and the prefect as if they were crazy. Sam now just smiled at them.
"I better not hear you three making that loud of a noise again, ESPECIALLY not at SIX IN THE MORNING or you'll be in trouble!" the head girl snarled at them. The two turned and walked out.
"What's her prob, not enough love as a child?" Josie snickered, the cold of the room forgotten.
"Nah, she's probably on a diet, and the lack of FOOD is making her cranky," Amanda interjected, her arms crossed across her chest. "I know that ALWAYS makes ME cranky!"
Sam frowned, "We know that not enough food makes you cranky, but does it really matter what her problem is?"
"Um… er… ye… uh… no…" Amanda and Josie admitted in unison, and they looked at the floor, where anything could be hiding. (A/N- My friend forced me to put that in… not sure why anymore!)
Sam smiled, standing up, leaving the covers to Josie's bed on the floor. "Good! Now, let's all get changed, then go wake up Adrian! I mean, we can't be the ONLY ones up at 6 A.M! Well, besides the head girl and that prefect… and, well, make that 6:30 A.M…." Sam corrected herself after thinking and looking at the clock on her nightstand.
The girls quickly changed into comfortable muggle clothes. Of course, Sam was done first and was impatiently waiting for the other two.
"C'mon, I'm leaving!" Sam said, starting out the door, looking over her shoulder to make sure they followed.
Josie finished tying her boots and followed Sam, but Amanda seemed destined for something else at this moment.
"Wait… for… me…" Amanda got out a word every time she struggled to pull on her second shoe, hopping after them.
Sam and Josie turned around just outside the door, facing it, and laughed.
"Can't even get on her shoes…" Sam shook her head laughing.
Sam and Josie continue to giggle as Amanda hopped closer towards them, and they leaned against the wall opposite the door, waiting for her to catch up.
"Just… a… second…" Amanda continued to hop. "Almost… got… it… AHH!"
Amanda screamed, and Sam and Josie watched in slight horror, slight amusement, as Amanda tripped and began to fall down the stairs. As it turned out, however, Amanda didn't need to fall too far. As luck would have it, Adrian attempted to climb up the girls staircase at almost the exact moment Amanda fell, so Amanda wound up sliding down the stairs, now a slide, head first; right into Adrian.
"Ow," the two cried in unison as they collided and fell to the floor of the common room.
Sam and Josie had stared silently after Amanda until that point, but then just burst out laughing.
"You… are such… an idiot, Prongs!" Sam laughed at Amanda.
"Shut up… It's not my fault…" Amanda complained.
"Oh, yeah, then who's fault is it?" Josie snickered, her hand in front of her mouth to hide her smile.
"Uh… the shoe's," Amanda decided as she stood up and brushed herself off.
Adrian groaned and stood up. "So the reason you fell into me was because of a shoe?"
Amanda grinned sheepishly, then replied, "No, the reason I fell into you was because you were stupid enough to try and climb up the girls' staircase!"
Sam and Josie had enough laughing at that point, and slid down the slide just before it returned to its normal form of a staircase. Adrian smiled as Sam landed at the bottom and stood up.
"Hey, Sam!" He greeted her eagerly, then he blushed, realizing perhaps he was greeting her too eagerly.
Sam, oblivious to his blushing grinned back. "Hey, Adrian. Aw, man, you were supposed to be asleep so we could wake you up early… oh, well… So, are you guys ready to go get breakfast?"
Josie, Amanda, and Adrian all nodded, so they all went out the common room entrance, stopping to watch the statue of a raven close over the hallway behind them. They continued towards the Great Hall to join the few early birds that were staying for Christmas break for breakfast.
"Hey, wasn't that prank on Snape absolutely amazing last night?" Adrian asked, grinning. "Whoever came up with it must be brilliant!"
Amanda, Sam, and Josie exchanged smirks, holding the secret that they themselves had done it.
"Yes, they really must have been brilliant, mustn't they?" Amanda remarked as she walked slightly ahead of the other three, basking in her unbeknownst to the public glory of being the one who had thought up the idea. Sam and Josie rolled their eyes behind her.
They soon entered the Great Hall to find it empty, other than a few teachers being at the Head table. This didn't surprise them, seeing as how if it hadn't been for Sam waking up the other two girls, and Adrian waking up to see snow, none of them would be done there at this time, either. They sat down at the Ravenclaw table and began to eat pancakes, French toast, bacon, and sausage. They went over their plans for the day, which included inviting the Weasley twins, and maybe even Harry and Ron to a snowball fight, building snowmen, and trying to make the world's largest igloo. It was at this point when Amanda realized something.
"Oh, hey, guys… did any of you remember to get Christmas presents?"
Josie and Adrian nodded, but Sam shook her head.
"Honestly, no… but…" Sam trailed off as an owl landed on the table in front of her. She read the letter and smiled. "Never mind, my mom seems to have taken care of it, getting what she feels to be appropriate gifts by letters I've written to her about school and everything… and I think she's right, they are appropriate…"
Amanda made an attempt to grab the letter, laughing, "Oh, let me see, what'd you get me?"
Sam held the letter away from Amanda, also laughing, "As if I'd let you know before Christmas day! Oh, and did you remember to buy gifts, Amanda?"
Amanda stopped trying to get the letter and nodded. "Uh-huh, as a matter of fact, I did! And I bet you guys just can't wait to get them! They're the best!"
A/N: Al right, that's the chapter! I ended it to make way for the next chapter, which is Christmas! Again, thanks to all of you patient readers who actually read this, and I hope you liked it! Don't forget to R&R! And eat candy!