Listen To Your Heart

Chapter Twelve-The Christmas Dance

At this, everyone began following me and the boy who had dragged me toward the lake.

The boy waved his wand at me and ropes tied my wrists and ankles together.

"What are you doing?" Mario demanded fearfully.

"Just having some fun with her," the boy smirked. "Relax Oh Great One."

"Let her go!" Remus yelled as he went to lunge forward, but one of the other Slytherins blocked him from getting to me.

"I see she's got herself a boyfriend," the boy continued. "How touching."

Remus went to move again, but the boy blocked him. The boys were large and well built and could probably work for the British Guard.

"Levicorpus!" the boy said waving his wand.

Immediately, I was lifted off the ground and turned upside down. My skirt rode up and my hair dangled above the lake shoreline.

"Let her go," Mario said angrily.

I was screaming now. The boy waved his wand again and I floated out a bit deeper over the lake.

I continued to scream frantically.

Upside down, I saw the boy lower his wand…and I plunged head first into the cold, dark murky water.

GILLIAN.

"Roselyn!" I screamed in horror.

She splashed a bit at the surface before raising her bound wrists above her head and she began sinking.

Mario punched the boy in the face.

"Bastard," he hissed.

With out thinking, Remus dove into the lake and began swimming out to where Roselyn went under.

The boy went to retaliate, but James, Sirius and Peter all had their wands out aimed at the boys.

"Go a head, Slytherin Scum," Sirius snarled. "I dare you."

The boys took off back to the castle.

James, Sirius and Peter tucked their wands away and glared at Mario.

"Why didn't you stop them?" Sirius demanded. "Why'd you let them do that to your own sister?"

Mario didn't reply right away.

"I guess because I didn't want to believe they would actually hurt her," he said quietly and now stared out at the lake in fear as Remus made it to the spot where Roselyn went under and then dove down.

"Wrong my friend," James said angrily. "The Slytherins' are horrible…they're mean, cruel and only think of themselves. They're not like they were when you went here I'm afraid."

Mario fell silent as there were tears forming in his eyes now.

After a few minutes of absolutely panicking, Remus re-surfaced pulling Roselyn with him.

He dragged her up onto the shore. She was completely soaked. Her auburn hair clung to her cheeks and throat and her eyes were closed.

"She's not breathing," Remus said panicked. "And there's no pulse."

"Oh no," I said as tears formed in my eyes. Sam put his arm around my shoulders.

Mario was even worse.

Remus straddled Roselyn. He began doing Muggle CPR on her, then Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation

We all clung to one another, praying that she would be alright.

Remus pinched Rose's nose, and then opened her mouth slightly. He pressed his mouth over hers.

Finally, just as he put his face close to Roselyn's to do the Mouth-To-Mouth, her chest began rising and falling and she turned her head to the left and coughed up some of the murky black water.

Relief spread over us like a huge tidal wave.

"Oh Thank God," Mario breathed exhaling.

Remus slipped an arm under Roselyn's neck a bit and hovered above her.

"You alright?" he asked worriedly.

"Yeah," she choked out, her voice sounding watery and strained. "I feel like I've swallowed Sirius' dirty, smelly socks though."

We laughed relieved again. She was completely fine. James and Remus took out their wands and aimed it at Roselyn. A blast of hot air burst from the tips and immediately Rose was dry within minutes including her hair.

"Woof," Roselyn said shivering. "That is something I don't care to relive again."

Suddenly, she rounded on Mario.

ROSELYN.

"WHAT IS YOUR FRIGGIN PROBLEM?" I roared at him. "YOU LET THOSE SLYTHERIN CREEPS NEARLY KILL ME!"

Mario looked guilty.

"What? You're hoping I end up like Mum and Dad?" I continued enraged.

The others looked up in total shock at that statement.

"Oh yes," I said angrily whirling around so that my hair flipped over my shoulder as I faced the others. "You see, Mario was always the 'Golden' child you could say. Got whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. Got a brand new sports car for his 16th birthday and a BMW when he graduated Hogwarts. Me? For my birthday all I got was a lousy pat on the back and if I was lucky, a toothbrush! What I'm thinking is that I was just in the way," I said pausing mockingly to think. "Just something else to have around the house like a brand new Quidditch trophy. Am I right Mario?"

I could see the look on Remus' face at this, as well as the others' expressions. They all had shocked and sickened expressions on their faces…but the look on Remus' won't ever leave my mind.

"No," Mario said quietly. "Mum and Dad care about you…and so do I."

"Care! You care about me? What about LOVE? That too strong of a word for you to use?" I snarled.

Mario didn't reply, but kept his eyes on the grass.

"You know what?" I said. "I SHOULD HAVE DROWNED! And secondly, take your Damascus 299 and shove it!"

I screamed the last part and stormed off toward the castle again.

REMUS

Roselyn stormed off toward the castle. The rest of us followed, giving Mario ice glares as well as disbelief. I went to walk past Mario when he gently grabbed my arm.

"I do love her," he said as tears formed in his eyes. "Very much."

I exhaled.

"Then I think you need to tell her," I said bluntly. "Go talk to her then."

"Thank you for saving her," he said even quieter.

I didn't reply and Mario released my arm. We headed back up to the castle.

I began realizing that I really liked Roselyn…a lot. Gillian and Sam were totally into each other and so were James and Lily. Sirius kept joking that he and Peter should get together but that only caused Gillian to let him have it for insinuating that Peter was gay.

Gillian didn't seem to keen on Peter for some reason, but she was civil to him. I didn't know why that was.

Roselyn broke down that evening in the common room. It took Gillian and Lily a good 45 minutes to finally get her to calm down.

James gave Rose a hug, as well as Sirius and Peter before heading to the boys' dorm. Lily and Gillian also gave her a hug leaving Roselyn and I alone in the common room.

ROSELYN.

Getting all the hugs from everyone made me feel a lot better. The fire crackled softly in the fireplace, omitting an orange glow over me as I stared into it. I didn't realize Remus was still here until he stepped in front of me. I had been so deep in thought that I momentarily got spooked. I jumped from being startled.

"Sorry," he said looking upset. "Didn't mean to scare you there."

"It's fine," I muttered.

He sat down next to me and I was aware of just how close he was. He leaned forward, his elbows resting on his thighs and he clasped his hands. He really was hot. I couldn't understand why girls never asked him out. I mean I wasn't exactly beautiful, but I thought I was cute-ish.

I was completely Irish…auburn hair and I had the brogue. My parents were from Ireland.

"Is that really true about your brother and your parents?" he asked slowly.

"Aye," I said miserably. "Tis true. For my 6th birthday, I got a toothbrush…when I turned 15 last year, I got nothing. The gift ranges from toothbrushes to maybe if I'm lucky a key chain with the Irish emblem on it."

Remus looked abashed.

"And alas, my brother gets expensive cars," I said shrugging one shoulder. "It's bloody mystery to me. It's best not to think about it."

"How can you not?" Remus asked shocked. "That is completely horrible!"

I didn't reply.

"Well this year, things are going to change," Remus said firmly. "When is your birthday?"

"August 3rd," I replied.

"You're going to have a great party," Remus said firmly. "For now, will you like to go with me to the Christmas dance?"

I looked at him shocked.

"Are you serious?"

He nodded.

"Sirius didn't put you up to this did he?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

Again Remus looked shocked.

"No. I genuinely want to go with you. I'm sorry if it seemed like what it did earlier but I do like you," he said blushing slightly.

"Deal and apology accepted," I grinned.

He grinned back.

We headed off to the dorms and I slept happily.

The next morning, Mario stayed at the Slytherin table, shooting me guilty looks every now and then.

"You guys need to talk," James said.

"Not right now," I said. "I'm still pretty pissed at him."

"Promise me you will talk to him eventually," James insisted.

"Promise," I said nodding and gave him a grin.

"Excel-lent," Sirius said tapping his finger tips together like Montgomery Burns on the Muggle TV show "The Simpsons".

We laughed.

The Christmas Dance arrived. Everyone was really excited and eager. Lily helped me to get ready. Gillian was starting to show the pregnancy a little bit now. She was now four months pregnant. She wore a loose lavender dress with ruffles around the sleeves. We were able to wear Muggle clothes to the dance. A new shop had opened in Hogsmeade called "Which Witch's Wardrobe".

Just before the dance, the whole school had gone to Hogsmeade on a trip for this one reason. The store sells Muggle dresses for all occasions.

The boys wore tuxedo suits from the sister store "Wizards Wardrobe's For Which Occasions".

Gillian wore pretty matching purple crystal barrettes in her hair and applied light purple eye shadow and clear lip gloss. Lily wore a pretty white dress that set off her auburn hair. It had floral embroided along the edges. She pulled her hair into an elegant bun. I was wearing a light blue sparkly dress with spaghetti shoulder straps. Gillian did my hair and it hung down in spiral curls against my shoulder. She applied the palest blue eye shadow on and pink lip gloss. Around my neck was a sapphire stud pendant and I had matching blue chandelier earrings in my ears.

Gillian let out a squeal when I was all finished getting ready.

"You look beautiful!" she grinned.

Lily broke into a grin as well.

"Let's go meet the guys eh?"

We all met in the common room. The boys were already dressed in tuxedos. Sirius was dressed in a white one.

"They make me look like penguins," he complained. "So I found this one."

We laughed and Gillian went over to stand with Sam; Lily stood with James and I stood with Remus.

"You look really lovely," he said softly and shyly.

"Thanks," I grinned linking arms with him.

Sirius was going with a Hufflepuff named Bridget Harris and planned to meet her at the dance.

"Let's go guys!" Lily said eagerly.

We left the common room and headed down to the Great Hall. We stepped into the Hall and immediately were in awe. The place was magical…even more so than usual. Streamers hung from the ceiling, a Christmas tree that was already lit was in the far corner. Hundreds of tables stood in a horseshoe shape. Each table held six couples and there were about eighty of them total.

"Let's go find a table," Sirius said as Bridget came hurrying over to him. She had shoulder length dark blond hair and blue eyes, almost like Gillian.

We found a table and sat down.

"This is gorgeous," Bridget was saying.

She was wearing a peach colored dress and her hair was fluffed around her shoulders.

"It is," I admitted softly scanning the Hall.

Mario and a girl entered the Hall.

"Oh look," I said sarcastically. "Wonder Boy managed to find a date. I wonder how much he's paying her?"

"Wait," Remus said suddenly. "It's now December…you haven't spoken to your brother in four months? I thought you were going to talk to him?"

"I was," I said. "But each time those creeps got in my way."

"Well enough of that now," Remus said firmly and waved Mario and the girl over.

Mario hesitated for a moment before the girl dragged him over to our table.

"Hello," she said pleasantly. "I'm Molly Falcon. You must be Mario's sister, Roselyn right?"

I nodded, keeping my eyes on Molly.

"Mario talks about you non-stop!" Molly beamed and then turned to Mario. "Wait here a second. I'm going to get punch. Nice talking to you!"

Molly smiled at the others before heading off.

"You talk about me?" I asked quietly.

"Of course," he said just as quietly. "You're my sister. I love you."

I felt tears forming in my eyes and I jumped up and threw my arms around him. He hugged me tightly and I hugged him back the same way.

A low chorus of 'Aw's' went around from everyone at the table.

"Sit with us," Sirius said. "There's plenty of room."

I finally released Mario and took a seat next to Remus again.

"It's crowded here already," Mario said. "We'll sit right behind you though."

He found the table directly behind us and I felt a tap on my bare back.

I turned around.

"You look nice," Mario said smiling and winking at me and then Remus turned around and Mario gave him a wink before returning his attention to Molly.

Remus draped his arm over the back of the chair.

The Hall filled up with students and Professor Dumbledore made his usual speech. There would be food, and then dancing. After Professor Dumbledore spoke, the food appeared and everyone hungrily dove in.

About an hour later, the band began playing. They were called "Wand Chasers" and their music was pretty good. Remus and I rotated on spot. I rested my head against his shoulder as we rotated. I shut my eyes, completely enjoying the moment when a flash went off before my eyes. My eyes snapped open and I saw two large wolves bursting through the front doors. The flash vanished and I slumped against Remus.