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chapter written by: pinocchio
Chapter twenty-one.
"No Andy, I told you already. I left him like a two months ago, after he cheated on me with Betty Lane." Kat said, trying to reassure Andy that she was not still with Sam, even though she sort of was,
"Yeah, but everyone is saying that you're back together. Everyone saw you kiss him outside the great hall." Andy complained, she was getting rather sick of him whining about it,
"Kissing him on the cheek." She lied, "and it was only because we were stuck under the mistletoe. It didn't mean anything, so stop worrying."
"You sure?"
"Yes. I'm absolutely positive."
"Then why are you still wearing the ring?"
"Because…it's a nice ring, and because it wasn't actually from him, technically it was from his sister Nikki, she just wanted us to get back together, but I told her it's not going to happen."
"Oh, but still…"
"Andy, don't fret about this, I am completely over him. Now, I have to go meet Lily in the common room. I'll see you later." She kissed him quickly before running off down the corridor; she rounded a corner and stopped outside the portrait of Ernestine the Valiant. She leant against it and sighed heavily.
"Excuse me dear!" said a rather pompous voice, Kat jumped; she turned around and saw Ernestine staring at her, she was a rather large woman with large bug eyes, she looked like a bigger, distorted version of the Mona Lisa."
"Yes?"
"You were leaning on my bosom." She huffed,
"Oh, sorry." Kat apologized,
"That is quite alright. It is the most action I have had in three hundred years."
"Oh, um, okay." Kat said; she was rather creeped out by this probably gay portrait. She walked away down the corridor as fast as she could, she sat down on a staircase, it was late at night, and she was doing her 'prefects duties', meaning that she was walking around alone, and avoiding Filch.
"Ciao Bella." Someone said, she looked to her right and saw Sam sitting down next to her,
"Oh hi Sam." She said,
"Are you still mad at me?" he asked,
"No, I don't think so. But I don't really know what I think anymore." She said,
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Basically, I am in a 'relationship' and it's going too fast. The guy is so clingy, but I really like him and he's so nice but he's driving me nuts." She said, very fast,
"Kat?"
"Yeah."
"You're cute when you're stressed."
"Uh, thanks."
"Dump him."
"No, I can't, I just started going out with him."
"Go out with me."
"I can't, I'm with someone else. Am I not making myself clear here?" she asked, wondering if she was the only one who could hear what she was saying,
"Then dump him."
"I just started seeing him!"
"Go out with me."
"Sam. We just went through this. I can't…" he swooped down on her and kissed her hard on the lips.
" Okay, I think you've made your point. And it was well said." She told him, and kissed him again,
"Hang on, didn't you just say no?" he asked, when they broke apart,
"Yeah, I did say no, it's still no. But I like snogging you." She kissed him once more,
"So, will you go out with me?"
"Sam, I'm taken."
"So? That didn't stop me with Betty…" he stopped himself, "bad example huh?"
"Not the best." She laughed,
"Please, you can't kiss me thrice and then say no."
"Why not?"
"It's not right. You've already cheated on him. Please?"
"Sam, don't beg."
"Sorry."
"This is as far as it goes. I'm not going out with you. I just like kissing you. That's all." She said,
"So you just wanna make-out with me every now and then?"
"Okay."
"No strings attached?"
"All right." Kat said,
"Suits me."
"Bye Sam." Kat kissed him one last time, before walking back to the library.
"I don't care what you think Sirius." Emma snapped, "It isn't right! She shouldn't do this to him!"
"Why? It's not like he'll find out!" Sirius shouted back,
"Sirius is right. He's not going to find out at least until tomorrow. It'll be fun." Ellie agreed,
"Thank-you Ellie!"
"Fine, go ahead, but I won't have anything to do with it! Sirius, I can't believe you support her in this. You're meant to be on my side."
"I would be on your side if you were being logical, but you're not. No one will get hurt if she does this to him."
"I'm still not going to do it." Emma folded her arms and stomped up the stairs to her bedroom.
"Fine, be that way. Come on Ellie."
"He's over there on the couch. Pass me the lipstick and the potion. James will flip when he sees himself in the mirror." Ellie said excitedly, James was sleeping on the couch, with his mouth wide open, he was drooling on to the cushion about.
"Charming. James, you're supposed to stop drooling when you turn like, three. He'll go nuts when he realises."
"I know, this is so much fun." Sirius replied, passing her the bright red lipstick and a murky green potion vial, which she tipped into his open mouth, she pushed his jaw upwards, closing his gob, and then rubbed on his throat, causing him to swallow. Then she took the lipstick and neatly applied it to James' lips,
"Wow, that's neat." Sirius said,
"Yeah, well, one of the muggle girls at the orphanage is doing a course in beauty stuff, and she decided I needed a makeover, so before I punched her in the face, she showed me how to do make up. Blush."
Sirius handed her the blush, and she patted it onto James' peaceful face, Sirius burst out laughing.
"Shut up Sirius! He'll wake up!"
"Nah, not if he's dreaming about Lily. When he is, he won't be woken by a bloody cyclone."
"Ooh, that's nice!" James murmured,
"I really did not need to hear that." Sirius said, he was obviously disturbed.
Ellie and Sirius applied makeup to James' face until he was covered in it. He had a large red circle of blush on each cheek; exaggerated bright red lips, pale white skin and he had been magically dressed in a woman's robes.
"He's going to be so mad at you. But I have to admit, he does look very funny." Emma laughed, "He doesn't even look like James Potter."
"That's what polyjuice does Em." Sirius said,
"Right." She said, "Well, I don't know about you guys, but I am wrecked, I'm going to bed."
"Night Em." Ellie said,
"Night babe." Sirius said, kissing her quickly, before she ascended the stairs into her dorm,
"I'm off too." Ellie announced, following Emma.
"Guess I'll go too." Sirius went off in a different direction, to his dorm.
The next morning James woke to the sound of a very loud horn being blown in his ear.
"Ahh, too loud!" he said,
"Morning Sunshine." Ellie smiled, trying hard not to laugh,
"Who is that?" he asked, "I can't see you, where are my glasses?"
"Sirius took them." Ellie said, it was true; Sirius had taken them, and for a reason.
"Um, professor?" asked a male first year, "Why are you on our couch, in our common room?"
"What? Go away." Ellie laughed, "You're only a first year. Eleven year olds shouldn't be drinking! What is the world coming to?"
She pushed the little first year out the portrait hole, and then walked back to James.
"Hey Ellie!" Sirius called to her from the top of the stairs, then he mouthed, 'Does he know?'
She shook her head, and then realised James was watching, she smiled at him and said "Gee whiz, I better be going off to the library, Sirius want to join me?"
"Okay Ellie, that's a swell idea!" he told her enthusiastically, and then joined her near James. He sniggered and then they left.
James frowned, 'gee whiz'? 'Swell?' that was so out of character for those two. He scratched his nose, and felt a powdery substance. He picked up a goblet from the table and looked at his reflection; though it wasn't his reflection, it was that of the divination teacher Professor Dickey.
James burst through the portrait hole and saw Ellie and Sirius running down the hallway. He sprinted after them, though the female body of Professor Dickey and the billowing robes were holding him back. She wasn't a fat woman, she was rather thin, but she wasn't very fit.
"Black! Andrews! Get back here!" he yelled,
"You have to catch us first!" Ellie shouted back, laughing her head off as she ran, "Sirius, that was so worth it, no matter how many detentions we get!"
"Did you see Professor Dickey chasing Ellie Andrews and Sirius Black through the corridors?"
"Yeah, I heard they were caught making out in her boudoir!"
"No, they were stealing tea leaves!"
Rumors spread through the school like fleas. People were still talking about it days later, James had returned to his normal state but he still wasn't talking to Ellie and Sirius. Lily had found it creepy when Professor Dickey had come onto her, then she found out it was James and she decided it was absolutely hilarious. Emma, Kat, Peter and Remus were the only ones he would talk to. He was convinced Ellie and Sirius were plotting something else.
"Kat, would you ask Ellie to pass me the milk?" James asked at breakfast one morning,
"Ellie would you pass James the milk?" Kat relayed the message to her; she was getting sick of being a messenger,
"Tell James that I am getting sick of having to… why are you still wearing that ring?"
"James, Ellie is getting sick of having to why are you still wearing that ring?"
"Kat, I think she was asking you why you're still wearing the ring."
"Oh, well I think it's pretty and it wasn't really from Sam, it was from his sister Nikki."
"I don't think you should be wearing it though, Andy might have 'suspicions'." Emma said,
"Andy doesn't need the ring to have suspicions. He's so suspicious anyway, and clingy."
"Why don't you dump him then?" Ellie asked with her mouth full of food,
"Ellie, don't speak with your mouth full." Lily scolded her,
"Sorry, mother." Ellie said, her mouth still full, "Kat why don't you dump him?"
"Cos' I really like him, apart from the clinginess and the jealousy."
"Oh, well that makes sense." Ellie said sarcastically,
"Well, your philosophy on guys doesn't make much sense either Ellie." Lily said,
"What's your philosophy?"
"If they're jealous, they're gone!" she said,
"Jealousy means they care." Lily said,
"Not for me." Ellie stated, "I have to go and get my transfiguration books, Kat will you come with me?"
"Yeah okay."
They got up and left the Great Hall, when they got around the corner, Ellie stopped and said to Kat, "You're seeing him aren't you?"
"Who?"
"You know who."
"No."
Ellie raised an eyebrow and grinned, "I'm not stupid Kat…"
"Nothing goes past you, does it?"
"Nup, you have to pick Kat. You can't string them both along."
"But I like both!"
"Okay, think of your relationship as cheese." She said,
"All right, relationship cheese." Kat said,
"You can only have one favourite cheese, but you can't decide which one you like the best. So you have to decide between Camembert and Brie."
"Hang on, which one is Brie?"
"Doesn't matter. Basically, you can't make a cheesecake with two types of cheese."
"You don't make cheesecake with cheese Ellie."
"That's not the point, and I knew that anyway, it was an example. You have to pick which one you want to cook with!"
"Thanks, I think. You should be a counselor."
"That's okay. Just make up you mind." Ellie said, "I'm going to get my books, see you later, and by then you have to have made up your mind."
"All right. I'll do my best."
They parted ways; Ellie went towards Gryffindor Tower, and Kat towards the library, she had already made up her mind. She passed Ernestine the Valiant on her way,
"Hello darling." She said, "I was wondering when you would visit me."
Kat freaked out, "Err, hi. Are you a gay portrait?"
"No. Me? Gay? That's preposterous."
"Well, if you're not gay, then my name isn't Lily Evans."
"Your name isn't Lily Evans dear, Lily Evans is the Head girl." Ernestine told her,
"I know," Kat said, realizing her mistake. "But, I still think you're gay." She hurried off quickly, avoiding any more conversations with scary gay portraits.
At around five o'clock, Kat walked into the head's dorm looking very pleased with herself.
"What are you so happy about?" Emma asked,
"Did you decide which cheese to cook with?" Ellie asked, receiving strange looks from everyone except Kat,
"Yeah. But I didn't want to cook with Camembert or Brie. I decided to cook with Blue Vein. This is my new boyfriend, Daniel." She said happily, pulling a good-looking guy into the room.
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