CHAPTER 6: AFTERSHOCK OF THE EVENT

They shot a glance at Dumbledore, who turned away, looking innocently at the sunny ceiling. Kristanna fainted at this fanatical announcement.

"Kris?" Lily said, standing up.

"Kristanna?" Sirius also asked, touching Kristanna's face. "Totally unconscious." He carried her and shove off the other students. "Move, coming through!"

"Dumbledore, Spencer and Black didn't sign a contract," McGonagall said.

"Minerva, Potter and Evans didn't sign the contract too, you know," Dumbledore said. "I just knew that the two could make a good couple."

"Albus, what do you mean by 'Potter and Evans didn't sign a contract'?" McGonagall tried to interrogate.

"Sorry, Minerva, must be off, I have something to do," Dumbledore excused, moving away from the staff table, through the door, and out.

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"Hey, Potter, tell me why we're in the damn contest?" Lily asked, pushing James.

James was serious, really serious. "I don't have any idea, Evans."

"But there's a contract, Potter. I can't have…" she stopped, looked at the unconscious Kristanna on the bed. "Wait a minute!" she shouted with realization.

Kristanna, who was unconsciously taking a glass of potion from Sirius, woke up because the dog accidentally spilled the water on her face, shocked with Lily's sudden shout.

The brunette coughed as she sat up and shrieked as she saw Sirius patting her back. "Get away from me!" she said disgustingly. "Sirius Black, how did we enter that contest? We didn't sign any contract!" she said, holding Sirius by the collar and almost strangling him while she shook him brutally.

"I… don't know!" Sirius managed to shout. He pulled himself away from Kristanna and held his own neck. "You're going to kill me, Kristanna!"

"Aren't you trying to kill me when you tried to burn my face with the bloody potion?" she shouted back.

"And aren't you going to kill us in shame when you entered us to the contest?" James and Lily shouted at the two of them, who stopped talking immediately.

"That is an indecent thing to do, Lily Evans," Sirius said. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Certainly," a voice sounded from the doorway. It was Dumbledore. "You cannot turn back from this contest, Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, Miss Spencer, and Mr. Black.

"But…!" the four retorted.

Dumbledore held out a hand. "I'll explain things before Poppy arrives and shoo me away. Anyway, entering this contest doesn't mean that you will be paired-up forever. I decided to do this so that people unite, people in peace. Please be with me in my means, and give this a try. Good luck for the four of you. I hope you'll win, I know that you'll get points."

The four were left, tongue-tied. Sirius started to touch and caress Kristanna's hair absent-mindedly. "Can' you just cut it out?" she asked him angrily, removing her hair from his grasp.

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"Sirius Black, now we're in trouble. What do you think?" Kristanna asked him, who was munching the tarts. The two of them and the rest of the LJ club were inside a private apartment of the Three Broomsticks.

"Kristanna, if we just continue the plan for James and Evans, certainly, the attention will be out of us," Sirius suggested.

"What a nice idea," Molly said on the background. "But he's right, Kris. If we try to get the public's attention on James and Lily while they were publicly displaying their affection, I think you'll be out of the headline."

Kristanna let herself fall on a chair and folded her arms. "My mother won't like this at all," she muttered. "Don't you know that the parents of the participants will be sent a copy of the announcement and they will be invited in the awarding ceremony on Valentine?"

"As if my idiot, pureblood-maniac mother would come," Sirius said. "Besides, the losers will be out on that day. We really have to do it our way."

"So what's the plan?" Felicity asked. Even though she's in Ravenclaw, she didn't really like their representing couple. "You know, I think our House couple won't be a win. Their PDA-ing ways are too weird to be translated by the naked eye. Only their fellow "autistic gang" can understand them," she spilled out.

"Then that's a point for the club. Come along and I'll tell you the plan," Sirius said, motioning them to form a small, tight circle.

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"How did you do, Lils?" Kristanna asked her friend, pacing to get to her. "Wait, slow down, we're not in a walkathon," she said, and Lily stopped.

"You know, Kris, I don't really know whether you knew what I'm talking about," Lily said, confronting her.

"You know, Lily, I'm really sorry, but that's for the best," Kristanna explained. "Besides, I feel like it's the right stuff to do."

"Under the influence of the Felix, I should say," Lily said. "I think you're brewing too much of it. Remember, Professor Slughorn told us that…"

"… Too much is too bad for us, especially when it comes to potions," she recited heartily. "Yes, Lily, I know. Just forget things, alright?" Kristanna said, holding her friend's shoulders. "I know it's for the best," her mind shouted. "Lily, what kind of feather quill did you buy?" she asked, rummaging through the brown paper bag Lily placed on the bench.

"Well, that's nothing. It's just an egret feather quill," Lily said coolly.

Kristanna looked amazed. "Lils, egret feather quills are rare! It's forbidden to hunt more than one a year, actually," she said, looking at the quill with eyes of longing.

"Kris, don't look at that, it might melt," Lily joked with a muffled voice, she was eating cake. "Thought I forgot you?" she teased as she took from the bottom of the package, a handsomely wrapped box. "Happy birthday, Kris," she said, hugging her.

"I… I almost forgot my birthday," Kristanna said.

"Go on, open it up," Lily urged, moving the box to Kristanna's hands.

Kristanna opened the box and there was a small journal, along with a quetzal feather quill. "This is what I call rare," she said, removing the quill from the box and making writing movements with it.

"Rather like a Parker pen," Lily muttered. "Did you like it?" she asked her.

"I do. Certainly! Thanks, Lils," Kristanna said, hugging Lily once again.

"I think we have to go," Lily said, emptying the butterbeer bottle. "It's already four o' clock."

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Outside the grounds, Sirius and Kristanna planned to meet each other for the next plan. However, as Kristanna walked towards him, a portion of the land moved and turned to a pit (yeah, it's supposed to be a trap), slowly luring Kristanna in it.

"Here!" Sirius said, making a grab. He took Kristanna's hand and to save himself from falling, he held her near him, their faces an inch or so from each other.

The stared at each other for a while, one leg down to support themselves. However, Sirius gave in the temptation and he kissed Kristanna slowly. Apparently shocked, Kristanna fell down to the hard gorund.

"What does that mean?" Kristanna asked, apparently shocked at this sudden contact.

"It meant everything," Sirius said, looking lovingly at Kristanna. He stood up and offered a hand to help her stand up.

She took his hand and stood up, dusting herself. "You date three or more girls a week! Then you're telling me it meant everything?" she asked him angrily.

"I've never kissed anyone of them," Sirius confessed. "I liked you from the start, Kristanna," he confessed furthermore.

"Shut up, Sirius Black! Set me apart from those who were foolish to believe your stupid, sweet words!" she said, tears falling down from her eyes. She started to walk up the castle.

"Wait! Kristanna!" Sirius shouted pulling Kristanna to him and forcibly embracing her. "Please believe me. I do," he said.

Kristanna tried to be hard on this but her other side was telling different. "Sirius, I just mingled with people like you to help Lily to be happy," she explained airily. "I don't really like you at all. That's the truth!"

"That's not the truth, Kristanna!" Sirius said.

"Well, how did you know?" Kristanna asked back, crying like a little girl.

Sirius smiled, in contrast to the eerie surroundings. "I'm a woman analyzer," he said.

Kristanna stopped crying and pretended to make a bad face, but she smiled after that. "So, you're admitting that you are really a girl-magnet."

"Maybe. Let's go back to the castle," he said, taking Kristanna by the hand.

"I never thought that Kristanna will ever love that lack-wit Marauder," Lily thought, removing her wand from her temple, giggling by the window as she watched the two as they went up the castle.

a/n: ok, that last part was really crappy. But please don't leave me alone because of that. There are more to come!

NCSP:

"Really, Sirius, you don't believe that crap, don't you?" she asked him.

"It's not really dangerous to believe. Besides, they've accomplished the seven times eye-contact," Sirius argued.

Kristanna merely rolled her eyes, it was helpless to argue with Sirius Black; she knew about that since last night, when he desperately made her believe. "I think I have to go, it's Potions first thing in the morning," she said.

Sirius shook his head. "I've got the afternoon Potions. It's Care for Magical Creatures for me, first period."

"Sorry, I don't know about your sched. Surely, you want to be an auror. That's what I knew. What's the point of getting that subject?"