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Loving Lucy: Chapter Two

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At around five that Lucy was shaken awake. "Wha- wha isii?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

"Your in my bed." a voice she recognized to be Bridget's said. She sat up and strained her eyes to see through the darkness.

In front of her, still wearing her school uniform, hair tousled and makeup smudged was, as she had suspected, Bridget Acherly.

"What are you on about?" she asked as Bridget slapped her arm. "Get up!" she said. Lucy sat up straighter and backed up more. "Make me!" she retorted.

"This is my bed." Bridget stated, glaring dangerously at her. "I think your wrong. You see, this is my bed, my clothes where on it and I've been sleeping in it... Making it M-I-N-E." Lucy growled, laying back down and pulling her blankets over her head.

"No, I think your wrong, because I've had the bed right beside the window ever since I was in second year!" Bridget hollered, causing a few other girls to curse at her. Then Lucy heard her mutter something and she next thing she knew she could feel something slithering around in her bed with her.

"AEEEKK!"

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"So, tell me again what happened?" Lily asked, sitting on the edge of her bed a few hours later.

"We've been over this twice already! She came in and yelled at me for being in her bed or something and then she sent a snake in my bed! That dammed thing could have killed me!" Lucy exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air.

She had always had a deadly fear of snakes. Snakes and infiri, come to think of it.

"Then what happened?" Lily asked.

"Well, when I fell off the bed I looked up and saw the dormitory door closing." Lucy went on "I don't really understand it, she just came in and started yelling at me and I said some stuff back and the next thing I know I have a snake in my bed and I'm on the floor!"

There was silence for a few moments while Julie, a few beds away, cooed at the snake she had named Chamomile.

Lucy glanced at the snake and her skin crawled, she used to have nightmares about them crawling all over her and spitting at her.

"That sounds a lot like Bridget when shes miffed at somebody. But why would she have a grudge against you? She only met you last night." Lily said, yawning.

"You can go back to bed if you want, I think I'm going to go for a walk." Lucy said, standing up and running her fingers through her hair before tying a blue ribbon in it.

"Where are you going to walk?" Lily asked, although she was already crawling into her bed. "I don't know, I'll just explore a little bit. Get a better feel for this place." Lucy said, not really knowing where she would go, but she didn't want to keep everybody awake any longer.

"But theres a curfew here, if you get caught out of bed after hours you'll get detention at the very least." Lily said, pulling her covers over her.

"I wont get caught." Lucy said, smiling and bounding to the door "Don't worry." she added before exiting the room and taking the staircase two steps at a time.

The common room was dark and the only light came from the glowing embers in the fire place. Lucy walked quietly to the sofa in front of the fire place.

Only when she got there did she realize someone was already there, lying with his feet propped up on the table and his head resting on the back of the chesterfield.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know anybody else was here." she muttered as he turned to look at her. Butterflies started to flutter madly in her stomach when she saw who it was. Sirius Black.

"No, its fine. Sit." he said, with a slight grin.

Lucy did as he said, but she couldn't help sitting farther away from him than she usually did with fair looking guys. She was afraid that if she came too close he would be able to hear her heart pounding.

"I wont bite." he joked and Lucy laughed nervously as he continued. "I don't think we've ever been properly introduced, my name is Sirius Black. You may have heard of me ... ?"

"I think I ran into you the other night, actually. Anyway, my name is Lucy Scott." she replied back.

"Well, hello Lucy Scott. What are you doing up so late?" he asked, leaning towards her more.


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Later that day Lucy had no idea what she had answered with,j because not long after, and she didn't even know how, they started snogging!

So now she was sitting here in the middle of Charms class thinking about him! It was so frustrating! She didn't even know what exactly about him that she was so into! His hair was nice, his eyes where gorgeous, he had a nice face and an AMAZING body. Damn him, she thought.

Throwing up her arms in frustration she groaned loudly in exasperation. Which probably wasn't a good idea, because soon every head in class turned to look at her and she dropped her hands back down onto her desk, shifting her gaze from them.

This just wouldn't due, she couldn't just continue to think about him. A task that required concentration could appear and she could end up with two heads! Or in a snake pit! Or with purple eyebrows! No, she would have to get over him and in her rule book there was only one sure way of getting a boy off her mind.

Getting another one, or possibly two.

With that decided she walked out of that classroom at bell with new, refreshed confidence. Diner was calling and there where at least two hundred fit looking lads around for her to claim.


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"So you made out with a hot girl, whats the big deal, isn't that a daily event for you." James said between mouthfuls of mashed potatoes.

"Actually an hourly event. But that isn't the point! The point is I can't stop thinking about her! And shed isn't some hot girl, her names Lucy." Sirius groaned, pushing back his plate.

"Oh dear Merlin!" Remus said, coming up behind him. "Sirius, not eating! THE HORROR!" and a few people turned to look at him as he sat down bashfully beside Peter. "He's thinkin' about a girl!" Peter cooed.

"Peter?"

"Yes?"

"Go wet yourself."

"Wh--"

"We all know you want to."

Sirius groaned, even taunting Wormtail wasn't as fun as usual and all his food tasted bland. "You know what I think?" he asked James.

"Oh no, you've been thinking?" James replied with a smirk.

"Shove it, and yes, I have been. I think that the house elves are mad at me for painting them all purple so I think there making my food tasteless .. And probably poisoned too, come to think of it." Sirius replied.

Just then, Peter leaned over the table and grabbed a handful of Sirius' gravy covered mashed potatoes and stuffed it in his mouth. "I think its all right." he said, spraying everybody with bits of food.

Sirius stared at his pumpkin juice, which now had bits of regurgitated potato in it.

Urg...

"You know what? Why suffer? I can just ask her to join me in the broom cupboard tonight and we can snog for a few hours. I'm sure I will be on to my next victim by then." Sirius said, proud that he had thought of that and making a mental note to stare at bits of Peter's pre-chewed food the next time he was troubled about something.

On second thought, maybe he wouldn't.

"Thats bloody brilliant, mate." James said, clapping him on the shoulder.

"But I think there might be a flaw in your plan." Remus started, waving his fork around. "And what my that be, my dear friend?" Sirius asked, still on his smart idea high.

"I don't think Gordon Henley will appreciate you going into a broom cupboard with his new girlfriend." Remus replied and Sirius looked down the table at where a tall, blond seventh year Ravenclaw was sitting beside Lucy, talking and laughing.

He glared at them, for some odd reason he felt very betrayed and almost, dare he think it, jealous? Oh no, this would not go unnoticed. This was a travesty! This was ... not right!

Sirius flipped back to look at his fellow marauders, not bothering to sweep back his bangs like he usually did. "This is not right." he said. James glanced over Sirius' shoulder and nodded in realization. "Well, mate, at least now you don't have to worry about her." he shrugged.

"James?"

"Yes?"

"You are not helping."

"Oh."


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Lucy faked a smile and nodded. Even though she was with Gordon and Lily and Julie and Julie's boyfriend, Ken, she couldn't stop thinking about Sirius!

They had been outside for half the afternoon and still he was on her mind! Then she saw something out of the corner of her eye and turned to look at it. It was James Potter and Sirius Black crouching behind a large boulder and watching a group of other students approach.

Smiling, she turned back to the group. "I have to go ... er ... do that thing, at the place .. with that thing." she said, and before waiting for a reply she got up and ducked behind a tree.

Sirius and James where still there, waiting for the people to approach and Lucy now saw that they had a bucket beside them. Curiosity was getting the better of her so she walked silently forward, making sure that nobody saw her and then she knelt down behind the boys.

"What are you doing?" she asked, laughing as they jumped at her voice, then they turned back to look at her. "Oh, er ... nothing." James said, she could tell he was lying, and not very well for that matter.

She peered inside the bucket at what looked like water balloons. "OK, just one question, why do you want to soak all those people?" she whispered, so that they nobody but Sirius and James would hear her.

"Well, they're Slytherins." James said "And their greasy, and there annoying and we have to get them back for flipping me in the corridors yesterday." he added.

Lucy though for a moment, then saw that the Slytherins where right on the other side of the rock now.

"What are we waiting for!" she said, grabbing a water balloon from the bucket, standing up and chucking it at a particularity greasy one with shoulder length black hair.

James and Sirius where now throwing them too and only now did she realize that there was not just water in those balloons but soap and probably a charmed solution because it looked like they where being scrubbed and bubbles where starting to form and float around them.

Everybody was laughing, except for the Slytherins, but they deserved it, she thought. They had it coming flipping someone in the hallways. Poo on them, she thought, throwing another one and hitting them again.

They all came out in front of the boulder, Sirius carrying the bucket so they still had ammo. The ground was wet and slippery but Lucy kept throwing and laughing. By now the Slytherins had drawntheir wands and where fighting back, only with more force.

A blue light hit her and she slipped backwards, hitting the soapy ground hard but still laughing. She leapt up and grabbed another balloon and threw it at the extra greasy one who had made her fall. It hit him in the back of his head and it was immediately covered in frothy foam and bubbles.

Lucy doubled over laughing, not paying attention until Sirius yelled. "RUN!" and he grabbed her around the waist and dragged her backwards. She saw the bucket go flying and land on the foamy, greasy ones head before she was pulled backwards behind the rock.

They caught they're breath and then ran to the edge of the forest, dodging curses all the way. Lucy collapsed against a tree and then looked up at the guys. Sirius was soaked to the bone, just like her, and she had to laugh when she saw James, who had a big, green mustache.

Sirius, still laughing, dropped his arm over her shoulder and she linked arms with James and they walked back up to the castle, making sure to give the soapy and probably angry, Slytherins, a wide birthing.

When they walked inside she let her and James' arms fall away and thought Sirius would remove his arm from its place around her shoulders but he didn't. She saw Bridget and shot her a smile but she was too busy smirking about something to care.

Together they started to slop up to the common room but before they did they heard more wet foot steps running fast in their direction. Sirius smiled as the chase took a new turn and they took off down the hallways.

James went one way and Lucy, not knowing the castle very well, followed behind Sirius. "Watch out for the trick step!" he called, but, too late. Lucy's foot had fallen down the step and the soggy followers where right behind them!

She pulled herself up before she got completely stuck and Sirius grabbed her under the shoulders to help her forward.

She glanced back behind her shoulder and to her horror saw that they where right there! Sirius fell backwards against the steps and the one that had apparently removed the bucket from his head grabbed her arm.

"Let go of me!" he exclaimed, trying to shake him off. He snared evilly and she did the first thing that came to her mind, she slapped him hard across the face, her medallion she wore on a bracelet leaving the imprint of a fox paw print on his face.

He released his grip on her and she stumbled backwards, Sirius catching her before she fell. He had apparently picked himself up off the floor.

He made her go in front of him and they ran flat out up the stairs. Even though Lucy's foot was hurting. He pulled her down a side corridor and then into a wall. Yes, into a wall, well, a fake one apparently. It was cramped but Lucy was happier to be in there than out in the hallway as she heard at least seven wet footsteps running past.

They where both breathing heavily and as the Slytherins rounded the corner Lucy became aware of just how close together they were...

To be continued ...