Hello my fellow readers. I apologize for the long wait. School has been HELL! (And it's only the 3rd week…yippee…) I hate High SCHOOL! I HOPE IT BURNS AND DIES! Ugh…anywho, thanx to the reviewers! You know who y'all are. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the original series Harry Potter but I do own Lina, Laura, Nikki, and Justin.

It was Friday after dinner when Lina and Sirius met in the Gryffindor Common Room. With all the Gryffindors there waiting anxiously to see what crazy thing they would do next, Sirius and Lina went to a corner of the room to talk about what they would do. 10 minutes later, they came to the center of the crowd with big smiles on their faces.

"Well? What are you going to do?" One 1st year asked.

"We're going swimming in the Great Lake."

Know everyone knew they were crazy. The Great Lake was FREEZING! Even on the warmest days of the year, it was at least 15 degrees. (A/N: In Fahrenheit. I don't know Celsius sry :) Also, I know I'm exaggerating but still…)

"Lina! C'mon! Don't be stupid!" Laura yelled at her worriedly. "You'll die of the cold!"

Actually," Nikki interrupted. "She wouldn't die. She would just get extreme hypothermia." This only got Laura more panicked. "Oh! JUST GREAT! THAT'S TOTALLY SOO MUCH BETTER!"

Lily sighed. "Laura, calm down. If Lina wants to do something, we have every right to let her. Even if it's THE MOST- STUPIDEST- MOST REARTED THING EVER!" Lily screamed and everyone looked at her. She blushed slightly. "Sorry…"

Lina shook her head. "Listen guys. I'll be fine. Me and cold are best friends. I mean, remember the times I've gone outside in the snow barefoot or in shorts and a tank top?"

The three girls nodded. "Well, I'll be fine. I promise."

Meanhwile, the Marauders were talking to Sirius...

"Padfoot. Who's idea was it to swim in the Great Lake? I'm warning you now, you shouldnt do it."

Sirius put his hands up. "Don't look at me Moony. It was all Lina!"

Remus shook his head. "Don't say I didn't warn you..."

Suddenly they all heard a voice yell, "...THE MOST- STUPIDEST- MOST REARTED THING EVER!"

Eveyone, including the Marauders turned to Lily. "Sorry..."

Turning back, the Marauders looked at each other. Peter suddenly asked, "Do you think Lina's friends are upset?"

Sirius rolled his eyes and just walked away with James and Remus, leaving a confused (and STUPID!) Peter standing there.

20 minutes later, everyone was at the Great Lake watching as Sirius and Lina took of their sweatshirts and sweatpants revealing bathing suits. (A/N: If you want to know what the bathing suits look like for some odd reason, Sirius' plain blue and Lina's a black and purple one piece.)

"Okay people. We're gonna see who can stay in longer. The gorgeous and smart Lina or me. The smoking, hot, and sexy Sirius Black." Cheers came for both of them from everyone.

Someone yelled out, "What happens to the loser?"

"Good question. Um…What do you think Lina?"

"We should decide after the loser gets out of the water." Sirius nodded. "OK. Any more questions?"

When everyone just remained quiet, Lina and Sirius looked at each other and each went to the edge of the lake. On the count of three, the two jumped in the freezing water of the Great Lake.

As the two came up to the surface, cheers came from the crowd. Knowing that she should move to keep the blood circulating, Lina began swimming around. Sirius just stood there. (Idiot…)

10 minutes later, Sirius was shivering with his lips blue while Lina swam around perfectly fine. Seeing this, Sirius finally got the idea and began copying her moves.

Another 10 minutes passed and the two were still at it though starting to tire. Lily was starting to wonder if this was ever going to end. Some students had left because of the cold but there was still more than half he Gryffindors waiting.

Then, a scream came.

Everyone saw as Lina was struggling to stay above the water as something was pulling her under. It couldn't have been a mermaid. They weren't that mean. This left either the giant squid that wanted a new little friend to play with or a grindylow who wanted to drown someone.

As Lina struggled, the students were beginning to panic. Especially Laura, Nikki, and Lily.

Sirius quickly swam over to where she was but she was a good 20 twenty feet away from him and by the time he got to where she was, she had been pulled under. Taking a deep breath, Sirius went under and everyone waited for him to come back up. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Sirius came up with Lina who was unconscious.

As they got to shore, the Marauders quickly took Lina from Sirius and laid her down. Remus, being raised with a muggle mother (A/N: He's half muggleborn from his mother and half wizard from his father), got down on his knees and started to do CPR.

As he was doing this, Peter had gotten a towel for Sirius while James conjured up a warming spell for him and all three of them were watching Remus anxiously. Lily, Laura, and Nikki were huddled around Remus, but not completely closed in. After a couple more breaths, Lina woke up and sitting up coughed up a bunch of water.

Everyone came running towards her but Nikki put her hand up. "Stop. Give her some air."

Listening to her, everyone backed away to give Lina air to breath. After a couple more coughs, Lina finally stopped and looked up at everyone. "Hey guys."

The girls quickly started yelling at her. "DON'T YOU 'HEY GUYS' ME!" "LINA! THAT WAS THE MOST IDIOTIC THING EVER!" "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED WE WERE!" And so on.

Lina sighed. "You guys. You can yell at me tomorrow. Right now I just want to go to the dorm and go to sleep." Lina stood up but was a little shaky. Everyone rushed towards her to try to steady her but she quickly waved them off. "I'm fine." Laura handed her a towel to dry herself off. As Lina began walking to the castle, the other girls followed wanting to watch their best friend to make sure she didn't fall and Nikki carried Lina's clothes.

Stopping suddenly, Lina turned around towards Sirius and smiled. "Guess you won this time, didn't you Sirius?"

Before he could say anything, she turned around and continued walking to the castle.

"Okay folks. Shows over. Back to the dorms."

As Remus was herding the crowd back to the castle, James went over to Sirius.

"You alright mate?"

Sirius nodded. "Yeah. I'm fine…"

"So, did you see what was pulling her down? It was a grindylow wasn't it?"

"I couldn't get a good look. It was a nit dark down there."

"Oh. Right…" James grinned sheepishly. Noticing that Sirius wasn't acting all cheerful, James came up with a brilliant idea. "Hey. What do ya say we go sneak into Hogsmeade and go get us a couple butterbeers?"

That got Sirius happy again. "Yeah. And lets go prank Snivellus. I think we could all use a few laughs tomorrow."

With that, the Marauders were off to Hogsmeade to drink some nice butterbeer and to prank a nasty Slytherin with greasy ugly black hair.

"Honestly guys. I'm fine!" These were the words that were continuously coming out of Lina's mouth the next day. She understood her friends were worried about her, but they were seriously overreacting! They kept feeling her forehead, insisted that she drink plenty of liquids and that was fine.

But now! NOW they wanted her to not go to QUIDDITCH PRACTICE! They were absolutely BONKERS for even suggesting it!

"But Lina-"

Lina cut Laura off and with her broom in one hand and the other hand on her hip, she gave them a firm look.

"I'm going to practice. It's the first one of the new year and I'm going. I'm perfectly fine. I haven't collapsed or sneezed or coughed once today."

"But-"

"NO!"

Lina walked past them and exited out the portrait, and made her way down to the quidditch pitch.

'Crazy…they're crazy…'

A voice brought her out of her thoughts. "Hey Lina."

Lina turned towards the voice (or rather jumped) and saw Justin leaning against the wall looking absolutely GORGEOUS!. "Oh. H-hey Justin." She said nervously.

He glanced at her broom and looked back at her. "Quidditch practice?" He asked with a small smile.

Lina just nodded. Justin walked up to her. "I'll walk you there."

Together, the two began walking down towards the Entrance Hall.

"I heard bout what happened last night. Sounded awesome. You okay?"

Lina blushed slightly. "Oh. You know about that?"

Justin nodded. "Yeah. Practically the whole school knows. Word gets around quick here. But are you sure your okay? Word is you were dragged under by a grindylow."

Lina shrugged. "I was unconcious for a few minutes but, I'm still here." She looked down to the floor. 'Oh god…he probably thinks I'm such a loser."

"You always do such crazy things." This interrupted her thoughts and she looked up at him. He continued. "Everyone knows you as the girl who's not afraid to show who she is. You're always so happy. That's what I like about you."

Lina stopped and watched as Justin kept going. 'Did he just say…he LIKED me!' Lina quickly caught up to him. "W-what do you mean by that?"

By this time they were at the Entrance Hall right next to the big open doors revealing a nice warm sunny day outside.

"Well, I'd like it if you would go out with me sometime."

"Ummm…uhh…"

Justin shrugged. "It's ok if you don't want to answer me. Just let me know by the next Hogsmeade weekend." He began to turn around but was stopped.

"I'll go. I'd love to." Lina said with a small smile on her face.

Justin smiled. "Great. So we'll meet out here on the next Hogsmeade weekend at eight."

"Sounds great."

The two went their separate ways. Justin back to the Hufflepuff common room and Lina to quidditch practice. Lina jumped on her broom and flew high up and did a flip and a bunch of complicated moves. She laughed as she flew. She was so happy! Justin Michaels had just asked her out!

Lina then remembered she had Quidditch practice. She was late! Lina sped off to the pitch with a big smile on her face.

How was it? My longest one yet! I felt guilty for leaving you for so long. I hope it was ok:) Please let me know. And you can yell at me too! I deserve it… Laters!