DISCLAIMER: THE WORLD OF HARRY POTTER BELONGS TO JK ROWLING.
" What are you doing?"
" Shhh come on."
Stephanie got up from her bed early the next morning. It wasn't even light out, and Fred had woken her up.
" How did you get in here?"
" Just grab a jacket, come on."
Fred held out his hand for Stephanie to grab, and took her down the stairs, through the common room, and out of the portrait hole.
" Fred will you slow down. What are you doing?"
He turned around and kissed her feverishly, which took her by surprise, that she completely forgot what she wanted to ask him. Her knees were weak, and she needed a minute to regain her senses. He seemed so excited for something.
" I haven't been able to sleep properly. Been thinking about you all night long—" said and excited Fred as he continued to walk down the staircases of the castle. He stopped and started walking back and forth as Stephanie watched him in her night clothes, topped with a track jacket and her long wavy hair in a side swept lose braid. Suddenly, a door appeared in the wall, and Fred took her hand to lead her inside.
" What is this?" asked Stephanie as she took the sight around her.
She was standing in a large room, with a lit fireplace, large comfy couch with numerous pillows, and of course a grand bed with hangings.
" I call this the Room of Requirements. It sort of provides you with whatever you wish or need on the moment. And right now, I want a romantic bedroom to share with you." Said Fred as he picked up Stephanie in his arms. She laughed, but then looked at him with sincerity.
" I really do love you Frederick."
He half smiled, and kissed her as he undid her braid. He looked up, and took in the abundant hair tumbling all around her, as her lips were swollen from the kiss, and her face looked so innocent, eyes still closed from the kiss.
Two hours later, Laura had woken up in her four-poster bed. Usually, she was wakened by Stephanie, but this morning, she was awoken by the thought of the letter of the night before. She shut her eyes hard. She had to be strong about this. She lay in her bed thinking and wiping tears away angrily.
He wants to pretend like it's nothing does he? Fine, I'll show him. What was I thinking—Damn you Sirius Black! Damn your sex appeal, damn your smoldering eyes, damn the way I felt when you kissed me! DAMN DAMN DAMN! Ok let's just get up and pretend it was all nothing. I promised Oliver I would write him once I was at Hogwarts. Yes, that's good, think of Oliver. Ah poor Oliver…ok must get up now.
Laura went to take a shower, and after she got dressed she walked down to the common room to wait for her friends, so they could all go together to watch the prank unveil.
" Hermione? What are you doing here?"
" Good Morning Laura. I have some things I wanted to double check before classes today."
" But Hermione, it's only the second day of school…"
" I know"
" …rite…so how are things with Ron and Harry?"
" Good"
Rite, what to talk about…Don't want to bring up this summer, because of someone who shall remained unnamed…Bastardman…ooh I like the ring of that!
" Uhh Laura are you allright?" asked Hermione, because Laura had been staring at her with a cross expression.
" What—oh yeah, I'm fine. Just waiting for the others, you know. You lot will have a treat this morning."
" How so?"
" oh I don't know…I've just heard rumors about the teachers ordering a sort of carnival…I'm not too sure." Said Laura trying hard not to grin.
Suddenly the Portrait hole burst open with Fred and Stephanie stumbling into the common room.
" Stephanie! I thought you were upstairs!" said Laura in shock at seeing her here.
Stephanie turned bright red, and Fred seemed a bit embarrassed too, which was a new thing for him.
" I—uhh—See ya!" and Stephanie rushed upstairs to take a shower and get dressed.
" Oh no you don't! Fred!"
Fred looked sheepish but was none the less grinning rather happily.
" Did you guys add something to the –" she had been about to say prank, but it would have been a disaster with Hermione in the room, for fear she would go tell a teacher if she suddenly felt noble.
" no, no…nothing to do with that…Stephanie and I just decided to take a walk this morning that's all."
" Like I would believe that!—"
Fred looked at Laura with large eyes, sort of nodding so she would stop asking questions and suddenly it dawned on her.
" Oh" she half whispered.
" Well good morning to you Laura, and you Hermione. See you in a bit." He too went to his dormitory to take a shower, although he was pleasantly taking two stairs at a time with a slight spring in his step. Hear Ye Hear Ye for the Room of Requirements…
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" 5 more minutes"
" Feels like it's taking forever!"
" Well we need the school to get down here anyways. Looks like about everyone's here now."
" Any minute now…"
" Oh I'm so giddy!"
The gang was sitting at breakfast, all anticipating the revealment of last night's little phyasco.
" Hey is that Draco?" asked Laura as the blonde haired Slytherin walking into the Great Hall.
" Shit! How did he manage to get out?" asked Lee angrily.
" Do you think the others got out too?" asked George.
" Probably. If he got out, I bet his other little dumbass friends got out too." said Fred darkly.
" Well I guess our prank just went down the toilet." Said Laura sadly.
" Wait! There's no way they could have gotten out of that deep sleep! Every time you guys practiced on me I could never get up!" said Lee.
Stephanie just kept quiet, as her heart beat quickened. She didn't want to tell her friends she had came back for him, but she didn't want to say anything, for fear the nervousness in her voice would give her away. George came to her rescue.
" Hey wait mates! I think it's working! Do you hear—the music is starting…"
Sure enough, Carnival music was filling the great hall, as numerous heads turned in wonder. Then suddenly an uproar of laughter filled the Great Hall.
" guess they just say them" said Lee grinning.
He was right. Three rather grotesquely costumed 'people' were soon emerging from the laughing crowd, looking VERY embarrassed—or at least people could guess that they were, but if the costumed people were blushing at all, that was hidden behind the drag queen-like make-up they each were sporting.
Blake was expertly dressed in fish-net stockings, topped with a Sparkly red leotard, and 4 inch sparkly red platform shoes.
Edward was dressed in a Las Vegas Show girl- like attire, with the full ensemble of large Feathers, fishnet stockings, fake eyelashes, and gold stiletto heels.
The crowd of students laughed the hardest when Blake and Edward came tumbling down due to their high heels.
" Get your heel out of my crouch!" yelled Edward.
" I can't move with this skin-thigh thing! And YOU get your feathers out of my mouth!" yelled back Blake.
They tried to get back up, but were more or less a tangled mess of flamboyant colors.
Now Pansy Parkinson, tried to hang in the back, but her appearance was—well, she looked like a grown cave man. She had large quantities of fake hair sprouting from her armpits, arms, nose, ears, eyebrows, legs, any part of her body not covered. She had a large beard that hid her anger- boiling cheeks, and dirt everywhere. Every time she tried to speak it would come out as a grunt, and her lion cloth that draped over her chest was roaring.
People were rolling on the ground with laughter, some even seemed to not make any sound at all, they were laughing so hard.
Stephanie glanced over at Draco who had his eyebrows raised, and a slight smirk on his mouth when she looked over. Stephanie raised her shoulders in a I- didn't- do- anything sort of way, and he just nodded grinning. As soon as she turned around however, his eyebrows became tense again, as he thought about what he had read in the notebook the night before. He had seen her name in the front cover, which immediately had made his pulse react; but he had started reading what she wrote, and now—she was even more puzzling than before.
" You think Malfoy will say anything?" asked Laura wiping away tears of joy.
" Guess we'll have to find out—but even if he does, there's no proof" said Lee clutching his side.
" What is going on here!" said a disheveled looking McGonagall standing at the entrance of the Great Hall. " Ms. Parkinson! Mr. Kruster! Mr. Nury! What is the meaning of this! FINITE!" the music stopped playing, but they were still in their costumes.
" You three! Come with me! Disrupting the Great Hall in such a fashion!" she turned abruptly as the others made way to follow. But it was difficult for the boys with their heels, that they had to hold on to each other as they walked which made everyone laugh and shout " Aww what a cute couple!"
Pansy shot Stephanie a death look, but Stephanie just brushed it off saying," It wasn't me! Scout's honor!"
By first period people were still laughing about it in class, in fact even by dinner it was the talk of the day. By the end of the week, people---were still mentioning it now and then.
" Ah the first Weekend!" said Stephanie as she fell on one of the Common Room couches.
"Yup! And still no detention for us! It has got to be a first!" said Fred as he sat down at Stephanie's head and put her head on his lap.
Stephanie looked up at him and squinted her eyes. " You know, from this angle, your nose kinda looks like Italy."
" What the—" said Laura, " Never mind. You two and your—never mind."
George had gone upstairs to get a pack of cards, for him and Lee and as he sat down on the carpet near them he said, " You know what still gets me though, how the hell Malfoy got out of our prank, and why he didn't tell on us."
" Dunno, maybe he reckons he can get back at us better one-on-one, you know, likes to settle his own scores." Said Fred.
Stephanie was still looking at him upside down, and thought, Would Draco really want revenge? I can't believe that—ok maybe I'm silly, but it's not like what we did was horrible. Plus it was less painful than getting smacked into a wall—well maybe Kruster and Nury felt the pain in those heels…heh heh…
" Ok, well sorry I have to go to the library." Said Fred suddenly.
" Why? We never go to the library." Said George looking up.
" Yeah, well Steph needs to help me on a little spell and.."
" Oh rite, that spell…we better go…" said Stephanie getting up, her eyes twinkling of mischief and anticipation.
They got up when George said, " Hold it!"
Stephanie and Fred looked at each other sort of crestfallen, and turned around slowly.
" What is it?" asked Fred.
" Bring back some food from the kitchens."
Fred laughed and said, " Sure thing."
He and Stephanie quickly left the common room before anymore questions could be asked. They saw Ron once out of the Portrait hole, and Fred stopped him, "Hey Ron! Get some food from the kitchens!" then continued walking with Stephanie as Ron turned on the spot muttering " ..always me…getting picked on.."
They walked hand in hand, stopping occasionally for a secluded kiss, or a wandering hand. They walked all the way to the Room of Requirements, and Fred walked back and forth in front of it.
" Hey!"
Fred stopped and turned to see who it was.
" What are you two doing here after hours?" asked Draco Malfoy.
Stephanie looked at him in shock, and Fred came up to him sneering.
They were both about as tall as one another. Draco was a bit talled, but leaner aswell, whilst Fred was just and inch or so shorter, but was remarkably built for a beater.
" Why got a problem?" asked Fred.
" Fred-don't…" said Stephanie as she came up to the boys.
Draco knew this was the Room of Requirements, he had taken his share of ladies here as well, but this was one lady he didn't want anyone going in there with but himself.
" It's after hours, you two better get back up to your common room." He said very evenly.
Fred stared at him for a moment, then took Stephanie's hand and turned around. They turned the corner, and went in the entrance of a passage way concealed behind a tapestry.
" Fred what are we doing?" asked Stephanie.
" Just waiting 'till that git gets a move on."
They waited a bit longer, then emerged, and went back to the Room of Requirements. Stephanie looked to see if Draco was still there, but he had apparently continued with his patrolling.
They entered the room, once again furnished as lavishly as before. Stephanie went in first, and noticed something on the little table next to the fireplace.
" My notebook!" She half whispered.
" What is it Steph?" asked Fred.
" It's my notebook…I—I thought I lost it."
" Guess it was here the whole time." Said Fred.
Stephanie picked it up frowning and flipped through some of the pages, but everything seemed intact. Strange…very strange…
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" What do you reckon they're doing?" asked George munching on an éclair Ron had brought back.
" George, use your head. Fred and Stephanie are a couple. A couple that had been together for…I dunno like 2 years…they sure as hell aren't talking." Said Laura.
" But I thought they were in the library" said George.
" You're right my dear man, " said Lee smirking, " Fred is probably exercising his skills in magic."
" See Laura, even Lee says they're doing homework in the library." Said George.
" Whatever you say…" said Laura grinning at Lee.
Finally all three of them went to bed, but the famous trio was still in the common room.
Throughout the week, Laura had tried to push all thoughts of Sirius out of her mind. Always keeping busy, as to not allow him any moment to penetrate her mind. But now as she lay in bed, it was the first time this week, she let herself think about him. She had written to Oliver hoping that when he wrote back things would be like they were before, but he hadn't written back yet.
Oh I can't sleep…I'll just go read or something…think I left my book downstairs. Great, must get up. Let's hope the fire is still going in the Common Room, otherwise I'll be freezing my ass off!
She walked downstairs, but heard hushed voices coming from the common room.
Who the hell would be down there at this hour?
She tip-toed carefully, as to not make any noise, then peered into the common room. She saw Harry, Hermione and Ron kneeled on the ground in front of the fireplace talking to someone in it. That someone was of course—Sirius Black.
Great! Fucking great! I come down here to get away from my thoughts of him—and what do I find—his bloody head in the fireplace!
Hermione turned around to see if anyone was there, and saw Laura.
" Laura!"
The boys shut their mouths quickly, and stayed quiet and alert, incase it was an unwanted eavesdropper.
" Uhh—yeah. Couldn't sleep, came down here to read." She said coming out of the shadows.
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! All these years with the twins, and I can't think up a decent excuse to not be here! Stupid! Stupi—
" Hello Laura." Said Sirius from the fire.
" Hey." she replied not looking up, and making way to sit next to Hermione.
Harry nodded 'hello' towards Laura, and resumed back to his Godfather.
" –SO they hired this toad woman, and—"
As Harry talked, Sirius glanced quickly at Laura, who was still not looking at him. She was looking at Harry, or up at the mantelpiece of the fireplace. He noticed her jaw tense.
Don't show him you're hurt. Don't show him. Why is my throat getting tight…no no…don't get tight…that means tears are coming…
" Hey listen mates, I'm actually pretty tired suddenly, I'm just going to go to bed." Laura said after having sat down just 5 minutes.
" Oh rite. Ok." Said Harry.
" Good night." Said Laura.
" Good night." Said Sirius.
Laura walked up the stairs.
Don't turn around...don't turn around...
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