Golden Brown Pancakes

It was dark, pleasantly dark. She did not see anything but darkness and sighted. But when she had turned on the other side, she was overcome with bad feeling in her stomach. She lay down flat on her back again and smiled slightly. That was way better. The tempting sleep once again moved closer and closer and so pulled the cover a little higher.
"Get up!" A loud voice echoed through the room and Katie grimaced. Where did this terrible headache come from? She snapped the pillow up, turned again on other side, trying to suppress the upcoming qualm and pressing it against her left ear. She once more sighted contentedly but almost at the same time, the pillow was snatched away from her and instead, a hand was put on her shoulder, which once shook her firmly.

"Come on, Katie, get up!" Angelina's voice was closer and louder than before. Katie chuntered something unintelligible and pulled up the cover. Pulsative headache started with every word Angelina shouted. It was terrible. After a few, apparently in Angelina's opinion unnecessary, tries, she removed her hand from Katie's shoulders. She just wanted to smile in relief as suddenly and without warning the cover was wrested from her with a jerk.
She squalled but immediately fell silent when her head piped up again. She lashed about. "Katie, either you get up right now or we'll really get into trouble! And honestly, I don't believe you're able to explain to McGonagall why you're lying in bed having a hangover. And now to you, Alicia..."
Katie slightly opened one of her eyes, just to watch Angelina trumping to Alicia's bed. Even though you couldn't call it bed any more. All one could see was a giant knotted heap of cover that lay on the mattress. No Alicia to be seen. But it seemed like she was there because Angelina began doing the same procedure that she had done with Katie.

She slowly dragged herself out of bed until she was in a sitting position. She could not completely open her eyes because the light only aggravated her headache even more. "Oh great, Katie, you'd best get dressed and get ready then we can have breakfast," Angelina said as she saw Katie was finally really awake. Katie mumbled intelligibly but then slowly resorted to the bathroom. The floor underneath her feet was cold and she could see black hair showing under a pillow as she passed Alicia's bed. She bit her lip smiling and continued walking.
When she came out of the bathroom ten minutes later freshly showered and a little fitter, she was already expected by Alicia who shooed her away from the door with a grim "I also need to!" and slammed the door directly behind herself. Katie slightly shook her head. It usually was like that. Alicia woke up with a hangover and was grumpy, however Angelina then shooed her out of the bed. The only difference was that this time Katie was next to Alicia instead of Angelina.

Katie directly headed towards the bed and just flopped onto it. She would give anything to back to sleep. She pleasurably closed her eyes and nestled her face up against the sheet. It was so soft...After what only felt like seconds, a door loudly flung open and she startled. Alicia tramped out of the bathroom with an angry look. She just looked terrible. Deep, dark circles around her eyes decorated her face and her hair hung down unkempt. Angelina grinned satisfied. "Are we going?"
Katie stood up sighting and slowly veered towards the door. Alicia followed her and Angelina was the last one to make sure everyone was coming along. She walked down to the common room where only few pupils were sitting. Most of them were most likely outside. Through the windows, one could see though the sky was cloudy, a very high wind was blowing heavily. From here, one could already see the little flying illusions soaring in the wind.

"Gotta admit, the masks were a great idea," Alicia started to speak after a fairly long time while they were walking through the corridors to the Great Hall. She already looked a little better and as they passed some students from Ravenclaw she grinned even bigger. "Look, I can walk past everyone completely relaxed without having to fear that I carried on with him last night and he could recognise me." Her steps became more energetic and Katie grinned big. Slowly but surely, Alicia recovered, it always passed quickly.
On the other hand, Katie's head was still ringing and as if right on an unspoken cue, Alicia turned to face her with a wide grin: "So, Katie, how'd it go last night?" Katie immediately blushed. "Erm...good," she murmured and looked ahead. The corridor suddenly seemed very interesting to her. She had never wondered what -
"Come on Katie, don't make me drag every word out of you," Alicia suddenly murmured conspiratorially and linked arms with Katie on the other side because Angelina had already claimed the left one."First tell us what you did," Katie stuttered and in the same moment, she knew that this was a rather bad diversionary tactic. Alicia apparently agreed. "Well, what do you think? I got drunk, made out with this guy and that always alternately," she said shrugging and once again grinned at Katie. "Well, your turn now."
"Erm, well...I drank a bit...of firewhiskey," she stammered and surprised glances were immediately flashed at her. "Non-voluntarily, it was about defending our honour," she added quickly. "And then...I went dancing with him." "Him?" Angelina interrupted her grinning and Katie slowly nodded.
"Who is 'him'" Alicia asked and raised her eyebrows. Katie stopped and looked at Alicia lightly mocking. Angelina also started giggling. "Alicia, you were the one who was so sold on the fact of not knowing the next day who 'him' is. This means Katie doesn't know it either," Alicia explained on her confused look. Alicia snorted once and dragged the two of them along. "Typical," Katie murmured grinning.
"Wasn't it all about Katie?" Alicia asked irritably, still compassing the desired effect. Angelina once more riveted on Katie, whose skin again took on an extreme shade of red. "Well, we danced, like I said" "You've already mentioned that", she was interrupted by Alicia. "And afterwards...well, than we just kind of kissed. But than Angelina came and we left," Katie murmured quickly and rushed forward. The other two had stopped and starred after her But after a moment of shock, they rushed
behind Katie and wedged her from both sides.

Nobody was saying anything but the grins on Angelina's and Alicia's faces were bigger than Katie had considered it possible. Every now and then, they flashed a glance at each other, behind Katie's back, and giggled until she sighted. "Go ahead, tell me," she thought devotionally. "How did he kiss? Was it good? I'm so glad," Alicia immediately prattled away. Angelina too joined in the chaos of questions right away. Katie tried desperately to get rid of the both until they finally reached the Great Hall.
Alicia apruptly stopped at the entrance and bravely cast a glance through the hall. Angelina still kept on firing questions at her until she realized that her friend yet seemed to be waiting for something at the entrance. She fell silent and confusedly turned around with Katie. They rose theire eyebrows, questioning, and some seconds later, Alicia stalked to them, grinning and her head held high.

"It could've been everyone of them, really everyone, but I don't have to worry. Though it is a pity for him not knowing who I was...not anyone can claim carrying on with me for one night," Alicia replied in thought and pushed the two along. Angelina's murmured "But almost," was drowned out in Katies question: "And what if it was, for example, Aaron Clatchton?"
She pointed to the seventh-grader with the floppy ears, who sat at the Slytherin table, engrossed in a newspaper. Alicia wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Believe me, I got a sensor in my head against something like this. If it had been him, my alarm would've rang and I'd gone for somebody else. Doesn't matter whether with masc or without, my sensor recognises people like him at a distance of 100 metes," Alicia answered and peeved turned away from Aron.

"Not afraid that your so-called sensor fails when you drink too much?" Angelina had taken place, grinning. Alicia sighting shook her head while letting herself fall on the bench. "You don't understand this. It is genetically defined that it can't happen at all." "I wouldn't be bent on it, though...It would be best just not to drink any more," Katie murmured and snapped a golden brown pancake up.
"Which brings us right back to you" Alicia widely leaned across the table, over to her, and looked deep in Katie's eyes. "You still haven't answered our questions" Katie moaned enervatingly and let the pancake drop on her plate.