Chapter 2 of Sirius's and Chantelle's Story; basically, just the rest of the party. Hope you enjoy.
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Chantelle's mask fell onto her lap. Sirius wasn't sure what to do. He knew he should get up and leave; if any of his house had found out he had been talking to a Slytherin, let alone kissing one, they would kill him. Sirius knew that if he had been seen kissing a Slytherin, he would lose his position on the Quidditch team. He knew that everyone in his house, other than his friends who he hoped would forgive him, would hate him. He would be the house trader. But Sirius didn't leave, he couldn't. Sirius wasn't foolish enough to believe he love Chantelle already, but he did like her; and he knew this was the only time he would ever get to spend with her. So Sirius did the one thing he wanted to do, he kissed her again. Sirius's fingers worked their way back into Chantelle's hair, re-entangling themselves; his other hand pulling her even closer than before, if possible.
Chantelle pulled her mask off slowly, knowing that anything her and Sirius had was over and he would be leaving the second she had her mask off to find his friends and forget this ever happened. The mask fell to her lap as Chantelle looked up waiting to see Sirius's reaction. She waited, Sirius hadn't run off yet; what was he thinking? What had made him stay for just a second longer; but less than a minute after she had pulled off her mask, just as she was about to ask him what he was thinking, Sirius was kissing her again. He kissed her even more passionately than before. Chantelle felt his fingers get lost in her hair, while he was using his free hand to pull her close, to the point there was no room between them anymore. Chantelle lost herself in the only time she would be able to spend with Sirius; wrapping her fingers into his hair and deepening the kiss. Chantelle knew this wasn't love, not yet anyway. Sirius was just taking advantage of the fact that this is the only time they would spend together. Tomorrow they would leave school and go home for the holidays, then they would spend the summer forgetting each other and pretending it never happened. They couldn't be together; if someone were to see them now Chantelle would be kicked off her Quidditch team; Chantelle wouldn't care when her house hated her, she didn't like most of them to start with but if she got kicked off her Quidditch team she would lose all chance of one day going on to play for a real Quidditch team when she left school.
"Where has Sirius gotten off to?" Remus asked James. After dancing the two Hufflepuffs said they had go finish packing and left together. "I don't know," said James, "but there is Peter out dancing with some girl." he said, pointing out Peter on the dance floor. Remus and James had gone back to sit at their table and wait for their friends to finish before heading back to the castle. "I wonder where he went off to," said Remus, "probably making out with some girl he just behind the bushes." James laughed at this, not that Sirius was a total player, but making out with girls he just met behind bushes fits Sirius's personality. "No doubt." Said James agreeing with Remus's statement. The two boy were going over the finally Quidditch match of the season which had be held last week; it was a close win by Gryffindor, only winning by a two point penalty. Just as they had finished going over the game Peter's dance finished and he came to join the two sitting at the table. "Where's Sirius?" said Peter as he took his seat next to James, "We were wonder the same thing and decide he must be off with some girl," said James. "It's getting late," said Remus looking at his watch, "do you think we should go find Sirius or should we just ditch him and head back to the dorms?" asked Remus, "I saw him walking away from the gazebo in that direction earlier," said Peter, pointing towards where he had seen Sirius walk off to, "he was with some girl, I didn't get a good look at her." Peter said while trying to remember what girl Sirius had been with, but Peter could not for the life of him figure out who she was. "Well it that case, let's go get him," said James, knowing that interrupting anytime he spent with a girl would make Sirius mad, "I can use this to get back at him for scaring off Evans the other day." "Fine, but don't think I won't blame you if he gets really mad at us," said Remus. The three boys got up and started walking over to where Peter had seen their friend walking.
Bree had spent the night dancing with Peter. After the first dance it was easy to tell that Peter was not the best dancer, and almost any other girl would have found some excuse to go dance with someone else or leave; but Bree's inner Hufflepuff came out, the person who was sweet and nice to everyone so she ended up spending the dancing with Peter. In the end it hadn't been all bad; Peter may have not been able to dance, but it was fun to watch him try. Bree had to stop herself from laughing more than once during the party, but when a giggle did slip out Peter didn't seem to mind. He act like he was use to being laughed at and Bree wondered what caused this. Once during the night Bree had wondered where Chantelle ended up, but figured she was out dancing or over by the table; Bree didn't worry too much, Chantelle could take care of herself. After they had been dancing for what seemed like forever, Peter had to go. Bree watched Peter walk away to go find his friend thinking it was probably time for her to go find Chantelle as well. Bree looked around the dance floor to see if her friend was still there, but with a number of the students starting to leave you could easily see her friend was not on the dance floor.
Chantelle could hear a few people talking, but ignored it, assuming it was just a few people being loud at the party. As the voices got closer Chantelle broke apart from Sirius to see if they were coming this way. Sure enough a group of what appeared to be young men were walking towards Sirius and Chantelle. "Who do you think they are?" said Chantelle, looking over Sirius's shoulder at the group of kids walking towards them. Sirius turned to look at the boys; at first he didn't recognize them, but after a minute he could tell that the three boys walking towards them were indeed his friends coming to find him. "Those are my friends," said Sirius, "I have to leave before they get any closer and see you." Sirius said as he started to get up. Chantelle had found her mask on the ground and was replacing on her face, so if they did come close there would be a smaller chance of them recognizing her. "I guess this is it then," said Sirius, looking down at Chantelle who was still sitting on the log while starting to walk backwards to his friends. Chantelle just gave a small wave good bye before Sirius turned to face his friends, running to catch them before they got close enough to see who this was with. Mask or no mask, just because Sirius hadn't recognized her with a mask doesn't mean his friends wouldn't.
Chantelle waited a few minutes until Sirius and his friends were back at the party and wouldn't notice her following them. Getting up from her seat on the log, Chantelle walked back to the party and look for Bree. Knowing that Bree was probably done dancing for the night considering the time she looked over at the tables; judging by the number of people that had already left, it was later than Chantelle had thought it was. Just as Chantelle was starting to think that maybe Bree had gone back to the castle without her, she saw Bree walking up to her. "Where have you been?" asked Bree, "I just needed some time to myself," said Chantelle, "the party was getting a little too crowded." Secretly Chantelle was hoping the party had more guests at one point so Bree wouldn't see her lie. "You didn't run into Malfoy, did you?" questioned Bree, "No wonder you wanted 'me time'," "Why do you assume Malfoy was the reason I went for a walk?" Chantelle was wondering if she had done this in the past after having been around Malfoy. "I just figured someone was the reason you walked off and other than Malfoy who could it have been? With no Gryffindors being here, well except Potter and his friends and they would have been thrown had if they caused use you problems; which they didn't because Peter was with me and he didn't get kicked out," Bree took a big breath from saying so much to fast, "Malfoy was the only person it could have been." Bree finished her statement with a matter of fact look on her face like she just solved someone's murder. "I guess that makes sense. So you danced with Peter?" Chantelle was trying to turn the attention away from her. "Yeah, he was terrible dancer, but it wasn't all that bad." It worked, Bree started t o talk about her night with Peter, "He seem to trip over himself a lot, it was hard not to laugh." "So, what now? Are you going to start spending time with Peter, or dating?" Chantelle was trying to fuel the conversation towards Bree, "No, I don't think so. I didn't mind dancing, but I don't think I am out to start a relationship with him; although I did enjoy tonight." Chantelle could see Bree's inner Hufflepuff coming out because she was making sure to point the Peter was good, just not the guy for her; which was typical of the Bree, always making sure she was never to mean. "So are you already packed for tomorrow?" asked Bree, changing the subject, "I packed before the party." Stated Bree in response to her own question, "Yeah, I knew there would be no time after the party so I packed up this morning, all I have to is put my dress away." Chantelle replied. The rest of the walk up to the castle doors was filled will this type of silence filling chatter.
"So, who was that you were with?" asked Remus, teasing Sirius about the girl he was with, "Yeah, maybe we should go introduce ourselves," said James. "I don't really think that is necessary James," said Sirius as he continued to walk away from the girl only he knew was Chantelle. "Oh come on mate, I would love to meet her and I am sure she fills the same way," begged James in a comical way, "I really don't think she wants to met you, anyway we have to get back to the castle if you want to get up early enough to say goodbye to Evans tomorrow." Said Sirius; at the mention of Evans, James had stop trying to talk Sirius into introducing them to his girlfriend and started to walk without complaining back to the castle. The walk up to the castle was filled with small chat about the girls that the other three had danced with and about Peter being able to spend the whole night with a girl of her freewill without her leaving. When they reach the castle doors they found them unlocked. Even though all the teachers knew of the party down at the lake, the large number of students that were attending kept them from enforcing curfew; that and it was the last day of school, so it isn't like they had classes the next day. The boys headed to their dorm were they got dress for bed and fell right asleep. Or at least Peter, James, and Remus fell right asleep; Sirius's mind kept wandering back to the time he spent Chantelle and the fact that it was the only he would be able to spend with her. Sirius wondered to himself whether he would get the chance to date her, or at least be friends with her, after they both left school. That night Sirius had dreams of Chantelle.
When Chantelle and Bree had reach the castle doors they found them unlocked, of course; the Slytherins had asked Professor Slughorn to make sure the doors were unlocked for the party. Upon entering the castle Bree went one and Chantelle went another, both off to their respective dorms. After Bree left Chantelle notice just how quiet the halls were. When they were walking the grounds there had been other groups of people leaving the party, but a lot of them been Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw; most of the Slytherins would be last to leave because it was the polite thing to do as host of a party. When Chantelle turned to enter the hall where the Slytherin common room was she did see one Slytherin. "Oh hey, Severus." Said Chantelle, "Are you coming back from the party?" "No, I didn't go to the party," said Severus, "Slughorn made do prefect duty tonight to make up for those potion bottles I spilled." Chantelle remembered the last day of potions class they had, Severus had accidently put to potion ingredients next to each other that reacted and blew up cause the whole shelf to fall. "That sucks," said Chantelle, "it wasn't like you did it on purpose." "Its okay, with everyone at the party there hasn't been anyone in the halls to watch for." said Severus, "And I wasn't sure I going to the party anyway." Chantelle and Severus were now walking side by side down the hall on their way to the common room, "Why not?" asked Chantelle; Chantelle and Severus weren't the best of friends, but because they were in the same house Chantelle figured it would be polite to ask why. "It just seemed stupid I don't like to dance and my friends would all be dancing or entertaining guest, being the hosts and all." Severus said, "So I would have just been bored." "That's too bad," replied Chantelle, "it was a nice party." Chantelle was basing her opinion off the few minutes she was there, but she had thought the party was. When Chantelle and Severus had reached the common room entrance she asked Severus if he was going t bed, but he had to finish his prefect duties still.
That night as she got into bed Chantelle's conversation with Severus had gotten her thinking, not about the conversation they had, but about Severus and his relationship with Evans. When they came to school Severus used to spend all his time with a Gryffindor girl named Lily. Chantelle remembered because no one in Slytherin house would hang out with him. Not only because Lily was Gryffindor but because she wasn't pure blood. Chantelle never understood her house's obsession with being pure blood; at least when someone in her house was obsessing over power she understood that because lots of people want to grow up and be powerful, she just didn't know what parenting had to do with any of it. Chantelle remember Severus trying out for the Quidditch team back in 2nd year; he was a good player but lost his spot because he refused to stop hanging out with the Gryffindor. Until he stopped hanging out with Lily, Severus use to be called all kinds of names like house traitor and blood traitor; names that he was still called on occasion. Chantelle thought about all the pranks they used to pull on Severus and all the things they used to do to him; Chantelle could stand almost all of these things, except losing her spot on the Quidditch team. Chantelle had always wanted to grow up and be a professional Quidditch player and wouldn't give up her spot on the team for anything; especially some boy she barely knew. Chantelle rolled over and feel asleep thinking about Sirius.
Sirius dreamed about the first time he met Chantelle that night.
Sirius was sitting on the stairs at his parent's manor. He was about six years old watching people come in for his parents party. It was Christmas time and Sirius's parents had decided to invite over a large group of their friends over for a party; Sirius didn't like that his parents were having a party, his parent's friends were not very nice people. They would spend the whole party getting drunk and talking about people they hate and the power they have. A few of his parents friends had brought their children with him but most were closer in age to Regulus or too old for Sirius to play with. About five minutes after the party had started Sirius went up to his room to hide from the guests and color in his note book. Just as Sirius was about half way done with his drawing his door opened and in came the house elf Kreacher. Mrs. Black is requesting her son go down to the sitting room. "Do you know why?" asked a young Sirius; he knew he would go even though he didn't want to, or he would get in big trouble later, "Mrs. Black just said to go fetch her son and bring him to the sitting room," said Kreacher before turning to leave the room. Sirius sat up from his desk and made sure he hadn't got any ink on himself when coloring before turning and following Kreacher out of the room and going down to the sitting room. When he entered the sitting room, Sirius could easily see his mother sitting on the other side of the room and walked over to her. "Oh, there you are Sirius," said Mrs. Black when Sirius got close, "I want you to meet Chantelle," Mrs. Black said, gesturing to a young girl about the same age as Sirius standing by her mom on the other side of Mrs. Black. "She is the same age as you, maybe you two could find something to do together," Sirius looked at the girl. She had long, black hair that had been left down and was wearing a bright red Christmas dress for the occasion. "Hi, my name is Chantelle." Said the girl, introducing herself, "My name is Sirius," said Sirius as he shook her hand. "Why don't you two go up to your room and see if you can't find something to do?" Sirius's mother suggested. "Okay," said Sirius, grabbing Chantelle by the arm and pulling her upstairs to his bedroom. When they got to his room Chantelle sat on Sirius's bed as he went to look for something in his closet. While Sirius was in his closet Chantelle hopped up from his bed and went over to his desk were she could see his coloring inks that were left out. "Did you draw this?" said Chantelle, pointing to the drawing on the desk, "It's not finished, I was working on it before I went downstairs." Sirius had reappeared from the closet and was now standing next to Chantelle looking at the drawing over her shoulder. It was a drawing of a Quidditch pitch, "I want to play Quidditch when I grow up," said Chantelle looking at the drawing, "What did you find?" Chantelle asked, pointing at the box Sirius had brought with him from the closet, "Oh, it's a game. Do you know how to play?" asked Sirius while showing her what game it was; it was a wizard card game. "Yeah, that sounds like fun," said Chantelle. After finishing their game they played a few other games before having to go back down stairs so Chantelle could leave. While Sirius was helping Chantelle put on her coat he slipped something in her pocket.
On her way out Chantelle notice something was in her pocket, it was a famous wizard card from a chocolate frog box. Chantelle had seen the card in Sirius's collection and was admiring it, he must have put it in her coat pocket when she wasn't looking.
That night Chantelle's dream included Malfoy getting his head blown off, and being both an international Quidditch player while dating Sirius. Then again her dream also included the giant squid dancing and wearing a fruit covered hat, so really she didn't take her dream to seriously. Although the one good thing her dream helped her remember was a little card sitting in a shoe box at the bottom of her closet at home.
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