Usually my notes are at the bottom, but I have to address something first: if I EVER EVER EVER offend any of you guys because I insult your culture, PLEASE let me know. I don't want to upset any of you, and the thing is that I'm like that. I don't have a problem with anyone's different culture because my grandparents were immigrants, so I can't say I'm "American" or anything like that. as for my spelling of quinceanera, my bad. it was spell check's fault. i would hope that after being in spanish since kindergarten that i'd be able to spell it so really. that was my bad. also, my friends and i...are really stupid. i don't mean to make excuses, because there is NO excuse for insulting someone's culture, but the thing is we tell our mexican friends to go mow our lawn, we tell our cuban friends that immigration is looking for them, we tell out colombian friends to go sell crack-we have...problems. truly, I am So SO SO sorry if i ever offend any of you, i guess i was just writing ananda and maleah as my friends talk to each other. also-there is nothing wrong with being a "friggin" mexican, just as there is nothig wrong with the fact that cubans only love jesus because he walked on water. see joke? my cuban friend actually told me that. okay, so this is really long, but i wanted to make it clear that I NEVER mean to insult ANYONE's culture and i do apologize if any of you were offended by the last chapter.

Happy Reading,
PruePotter

About a week into fifth year, Charles sugested that everyone go play Hide n' Go Seek simply because the year barely started and already we were buried in assignments. Everyone readily agreed. Stupidly of course...

"So when they count, we'll run for the nearest tapestry, right?" Ananda asked Maria, Jake and Maleah as they walked to the seventh floor corridor for their game.

The girls wore black cargo pants with black long sleeve tops to blend in with the dark corridor. Maleah had managed to loosely braid her hair to hang on her shoulder.

"I'm nervous," Maria whispered after they'd agreed to Ananda's plan.

"Me too," Maleah agreed.

"Relax, no one is going to kill you. I'm sure the only thing that happens is people find themselves together snogging. Simple as that," Jake said with a shrug.

Maleah shot Jake a dark look. "I don't want to snog some random stranger."

"Of course not," Ananda said innocently. "You want to snog Michaelson."

Maleah glared at her friend in horror. "I surely do not want to snog William James Michaelson!"

"I knew you couldn't leave my name out of your mouth," a haughty voice said from behind them. Michaelson had only grown more handsome past his awkward years. Even though Charles was the most handsome of the two, it was obvious that Michaelson was way cuter now. His hair was still uncontrollably curly and brown, his eyes still gorgeously blue-but his body! He was taller than his 6'1 brother at 6'2. He'd bulked over the summer, not beef-man-cake, but more athletic which comes in handy since he was a beater on the Gryffindor quidditch team. Plus, don't forget about the gorgeous dimples-the ones that have all girls falling to their knees (go 'head girl, go 'head get down-according to Michaelson)-the ones his brother does not have.

Of course Maleah had Ananda to snap her out of her lust-filled fantasies but Michaelson already showed the satisfaction of seeing her eyes glaze over. "So, Potter," he said wrapping an arm around her 5'6 frame, "were we naked in this fantasy of yours?"

Maleah scoffed and pushed him away. "Actually I was just picturing your brother as it happens," Maleah said flippantly.

Michaelson's eyes darkened for a moment before he composed himself. He always hated being less than Charles. "Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that my brother can't make you scream as lo-."

"You're here! About time," Charles snapped. They'd finally arrived at the meeting point. "Federline, you were technically the last to arrive. Get to counting!"

Charles took the hide n go seek games very seriously.

Justin began counting while everyone ran in different directions down the hall. As planned, Maleah, Maria, Ananda, and Jake ran toward a tapestry and hid behind it. "Federline barely has any brains. We'll be safe," Maria whispered.

"Not if you keep whispering as loud as you've been," Jake snapped.

The rest of the night went relatively the same way. Ananda got caught once and had to be It because she refused to ruin her new Puma sneakers because the laces were untied. Maria and Maleah each had a turn to be It. Jake was small and was able to outrun every It coming after him. It was the final round of the night and it was Charles' turn. He got his target every time and no one knew who it was so everyone was on watch.

"...9, 10," Charles called. "Ready or not, here I come!"

Maleah grabbed Maria's hand and ran for a closet. Halfway there she tripped over armor's hand that was broken off earlier in the game. It made a loud clatter and Maleah heard Charles running toward them. Maria kept running only once looking over her shoulder at Maleah who was rubbing her ankle.

Just when Maleah thought she couldn't get up to run, a hand grabbed her into an abandoned passageway. "Aamphm-." A hand came upon Maleah's mouth and muffled the rest of her scream. She recognized the musky scent of male and almost relaxed before she remembered that she hated him.

"Are you going to scream?" Michaelson asked her.

Maleah shook her head quickly. He let go of her mouth slowly and Maleah opened her mouth. Instead of muffling her with his hands, he muffled her with his lips. The thing is, she was going to fight and break away. That was her plan, of course, but she seemed to have forgotten it the moment his tongue begged her mouth for entrance.

The kiss wasn't anything slow and sweet, it hard, hot and filled with pent-up frustration. All the hatred and tension that they felt toward each other came through in that kiss and Maleah was so filled with lust and hatred that she didn't mind when Michaelson pushed her against the wall. She didn't mind when his hand crept up her top, and she really didn't mind when he did wicked things to her throat that made her sigh and moan in pleasure.

Not once did "this is wrong" cross her mind. Not once did she think about how much this boy had taunted and hurt her in the five years they'd known each other. Not once did she think about how slaggy it made her look to be heavily snogging her nemesis and bane of her existence in a random broom closet while every fifth, sixth, and seventh year played Hide n' Go Seek.

Of course the smoldering spell was broken when the door was opened and Charles Michaelson stood at the other side. His face showed no emotion, he just shut the door while crying, "They're not in there!"

Maleah caught her breath and realized what she had done. She pushed Michaelson away from her in disgust and straightened her askew top. She pushed her wayward strands of hair out of her face and glared at him.

"What the hell are you playing at?" she snapped at him.

During her entire not-paying-attention-to-Michaelson thing, he'd leaned against the opposite wall with a smug smirk on his face. "It seems that you were just as into it as I was," he remarked idly.

"As if! Look Michaelson, in case you haven't received the memo, I do not like you," she hissed. "I can't stand the sight of you and I really do not want you to ever touch me ever again. Is that clear?"

Michaelson walked closer to her and kept her snug against his body. His smirked widened when he saw her eyes dart to his mouth, and she licked her lips. "Crystal," he whispered after kissing her softly.

"He's a bloody bastard," Ananda said loyally later that evening while everyone was in bed.

"I'm going to disagree. It sounded really hot, and he really is hot," Maria inserted shaking her head.

"Uh, I'm a dude, so I don't look at dudes that way," Jake said carefully. "But if I were a girl, you know, hypothetically, of course, he'd be, uh, suitable."

Maleah had to giggle at the boy's obvious discomfort because of his metro-ness. "If I were a dude," Maleah said mock seriously. "I'd, uh, have to agree with you."

"That's just redundant," Jake said rolling his eyes.

"But he is gorgeous isn't he?" Maleah asked rhetorically as an afterthought.

"Oh yeah," Maria agreed.

"I'm going to have to agree," Ananda said sulkily.

"Shaggy brown hair…"

"She is so hot!" Michaelson exclaimed at the same time in his dorm room with his friends.

"Super hot," Jason nodded.

"Damn hot," Kevin said.

"Shit hot," Justin agreed.

"Merlin, her hair, it's just curls upon curls of black. It would look so hot in the morning when she first wakes up…."

"…and those eyes!" Maleah exclaimed. "They are so unbelievably blue! You just want to drown in them…"
"Her eyes are so hot! That greeny brown-."

"Greeny brown, articulate Romeo?" Kevin asked sarcastically.

"Shut up! But they are hot, especially when she looks like she wants to just jump your bones…"

"…Merlin his body is fantastic," Maleah breathed. "I just want to rub oil all over him; imagine him just swimming, stroke, stroke, stro-."

"Leah!" Ananda cried.

Maleah laughed guiltily. "I forgot where I was for a second."

"Damn! Her body," Michaelson licked his lips. "Her hips, her butt, Merlin, her breasts, they're just perfect! Just round and…perfect." Michaelson made his point by curving his hands.

"She does have a hot body," Justin commented idly.

"His voice is just so deep and seductive," Maleah said dreamily. "I just want to melt when I hear it…"
"Her voice! It's the most sexy thing I've heard in my life," Michaelson went on. "Merlin, I just want to hear her scream 'Michaelson' when I hit that right spot."

Jason agreed. "That is one hot voice."

"Maybe I could just fool around with him," Maleah said reasonably. "Just for a while and this maddening feeling will go away once I see the asshole he is again. Right?"

Ananda looked dubious, as did Jake. But Maria was the one who answered. "Uh…sure, whatever you say."

"You want her badly, don't you?" Jason asked.

Michaelson sighed and stared at the canopy above his bed. "Maybe, but once I have her, the feeling will go away, right?"

"Uh…sure, whatever you say mate."

Okay more notes...uh...crap. I forgot what I was going to say. I'll post it in the next chapter if I remember. :D