a/n: After the long, long, long, long hiatus, this is my update. Hope you enjoy!
CHAPTER 11: WRITINGS ON THE CHAIR
Lily half-dragged Kristanna to the Hospital Wing next morning, her visible skin full of scratches that looked like she was a werewolf the night before. They claimed that they saw Kristanna lying on the dormitory floor like that. As they passed the Great Hall, Sirius looked at Kristanna's pitiful state but Lily glared at him as though her eyes would emit a laser beam.
"Lily, calm down, you're firing up," Danicia said. "What happened to Kris?"
"Danicia, what are
you doing here?" Lily whispered back. "Are you quite sure you did
not sneak out of the…?"
Her question was answered when the
Great Hall's doors were opened and an angry-looking Madam Pomfrey
met their eyes. "Miss Stacey!" she shrieked. However, she then
noticed Kristanna's pitiful state. "What happened to Miss
Spencer?"
Lily gave her to Madam Pomfrey and explained everything. "When I woke up the next morning, she was like that."
Kristanna was quickly healed by the nurse and even though Madam Pomfrey insisted that she should stay in the Hospital Wing, Kristanna said that she did not want to miss her class. They walked to their class, Transfiguration. Lily sat on her chair and dropped her things to the desk. She saw Kristanna staring wildly at Sirius' desk, stroking the desk.
"Hey, are you making voodoo or something?" Lily asked.
"Maybe, maybe not," Kristanna said, her eyes lighting up. Her hands made way to all the desks to hers and she sat down gracefully.
"Have you taken a potion that induces euphoria today?" Lily asked. "You look happy, unlike earlier."
"No, but something can induce euphoria for me," she said happily. She stopped smiling when other students came flowing inside the room. After the students, a tabby cat jumped out of nowhere and became their professor.
"I'll be impressed with that kind of entrance if Professor McGonagall hasn't done it for a thousand times since I was in first year," Lily said, sighing lightly.
"Touché!" Kristanna sighed, placing her elbows on the table, her chin on top of her hand.
The lesson started with a slight demonstration followed by note taking. After Lily finished taking the notes in a five-foot scroll, she elbowed Kristanna and asked, "What can induce your euphoria today?"
"Just wait," Kristanna said, her last word emphasized by the last period on her parchment.
As she rolled her parchment and kept it inside her bag, a funny thing happened.
"Really, Mr. Black, that is ridiculous. Sit down this instant!" McGonagall bellowed. Some of the students started to laugh.
"What is it, now?" Lily said irritably, turning away from the window and into the scene. She saw Sirius dancing like a chicken. In short, he was dancing the chicken dance. After looking at Sirius and his crazy actions, Lily stared suspiciously at Kristanna's way, who kept a straight face.
"I should have brought a camera," Kristanna sighed seriously to Lily's way.
"Kris, what have you done?" Lily asked, looking worried.
"Come, Lily. Who would think that I could do something like that? Nobody has done something like that before," Kristanna said.
"Nobody?" Lily
hissed venomously. "That was our lesson a month ago, making someone
move uncontrollably. And only one person managed to do it."
"Maybe
that's you, Lily!" Kristanna said innocently. "And what lesson?
That was a month ago, maybe I was absent."
"Absent?" Lily repeated miserably. "Kristanna, you managed to have two rats in a cockfight and an owl to peck at Malfoy's head!"
"Lily, are you
serious? Those things were accidents. I had my wand inside my bag all
the time," Kristanna said, patting her bag in a hearty way.
"There's no way…"
"As if we haven't studied wandless
magic…"
"I failed in that part," Kristanna reminded in a
singsong voice.
Lily rolled her eyes. "Maybe you did the technique that does not require a wand on the wizard's hand but in a place near it," she said in triumph.
"Whatever," Kristanna replied, though it was obvious that Lily had guessed the riddle.
McGonagall, looking harassed, kept on shouting, "Mr. Black, I'll take fifty points from Gryffindor if you do not sit down!"
"But Professor, I cannot stop!" Sirius cried. James stood up to try to calm him down but he only earned a kick on the face.
"What happened, then?" McGonagall called out. She scrambled out of the classroom to call other teachers.
"Really, honey, what happened to you?" Auriga said, going near Sirius to try and stop him. However, as she held him, there was some electric reaction that sent her dancing the tapdance.
Kristanna covered her mouth to stifle a chuckle. "Really, if you're too caring, you'll get into trouble," she sighed.
Footsteps were heard
outside the room and they heard McGonagall say, "There's
something really weird going on with Black, he started dancing and he
said he cannot stop!"
Slughorn's voice came next, "What is
the matter with it? Maybe he wanted to show his dancing prowess!"
Professor Lowell, the DADA professor that year, went inside the room and surveyed Sirius, now accompanied by Auriga. "This is a jinx. After all, the class should have known it."
Lily frowned and screwed an innocent and thinking face. "Professor, is that the jinx we studied a month ago?"
"A month ago?" Lowell repeated, scowling while trying to think about the lesson that long time ago. "Indeed, indeed, Miss Evans. What a good memory! But, Sirius Black, have you seen someone attack you or point a wand at you? You too, Miss Centauri?"
"The only one I saw was James," Sirius said, looking at his best friend.
"I'm innocent!" James defended himself.
"I'm quite sure about that," Lowell said, smiling at James. "It's because you did not pass the preliminary test we had."
James bowed his head. He had never heard his teacher in DADA to humiliate him like that.
"Can you please have that quickly?" Auriga complained. "My feet are aching."
"Don't talk to me like that, Miss Centauri. Ten points from Slytherin. Anyway, I remember that there was one student who passed the preliminary test," Lowell said, thinking.
"Now, get on with it, why can't you perform the counterjinx instead?" McGongall asked irritably. "We're wasting too much time and we only have an hour of a class today."
"Ah, the counterjinx," Lowell said. "Simple, simple. Why, haven't you all thought of that?" He took his wand and said, "Finite Incantatem!"
Sirius and Auriga stopped dancing. At that instant, Sirius fell to his seat, exhausted with his thirty-minute dance number. "Now, we only have to find out who that test-passer was," Slughorn said.
Sirius happened to look at his desk and saw something. Then he looked at Kristanna who gave him a smirk with her darkest look that made the guy gulp in fright.
After the class, Sirius caught up with Danicia, Kristanna, and Lily. "Kristanna, we need to talk," he said, pulling Kristanna's arm.
"Who are you?" she asked, trying to be mockingly innocent to the fact that they became a couple – for less than twenty-four hours.
"Don't be a prat, Kris, you were the one who jinxed the chair," Sirius said, trying to paint a face of anger.
Kris wriggled free from his grasp and motioned the other two to walk ahead. "I think you two must really talk," Lily whispered. Kristanna merely smiled.
"Kris," Sirius started. Lily was trying to look at them when they turned round a corner.
"Now, explain everything to me, Lily Evans," Danicia said. Lily was knocked by the words. Maybe Eros made their deal true. "It's our vacant period this hour."
"Where can we go?" Lily asked. At that instant, she saw a door appear out of nowhere. "Maybe this one," she said.
Danicia dragged Lily to a chair and sat in front of her. "What?" Danicia asked.
Lily started to tell the story, starting from the day when she scolded Eros as a kid. "And now, I asked Eros to drive you in this mission because you were the one who knew your sister."
"Melissa?" Danicia said. "Why?"
"Eros told me that her soulmate and love match is Matthew Parker."
"Matt Parker? That's her best friend! Besides he has a girlfriend and worse, they're also best friends with Helena," Danicia stated.
"But it was written on Eros' files," Lily said. "That would be hard." Lily and Danicia became quiet, brainstorming.
"Wait a minute," Lily said, causing Danicia to jump up. "I think I remember something. Do you know anything about Melissa's 'Guardian'?"
"Guardian? Isn't that the code name of Melissa's crush since first year? She's got lots of love letters in store for that guy," Danicia said.
"That's it! If it was written in the file that Matthew is Melissa's long-term crush, then he is 'Guardian'!"
Danicia opened her mouth in awe. "So, what are you thinking? Are we acting here to destroy the friendship of Helena and Melissa?"
"Well, Helena's love will not come until her adulthood," Lily said. "But this cannot wait. We have to make a choice."
"And what is your perfect plan?"
"We have to send Melissa's letters to her Guardian," Lily said, her eyes glowing with idea.
a/n: so, what's the plot? I made some revisions in this chapter. The story of Melissa here is connected to a story of my friend. That was actually our major plan to pair them up with a guy whom she likes. That girl did not know that the boy felt the same. So, that's some true-to-life insertion!
Please review so that I'll update sooner. Oopps! Wrong sentence. Please give me a very heartwarming review so that I'll be inspired to update sooner.
