What A Mess
Disclaimer-Not mine.
"You can't tell me that you've never wanted to do this before." Sirius said, taking Julia's hand and leading her into a broom closet.
"But I really haven't ever wanted to do this." Julia replied upon entering the dusty closet.
"Not even once?"
Julia shook her head and said, "Why would I want to make out in a cramped, filthy broom closet?"
Sirius grinned, "Because it's fun."
Julia smiled up at him as he wrapped his arms around her. "It would be funnier if we had some room to move…" As it was, she was already pinned up against the wall, Sirius' body enclosing her.
"No it wouldn't." Sirius said, planting a hungry kiss on her lips.
Julia's heat fluttered. She was in general a strong person, but when it came to Sirius, she went weak in the knees every time he kissed her.
Sirius smiled and pulled away from her. "Kiss me." He said.
"Well I was before you backed away." Julia said, frowning.
Sirius shook his head, "Kind of but I want you to kiss me. You always wait for me to kiss you."
"Huh?"
"It's true though. When I kiss you, you kiss back but you never start the kiss."
Julia, brow furrowed, said, "Oh, okay."
"So do it."
Julia blushed and looked up at him timidly. "Right." She replied and leaned towards him. She hesitated halfway, hoping Sirius would come the rest of the way. When he didn't, she leaned in the rest of the way until there lips locked.
Sirius' hands rested on her waist. His lips wrapped over hers, clamping over her mouth. He kissed her passionately and slowly. He was an aggressive kisser, well just generally an aggressive person. But Julia thought it was the most romantic kind of kiss a guy could give. His kiss showed affection and love, and how much he wanted her as his.
When the kiss slowed, Sirius smiled and pulled back a little. "God I love the way you kiss." Sirius said. "You're so shy."
"Shy?" She asked.
Sirius inclined his head. "Yeah. I mean, you can talk someone's ear off but when it comes to kissing, you're just shy."
"Oh, sorry." Julia blushed.
Sirius shook his head, "I like it."
Julia smiled and opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by banging on the closet door.
Sirius frowned as a voice from outside said, "Julia get out here right now!"
Julia groaned, "Tom." She said, knowing only her brother would interrupt them.
The lock wiggled as Tom tried to open the door. "He's pissed." Sirius mumbled.
Julia nodded, "I think he's past pissed."
"Open up!"
"What should I do?" Sirius asked, not sure if he should stay for this or leave, his presence might make things worse.
Julia shrugged, "Unless you want to be hexed unconscious, I'd get out of here as soon as you can." She suggested.
"What is taking you so long? Open up!" Tom said angrily.
"Sorry, I just got to get my bra on." Julia said sarcastically. And with a roll of her eyes, she pushed open the door.
"You have to do what?" He asked, getting increasing irritated.
"It was a joke." Julia said.
"What do you think you two are doing?" Tom asked as if Julia and Sirius were stealing cookies from the jar in the kitchen or something equally childish.
"What does it look like?" Julia asked, calmly.
"You're making out!" Tom nearly shouted.
"Nice spot mate." Sirius said before he could stop himself. He bit the inside of his mouth to keep himself for speaking again.
Tom glared at Sirius, "Can we make this fast?" Julia asked.
"Why so he can get back to wooing you?" Tom said.
Julia sighed, "Tom, you're overreacting."
"Overreacting? Overreacting!" Tom shouted. "My little sister is making out with the biggest player in this school."
"Sirius is not playing me." Julia said, her voice still remaining calm.
"He is too!" Tom said.
"No I'm not." Sirius interjected.
"And why should I believe that?" Tom hissed.
Sirius, temper rising, said, "Because Julia believes it. Don't you think she's capable of deciding who she dates?"
"No I don't!" Tom said.
"Why not?" Julia asked.
"Because Sirius is manipulative and he-."
"Thanks." Sirius interrupted.
Tom frowned and continued, "And he's a bloody Marauder."
"What's wrong with the Marauders?" Sirius asked, getting defensive.
"What's wrong with you?" Tom repeated. "You're horrid."
"I have been friends with the Marauders for nearly 5 years. They are not horrid." Julia said.
"They're immature."
"And genius." Julia challenged.
"How on earth could you say that?" Tom asked, clearly frustrated. "They go around making trouble for fun."
Julia sighed, "Well I'm sorry if you don't like Sirius, but it's just too bad."
Tom frowned, "You are not dating him and that's final." He said, as if Sirius was not standing next to both of them.
"Woah, wait a minute." Sirius said. "You can't tell her what to do."
"Would you shut up Black!" Tom snapped.
"You're bloody talking about me, why shouldn't I have a say in this?" He asked.
"Because she is not your little sister!" He argued.
"But she is my girlfriend and I-." Sirius began.
"She is not your girlfriend." Tom hissed through gritted teeth.
"It's not your decision!" Sirius said, his face turning red with anger.
"Guys, calm down." Julia tried to get them to relax.
"I won't be calm as long as you're dating him." Julia's brother said.
"Tom, I'm sorry." Julia said. "But I'm going to date Sirius whether you are okay with him or not."
"No you-." Tom began.
"Because I trust him Tom." Julia said over her brother's voice. "He might not be perfect, but I know that this is real. We are real."
"I bet ever other girl he cheated on said that too." Tom muttered.
"Woah, I have not cheated on a girl before." Sirius said.
"You screw around with them though."
Sirius sighed, clearly frustrated. "I don't bloody care what you think but we are going out!" Sirius said.
"I'm old enough to decide what I want to do on my own." Julia said coolly.
"You're only 15."
"You were dating at 15 and I didn't tell you who to date." Julia said.
"But you're different."
"Why?"
"Because you're younger!" Tom said.
"What? Do you think you know more about dating than me?" Julia asked.
"Yes I do."
"No you don't." Julia said. "I've been on more dates than you have."
"But Juls, those relationships didn't end well."
"So what?" Sirius barged in.
"I told you to stay out of this Black!" Tom snapped.
"Well I'm not going to!"
Tom glanced from Julia to Sirius, seeing that this was getting nowhere. "If I see you near my sister, I won't hesitate to ruin you." Tom hissed.
"You can't ruin me." Sirius said.
"Wanna bet on that?" Tom barked.
"Guys…" Julia said.
"Why don't you just ruin me now then?" Sirius said.
"Well I'm bloody about to if you don't shut the hell up!"
"I'm not going to shut up!" Sirius shouted. "I'm not backing down! I'm going to date Julia no matter what you say!"
"Well if I see you even touch her again I'll-!" He began. Julia frowned, and put her arm around Sirius in spit of her brother.
"Sorry Tom." Julia said and Sirius put an arm around her waist, his other hand tightly gripping the wand in his pocket.
"Bloody-." Tom said, reaching his peak of anger. His hand went to his wand and he jutted it in Sirius' face. "Petrificus Totalu-."
"Protego!" Sirius shouted, a translucent blue shield surrounding him just long enough to block Tom's spell.
"You're pathetic." Tom shouted. "You're bloody dueling a 7th year. I've got the clear advantage."
Sirius chuckled, "If only you could know the things I've done…" He said, thinking about being an animagus and making the map.
"You're all talk Black. That's all you are." Tom said. Julia took a step between the two boys.
"Stop, both of you." She said.
"Move aside Julia." Tom commanded, his wand still raised.
"Just give it up Tom." Julia said, sick of this arguing. "I promise I'll be careful with Sirius."
"I don't believe you." Tom said.
"Tom, I promise. I don't understand why you don't trust my decision."
"I do trust you." Tom's voice lowered to a much more caring tone.
Julia shook her head, "Then let me date Sirius." With that, she turned and left her brother, Sirius following close behind her.
Tom frowned as the two left him, debating whether to shout something at them but figured it was childish to want the last word in.
Lily, Remus, Peter and James sat in the library studying. Well at least everyone but James was studying.
"James would you stop starring at me and study. The Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. is on Monday and I haven't seen you pick up a book once." Lily said.
"Lils, I said I know everything."
"No you don't."
"Do too." James argued.
"James, there is no possible way you can do well on this examine." Lily said.
"I bet I'll do better than you." James challenged.
"Please, I'm not betting with you." Lily replied, looking down at her work.
"Cause you're afraid of losing?" James said, egging her on.
Lily sighed not wanting to seem afraid of the bet, "Fine. What are we betting?"
"What do you want if you win?"
"100 galleons." She said, half jokingly.
"Okay, but if I win, I get a date with you." Smirking, James said. "And a real date, not a 'just friends' kind of date."
"Then I'm not betting." Lily replied in a 'that's final' kind of way.
"That's because you know I'll win." James sang.
"You won't do better than me!"
"So bet then." James said, his expression remaining cool, calm and confident.
Lily frowned. She was caught. If she said no, he'd think she was afraid. But if she said yes, she'd be risking her pride. "Alright, fine." Lily concluded, extending a hand to James.
"Deal." James replied, grinning.
Remus looked up at the two of them, "That was cold James."
"Cold?" Lily asked. She knew what James did was cruel but it was a typical James thing.
James chuckled, "Well she fell for it, so it's not really my fault."
Lily frowned, "Wait what?" She asked, sensing there was more to this conversation.
James shook his head, "Nothing Evans, get back to studying." James said.
Lily frowned as she watched James take a book from the table and begin reading it. "What are you doing?" Lily asked.
"Studying." James replied.
"But you can't study." Lily said.
"Why not?" James asked. "I've got to study if I want to beat you."
"But you didn't want to study before we made the bet." Lily noted.
"I know." James said, smirking.
Lily frowned, "Oh." She said out loud realizing what James had just suckered her into.
"I'm genius, I know." James said with a wink.
"So you were never not going to study. You just said that so I'd make a bet with you." Lily said.
"See it is genius." James replied, flipping the pages of the book.
She looked to Remus and sighed, "I suppose he told you he was going to do this."
Remus shrugged, "Yeah sorry."
Lily groaned, "How could I be so stupid?" She said to herself.
James grinned and looked up at her, "Don't be too hard on yourself. After all, a date with me will be fun." He said with a wink.
"You're not winning." Lily said, shaking her head.
"Yes I am." James replied, confidently.
"No you aren't because I'm never going out with." Lily said stubbornly.
"We'll just have to see about that…" James concluded.
Lily looked down at her notes and began review them though nothing she was reading was processing. She was too worried about James winning this bet.
He was smart, there was no doubt about that, not to mention extremely determined. So beating him in this bet wasn't going to be a walk in the park. And Lily knew that.
The day went and night soon came, the group of fifth years studied all throughout the night.
"Well I'm going to bed." Sirius announced, standing up from his seat on the common room couch.
"Not a bad idea." Remus agreed.
Peter nodded and joined the boys as they ascended the stairs to their dorm.
"Are you heading up?" Lily asked Julia.
"Yeah. I'm too tired to remember anymore of this stuff, so I guess there's no sense in trying to study now."
"Alright I'll go up too." Lily said before turning to James. "Are you going to bed?" She asked him, yawning as she did.
"Nah, I'm going to stay up a little longer." James replied, not peeling his eyes off of the page in front of him.
Lily sighed knowing he was going to study extra hard because of the bet. "But you might benefit from getting some sleep."
James shook his head, "Nah, I'll be fine." He said.
Julia shrugged at Lily, "Alright. Goodnight then." Lily said before heading up the stairs to her own dorm.
"Night." James replied.
"You won't believe my stupidity." Lily said once Julia and herself had reached their dorm.
"What did you do?" Asked their roommate, Kara.
"I made a bet with James." Lily replied, letting out a sigh as she looked through her dresser for cloths to change into.
Julia chuckled, "You sound like Sirius and me with the betting." She said. "So what did you bet about?"
"I bet that I would do better on the Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L." Lily answered.
"What's so stupid about that?" Kara asked, flipping her blond hair into a ponytail.
"It wasn't what I bet on that was stupid. The stupid part is what I bet."
"And what did you bet?" Julia asked, curiously.
"I bet that if I won, he'd give me 100 galleons." Lily said.
"And if he wins?" Julia asked.
Lily sighed again, "If he wins, I have to go out on a date with him."
Kara grinned, "And what's so bad about that."
"It's bad because I don't want to go out with him." Lily said, plopping down on her bed.
"Are we talking about the same James?" Kara asked. "James Potter?"
Lily nodded, "That's the one."
"And going out with James Potter is a bad thing?" Kara continued.
"Yes because I don't want to go out with him." Lily said.
"Pssst." Kara said, dismissing what Lily had just said with a wave of a hand. "There is no girl that doesn't want to go out with Potter."
"I don't." Lily said quietly as Kara walked into the bathroom.
Julia frowned, "And how much did you study for this?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter." Lily said. "Because no matter how much more I study for it, he'll only study more."
Julia nodded, "Well at least it's James you'll be going out."
"That's the problem Juls." Lily said, frustrated.
"Yeah, but really, how bad would a date with James be?" Julia asked.
Lily shrugged, "It's not that I think it would go bad…"
"Because Slug Club was kind of like a date." Julia reminded her.
"Yeah but we were just going as friends then."
"Maybe you should just give him a chance. He might surprise you." Julia suggested but Lily just looked disgusted.
"I said I wouldn't go out with James. I don't want to."
Julia shrugged and crawled into bed, "Suit yourself." She replied.
Lily frowned. She wasn't sure what to do anymore, or what to think. She just wanted to get this O.W.L over with and worry about the bet later.
A/N And that's chapter 13! I'm leaving tomorrow for Florida. I'm just hoping the weather is nicer there than here.
I might be able to get chapter 14 up during the week if I can get to a computer when I'm in Florida. But I can't guarantee anything, though reviews will push me to get it done as soon as possible… : )
I was so happy when I saw all the people that reviewed, I almost cried. Seriously. Thank you soooo much. It means so much to me, it really does.
So please review and until next time.
Kait
