Potter problems - continued
Tuesday the 17th of November, very early in the morning
I wake up way to early because Alice all of a sudden is screaming her head off. With my heart racing I jump out of bed, grab my wand and runs to her room. I frantically push her door open and – She is standing on her bed, screaming and pointing towards a corner. I stop abruptly. What the hell? I rub my sleepy eyes.
"Alice, what's the prob…"
"Mouse! There's a mouse by the closet! Get it out James," she whines and looks terrified. It takes me a second to understand what she's talking about. A mouse? That's why she's screaming? A harmless mouse? My pounding heart slows down to a normal heart rate.
"Bloody hell, Alice, I thought you were being attacked or something and then it's just a mouse. I'm going back to bed, it's gone already." I shake my head and yawns. "Probably scared it to dead anyway", I mutter to myself and turn to leave; feeling very tired now the effect of the adrenaline wears off.
"No James, please don't' leave", she almost yells and walks backwards on her bed only to hit the wall with a dull sound. "I'm sure it's still there, please, please, please get it out. I don't have my wand, and I'm terrified of mice." I sigh. Mice, I mean - come on, what can they do to you, run over your feet? Scary huh! I point my wand towards the floor and search for the mouse with revelio. Nothing to be found of course and I point it out to Alice as I turn around to face her.
"It's gone Al…" That's all I get to say before my mouth drops because Merlin, she's naked! Well almost naked. A thin white towel is wrapped around her, just barely covering the more personal parts of her body. Her slightly wet body I might add. With her still wet hair clinging to her skin. I momentarily lose my ability speak. Alice Is Naked Under That Towel. What hell is she thinking! I can do nothing but stare, damn she's hot! I'm shocked to my core. The silence is deafening.
"James, what's the matter?" she asks me quite oblivious, until she realize that I'm standing there in my boxers and she's only wearing that tiny, tiny towel. Then she begins to blush. And blush some more. And it continues all the way down to the rim of the towel. Somewhere in the back of my mind I hear a small voice telling me that I should look away and tactfully leave the room. But a higher and much more demanding voice wants to know if the blushing continues further down. Then Alice clears her throat.
"Well, ah, thank you James." Her voice is a bit high-pitched and the sound seems to shake my muddled brain into action. She carefully steps down from the bed and - man is this an awkward situation or what? I begin to retreat towards the door. I have to get back to my own room – the one without a naked Alice in it. I can just feel my cheeks getting redder by the second. Great!
"Yes, I uhmm, I guess I w-will see you later then." And then I flee the room. The door in my room bangs loudly as I slam it closed and I lean against it, trying to breathe properly. Dammit dammit dammit. Now I can definitely forget all about Alice-my-friend. The image of Alice as the young girl that became my friend when we were children is now irrevocably replaced with Alice-the-sexy-Head-Girl. I throw myself on my bed and just stare at the ceiling. That's just great isn't it?
I don't know for how long I'm lying there. My head is buzzing with disturbing thoughts that I can't seem to get out of my head even though I'm trying. It's not like I haven't seen a naked woman before, 'cause – come on – I'm an18-year old lad. Honestly, you just can't expect me to be a virgin still. And I blushed! I never blush, nope, never-ever! I didn't inherit that from my trait from mother, thank Merlin. What kind of a prankster would I be if I wouldn't be able to tell a little white lie without my face turning into a tomato? Wouldn't be able to look all innocent then, would I? But I flushed.
Eventually I have to get up, I have classes after all and I'm hungry as well – can't live without breakfast, can you. Mom says I'm just like Uncle Ron when it comes to food, but hey, I just have a healthy appetite if you ask me. I enter the great hall and spot Fred immediately so naturally I go sit with him.
"Morning", he grumbles, not really a morning person. It takes a while for him to start functioning like a normal human being, so I'll just leave him be, it's better that way trust me I know. Unintentional magic can be a real pain in the arse, especially when it comes from Fred, he's has a very creative person even when he doesn't do it by purpose.
"Morning". I start to collect my food; eggs, bacon, 3 pieces of bread with strawberry jam or honey, fruit, 3 pancakes, some cereals with milk and some juice. The same as I always have. I sit there and munch at my breakfast in peace and quiet when all of a sudden Roxanne – Fred's Twin sister – throws herself down at the bench opposite of me. And when Roxanne's there of course Alice is too. I look up and yup - there she is – now fully clothed thank Merlin. She sits down quietly besides Roxanne, her eyes not meeting mine but looking everywhere else. I can understand that, guess she's still embarrassed. Well that's fine by me, because I think this is really awkward. It is, after all, Alice-the-sexy-Head-Girl that I'm might be in love with that is sitting right in front of me.
"Good morning lads, what a wonderful day it is," Roxanne proclaims happily and helps herself to some toast, she just loves mornings. Fred just mutters something like yeah, right, but otherwise doesn't say much. We're used to it so no one takes offence. Sometimes I wonder how twins can be so alike in some perspectives and so different in others. I mumble good morning before I continue to eat. It's so much easier to look at my breakfast than risking meeting Alice's eyes. There's a silence for a few seconds while both Alice and Roxanne choose what to have for breakfast.
"Man, that essay about human transfiguration was difficult to write, don't you think," she asks, and puts a bit of an apple in her mouth. (As you can probably guess, we have a transfiguration essay due today).
"Yes", Alice replies and looks down at her pancake.
"No, it was okay," I answer and continue with yet another pancake.
"…" (Fred never really responds in these early conversations, it's usually just the three of us – Alice, Roxanne and me - that talks). Then there's a silence again. Roxanne looks disencouraged, I guess she expected more. Well I'm not really in the mood for talking I am avoiding to look at Alice if you don't mind Roxanne!
"I heard we were going to rehearse the patronus charm this afternoon I DADA. Isn't that exciting?" She tries again to start a conversation. I can help but cast a glance at Alice and of course she has to look at me in that exact same moment. She's really pretty. She quickly lowers her eyes again and her cheeks become slightly pink.
"Yes," Alice mumbles.
"Uh huh," I agree. Roxanne looks perplexed and maybe even a bit annoyed. I guess one-way conversations aren't that funny but I really want to finish of my breakfast and just hurry to class. (Wauw, just stunned myself there a bit, did I actually think that? Yes, I think I did).
"So, I was thinking about this prank we could do…" Oh, goody, here she goes again, will she never shut up? Fred's head jerks upwards and he has a glint in his eyes.
"What prank," he wanted to know. Well, that woke him up didn't it! Roxanne just ignores Fred and shoots both Alice and me a piercing look.
"Okay you two, what the hell is going on here that I don't know about. None of you practically said a word this entire morning!" I suddenly found my last piece of bread very interesting. I think I will leave it to Alice to explain that one. (Oh, great, I'm turning into a coward aren't I? Dammit.)
"Aww Roxanne, that hurts". I raise my eyes for a second. Alice is rubbing her side. Guess Roxanne just elbowed her. Good for me that I'm sitting opposite her, she can't reach me here. I can't help but smile a bit cockily at that, but then Roxanne kicks me on my shin.
"Aww Roxanne, would you stop doing bodily harm at us," I complain and rubs my now sore shin. I try to glower at her, but then Alice tries to hide a laugh behind her hand and I can't help myself, I start to laugh. Maybe it's a bit of an awkward laugh to begin with but when Alice joins me it escalates and we are laughing our heads off. A fair bit of the other students in the hall turn around to look at us but we can't seem to stop ourselves. It takes a couple of minutes before we are able to calm down. Roxanne is smiling at our odd behavior but is looking very confused. Well, you can't really blame her can you?
"Have you finished now? Can one of you please tell me what the hell is happening?" Even Fred is looking at us, now fully awake. I look at Alice and she just shrugs her shoulders resigned, even though her cheeks are still a bit rosy. Then I clear my throat:
"Well Roxanne, we kind of had a – situation - this morning..." and I tell her the whole story (except for the Alice-the-sexy-Head-Girl-thoughts and anything like that). "So as you can imagine, the whole thing was – to put it lightly – a bit awkward and I guess we didn't quite know how to handle it." Both Roxanne and Fred started smiling half way through then they began to chuckle and in the end Fred was howling with laughter. Of course everyone in the hall was now thinking we were up to something, so a lot of them hurried to leave. (Can't really blame them though, usually when we're like this it ends up in a huge prank at some time or another.)
Alice and I were smiling to each other. It was nice to be able to look at her again. Roxanne seems elated – clapping her hand and all as she pronounces:
"Oh my god Alice, do you realize that you will be at the receiving end of a lot of envied stares when this gets out? I mean you have practically been naked with James Potter. You just saw the hottest guy in Hogwarts in nothing but his boxers! (Hottest guy in Hogwarts a.k.a: Me. Mark you, that's not my own words, they actually made poll and I won.)" Alice groans and lets her head fall into her hands while I smirk.
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