'Be your best friend, yeah I'll love you forever,

Up in the clouds, we'll be higher than ever,

Eh, eh, so happy I could die and it's alright.'

A Very Happy Halloween!

"Crap." Riley muttered, quickly wiping away all of the elixir from her mouth.

She heard the bell ring and quickly grabbed her things and ran out of the classroom and headed straight for Gryffindor Tower. If she could remember right, this elixir would only last for exactly 24 hours. 24 hours of being all around happy and positive. That just wasn't Riley.

When she got to the common room, she felt a sudden change of heart. Why run away from everyone? Why should she hide her happiness of being blessed to be put on this wonderful earth? She dumped her bag in her dorm and walked back down the stairs, where she met Lily.

"Lily!" she said, pulling her into a hug.

Lily patted Riley's back. "I don't mean to be rude, Riley, but are you ok?"

Riley pulled out of the hug and smiled.

"Of course I'm ok! Why wouldn't I be? It looks lovely outside doesn't it?" she looked out of the window. It was beautiful for the end of October. "It might be a bit chilly though so lets go get our scarves and we'll go for a walk!"

"No," Lily replied firmly. "Riley, you're only acting like this because you swallowed some of the elixir. Yes, I noticed. So just calm down. It's great to see you act happy and all but just calm down."

Riley watched Lily and then burst out laughing. She was buckling over and crouching down when the Common Room was starting to fill in with people staring at her. Lily stood there helpless.

"Riley-stop. Get up-no. People are staring-calm down, please!"

It didn't work. Riley was now rolling on the floor.

"Dear Lord," Lily muttered putting her face into her hands. She then looked up and saw Remus enter the room with Black, Potter and Pettigrew following. "Remus!" she yelled and beckoned him over.

The first thing he looked at was Riley.

"What's wrong with-?"

"She swallowed some of the elixir in Potions and she was all cheery and I didn't even say anything very funny, but she burst out laughing uncontrollably. What the hell do we do?"

He ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "I honestly don't know. There is no way of getting the elixir to wear off so quickly. Really, I think, we just need to get her to stop laughing."

"I've tried but-" Lily stopped as her eyes fell on Sirius who was watching Riley being laughed at by everyone else. "Black."

Remus turned to Sirius confused and then back to Lily.

"This might sound crazy, but even though she is happy, I think if she is with Black, we can at least get her to stop laughing."

"I don't really think he'll help, Lily," Remus said, looking back at him. "He's enjoying it all too much."

"Can you try?" she begged.

He shrugged and walked over to Sirius.

"Can you maybe talk Riley outside and calm her down?" Remus asked him.

"Excuse me?" Sirius replied, looking shocked at the suggestion but still laughed nonetheless.

"Please?" he asked, dropping his voice. "It's a full moon next week and I need to finish a few pieces of homework, but I need her help and I can't do it when she's like this. No offence, but I think just your presence will be able to stop her laughing."

Sirius mumbled a fine and walked into the middle of a circle that had now formed to watch Riley buckled over in laughter and picked her up, throwing her over his shoulders.

It took her a few minutes to realize what was going on, as she was still laughing, but it started to die down as she was being carried out of the portrait.

"Who's this?" she asked, still in a cheery voice but with a bit of uncertainty, tapping Sirius' back.

"Your worst nightmare," Sirius replied, sitting her down on a stair. He saw her smile falter a bit, but it still stayed.

"Oh," she said and started to fiddle with her fingers. "Why am I out here?"

"I was told to calm you down."

"Ok."

Sirius tilted his head and watched her. She was still smiling. "Usually you would question as to why you were having to be calmed down."

"But what's the point in asking questions all the time? It just causes arguments."

Sirius nodded then stood up. "Well, I think that's my job done. You can probably go back in now," he told her.

Riley walked up the two steps and told the Fat Lady the password then turned around to Sirius, who was already heading down the stairs.

"Are you not coming?"

"What?" he asked turning around and shook his head when she pointed to the common room. "Oh, no. I'm…I've got to meet someone."

"Okay then. Happy Halloween!" she called as he descended further down the stairs.

X

At the Halloween feast, Riley was sitting in between Remus and Lily, talking animatedly with anyone within listening distance. The feast had finished and slowly people were starting to leave, but if you were in conversation with Riley, you were going nowhere.

As the Great Hall started to empty, the only people left sitting at the Gryffindor table were Riley, Lily, Remus, James, Sirius and Peter. There were a few more students scattered all around the other house tables. Including Claudia at the Ravenclaw one.

"They're starting the Hogsmeade weekends quite early this year, aren't they?" Lily said. "I think they start next week."

"Yep," Sirius agreed, nodding. "The 11th."

Riley was sitting happily, staring all around her. The hall looked fantastic as it always did on Halloween. There were lit pumpkins flying above there heads among bats and there were trays in the shape of black cats crawling along with glasses filled with pumpkin juice.

"Riley!"

Riley jumped and turned around in her seat.

"That's two times I've called on-" Claudia was cut off by Riley.

"Claudia! Hello! How has your Halloween?" she asked her sister, happily.

"Er, fine." Claudia replied, looking taken aback by her sisters attitude. "Here," she said, pulling a bunch of flowers tied together out of her robes. "I found these today and thought you should write your message on a piece of parchment then send them off to mamà y papà."

Riley took the flowers from Claudia and smelled them. "Delphiniums? Lovely. But…what are they for?"

If Claudia looked taken aback a few minutes before, nothing compared to this.

"What?" she hissed. "Are you being funny? It's our abuelo's 3rd anniversary on Saturday!"

So that's what's happening other than the Quidditch match, Riley thought to herself. I knew it was something important. Wow. Three years without my own Grandfather.

"Oh," Riley replied. "Had a bit of a wee mind block there, sis."

Claudia didn't look amused and did not return Riley's smile. Instead, she looked over at Sirius.

"We're still on for next Saturday, yeah?"

TAAA DAAAA. Yep. New chapter. I'm trying to get back into this story. Leaving it for two weeks made new ideas pop into my head for it and now I need to try and work my way around what I had already written with a completely different idea. And I'm still trying to work out a few tweeks I have with this plot I have now.

Only one translation, and that was obvious : abuelo's- grandfather's

ANYWHO, please review ;)

Abbey xoxo