Ella's POV

'Hey, Ella' it was Paul, from yesterday night. He was always really nice with Cyndi and I so I wasn't mad at him. I was mad at the stupid jackass Stewart.

'Yup, what's up?' I asked, taking a bite from the lovely sausages.

'Well, I'm here to arrange the things for the house battle.' He said. It was easy to see that this conversation wasn't exactly his preferred thing to do. There was something like apologize in his voice.

'Hey. It's okay. You don't have to feel bad; I know it's not your idea… So, what's up?'

'Well, we'll have to set a date.' He said. 'And it has to be before Halloween, because then Dumbledore will announce the house bands.'

'Well, I have to talk with the others, but I think it has to be after the Hogsmeade visit, 'cuz Sirius still hasn't bought his drums.' I explained.

'Oh, and where will be the battle?' asked Cyndi; looked up from her Charms book.

'Well, we thought about asking Dumbledore for the Great hall. But Lily stopped us, she said that then the other houses will be able to see the Gryffindor band and.. I dunno actually, when she explained it sounded reasonable.' He said, scratching his neck with confusion. 'Anyway, we decided that the Common room it's okay.'

'Yea, sounds fine.' I said. Paul really started to annoy me, he just talks so much, so I just wanted to make him go away.

I didn't say anything else, so Paul took the hint and awkwardly walked away. The rest of the day went normally. We had double transfiguration with McGonagall. We tried to make the frogs in front of us disappeared. Well, only Lily made her vanish…To the rest of us McGonagall gave a long essay and we have to train the spell. The day continue with Defense against the dark arts. Professor Tharatour is really nice, but sometimes students had big problem to pronounce his name and it happened once that a girl from Hafflepuff wanted to ask him something, but forgot what she was going to say because she lost five minutes trying to say right his name. Oh man, Cyndi and I laughed so hard. Like I said professor T. is really nice, but he give us hell of homework. Actually all teachers are doing this, sometimes we don't even have time to eat. And when times like that come it means the Apocalypse for Cyndi. However, the day went without any troubles (like we need more anyway). After dinner both of us took our bags and went to the Room of Requirement for some practice. When we got there Sirius, Remus, James and Peter were already there.

'So what are we going to play?' asked Sirius without even saying hi.

'What'd you say for some Bon Jovi?' Cyndi smiled to me.

'Hell, yeah!' I nod in agreement.

'Who is he?' asked James, who was sitting on a pillow on the floor.

Me and Cyndi growl at him.

'It's not him, moron.' Said Cyndi.

'It' s a band.' A continued…

'With one of the most…'

'..awesome..'

'… sexy…'

'…hot…'

'…sweet…'

'…lead singer e.v.e.r.' we giggled.

'Who, except from his great voice, has a really nice ass too.'

'Yeah and don't make us start with the lyrics.' Cyndi sang and took her guitar.

All boys rolled their eyes.

'Fine. Bon Jovi.' Sirius made a face.

'C'mon Sirius, it's just for warm up!' Cyndi said, making the puppy eyes again. He just nodded indifferent.

'Hmm…Livin' on a prayer or You give love a bad name?' I asked, ignoring Sirius and his bad mood.

'Oh, I've heard Livin' on prayer, I just need the text 'cuz I don't know all words.' Said Remus and suddenly right next to him there was a parchment with the lyrics of the song.

'Great, let's start then. Sirius you'll take in when you hear the rhythm.' I said and he nod…

We started playing… At first slowly, so that Sirius can get the right rhythm. We did the intro a few times, but something wasn't right.

'Black, can you please focus.' I said with stiff voice. I really wanted to have at least one decent repetition, I mean, Sirius learned to play the drums well enough only days ago. Before that we just hung out in the Room of Requirement helping him with the music theory.

'I'm trying to, Black.' He responded with a cold voice. Anyway, it seems like my remark made the difference, because we made it through the whole song without stopping and for playing for the first time, we sounded pretty well.

'Okay, what shall we play now?' said Cyndi, really excided.

'How 'bout soomee Guns, Paradise city is an easy one?' I suggested. For now we didn't had any particular song that we wanted to master, so we just played as many as possible, to get some practice with the different rhythms, melodies and speeds of playing.

'Oh, yeah, it's a good o..' Cyndi started, but Sirius cut her off.

'Why should you two always decide what to play?' he asked with a icy voice.

'Well, if you want to, you can suggest some..' Cyndi started again, but this time I cut her off.

'Why shouldn't we decide?' I asked, looking directly at his eyes. He stared at mine; it was like we were having a silent war, just staring at each other.

'Oh, I don't mind, just seems like you two are trying to get all the credit for everything. And me and Remus aren't getting any chance to for fulfill.'

'Sirius, keep me out of this.' Remus warned. 'I'm here only because you all asked me to, I don't want to fulfill anything.' His voice was serious, almost warning.

Peter and James, who were giggling and making jokes, while we played, now were silent. Cyndi was also silent, looking kind of puzzled.

'Hey, what's the prob-…' she begun again, but I cut her off one more time.

'It looks like only you need more chances to fulfill, Sirius.' There was irony in my voice, that of course, Sirius cough.

'Get at the point, my dear cousin.' Sirius raised his eyebrows.

'You are prick, love.' I said, raising my voice and underlining the last word with the irony in my tone.

'And you are quite a bitch, you know?' he answered with a bitter smile.

'Yeah, but I'm the bitch that started the band, you know?'

'Oh, so bad you have to be in a band with such a prick like me.' He muttered, looking indifferent. 'Maybe I should leave the band, you know, so that you don't have to deal with me.' Then he turned his back to me and headed to the door.

'NO!' Cyndi yelled. Then a second after that she was between Sirius and the door. 'No one is leaving the band!'

'Sid, move out of the way!' Sirius said with a cranky voice. It was obvious that he wasn't in the greatest mood and that he didn't wanted to deal with our fight right now.

'Sirius, SHUT THE FUCK UP!' she yelled. We all stared at her in silence and with amused faces. 'Okay, now…' she looked really sure, her voice was calm and she sounded like making a plan for the day. 'First, we do this. Alohomora!' she said, locking the door. 'And now this, Accio wands!' she added and all our wands were in her expecting arm. 'Lovely.' She continued with a smile. 'Now, nobody is leaving the band and nobody is leaving the room until we figure this out.'

'Oh, c'mon Sid, don't be ridiculous.' Sirius said, trying to take his wand back.

'Do you really wanna argue with a girl that has six wands in her hand?' she asked in a serious voice and I think she scared him a little.

'Cyndi, stop it!' I tried to burst in, but my best friend eyed me.

'Ella, you are my best friend and I love you, but… fuck off!' she said to me in a raw voice.

James, Peter and Remus giggled.

'Oh, don't you even get me start on you lot!' she said, looking at them. They fell silent immediately. 'The thing is, it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll. And I want, really badly. And I hope you lot want it also. The thing is, there are some ruff patches in every road and if we want to succeed as a band we have to work through them together. So, now we are going to try to lighten up as much as possible and then we're going to talk.' Her voice again was sure and calm.

I felt stupid. What was Cyndi trying to do? If Black wants to leave, let's leave! We'll make it even without him. We'll find a better drummer. A drummer who has touched drums before my stupid best friend gets the idea that she wants a total music invalid for a drummer.

'Hey, I know what will lighten you all up!' James said, ruffling his hair and smiling. 'Some booze!'

And in this moment in the room appeared a few bottles of Fire Whisky.

'Brilliant, Potter.' Cyndi muttered with a bit of irony in her voice.

'Thanks, Jett!' he smiled. Sirius, who was a few steps away from her just shook his head and tried to cover the smile playing on his lips. Cyndi put the six wands in her pocket and just seated on one of the big speakers. I was really pissed of and I knew that Cyndi knows that soon or later she'll have to pay for being mean to me. Sirius still looked mad, but he didn't say anything, just sat behind the drums, playing the rhythm of Do the Hippogriff. Remus just shook his head and sited on the small sofa in the corner of the room.

Peter was really excided, about the Fire Whisky and just jumped around and clapped with his hands.

So, James and Peter started to drink and soon finished half a bottle themselves. I was wondering should I laugh or cry at this. James was sitting in the corner, in Remus' legs looking really proud of himself. Then he raised his look upon Remus and said, giggling:

'Reemuuus…'

'Yes, James.' He said with a tired voice, trying to smile.

'Remus, I'm a good boy, riiight!' he made a childish look.

'Yes, James, you are.' He agreed. It was obvious that he'll agree on anything, just to get his half-drunk friend happy. Oh, he's really having a hard time with friends like this.

'And… Well, Remus… Will you tell Lily I'm a good boy?' he asked again, looking hopeful.

'Yes, I will.' Agreed again Lupin, patting him on the back.

'Oh, you are the best, mate!' James said, smiling.

Then my attention was cough by Peter. He was really drunk. He danced around, singing with a lot of enthusiasm.

Iiif you think I'm sexy

Aand you want my body

C'mon baby let me knoooow!

Then he came to me and started to dance… Well, I guess seducing is the right word. Cyndi and I giggled together and Sirius had a smile playing on his lips.

Then after a few minutes Peter got tired so he sat next to James and they started to talk about how, when the fishes pee they swim in it.

'I can't believe these two are my friends.' Said Remus, shaking head and trying to hide his smile.

'I can't believe that also.' Cyndi said, still giggling because of the lap dance Peter had gave me.

Soon the two drunk babies were half asleep and the only thing I could hear was the low hassle they made while they breathed.

The room felt silent. Suddenly, I realized that maybe this wasn't such a bad idea.

Okay, guys.

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