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Chapter 10-The Break-up, Ice Skating, and Dance Preparations |
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The Christmas holidays were filled with joy and fun. It was even more fun to have the castle all to yourself. But today was New Years Eve and the castle was once again filled with many students. It was lunch time and the Great Hall was full to bursting. Kat, Remus, Liz, Sirius, Alex, Peter, Jordan, Alan, James, and I were chatting and eating. Rachel and John for some reason were missing from our table today.
“Ugh!” Liz cried out as a first year elbowed her in the rib. “No offense to you guys who went away for the holidays, but I liked it better when it was just those few of us in the castle.” She shoved the first years elbow away and glared at him.
“Awww come on Liz. Lighten up. You know you missed us?” Jordan cooed while pulling Alan’s arm closer to her.
“I missed some of you…” Liz scowled. She still didn’t like the idea of Jordan being apart of the group. Alan looked uncomfortable as Jordan tried to suffocate him.
“Sorry, but I am gonna have to agree with Liz. The castle is so much more magical with less people in it.” Sirius added, nodding his head. Everyone also nodded in agreement.
“So who is excited for the New Years Dance tonight?” I said excitedly. The girls giggled and the guys groaned. “Oh come on you guys. It’s a night for us girls to dress up and look gorgeous, and you guys to just stare at us and imagine all of the stuff that you will never get” I said laughing.
“That is sadly true” James said raising his eyebrows. I rolled my eyes. “And how do you know it will never happen?” He said raising his eyebrows once more. I punched him playfully in the arm.
“I’m sure it could happen for me!” Sirius said pointing to himself. Liz narrowed her eyes and smacked him on the back of the head. “Sorry love…” He murmured as he rubbed the back of his head The girls laughed at Sirius’s pain.
“Oh! Hey guys! Check out this shirt my mom got me for Christmas!” Alex unzipped her hoodie to reveal a shirt with a grill swatting away a hamburger, hot dog, and a kebab and in gold letters at the top it says, ‘DON’T GET ALL UP IN MY GRILL!’ Alex flashed a toothy grin and pointed at her shirt. Everyone started cracking up.
“That has got to be the funniest shirt I have ever seen you wear Alex.” Kat said smiling.
“Where does your Mom find this stuff?” I asked.
“Hot Topic of course!” Alex said still smiling. In the next instant, owls came soaring in with New Years letters and gifts. Nearly everyone in the group received a letter.
“My mum is completely mental!” Sirius cried. “She is just now yelling at me for running away to the Potters this summer. A little late Mum.” Sirius muttered arrogantly. “She said I have to stay at the Potters now.” Sirius grinned and high-fived James from across the table.
“Now Sirius dear! It’s is not a good thing that your parents are basically kicking you out!” Liz said shaking her head as she opened her own letter from home. She read it to herself and frowned. “Oh my god. What a tattle tale!!” Everyone stared at Liz with confused looks. “My sister is a first year Ravenclaw and she told my parents that I have been skipping class with Sirius to go snog. Now they are yelling at me and threatening to kick me out!!” Liz let the letter fall from her hands and she banged her fists on the table. “I am gonna kill my sister!” Liz said angrily. Sirius put a hand on Liz’s shoulder.
“Come on love! It’s ok. We just won’t skip class to go snog anymore.” Sirius said smiling weakly.
“No! I liked doing that!” Liz said giggling and blushing slightly. Everyone laughed as Sirius smirked. Alan opened his first letter from home, his parents missed him already. Jordan was still clinging to him and Alan still appeared uncomfortable. I wanted to ask what was wrong, but I didn’t want to create a scene. I watched as Alex opened her letter from home. She read it over a few times and didn’t appear angry or sad or happy. Her face was looked as if she was on the verge of busting out laughing.
“Alex...did you mum finally stop yelling at you?” Kat asked.
“Yeah but she told me a very disturbing story.” Alex said slowly trying to contain her laughter. She read the letter again. I wanted to hear the story.
“Well what is it?” Peter asked.
“I’ll just read it.” Alex picked up the letter and began reading. “Dear Alex, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed the gifts your father and I sent you. Well I would like to tell you an interesting story. I was sitting out on the porch a few weeks before Christmas and this old man rode by on a bicycle. He stopped in front of our house and got off his bike. He bent over, stood back up, got on his bike and rode away. I thought it was very odd. But wait, it gets even more odd. About 30 minutes later, he rode back by our house, did the same motions he did before, but instead he picked up a pair of white gloves that were laying in the street. They had been sitting there since the summer. You might remember them. Well they had been run over several times and they were all wet and dirty. So the old man picked them up, put them on and rode away. I could barely contain myself. Well I thought you might appreciate to hear this story. Have a good News Years. I love you! Love Mum” Alex stopped reading and it was a little bit silent. The silence didn’t last very long before everyone busted out laughing once more.
“What a weirdo!” I said through laughter.
“I bet that old man is a *****] Kat said looking scared. Liz nodded.
“You better watch out!” Peter said. James and Sirius laughing to hard to say anything. Remus didn‘t seem to be paying attention.. Jordan was too busy clinging to Alan and Alan was trying to distance himself from her.
“So does anyone else have any interesting letters?” I asked looking around. Most just shook there heads. James though, was nodding like an idiot.
“Mum and Dad got a letter from Sirius’ Mum who was yelling at them for not telling her Sirius had run away to our house and my parents told her off and are letting Sirius stay with us!” James said excitedly high-fiving Sirius. I rolled my eyes but laughed. At least they would have a fun summer together. I finished my lunch and pushed my plate away, sighing in the process. James turned to look at me, still grinning. He draped his arm over my shoulder and kissed my cheek. I blushed and smiled.
“So Gabby love, what shall we do today?” James asked sweetly. I put on my thinking face. The dance started 8:00 p.m. so we had the whole afternoon to do anything we wanted. We had to do something fun since we had to start going back to classes tomorrow.
“I honestly have no idea!” I grumbled throwing my hands in the air. “Anyone else got any ideas?” I looked around. Most shook their heads and as usual Jordan wasn’t paying any attention. Alan was whispering something in her ear. I just looked away. But only for a moment. After a few moments Alan and Jordan got up for the table. Alan looked scared but Jordan just looked giddy like something was about to happen. I was slightly confused but paid attention to the matter at hand. We needed an activity to do before it was time to get ready for the Dance-a-rama.
“I have an idea!” Sirius shouted happily. He had a very freaky grin on his face.
“This better be good Black!” Kat said basically pulling the words right out of my mouth.
“Trust me. It is! I promise!” Sirius continued in his happy, yet creepy manner.
“Come on!” Liz whined as she put her arm around Sirius. “Give him more credit. He has good ideas sometimes!” Liz smirked.
“Thanks love!” Sirius said kissing Liz on the cheek. “So ready to hear my idea?”
“Just tell us already Black!” Alex, Kat, and I cried.
“Alright.” Sirius began. “The Black Lake. Wintertime. That means its frozen. Soooo…” He dropped his voice and stared at all of us. It was like he was about to say the most important thing in the world when we knew what he was talking about. “Ice skating!!” He said excitedly. Everyone began to laugh.
“Sure. Sounds like fun!” Alex said.
“I agree! Let’s go!” I said smiling. “Hey. Where did Jordan and Alan go?“ I said looking around. Everyone just shrugged their shoulders. We all got off and began to exit the Great Hall when suddenly we heard someone cry out.
“No! Why! Please don’t do this!” I heard someone say. It echoed throughout the hall. Whomever it was, everyone heard them. We all walked more swiftly until we got to the entrance of the Great Hall. There we saw Jordan in tears pointing her wand at a very scared looking Alan.
“Whoa whoa whoa. What’s going on?” Remus asked. Him being a prefect he had to step in. I jumped in and stood next to him as did Kat and Liz. Jordan just ignored us and began to walk slowly toward Alan, her wand out stretched. Alan backed up as she got closer. The guys rushed over to shield Alan and us girls ran over to stop Jordan. Liz grabbed her wand arm and Alex and Kat grabbed her other arm. I stood in front of Jordan holding her shoulders.
“Jordan. What happened?” I asked her slowly. The tears continued to stream down her face. Obviously Alan had did something very horrible to her.
“Alan…broke…up with me…” Jordan spurted out. I stared at her and then turned to look at Alan. The guys had dragged him farther away from Jordan and were talking to him. They kept looking over at us.
“Well you don’t want to do anything rash. So why don’t you just go back to your dormitory.” Kat said slowly.
“Yeah. We are going ice skating and I guess you and Alan aren’t coming now.” Alex stated. Jordan sniffed and wiped her eyes.
“Sorry for causing drama you guys…I’ll see you around.” Jordan shuffled off to the Ravenclaw dormitory.
“Not that you don’t like to cause drama…” Liz muttered. I looked over to the guys. Alan was now walking up the stairs towards Gryffindor Tower and they guys were walking back towards us.
“Well its about time he broke up with her. Did you see? She was suffocating him!” Sirius stated angrily. “Women…” He muttered.
“Excuse me?” Liz said raising her eyebrows at him.
“I mean…I love you!” Sirius said embracing her.
“That’s what I thought.” Liz said hugging him back.
“Whose ready to go ice skating?” Alex said excitedly.
“Me!” Everyone said in unison.
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After we had all ran to our dormitories to grab coats, hats, scarves, gloves, and ice skates, we were ready to go. When Kat and Liz went to their dormitory, they found Jordan was still crying after the break up. When the boys went to their dormitory, they found Alan was too afraid Jordan was going to kill him, though he seemed a little broken up. He had also confirmed Sirius’ theory. She was suffocating him. I was sorta glad he got out when he could, but I still felt bad for Jordan. Anyways back to ice skating. We all put on our winter gear and headed out to the Black Lake. The couples of course had started to form on the walk. James with me, Sirius with Liz, Remus with Kat, and Alex with Peter. The snow covered the entire grounds of Hogwarts. Our boots made crunch noises as we walked. A light snow was falling and getting entangled in my wavy blonde hair that was sticking out of my hat. There was small gusts of wind periodically but nothing to bad.
Soon enough we arrived at the Black Lake. There was already a few students that also decided to go ice skating. Most were stumbling but it still looked like fun. I sat on the ground and took off my boots so I could put on my ice skates. Everyone else did the same. Liz was discussing with Sirius how she would most likely fall and he better be there to catch her. Kat and Remus were discussing whether or not they should go through with this or instead go to the warmth and safeness of the library. Alex and Peter were talking about the water creatures that were busy living deep underneath the frozen lake. James and I surprisingly weren’t talking. Just smiling at each other as we put our ice skates on.
In a matter of minutes we were all on the ice. I had my arm intertwined with James for fear of falling. I had been ice skating several times, but I was around James so something embarrassing and clumsy had to happen to me. Liz was holding on to the back of Sirius’ jacket as he did all the skating. She was just along for the ride. Alex and Peter were busy on there knees trying to stare down into the ice to look for the creatures that lived down there. Kat and Remus were holding hands and skating. It was a cute sight. All of us skated around for awhile. Liz fell several times, Sirius laughed and then got hit by Liz which then made us laugh. Alex and Peter skated for a little bit but always went back to looking into the ice. This eventually caught Sirius and James attention.
“What are you guys looking for exactly?” James asked.
“Well think about it. Creatures still live down there. What happens when the lake freezes? They are still down there somewhere.” Alex stated. Peter nodded his head furiously.
“Oh Merlin!” Sirius exclaimed. Everyone stared at him oddly. “That means Boogaloo is down there somewhere!” Sirius said frantically. He stuck his face to the ice and peered in. James looked shocked along with Sirius and did the same thing.
“Boogaloo!!” Sirius and James shouted. “Where are you buddy!” They continued to shout. I giggled softly at there stupidity.
“What are you guys laughing at! We have to save him!” Sirius said standing up and skating around until he slipped and fell. James brought his face up off the ice.
“You guys do know that Boogaloo is perfectly fine down there. He is a giant squid that lives in the water. Underneath the ice, the water and everything else is still perfectly intact.” Remus stated matter-of-factly.
“Your sure?” James asked with a sad look on his face.
“He’s sure.” Kat said appearing next to Remus. James and Sirius still stuck there faces on the ice looking for Boogaloo. James gave up and started skating with me again, but Sirius continued to search through out the frozen ice. I passed him once more to see his face looking suction cupped to the ice. Sirius tried to live his face up but his forehead was stuck.
“Uh oh…” Sirius said sounding scared. I stopped skating and peered down at him.
“Awww…your stuck aren’t you Sirius.” I said grinning. Everyone came over to see that he had his face stuck to the ice.
“I heard of getting your tongue stuck to a frozen pole but never your face stuck to frozen ice.” Kat said laughing.
“I tried that once!” Alex said smiling. “Sticking my tongue to a pole. It wasn’t that cool. I had to have my mom use magic to get it off.” I laughed. I did indeed think Alex was a bit smarter than that, though she did like to try lots of things. We gathered around Sirius trying to figure out how to get his face off the ice without ripping off his face. Though that might be a sight to see, we all put our heads together.
“Alex, how did your mom get your tongue off the pole?” Remus asked. Alex put her index finger on her chin and thought for a moment.
"Oh!" Alex exclaimed. She pulled her wand out of her pocket and pointed it at Sirius’ face where it was stuck to the ice. She muttered a spell that I assumed was an unsticking charm and moments later Sirius stood before us unharmed. Well his face looked a bit cold but other than that he was fine. I looked into the sky as it darkened. I looked at the giant clock near the entrance of Hogwarts. It was 5:30 p.m. The dance started in two hours and a half.
“Well ladies, its time to get ready for the dance!” I said twirling on my ice skates. The girls smiled and nodded their heads. We all took off our ice skates and replaced them with our snow boots. I stood up and brushed the excess snow off my coat. We turned and began to walk back up to the castle.
“Now Sirius, what did we learn today?” Liz asked as we neared the castle.
"Never stick your face against the ice." Sirius said putting his head down. Liz nodded and smiled. “Unless Alex is around to unstick me!” Sirius said grinning. Liz rolled her eyes as everyone laughed there way up to that castle.
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I lay sprawled on my four poster bed waiting for Alex to get out of the shower. Kat and Liz were playing cards on Alex‘s bed. I sighed and sat up, and saw my reflection in the tall mirror. My purple short shorts showed off my long legs rather nicely. I looked over at Liz and Kat. They also had on short shorts. Kat in red ones and Liz in lime green ones. I got up off of my bed and plopped down on Alex’s is. I sighed once more which caused Kat and Liz to look at me.
“Are you bored Gabby dear?” Kat cooed at me.
“Yes. I am.” I huffed falling backwards onto the bed. We heard laughter coming through the wall. On the other side was the boys dormitory.
“Hey. I have an idea.” Liz said pointing next door. The guys laughter echoed through the room. Along with the sound of Alex’s shower running. Liz got up first and pressed her ear to the walls. She motioned for us to come over. Kat and I pressed our ears to the wall as Liz did. All we heard was laughter.
“What on earth are they laughing about?” Kat whispered.
“I have no idea.” I whispered back as we removed our ears from the wall.
“I have another idea!” Liz said. She opened the dormitory door and tiptoed out. Kat and I exchanged looks but followed her anyway. She arrived at the boys door and pressed her ear too it. “I am waiting for the perfect chance to bust in on them.” She whispered to us. She pressed her ear to the door once more. The laughter seemed to desist and Liz picked this as her opportunity. She turned the door knob and pushed the door open. The guys were all sitting in a circle and turned to look at us. They looked a little shocked. Perhaps it was because of the short shorts?
“What the hell are you guys doing?” Kat asked loudly.
“What the hell are you girls doing?” Remus asked back. Liz, Kat, and I went over and sat down next to them.
“Well we were just waiting for dear Alex to get out of the shower so we can continue the order and finish getting ready.” Liz stated confidently. The guys nodded slowly but were still staring at us. At least Sirius, James, and Remus were.
“Well we were just…uh…” James started but was still staring at me.
“Uh…yeah…we were just…” Sirius tried to continue but was also staring at Liz. We both had satisfying grins on our faces.
“I was just telling these guys…that…the dance is going to be a lot of fun.” Remus lied as he stared at Kat, which made her blush.
“I notice you guys marveling our wonderful short shorts!” Liz said smirking. They nodded their heads again. The next moment Alex came in the room with her hair wrapped in a towel and her awesome blue short shorts. Peter’s face lit up as he stared at Alex now.
“Kat! Your turn!” Alex stated happily. We all got up and said our good-byes to the boys and headed back to our dormitory. We arrived back and Kat took the bathroom. Alex was busy blowing drying her hair.
“That went better than I expected!” Liz said clapping her hands together. Alex’s hair was now dry and Liz and I were trying to style it. While this was going on Kat emerged from the steam filled bathroom. It was now my turn. I left Liz, Alex, and Kat and walked into the bathroom. I removed my amazing short shorts and my white tank top. I restarted the shower and the bathroom filled with steam once more. I took my usual 45 minute shower and got out. I wrapped my hair in a towel and dried off my wet body. I put my purple short-shorts back on along with my white tank top. I walked back into the dormitory signaling Liz’s exit.
“You better not take your usual hour and a half or you won’t have time to get ready!” I said to Liz as she entered the bathroom.
“Yeah yeah yeah. I have time.” Liz grumbled as she closed the bathroom door. Alex’s hair was all finished and she was now applying her make-up. Kat was busy curling her hair. I grabbed the blow dry and began to dry my hair. I then looked at the clock in the corner of the room. It was now 7:00 p.m. We had one hour to finish getting ready. The blow drying was taking too long so I just used magic to finish drying my hair. Kat’s hair was finished and now she was applying her own make-up. Alex was already and waiting for us so we can all put on our dresses. I grabbed a hair clip and put my hair up. I then curled each little strand. As I finished curling my hair, Liz rolled out of the shower looking beautiful as ever. Her hair was already dried so all she had to do was style it and put on her make-up. I sat on the bed next to Alex and Kat as we waited for Liz. We all looked beautiful. The guys would surely be pleased. Liz finished doing her hair and was now applying her make-up. I giggled with joy as the time got closer. The dance started in 10 minutes. I heard the guys voices through the hallway as they headed down to the common room to wait for us. Liz finished her make-up and we all grabbed out dresses.
Liz’s dress was a beautiful strapless lime green. It was a little longer than her, but with her silver heels it would balance out nicely. I watched as Liz slipped it on. She looked absolutely stunning. Kat grabbed her dress next. It was a straight shouldered red. It stopped just above her ankles. She also had matching red heels. Alex’s charming blue dress was next. It was strapless as well as Liz’s. It flowed out at the bottom and sparkles added to it. Alex had white wedges that the dress covered. She could’ve gone without shoes. I was last. I grabbed my purple cocktail dress. It was just below my knees and had a slanted bottom. I slipped into my silver flats, since I was tall enough. We were all finished getting ready and very satisfied I might add.
The four of us stepped out of the dormitory and began walking down the stairs. We could hear the boys chatting away and as we came into view it stopped. I smiled at James who was staring deeply at me. I swiveled my heads to notice the other boys staring. We got to the bottom of the stairs, safely fortunately and the boys nearly ran over to us. I linked my arm around James’ as we headed to the dance.
 Misses Prongs · Wed Jun 24, 2009 @ 04:56am · 0 Comments |
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