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The Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers
Chapter 5 – Siri's Crush
It was almost five o'clock in the morning when Siri decided that she couldn't sleep. She got off her bed and headed to the common room. She sat down on the sofa which was in front of the fireplace and pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. There was no fire lit at that time of the night, and Siri didn't bother to turn on the lights in the common room either.
She didn't hear the footsteps of another person who came into the common room. That person didn't light the room either. He just walked where he assumed the sofa would be located and sat down.
"HEY!" Siri yelled as the person almost sat on her. "Watch where you're sitting!"
"Lumos!"
Siri shut her eyes as the light of the wand was held right in front of her nose.
"Will you keep that away?" she pushed his hand away.
"Sirigorn." Sirius Black said.
"Black." Siri replied.
"What're you doing up at this time?" he asked.
"Not that it's any of your business." She replied. She had her legs crossed now, as well as her arms and she was staring at him.
Sirius grinned. "Out on a late night stroll again?"
Siri took out her wand from a special pocket she had in her pajamas and held it at Sirius' forehead before he could do or say anything.
"I told you it's none of your business, Black." She said with gritted teeth.
"What's going on here?" Remus walked into the room and turned on the lights with a wave of his wand. "Pad... Sirius! Sirigorn!" he said when he saw Siri holding her wand at Sirius' forehead.
"It's okay, Remus. Sirigorn and I were having a little chat." Sirius said, grinning.
"Please put that wand down, Sirigorn." Remus said.
Siri wanted to hex them both, but she stopped herself and pulled off her wand. She put it back in her pocket and went to another corner of the common room and pulled out a random book out of the shelf and sat down to read.
"And what are you doing up at this early hour?" Remus asked Sirius.
"Nox." Sirius said and the light of his wand went off. "I couldn't sleep." He replied to Remus' question.
They sat on the sofa and started whispering to each other. Siri tried to hear what they were saying, but she was too far to be able to hear them. Fifteen minutes later, she decided that Sirius Black's presence in the room was distracting her from reading. So, she decided to return to the sofa.
She put the book back in its place and walked to where Sirius and Remus were sitting and whispering. She sat on an armchair and stared into the fireplace which was lit by Remus a few minutes ago.
As soon as they noticed her, they stopped whispering. Sirius glared at her and when she didn't pay him any attention (though she wanted to) he coughed. Siri turned to look at him.
"We were having a private conversation here." Sirius said.
"I was here first. You could've chosen somewhere else for your private conversation." Siri replied with a smirk.
"Well, it's two against one. Now leave." Sirius demanded.
"Over my dead body." Siri spat back and crossed her arms.
"Sirius, we can go to our dorm, really." Remus said.
"No, Remus. I want to stay here. And she will leave." Sirius said, still glaring at Siri.
"Make me." Siri said and looked at him in the eyes. Oh, bloody boggarts! I shouldn't have made eye contact! Bad, bad, bad! Oh how gorgeous those eyes are! Stop it, Siri!
Sirius got up from his seat and stood in front of Siri. He gave her the sweetest smile she'd ever seen, which made Siri blush, then he picked her up and carried her to the door that led to the girls' dormitories.
Siri was shocked. She couldn't move or say anything. She didn't even resist. Sirius opened the door, put her down and she stood there staring at him. He closed the door in her face and went back to the sofa.
Siri stared at the door dumbfounded. Sirius Black had actually carried her across the common room.
"Erika, are you all right?"
Siri jumped in her place and turned to see Lily Evans staring at her. Lily Evans was one of the not-so-few who called Siri by her real name.
"Uhh.. yeah." Siri said and ran to the seventh year dormitory. She had to tell Nim what had just happened.
She opened the door and saw Nim sleeping in her bed, her bed covers were dropped to the floor and she had a parchment in her hand. Siri disregarded all that and jumped into Nim's bed.
"Nimmeh wake up!" she said in a whisper, which was full of excitement. "Nimmeh!" she shook Nimmeh once, which only made her grunt and turn to the other side.
"Caprice Nimmer, if you don't wake up this moment I'm going to..."
"Keep your voice down! I'm not deaf." Nim yawned. "What is it?" she turned to look at Siri.
"You won't believe what just happened." Siri said.
"A guy was in your dorm?" Nim asked, rubbing her eyes.
"No, better!" Siri said and pulled the bed covers off the floor and gave them to Nim.
"Wait." Nim said and got up and pulled the curtains of the four poster bed closed and cast a silencing charm around it. "Talk." She said and sat down in front of Siri.
"I was in the common room earlier, and Sirius Black was there too." Siri said.
"So? What's new? He's a Gryffindor too, you know?" Nim said.
"No, no, no. It's not that. He wanted me to leave the common room, so he and Lupin could have a private conversation, and when I refused he carried me to the door!" Siri said, excitement showing in her eyes.
"He what?" Nim was surprised. "Like he carried you to the door of your dorm? Or just the entrance?"
"The entrance. You know boys can't come up here." Siri said. "But still, he carried me!"
"You didn't even stop him?" Nim asked.
"Why should I?" Siri replied. "I mean no." she blushed.
Nim smiled then patted Siri's head. "But you realize that it's a great possibility that he was the one to hit Lena with the spell in the train."
"Don't ruin the moment!" Siri said. "We'll deal with that when we find out who did it."
Nim laughed. "All right."
Lily walked into the common room and found Remus and Sirius laughing.
"What're you two laughing at?" she asked.
"You should've seen her face!" Sirius said.
"Did you prank someone again?" Lily asked. She didn't like the pranks they pulled on other students.
"No, this time it wasn't our fault." Remus said.
"Wow." Lily said. "That's a first."
"I wanted to send Sirigorn out of the common room and she refused. So I had to carry her to the door leading to your dormitories."
"And?" Lily asked.
"She was obviously shocked." Remus said.
"Didn't say a word and didn't resist." Sirius said and continued laughing. "I bet she was shocked."
"Sirius Black, you prat!" Lilly smacked him on the head. "You have startled the girl with your acts!"
"Hey! It wasn't my fault!" He said, rubbing his head.
"It well indeed was!" Lily said. "If you repeat that with any of the girls of our house... make that the whole school. I'll make sure to hex your bloody head into next week!" she stormed out of the common room and headed to the girls' dormitories.
"What was that all about?" Sirius said.
"Girls." Remus said with a shrug.
Lily entered the sixth year dormitory and looked around for Siri. When she didn't find her there, she went to her dormitory, where she knew she'd definitely find Siri, because she was Nim's friend, and Nim and Lily shared the same dormitory.
She found the curtains of Nim's bed closed, but there were no voices from behind it. Their other roommates were already waking up and getting ready for breakfast. Lily pulled the curtain a little bit and poked her head in. She saw Nim and Siri talking, but she couldn't hear their voices.
When Nim saw Lily, she waved her wand and said 'Finite Incantatem' and the silencing charm was dropped.
"Hi." Lily said.
"Morning." Nim replied.
"Hi." Siri said.
"Sorry to interrupt." Lily said. "But I couldn't find you in your dormitory, so I thought you'd be here." She smiled at Siri.
"But I haven't been here all night." Siri said. Lily was Head Girl, so Siri thought Lily was going to deduct house points from her for leaving her room in the middle of the night.
"That's not why I was looking for you." Lily said.
Nim motioned for her sit on the bed, and Lily did so.
"Erika, did Sirius Black hurt you earlier in the common room?" Lily asked with a serious look.
Siri blushed. "No."
"He told me what happened down there." Lily said. "And he was being immature about it. So I thought he had insulted you or something."
"Actually, I kinda dared him to make me leave the common room. That's why he carried me out of there." Siri said with a shrug.
"All right." Lily said with a smile. "Next time remember to hex him afterwards." She winked and got off the bed and went to her trunk to get her school books out.
"That was new." Nim said.
"What do you mean?" Siri asked.
"Lily Evans has just given you permission to hex another student!"
"Oh right! That is true!" Siri said with a grin. "She must hate Sirius so much."
"Maybe." Nim Shrugged. "Or she just wants to get back at them through you, or even through other girls because of her crush on Potter."
"Whoa! Waitwaitwait! Lily Evans? And Potter?" Siri said the names with a whisper and Nim nodded. "Oooh, Slim's going to be jealous!"
Nim raised an eyebrow. "Slim?"
"He fancies her." Siri whispered.
"Well, what do you know." Nim grinned. "We need to have another meeting. Girls only."