Note: I think I'm going to say this in every chapter, I AM STILL FIXING THE GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, VOCABULARY, AND LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT CHAPTERS Y'ALL ARE ONE BUT I'M HOPING IT AIN'T A FREAKING MESSED UP ONE, thanks. x
Clara woke up early, it was New Years Eve!
A sudden jolt ran through her body, she had remembered it was Severus's birthday in six days!
She got out of bed, and put on her outfit for the day, she wasn't going to wear her school robes since they had a holiday. She wore loose ripped jeans, a black tank top, silver hoop earrings, silver rings, white sneakers, and a jean jacket with a hood. She kept her hair down and combed it a bit.
She ran down the stairs when she finished and saw the boys already awake and playing chess. "Hello!" she greeted them as she jumped on the couch next to Remus,
"hey!" he said as he saw her, "full moon tomorrow night" he said in a sad whisper.
"Don't worry about it" she smiled as she rubbed his back, he smiled back but she could still see the worry in his eyes.
"Lets head out to Hogsmeade" Sirius suggested deciding to change the subject since it was creating tension in the room,
"yes!" They all agreed, and headed out of the common room.
"Oh Remus! I feel bad for Regulus!" Clara whined to him as they walked to Hogsmeade, "he really wanted us to spend New Years Eve together" she looked down sadly.
"Don't worry" he put his hand on her shoulder, she smiled nervously than started laughing, he laughed at her and tapped her shoulder to notify her that they had walked into Honeydukes.
They all gave each other a grin, and ran off to collect the most of their favorite candy or chocolate,
"let's get some Ice Mice" James nudged Remus and he nodded excitedly grinning.
Clara had got an awful lot of Fizzing Whizbees, she gave Peter some since she had taken all of the remaining on the shelf. Sirius had gotten some Pepper Imps to show off breathing fire, and probably scare a few first years. They all paid for the sweets they had gotten and headed out of Honeydukes.
They walked into The Three Broomsticks trying not to catch the eye of Madam Rosmerta, they sat on a table and started talking,
"reckon we could get a firewhiskey?" Sirius whispered so nobody other than the marauders could hear,
"doubt it, Rosmerta knows we're underage" Remus pointed out,
"we could use an aging potion couldn't we?" James suggested,
"that has to be the stupidest idea you've come up with Prongs" Clara laughed, "besides where are you going to get an aging potion from?" She reminded him, he laughed.
"Whip one up of course!" James ridiculed, they all fell into fits of laughter.
"Well why don't we ask Slughorn then?" Clara sarcastically stated,
"maybe Rosmerta will have some to hand out?" Peter continued the joke, James shot them both dirty looks, and Clara rolled her eyes smirking.
"We could just steal it ya know" Sirius said dully, they all looked at him,
"ya! We can steal the whole pub at that rate!" Clara mocked him.
"I'm serious!" He hissed,
"and I'm Clara" she hissed back trying hold back her laughter, they all laughed at Clara's pun, Rosmerta walked over to the loud laughs.
"Oh you five! Last time you were here, you set off an explosion didn't you!" she sneered, "you and your nasty pranks!" glared at the five of them angrily.
"I assure you Madam, we had nothing to do with it" Clara looked at her innocently,
"then why had you run out, may I ask Potter" she scoffed,
"oh! We were merely scared by the noise Madam" Remus looked up at her, she scoffed again and walked away motioning for a waitress to go over to their table.
"Good job guys!" Peter high-fived Clara and Remus,
"that's right!" Clara cheered, "master manipulator over here guys!" She pointed at herself and they all laughed.
The waitress had taken their order of five butterbeers, and they chattered away excitedly about the fireworks they were planning on setting off, Regulus walked in with Severus, Narcissa, Lucius, Barty, and Evan, Clara got up and walked over to them.
"Hello!" She waved at them,
"Clara!" Narcissa called out running over to her to hug her,
"Cissy!" Clara hugged her. "Happy New Years Eve!" She jumped up and down excitedly,
"Happy New Years Eve!" Narcissa clapped excitedly,
"Happy New Years Eve!" the rest smiled excitedly.
"We're planning on setting off fireworks tonight" Clara informed them, "make sure to look up at night!" she continued, they all nodded laughing.
Clara was a little ball of energy that never dimmed down. She had told Regulus that the five of them had promised to keep it just them this New Years celebration, Regulus accepted smiling and waving goodbye to Clara as she walked back over to the marauders.
"Vixen" James said as Clara sat down,
"mhm" Clara nodded,
"Dabrowski" James pointed behind Clara to a boy who was sitting a few tables away from them, Clara turned to look at him then turned back.
"What about him?" Clara asked,
"I think he wants to talk to you, hence his uncontrollable staring" he sniggered, Clara rolled her eyes laughing slightly and got up to go talk to him, Sirius was annoyed by the fact that James had told her.
"You didn't have to tell her!" Sirius whispered harshly,
"your funny when your mad Padfoot" James smirked, "for a second there I thought you were jealous" James laughed quietly at Sirius's facial expression.
Sirius decided to take it into his own matters and got up walking over to the table where Jason was sitting with Clara and his friends,
"come on Clara we're heading back to the castle" Sirius put a hand on her shoulder, motioning for her to get up.
"All right!" Clara said getting up, "bye guys!" Clara waved to Jason and his friends,
"bye!" they waved to her as she left.
"You didn't have to do that" Clara rolled her eyes as she swatted Sirius's hand off her shoulder,
"I have no idea what your talking about" he struggled to keep back his laughter that his plan succeed as they walked out of the pub where the rest of the marauders were waiting. She rolled her eyes, and blushed slightly while they walked off to the castle.
10 seconds to 12:00 am...
The marauders were standing outside, with Remus looking at his watch while the other four readied the fireworks, "10.....9.....8.....7.....6.....5.....4.....3.....2.....1!" They all shouted cheering as the fireworks exploded into the air, "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" They all cheered and grouped up into a big hug.
"HERE WE COME 1976!" Clara cheered, she was sitting on the top of the tallest tree along with the four others.
"WOOHOOO!" Sirius screamed at the top of his voice, and they all started clapping and cheering.
They all jumped into the Black Lake once again, but willingly this time, they had the time of their lives, until they decided to head to the common room, all soaking wet, people cheered as they saw them walk in all wet and soaking, they were famous for breaking the school rules and pulling pranks.
Clara went back to her dorm and changed into dry clothes for the Gryffindor New Years Party which had already started, she was wearing a red crimson dress that fell slightly above her knees, and black heels, her hair was in two cute braided space buns, and she wore simple makeup.
The boys were surprisingly dressed up when she headed to the common room and saw them, they were standing together and chatting away excitedly and laughing, James pulled Clara away from the rest.
"what's wrong?" Clara asked curiously,
"Clara, Sirius fancies you" James said looking into Clara's was surprised. Him, Sirius Black fancy me? She thought to herself.
"What makes you think that?" she requested an answer,
"he didn't tell me, but I know" he stated and walked away.
Clara walked back to the rest, she couldn't take her mind off what James had told her, she kept glancing at Sirius and caught him staring a few times, the five of them were sitting on a couch until three of the got up and left to their dorm leaving Sirius and Clara alone.
"What's that?" Sirius asked boredly pointing at Clara's right fore-arm, she realized what he was pointing at, it was a tattoo of a fox running up her arm,
"oh god...stupid me...forgot to cover the damn thing" she muttered to herself trying to cover her arm.
"I already saw it you know?" Sirius chuckled quietly,
"mhm" she nodded.
"When did you get it?" he asked curiously resting his head on his hand,
"fourth year" she answered still not looking at him, as he was about to say something Clara interrupted him saying. "James told me" she flushed bright red, he laughed nervously.
"Oh uh right" he blushed.
They continued talking together, although it was a rather awkward conversation, a few minutes later they got up to get some drinks.
"Let's try firewhiskey!" Sirius declared happily,
"I mean, I dunno" she rubbed the back of her neck nervously,
"It's new years, besides James wouldn't let you!" He laughed.
"All right!" She agreed happily, "but we'll share a bottle, James will kill us if we get drunk"
"okay!" Sirius nodded. He got a bottle and two cups and they sat down in front of the fire.
About an hour past and the party was still on, James came walking down to the common room, and saw the two sitting by the fire with a bottle of firewhiskey.
"Oi!" James called over to them,
"oops" Clara muttered, Sirius laughed at the sight of her nervous face.
"Shouldn't have trusted the two of you" James said slopping on the couch between the two of them,
"you would've done the same" Clara rolled her eyes grinning.
"Hand it over" James pointed at the bottle, Clara handed him the bottle laughing, James lifted the bottle to his mouth and drank the remaining in one go since it wasn't much. "Burns your insides doesn't it?" James fanned his face with his hand,
"hence the name 'firewhiskey' Prongs" Sirius laughed.
"That has to be the smartest thing I've ever heard you say!" Clara joked,
"thank god I'm sitting between you two, or you would've been snogging at this point!" James made a sarcastic exasperated sigh,
"oh shut it James!" Clara giggled.
The music had become louder at this point, and Clara took the advantage of Sirius and James's conversation to slip away from them, she walked hurriedly out of the common room, and down to the dungeons.
She made a complex wand movement pointing at her dress with her wand and muttered, "colovaria" her dress changed to a dark green color, and she giggled happily knowing the spell worked.
She was on her way to the Slytherin common room when she heard a pair of muttered laughs from behind her, "James, Sirius" she sighed,
"we are not the magnificent sounding James" James made a ghostly voice from under the invisibility cloak,
"or the amazing Sirius you call for" Sirius imitated, she reached her wand out in front of her.
"Revelio" she flicked her wand, and the invisibility cloak flew off them, "oh look! It's the magnificent James, and amazing Sirius!" She mocked them pretending to be shocked by putting her hands on her mouth and gasping.
"You're headed to the Slytherin common room aren't you?" James folded his arms,
"what's it to you?" Clara answered confidently,
"I'm your older brother I'm in charge of you" He smirked.
"I'm the only one who's in charge of myself, thank you!" She smiled and turned around,
"I'll tell mom and dad!" James called after her.
"I'm just going for a minute, please!" She sighed sadly,
"fine, thirty minutes and you better be back in the common room" James explained, "okay?" he reassured.
"Fine" she smiled and continued her way, while James and Sirius put their invisibility cloak back on and headed back to the Gryffindor common room.
"She's good with spells" Sirius laughed from under the invisibility cloak,
"bet I could beat her in a duel!" James retorted confidently,
"name the place, and time!" Sirius agreed excitedly,
"tomorrow, room of requirement, 4 am!" James decided,
"all right I'll tell her then" Sirius ended and they both nodded excitedly making their way back to the common room.
Clara had stopped in front of the wall to the Slytherin common room and whispered, "serpens", a passageway revealed itself leading to the common room, she walked in to blasting music and drinks and tables everywhere.
"Regulus!" she called out looking for him, "Regulus!" she kept calling but she couldn't find him, she saw Narcissa standing by. "Cissy!" she ran over to her, Narcissa turned around to see a frightened girl standing behind her,
"Clara! What's wrong?" She asked sweetly,
"where's Regulus?" she questioned restlessly,
"haven't seen him" Narcissa answered. "Might be in his dorm though" she shrugged, Clara pushed her way through the crowd and ran up to the boys dorm, she knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
She waited several seconds until the door creaked open, "Reggy!" She hugged him mercilessly,
"Clara!" he chuckled, "I was beginning to think you wouldn't show up!" he laughed.
"Well look at me! I did!" She joked, "I was expecting to see you down at the party" she smiled,
"didn't feel like it" he shrugged, she nodded understanding.
"Well I don't have much time" she pouted,
"shall I get us drinks?" he asked,
"I've already drank enough" she waved her hand. "Lets practice dueling!" She suggested, they often practiced dueling together it was one of their many hobbies.
"Alright!" Regulus agreed and started rummaging through his things for his wand,
"stupefy!"
"Protego!"
"Expelliarmus!"
"Flipendo!" Regulus was knocked off his feet and got sent flying into the air, Clara started laughing,
"think that's funny do you?" he said getting up, "alarte ascendare!" he shouted sending Clara flying into the air,
"arresto momentum" Clara stopped herself from hitting the ground,
"oh sorry, didn't mean for you to fly that high" Regulus laughed.
"That's alright!" She grinned, "besides you need to teach me that spell!" Clara folded her arms. "But another time, I've got to go!" She Regulus a quick hug before they both waved goodbye and she left running quickly to the Gryffindor common room.