Ok, I'm...
FINALLY DONE CHAPTER 14!
It's short (in my opinion), but what does it matter?
IT'S DONE AND I CAN POST!
Here it is
Enjoy!
Sarah

Chapter 14
Hogsmeade with Sirius

January rolled into February, and over the next few days, Dezi and Sirius became much closer. People first thought ‘Shane’ was crazy, but to Dezi’s surprise (mostly), their peers began to accept it after about a week. She even began making friends; when she wasn’t with Sirius she was with her two new closest (Gryffindor) friends, Cailyn and Kasey. She was finally beginning to enjoy life, her anger for her parents washed away quickly enough.
Coming from Astronomy class, last class of the week, Dezi met up with Cailyn in the common room. Not even a moment later, Kasey passed through the portrait hole.
“You’re... how fast...” Kasey panted.
“Do I walk?” Dezi finished, chuckling. “That’s usually my to-the-common-room walking speed.”
“Oh, Lord... how that’s... physically possible... is... is...”
Cailyn and Dezi laughed. Kasey noticed something in Cailyn’s hand; a parchment.
“What... what’s that?” she asked, finally able to catch her breath.
“This?” Cailyn asked, holding up the parchment. “I pulled it off the bulletin to read it. There’s a Hogsmeade trip tomorrow.”
“And you took it off to read it while it was up on the bulletin giving news...” Kasey pointed out slowly.
“I need reading glasses or something... and I know it.”
“So that’s why when you’re doing work your face is barely a centimeter away from the parchment?” Dezi asked with a smirk. “You’d think you know what you’re writing...”
Kasey giggled and Cailyn huffed. She couldn’t think of a response, so Dezi just grinned triumphantly. Cailyn pinned the parchment back on the bulletin board.
“So... are you going with anyone in specific?” Cailyn asked Dezi with a mischievous smile.
“Well that just got pinned up, so how should I know if I just found out?” Dezi pointed out with a smirk.
The door swung open and what seemed to be half of Gryffindor flowed into the common room. Simultaneously, the students stopped in front of the bulletin and chattered as they read the news about Hogsmeade. Dezi attempted to push her way out of the group; someone helped pull her out. When she got out, she saw Sirius.
“So what’s the group all about?” he asked.
“Hogsmeade trip tomorrow. Are you going or did you get in trouble... again?” Dezi responded, punching the word ‘again’ with a flat tone.
“I’m insulted you’d think such a thing!” Sirius said in a mock-offended way. “Here’s me about to ask if you wanted to go to Hogsmeade with me, but since I’m ‘in trouble’...”
Dezi laughed. “I would’ve said yes, but since you don’t want to ask there’s technically nothing to answer so...”
“Would you like to go to Hogsmeade with me?” Sirius cut her off with an arrogant smirk. She mirrored the smirk and responded, “Yeah.”

“Hey guys, guess what day it is!” Kasey exclaimed excitedly behind Dezi and Sirius as they left Honeydukes. She was surprised she could tail them for so long without being noticed.
Dezi practically jumped 10 feet in the air and screamed. Sirius’s flinch of surprise turned to a jump off to the side (narrowly missing the tall, fluffy snow bank next to the path) from Dezi’s scream. Kasey and Cailyn (who was with Kasey at the same time) burst out laughing.
“That would’ve been a perfect time to try out your camera, Cay!” Kasey said with a smug expression as they started walking with their other friend.
“New camera?” Dezi asked curiously.
“Ya, mum sent me a camera for some reason... but I haven’t had time to try it out yet,” Cailyn responded, shrugging.
“So you just got a parcel with a camera and no explanation?” Sirius asked.
“Pretty much,” Cailyn responded, shrugging once more.
“So if you didn’t get an explanation how d’ya know it’s from your mom?” he pointed out.
“Ok, Mr. Contrary, I got a note saying it was ‘to yadayada love mom’ type of thing, that’s it,” Cailyn huffed.
“You’re name isn’t ‘yadayada’,” Dezi pointed out with a smirk. She dropped the smirk after a moment and her expression changed to (realistic) dramatic realization. “Or is it...?”
“See, I’m not that 'contrary',” Sirius drawled with a sarcastic tone and a cheeky grin. Dezi gaped and stopped (causing the other three to stop automatically as well), mock insulted.
“Me?” she gasped dramatically.
“Ya, you,” he responded with the same cheeky tone. She pushed him towards the snow bank next to the path, and sure enough he fell. On the way down, he grabbed the sleeve of her coat, laughing. She screamed and came down with him.
“Cailyn, camera test time!” Kasey whispered.
Dezi couldn’t push herself up and out of the snow; it was too deep. Squealing at the cold hitting her face as she rolled over, she managed to get up. Seeing Sirius dust the snow off his coat, she jumped on him to tackle him to the ground for payback. She heard the faint click of Cailyn’s camera as Sirius tried to get her off in a fairly sad attempt; spinning. She started laughing; Dezi was oblivious to the reasoning of why she actually was in a piggy-back position on Sirius as he spun in circles, joining in on her laughter.
After a short while, Dezi tried jumping off (despite the dizziness that throbbed in her head), but managed to slide down Sirius’s back and onto the hard packed snow, managing to get the wind knocked out of her. Cailyn and Kasey (beating Sirius to the job) pulled her up and they continued on as if nothing had happened.