Among the Stars

    When December rolls around Wisteria gets invited to a birthday party in the Room of Requirements for the Prewett Twins. The party took place nearly a week after their birthday since they were called away from school for a while to be with their sister and her new born.

    “Look at our new nephew!” Gideon was gushing to everyone who walked into the room. “His name is Charlie! Look at how handsome he is! He’s gonna look just like me!”

    “No way Gid! He’s gonna look more like me. I’m the handsome one after all.” Fabian says, sending a wink in Wisteria’s direction after noticing her looking at him. She blushes and turns back to her conversation with Remus.

    Remus smiles at her. “You seem a little distracted. Is everything okay?”

    “Yeah, I’m fine. Just a little tired.” Her hand automatically moves to the new scar on her arm. The wound healed, but Madame Pomfrey said the scar would most likely remain, not that Wisteria minded; it wasn’t her first scar after all.

    “How’s your arm doing?” He asks.

    “Oh.” She drops her hand. “It’s all healed up now. Where are the rest of you?”

    “What do you mean?”

    “You know, your usual group. James, Peter, and Sirius.”

    “Oh, they’re just running a little late. I told them they couldn’t come unless they finished their homework.”

    “And they listened?”

    Remus laughs. “Probably not. If I know them they’re just hanging back for a while to make it look like they did as told.”

    Wisteria laughs with him as the Prewett twins come to stand next to them. “Hello Evans.” Gideon says as he rests his arm on her shoulder.

    “Wisteria.” She says. “I’m Wisteria.”

    “I know that.” Gideon tells her.

    “Yeah right. Lily and I both know you call us ‘Evans’ until you figure out which one of us it is. We’re not idiots you know.”

    “Well obviously you’re not an idiot. You’re in Ravenclaw after all.” Fabian tells her.

    “Lily is smarter than me in most subjects actually. Like transfigurations and charms for instance.”

    “I thought you were doing pretty good in those classes.” Gideon states.

    “I’m great at understanding how to do everything, but actually carrying out the spells is a lot harder for me, so my homework looks great, but in class I look completely incompetent.”

    “You don’t look that bad to me in class.” Fabian says.

    “That’s because you’re too busy looking at her pretty face to notice that she can’t even disarm someone properly yet.” Gideon comments, laughing, as his twins face burns red.

    Wisteria laughs, but also blushes. “It’s true, I can’t properly disarm someone.”

    “You know you can always come to us for help.” Fabian says as the color starts to recede from his face. “Despite our goofy personalities, we’re actually pretty good at performing magic.”

    “Oh please. Since when do you boys pay attention in class long enough to even know what spells we’re working on?” Lily asks as she approaches. “Hey Wisty, it’s been a while. Severus misses you, you really should talk to him more you know.”

    “I know, I just… I don’t like the people he hangs around.”

    “What do you mean?” Lily asks. “The Slytherins? You know, not all of them are bad.”

    “Of course I know that, but every time I see him I feel like he’s near Regulus.”

    “What’s wrong with Regulus?”

    “Nothing, it’s his brother that I’m afraid of. You know what Mercury did the last time he found out I talked to Sirius…” Wisteria falls silent as she touches the scar on her arm again.

    “What did my brother do?” Sirius asks as he walks into the room with James and Peter.

    Wisteria is saved from having to answer by Fabian and Gideon running over to the newcomers. “Finally! What took you blokes so long to get here?”

    “We had to wait for Sirius here to finish snogging his new girlfriend.” Peter says.

    “Hey, she isn’t my girlfriend yet.” Sirius says.

    Wisteria sighs and looks away only to find her eyes meeting Remus’. He smiles at her and she looks away, blushing slightly.

    “Honestly Sirius!” Lily says disapprovingly. “You’re only what, twelve?”

    “Thirteen.” He corrects.

“Still! You can’t just go around dating and kissing whoever you want.”

    “Actually I’m pretty sure I can as long as it’s consensual.”

    “And what happens when you actually fall for someone, but they don’t want to date you because they’re afraid you wont stay loyal?”

    Sirius laughs. “You worry too much about the future Lily. I prefer to live in the now and think about the consequences later.”

    “That’ll get you in trouble one day.”

    “Oh believe me my Lily-Pad, it already has. That’s why he keeps getting so many detentions.”

    “Don’t pretend you don’t get them too James.”

    “I never said anything about my bad decisions, I was talking about yours.”

    “Speaking of my bad decisions, I do believe that one of them is about to come to life.”

    “Which one?” The Prewetts ask in unison.

    “This one.” Sirius says right as a loud bang goes off and without any warning at all, everyone in the room is stuck under the dancing-feet spell. They all dance wildly around the room and many people are roaring with laughter, including the Prewett twins. Fabian dances his way closer to Wisteria who laughs at how ridiculous he looks.

    “Care to dance?” He asks.

    “We’re already dancing.” She points out.

    “Care to dance with me?”

    “I suppose.”

    Fabian grabs her hand and the two continue dancing together until about five minutes later when the spell wears off. The Prewett twins continue their contagious laughter as they high five Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus and promise to get them back sometime soon.

    The day for their revenge came on the day everyone was leaving to go home for the winter holiday. That morning the Prewett twins managed to sneak a hair-raising potion in each of the four boys drinks, meaning that everywhere they went the four were stared at four their crazy hair. Though James and Sirius pretended to be traumatized for it, everyone, even the boys, enjoyed the prank.