Better - The Marauders

EIGHTY-ONE

- Chapter Eight-One -
"Are you doing okay, Flick?"

Elladora woke up Monday morning with a smile on her face. A genuine smile, one that rarely appeared in the Slytherin dorm rooms or Common Rooms unless she was with Regulus and they were joking around, but blocked from the other girls by the velvet green curtains surrounding the four-poster bed she lay in, her teeth were on show and her face almost hurt from the way she was smiling. The dark coloured curtains blocked most of the light out so it was incredibly dark cocooned in her bed even with the morning sun shining through the windows and announcing the first day of May, which came with tweeting birds and boiling weather which Elladora practically almost melted in when it came to her long-sleeved outfits.

Still, despite the scorching heat, she had a smile on her face. When sleeping, she didn't have to care about anyone seeing her mark as she always had the curtains pulled around and they were all in Slytherin anyway, they were practically raised to do this so no one in Slytherin is really surprised when they notice another one of their members with the Dark Mark on their arm. So without the worries of getting backlash for the mark of sins she had, she was able to sleep in a t-shirt and shorts over the covers in order for her to not get too hot throughout the night.

It was one of Remus' shirts that she had stolen from him just before Easter that she was wearing and it was quite large on her, covering most of her grey shorts she had bought herself at Christmas with the boy's mothers. The fact that she was in Remus' shirt was enough to make her smile impossibly wider, still in a bliss from Saturday night when she and Remus had kissed at the top of the staircase to the Gryffindor boy's dorm room. A weird place, but a good kiss at least.

She thinks, she doesn't really have a genuine one that she wasn't in shock for to compare it too but all she knew is that she liked it. Especially when they had pulled away after their second kiss and just...hugged. It was euphoric and she wasn't sure she'd had anything like that, she wasn't even sure what was meant to happen next but she tried not to think about that. They had just hugged, smiled and...maybe kissed a bit more before Elladora told him she should go and he had placed another kiss on her forehead, leaving her red-faced as she went back down the stairs to face a swollen lipped Lily Evans who wiggled her eyebrows teasingly at her and had to be told to keep quiet because Elladora still wasn't sure what to do.

The redhead had agreed and they had hugged before Elladora had left and made her way back to the Slytherin Common Room where Regulus had been sat reading a book before he put it to one side and sat up interestedly at the sight of her smile, glowing red cheeks and her slightly puffed lips. She had told him what happened, the only person she could really confide into without it getting out to anyone she didn't want to, and he had laughed about it, poking fun at her all night until she hit with a pillow and went upstairs to bed since it had been late at night.

Then on Sunday, she had been dragged into a day with the group of Death Eaters she was apart of, the seven of them all sat around the Common Room whilst the boys discussed stuff Elladora didn't care about and just replayed the events from the previous night in her head with a smile threatening to break through but she knew she couldn't let it in front of them so she repressed it and just stared at the ceiling with he eyes dancing with light but her face straight. Snyde had been glaring at her and she supposed it was because of her little comment in the microphone but no one had said anything else about it so she was mostly in the clear.