The House of Hawke has been called the traitorous, filthy and scum house the entire time that name was known to the living.
Past or future, one would accompany it with the adjective "Horrifying".
It was a matter of grief for the youngest daughter...
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My throat was dry after screaming for what felt like forever.
After falling for at least a minute, I realised that Sirius had sponged the walls of the cave. So, every time I'd bang into them, it'd be fluffy as a cloud.
That did not make it better.
While Sirius was hooting and laughing as he fell, I was scared for my goddamn remaining life.
The mermaid fountain in Hogsmeade opened, dividing into two sides as it spat us out on the white ground.
Sirius was still laughing as he looked at me sideways, his hair messy like James' and resting on a blanket of snow.
My eyes were wide and frantic as I tried to control my laboured breathing. Sitting upright, I fisted a ball of snow and threw it at his grinning face.
"YOU COCKSUCKER!"
The students and adults going around either snorted or glared as they passed. I flushed.
Sirius sat up, raking a hand in his hair and they were just as neat as before. Flashing a smirk, he threw a ball at me so lightning fast, it was impossible to move away on time.
"Sirius Orion Black, you are so dead!" I declared, getting up on my wavering feet and glowering.
He was still grinning when he followed suit, hands positioned in fists in front of him as if ready for a punching match.
At the same moment, both of us bent down to gather snow in our hands, not wasting a single moment attacking one another.
My fingers numbed as I gathered the fluffy white snow without protected hands and my boots sunk into the ground. I was pretty sure my nose was red as Rudolph's.
Sirius' entire face was lit up, his rose as red as mine, cheeks and ears, too. He sent a precise snowball at me, smacking me right on the forehead. I gasped at the cold impact, sending one right back.
It hit him on the chest, bursting open and showering glinting crystals at both of us. We were both lousy shots, missing half the time but it'd make us both laugh.
There's a silly grin plastered on my face as I take a step to bend my arm right at the point where it'd hit Sirius on the face but my foot slips and soon I'm running at the same place on the ground in an attempt to not fall.
Sirius is guffawing so hard that there are tears in his eyes and flakes of snow on his lashes. His laughs end up as white puffs of snow in the wintry illumination, his hands still throwing the perfectly circular balls at me, the air thick and heavy with our mirth and compressed snow.
The second the last snowball hits me in the face, I fall backwards, running on the slippery ground long forgotten. I groan at the impact but there is a wide smile on my face, despite the bruised face, numb hands and red ears.
Sirius breathes hard, falling next to me, his face inches beside my own. "Merlin, that sucked."
"I'm so cold," I say, laughing when my teeth start chattering.
"Me too." He says, turning his head towards me the same moment I turn mine at him.
Big mistake, Elena, I say to myself the moment our foreheads press together, noses touching and lips a breath away.
My eyes lock onto his and my smile falls away. We're unaware of what to do for a long moment, but then I pull away and Sirius stays there for a moment too long before getting up, too.
"I forgot my purse," I tell him. "I think it fell down beside the west well."
He smiles, "You've got me, why do you need a purse?"
I snort because the joke I want to make isn't the appropriate one after what just nearly happened.
We start to walk towards Honeydukes when Sirius takes my hand in his. His gloves are magically warm and I sigh when they touch my bare and red hands.
"I just hope I don't get chilblains after this."
"You left your gloves, too?" He snorts.
"No, I never wore them." I smile sheepishly. "I didn't think I'd be going out today."
"Why not?" Sirius looked back at me when we entered Honeydukes.
"I didn't have a date?" I glanced around, stepping forward to review the latest collection of Fudge flies.
"You're kidding me?" Sirius asks, standing behind me as he leant against the wall, crossing a leg over the other. "You could've gotten anyone to be your date at the shortest notice if you wanted, Hawke."
I didn't look back for I didn't need Sirius tormenting me about the blush on my cheeks right now. "Get me the chocolate fudge and acid pops?"
He nods, "Anything else?"
"Yeah," I say, looking around. "Apple Rings, Assorted Fruit Balls, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Blood Pop, Candy Floss, Caramel Cobwebs, Chocoballs, Chocolate Cauldron, Chocolate Frog, Chocolate Wand, Cinnamon Balls, Clippy's Clip Joint Clippings, Edible Dark Mark Lollipop, Exploding Bon Bons, Eyeball Bonanza, Fizzing Whizbees, Fruit and Spice Bows, Fudge Flies, Glacial Snowflakes, Gummy Worms, A Chocolate Bar, Rainbow Lollipop, Jelly Slugs, Jumping Snakes, Orange Slices, Peach Rings, Pepper Imps, Peppermint Straws, Peppermint Toads, Pink Coconut Ice, Red Licorice Laces, Salt Water Taffy, Sherbet Lemons, Shock-O-Choc, Sugar Quill Lollipop, Sugar Straws, Sweet Crystals, Ton Tongue Toffee, White Chocolate Skull, Wine Gums, Pretzel Wand, Pumpkin Pasty, Pumpkin Cake, Cauldron Cake, Chocolate Skeletons, Caramel Apple, Caramel Apple With Nuts, Caramel and Milk Chocolate Apple, Crisped Rice Treat, Dipped Crisped Rice Treat, No Melt Ice Cream, Butterbeer Fudge, Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Fudge With Nuts and Marshmallows, Chocolate Cheesecake Fudge, Chocolate Pecan Fudge, Maple Pecan Fudge, Chocolate Mint Swirl Fudge, Chocolate Caramel Swirl Fudge, Vanilla Caramel Fudge, Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Fudge, Peanut Butter Fudge, Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge, Cookie Dough Fudge, Cookies and Cream Fudge . . ." I inhale sharply, at a loss of breath. "Yeah, I think that's all."
Sirius gives me a funny look, "How many years' worth are you buying?" When I glower, he raises his hands in mock surrender. "Alright, woman. Put all that in a trolley and I'll get it billed."
I laugh, "I was just kidding, Sirius . . . but good to know you'd buy all that for me. Just get me Bertie Bott's beans, Fizzing Whizbees, Cauldron cake and Pretzel wand."
Sirius smiles, shaking his head as he goes to the counter with both of our stuff.
"Sugar daddy," I mutter under my breath.
"I heard that."
I facepalm when he smirks, standing right behind me with a bag of sweets. "Let's go get butterbeer!" I announce.
