Astray

Chapter 11

"Good evening Coralie," Albus had called her to his office after dinner.

"You too sir, but why did you call me to your office?" she had been confused when he asked her to come to his office, but she didn't mind, seeing as she had not spoken to him since they had parted in the Leaky Cauldron a few months ago.

"I just wanted to see how you were settling in... and I have also been informed about the problem with you and Miss Evans for the past month," he watched as a guilty look crossed the girl's features.

"If she wasn't too busy drowning in her ego she might have seen it coming," she muttered.

"Coralie if we are going to have a problem then I can change your dorm," he would normally just tell any other student to deal with it, but he had grown a soft spot for the girl he had raised for the past 7 years.

"Really? That'd be great!" he watched as her eyes lit up.

"Do you have any friends you would like to stay with," he already had an idea of who she would say and had already added another bed to their room.

"James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter would be nice," she had grown exceptionally close with the four boys in the past month. She was still closer to James than anyone else, but that was only because she had known him longer.

"Alright I'll have your things brought over to your new room," he waved his wand. He would also never let a girl stay in a dorm with four boys, but he trusted her and he thought that from what he had seen the boys seemed trustworthy as well, especially James and Remus since he had met their parents and they had assured him that they were good boys.

"Thanks, Albus! I care for you deeply!"

"I care for you as well," it was their way of saying I love you. She had come up with it when she thought it sounded weird for him to tell her that he loved her.

She ran out of his office and down the hall to the Gryffindor common room. She yelled the password "Gillyweed!" Before bursting into the room and sprinting up the boys' stairs. She slowed to a brisk walk as she looked at the names carved into the many doors down the hallway.

She came to a halt at a door that was just about done carving her name into it. She opened the door and stepped into the room. The first thing she noticed about it was the piled of clothes on the floor and the messy sheets on the bed. The only one that wasn't as messy as the others were, was the bed at the end of the room that looked untouched. She guessed this one was her's.

None of her things had arrived at her new room yet so while she waited she decided to clean the room up a little. She started on the bed to the left of the door. This one, she had guessed, was Peter's because it had a picture of what looked to be the woman she had seen him with at the train station on his nightstand.

She folded all of the clothes that were on top of the bed and sat them inside the open wardrobe before pulling up the satin red blanket up to the top of the bed before tucking it in the sides.

When she was done with that one she moved on to the one to the right of it. This one had a picture on the nightstand of all of them laughing when Peter's hair was singed while they were playing exploding snap on the Hogwarts Express.

- Flashback-
"Who wants to play some exploding snap!" Sirius pulled some cards out of his pocket and slammed them on his trunk that he had pulled down earlier to act as a table.

"I'm down for a game," James sat on the floor at one end of the trunk.

"I guess I'll play," Remus got on the other end of the trunk.

"Count me in," Coralie sat beside Remus.

"Um, I-I don't think I-I'll play this round," Peter moved in any way to watch the exciting game.

They had a very amusing game going already with James's robes almost catching on fire and Coralie's hair frizzing up, but when Sirius tapped the matching cards a little too enthusiastically and they went flying above Peter's head and exploding. The others sat and laughed as he jumped from his seat and started repeatedly patting his head.

- End Flashback-

She laughed at the memory but moved on to continue straightening up the bed.

She finished and moved on to the one across from that one. She knew for sure this one was James' as it had a picture of her giggling as he gave her a piggyback ride.

- Flashback-
Coralie and James were playing hide and seek while Fleamont was outside grilling for a party they were having that night.

"Jamesy! Where are you?" She smirked when she caught a glimpse of his redshirt out from behind a tree on the edge of the forest that bordered their yard. She very quickly and quietly snuck up behind him and screamed as she pounced on his back. He, in turn, screamed as well and ran around the yard before realizing that it was just her and turning as red his shirt.

"Haha! Got you!" She laughed and wrapped her arms tighter around his neck.

"Hold on any tighter and you'll choke me," He grabbed her arms and loosened them from around his neck.

"Smile!" Euphemia came in front of them with her camera and took a picture of them.

- End Flashback-

She moved on to the next bed. This one had a lunar calendar on the wall to the right of the bed. As she finished up on the last bed there was a scratching sound on the door. She opened the door to see Apollo, with her trunk on his back, carrying Aslan in his mouth.
She let them in and he walked over to her bed and sat Aslan down on the fluffy blanket.

"Thanks, Apollo," she pulled her trunk off of him and opened it to fish out a dog treat. Even though he was a wolf he still enjoyed the dog treats she bought for him. She gave one to him and started organizing her new wardrobe.

She hung up the last sweater in the wardrobe just as the door opened and she was greeted by loud talking and laughing.

"Why are you here?" All of the boys had stopped in the door frame when they had noticed that she was there.

"Hello to you too, but anyways I'm your new roommate," she ran her hand through her hair and sighed as she flattened out the nonexistent wrinkles in her black denim skirt.

There was a chorus of "Awesome!" and "Sweet!" from the boys before they threw their bags down on their respective beds.

After a few hours of talking they all decided to call it a night and go to bed. Coralie laid on her bed and smiled to herself as she thought of the group and how much trouble they could get into in the next seven years they had together.