SirensCall

You Make Me Feel

Ricki felt Maureen and Krista loop their arms through hers as they sat at their normal table. Ricki put her head down, and she looked to her phone. She found one message that wasn't at all about the drama. It was from her mother, and she sat there and read the message before she rolled her eyes and began reading the messages. Then she saw the one from David. It was long and she just didn't feel like reading it so she deleted it, and when she got to a slew of messages from the drama club, she couldn't help the laugh.

She hadn't been listening to Maureen and Krista at all, but they looked to her. "Half of the messages are asking me how he was and the other half I've been deleting. Oh my god, the student.population here is fucked up."

"Obviously, but we need.to work on how to, you know, exact our revenge." Krista said, and the next thing that came out of Ricki's mouth Maureen smiled at.

"I'm going to play ball." She said, and Krista looked to her. "I know, but if I try to justify, no one is going to hear it anyway. If anyone actually cares about what really happened, they'll find out one way or another, but for now, I think I kicked tis whole thing up. Everyone knows.now."

"She makes a point, Krista. Everyone knows, she can own it or forever be looked at as a lying bitch." Maureen said. "Plus, it may work out better in the end."

"So, you're using this as a good thing?" Krista asked.

"I'll explain more at home. Besides, the people who are judging me don't know me. Same for Gabe." She said.

Krista sighed. "Well, babe, looks like we're going to have fun with you the next.few days."

Ricki nodded, and soon she saw Heather glaring at her, and Ricki gave a sigh as she handed Maureen some money and she brought Ricki back a salad and food for herself and Krista.

"So, operation vengeance is on hold, but operation babe Ricki is a go?" Krista asked. "Definitely sleepover time, we have to get you ready for tomorrow. Attitude, wardrobe, everything."

Ricki wasn't sure she was going to like this, but she had a.feeling that it would surprise the student population. It was sad that of all the people she talked to, very few knew enough to ask Her what happened. She played with her food and when lunch was over, she checked herself out for the day and went home. She needed to work on some things, and needed time to herself.

--

About 4 that afternoon, Ricki heard the doorbell ring. She wasn't expecting Jared for about another hour, and when she opened the door, she found David there. With Krista and Maureen not coming by until later on, She was alone. And he still looked pissed.

"Really, Ricki? Really? You wouldn't sleep with me and we were together for almost a year, but you'll sleep with Gabe?" He was shouting, but his next statement caused her to pause. "Are you really that horrible of a person?"

Ricki stood, her arms crossed and she looked up to him. "Really? Don't you think you had a part in this? You wanted a break for two weeks while you were in Hawaii so you could bang anything that gave you a passing glance, and don't.pretend that wasn't the reason." She began and he looked at her. "I told you for the beginning I wasn't going to sleep with you until you proves to me you earned.it, and let's count up points, David, since you know, you're into that shit."

David looked at her. "We were together.for almost a year! And just because I ask for a break It didn't mean you could take that opportunity Too."

"Lets see, you got with me because you thought I'd be a quick lay, left me to get laid and came.back to me, and I was stupid.enough to take you back! Fuck, David. I thought you were a good guy, you used to be so nice, and then you changed at the beginning.of the year. Yeah, I fucked Gabe Montgomery fourth of July. I don't regret it. What I do regret is giving you the benefits of the doubt." She said, walking to the door and.opening it.

"Just leave, and I'm going to tell you a little.known fact. I came on to him, he didn't proposition me." She slammed the door.in his face and.once she heard his car leave the driveway, she sat on the couch, taking the Sopranos off pause, and laying back.

She went into the.kitchen and got out the leftover pizza from the night before. She took a cold piece and walked around eating it when the door bell rang. She nearly started screaming, but when she opened the door she saw Jared. She swallowed her bite, hard, and waved him in.

"Come in, Come.in." She said, picking up the TV remote and.turning it off before she sat down. "Sorry, I just um..." she began but stopped herself. "Anyway, I suppose we should just get right down to it."

Not All Is As It Seems

That's fine.doll. =) I'm glad we're finally starting up.

You Make Me Feel

Ricki knew her expression showed so much, she probably looked ill. God knew she felt ill. This drama could turn ugly really quick. Did she regret what she did? Fuck no. She and Gabe had both been pissed at David, and to be honest, at the time, Ricki had a bit of a crush on him. Now though, she was certain it was in the past, but whoever snapped that photo clearly had a problem with both her and Gabe.

At least she knew one thing, it was a female. Very few men were this underhanded. Most felt the need to recognized for their work, but girls... girls were sneaky bitches. Krista nudged her when Dancy ran out of the room, and she looked at her phone. Gabe again. David was fighting Hector South? The kid that did the announcements?

"Oh shit." She said, showing the message to Krista and Maureen.

"He's out for blood, babe." Krista commented, and the knot in her stomach tightened.

"Rick? You feeling okay?" Maureen asked. What a loaded question, but she then looked down to her sketch pad and saw why she asked. Normally, Ricki could just mindlessly doodle, but her page was near blank.

"I feel sick." She admitted. "I May ask Dancy if he'll pull me out of my next two classes to work on the backdrops for the drama club's play."

Krista nodded, but soon screaming came from down the hall adjacent to the art room's hallway and the small class filed out and saw David, though vaguely, punch Hector in the face. Dancy and Sullivan managed to get to the front of the crowd, but the damage was done, and briefly David caught eyes with her before looking away.

Ricki headed back to the class and slumped.in her seat. When Dancy finally returned.she walked.up to his desk and after a few brief words, he allowed her the request of working on the backdrops. She left the classroom and headed just.up the hall into the third art room where.the.other art club members from the class joined her as she pulled.on her painting apron.

--

Lunch could not have come quickly enough, and Ricki had her ear buds in, so she didn't notice when Gabe came in until he set down a tray near her. She jumped and looked to him. "Thanks." She said, placing her brushes in the sink and drawing warm water for them to soak in. She then took off her apron and sat at the empty table with him and soon Krista and Maureen came in.

"I hope this doesn't take long, I have a lunch date with Carl." Maureen teased, but both Ricki and Gabe shot her.looks.

"God, you two look worse than when I caught you in the act." Krista said, and Ricki sighed.

"Well considering we thought this was going to stay in the past, yeah. Not to mention that Gabe has Heather now, and it's all coming out after I dumped David. Someone has beef with both of us." Ricki said, and Gabe nodded.

"Well, Amber, the girl who sent me the message said it had only been sent out to a few people and she was nipping it at the bud after she sent it to me." Krista said.

"Its got to be a girl." Gabe said, and he received multiple looks that were along the lines of no shit, Sherlock. "Sorry, I haven't been in this kind of situation before."

"Well, who would have it out for you?" Maureen asked. "And was around on Fourth of July."

Ricki and Gabe looked at each other and looked away, a little too quickly. "It happened after that too?" Krista asked, and Gabe looked.to Ricki.

"I thought you told them." He said.

"No, not after Krista caught us."

"So, who all was around?" Maureen asked.

Then it clicked. "Erin." Gabe said, and Ricki looked to him.

"Your ex?" She asked.

He nodded, but Krista looked at them. "Guys... it's getting sent out to everyone now. Tyler just told me He got it, and David did too."

Ricki sighed. "I'm leaving the school, like, now."

Gabe shook his head. "No, no, no, Pretty Ricki. I can explain this to anyone who asks, but let's not give Erin the satisfaction." He said, and she gave him a look.

Krista nodded. "You're sliding into the.skid?"

Ricki shook her head. "Gabe, that's not a good idea." She said. "David is pissed as it is, and you can't get suspended for fighting. Its hockey season."

"I won't fight back." He said, But his face said he was just as mortified as she was.

Maureen pulled Ricki up. "We've got your back, babe. We'll get them back."

Gabe threw his arm over Ricki who pulled out her phone that was non stop blowing up. She looked up to Gabe. "We made.or bed, now we have to lie in it."

"Bad pun," she grumbled, and once they got to the lunch room, Ricki went to turn and.leave, but.Maureen and Krista pushed her back.

Let it begin.

You Make Me Feel

Oh, fights. This stuff will be so much fun! I've been leafing through MacBeth, so I keep getting half distracted. And watching YouTube....

You Make Me Feel

Ricki nodded to his advices and smiled. "Best. Research. Ever." She said, and her eyes brightened slightly. "Sopranos and YouTube. What more could a girl ask for?" She said, and when the bell rang it took every fiber of her being to not look back to Gabe. "Yeah. I'll be there, so if I don't answer the door, just walk on in. The house is big, and if I'm not in the main room I won't hear it."

Ricki slipped out of class and messaged Gabe again. The art room was.in a relatively quiet part of the school, so she assumed it would be the best place to meet.

Gabe found her with Relative ease, and he saw the look on her face. "What's up, Rick?" He didn't even attempt to be funny, and when Ricki showed him the picture.on her phone, he took it and his jaw dropped. "But... how?"

"I don't know. I guess someone was watching us. Krista and Maureen are doing as much as they can right now, but I have to know who you told." She said, and he sighed.

"I mean I told Aaron but dude transferred out, and Lacey is my sister, she wouldn't do me like this." He said. "I'll do what I can, but, how did.it come out?"

"I have no clue, but between David already pissed and Heather and I don't really talk much because I dumped ol' meat head." She said, "so I don't know she'd react to the idea of us hooking up."

He shook his head. "We'll talk more at lunch, I'm running late. Meet me, well, here."

"I've got a safer place. Art room 3." She said, "and I'll try to get Krista and Maureen too."

He nodded, and when the bell rang, she opened the art door. "Sorry about this." She said, entering the class and sitting with Krista and Maureen. "Lunch sound good?"

"The usual place?" Maureen asked and Ricki nodded as the.lesson began. They were working on landscape sketching, and soon her phone vibrated again. She didn't look, frankly being too scared to, so she decided.to ignore it until later.

You Make Me Feel

Ricki Sat there taking down a few notes from the rubric, so she didn't need.to read through the whole grading outline every time she double checked, and when he brought up Romeo and Juliet in Jersey accents, she laughed. "Good in English and funny. My, My, Landry, I didn't think you would joke about spontaneous combustion." She kidded as she took down a few more notes before she looked back to him.

MacBeth? Mob style? Her pen came to the corner of her mouth, and she bit her lip. Jared Landry had to be the best partner she had ever had for English. Ever. Before she could comment, her eyes looked upward before they closed and she nodded. Finally she snapped herself back to reality. "That is paint worthy there."

A girl behind them spoke. "Paint worthy?"

"Oh shit, sorry, I didn't realize I said that aloud." She said, a furious shade of red coming over her face. "Its my way of saying it's a good idea."

The girl nodded and Ricki looked down, flipping her book to MacBeth before anything else could be said about it. Not many people got to see that part of her, they always saw her with a camera, and assumed that she only painted for assignments. She painted in her free time, her.room lined with her work, as well as the room next door thay her parents allowed as her studio. The only two rooms that were.off limits.

Sure, Krista and Maureen knew, but virtually no one else.

When he told her.times that were good for him, She nodded. "Works for me. I tutor on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Wednesdays I have art club, and I'm sure you could guess the rest." She Said, and her phone vibrated again, but she left it alone.

However, the door opened and the principal was standing there. "Ms. Andrews, do you have a.minute?"

The teacher.nodded. "I'll be just a minute, class."

Ricki couldn't take it and she opened her.messages.

babe, tots horrible secret about you is out. Text you dets as I get them.

She didn't scroll down, she just cursed under her breath, and finally she scrolled down and her phone dropped. She picked.it up, and she looked.to Jared. "Um, I'll be right back to discuss more on this, I just... I need.a.minute." she said, and when she poked out of the room, she looked to Andrews. "Can I go to the washroom?"

She nodded, and when she got to the bathroom, Ricki found Krista already there. "How did that get out? We all swore silence." Ricki said, and Krista sighed. "And it's not cheating if we were.on a break while he was in Hawaii because he didn't think that the two weeks should be affected.with relationship drama."

"I don't know, but if it gets to David, major shit is going to hit the fan." Krista said. "Maureen and I are on damage control, you have to talk to him."

"First period English gets more fun by the day." She said, and Krista gave her a look. "I told you, it was the class I was most worried about."

"Alright, um, I can get Maureen on pulling you out. You need to talk to Gabe though. Between David, and Heather, it will just cause a ton of drama." Krista said. "I have already started stirring a bigger pot. Get back to class, I'll see if I can recruit a couple others."

"Thanks Bae..." Ricki said. Ricki got out her phone and opened a text to Gabe.

we need to talk. She sent and when she got back into the classroom, she didn't bother to look his way, even as her phone.vibrated again.

"Anyway, sorry about that. So, how does one successfully pull off a Jersey accent?" She asked.

Not All Is As It Seems

Post is finished.

Not All Is As It Seems

The Last few days had gone by in a haze, at least that was what Bill Weasley thought. Since the battle on the Astronomy tower, Bill had been in and out of consciousness, he could vaguely recall the news that Dumbledore had died, been murdered really, but the reality of that was setting in all too quickly as he, supported by his brother Charlie, got to the seats for the funeral. His face was still in pain, and he was feeling quite weak... but that just reminded him he was, in fact, alive.

His other brief memories were coming in. His parents. His siblings. The other Order members... and two blonde witches that he wasn't sure who they were. They had arrived within the last few days, and when he asked McGonnagell about them, She simply answered that they were students of Dumbledore's. But he was certain he'd never seen either within Hogwarts before then, but pushing for more seemed rude.

Especially considering he had been informed that the two of them, upon arrival, had been helping Madam Pomfrey. In fact, the healer he knew from his time at Hogwarts had explicitly said that without their help, He might not have looked as good as he did now. He'd have scars, but werewolf bites were cursed, and he felt awful at the moment. His face was throbbing, his head pounding, but he needed to pay his respects.

He looked to Charlie. "Thanks," he grumbled, clearing his throat like he hadn't spoke in ages. "Again." He finished after a moment. Their parents were in front of them, and towards the front he noted the two blondes that he wasn't quite sure how they fit in. He did recall a conversation between Remus and McGonnagell though.

"I've never seen these girls before, or heard of them even." Remus began, his voice.low, and Bill could hear McGonnagell sigh.

"It was in his final wishes, Remus. These women, they are under the care of the Order now. I have no idea who they are to Albus exactly, but they are important to him. Extremely so." McGonnagell said.

"Had you heard of them?" He asked.

"Briefly. Albus was a very private man. He only ever mentioned two girls that he loved teaching." She answered.

His mind gauged back and he brought his hand to his head. This was all too much. Too much indeed.

--

Katherine hadn't felt this way in years. Lost. Scared. Depressed. This time, however, she had some control, and a friend who understood what she was going through. She had Addie, but the two really hadn't had time to slow down since their arrival. They were holed up in Hogsmeade for the moment, and Kat had just slipped into her black dress and heels, her eyes damp.

They were helping out in the school, and she hadn't even had time to relish in the fact she had finally gotten to see Hogwarts... but the circumstances hung too heavily over her. Her mentor... the only father figure she had ever known was gone. Just gone.

Her mind was heavy and she brought her hair up into a neat, braided bun, and placed her.cap with a short black veil over her face on. She used her handkerchief and dabbled the running mascara from her face. Her wand was in a garter secured beneath her dress, as her wand never left her side. She felt incomplete without it anymore, but with Addie around she didn't have to face it all alone.

She looked.over to Addie, trying her best to swallow tears. "Addie? What happens now? With the Order?"

She was worried. She was anti social to say the very least, but with Dumbledore around she felt safe. If word got out about them ,then every dark witch and wizard would be hunting them. And She wasn't handling the loss well on top of everything else. It was just hard.

And once they were before the tomb it took all of her Might to swallow down her depression. She took her seat, and hung her head low, wiping her tears still.

The.message came to her.too late, and she would.never stop blaming herself for not helping enough.

Not All Is As It Seems

I will definitely have it up tomorrow. I got called into work early. And I am going to leave the Fleur stuff unaddressed for the moment though.

Not All Is As It Seems

I almost have our opener finished up, just got to finish up Katherine and I should be good.