|candy galore| {james}

[Arturo Leonard]

G L A M O R O U S candy littered the walls and the fit girl eyed them excitedly. A sugar rush would do her soul good; so much to choose from she almost couldn't decide. This place was like candy royalty, except instead of caviar it was sugared ice cubes for heaven's sake. She was in her own heaven, if only she was in the Gryffindor house, then it would be complete. She smiled to herself and looked at the shelves infront of her...Over and over again, what to get, swam in her mind. She would buy the shop out of stock if she had the money but one must budget until the parents sent more, they always did. Arturo was glad her family was somewhat wealthy. Once her grandfather passed on, more money would rake in. It was about money to Arturo, though. She cared not and budgeted anyway.

She had hoped to meet James here but with the assurance her suspicions were correct she knew he would be wrapped up in secretly making out with Andi. The Slytherin girl was mad that her friend hadn't bothered to trust her but she let it go with her eye on some rock candy. The little sugary crystals gleamed in the light as she picked them up and moved for the line to pay. Looking outside she noticed it was sunny but slightly chilly.

[James Potter]

The sun beat down on the Gryffindor's head, heating every thread of his black, unruly hair, although his body still remained slightly shilled. Not that it bothered him. James was dressed in loose, torn blue jeans and a loose fitting scarlet tee shirt with the words Gryffindor Seeker encircling a golden snitch and JAMES POTTER in big bold and gold letters on the back. The fith year halted for a second before entering Honeydukes where he was to meat Arturo Leonard, distantly related to him by marriage. But there was more to that to there odd and unblanced relationship. They would always be the best of friends, but there were odd flirtatious smiles and comments that slid between as smooth as oil on a baking pan. But James wasn't single anymore, oh no. He was held tight in the grasp of Andromeda Malfoy, a shameful secret he hid with pride in his lion's heart. James peered at himself in the mirror, carefully readgusting his hair so it looked just a little bit more wind-rumpled before pushing open the glass door and sending off a chime.

The inside of the shop was filled with Hogwarts students all in casual jeans, or mostly anyway. A few glanced up lazily before turning back to the shelves of enchanting candies. The boy rubbed his hands together and grinned. His jean pockets jingled with knuts and cresents, the entirety of his allowance. Not all of it would be spent here, of course, some of it was for Zonko's just around the corner. Quickly James began to fill up his arms, looking around for the blonde hair of Arty. Hm.. What to buy? A list began to form in his midn even as he picked them up off the shelf. Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans, Chocolate Frogs, and Licorice Wands. Last, but certainly not least, was a very special selection just for Frae Vinxon, the evil hag of Slytherin. With a rather evil grin James picked up a few Blood Sucker: For Vampires, refering to Vinxon's legendary vampire heritage. Finally he turned toward the counter and saw Arty just placing her selection on the counter, a single peice of rock candy. james quickly shouldered through the crowd, ignoring the angry exclamations that followed him. Coming up behind her James dumped all of his purchases on the counter and turned to teh clerk. "Ring these up, will you?" Turning back to his childhood friend the Seeker spoke in a clear voice as he leaned against teh counter, hand in pockets and hiar falling roguishly into his hazel eyes. "Hey Arty! Where's your slavering posse of lustful Slytherins?" It was a long standing joke between the two that would probably never actually become true, though not because of any fault of Arty's.

[Arturo Leonard]

She would have gotten more but she simply didn't seem to have an appetite after realizing her lonely days in her house. She gave a soft smile at the thought of James; there was marriage connecting them but she felt like he was a brother, even without blood. His looks made him really attractive, she could see why Andi Malfoy had started to date him. Arturo blushed at her thought of James being attractive, it was wrong to think that, they weren't really family but still, she knew he just thought of her as a friend. Longing only made it hurt. She waited while the owner took their time doing other things.

Just as he slid out of her mind he slid into her vision. The hidden flirtacious smile here and there always came with him and she only had to wait for the words to come at the right time. Posse? She gave James a scrutinizing look; was he okay, literally? "Posse, hell no. Slytherin is not my home, you know Gryffindor is where I belong but that damn hat has lost its magic touch." She smiled at him with a friendly feeling, it was rather fond really. She watched him dump his stuff on the counter, right as she had bought hers. "Your such a pig!" She grinned and gave him a light shove of love. She spotted the blood suckers...Her laugh doubled and made her almost cry, she about buckled to the floor. "For a certain friend of ours?" She smiled and pointed to the candy. She always knew James was a pranker, joker, down right naughty boy, but this was gold. He was a genius and Arty envied him.

[James Potter]

James flashed a grin back at her, revealing perfectly white teeth, despite all the candy he had grabbed. "Don't you think I know that Arty? Anyway, it shouldn't matter, who could resist you, beautiful?" James, James, James, if you knew the pain you were causing your friend you would never say such a thing. But alas! Your mouth opens and honey pours out, it's hard to control but you really should at least make an atempt. In all fairness, James really thought it was just play with Arturo. After all, tehy had been friends long before he had even realized girls existed. Well, he had known they were girls, but they weren't really different, they just had longer hair. And they got to wear skirts. Mind you, that was in the mind of a five year old, not a fivteen year old. Repeat that elsewhere and die. The Seeker grinned at her an pushed black his night black hair, revealing brown eyes heavily speckled with green. "Hey now, this isn't all for me. Actually.. it kinda is." The Gryffindor made snorting noises that sounded eerily like a pig and draped himself over his friend as she started laughing uncontrollably.

His arm crooked over her neck, his own abdominal muscles aching as he laughed along with her. "Actually, I was hoping you might help me with that." As it was Arty was the only member of teh clan with access to teh Slytherins, besides Andi of course, and he couldn't let her knew, she and Frae were as close of friends as Slytherins can be. Suddenly he straightened and disentangled himself, his face changing from laughing and alive to serious and unmoving. Adam. It should be him he was laughing with, but his elder cousin still wouldn't talk to him. They were closer then brothers. The pair had learned to fly together, gotten drunk together, jumped on the giant squid, and joked about Mada. And they weren't talking. It jsut wasn't fair. "Maybe if I do it right Adam will talk to me again." James's voice was quiet, his eyes flicking to Arty's face, waiting for her reaction.

[Arturo Leonard]

Arturo listened and smiled at her best friend, the one she'd rather be with everyday than Andi Malfoy. She was focred into that girls' classes adn they were a year apart! She giggled like a five year old at his jokes, yet that one comment had to slip. She knew that her and Andi had the same features, except Arty was more figured and matured in her own. She blushed slightly but shook her head. "Please, you try to be so sweet when you know all it does is make me feel ugly because the girls actually follow you around...Boys just stare at me in class or in the hallways!" Arturo grabbed a couple of packaged peppermints and threw them at JAmes, in the short space between, they just barely touched him and dropped. She looked into his lovely mocha, yet speckled with emrald, optics. She licked her lips anmd grinned with a short laugh. "Well, you can just share with me." She said this with a grin and grabbed a licorice wand, she place it between her lips and raised her brows daringly. If he threw am fit like a five year old she would just buy him another. She loved teasing James, but to others it must have looked more like flirting because a few Slytherins widened their eyes. She rolled hers and looked to James.

"I'd be honored to be a part of the scheme like old times, damn the days when school seperated us!" She laughed and knew her resentment for the school was always melted by James's presence. "Shall I slip it into her bed?" Arturo only wished the simple candy could be an animal Frae was afraid of. Arturo's ideas were nothing compared to James so she didn't try too hard, knowing he had the answer. At his whisper of Adam, Arturo became sympathetic. She had learned the secret, again no thanks to either friends. "Well...Adam only feels that you have betrayed us...really, I think Andi is only a death wish. What happens when you tire of her? I am only worried for you James, you know I love you and I wouldn't forgive the Malfoy name for touching a hair on any of my friends' heads..." She said this in a hushed wisherp and her violet optics synchronized on his and she gave a compassionate look. Arturo touch his forearm and looked down after an antagonizing moment. She did love him and she knew he loved her but hers was slightly different, her feelings for him were muddled and now she simply only pushed Friend as her main sight.

[James Potter]

James pointedly ignored the stares and sniggers that permeated the shop as all of the patrons wondered if this was James Potter's secret girlfriend. As if. Sure, they were the best of friends, but all that flirting, it was just for fun. Arty wasn't his type at all. Well, actually, she looked nearly exactly like Andi, with her long blonde hair, but somehow it was just...different. Arturo protested his claim that she was beautiful, no matter how true it was, and then through candy at him that barely his chest. Oh, that was just perfect. First you complain about how boys avoid you, and then you through candy at a boy. "Ya know, they probably stay away for fear of SFO's." SFO. Sugary Flying Object. Duh.With a wink (those things were addictive, you couldn't stop using them) James scooped up a handful of individually wrapped taffies and started to pelt them at her, hitting her head and chest.

A look of shock crossed his face as she blatantly stole one of his licorice wands right in front of him, putting the end in between her lips and raising her golden brows at thim. James chocked off some odd sound, then reached out, Seeker fast, to grab teh end of the licorice and give it a good enough tug it tore and half ended up in his hand. With a grin at himself he bit off the end, glad to see his friend in such a good mood again. Ever since she had been sorted into Slytherin her life had been one big dump. "You could've at least asked first." He claimed, his voice taking on the tone of a spoiled five year old. James nodded as she agreed to help out with his plan. Now he just needed a plan. The suckers had snuck into his mind as he stared at the completely full display, but now he needed some other ideas. Ah hah! "Her bed? Never! How would I get teo see her face? You can't hog all the fun Arty." Insert wink here. "Nah, I need you to send it to her with a school owl. It'll look weird if I go into the Owelry at all." James stared and Arty. "And just so you know, you're always part of the group."

How had she learned his secret? Was some idiot sending pamphlets around the school entitled 'The Secret Life of Enemies'? Or had Adam told? James stared at her strange violet eyes, and felt a red hot ball of fury spark and then subside. How could he get mad at Arty? He couldn't. "Does the whole school know? Look, nothing bad is gonna happen, I promise. That's the end of it."

[Arturo Leonard]

Her smile was radiant and it had to be contagious because a few other students in the shop smiled around her. When she was with James her world was out of that giant Slytherin dump and she was back at home at five years old again. She loved being happy ad couldn't stand being down in the dumps, literally. She couldn't stand the dungeons. She smiled at his SOFs; he truly had the best jokes around. "SOFs only come when someone has been naughty, how much trouble have you been in lately?" She grinned, her pelted taffies at her and she let out a surprise squeak. She grabbed more peppermints and tossed them at him, catching his cheek once. She ducked behind the counter and looked smug. "HAH!" She exclaimed as she hid under the counter top. She had a fort like shelter now. She got up from it to chuck more packaged candie at the boy.

When he took the candied wand she made him tug hard because she gripped it in her teeth. She giggled like the five year old she was inside, knowing in James's voice was the five year old beneath him. "I am so sorry, I'll buy you a new one is it bothers you so...I am surprised you don't have rotten teeth!" She stuck her tongue out and grinned affectionately. Times weren't any better for her than these moments; she lived for them. Arturo shruggedinnocently; she just thought the bed would surprise Frae alot. "Yea, I suppose I shouldn't be so selfsih. The owls it is. Glad to know I am always one of the group." She smiled and popped some everchanging gum in her mouth and began to chew; she was chain chewer of gum alot of times.

She could feel the room tense around her as James's fury emitted through his body language, she kept a calm nature encase he let it out but she was a little stiffened until he spoke. Nothing bad will happen. Arturo nodded but her eyes still gave some worry for her friend's wellbeing. "Okay." His mention of the whole school knowing she shrugged; she had no clue. "No one told me, I guessed...then when I shot at Andi with it she tried to act innocent but I saw right through her. That girl needs a muzzle, she'll hurt herself with the fights she picks." Arturo wouldn't harm Andi for James but that didn't mean that if Andi trie to hex her she wouldn't act upon it. Arturo gave a weak smile and tried to hid her concern but her eyes still showed the little bit she couldn't help but express. She shook it off and gave James a real smile. "I am actually surprised you two aren't hiding at the shrieking shack." Arty gave a teasing smile, she hoped to get it all out of James.

[Adam Weasley]

.x..x.
A D A M

Adam's head popped in the open door as the third years bounded out with arms full of almost everything in the shop, his long arm keeping it open after the many thankyou's and screams before popping in himself. The air was warm and smelt sweetas if you could just eat it. His eyes fell onto the chocolate instantly; perhaps he'd turn into a block of it if he didn't stop eating the stuff. Picking up a large piece he looked to the desk to see the que and grumbled harshly, James just seemed as if nothing was wrong when Adam was going to blow up under stress; now James wasn't talking to him Albus wasn't perticularly easy to talk to either and he was usually help to his lack of brains. He absentmindely picked up some Fizzing Whizbees and Pepper Imps and another large pack of chocolate before joining the que, eyes still burning toward James but not wanting him to look over.

The fourth year in front of him was carrying a blood flavoured lollypop and Adam looked worryingly at her before she laughed and explained about her grandfather being bitten only a few weeks back. Somehow she found it gleeful to be related to a vampire and as Adam basically smiled and turned his attention to the different sized packs of droobles scooping two packets onto his pile resting neatly in his hand. The third years behind him were whispering something impatiently how 'those two idiots up front where holding the que up' and Adam simply laughed quietly while watching. So James still had a bit of temper did he? Well he should have seen Adam in those detentions the teachers simply thought he was a nutcase wrecking their offices and at one point Porfessor Izador had to strap him to the seat to stop him ruining his display of pirate ships.

Adam simply stood, his detentions probably had given him a sense of his mood right now. His eyes darted down to the roughly scratched watch and saw he had around an hour before having to go back up and beg anyone he could think of to be beater, that and hold more tryouts. He was still sceptical about some of the team members; Harmony for instance. He had no idea what she got upto but the rumors bared not thinking about if it was true it could weaken their chaser strategy greatly if not it still could have an effect. That was all Adam seemed to think about right now, the slytherin griffindor match. It was his one shot to proove that he could do something right for a change (that and beat Frae Vinxton's butt) yet right now everything seemed piled on his shoulders and like everything was his fault; if the team lost who's fault was it? His for 'training them badly' and still even though his mood wouldn't lift there were teachers who where out to get him one had already threatened to suspend him.

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W E A S L E Y
[although I agree I am as free minded as a horse]

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[James Potter]

How was it that when he was with Arturo he forgot everything, all his troubles, all his worries. When he was with her he just...forgot. He forgot that Andi's family would hate him. Forgot that Adam wouldn't talk to him. Forgot his detentions. Forgot why he was such a mess lately. And from her radiant, infectious smile, so did she. Trouble.. Impulsively James took on a completely innocent face, poised to pose for an angel. "Trouble? Me? How could you?" That was sort of the opposite of the truth. Trouble and James went together like peanut butter and jelly. Already he had five detentions, and he had been lucky Professor Polyxena had been lenient enough to let her troublesome student go to Hogsmeade at all. His taffies hit true, their rather soft surfaces striking without pain. Peppermints, however, were a different story. One of her hard-shelled missiles struck him directly in teh cheek bone, causing a dramatic yowl of pain to soud through the air over the angry mutters of the other students, punctuated by the hateful stares of the proprieters. Who really cared if they held up the line? If the Gryffindors wanted to win the Quidditch match they would leave the dynamicly hyper duo alone. After all, no one wanted the exploded remains of the entire Slytherin team floating to the ground. Well, some people probably did, but there was no way James was going to get suspended just because all of his nerves built up and broke loose. Not that there was much chance of that, they might not even have Quidditch match, what with no Bludger, but Potter would be damned if he let those stnking slimeballs win. Excluding Andi and Arty, of course.

There was no need for Arturo to buy him another candy wand, he really didn't care if she had bitten it or not. With a grin and a wink James stuffed the entire licorice peice in his mouth and spole through the entire mouthful. "No 'dea whatcher talkin' 'bout." The syllables of his sentence were mangled and destroyed, barely understandable around the mouthful of candy wand. James's adam's apple bobbed as he gave a massive swallow, quickly demolishing the whole licorice problem. Luckily he had a pretty big mouth or he would have joked in that moment. "Didn't think so. I knew you wouldn't want to ruin my fun." A wink squinched his face slightly as Arturo popped a peice of gum into her mouth. "Now that will ruin your teeth."

Arty's mention of Andromeda's impulsive anger raised amusement in his twinkling hazel eyes. She was right, Andi was susceptible to arguments, but wasn't he as well? They fit together, almost exact replicas of each other. The seeker ran a hand through his dark black hair, ruffling up the hair that had begun to lay flat before he had walked in the door. It was a slightly nervous habit of his, a thing he couldn't stop, but why would he want to? numerous girls ahd told him that's why they liked him so much. "That's part of the reason I like her." His voice was low, his vocals filled with something like longing, a close relative of lust, but not quite, more gentle and tender. James simply grinned at Arty as she insinuated something rather lewd about the activities they should be employed in. "But then I wouldn't be able to see you..." At the shop keeper's irritated request James pulled out his coin pouch and dug out about three galleons worth of silver cresents, creating a sparkling pile of glittering coins.

Turning away toward the glass door, the Gryffindor fith year noticed a new stand candy being set up with 'NEW! SENSATION CAUSING CHOCOLATE!!' The purple wrappers caught his eye, shining eerily in the light. Entranced he walked toward it as if in a day dream and picked up one of the bars, turning it over to read the back.

Pheonix Fires, squares of rejuvenating chocolate filled with the sweet sensation of Butter beer. Wake yourself up and fill your veins with warmth while munching on this delicious chocolate. Be watchful! In two passages hide tickets to the Quidditch World Cup!!

With a grin the boy filled his hands up with the pruple foil wrapped bar and turned, heading back to the line. Groands sounded through out the store, but James never even made it to the pile of bags that awaited him. Adam stood in the line, waiting impatiently. A dark blush covered his cheeks as he stared at his cousin. James was sick of ths, the Silent Treatment. Sick of not talking to Adam about girls, jokes, and whiskey. Hesitantly he approached Adam, his eyes down-cast shamefully. "Adam?" He mumbled softly, not meeting the older boy's eyes.

[Adam Weasley]

.x..x.
A D A M

The voice seemed to hit him like freezing water from behind, the pain of the ice hitting your body and giving it always a cold reminder. Maybe it was softer than that in reality although thats what it felt like and of course Adam shivered at the thought of it. He didn't turn straight away in fact he had reason to believe he was imagining it, hadn't James already paid for his things? The whole room seemed to stand still and he turned his head over his shoulder, maybe it was Albus maybe his eyes and ears were playing tricks on him maybe he needed to eat (he hadn't been eating latley because he was too stressed) and his hunger was causing hallucinations. Maybe he was tired? All these things rushed around his mind and the last and maybe the most obviously true; This was the true James. One that looked quite shamefull, one that was talking to Adam. It seemed like an eternity that Adam just stood there, now facing James.

The bustle of the que behind him had started to grow and he realized not every eye was on them but a few were. If he was going to try and pick a fight Adam wouldn't let him; he could throw a few punches, bust his lip, break his nose and give him a black eye but Adam was protective over his family and he wouldn't want to hurt them like that.
"James."
This word was mastered as a simple spat growling mutter from the back of Adam's throat. It cut down his tongue like a knife and Adam was actually looking to see if blood was on his tongue with his teeth although remembered it was just something he had imagined. His body language stood tall he wans't going to act guilty or sorry just yet and so stood casually, yet a little tense, with his now about five bars of chocolate. He was subconsiously picking it up along with another two packets of droobles best blowing bubblegum for something to do with his hands.

His icey eyes looked at James, no snarl and no frown. He was just waiting, for what he didn't know he didn't even know if an apology would make them as close as they were maybe he was waiting for James to say it was a set up; maybe for someone to wake him up and he'd find himself nestled in the warm covers of the Weasley house hold still half way through the summer holidays and that his dream would be an entertaining thing to joke about. Yet he didn't think they were entirley true theories. The blond twins fell through the door and for the first time Adam had realized that the sweet shop had emptied quite quickly and now there was only a few people. The silence murdered his skin and the sharp shrill laughs of the fifth year girls left a pang for his best friend and him to joke on like they used to. One of them looked up and was about to speak and greeting toward the two but the other, identical one and distictivly Jordan (since she was growing black streaks in her hair and it had become curly almost instantly), pulled her sisters hand down and turned to the wracks with things on now obviously talking by their close thoughts. Adam had always thought the way they could comunicate through their thoughts to eachother was frightening yet right now he had blocked everything out.

.x..x.
W E A S L E Y
[although I agree I am as free minded as a horse]

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[Arturo Leonard]

OOC:// Thanks for waiting, lol jk

Arty giggled and shook her blonde head; she was so used to James's pretend innocence, he was so guilty it wasn't that funny. "Yes, how could I?! But oh, I did!" She stuck her tongue out playfully and smiled at the Potter boy she was very distantly related to...it was so distant it wasn't blood at all. She felt like water ran through her veins sometimes. She was getting over it though when she was with the dark haired boy, he was her sun when she was cloudy, whihc was a lot sometimes. Her smile was infectious and she could tell he was infected deeply when his eyes clouded but his smile sprang out.

She opened her mouth in a gasp shape and stared at him defensively. "Gum is not as bad as the junk you eat 24/7 dear boy!" She blew a huge bubble and just dared him, in her mind, to pop it. She loved blowing bubbles with her gum and would do it all through class behind the teacher's back; it was her toy when she bored. "You should know what I am talking about..." She trailed off and let it go, he was a big boy, somewhat.... She felt like anyone he ended up with would be more of a mother than wife, but surely there was someone she knew who would take the job happily...no, that person would never agree, right?

He was answering her statements about Andi and she could help but turn a tad sour at her name, without her this whole family would be better off but Arturo wouldn't turn bad on James, he was her joy and she couldn't dampen it. "I see..." But she lied through her teeth {she was an excellent lier too}, she had no idea why he liked a replica of himself, he needed someone different but he must abide to his desire, Arty only supposed. She smiled when he mentioned seeing her over Andi; she felt better than his girlfriend, how sweet. "Aww...me over her how sweet...what's wrong with you? Any other boy would choose girlfriend over bff!" She laughed and knew immediately he would say soemthing along the lines of, I am no ordinary boy, I am James Potter... Oh boy.

She sighed as he walked off to the new chocolate, it looked good from here. As her head turned she saw a familiar face that was a good few inches taller than herself, she gaped and breathed a little harshly. "Adam..." Her voice was almost inaudible; she prayed neither wanted a fight and she quickley grabbed her rock candy and scurried over to the two boys as they recognized one another. She was breathing deeply and smiled at both. "Boys..." She had pleading eyes and begged for the two to make-up and get over their immature ways. She was thinking of grabbing candy and leaving them be when they initated they wouldn't kill each other. She placed her hands on one of Adam's and one of James's arms.

[Zachary Lennox]

^{We can carry this on. Ignore the dates and stuff it's fine and plus it would be good to get them talking again before the quidditch match. James to post now I think}

[Arturo Leonard]

fine with me, just sorry I have not had time to get on...

[Zachary Lennox]

^{We just need to get James active again *Pokes James*}